Ledum palustre
ledu-palMarsh-Tea 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 rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption 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
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Ledum palustre — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Ledum palustre — mind · James Tyler Kent
She can hardly speak a decent word to anybody. She will snap even when spoken to kindly. She is so irritable that her friends cannot pacify her. Even consolation aggravates. When spoken to she is irritable. She lies awake nights, and is tormented either by fanatical religious ideas, or a religious melancholy, and seems inclined to dwell upon insane, ideas concerning religion and modes of life unreasonable, illogical and fanciful. Has wrong ideas concerning everything. Receives wrong impressions and everything is inverted. It is impossible to please her. Now these states are present with a state of irritability of the sexual organs, nymphomania; violent sexual excitement associated with spasms, with palpitation, with sweats, with periods of exhaustion. She sits alone and broods over imaginary troubles, and when spoken to is crabbed. "Ideas not clear; they become more so if she exercises her will." "Makes mistakes in writing, in speaking, cannot apply the mind steadily; tormented about her salvation." The patient tries to describe an indescribable feeling by saying she has a "crazy feeling" in the head, as if the ideas scattered, and the more she attempts to think rationally the more irrational she becomes. The more she attempts to think of something the less likely she is to recall it. When putting the mind upon something else it comes back again.
Ledum palustre — general · James Tyler Kent
Surgeon: This remedy comes up well after the study of Lachesis, for we find in the pathogenesis many features similar to those in Lachesis. It has the mottled aspect and the same puffed and bloated appearance of the face. It is antidotal to Lachesis, to the poison of insects, to the poison of Apis and to animal poisons. Ledum is a remedy for the surgeon, and is closely associated in traumatism with Arnica and Hypericum. The symptoms very much resemble such as follow certain kinds of injury, for instance an injury from stepping on tacks, from puncturing with needles, wounds that bleed scantily but are followed by pain, puffiness and coldness of the part. Causation: Stepping on a nail and it pierces the sole of the foot or the heel, or he receives such a wound in the palm of the hand from a splinter, or he runs a splinter under the nail. If, after such punctured wounds, the part becomes cold and then pale, paralyzed and mottled think of Ledum. The horse sometimes steps on a nail. If that nail goes through and strikes the margin of the coffin bone, tetanus will follow. It is known to be almost sure death.
Ledum palustre — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
AU day long, discontented with his feUow creatures, which at last amounted to misanthropy. Vertigo. Head tends to sink backwards. Considerable dilatation of pupils. Contusions or wounds of eye or lids, especially with extravasation of blood. A noise in the ears like ringing of bells, or like a storm of wind. Roaring in the ears, as from wind. Hard pressure inwards in the lower jaw. Sore throat, with fine shooting pain. A sudden flow of watery saliva from mouth, with colic. Water- brash. Tight, painful respiration. Dyspnceic constriction of chest, worse movement and walking. Chronic cough characterized by cold and deficiency of animal heat. Expectoration of bright red blood with violent cough. Pain in loins after sitting. On raising arm, extremely painful shooting in shoulder. Pressure in left shoulder joint, aggravated by movement. Pressure in both shoulder joints, aggravated by movement. Trembling of the hands when grasping or when moving them. Whitlows, from punctured wounds, needle pricks, splinters. Pressure in left thigh, posteriorly ; as if the muscles were not in their right places, like pain of dislocation ; in every position, but especially violent when touched and when walking. Trembling of knees {and hands) when sitting and walking. Weakness in knee joints, when walking, a tearing pressure in them.
Ledum palustre — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
CMarsh Tea) We have such a wealth of “ wound-worts ”, remedies for injuries of different kinds, to different tissues, and of different seasons, that we may always find one or other at our door all the world over ; and one prescriber learns to use, and swears by the one, one the other : and indeed, their uses overlap : and yet the one called for, if we know it and have it at hand, is always the ideal one for rapid magic. At the moment our Casualty Department is swearing by, and discovering the transcendent virtues of Ledum : a remedy, as we all know, of course ! for stings and punctures, and bites of angry animals ; for the rusty nails that run dangerously into the sole of the foot, or palm of the hand. But we, most of us, have probably a very small idea of its complete “ inwardness ”, and of its wider ranges of usefulness. A resident casualty officer, very keen at his work, and therefore getting tile dramatic results he deserves, gives us the following experiences. His indications are especially punctured wounds, or wounds very sensitive to touch. Abcesses, and septic conditions, very tender, relieved by cold. If the patient is not sure in regard to the effect of heat and cold, he gets him to “ put it under the cold tap ”, and if this is grateful, he is sure of his drug. He cites a couple of recent cases : Finger ; scratch from rusty nail ; had become septic. Patient had put finger under hot tap in the hotel, without relief. It was early sepsis, not much swelling, but it looked ” angry ”. Ledum 12, six doses four-hourly was prescribed, but patient was to stop the medicine if better. Two hours after the first dose all pain went. In twenty-four hours there was nothing to show. Case : crushed fingers ; badly lacerated. Had been stitched elsewhere. Could not sleep.
Ledum palustre — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Warm: Covers. Stove. Air. Injury. Motion. Night. Eggs. Wine.
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