Homoeopathy — Page 596
Rhus Tox 596 comfort to begin with but the pain soon returns. Light movement and light exercise are comforting while strenuous exercise can be dangerous. If the symptoms match completely, Rhus Tox can relieve headache as well as all other body aches. Whenever Rhus Tox is the constitutional homoeopathic remedy, the patient will enjoy sound sleep in no time, with no anguish or restlessness any more. I have observed it so many times. Some patients will even ‘complain’ that the night was too short since they previously used to toss and turn all night! Another symptom of Rhus Tox is mild chronic inflammation of the bladder or the kidneys resulting in the frequent passing of urine at night. The patient cannot sleep much. He remains restless. Frequency of urination is not always due to diabetes. Similar symptoms are also found in Phosphorus. The patient wakes up at night for no apparent reason. Even if the patient looks healthy he does not feel like going to sleep. He may wet himself unknowingly at night. Unexplained frequency of urination associated with restlessness will most probably benefit from Rhus Tox. If skin diseases are forcefully suppressed with allopathic medicines, then the disease process may affect the lining of the uterus, mucous membranes or the glands. Sometimes, the condition may become very serious. If the pancreas is afflicted, then the patient can develop severe diabetes. A single dose of Rhus Tox in high potency may immediately cure the patient. No doubt, it will forcefully surface the suppressed eczema on the skin. Once, in view of some resemblance of the symptoms, I treated a diabetic patient with Rhus Tox in high potency. All of a sudden, his entire body became riddled with eczema but his diabetes was cured. On further questioning, it was found that the patient had suffered from a serious kind of eczema in the past that had been suppressed with strong medication and the diabetes had come on later. In this patient, Rhus Tox cured the diabetes, but the eczema returned. Unfortunately, some of these patients do not feel happy to be rid of diabetes but rather take the recurrence of the eczema too seriously. In fact, if they continue their treatment patiently using Rhus Tox, their skin disease would also be cured. No doubt, the eczema would flare up in the beginning but eventually disappear gradually.