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Ledum Palustre

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Led.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Region:

Fibrous tissue: JOINTS (small), Tendons, Eyes, Heels, Ankles

Capillary circulation: SKIN, Lungs

Periosteum

Blood

Nerves

Left side

Worse:

Warm: Covers, Stove, Air

Injury

Motion

Night

Eggs

Wine

Better:

Cool: Bathing, Air

Purple, puffy and chilly, yet averse to external warmth. Ascending effects; from feet. Shifting, tearing pain. Painful, cold, oedematous joints. Parts become weak, numb, cold and wither. Torpidity. Gouty-rheumatic-haemorrhagic persons. Tipsters. Dropsy. Rushes of blood. Haemorrhage; bright, frothy. Petechiae. Raging, pulsating headache; < covers. Scalp, < dampness. Blood-shot or bruised eyes. Persistent nose-bleed. Mottled or red (pimply) face. Sub-mental gland swelled. Much uric acid sand in urine. Bleeding fibroids. Cough; tormenting; from tickling in larynx; with epistaxis; then sobbing respiration; < receding eruptions. Double inspirations. Haemoptysis: alternating with rheumatism. Stiff, crampy back; < rising from sitting. Lumbago. Hip-joint; cramps over. Swelled, blotchy, ecchymotic legs and feet. Larval gout. Sprained ankles. Feet (dorsae) itch by night and are stiff in AM. Sore heels. Tender soles. Wounds, punctured; twitches in; from nails, stings, etc; foul pus. Coldness of part, < limbs; with the pain; during fever; as if in cold water. Foul sweat. Profuse night-sweat.

Relations

Related: Arn, Bry, Rhus-t, Sec-c.

What is in this library

These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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