====== KALMIA LATIFOLIA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Kalmia Latifolia.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Mountain Laurel. {{anchor:s3}}Ericaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}An evergreen shrub, found on rocky hills, flowering in May and June.

{{anchor:s5}}The tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves.

{{anchor:s6}}Introduced by Hering and proved by himself, Kummer, Behler, Bute, Clark, Haeseler, Williamson, Freitag, Reichelm and others. {{anchor:s7}}See Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 5, p. 388.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Sun headache</span>, Thayer, N. E. M. G., vol. 9, p. 149; <span grade2>Retinitis albuminurica</span>, Allen, Norton's Oph. Therap., p. 107; <span grade2>Sclero-choroiditis anterior</span>, Allen, Norton's Oph. Therap., p. 107; <span grade2>Sclerotitis</span>, Boyle, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 112, p. 77; <span grade2>Neuralgia oculorum</span>, Johnson, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 168; <span grade2>Chronic sore throat</span>, Clifton, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 29; <span grade2>Pressure in epigastrium</span>, Hansen, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 113, p. 62; <span grade2>Gastralgia</span>, Clifton, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 29; <span grade2>Abdominal neuralgia</span> (5 cases), Cushing, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 14; Ring, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 260; <span grade2>Bright's disease</span>, Macy, A. H. Rev., vol. 3, p. 364; <span grade2>Angina pectoris</span>, Clifton, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 29; <span grade2>Endocarditis</span>, Dunham, Dunham's Lectures, p. 194; <span grade2>Heart disease</span>, Hering, MSS.; Dunham, MSS.; Siegrist, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 127; <span grade2>False pleurisy</span>, Pretsch, A. H. Rev., vol. 1, p. 326; <span grade2>Neuralgia</span>, Clifton, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 29; Ball, N. A. J. H., vol. 3, p. 92; <span grade2>Neuralgia of spine</span>, Sonnenshmidt, MSS.; <span grade2>Acute articular rheumatism</span>, Clifton, Times Retros., vol. 3, p. 29; <span grade2>Rheumatism</span>, Pretseh, A. H. Rev., vol. 1, pp. 325-6; Boyce, Org., vol. 1, p. 323.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s11}}In a recumbent posture, mental faculties and memory perfect, but on attempting to move, vertigo.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Anxiety with palpitation.</span>\\ {{anchor:s13}}Toward evening and next forenoon very cross.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Vertigo: with headache, blindness, pains in limbs and weariness; while stooping and looking down.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Vertigo: with aching in face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s17}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Giddiness, with headache and nausea.</span>

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Pulsating headache in forehead.</span>\\ {{anchor:s21}}Pain in forehead in morning when waking, agg. after rising.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Aching in forehead, followed by rending in bones of right or left 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.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s23}}Pain over right eye; giddiness; eyes weak and watery.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}Pressing pain on a small spot on right side of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Headache internally, with sensation, when turning, of something loose in head, diagonally across top.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s26}}A cracking in head frightens him, it ends in a sound in ears like blowing a horn.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s27}}A shuddering without coldness commence with cracking as if surcharged with electricity.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Severe pressing headache, agg. and amel. with sun.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Sensation of heat in head in morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s30}}Dullness in head; headache; backache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s31}}Neuralgic paroxysmal pains.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Headache agg. in evening and in open air.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s34}}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; amel. from cold, agg. from heat; every afternoon, last with great severity, through night.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s35}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Rheumatic pain in scalp.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}Glimmering before eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Everything black before eye when he looks downward; nausea and eructations of wind (in morning).</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Dull, weak eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Retinitis albuminurica, occurring during pregnancy; pains in back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Nephritic retinitis accompanied by much pain in back, as if it would break.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Sclera inflamed, vitreous perfectly filled with exudation, and glimmering before eye, especially on reading with the other.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s44}}~</span> <span grade3>Sclero-choroiditis anterior.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Sclerosis, particularly in rheumatic subjects; eyeball painful on motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Parenchymatous keratitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Severe pain in right eye, extending to forehead; commences at sunrise, agg. until noon; then amel. and leaves at sunset.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s48}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia oculorum. {{anchor:s49}}(After Acon. and Bellad. failed.)</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Pressure in right eye (evening); also above right eye.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Stitches in eyes, ears, fingers and feet.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s52}}Itching in eyes; when rubbing them they sting.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s53}}Pain in eyes, which makes it painful to turn them.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s54}}Sensation of stiffness in muscles around eyes, and of eyelids.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s55}}Asthenopia; stiff, drawing sensation in muscles upon moving eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Eye symptoms agg. evening and in open air.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Stitches in and behind right ear; in neck and thighs, at night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Sound like blowing a horn, after cracking in head.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}Meniere's disease.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Coryza: with increased sense of smell; with sneezing, dullness, headache and hoarseness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Tearing in root of nose and nasal bones, with nausea.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s65}}Face: red, with throbbing headache; pale.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}Anxious expression of countenance.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism of heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Flushing of face, with vertigo.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}Pressing pains in right side of face, especially between eye and nose.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Prosopalgia, right sided; pains rending; agonizing; stupefying or threatening delirium.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Fothergill's faceache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Severe neuralgia in right cheek, with alkaline taste in mouth.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Facial neuralgia, involving teeth of upper jaw, but not from caries.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}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; agg. by worry or mental exertion; amel. by food.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s76}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Facial neuralgia after zoster.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s78}}Face itches at night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Roughness of cheeks (during every Summer).</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Lips swollen, dry and stiff.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Cracked lips with dry skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s83}}Stinging in jawbones.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s84}}Tired feeling in chewing muscles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Stitches and tearing in lower jaw.</span>

