Kalmia Latifolia kalm.

NERVES: SPINAL. Eyes. Face (R). HEART. Circulation. Joints. Skin. Right; head; deltoid. Left; chest; arm.

MOTION: Lying on L. side. Bending Forward. Looking down. Heat. Becoming cold. With the sun.

Eating. Cloudy weather. Continued motion.

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.

Complementary: Benz-ac. Spi. Related: Aco. Dig. Rhus-t. Spi.

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 right eye and orbit (left 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 to 40 per minute); pale face and cold extremities.

Similar: to, Led., Rhod., Spig., in rheumatic affections and gout. It follows Spig. well in heart disease.

Mountain Laurel

A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. Albuminuria.

Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.

Vision impaired. Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye.

Neuralgia; worse right side. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face.

Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium. Nausea; vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect. Bilious attacks, with nausea, vertigo, and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium.

Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-scarlatinal nephritis.

Weak, slow pulse (Dig; Apoc can). Fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain (Thyroid). Tobacco heart. Dyspnœa and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart's action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.

Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrhœa follows menses.

Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebræ extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin.

Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm.

Sleepless, wakes very early in morning.

Worse, leaning forward (opposite, Kali carb); looking down; motion, open air.

Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin).

Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat.

Complementary: Benz acid.

Tincture, to sixth potency.

Ought to be noticed just here, because it seems, at first sight, so much like Spigelia, and Hering says it follows Spigelia well in heart disease.

Both remedies have severe neuralgia of the face, but Kalmia is oftenest right-sided, Spigelia left. Both have pains in eyes, worse on turning them, but Kalmia has a sense of stiffness (Rhus tox. and Natrum mur.). Spigelia eyes hurt as if too large for the orbit. Both affect strongly the heart, and are useful in heart troubles of rheumatic origin. Both have violent, visible, tumultuous action of heart; Spigelia is invariably so, while Kalmia has at times remarkable slowness of the pulse (like Digitalis). The Kalmia form of rheumatism, like Cactus, goes from above downward (Ledum from below upward), and the pains in Kalmia shift suddenly. If we were called to a case of migratory rheumatism, and the heart seemed to be suffering, we would think of Kalmia before Pulsatilla, of course all the other symptoms taken into consideration. The pain of Kalmia often extends down to left hand (Rhus).

So far as the neuralgic symptoms of Kalmia are concerned, they are not much like Spigelia, except that they locate in the face, and are very violent. The sides and time of aggravation are different, and Kalmia is not often found involving the whole head, like Spigelia. Hering mentions that with Kalmia "weakness is the only general symptom with neuralgia" The neuralgic pains of Kalmia are sometimes attended with, or followed by, numbness of de parts affected, in this resembling Aconite, Chamomilla, Gnaphalium and Platina. It is to study up the points of resemblance of remedies having a particular affinity for the same region or organ, and to note ado more particularly the differences, that perfects the true homœopathic prescriber. No kind of labour will bring better returns.

Giddiness, with headache and nausea. Giddiness when stooping and looking downwards. Sensation of heat in the head in the morning. Pain in the forehead in the morning when waking, after rising and then increasing. Pulsating headache as if a pulse were beating in the forehead. Pressing pain on a small spot on the right side of the head. The headache is worse in the evening and in the open air.

Everything is ; black before the eye when he looks downward ; with nausea and eructations of wind (in the morning). Dull weak eyes. Pressure in the right eye (evening). Pressure above the right eye. Sensation of stiffness around the eyes and in the eyelids. Stitches in the eyes (ears, fingers, feet). Itching in the eyes, and when rubbing them they sting. The eye symptoms are worse in the evening and in the open air.

Stitches in the right ear (ears), behind the right ear, neck and thighs (at night).

Coryza, with increased sense of smell.

Stitches ; and tearing in the lower jaw. Fothergill's faceache. Paleness of the face. Itching in the face at night. Roughness of the cheeks (during every summer).

Lips swollen, dry and stiff (morning). Cracked lips with dry skin. Tongue white, dry. Stitches in the tongue. Increased secretion of saliva. The throat feels swollen. Sensation as if a ball were rising in the throat. Sensation of dryness in the throat, with difficult deglutition and thirst. Pressure in the throat, stitches in the eyes, and nausea.

Nausea, everything becomes black before the eyes, with pressure in the throat, incarcerated flatulence, oppression of breathing, and rheumatic pains in the limbs. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, worse when sitting in a stooping position, better when sitting erect, with the sensation as if something should be pressed off below the pit of the stomach. Pains in the region of the liver. Incarcerated flatulence, with nausea. Sensation of weakness in the abdomen extending to the throat, relieved by eructation.

Stool like mush, easily discharged, as if glazed, followed by pressure on the rectum.

Frequent micturition of large quantities of yellow urine.

Women. Menstruation insufficient and too late.

When breathing, a noise as from spasm in the glottis. Pain in the chest as from a sprain. Difficult and oppressed breathing ; the throat feels swollen, nausea ; with rheumatism. Cough caused by scraping in the throat. Hypertrophy of the heart ; palpitation of the heart.

Violent pain in the upper three vertebræ, extending through the shoulders. Pain in the back during menstruation. Sensation of lameness in the back. Sensation as if the spinal column would break from within.

Upper. Pain in the right shoulder. Stitches in the lower part of the left shoulder-blade. Rheumatic pains in the arms (right). Cracking in the elbow-joint. Stitches in the fingers ; stitches in the fingers. The hands feel as ; they had been sprained. Pain in the left wrist, causing the hand to feel paralyzed. Erysipelatous eruption on the hands and extending further. Weakness in the arms ; the pulse being slow. Lower. Tearing pain from the hip down the leg, extending to the feet. Stitches externally on the knee : in the feet, soles of the feet, toes, left big toe. Pain in knee (the left). Sensation of weakness in the calves. The feet feel sprained. Rheumatic pains in the extremities.

