RHUS TOXICODENDRON 30

Action of Medicine:

• Ailments from strains, over-lifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions.
• Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position.
• Tongue red and cracked; coated, except red triangular space at the tip; dry and red at edges.
• Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed.
• Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.
• Limbs stiff paralyzed. The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful.
• Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. Cellulitis.
• Worse- during sleep, cold, wet rainy weather; at night, during rest, drenching, lying on back or right side.
• Better- warm, dry weather, motion; walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching out limbs.

References: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory