RHUS VENENATALiquid

Rhus venenata, commonly known as Poison Elder or Poison Sumach, is a potent homoeopathic medicine belonging from Anacardiaceæ family, derived from Tincture of fresh leaves and stem with significant effects on the skin, joints, and the nervous system. It is especially indicated for individuals experiencing skin eruptions, particularly those resembling erysipelas or urticaria, and is often associated with restlessness, anxiety, and a sensation of heat. The medicine works well for conditions aggravated by damp weather, exposure to cold, or after taking cold. It is often used in the treatment of various inflammatory conditions, including those affecting the eyes, ears and respiratory tract.

Common Name

English: Poison Elder, Poison Sumach

SBL’s Rhus venenata can be helpful in the following conditions:

Sadness & Forgetful

• Indicated when feeling a great sadness, a lack of desire to live, or do anything. Everything feels gloomy.
• Helps in apprehensive, restless, and a variable mood, switching between cheerfulness and hypochondriasis.
• Difficulty connecting ideas or concentrating; forgetful, dull, and stupid.

Headache & Dizziness

• Dizzy upon rising from bed, often with a sensation of vertigo, worse in the evening.
• Beneficial for swelling of the head and eyes, causing them to nearly close.
• Helps in relieving dull, heavy, and stupefying headache, worse by stooping or walking.
• Pain in the parietal bones and jerking sensations in the nerves of the head.
• Frontal headache worsened by walking, stooping as if brain is squeezed.
• Jerk-like headaches in the occiput, with pain radiating to the neck.

Swelling & Irritation of Eyes

• Treats swelling of the eyes, redness, and a feeling as if they are being pressed out of the head.
• Sensation of sand in the eyes, with smarting, burning irritation.
• Helps in excessive lacrimation (tearing) and photophobia, especially at night.
• Dull, aching pain in the eyeballs; flashes of light before the eyes.
• Difficulty reading in low light.

Earache

• Earaches with hammering or throbbing pains, particularly at night.
• Helps in tearing pains behind the ears.
• Trouble hearing with a ringing sensation and noise in the ears.

Nasal Obstruction

• Red, shiny nose with erysipelas (inflammation of the skin).
• Treats loss of smell, with a profuse secretion of thin, ichorous fluid from the right nostril.
• Blocked nostrils with tenacious mucus; sore inside the nose, especially before menstruation.

Facial Swelling

• Swelling and redness of the face, especially under the eyes and on the left side.
• Beneficial for dry, rough, and scaly skin; a thickened, indurated appearance.
• Glistening sensations on the face, often with an urge to rub.
• Lip sores, swelling, and cracking, with a sensation of burning or itching.
• Itching and irritation of the upper lip and chin, particularly at 4 p.m.

Mouth & Throat

• Pain in the upper teeth, with swollen gums and an eruption on the gums.
• Treats dryness, soreness, and scalded feelings in the mouth, tongue, and throat.
• Burning sensation in the tongue, roof of the mouth, and throat.
• Rhus venenata aids in difficulty swallowing, with food seemingly stopping mid-way to the stomach.
• Manages irritation in the throat and frequent desire to swallow.

Abdomen & Stomach

• Pressure and discomfort in the stomach after eating, with much distress.
• Distension of the abdomen, especially in the morning, requiring manual pressure to ease tightness.
• Cutting pain in the abdominal region, worse in the hypogastric area.
• Rumbling in the intestines, with soreness to touch and discomfort with movement.
• Nausea and vomiting, especially after eating; creeping or crawling sensation in stomach.

Stool & Anus

• Indicated in hemorrhoids with extensive itching and burning sensations.
• Bloody discharge from the rectum after stool.
• Neuralgic pains in the anus, with intolerable itching and burning.
• Diarrhea early in the morning, followed by intense colicky pains.
• Dark, hard stools, often with partly undigested and small quantity evacuation.

Urinary Organs

• Beneficial for burning sensation in the urethra and frequent urge to urinate, though in small quantities.
• Increased urine output but incomplete voiding.

Male Sexual Organs

• Aids in relieving red, swollen scrotum with vesicular eruptions; painful sensitivity of the penis and glans.
• Intense itching of genital organs worse at night.

Female Sexual Organs

• Rhus venenata is useful in menstrual disorders, including heavy bleeding with clots like pieces of meat.
• Dull, heavy pain in the left ovarian region before menstruation.
• Breast tenderness and pains, particularly in the left breast before menses.
• Vaginal soreness during menstruation.

Dyspnea & Cough

• Manages dryness and irritation in the larynx, causing hoarseness.
• Harsh, dry cough lasting for more than two weeks.
• Chest tightness with a feeling of oppression and difficulty breathing.

Skin Irritations

• Useful in treating a fine white rash that appears under the skin, with a miliary, whitish rash surrounding ulcers or cuts.
• Itchy, swollen, erythematous lesions on the skin, especially on the face, neck, and chest.
• Rhus venenata is useful in burning, vesicular rash that worsens with scratching and rubbing.
• Intolerable itching, particularly at night and in warm environments.
• Helps in dry, desquamated skin with peeling.

Restlessness & stiffness

• Restlessness with generalized body swelling and irritation.
• Severe weakness and bruised feelings in all limbs.
• Stiffness and soreness, with rheumatism before a storm.Shortness of breath when lying on the left side.
• Numbness and lameness, particularly on the left side.