Kalmia latifolia
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Kalmia latifolia
Mountain Laurel. Ericaceae.
Adapted to acute neuralgia, rheumatism, gouty complaints, especially when heart is involved as a sequel of rheumatism or gout.
In heart diseases that have developed from rheumatism, or alternate with it.
Pains sticking, darting, pressing, shooting in a downward direction (Cac. — upward. Led.); attended or succeeded by numbness of affected part (Acon., Cham., Plat.).
Severe stitching pain in r. eye and orbit (1. eye, Spig. ) ; stiffness in muscles, pain < when turning the eyes ( Spig. ) ; begins at sunrise, < at noon and leaves at sunset (Nat. m.).
Rheumatism : pains intense, change places suddenly, going from joint to joint; joint hot, red, swollen; worse from least movement.
Vertigo when stooping or looking down (Spig.).
Pulse slow, scarcely perceptible (35 or 40 per minute) ; pale face and cold extremities.
Relations., — Similar: to, Led., Rhod., Spig., in rheumatic affections and gout.
It follows Spig. well in heart disease.
What the other books say about Kalmia latifolia
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Kalmia latifolia in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Kalmia latifolia in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Kalmia latifolia in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Kalmia latifolia — Keynotes, p. 154. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/kalmia-latifolia. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.