Rhus toxicodendron

Characteristic symptoms

Affections of the ligaments, tendons and synovial membranes ; want of plasticity in the blood, with disposition of the organic activity to become extinct, even to paralysis ; ailments arising from cold bathing, particularly convulsions ; rheumatic tension, drawing and lacerating in the limbs, most violent during rest or in the cold season, or at night in bed, with numbness and insensibility of the affected part after moving it ; stitches in the joints, when at rest; tingling pains; anxious pains in affected parts ; bruised pains in single parts, or sensation as if the flesh had been detached from the bones by blows ■ sensations in internal organs as if something were being torn off ; pains as if sprained ; bad consequences from straining 01 spraining ; the parts on which one is lying go to sleep, particularly the arm ; numbness of single parts, with tingling and insensibility ; stiffness of the limbs, on first moving the limb after rest ; lameness ; complete paralysis ; hemiplegia ; tetanus ; opisthotonos ; languor, with constant disposition to be sitting or lying ; great debility ; sudden paroxysms of fainting ; great sensitiveness to the open air, even when warm ; erysipelatous inflammation, especially vesicular ; pustules which break and discharge a fluid ; herpetic eruptions ; scurfs ; rhagades ; warts ; hang-nails ; red shining swelling ; violent and spasmodic yawning, with danger of luxating the maxilla ; chilliness, with paroxysms of pains, sets in in the evening; evening fever, with diarrhœa; semilateral chills; sensation as if his blood were coursing hot through the vessels and too violently through the head ; sweat during the pains ; general sweat, also in the face ; depression ; sad, despairing, tearful mood, is without courage ; dread of the future and want of confidence in himself; anguish, with fear of death, is afraid of remaining alone in the darkness ; fear of getting poisoned ; illusions of the fancy and visions ; chattering delirium ; pain as if the brain would be torn ; painful creeping in the head ; swelling of the head ; phagadenic scald-head ; small soft tumors on the hairy scalp ; swelling and inflammation of the parotis ; pale, sickly look, with sunken cheeks, blue borders around the eyes and pointed nose; acne rosacea around the mouth and chin ; crusta lactea, with thick crusts and secretion of a fetid, bloody ichor ; fetid smell from decayed teeth ; accumulation of water in the mouth ; the tongue is not coated, but very dry ; parched, red, or brown tongue ; complete loss of appetite for any kind of food; waterbrash; sudden vomiting when eating ; pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if swollen ; nightly discharge of yellowish or bloody saliva ; ulcerative pain in the pit of the stomach, as if something would be torn off, especially when stooping or making a false step ; difficult swallowing of solid food, as from constriction of the pharynx and oesophagus • aversion to all food, especially bread ; desire for cold milk ; bloatedness of the abdomen after eating ; thin, yellow, odorless, painless and involuntary stools, as from paralysis of sphincter ; mixture of blood and slime ; sense of constriction in the rectum, as though one side had grown up ; dysenteric diarrhœa, involuntary stools during sleep ; incontinence of urine ; offensive discharge of black-appearing water from the vagina after delivery ; soreness and swelling of the breast ; dry tearing cough, coming on before the chill and continuing during the chill; sticking in the region of the heart, with painful lameness and numbness of the left arm ; the small of the back feels as if bruised, especially when lying still on it.