Materia Medica
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 morn- ing, 4 A. M., with colicky pains; expelled with force. Pain in hypogastrium before every stool.
Extremities
Paralytic drawing in right arm, es- pecially wrist, and extending to fingers.
Skin
Itching; relieved by hot water. Vcsiclrs. Erysipelas; skin dark red. Erythema nodosum, with nightly itching and pains in long bones.
Relationships
The California Poison-oak (Rhus diversiloba) is identical with it. It antidotes Radium and follows it well. Compare: Anacard.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.