RHODODENDRON 30

Action of Medicine:

• Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked. Rheumatism in the hot season. The modality - worse before a storm, is a true guiding symptom.
• Nervous persons who dread a storm and are particularly afraid of thunder; aggravation before the storm, especially an electrical storm.
• Rheumatic tearing in all limbs. Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed.
• Gout with fibrous deposit in great toe-joint, rheumatic, often mistaken for bunion.
• Orchitis; glands feel crushed. Induration and swelling of testes after gonorrhoea. Hydrocele.
• Toothache, every spring and fall during sharp east winds; worse from change of weather, thunderstorm, windy weather.
• Amelioration from wrapping the head warmly; dry heat and exercise.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica with Bowel Nosodes by H.C. Allen