KALMIA LATIFOLIA

KALMIA LATIFOLIA. [Kalmia] Mountain Laurel. Hering. Ericaceae.

► 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 oesophagus 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. ► Diarrhoea, 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. ► Leucorrhoea 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. ► Dyspnoea 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, dyspnoea, febrile excitement ; rheumatic endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease. ► Attacks of angina pectoris. θ Fatty degeneration of heart. ► Palpitation, dyspnoea, 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 vertebrae, 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 ;

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 diarrhoea. ► 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.