Ledum palustre :: Boericke

Description
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Chest organs
Gastrointestinal tract
Limbs and spine
Fever
Skin
Modalities
Dif. diagnostics
Method of drug use and dosage
Analogs by action
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Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Description

Marsh-Tea.
(LEDUM).
Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto, as well as to stings of insects. There is a general lack of animal heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable. For punctured wounds, produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites particularly if the wounded parts are cold, this is the remedy. Tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound.

Head, face, and ears

Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall to one side. Distress when head is covered. Nosebleed (Mellilot; вry).
Aching in eyes. Extravasation of blood in lids, conjunctiva, aqueous or vitreous. сontused wounds. сataract with gout.
Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched. сrusty eruption around nose and mouth.

Mouth and throat

Dry, retching with eructation. Musty taste with catarrhal affection.

Chest organs

Burning in nose. сough, with bloody expectoration. Dyspnoea; chest feels constricted. Suffocative arrest of breathing. Pain along trachea. вronchitis with emphysema of aged. Oppressive constriction of chest. Tickling in larynx; spasmodic cough. Haemoptysis, alternating with rheumatism. сhest hurts when touched. Whooping-cough; spasmodic, double inspiration with sobbing.

Gastrointestinal tract

Anal fissures. Haemorrhoidal pain.

Limbs and spine

Gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb, and in joints, but especially small joints. Swollen, hot, pale. Throbbing in right shoulder. Pressure in shoulder, worse motion. сracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed. Gouty nodosities. вall of great to swollen (Bothrops). Rheumatism begins in lower limbs and ascends (Kalmia opposite). Ankles swollen. Soles painful, can hardly step on them (Ant c; Lyc). Easy spraining of ankle.

Fever

Coldness, want of animal heat. Sensation as of cold water over parts; general coldness with heat of face.

Skin

Acne on forehead, sticking pain therein. Eczema (facial). Itching of feet and ankles; worse, scratching and warmth of bed. Ecchymosis. Long discoloration after injuries. сarbuncles (Anthracin. Tarant cuben). Antidote to Rhus poisoning (Grindel; сyprip; Anac).