LEDUM.
Ledum palustre, Linn.
Natural order
, Ericaceæ.
Common names
, (Ger.), Sumpf-Porst, or
Porst.
Preparation
, Tincture of the dried herb.
Authorities.
1,
Hahnemann, Mat. Med., 4, 176; 2,
Franz, ibid.; 3, Becher, ibid.; 4, Hermann, ibid.; 5,
Langhammer, ibid.; 6, Teuthorn,
ibid.; 7, Walther, ibid.; 8, Linnæus, Flora Lapponica, p. 121, ibid.; 9, Pallas, Flora Rossica, 1, part 2, p. 94,
ibid.; 10, Lembke, provings with
tinct., repeated doses of 5 to 80 drops, A. H. Z., 39, p. 323 (1848); 11, same, provings with tinct., doses 10 to
30 drops, symptoms observed three weeks after last dose, and probably
would have continued longer, but for taking camphor (not affected by
coffee, wine, or beer), N. Z. f. H. Kl., 1865; 12,
Dr. A. Lippe, new symptoms occurring after L. 2c (Jen.), in a patient
with rheumatic pains in the feet, etc., Am. J. Hom. Mat. Med., 4, 96; 13, Dr. L. Salzer, effects of wash of 10
drops of tincture in 4 ounces of water, used for prickly heat, Calcutta
J. of Med., 2, p. 292 (Raue’s Rec., 1875, 295); 14,
Berridge, effects of 1300 (Jen.), taken for injury to palmar tendons, A.
J. of Hom. Mat. Med, 9, p. 261, 1876.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Unmanageable
drunkenness, [8]. ► Joyous mood, with desire for activity and
contentment with himself, [5].
[Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ►
Quiet and still mood the whole day; therewith he is lively and joyous, [5]. [Curative action, reaction.
-Hahnemann.] ► Anxiety, [1]. ►
Fearfulness, [1]. ► Irritable; he is easily aroused, [3]. ►
He is inclined to anger and peevishness, [11].
► Fretful; he is discontented with
everything, [3]. ► Fretful, morose mood, [1]. [10.] ► Fretful; he went by himself, and almost
weeping, wished to die, [5]. ► Morose mood, with much uneasiness and
irresolution; he is unable to reflect constantly upon anything, or work
with a quiet mind, [5]. ► *Discontented all day with his companions, which
at last amounts to misanthropy, [5]. ►
Intellectual. ► Great
earnestness all day; everything which happened to him was viewed
thoughtfully and seriously, [5]. ► Loss of understanding, [9]. [After prolonged intoxication. -Hughes.]
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, [10]. ► Head confused and dizzy (after one hour),
[10]. ►
Confusion in the forehead, [10]. ► Confusion of the forehead, with some
staggering when walking, and especially when rising from stooping, [10]. ►
The forehead is confused and heavy, [10].
[20.] ►
Vertigo; the head sinks back, [4].
► Vertigo, while walking, [13]. ►
Vertigo while walking in the street, as if the body swayed to one side,
which really might have happened, and on account of which I remained
standing, until the sensation passed away; but, on continuing to walk,
it returned; and so several times, for some ten minutes, [11]. ►
Vertigo, while walking and standing; he can scarcely keep erect (after
nine hours), [5]. ► Excessive vertigo, all day, even while
sitting still, aggravated by stooping, and on walking it increases even
to falling forward, as in drunkenness; with a feeling of heat in the
whole body, especially the face, without thirst, and with paleness of
the cheeks and forehead (after five hours), [5]. ►
Dizziness in the forehead, [10]. ► Reeling after rising from stooping, [10]. ►
Drunkenness, dizziness, and confusion of the head, [1]. ► He
feels as if drunk while walking in the open air, [3]. ► General
Head. ► Heat of the head,
especially of the forehead, with heaviness, [10]. [30.] ► Headache causing dulness, [1]. ► Violent
headache, [8], [9]. [With the intoxication. -Hughes.] ► Raging headache, [1]. ► He
feels a dull headache in the morning, during sleep, [3]. ► Drawing
pains in all the cranial bones, [10].
► Dull, pressive, wandering pains in
the head, [11]. ► Pressive headache over the whole brain
like a weight; lasting day and night for three days, with slight
interruptions, [2]. ► Headache, at first over the whole brain
like a heavy weight; on the second day it becomes a dull pressure in a
small spot in the right temple, [2].
► Head affected; if he takes a false
step a brain is painfully shattered, [1].
► Headache, as from a blow or shock, [1]. ►
Forehead. [40.] ► Heaviness in the forehead, [10]. ►
Heaviness in the forehead, as if dizzy, [10].
► Heaviness and dull pressure in the
forehead, [10]. ► Heat and heaviness in the forehead, with
pressure in the right temple, [10].