Restless sleep, turns often. While sleeping he stands up and walks about. Talking during sleep.

Pulse slow, weak. Chilliness. Cold limbs, the pulse is scarcely perceptible. Heat with burning and pain in the back and loins. Cold perspiration.

Pricking sensation in the skin and moderate perspiration. Dry skin. Erysipelatous, inflamed eruption on the hand, similar to the eruption caused by Rhus-tox., with oppressed breathing. Eruption like itch.

Motion increases especially the great weakness and tired feeling in all the muscles. The head and eye symptoms are worse in the evening and in the open air. Bending forward increases the sensations in the pit of the stomach. Stooping and looking downwards increases the giddiness. The rheumatic pains are mostly in the upper arms and lower parts of the legs ; and are worse when going to sleep. Amelioration when lying down. The rheumatism often attacks the heart, and generally goes from the upper to the lower parts. Wine relieves the vomiting.

Ledum floribus bullatis. Cistus chamærhododendros. Mountain Laurel. American Laurel. Calico Bush. (Rocky sterile hills, near water, in New England States. Flowers May and June.) N. O. Ericaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves when the plant is in flower.

Angina pectoris. Blindness. Bright's disease. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Gastralgia. Globus hystericus. Gout. Headache. Heart, disease of. Herpes zoster; neuralgia after. Keratitis. Leucorrhœa. Locomotor ataxia. Lumbago. Neuralgia . Paraplegia. Ptosis. Pregnancy, albuminuria of. Retinitis albuminurica. Rheumatism . Rumination. Scleroderma. Sclerotitis. Somnambulism. Sun-headaches. Syphilitic sore throat. Tinnitus. Tobacco, effects of. Vertigo. Vomiting.

Kalmia is the name of a genus of heathworts, natives of North America. K. latifolia , which has large and showy flowers, is found in the northern parts of the United States. Its flowers "yield a honey said to be deleterious, and its leaves and shoots certainly are so to cattle. K. angustifolia , probably for the same reason, has received the name of Lambkill. The powdered leaves of some are used as a local remedy in some skin diseases. The hard wood of K. latifolia is used in the manufacture of various useful articles. The Canadian partridge is said to become poisonous as human food after feeding on Kalmia berries" ( Treasury of Botany ). Hering introduced Kalmia into homœopathic practice, himself and his friends being the first provers. The head, including eyes and face, shows the chief intensity of its action, and scarcely less so, the heart. A number of skin symptoms confirm the popular use of the leaves; and among them a "stiffness" of the skin (especially of the eyelids) is the most remarkable. Neuralgias (especially of right side); wandering rheumatic pains which tend to travel from above downwards; tumultuous action of the heart and slow pulse — these are the cardinal features of Kalm . Though Kalm . acts most markedly on the right side of the head, it acts very markedly on the left (heart-) side of the chest and left arm. Von der Luhe cured with Kalm . 200 an intercostal neuralgia of left side, so intense that the patient could not lie down or sleep at night. The chief guiding symptom was a concomitant numb sensation of whole left arm ( H. W ., xxxiii. 503). With the same potency I cured in a married woman the following symptoms: "Sick feeling and pains flying about, especially down left side; headache at vertex; chilliness"; and in a case of hypertrophied heart in an unmarried woman, "pain through heart region with inability to lie on left side." Lambert has recorded ( H. W ., xxx. 64) the case of a gate-keeper, 54, who had smoked since he was seven years old, and who suffered from "tobacco heart," palpitation, occurring on least exertion or fright, and sometimes awakening him in the night; pulse intermittent; no valvular lesion; tingling in left arm and leg and sensation as if the blood did not circulate in them. He could walk all right, but not far. The chief thing he complained of was sharp pain in right temple like pins and needles, of eighteen months' duration. It was induced by touch and turning head quickly. Kalm . 3x cured the temporal neuralgia and greatly alleviated all the other symptoms. Kalm . also relieved an old ataxic patient (man) of "vertigo and pains in legs which shoot and shift their position frequently." In connection with this spinal case the effects on animals are worth recalling. Meadows ( C. D. P. , quoting Southern J. of H ., Apr., 1890,) says cattle eat Kalm . in the latter part of the winter when they are in want of something green. The first symptom is intense thirst; then follow trembling, weakness, staggering, and jerking, the abdomen being full of wind. Then clonic spasms, every fifteen to twenty minutes, increasing to violent convulsions, which are renewed if the animal tries to rise in the intervals between the seizures. Eyes become fixed, pupils turned up, head drawn back, limbs rigid, abdomen bloated, bowels loose. If the animal recovers there is prostration for a week or more, and for three or four months it is weak, nervous, and walks as if intoxicated, tottering as if unable to control its limbs. The spinal action is unmistakable here, and the provings give "weakness and paralytic condition of limbs"; "shuns all exertion, can hardly go upstairs"; and many symptoms of pain in back. Neuralgias appear in almost all regions — in eye; in uterus (dysmenorrhœa); in stomach as well as head, chest, and limbs. Pains in the periosteum preventing sleep. The rheumatic pains proceed from above downwards, but some of the sensations ascend: as if a ball was rising in the throat. Sensation of weakness in abdomen extending to throat. Every heart-beat has a strumming as if it would burst, along sternum to throat. Pain between shoulders coming up over head. Also in rheumatism, the lower limbs are affected first, then the upper. Other peculiar sensations are: As if something loose in head diagonally across the top. As if the body was surcharged with electricity, a shuddering without coldness. As if something would be pressed off below pit of stomach. As if the stool was glazed. As if one squeezed throat with thumb and finger. Pain in chest (in hands, in feet) as from a sprain. Pressure like a marble from epigastrium to heart. Cracking in head frightens him, ending in sound in ears like blowing a horn. As if something was being pressed away from under sternum. The pains and conditions requiring Kalm . frequently have nausea and slow pulse as concomitants. Among noteworthy symptoms are: Dry throat. Dry, stiff, swollen, cracked lips. Tingling in salivary glands immediately after eating. Stitches in tongue. Vomiting with ruminating action; without the least nausea. Pressure on rectum after stool. The sensation of "rigidity of the skin" should make us think of it in scleroderma. There is much external sensitiveness: Face, pit of stomach, muscles of neck sore, < by touch. Rubbing eyes = stinging in them. The pains are < during early part of night, or soon after going to sleep. Pain in forehead conies on in morning on waking. The headache is < again in evening, when eye-symptoms and pains generally are < . Kalm . has a "sun-headache," < and > with the sun. (H. G. Grahn cured in a girl, 18, a headache "beginning in occiput, going over forehead; comes on at sunrise, gets < towards noon and declines as sun sets ," with Kalm . 2x. A few weeks later exposure to the sun brought on another attack, which was promptly cured with the same remedy.) A sudden chill, or exposure to a sudden wind = the pains. Heat < and cold > pain in head. Open air < headache and eyes. Every summer there is roughness of cheeks. Mental effort < headache. Motion < . Lying down, mental faculties and memory perfect, least motion = vertigo. Lying on back > breathing; on left side < palpitation. The < from motion is very marked, almost equalling that of Bry .; even motion of eyes and eyelids is painful. The pains in the stomach are < sitting bent, though he feels impelled to do so, > sitting or standing upright. But symptoms of vision are < in erect position. Vertigo is < on stooping; on looking down; on rising from a seat. Palpitation is < on bending forward; and < by mental effort. (Proell cured with Kalm . 1, 2, and 3 headache and weakened memory preventing him from continuing his studies, in a boy of 13 who had insufficiency of the mitral valve.) The neuralgic pains are > by food; wine > vomiting. Symptoms < during leucorrhœa. A leading concomitant of the Kalmia neuralgias is a paralytic weakness and trembling.

