LEDUM PALUSTRE
Marsh-Tea
(LEDUM)
Affects mainly the rheumatic diathesis, going thru all the changes, from purposeful ache to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy count in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism starts offevolved in feet, and travels upward. It influences additionally the skin, producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto, as nicely as to stings of insects. There is a commonplace lack of animal heat, and but warmness of mattress is intolerable. For punctured wounds, produced by using sharp-pointed devices or bites specifically if the wounded components are cold, this is the remedy. Tetanus with twitching of muscular tissues close to 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 acne on brow and cheeks; stinging when touched. Crusty eruption round nostril and mouth.
Mouth.–Dry, retching with eructation. Musty style with catarrhal affection.
Respiratory.–Burning in nose. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Dyspnoea; chest feels constricted. Suffocative arrest of breathing. Pain alongside 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 concept with sobbing.
Rectum.–Anal fissures. Haemorrhoidal pain.
Extremities.–Gouty pains shoot all thru the foot and limb, and in joints, however particularly small joints. Swollen, hot, pale. Throbbing in proper shoulder. Pressure in shoulder, worse motion. Cracking in joints; worse, warmness of bed. Gouty nodosities. Ball of tremendous to swollen (Bothrops). Rheumatism starts in decrease limbs and ascends (Kalmia opposite). Ankles swollen. Soles painful, can rarely step on them (Ant c; Lyc). Easy spraining of ankle.
Fever.–Coldness, favor of animal heat. Sensation as of bloodless water over parts; usual coldness with warmness of face.
Skin.–Acne on forehead, sticking ache therein. Eczema (facial). Itching of toes and ankles; worse, scratching and warmness of bed. Ecchymosis. Long discoloration after injuries. Carbuncles (Anthracin. Tarant cuben). Antidote to Rhus poisoning (Grindel; Cyprip; Anac).
Modalities.–Better, from cold, inserting toes in bloodless water. Worse, at night, and from warmness of bed.
Relationship.–Compare: Ledum antidotes spider poisons. Ruta; Ham; Bellis; Arnica.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
