HomeoRemedyLedum palustre
Marsh-tea
Main symptoms
- 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 joint and muscle pain begins in feet, and travels upward.
- It affects also the skin, producing an rash 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.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Dizziness when walking, with tendency to fall to one side. Distress when head is covered. Nosebleed.
Eyes
Aching in eyes. Extravasation of blood in lids, conjunctiva, aqueous or vitreous. Contused wounds.
Face
Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched. Crusty rash around nose and mouth.
Mouth
Dry, retching with belching. Musty taste with with mucus affection.
Respiratory
Burning in nose. Cough, with bloody phlegm coughed up. 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. Coughing up blood, alternating with joint and muscle pain. 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. Joint and muscle pain begins in lower limbs and ascends. Ankles swollen. Soles painful, can hardly step on them. 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. Antidote to Rhus poisoning.
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