Ledum palustre

Ledum palustre
(marsh-tea)
* 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 travelsupward.
* 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
- Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall to one side.
- Distress when head is covered.
- Nosebleed. [Mellilot.; Bry.]
Eyes
- Aching in eyes.
- Extravasation of blood in lids, conjunctiva, aqueous or vitreous.
- Contused wounds.
- Cataract with gout.
Face
- Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched.
- Crusty eruption around nose and mouth.
Mouth
- Dry, retching with eructation.
- Musty taste with catarrhal affection.
Respiratory
- Burning in nose.
- Cough, with bloody expectoration.
- Dyspnoea; chest feels constricted.
- Suffocative arrest of breathing.
- Pain along trachea.
- Bronchitis with emphysema of aged.
- Oppressive constriction of chest.
- Tickling in larynx; spasmodic cough.
- Haemoptysis, alternating with rheumatism.
- Chest hurts when touched.
- Whooping-cough; spasmodic, double inspiration with sobbing.
Rectum
- Anal fissures.
- Haemorrhoidal pain.
Extremities
- 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.
- Cracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed.
- Gouty nodosities.
- Ball 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.
- Carbuncles. [Anthracin. Tarant. cuben.] Antidoteto Rhus poisoning. [Grindel.; Cyprip.;
Anac.]
Modalities
- Better, from cold, putting feet in cold water.
- Worse, at night, and from heat of bed.
Relationship
- Compare : Ledum antidotes spider poisons.
- Ruta; Ham.; Bellis.; Arnica.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.