► Increased feeling of warmth and
pressure in the forehead, [10]. ► Boring in the left frontal bone and left
temple, [10]. ► Boring pain in the left side of the
forehead, [11]. ► Violent boring pain in the left side of
the forehead, and in the upper jaw to the left of the nose, [11]. ►
Dull boring pain extending through the frontal bone, [10]. ►
Drawing in the frontal bone, [10].
[50.] ►
Drawing in the left frontal bone, [10].
► Drawing, pressure, boring in the
frontal bones, [10]. ► Drawing pain in the left side of the
forehead, [11]. ► Pressure in the forehead, [4], [10]. ► Pressure in the frontal bone frequently, [10]. ►
Pressure in the frontal bone above the right eye, [10]. ►
Pressive, stupefying pain externally in the forehead, in all positions,
as after a night’s debauch (after six hours), [5]. ►
Pressive headache in the upper part of the forehead, with confusion of
the head, especially on covering it, [3].
► Sticking pain in the brain, beneath
the right frontal eminence, [2]. ► Tearing in the frontal bones; in the
parietal bones backward above the ears, [10].
[60.] ►
Tearing pain in the frontal bone, [10].
► Tearing pain in the frontal and
parietal bones, [10]. ► Tearing pain in the left side of the
frontal bone, [10]. ► Temples. ►
Boring in the left temple, [10]. ► Violent boring in the left temple and
left side of the frontal bone, while reading, lasting several minutes, [11]. ►
Pressure in both temples, [10]. ► Pressure in the temples, worse in the
left, [10]. ►
Pressure in the right temple, [10],
[11]. ►
Pressure and heaviness in the temples and forehead, [10]. ►
Pressure inward in the left temple, [10].
[70.] ►
Dull pressure in the right temple, [11].
► Dull pressure below the left
temple, [11]. ► Pressive pain when touching the temples, [1]. ►
Vertex. ► Violent boring
pain in the coronal suture, several times, [10]. ►
Pressure in the left side of the vertex, [4].
► Parietals. ► Boring in the right parietal bone, [10]. ►
Violent boring in the upper part of the left side of the head; after two
hours the same pain, but less severe, farther forward in the forehead, [11]. ►
Boring pain in the left parietal eminence, [10]. ►
Drawing that comes and goes in the bones of the right side of the head
(after two hours), [10]. ► Pressure in the right side of the head
behind the ear, and in the left side of the head, [11]. [80.] ► Dull pressure in the left side of the
head, with heaviness of the head, [11].
► Tearing in the left parietal bone, [10]. ►
Tearing in the cranial bones above the right ear, [11]. ► Occiput.
► Tearing in the left side of the
occiput, [11]. ► External Head. ►
Drawing beneath the scalp, extending from the vertex and sides of the
head towards the forehead, [10]. ► Crawling-itching, as from lice, on the
forehead and scalp, [2].
EYE.
►
Inflammation of the eyes, with tensive pain, [1]. ► Pain in
the eyes, without inflammation; a pressure behind the eyeball as if it
would be forced out, [2]. ► Burning pressure in the eyes, especially
in the evening; they are agglutinated in the morning, with lachrymation
during the day, even in the room (after four hours), [1]. ► Boring
pressure from the forehead to the eyes, and in the eyeballs, as if
coming from above, [10]. [90.] ►
Stitches in the right inner canthus, [10].
► Fine stitches in the left eye,
towards the inner canthus, [10]. ► Great itching in the inner canthi, [10]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ► Boring
pain above the beginning of the left eyebrow, [11]. ► Dull
pressive boring at the lower orbital margin of the right side, [10]. ►
Pressure on the outer margin of the right orbit, worse on moving about, [4]. ►
Tearing in the bone above the left eye, [10].
► Lids. ►
The lids are agglutinated, without pain, [1].
► The lids are full of matter, but
neither swollen nor inflamed, [1].
► Fine stitches in the margins of the
right lids, towards the inner canthus, [10].
► Lachrymal Apparatus. [100.] ►
Lachrymation (without inflammation of the white of the eye); the tears
are acrid and biting, and make the lower lid and cheek sore, [1]. ►
Pupil. ► Pupils dilated
(after three and a quarter, five and a quarter, and nine and a half
hours), [5]. ► Decided dilatation of the pupils
(soon), [2]. ►
Extreme dilatation of the pupils, [1].
► Pupils contracted (after one hour),
[5]. ►
Vision. ► Visual power
weakened; does not see sharply, [3].
► Flickering before the eyes, he can
see nothing definitely, [1]. ► If one looks at anything steadily, there
is a glimmering or flickering before the eyes, as after violent running,
and as though one could not fix the eyes upon it (as in vertigo), [1]. ►
Small black points float before the eyes, [11].
EAR.
►
Pressure in the bone behind the left ear, [10].
[110.] ►
Dulness of hearing in the right ear, [1].