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Teeth tender, with neuralgia of face.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Pressing pain in molars, late in evening.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s90}}Bitter taste with nausea, amel. after eating.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Tongue: white, dry; sore left side; hurts hen talking.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Stitches in tongue.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s94}}Tingling in salivary glands, immediately after eating, with sense of fermentation in esophagus and copious salivation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Sublingual salivary gland inflamed.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Throat feels swollen; sensation as if a ball was rising.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s98}}Sensation of dryness in throat, difficult deglutition, thirst.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Pressure in throat; stitches in eyes and nausea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s100}}Great dryness of throat, with aching pains, the dryness causing frequent cough.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s101}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic syphilitic sore throat.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}Pains amel. by food.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s104}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Eructations of wind.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s107}}~</span> <span grade3>Angina pectoris.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s108}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Nausea, everything becomes black before eyes, pressure in throat, incarcerated flatus, oppression of breathing, rheumatic pains in limbs.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}Wine relieves vomiting.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Pressure in pit of stomach, like a marble; agg. sitting in a stooping position, amel. sitting erect; sensation as if something would be pressed off below pit of stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Pit of stomach sore to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Pains agg. sitting bent, yet a feeling as if to do so was necessary, amel. by sitting or standing upright; crampy pain, with eructations of wind, palpitation of heart.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Pains in region of liver.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s119}}Incarcerated flatus, with nausea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s120}}Sensation of weakness in abdomen, extending to throat; amel. by eructation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s121}}Sudden pains in paroxysms, across abdomen above umbilicus, from lower border of liver, downward toward left, then ceasing in right side; agg. from motion and from lying on either side, obliged to lie on back; amel. when sitting up.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s122}}~</span> <span grade3>Abdominal neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s123}}Neuralgia of bowels in married women.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Stool like mush, easily discharged, as if glazed, followed by pressure on rectum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Diarrhea, with dullness, dizziness, weariness, nausea and bellyache.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Frequent micturition of large quantities of yellow urine.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Profuse micturition amel. headache.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s130}}Albuminuria; also with pains in lower limbs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s131}}Abdomen greatly distended; extremities, especially lower ones, swollen; much difficulty in standing and walking; urine scanty, high colored, 5 per cent. albumen, fibrinous casts, large epithelial scales, one prismatic crystal of triple phosphate; vertigo; occasional pain in head; much pain in lower extremities; complexion sallow and skin unnaturally dry.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s132}}~</span> <span grade3>Bright's disease.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Menses too soon; regular, but painful.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}During menses, pain in limbs, loins, back and interior of thighs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Suppressed menses, with severe neuralgic pains throughout whole body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Leucorrhea yellowish; one week after menses; symptoms agg. then.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Pressure as if some one squeezed throat with thumb and finger.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s141}}Noise as from spasm in glottis when breathing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s142}}Hoarseness, with coryza.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s143}}Tickling in trachea.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s145}}Difficult and oppressed breathing; throat feels swollen, nausea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s146}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s147}}Oppression and short breathed, which obliges him to breathe quickly, involuntarily.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s148}}Oppressed breathing, with palpitation of heart, anxiety.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}Dyspnea and pain.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s150}}~</span> <span grade3>Angina pectoris.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s152}}Frequent cough, caused by dryness or scraping in throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s153}}Expectoration easy, smooth, grey; tasting putrid; saltish.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s155}}Feverish heat, with great pain in chest; agg. when breathing and from slightest motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Pain in chest as from a sprain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder blade; pain in left arm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s158}}Stitches in lower part of chest.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s160}}Fluttering of heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Palpitation of heart, with anxiety and oppressed breathing; with faint feeling.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s162}}Palpitation up into throat, after going to bed; trembling all over; agg. lying on left side; amel. lying on back; anxiety.