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In a recumbent posture, mental faculties and memory perfect, but on attempting to move, vertigo.
Anxiety with palpitation.
Toward evening and next forenoon very cross.

Vertigo : with headache, blindness, pains in limbs and weariness ; while stooping and looking down.
Vertigo : with aching in face. θ Neuralgia.
Giddiness, with headache and nausea.

Pulsating headache in forehead.
Pain in forehead in morning when waking, < after rising.
Aching in forehead, followed by rending in bones of right or l. side of face ; shooting downward into eye teeth ; moving backward down neck and outwardly on both sides ; succeeded by pain in left shoulder ; rending in bones of legs to feet.
Pain over right eye ; giddiness ; eyes weak and watery.
Pressing pain on a small spot on right side of head.
Headache internally, with sensation, when turning, of something loose in head, diagonally across top.
A cracking in head frightens him, it ends in a sound in ears like blowing a horn.
A shuddering without coldness commence with cracking as if surcharged with electricity.
Severe pressing headache, < and > with sun.
Sensation of heat in head in morning.
Dulness in head ; headache ; backache.
Neuralgic paroxysmal pains.
Headache < in evening and in open air.

Pain from back of neck up over scalp to top of head and temples, also affecting face right side ; tender to touch ; pain shooting twitching ; sometimes in spots ; > from cold, < from heat ; every afternoon, last with great
severity, through night. θ Neuralgia.
Rheumatic pain in scalp.

Glimmering before eyes.
Everything black before eye when he looks downward ; nausea and eructations of wind (in morning).
Dull, weak eyes.
Retinitis albuminurica, occurring during pregnancy ; pains in back.
Nephritic retinitis accompanied by much pain in back, as if it would break.
Sclera inflamed, vitreous perfectly filled with exudation, and glimmering before eye, especially on reading with the other. θ Sclero-choroiditis anterior.
Sclerotis, particularly in rheumatic subjects ; eyeball painful on motion.
Parenchymatous keratitis.
Severe pain in right eye, extending to forehead ; commences at sunrise, < until noon ; then > and leaves at sunset. θ Neuralgia oculorum. (After Acon. and Bellad. failed.)
Pressure in right eye (evening) ; also above right eye.
Stitches in eyes, ears, fingers and feet.
Itching in eyes ; when rubbing them they sting.
Pain in eyes, which makes it painful to turn them.
Sensation of stiffness in muscles around eyes, and of eyelids.
Asthenopia ; stiff, drawing sensation in muscles upon moving eyes.
Eye symptoms < evening and in open air.

Stitches in and behind right ear ; in neck and thighs, at night.
Sound like blowing a horn, after cracking in head.
Meniere's disease.

Coryza : with increased sense of smell ; with sneezing, dulness, headache and hoarseness.
Tearing in root of nose and nasal bones, with nausea.

