Rhododendron Ferrugineum

Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder. Forgetful.

• ▸Aching in temples.
• ▸Tearing pain in bones.
• ▸Headache; worse, wine, wind, cold and wet weather.
• ▸Pain in eyes before a storm.
• ▸Ciliary neuralgia, involving eyeball, orbit, and head.
• ▸Heat in eyes when using them.

Muscular asthenopia; darting pains through eyes from head, worse before a storm.

Difficult hearing, with whizzing and ringing in ears. Hearing better in the morning; noises come on after patient has been up a few hours.

Prosopalgia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves, from temple to lower jaw and chin; better, warmth and eating. toothache in damp weather and before a storm. Swollen gums. Stumps of teeth are loosened.

• ▸Testicles, worse left, swollen, painful, drawn up.
• ▸Orchitis; glands feel crushed.
• ▸Induration and swelling of testes after gonorrhoea.
• ▸Hydrocele (Sil).

• ▸Violent pleuritic pains running downward in left anterior chest.
• ▸Breathless and speechless from violent pleuritic pains running down the anterior chest.
• ▸Stitches in spleen from fast walking.
• ▸Crampy pain under short ribs.

• ▸Joints swollen.
• ▸Gouty inflammation of great toe-joint.
• ▸Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially right side; worse, at rest and in stormy weather.
• ▸Stiffness of neck.
• ▸Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at rest.
• ▸Pains in bones in spots, and reappear by change of weather.
• ▸Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed.

Compare: Ampelopsis (hydrocele and renal dropsy); Dulc; Rhus; Nat sulph.

First to sixth potency.