Minutus

Dear Tanya, I would be thinking of Graphites - Clarke says the eruption
starts like a flea bite, Boericke says chronic poison oak. Graphites gives
off a honey like fluid - can be thick or thin - and of course the awful
itching. It is usually < warmth but this is warmth of bed and clothing and
such like not so much application as cold washing also <

Dear Joy/Barbara,

Graphites has no effect on me, nor does anacardium, nor crot t. i think the rhus v worked because it probably a more virulous toxin than rhus t. i will look up rhus rad and see what it says. what i neglected to mention is that motion amel the itching. in the meantime i am still using the rhus v about 4-5 /day.

thanks

tanya

Tanya,
What potency are you using?
Donna E

I have been using rhus v 200c several times daily

tanya

Hi everyone,

Poison oak is a common problem in this area, and can be quite serious. So I was giving a remedy for poison oak in this one case. The poison oak cleared up rapidly--and then came back, this time in every place the woman had ever had poison oak before. She was quite sure she hadn't been re-exposed to it, and she cheerfully interpreted it as "old stuff that was being held in the body" coming out. Anybody have this happen in treating poison oak? I'm hoping that she'll end up with a less trigger-happy reaction to poison oak in the future, of course, but I'm a little uneasy about the whole thing.

In another case of poison oak, a less clear sequence, it seemed that after the remedy new crops of poison oak were coming out in places unlikely to have been re-exposed. This time, to complicate things further, it seemed to be aggravated by exposure to gluten in a gluten-intolerant individual. Anyone have any observations about gluten and poison oak?

Gail
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Your first example does sound to me like it's probably a healing reaction, indicating that your treatment was right on target and was helping to clear out older suppressed instances of poison oak.

In the second instance, yes, it's less clear. However if the individual is sensitive to gluten and ingests it (or is sensitive to anything else, even stress, and experiences it), this enhances the likelihood of an allergic response to any other substance allergenic to the individual. The more stressed the vital force is overall, the more likely is an obvious "mistunement" that produces symptoms. Often after homeopathic treatment, allergic individuals may have many fewer symptoms, until an unusual stress of some kind comes up. Then the allergic symptoms may return (or not, if the cure is complete).

Rosemary

Gluten intolerance is a funny thing - it seems to act as a primer for other allergic type responses. My husband has hay fever - he is ALWAYS better when he avoids gluten - homoeopathic remedies work better for him, and he is generally better in himself. If he slips up and eats something with gluten in it - he immediately has a resurgance of his hay fever symptoms, which are then poorly managed by ANY other means.

"Rosemary C Hyde, Ph.D., C.C.H." wrote:Your first example does sound to me like it's probably a healing reaction, indicating that your treatment was right on target and was helping to clear out older suppressed instances of poison oak.

In the second instance, yes, it's less clear. However if the individual is sensitive to gluten and ingests it (or is sensitive to anything else, even stress, and experiences it), this enhances the likelihood of an allergic response to any other substance allergenic to the individual. The more stressed the vital force is overall, the more likely is an obvious "mistunement" that produces symptoms. Often after homeopathic treatment, allergic individuals may have many fewer symptoms, until an unusual stress of some kind comes up. Then the allergic symptoms may return (or not, if the cure is complete).

Rosemary

Hi Gail,

I hope you'll let us know how these resolve! Sounds like you have a
very well-taught and adaptable patient, LOL! Do you happen to know how
her prior episodes were treated? I'm curious *why* it would have (as
it sounds like) become trapped in her body?
Shannon

Hello Gail these sound like chronic constitutional allergic states the first
one seems to be the perfect simmillimum and brought out the susceptibility
entirely. I think you would want this to happen. Some have been writing
about aggravations and this seems to be the best example of a really good
sign of cure. The second case perhaps a little bit more complicated as there
are multiple allergies happening but nonetheless very interesting because
the 2 allergic states seem to have conjoined in some way due to the remedy
and have cause the reaction?? Not easy to treat allergies but it looks
encouraging. Thank you for telling us. Kerry
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