► Deafness of the right ear; it feels
as if stopped with cotton, and as though he heard from a distance, [4]. ►
Transient deafness, as if something were placed before the drums of both
ears (after thirteen hours), [5]. ► Noise in the ear as from the ringing of a bell,
or from a storm of wind, [1].
► Roaring in the ears, as from wind,
[2]. ►
Violent, interrupted roaring in the ears, nearly all day, [2].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Sneezing on
account of tickling in the left nostril, [10].
► Frequent sneezing, with increased
nasal mucus, [10]. ► Slight nosebleed; bloody mucus in the
nose, [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Pain at the union of the nasal cartilage with the bone of the left side,
worse when touched with accumulation of much thick mucus in the left
nostril, so that it is difficult to get air through the nostril; as if
from a swelling of the mucous membrane, [10].
[120.] ►
A burning pain as from a glowing coal internally in the nose, with
soreness on pressing upon the nose or blowing it (after twenty-four
hours), [1]. ►
Cutting-burning pain in the skin above the root of the nose, confined to
a small spot, suddenly disappearing, [10].
► Boring pain in the left nasal
bones, [10].
FACE.
►
Paleness of the face, yet without chilliness, [1]. ► Drawing
in the left half of the face, across the left temple as far as the
forehead, [10]. ► Drawing pain, beginning in the middle of
the face, extending across the forehead and occiput into the nape of the
neck, where it disappeared, [11]. ► After some coarse stitches in the teeth,
an intolerable tearing pain externally on the right side of the face,
head and neck, lasting all night, which disappears after more stitches
in the teeth, but returns from time to time; the attack ends with
shivering, deep sleep, and loss of hunger and thirst (after nine-six
hours), [1]. ► Cheeks. ►
Pains in the upper jaw on both sides of the nose, [11]. ► Boring
on the upper margin of the left zygoma, [10].
► Boring pain in the zygoma, [10]. [130.]
► Boring pain in the left zygoma; in
the frontal bone; in the upper part of the right frontal eminence, [10]. ►
Boring pains in the zygoma and lower jaw of the left side, in the
evening, [10]. ► Pressure in the right zygoma, [10]. ►
Chin. ► Boring in the
right lower jaw, [10]. ► Boring in the left side of the lower jaw,
[10]. ►
Violent boring in the right articulation of the jaw, [10]. ►
Violent boring in the inferior maxillary bone of the right side, [10]. ►
Boring pain in the left angle of the lower jaw, while sitting, [10]. ►
Boring pain in the lower jaw of the right side; in the zygoma; also in
the evening, [10]. ► Drawing in the left side of the lower
jaw, [10]. [140.] ►
Hard pressure on the lower jaw, from without inward (after one hour), [4].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Fine drawing
pain, with a feeling of coldness in the lower incisors, [10]. ►
(Pressive toothache in the left lower and upper incisors), [3]. ►
Tongue. ► Fine sticking on
the forepart of the tongue (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ►
Stitches in the tongue together with burning, [11]. ►
Stitches and burning in the tip of the tongue, [11]. ► Sharp
stitches through the tongue, [11].
► Fine stitches in the tip of the
tongue, [10]. ► Fine stitches beneath the tip of the
tongue, [10]. ► General Mouth. ►
Quite extraordinary dryness of the mouth, on waking from a sleep of two
or three hours, [13]. [150.] ►
Feeling of dryness of the palate, with thirst for water, without heat, [2]. ►
Saliva. ► Much
accumulation of saliva, [10]. ► Much accumulation of saliva causing
nausea, [10]. ► Sudden running of water like saliva from the
mouth, with colic; waterbrash, [1].
► Taste. ►
Bitter taste in the mouth, [3].
THROAT.
►
A clogging sensation in throat, on waking from a sleep of two or three
hours, [13]. ►
Sensation as of a plug in the throat; on swallowing there is a sticking,
[1]. ►
Feeling of a plug in the throat, obliging him to swallow, associated
with a feeling of a foreign body in the throat; repeated on going to
sleep in the evening, [10]. ► Feeling as if the throat was swollen,
with an attack of nightmare (first night), [12]. ►
Sticking in the throat, when not swallowing, only in the forenoon; on
sneezing, there was only a pressure in the back part of the throat, [1]. [160.]
► Sore throat, with fine sticking pain,
[1]. ►
Scratching and scraping in the throat in the evening, [10]. ►
Swelling of the glands in the forepart beneath the chin, with pressing
pain when touched, [4].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Loss of
appetite, [1]. ► She is not hungry, and, if she eats,
immediately feels as though she had eaten too much; it oppresses her and
she becomes nauseated, [1]. ► Aversion to smoking, with the usual
appetite, [2]. ► Thirst. ►
(Much thirst; he is even obliged to drink at night), [1]. ► Much
thirst during the day; and at evening febrile chill, shortly before
going to sleep, [2]. ► Great thirst for cold drinks, especially
water (after four and a quarter, eight, and twenty hours), [5]. ►
Constant loss of thirst, [4]. ► Eructation and Hiccough. [170.] ►
Eructations, with loss of appetite, and a feeling of warmth in the
stomach, [10]. ► Many eructations, [10]. ►
Eructations of air tasting of the drug, [10].
