REMEDY OF THE DAY: RHUS TOXICODENDRON (rhus-t) R. Radicans, also called toxicodendron, Poison oak or ivy. Blackwood A.L., Diseases of the Heart. When this remedy is indicated there is usually a history of rheumatism, the symptoms being relieved by motion, a slight aggravation on first moving, but continuous moving brings relief. Worse from damp air, getting wet, and relieved by warmth. desires for milk, thirsty. There is anguish and anxious sadness, worse at night, the sleep is disturbed by anxious dreams. Shooting and lancinating pains in the chest, worse while sitting quietly violent palpitation with shooting pains in the region of the heart and with a painful sensation of paralysis and numbness of the left arm. good for Chronic endocarditis, chronic or fibroid endocarditis. Indicated when there is high fever from getting wet or from repression of an exanthema, numbness and loss of sensibility and power or motion in the limbs, with formication, dyspnea and inflammation following concussion of the spine. Hahnemannian Monthly wrote in 1889 good for the neoplastic rheumatism of the vocal bands, complicated by nodules on the vocal ligaments. Paralysis of the vocal cords, tumors of the vocal cords. Guernsey H.N. Keynotes of the Materia medica writes. Rheumatic ophthalmia, particularly of the right eye. Vesicular erysipelas where the vesicle are large. Exanthema in general, burning, itching, pustolous, with swelling, blotches, like milk crust, moist, like nettle-rash blue with erysipelas, scurfy, tensive or tight feelling, pock- shaped black, purulent, zone or shingles, petechix, prickling. blisters which will sometimes spread up the limb, and are sometimes in a circular form, spreading with a red edge in the advance with gradually turns to a blister, worse after scratching. tetters in general. Ulcers burning, with corroding pus, also for scarlet fever, small pox, with restlessness Phlegmonous erysipelas, of ankle moving up the leg deep in tissue. Worse before a storm of rain, after midnight, in the morning before falling asleep. from bathing, cannot bear cold water complaints coming in autumn, taking a deep breath on inspiration from cold in general, cold air, cold and wet weather, from coughing, while chewing, from drawing up the limbs, from exertion of the body, after drinking after fatigue, srom surgical injuries, from sprains, while lying down, from lifting, from cold food, cold water, anything cold, during perspiration, from wet pultices, while resting on first rising, while sitting, while talking, after undressing in foggy and wet weather, from getting wet in winter, from getting wet while perspiring, women in confinement, Better while exhaling, after evacuation, from wrapping up the head or parts, from moving, continuous motion, change of position while at rest, ameliorates for a short time. from hot or warm things, while walking in dry weather, from stretching. Remedies following Bell, graph, phosphor, pulsa, merc, sepia. sulph., ars, bryonia. Antidotes Bry. Bell. Camphora, Sulph. Beatriz H Hill!