Dr Willmar Schwabe India Rhus Toxicodendron Dilution

Willmar Schwabe Rhus Toxicodendron(Dilution)

Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time is used to make the medicine.

Common Name:  Poison Oak

Causes & Symptoms for Willmar Schwabe Rhus Toxicodendron 

• The complaints of Rhus Toxicodendron remedy come on from exposure to cold damp weather.
• Allergic skin reactions, Inflammation of glands that are hot and very painful.
• The bruised pains often attended with numbness after stretching high up of the parts is relieved with Rhus Tox.
• The joint pains which are relieved by regular movements indicates Rhus Tox.
• Restlessness where they toss and turn all night, unable to find one position comfortable for long time is a symptom found in this remedy.

Mind and Head: 

• Sleep is interrupted by pains and by anxieties or illogical apprehensions that something bad is going to happen.
• Anxiety aggravated at night time in the bed indicates Rhus tox.
• Restlessness which will not allow the patient to remain seated, and compels him to throw himself about in bed.
• Tendency to hold feelings back, patients find it difficult to respond to others, fixed Ideas and supressed anger is seen in Rhus tox.
• Cause of severe trauma with impossibility to defend himself or to escape.
• Deep seated feeling of being a victim is relieved with help of Rhus tox.
• The pain in the back of the head is ameliorated by holding the head backwards, Pulsating headaches, Eruptions upon the scalp
• Headaches are worse from wetting the hair. Vesicular eruptions upon the scalp

Eyes, Ear and Nose:

• Inflammation of the eyes with sticky eye lids, Red eyes and lachrymation.
• The Rhus Tox patient, is subject to styes on the lower lids, neuralgia in the eye
• Heaviness of the eyelids, Painful throbbing in ear at night, Swelling of ears.

Neck:

• Restlessness caused by a stiffness of the neck which can only be relieved by stretching it and moving the head about is seen in Rhus tox patients.
• Pains in general are better from heat , better from lying on a hard surface indicates Rhus Tox.

Stomach and Abdomen

• When eating, sudden vomiting, Hunger without appetite is found in this remedy.
• Empty risings after a meal after drinking, Violent risings with tingling in stomach is relieved with help of Rhus tox.
• Gnawing pain in the stomach, fullness and heaviness in the stomach, pain in the stomach after ice cream; nausea after eating ice cream is relieved with Rhus tox.
• Inflammation and swelling of the glands of the abdomen and groin.
• Vomiting immediately after eating, Burning sensation in the abdomen,Bloated abdomen, especially after eating.  Rhus patients desire cold milk and cold drinks.
• Great flatulence, with grumbling, fermentation, and pinching movements in abdomen is benefited by Rhus tox.

Stool, Anus and Urinary complaints:

• Painful tenesmus without stool, Shooting pains in the rectum with hemorrhoids, great soreness and when they are internal or protruding piles.
• Chronic painless diarrhoea, only in morning is an indication for Rhus tox.
• Frequent and urgent want to urinate, day and night, with profuse emission.