Face : red, with throbbing headache ; pale.
Anxious expression of countenance. θ Rheumatism of heart.
Flushing of face, with vertigo. θ Neuralgia.
Pressing pains in right side of face, especially between eye and nose.
Prosopalgia, right sided ; pains rending ; agonizing ; stupefying or threatening delirium.
Fothergill's faceache.
Severe neuralgia in right cheek, with alkaline taste in mouth.
Facial neuralgia, involving teeth of upper jaw, but not from caries.
After exposure to cold, pains in right side of head, ear and face, and even going down to arm, sometimes attended with numbness, or succeeded by numbness in parts affected ; pains sticking, teasing, pressing, or shooting in a downward direction ; pains occur at irregular times,
continue for no definite period, coming suddenly or gradually, and leaving as uncertainly ; < by worry or mental exertion ; > by food. θ Neuralgia.
Facial neuralgia after zoster.
Face itches at night.
Roughness of cheeks (during every Summer).

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The symptoms that indicate this remedy show themselves especially in the muscles, in the tendons, in the joints, along the course of the nerves, in rheumatic complaints.

The pains change about, wandering pains, and they axe aggravated from motion. The sharp pains spread from the centres to the extremities, the wandering pains go downwards, down the arms, down the back and down the legs; from the shoulder to the fingers, and from the hips to the toes.

These pains sometimes shoot like lightning, again they tear along the nerves, along the sciatic and crural nerves, down through the calves. In rheumatic constitutions the pains are dull, tearing, crushing and pressing, and are aggravated by motion and go from the lower to the upper limbs. Motion will bring on the pain or aggravate it when it is present. The head pains are very severe. They often begin in the back of the neck or back of the head, and extend to the top of the head. There are also pains in the front of the head, pains over one or both eyes, tearing neuralgic pains aggravated by heat and motion.

Pains come and go with the sun, that is, they begin in the morning at the rising of the sun and increase till noon, then gradually decline and disappear at sunset. He is incapacitated for mental work when in motion and even when sitting up, but, when lying upon his back perfectly quiet, making no motion, the mind works well and with clearness; with the slightest motion, however, even of the hand, on comes vertigo and confusion of mind.

Moving about disturbs makes him incompetent. The pains are also worse the first half of the night. With these symptoms there is cardiac trouble of rheumatic origin. The condition has increased until organic disease has come, even hypertrophy of the heart and valves.

For the pains in the eyes, the stitching, tearing pains that occur during kidney disturbance in pregnancy, or during albuminuria, Kalmia becomes a remedy,

This remedy is useful in neuralgia; neuralgia of the eye, neuralgia of the face, violent, tearing pains in the face. Sometimes it takes the form of a nightly < and sometimes it takes the form of daily <. The aggravation in the daytime comes and goes with the sun. The < at night time comes with the lying down.

"Anxious expression of countenance" associated with rheumatism of the heart.

"Flushing of the face, with vertigo."

After the disappearance of a herpetic eruption, violent neuralgic pains, shooting, tearing pains in those nerves that supply the part where the eruption was. When shingles, ring-worm, cold sore, or isolated vesicular eruptions disappear, suddenly from some violent cause or inappropriate treatment, or from catching cold, violent neuralgias come in their place and continue until the eruption comes out again.

This remedy becomes suitable if the symptoms agree; that is, if the whole patient is in agreement with the state of the remedy.

The pains are stitching and tearing, very severe, sometimes cutting and shooting when this remedy is mw useful. The pain will seem to take hold of a nerve and will hold on to it for many minutes, Coming with violence, coming suddenly and letting loose suddenly. Pains come in the extremities in the same way, taking hold as if the nerve were being pinched by nippers, or as if it were being torn to pieces.

"There, now it is gone!" says the patient.

Pretty soon, again, you will see his face in a state of horrible distress. The pain is there again and he cannot move a muscle, and "there, it is gone!" he says, and it remains away for some minutes and sometimes for hours.

This remedy has cured that state. Palpitation very marked when lying on the left side, > when lying on the back, sometimes > when sitting erect, < when bending forward.

These symptoms alone cause this remedy to stand out in relief. It is useful in rheumatic patients where syphilis is at the bottom, syphilitic rheumatism that has taken the course described until finally the heart has become affected and there is thickening of the valves. Shooting pains through the heart, pains in the chest, intermittent pulse, pulse skipping a beat now and then.

Either the arterial or venous system, or the valves of the heart, or both, may be affected. Dyspnoea from any kind of exercise, cardiac dyspnoea. You have in this a remedy for such complaints. It goes to the bottom in old cases of rheumatic syphilis, and has cured many a cardiac complaint that was the result of syphilis.

You will be guided to it especially if the pains wander from place to place, and if they go from above down wards, if they go from the shoulder down toward the fingers, from the hips toward the feet, or down the spine. It is also suitable in old cases of gonorrhoeal rheumatism when the symptoms agree.

The slightest motion, the slightest effort or exertion brings on the vertigo, and this is due to disturbance of the circulation. The heart is so susceptible to any exertion that disturbance of the circulation of the blood in the brain comes on from the slightest motion.

"In a recumbent posture mental faculties and memory perfect, but, on attempting to move, vertigo."

If the patient persists in moving, nausea and vomiting will follow. It has palpitation, shaking the whole frame, audible, vehement palpitation. He cannot lie on his left side.

It is suitable in old, troublesome, recurrent headaches associated with cardiac affections. A headache will come on daily if the sun comes out, but it will not come on if the day is clouded. He is aggravated from the light of the sun and the increasing brightness of the sun's rays.

In addition to these there are paroxysms of pain that are nightly. These are the bone pains, pains in the shin bones as if the periosteum would be torn off; these pains come on at night, or the first half of the night. It is well known in syphilis that the < is at night. It is an antipsoric, antisycotic and antisyphilitic, it can be selected when the symptoms agree with any of the three miasms. Pains in the pericranium, pains in the bones nearest to the surface. In bed at night the pains become very severe and last all night.

