• Nervous people who dread a storm and are particularly afraid of thunder, warmth and wrapping the head
• Cannot get sleep or remain asleep unless LEGS ARE CROSSED at the
  ankles
• Orchitis; sensation in glands as if they were being crushed

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Snowrose, Sibirischen schneerose
Family: Ericaceae
Prover: Seidel
Duration of Action: 350 to 40 days

Introduction and History: The golden flowered Rhododendron is not much known in general medicine, but according to the Treasury of Botany it is narcotic in its properties and is used medicinally. Growing among the fogs and storms of the Siberian mountains, its provings by Seidel, Wahle, Herzog, Helbig and others shows that it produces sensitiveness to storms and weather changes, and this gives the grand keynote of its use in medicine. It is commonly known as Yellow snow rose and is a gouty, rheumatic remedy.

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared from the leaves and flower buds gathered when the buds are well developed, but not fully open.

Constitution and Physiognomy: Suites nervous people who dread a storm and are particularly afraid of thunder; people who are worse before a storm, especially when there are electrical changes in the atmosphere.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It acts on fibrous tissues, forearms, lower legs, small joints, bones, genitals, nerves, etc.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology): Acts on fibrous tissues causing gouty deposits in Small joints of fingers, toes producing rheumatism and arthritis. Acts on testes causing inflammation of testes, orchitis, etc.

Ailments From: Stormy weather, thunderstorm, sprains, eating fruits, getting wet, catching a cold.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. DELIRIUM.; patient staggers, falls asleep on his knees, starts and appears terrified in sleep but wakes up cheerful.
2. Frightful visions. Sombre, morose humour.
3. Excessive INDIFFERENCE, with dread of all kinds of labour.
4. FORGETFULNESS; excessive forgetfulness. Sudden loss of ideas. Patient leaves out whole words when Writing. While talking forgets what he is talking about.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Toothache: Worse every spring and fall, during sharp east winds; worse from change of weather, thunderstorm, windy weather.

Arthritis: Acute inflammatory swelling of joints; wandering from one joint to another; severe at night; worse at rest and during rough stormy weather.

Rheumatism: Rheumatic, drawing, tearing pains in all the limbs; worse at rest and in wet, cold, windy weather.

Sleeping posture: Cannot get sleep or remain asleep unless legs are crossed.

Gout: With fibrous deposits in great toe joint, rheumatic pains.

Orchitis: Induration and swelling of the testicles; sensation in gland as if it was being crushed.

Menses: Frequent and profuse.

Important Characteristic Features

Affections of joints: Very useful medicine for rheumatic affections of small joints like toes, fingers, etc. There are rheumatic tearing pains in all the limbs in stormy weather, aggravated before a storm and during rest, aggravated at night; mostly in forearms and legs. Wandering pains in the limbs and joints. Pain in bones and periosteum. Pains drive patient out of bed. Paralytic pains in limbs. Pain in the shoulder joint so severe that the arm cannot be moved but the patient and the pain are ameliorated by walking about. Patient cannot sleep unless legs are crossed. Sleepless after midnight. Worse before and during rest, at night, in stormy weather. Better by walking about.

Male genitalia: A very useful medicine for affections of male genital organs. Orchitis with much swelling in rheumatic patients from taking cold from sitting on a cold stone, from suppressed gonorrhoea; right side is mostly affected. There is drawing pain in the spermatic cord. It has cured hydrocoele in boys. Much itching of the scrotum. Worse during rest. Better by motion and heat.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Before storms, in rough, windy weather, cold, damp, in changing cloudy weather, at night, in midsummer, from wine, rest, eating fruit, getting wet, catching cold, etc.

Amelioration: After a storm breaks, heat – in the sun, when the sun shines, motion at once, wrapping the head.

Remedy Relationships

Antidoted by: Bry, Camph, Clem, Rhus-t.

Comparison

Rheumatism of small joints: Led, Rhod, Caul, Act-sp.

Dosage: 3c-200c potency.

Repetition: Single dose, but can be repeated if there is a call for the remedy.

Therapeutic Value: Amenorrhoea, Bone affections, Diarrhoea, Earache, Eye affections, Flatulence, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Orchitis, Rheumatism, Toothache, etc.