Materia Medica de A a Z

LEDUM PALUSTRE = RHODODENDRON TOMENTOSUM (led)

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.

General

Purple, puffy and chilly, yet averse to external warmth. Ascending effects; from feet. Shifting, tearing pain. Painful, cold, odematous joints. Parts become weak, numb, cold and wither. Torpidity. Gouty-rheumatic-hæmorrhagic persons. Tipsters. Dropsy. Rushes of blood. Hæmorrhage; bright, frothy. Petechiæ..................... Raging, pulsating headache; agg. covers. Scalp, agg. 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; agg. receding eruptions. Double inspirations. Hæmoptysis: alternating with rheumatism. Stiff, crampy back; agg. rising from sitting. Lumbago. Hip-joint; cramps over. Swelled, blotchy, ecchymotic legs and feet. Larval gout. Sprained ankles. Feet (dorsæ) itch by night and are stiff in A.M. Sore heels. Tender soles. Wounds, punctured; twitches in; from nails, stings, etc.; foul pus. Coldness of part, agg. limbs; with the pain; during fever; as if in cold water. Foul sweat. Profuse night-sweat.

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