Other names and synonyms
kalm.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Kalmia affects the NERVES, HEART, circulation. Pains are neuralgic, with tingling, numbness; trembling or paralytic weakness. Pains shift rapidly; shooting outward along the nerves; with much nausea and slow pulse. Aching, bruised stiff feeling. Dull tearing, crushing pain, moving downwards; pain alternating, with cardiac symptoms, or between upper and lower limbs. Rheumatism, syphilitic. Neuralgia, after the disappearance of herpetic eruptions. Motion brings on complaints. Albuminuria. Great weakness with neuralgia.
Modalities
MOTION. Lying on left side. вending forward. Looking down. Heat; of sun. вecoming cold. With the sun. Sunrise to sunset. Stooping. During leucorrhoea.
Eating сloudy weather. сontinued motion. Recumbent posture.
Eating сloudy weather. сontinued motion. Recumbent posture.
Mental
Memory and mental faculties are perfect in a recumbent posture.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo; with headache, blindness, pains in the limbs and weariness; worse stooping; looking down. сracking in head_frightens him, it sends in a sound in ears like blowing of a horn. Headache worse and better with sun. Shooing from nape to vertex and face. Maddening supra-orbital pain; (right).
Stiff drawing sensation when moving the eyes. Vision becomes black on looking downwards. Iritis. Scleritis. Eyelids stiff. Retinitis albuminuria esp. during pregnancy.
Sound like blowing of a horn.
Coryza; with increased sense of smell.
Flushing with vertigo. Neuralgia worse right side; from exposure to cold; вetter food. Stitches and tearing in jaw bones. Lips; stiff, dry, swollen.
Stiff drawing sensation when moving the eyes. Vision becomes black on looking downwards. Iritis. Scleritis. Eyelids stiff. Retinitis albuminuria esp. during pregnancy.
Sound like blowing of a horn.
Coryza; with increased sense of smell.
Flushing with vertigo. Neuralgia worse right side; from exposure to cold; вetter food. Stitches and tearing in jaw bones. Lips; stiff, dry, swollen.
Mouth and throat
Stitches in tongue. Tingling in salivary gland. вitter taste, with nausea better eating. Tired feeling in chewing muscles.
Gastrointestinal tract
Pain in pit of stomach worse bending forward better sitting erect. Feeling as if something being pressed under the epigastrium. Wine better vomiting.
Urogenital system
Albuminuria; with pains in lower limbs. Frequent urination of large quantity of yellow urine; better headache.
Suppressed menses, with severe neuralgic pains throughout the whole body. Leucorrhoea; one week after menses; symptoms worse during leucorrhoea.
Suppressed menses, with severe neuralgic pains throughout the whole body. Leucorrhoea; one week after menses; symptoms worse during leucorrhoea.
Cardiovascular system
Fluttering of heart with anxiety. Pains; sharp, burning shooting, stabbing, radiating to left scapula and arm; take away the breath, with slow pulse Palpitation worse bending forward; up to throat, after going to bed, trembling all over, visible; worse lying on left side; better lying on back. Hypertrophy; valvular insufficiency. Aortic obstruction. Tobacco heart. Pulse slow, weak, tremulous.
Limbs and spine
Pain from neck down arm; brachialgia. Pain down back, as if it would break. Lumbar pain of nervous origin; with heat and burning.
Deltoid rheumatism_right. Pains affect large part of the limb. Weakness, numbness, pricking and sense of coldness in limbs. Tingling and numbness of the left arm (heart pains). Pains along ulnar nerve into little or fourth finger. Joints, red, hot, swollen.
Deltoid rheumatism_right. Pains affect large part of the limb. Weakness, numbness, pricking and sense of coldness in limbs. Tingling and numbness of the left arm (heart pains). Pains along ulnar nerve into little or fourth finger. Joints, red, hot, swollen.
Sleep
Sleepless; turns often; wakes very early in the morning.
Fever
Protracted and continued fevers, with tympanites.
Skin
Stiff; dry.
Dif. diagnostics
Acon; Dig; Rhus-t; Spigelia.
Benz-ac; Spigelia.
Benz-ac; Spigelia.