Poison ivy

When planting a garden of medicinal plants for homeopathic healing purpose, a selfexperiment was undertaken to show the topical poisonous action of Rhus toxicodendron.

A youg shoot with several leaves was rubbed vigorously on the skin of the back of the hand.

• 2nd day no noticable change
• 3rd day the beginning of redness on the back of the hand
• 4th day small blisters begin to appear, the redness intensifiesItching develops, particularly intensive during night
• The blisters are very hard and feel strange when touched.
• Redness and blistering on the underarm area that are not affected by intensive sunlight are prone to have a red/violet colour after a three week period with extreme pruritus and peeling of the skin
• 5-6 weeks later all the symptoms have vanished

Robert Müntz, June 2010

Acute Toxicity: 
In Humans:. After orally intaking of a larger amount (for example an overtdose of homeopathic preparations), local reactions can be nausea, vomiting, culinating in blood specked diarrhoea accompanying the beginning of an ongoing gastroenteritis. In more sensitive persons even D4 and D6 dilutions could cause blisters and pustules on the face, and neck or arms.

Resorptive toxications can be dizziness, drowsiness and an agitated state as well as the afore mentioned skin reactions.

The egestive organs such as kidneys can be affected by the impact of the Rhus toxicodendron, a hermaturia surge can happen after high dosages have been ingested, these can also manifest themselves in diuresis.

Hagers Enzyklopädie der Arzneistoffe und Drogen 2009