Materia Medica
Kalmia Latifolia
Mountain Laurel
A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it ac- celerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; paivs shoot dozwnwards, with numb- ness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sen- e s se se every group of symptoms. dlbuminuria.
Head
Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from, head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.
Eyes
Vision impaired. Stiff, drarwing sensation when moving cyes. Rheumatic iritis.Scleritis, pain in- creased by moving the eye.
Face
Neuralgia; worse right side. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face.
Stomach
Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium. Nausea; vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach; qvorse by bending forzward; relieved by sitting erect. Bilious at- tacks, with nausea, vertigo, and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium.
Urinary
Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar re- gion. Post-scarlatinal nephritis.
Female
Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighis. Leucorrhcea follows menses.
Heart
Weak, slorw pulse. [Dig.; Apoc. can.] Fluttering of heart, with 1 anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaniny forzward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis to Tachycardia, with pain. [Thyroid.] Tobacco Dyspnoea. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart's action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.
Back
Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebra extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin.
Extremities
Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains afcct a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, prickirg, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen.
Sleep
Sleepless, wakes vrry early in morning.
Modalities
Worse, leaning forward [opposite, Kali carb.l: looking down; motion, open air.
Relationships
Compare: Dcrris pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin). Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat. Complementary: Bens. acid.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency.