About Rhus Venenata Dilution

Also known as Toxicodendron Vernix, Poison-elder

The symptoms of this species are most severe.

Rhus Venenata Patient Profile

Mind - It treats sadness and loss of desire to continue living.

Head - The remedy is effective for headache, inflammation in the ears, swelling on the face, red and shiny nose and closing of eyelids due to excessive swelling.

Tongue - Cures redness at the tip, eruptions on the underside and middle.

Abdomen - As mentioned, the remedy treats excessive watery stools with severe pain and pain in the central abdomen before every stool.

Extremities - Treats paralytic drawing in the right arm that extends till the fingers.

Skin - Signs such as itching which is relieved by hot water, infection in the upper dermis, dark red skin with itching in the night and pain in the bones are also covered under this drug.

Rhus Venenata as per Boericke Materia Medica

The skin symptoms of this species of Rhus are most severe.

Mind -Great melancholy; no desire to live, gloomy.

Head -Heavy, frontal headache; worse, walking or stooping. Eyes nearly closed with great swelling. Vesicular inflammation of ears. Nose red and shiny. Face swollen.

Tongue -Red at tip. Fissured in middle. Vesicles on under side.

Abdomen -Profuse, watery, white stools in morning, 4 am, with colicky pains; expelled with force. Pain in hypogastrium before every stool.

Extremities -Paralytic drawing in right arm, especially wrist, and extending to fingers.

Skin -Itching; relieved by hot water. Vesicles. Erysipelas; skin dark red. Erythema nodosum, with nightly itching and pains in long bones.

Relationship -Antidote: Clematis. The California Poison-oak (Rhus diversiloba) is identical with it. It antidotes Radium and follows it well. Compare: Anacard.

Dose -Sixth to thirtieth potency.