Rhus venenata

Rhus venenata
(poison-elder)
* 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 a.m., 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 painsin 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.