This night aggravation, is especially true of the marked antisyphilitic medicines. It is found under Hepar and Mercurius ; but in none of the remedies do we find it so strikingly manifested as in the disease, or miasm, syphilis itself.

In syphilis the < comes with the setting of the sun. It is one of man’s enemies that does its work in the night. Many of the complaints of sycosis conform to the day hours, and the pains are < from the rising. to the going down of the sun.

Medicines also have such I queer whims. We must study remedies as we would human character. Some of them seem to be extremely whimsical, and it is by knewing these whimsical, strange and peculiar things that we are able to mark the character of the remedy, When we know these peculiari ties we have found the circumstance under which the remedy Works

The heart has many symptoms which should be studied.

"Fluttering of the heart, palpitation of the heart."

"Palpitation up into the throat, after going to bed, trembling all over."

Very slow pulse . I remember a patient, an old syphilitic, who was told if he ever made a violent move he would die, the valves of his heart were so badly affected. He had all the murmurs that it seemed possible from the heart valves.

He had traveled all over and had taken large doses of Mercury, and his syphilitic condition had to a great extent been suppressed, until finally the whole trouble had located in the heart. Kalmia removed all the dyspnea and palpitation in a few months, and it was nearly two years before there was a marked return of the symptoms and a repetition put him in a state of health, so that be needed no more medicine.

This shows what a deep-acting remedy Kalmia is, how long it may act, what wonderful changes it may effect. A remedy must be capable of going deep into the life to do such things.

"Wandering rheumatic pains in the region of the heart."

"When articular rheumatism has been treated externally and cardiac symptoms ensue."

Rheumatism that goes from the lower to the upper limbs. Not uncommonly you will meet such things. These "rubbers" that go around the streets with a strong liniment and considerable magnetism frequently do cause a rheumatism to leave the knee joint, and when it does that, the heart is likely to be the organ that suffers.

Then Kalmia, Aurum, Bryonia, Rhus tox., Ledum, Calc. and Abrotanum , and sometimes Cactus, are remedies that prove suitable for such cardiac affections. Rheumatic affections that are driven away in this manner are changed without being cured. The people cannot realize the danger, of merely removing symptoms. Every removal that is not in accordance with cure affects the centres of man, that is the heart and brain.

Rubbing is a dangerous thing. When you are importuned with the question,

"Doctor, will it hurt me to have this rubbed?" you reply, "If rubbing does not affect any change in the symptoms, it will do no harm."

In proportion as it mitigates the symptoms or relieves, just in that proportion it does the patient harm, for the whole vital economy is weakened. There are instances where rubbing is of benefit, but not in rheumatism.

In paralyzed muscles it is a beneficial exercise, for then rubbing can take the place of exercise of the patient himself, of the muscles. But rubbing is not admissible if it is used to reduce pain. The more agreeable it is, the worse, it is for the patient.

In a Phosphorus patient you would be astonished what wonderful relief they can get from rubbing. There is no person more inclined to be weak in the vitality, in the internal economy, than the Phosphorus patient. He is an excitable, weakly patient, and feels better by rubbing and craves it, but if he has rheumatism in the knees and the knee is rubbed the rheumatism may go to the heart, The Phos. patient loves to be rubbed, because rubbing relieves the symptoms; he loves to be magnetized.

"Weariness of all the limbs; shuns all exertion."

"Weakness the only general symptom with neuralgia."

This weakness is a state that you can glean something from. When severe pain is fatiguing the economy the heart is threatened. A general weakness, prolonged weakness after confinement, or from the pain, as we find in Hepar, but with the weakness, these pains are threatening to leave their parts and go to the heart. He is perfectly exhausted and continuously tired.

The text speaks only of Aconite and Belladonna as the antidotes. Spigelia follows this remedy very well and antidotes it. Benzoic acid is a natural complement to it. Calc., Lith. carb., Lyc., Nat. mur., and Puls. are the remedies that are closely related and should be compared.

There are kidney affections.

All the organs are related. to each other but especially the heart and kidneys. When the kidneys are not working well, the heart is very often troublesome. All through the varying forms of Bright’s disease the heart is troublesome.

Difficulties of breathing, difficult heart action, with albuminuria. It will relieve the breathing. Again, associated with kidney affections, we have many eye complaints, difficulties of vision, and these also especially call for this remedy. It is often indicated in Bright's disease, with disturbance of vision, occurring during pregnancy.

In a recumbent posture, the mental faculties and memory are perfect, but on every attempt to move, vertigo.
Anxiety with the palpitation.
Toward evening and the next afternoon very cross.

Vertigo: with headache, blindness, pains in the limbs and weariness; while stooping and long down, with aching of the face. θ Neuralgia.
A cracking in the head frightens him, if ends like a sound in ears like blowing of a horn.

Headache internally, with sensation when turning, of something loose in head, diagonally across top.
Sensation of heat in the head in the morning.
Pain in the forehead in the morning when walking, after rising, and then increasing.
Pressing pain on a small spots on the right side of the head.
The headache is worse in the evening and in the open air.
A shuddering without coldness commenced with cracking; as if surcharged in electricity.
Pain over the right eye; giddiness; eyes weak and watery.
Dulness in the head; headache; backache.
Aching in the forehead, followed by rending in bones of right of left side of face; or, shooting downward into eye-teeth; or, moving backward down the neck and outwardly on both sides; succeeded by pain in left shoulder; or rending in bones of legs to feet.

