Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
655.42.02
655.42.02 Toxicodendron pubescens, Rhus toxicodendron
English: Poison-ivy.
Content: strontium.
Culture: fairy tale Cinderella.
Taxonomy
Rhus toxicodendron is seen by some older botanists as one with Rhus diversiloba and Rhus radicans since they can be distinguished only with difficulty. It is possible that the proved Rhus tree was actually Rhus radicans, which is much more common. The nomenclature in this is very confusing.
Rhus toxicodendron can be: Toxicodendron pubescens, Toxicodendron toxicarum, Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus radicans.
Introduction
They feel suppressed by family or partners, by a tyrannical and alcoholic father or a nasty stepmother. The theme of Cinderella, who is special but disrespected, not seen in her true glory. They feel undervalued and disrespected for their unique qualities. They can feel treated like a foreigner in a strange country.
Mind
Ailments from being a hostage, from a psychotic son.
Narcolepsy, from a violent father, with fear of father.
Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide.
Fear: being poisoned, < night, > walking.
Sensorium becomes cloudy.
Restlessness, always on the move, continuous change of position.
Anxiety, apprehension.
Dreams: journey; roaming over fields; great exertion, climbing, walking, rowing, swimming; working hard at his daily occupation.
Dreams: violence with blood, pools; world was on fire.
Dreams: escape, unable.
Dreams: body parts are swollen.
Dreams: business, daily work, difficulties; laborious; projects; cares.
Dreams: embarrassment; ascending a height; falling downstairs.
Dreams: misfortune, bad luck.
General
Sensation: caught, stuck, restricted, constricted, stiff, tight, tension, bandaged; cramps, pressing; lump, plug; band.
Weather: < getting wet, lying on damp ground; < cold, wet, rainy weather; > dry weather; < uncovering.
Desire: milk; drinks, great unquenchable thirst.
Aversion: food, want of appetite.
Food: > eating.
Sleep: heavy; stupor; sleepless before midnight.
Physical: > motion, < sitting, < rest, < in house; < spraining, < straining, < over-lifting, < stretching high up to reach things; < first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning, > by walking or continued motion; stretching out limbs.
Body
Fever: adynamic, typhoid; intermittent; influenza, with aching in all bones; restless, trembling; septicaemia; septic conditions; cellulitis and infections, carbuncles
Nervous: paralysis, immobile.
Vertigo: < rising, < standing, < walking, < lying down, < rising from lying, < stooping; drowsy after eating.
Head: heavy; pain, as if a board were strapped on the forehead; brain feels loose, struck against skull, < walking or rising; headache occiput, < touch; scalp sensitive, side lain on, humid eruption, itching greatly; headache, brain feels lose when stepping or shaking the head; sensation of swashing in brain; stupefying; as if torn; from beer; returns from least chagrin; < from sitting, lying, in cold, > warmth and motion.
Eyes: swollen, red, oedematous; pain, < turning eye, < pressure, < motion; acute retrobulbar neuritis; tears profuse gushing, hot, scalding, < opening eyes; orbital cellulitis; pustules inflammations; photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus; lids oedema, inflamed, agglutinated, swollen; old injured eyes; cornea intensive ulcer, circumscribed injection; iritis, suppurating, rheumatic, < cold, damp; ptosis.
Ears: pain; lump; lobules swollen; discharge of bloody pus.
Nose: sneezing; coryza from getting wet; tip red, sore, ulcerated; swelling; nosebleed, < stooping.
Face: swollen, erysipelas; jaws crack when chewing; easy dislocation of jaw; pain in maxillary joint; cheek bones sensitive, < touch; parotitis; neuralgia, with chilliness, < evening; crusta lactea.
Mouth: dry; teeth feel lose and long; gums sore; tongue red, cracked, coated, red triangular tip, dry, red at edges; corners ulcerated; fever-blisters around mouth and chin; bitter taste.
Throat: dry; sore, sticking pain, < swallowing; parotitis, left side; swollen gland; hoarse, < overstraining voice.
Lungs: dry, teasing cough, < night, < chill, < putting hands out of bed, in old people, < waking; expectoration of small plugs of mucus; haemoptysis, bright red, < overexertion.
Chest: tickling behind upper sternum; oppression, cannot get breath; sticking pains.
Stomach: nausea.
Abdomen: bloated, distension, < eating; pain, pressure as from a stone; pain violent, colic, > lying on abdomen, > walk bent, ascending colon; rumbling, flatus, < first rising, > continued motion, swelling of inguinal glands.
Heart: hypertrophy, < overexertion; pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, numbness of left arm; palpitation when sitting still.
Rectum: diarrhoea, typhoid; dysentery; stool bloody, slime, reddish mucus, frothy, painless, cadaverous odour.
Urinary: urine dark, turbid, high-coloured, scanty, white sediment; urination painful, with loss of blood.
Male: swelling of glands and prepuce, dark red, erysipelatous; itching intense; genitals scrotum thick, swollen, inflamed, erysipelas like, oedematous.
Female: swelling; intense itching of vulva; pelvic articulations stiff, < beginning to move; menses early, profuse, prolonged, acrid; lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished; shooting upwards in vagina.
Back: pain between scapulae, < swallowing; pain and stiffness, lumbar, < sitting, < lying, > motion, > lying on something hard.
Limbs: pain, tearing, rheumatic, tension; cramps; stiffness; fibrous tissues, aponeuroses, tendons, joints, cellulitis, < overexertion, < operations, < change of position, < strains, over-lifting, < getting wet while perspiring; stiff paralysed; hot, painful swelling of joints; pains tearing, rheumatic, spreading, tendons, ligaments, fascie, down thighs, nape of neck, loins, > motion, < cold fresh air, < stool; pain along ulnar nerve; sciatica, < cold, damp weather, < night; numbness and formication, < overwork; tender knee, joint; loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation; sore condyles of bones; glands swollen.
Skin: red, swollen; eruptions, eczema, scaling, itching intense, stinging, burning, > hot applications; vesicles, yellow, suppurating, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; cellulitis; eczema burning, formation.
