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Rhus Toxicodendron

30C / 200CRhus Tox
Poison Ivy · "The Rusty Gate Remedy"
rhus-t.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on fibrous tissues, joints, and skin, producing stiffness and inflammatory conditions that improve with movement.
📖 Boericke writes:
The effects on the skin, pains, , and a type of fever, make this remedy frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly-joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc, producing pains and stiffness. Post-operative complications. Tearing asunder pains. Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions. and infections, in early stages (Echinac). Rheumatism in the cold season. .
👤 Constitution
•Typically restless, anxious, and prone to ailments from overexertion, strains, or exposure to cold, damp conditions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Tearing asunder pains.
introduction
.
introduction
Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position.
mind
becomes cloudy.
mind
Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.
mind
.
eyes
Jaws crack when chewing.
face
Tongue red and cracked; coated, except red triangular space at the tip; dry and red at edges.
mouth
Pain in maxillary joint.
mouth
Desire for milk.
stomach
Itching intense.
male
Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed.
respiratory
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental states involving extreme restlessness, anxiety, and confusion.
Listless, sad.
Thoughts of suicide.
Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position.
, with fear of being poisoned (Hyos).
becomes cloudy.
Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

6th to 30th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
200th
Centesimal
📝Antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Calcarea Carbonica →Bryonia Alba →Phytolacca Decandra →Calcarea Fluorica →
🚫 Antidotes
Ampelopsis Quinquefolia →Xerophyllum →
⏭️ Similar
Grindelia Robusta →Mezereum →Plumbago →Graphites →Cypripedium Pubescens →
🔄 Compare With
Hyoscyamus Niger →Arsenicum Album →Arnica Montana →Baptisia Tinctoria →Lachesis Mutus →Rhus Radicans →
⚠️ Inimical
Apis Mellifica →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Rhus Toxicodendron is listed in 754 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 296 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System110Fever57Eyes57Skin54Nervous System48Modalities46Generalities44Abdomen41Head40Respiratory System36Female Sexual System34Face26Mind24Urinary System21Male Sexual System17Circulatory System17Tongue16Nose12Ears12Throat12Stomach11Mouth11Gums3Teeth3Taste2

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