Neuralgia each afternoon, becoming worse at night; pain from back of neck up over scalp to top of head and temples, also affecting face, mostly on right side.
Parts tender to touch; pain shooting; sometimes in spots; better cold; worse heat.
Facial pains after zoster.
Menses regular but painful.

Everything is black before the eye when he looks downward; with nausea and eructations of wind (in the morning).
Dull, weak eyes.
Pressure in the right eye (evenings); also above right eye.
Sensation of stiffness around the eyes and in the eyelids.
Stitches in the eyes (ears, fingers, feet).
Itching in the eyes, and when rubbing them they sting.
The eye symptoms are worse in evening and in open air.

Stitches in and behind the right ear; in neck and thighs (at night).

Coryza, with increased sense of smell; with sneezing, dulness, headache and hoarseness.
Tearing in root of nose and nasal bones, with nausea.

Face red, with the throbbing headache.
Anxious expression of countenance. θ Rheumatism of heart.
Flushing of the face, with vertigo. θ Neuralgia.
Prosopalgia, right-sided; pains rending; agonizing; stupefying or threatening delirium.
Face, at night, itches.
Roughness of cheek (during every summer).

Lips swollen, dry and stiff (morning).
Cracked lips, with dry skin.
Stinging in jaw-bones.

Teeth tender, with neuralgia of face and head.
Pressing pain in the molars, late in the evening.

Bitter taste, with nausea, less after eating.
Tongue white, dry.
Stitches in the tongue.
Tongue sore, left side; hurts when talking in the evening.

Tingling in salivary glands, immediately after eating, with sense of fermentation in œsophagus and copious salivation.
Sublingual salivary gland inflamed.

Throat feels swollen.
Sensation as if a ball were rising in the throat.
Sensation of dryness in throat, with difficult deglutition and thirst.
Great dryness of throat, with aching pains; the dryness causing frequent cough. θ Chronic syphilitic sore throat.
Pressure in the throat; stitches in the eyes and nausea.

After eating: feels better every way.
After eating: 11, 12. Drinking wine: 16.
Pains relieved by food. θ Neuralgia.

Nausea, everything becomes black before the eyes, with pressure in the throat, incarcerated flatulence, oppression of breathing, and rheumatic pains in limbs.
Wine relieves the vomiting.

Pressure in the pit of the stomach, like a marble; worse when sitting in a stooping position better when sitting erect, with the sensation as if something would be pressed off below the pit of the stomach.
Eructations of wind. θ Angina pectoris. θ Gastralgia.
Crampy pain with eructation of wind, palpitation. θ Gastralgia.
Pit of stomach sore to touch.

Pains in the region of the liver.

Increased flatus, with nausea.
Sensation of weakness in the abdomen, extending to the throat; relieved by eructation.
Sudden pain in paroxysms, across abdomen above umbilicus, from lower border of liver, downward to ward the left, then ceasing in right side; worse from motion, better when sitting up, abdominal neuralgia.

Stool like much; easily discharged, as if glazed, followed by pressure on the rectum.
Diarrhœa, with dulness, dizziness, weariness, nausea and bellyache.

Frequent micturition of large quantities of yellow urine.
Albuminuria; also with pains in lower limbs.

Menses eight to twenty-four days too soon; during menses pain in limbs, loins, back and interior of thighs.
Suppressed menses with severe neuralgic pains throughout the whole body.
Leucorrhœa yellowish; one week after menses; symptoms are prominent then.

Pressure as if some one squeezed the throat with thumb and finger.
Noise as from spasm in the glottis when breathing.
Hoarse with coryza.

Difficult and oppressed breathing; the throat feels swollen; nausea. θ Rheumatism.
Oppressed and short, which obliges him to breathe quickly, involuntarily.
Dyspnœa and pain. θ Angina pectoris.

Cough caused by scraping in the throat.
Expectoration easy, smooth, grey; tasting putrid and saltish.
Frequent cough caused by dryness in the throat: 13.

Pain in the chest as a sprain.
Shooting through chest above heart, into shoulder blades; with pain in left arm.

Wandering, rheumatic pains in region of heart; shooting pains above heart through to scapula.
When articular rheumatism has been treated externally, and cardiac symptoms ensue.
When the pains suddenly leave limbs and go to heart.
Hypertrophy and valvular insufficiency, or thickening after rheumatism.
Severe pain in cardiac region, with slow, small pulse. θ Hypertrophy with dilatation and aortic obstruction.
Paroxysm of anguish about the heart, dyspnœa, febrile excitement; rheumatic endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease.
Attacks of angina pectoris. θ Fatty degeneration of heart.
Palpitation, dyspnœa, pain in limbs, stitch in lower part of chest; right-sided prosopalgia.
Palpitation, up into throat, after going to bed; trembling all over; worse lying on left side; better lying on the back; anxiety.
Palpitation. θ Gastralgia.
Pressure like a marble from epigastrium toward the heart, with a strong, quick heart-beat. Every beat has a strumming, as it would burst, along sternum to throat. The third or fourth beat is harder, and is followed by an intermission.
Pulse slow, weak; arms feel weak; pulse scarcely perceptible, limbs cold.
Slow, small pulse. θ Hypertrophy of heart.
Pulse slow and feeble. θ Angina pectoris.
Remarkable slowness of the pulse, 48 in the minute. θ Neuralgia.
Quickened but weak pulse. θ Rheumatism of heart.
Pulse only slightly accelerated and in many instances slow. θ Acute rheumatism.

Pleuritis falsa in winter season.

