Kalmia latifolia
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Aching, bruised, stiff feeling. Tingling, numbness, trembling or paralytic weakness. Changing pains; shoot outward along nerves; or dull tearing, crushing, moving downward, then suddenly, to heart or alternating with cardiac symptoms, or between upper and lower limbs. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. .................... Vertigo. Cracking noise in head. Shooting from nape to vertex and face. Maddening supra-orbital (r) pain. HEART; irritable; pains, sharp, burning; formication; numbness; weak; radiating to l. scapula or arm; taking away the breath; fluttering; palpitation, visible; paralysis. Pulse very slow; weak, tremulous. Brachialgia. Stiff, eyelids, lips, skin, etc.
Worse
MOTION: Lying on L. side. Bending Forward. Looking down. Heat. Becoming cold. With the sun.
Better
Eating. Cloudy weather. Continued motion.
Region
NERVES: SPINAL. Eyes. Face (R). HEART. Circulation. Joints. Skin. Right; head; deltoid. Left; chest; arm.
Relationships
Complementary: Benz-ac. Spi. Related: Aco. Dig. Rhus-t. Spi.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Kalmia latifolia in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Kalmia latifolia — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/kalmia-latifolia. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.