► Frequent eructations of air, [10]. ►
Many eructations of air, with dull pressure in the pit of the stomach, [10]. ►
(Bitter eructations, after eating), [1].
► Hiccough frequently recurring
(after two hours and a half), [5].
► Nausea. ► Nausea, [9];
early in morning, [1]. ► Nausea, on walking in the open air, with
sweat over the whole body, especially on the forehead, [1]. ► Nausea
and eructations (soon after a dose), [10].
[180.] ►
Nausea with accumulation of much saliva, yawning, cold hands, frequent
chilliness over the back, [10]. ► Nausea, weakness, and general
perspiration, that afterwards became cool, with cold hands and feet and
creeping chills over the back, lasting an hour and a half in the middle
of the day, [10]. ► Sensation of nausea, in the stomach, [10]. ►
A long-continuing feeling of nausea, [10].
► Constant feeling of nausea in the
stomach, [10]. ► An incipient sensation of nausea was
noticed several times during the day, never amounting to real nausea;
the appetite also was good; the nausea seemed to recur especially some
time after taking food, and only during rest, [10]. ►
Qualmishness in the stomach, with much accumulation of saliva, [10]. ►
Constant sensation of qualmishness in the stomach, [10]. ►
Retching, with eructations, puffiness, and dragging in the pit of the
stomach, in the morning after rising, [3].
► Stomach. ► An unpleasant sensation in the stomach,
as if disordered; together with a bad taste in the mouth, as if musty, [1]. ►
Dull pain in the pit of the stomach, aggravated by pressure, [10]. [190.]
► Constant dull pain in the
epigastric region, aggravated by pressure, [10]. ►
Drawing and pressure in the pit of the stomach, while eating, [3]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, soon after a dose, [10]. ► Dull
pressure in the stomach and behind the sternum, [10]. ► Dull
pressure in the pit of the stomach, aggravated by drawing in the
abdomen, [10]. ► Pressive pain in the pit of the stomach,
aggravated by drawing the walls of the abdomen inward, [10].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Great
tension in the hypochondriac region, on breathing or holding the breath,
[1]. ►
A slow stitch, like a sharp pressure, in the side above the hip, [1]. ►
Umbilical and Sides. ►
Violent cutting pain in the umbilical region, with retraction of the
walls of the abdomen, [10]. ► (A feeling in the left side of the
abdomen, as if, from overloading the stomach with food, a pressive
swelling had appeared at this place), [1].
► General Abdomen. [200.] ►
Abdomen distended by air, with tasteless eructations, [10]. ►
Distension of the upper abdomen, with dull pain lasting over an hour, [10]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, [10]. ► Rumbling of air in the abdomen, [10]. ►
Much rumbling of air in the abdomen, [10].
► Much moving about of air in the
abdomen, [10]. ► Much noise of gas in the abdomen and
emission of flatus, [10]. ► Discharge of flatulence (first day), [2]. ►
Frequent discharge of flatulence (after one hour), [5]. ► Pain in
the abdomen, as in diarrhœa, [1].
[210.] ►
Pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines were crushed and weakened; a
feeling like that remaining after the action of a violent purge (after
six hours), [1]. ► Colic; digging below the navel; with
running of water from the mouth like waterbrash (after two hours), [2]. ►
Drawing pain in the abdomen, [1]. ► Pressive pain deep in the abdomen,
aggravated by external pressure, [10].
► Cutting colic, every evening, [1]. ►
Colic (cutting?), with flow of blood from the anus, [10]. ►
Wandering-cutting pains in the abdomen, aggravated by drawing the walls
of the abdomen inward, [10]. ► Dull sticking in the abdominal muscles,
and pressure between the pelvis and lowest left ribs, [4]. ► Colic
as if diarrhœa would occur, extending from the navel to the anus;
together with loss of appetite, natural taste, and cold feet, [1]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
Boring pain in the crest of the left ilium, more towards the forepart, [10]. [220.]
► (A clawing low down in the abdomen,
as if in the bladder, immediately), [1].
► Pressure on the upper margin of the
left pelvis, and in the muscles as far up as the last false ribs; worse
when walking, [4]. ► Pressure deep in the pelvis towards the
bladder, with great urging to urinate, [10].
► Dull pressive pain on the posterior
portion of the crest of the left ilium while walking, lasting half an
hour, [10]. ►
Piercing stitch deep between the ribs and the crest of the ilium of the
left side, [10].® 2000
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