Pain proceeded from the neck, which was tender to the touch. θ Neuralgia.
Violent pain in the upper three dorsal vertebræ, extending through the shoulder-blades.
Sensation of lameness in the back, evening in bed.
Shooting, stabbing pain from the heart through to the left scapula, causing violent beating of the heart. θ Rheumatic affection of heart.
Constant pain in spine, sometimes worse in lumbar region, with great heat and burning.
Muscles of neck sore to touch and on moving them.

Pain from the neck down the right arm to the little or fourth finger. θ Neuralgia.
Pain in the right shoulder; also in deltoids, worse in right.
Stitches in the lower part of the left shoulder-blade.
Rheumatic pain in the arms (right).
Cracking in the elbow-joint.
Stitches in the hands.
The hands feel as if they had been sprained.
Pain in the left wrist, causing the hand to feel paralyzed.
Erysipelatous eruption on hands and extending further.
Weakness in the arms; the pulse being slow.

Tearing pain from hip down leg to feet.
Stitches externally on knee; in feet, soles, toes, left big toe.
Sensation of weakness in the calves.
The feet feel sprained.

The rheumatism often attacks the heart, and generally goes from the upper to the lower parts; pains shift suddenly.
The rheumatic pains are mostly in the upper arms and lower parts of legs; and are worse when going to sleep.

Recumbent posture: 1. Motion: 1, 19, 31, 44. Stooping: 2. Turning: 2. Sitting stopped: 17; erect: 17, 19. Lying on left side: 29; back: 29. In bed: 31. Ascending stairs: 36. Exertion: 36.
Pains worse on the least motion. θ Acute rheumatism.
Pains worse by sitting bent, yet a feeling as if to do so was necessary, but relieved by sitting or standing upright. θ Gastralgia.

Weariness in all muscles.
Shuns all exertion, can hardly go up stairs.
Weakness the only general symptom with neuralgia.
Weary and giddy with the diarrhœa.
Trembling, thrilling, strumming with palpitation.

Restless sleep, turns often.
White sleeping he stands up and walks about; talks in sleep.
Dreams: racking his brains; fantastic: of murder.

Morning: 1, 3, 5, 9. Afternoon: 4. Evening: 1, 3, 5, 10, 11, 31. Night: 4, 6, 8.
Pains worse during the early parts of the right, or soon after going to bed. θ Neuralgia. θ Acute rheumatism.

Open air: 3, 5. Cold air: 40. Cold: 4. Heat: 4. Winter: 30. Summer: 8.
Pains are felt from a sudden chill or exposure to a sudden wind. θ Acute rheumatism. θ Neuralgia.

Chilliness, with coldness; shaking chill in cold air; chills run over the back.
Febrile excitement. θ Endocarditis.
General heat; heat with burning and pain in back and loins.
Cold sweat.

Pains change places. θ Rheumatism.
Pain occurring at irregular times, continuing for no definite period, coming suddenly or gradually and leaving as uncertainly. θ Neuralgia.
Pains paroxysmal in right arm. θ Neuralgia.
Every summer: 8.

Right: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 18, 19, 32. Left: 3, 11, 19, 28, 29, 32, 33. Diagonally: 2. Above downward: 3, 19, 33, 34. Before backward: 3. Below upward: 4.
Neuralgia of head, ear of face, generally on the right side.
Pains shift about from joint to joint, more when they begin in the upper limbs, and then in the lower. θ Acute rheumatism.
Pains move downward; head; bones of face; from ear to arm; down spine; down leg; arm, to fingers.
Pains move upward; neck over head; ball in throat; lower limbs, then upper.

Pains attended with amount of stiffness in right arm. θ Neuralgia.
Pains of a sticking, tearing, pressing character, or shooting in a downward direction.
Sometimes attended with numbness or rather succeeded by numbness of the part affected. θ Neuralgia.

Acute rheumatism, going from joint to joint; violent fever; pains intense; ankles most painful and swollen; worse from the least movement.
Joints hot, red, swollen. θ Acute rheumatism.

Touch: 4, 17, 31. Rubbing: 5.
Neck tender to the touch. See 31.

Pricking sensation in the skin, with moderate sweat.
Dry skin.
Erysipelatous; inflamed eruption on hand (similar to the eruption caused by Rhus tox.) with oppressed breathing.
Eruption like itch.
Red, inflamed places here and there, exceedingly painful as if furuncles would from.

Kalmia follows Spigel., well in heart diseases.
Antidote: Bellad. helped throbbing head; erysipelas.
With symptoms indicating Diosc., in gastralgia it had a marked beneficial action.

A tincture of the fresh leaves of Kalmia latifolia, L., is used.

This remarkable drug causes tingling and numbness in various parts, neuralgic (or rheumatic) pains, which wander and cause restlessness, and, most marked of all, a slow, weak pulse.

Aconite , Cimicif., Rhus t., Spig., the Kali and Lithia.

Sticking in various parts. ▶ Tearing in right shoulder, left arm, right lower jaws, and in flesh of whole left leg downward. ▶ Rheumatic pains all over the body; often changing their position, especially in shoulder, elbow and wrist (Puls., Cimicif.). ▶ Pressing pains in whole body. ▶ Pains, in whole body. ▶ Pains, agg. moving, amel. lying. ▶ Bruised feeling all over body (Arn.). ▶ General feeling as if one had been exposed to a soaking rain. ▶ Restlessness; and frequent turning (Rhus t.). ▶ Desire to stretch. ▶ Aversion to exercise. ▶ Weakness; in morning; in evening; in evening, especially in limbs, so that it was almost impossible to ascend stairs; of muscles; of all muscles, agg. exertion, appearing first in those of mastication; could not go above three steps without being exhausted and likely to fall from weakness and dizziness (Rhus t.). ▶ Faintness, then, vertigo.

