Kalmia latifolia
Mountain laurel
Main symptoms
- A rheumatic remedy.
- Pains shift rapidly.
- Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying.
- Has also a prominent action on the heart.
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- In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly.
- Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites.
- Paralytic sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms.
- Albuminuria.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Dizziness; 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, drawing sensation when moving eyes. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased 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; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect. Bilious attacks, with nausea, dizziness, and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium.
Urinary
Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-scarlatinal nephritis.
Heart
Weak, slow pulse. Fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain. Tobacco heart. Dyspnoea and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart's action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.
Female
Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. White vaginal discharge follows menses.
Back
Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebrae 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 joint and muscle pain especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm.
Sleep
Sleepless, wakes very early in morning.
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