Ledum palustre

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Purple, puffy and chilly, yet averse to external warmth. Ascending effects; from feet. Shifting, tearing pain. Painful, cold, œdematous joints. Parts become weak, numb, cold and wither. Torpidity. Gouty-rheumatic-hæmorrhagic persons. Tipsters. Dropsy. Rushes of blood. Hæmorrhage; bright, frothy. Petechiæ. .................... Raging, pulsating headache; < covers. Scalp, < dampness. Blood-shot or bruised eyes. Persistent nose-bleed. Mottled or red (pimply) face. Sub-mental gland swelled. Much uric acid sand in urine. Bleeding fibroids. Cough; tormenting; from tickling in larynx; with epistaxis; then sobbing respiration; < receding eruptions. Double inspirations. Hæmoptysis: alternating with rheumatism. Stiff, crampy back; < rising from sitting. Lumbago. Hip-joint; cramps over. Swelled, blotchy, ecchymotic legs and feet. Larval gout. Sprained ankles. Feet (dorsæ) itch by night and are stiff in A.M. Sore heels. Tender soles. Wounds, punctured; twitches in; from nails, stings, etc.; foul pus. Coldness of part, < limbs; with the pain; during fever; as if in cold water. Foul sweat. Profuse night-sweat.

Worse

Warm: Covers. Stove. Air. Injury. Motion. Night. Eggs. Wine.

Better

Cool: Bathing. Air.

Region

Fibrous tissue: JOINTS (small). Tendons. Eyes. Heels. Ankles. Capillary circulation: SKIN. Lungs. Periosteum. Blood. Nerves. Left side.

Relationships

Related: Arn. Bry. Rhus-t. Sec-c.

What the other books say about Ledum palustre

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Ledum palustre in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Ledum palustre in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Ledum palustre in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Ledum palustre — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/ledum-palustre. 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.