Rheumatoid pains in various parts, pains shifting, they go to the heart and involve the arms and shoulders, associated with stiffness and numbness (Compare Lithium). ▶ In chronic or subacute articular rheumatism the pains shift from joint to joint. ▶ With the neuralgic pains of Kalmia there are generally great weakness and trembling, symptoms of paralysis. ▶ Acute inflammatory rheumatism, shifting, arms and legs feel paralyzed.

Anxiety. ▶ Irritability towards evening and next morning. ▶ Dislike to be spoken to, do not feel like going to the office, take up a book, but cannot collect my thoughts. ▶ Do not want to study. ▶ Cannot study, restless.

▶ Tearing; and in neck (Cimicif.). ▶ Pain; in morning on waking and in evening; in morning on waking, amel. cold water; at noon, especially on right side; amel. pressure, especially in temples and forehead; with nausea; with flushed face; intermittent; wandering, in afternoon and evening, especially in parts back of forehead; internally; with sensation, when turning, of something loose diagonally across top; in all parts behind forehead. ▶ Drawing, and in eyes, agg. towards evening and in open air. ▶ Confusion; in evening. ▶ Dullness, with difficult hearing and pain in limbs. ▶ Dull, drowsy feeling on waking, for an hour after getting up did not feel like doing anything. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Surging of blood in H. and against left cheek, with heat of left cheek. ▶ Vertigo; on stooping and looking downward (from 8 to 9 A.M., and from 3 to 6 P.M.) (Puls., Anac.); on getting up after studying; agg. towards noon; with pain in limbs; with nausea and pain in head and limbs; with fugitive glow in different parts of surface and increase of sweat.

Shooting, extending into eye-teeth. ▶ Tearing in F. and head in morning on rising, then in hips and lower limbs to feet; across F.; in left side, extending into temples. ▶ Pain; in evening; in morning on waking; on rising, worse afterwards; over eyes; in upper part of glabella; above right eye about noon; agg. right side; with inability to concentrate mind on book; extending into roots of right upper molars; in supraorbital region, extending to occiput; in evening in F. and over eyes, moving backward and outwardly down sides of neck, then pain in left shoulder; sometimes shooting to eye-teeth, at one time easier in F., at another in teeth; pulsating.

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Very slow pulse.
Tingling and numbness in various parts.
Pains wander and cause restlessness.

Pains over the whole body, changing their position, becoming seated in the shoulder, elbow and wrist.
Bruised feelings over the whole body.
Restlessness and frequent tossing about.
Weakness; it is almost impossible to move.

Clinical:
Shifting pains, particularly about the shoulders, involving the heart and left arm, with stiffness and numbness.
Pains shift from joint to joint, with weakness, trembling and paralytic symptoms.

Tearing pains as if in the bones, extending into the neck.
Vertigo, with pains in the limbs.
Pains extend from the nape of the neck over the head to the side of the face, < heat.
Pain in the forehead, extending into the right upper teeth, or shooting to the eye-teeth.

Stiffness of the muscles about the eyes.
Motion of the eyeballs is painful.
Paralysis of the ocular muscles, with double vision.
Glimmering before vision, with dimness.

Clinical:
Paralysis of the upper lids.
Muscular asthenopia.
Intra-ocular inflammations, with exudation.
Retinitis albuminurica, especially during pregnancy.

Tearing in the bones of either side.
Facial neuralgia, especially in the malar bones, extending into the teeth, with numbness and stiffness.

Pressure in the pit of the stomach, < bending over.
A feeling as if something were pressed down beneath the pit of the stomach.
Soreness to touch.

Sensation of weakness, extending upward to the throat.
Paroxysmal pains, < motion.

Frequent micturition of scanty, hot urine.
Rarely large quantities of urine.

Clinical:
Albuminuria during pregnancy, with pains in the lower limbs, distended abdomen, dry skin, etc.

Menstruation too early, with pain in the limbs and back and inside of the thighs.

Clinical:
Suppressed menstruation, with neuralgic pains throughout the body.
Leucorrhœa follows the menses, with general aggravation of other symptoms.

Tickling in the trachea, oppressed breathing, with palpitation and anxiety.
Cough, caused by dryness in the throat (associated with heart symptoms).

Palpitation, with fluttering of the heart; irregular pulse.
Pulse very slow and feeble; slow and weak.

Clinical:
Neuralgic pains about the heart, involving shoulder and arm, with dyspnœa, paroxysms of anguish, slow pulse.
Valvular disease.
Hypertrophy of the heart, with pains involving the left side, etc.

Muscles sore to touch and motion.
Pains extend from the neck down to fingers, with stiffness.
Pains in the spine, drawing or sharp, < in the evening and on motion.
Lameness of the small of the back in the evening in bed.

Sticking, shooting, darting pains, worse on the left side, generally < motion and in the evening.
Pains involve the whole left arm.
Pains from the hip down the leg to feet.

Rapid alternations of chill and heat.
Shivering and coldness.
Shivering without coldness.

Indicated in rheumatic affections, neuralgia and cardiac disease.

Pains shoot downward and are accompanied with numbness.

Pain following the course of nerves or affecting a large area, with sense of numbness, coldness and pricking in affected parts.

Heat, swelling and redness of joints.

Fluttering sensation a the heart, causing apprehension.

Pain through the heart, extending into the shoulder blades.

Palpitation, worse from leaning forward.

Exceedingly rapid action of the heart, with difficulty of breathing.