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s163}}Palpitation, dyspnea, pain in limbs, stitch in lower part of chest; right sided prosopalgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Heart's action very tumultuous, rapid and visible.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s165}}Attacks of angina pectoris. {{anchor:s166}}T Fatty degeneration of heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s167}}Angina pectoris; slow, feeble pulse; eructations of wind; dyspnea and pain.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Severe pain in cardiac region, with slow, small pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s169}}~</span> <span grade3>Hypertrophy with dilation and aortic obstruction.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s170}}Paroxysms of anguish about heart, dyspnea, febrile excitement; rheumatic endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Pressure like a marble from epigastrium toward heart, with a strong, quick heart beat; every beat has a strumming as if it would burst, along sternum to throat; third or fourth beat harder, followed by an intermission.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Pressure behind middle of sternum, agg. morning and evening, and when stooping; palpitation of heart with anxiety; pulse regular; first sound of heart somewhat harsh; pressure behind sternum and in epigastrium, amel. sitting erect; as if something was being pressed away from under sternum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s173}}Severe palpitation of heart, with constriction of throat, agg. from motion, deep inspiration, or holding breath; pressure and stitching in region of heart; severe one sided, tearing headache, agg. over eye and in bulbus oculi; during attack anxiety and shortness of breath; between attacks, dry cough; first sound of heart strongly accentuated and often intermitting; (ictus cordis) impulse of heart plainly visible, lifting stethoscope; pulse intermittent; pressure in epigastrium, agg. in bent position, amel. sitting erect; pressing down sensation in epigastrium.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s174}}Wandering rheumatic pains in region of heart, extending down left arm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Shooting, stabbing pain from heart through to left scapula, causing violent beating of heart.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s176}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Pains suddenly leave extremities and go to heart; shooting, stabbing pain, through to left scapula, causing violent beating of heart, with anxious expression of countenance, quick but weak pulse and difficult breathing.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s178}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s179}}Articular rheumatism has been treated externally, and cardiac symptoms ensue.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s180}}Heart disease, after frequent attacks of rheumatism, or alternating with it.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s181}}Hypertrophy and valvular insufficiency, or thickening, after rheumatism, paroxysms of anguish about heart, with dyspnea and febrile excitement.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s182}}Propped up in bed, with anxious expression of face, livid hue of countenance; visible, tumultuous and very rapid action of heart; after acute rheumatism.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s183}}~</span> <span grade3>Endocarditis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s184}}Quickened but weak pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s185}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism of heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s186}}Pulse: slow, weak; arms feel weak; scarcely perceptible, limbs cold; irregular.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s187}}Remarkable slowness of pulse, 48 in minute.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s188}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s189}}Slow, small pulse.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s190}}~</span> <span grade3>Hypertrophy of heart.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Pulse slow and feeble.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s192}}~</span> <span grade3>Angina pectoris.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s193}}Pulse very slow.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s194}}~</span> <span grade3>Dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}Very feeble pulse, 40 beats per minute.</span>

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s197}}Pleuritis falsa in winter season.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}High fever; breathing oppressed, must lie quietly on back, every motion attended with violent pains in thorax, back and axillary joints.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s199}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism of muscles of thorax and back.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s201}}Muscles of neck sore to touch and on moving them.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s202}}Pains from neck down arm to little and fourth finger; neck tender to touch; pains paroxysmal, agg. in early part of night, and attended by stiffness; marked slowness of pulse, 48 beats per minute.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s203}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s204}}Violent pain in upper three dorsal vertebrae, extending through shoulder blades.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s205}}Sensation of lameness in back, evening in bed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s206}}Constant pain in spine, sometimes agg. in lumbar region, with great heat and burning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s207}}Feeling of paralysis in sacrum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s208}}Aching across joints.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s210}}Pain in shoulders.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s211}}Deltoid rheumatism, especially on right side.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s212}}Stitches in lower part of left shoulder blade.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s213}}Paroxysmal pains in right arm.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s214}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s215}}Pains in left arm.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s216}}Rheumatic pains in arms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s217}}Cracking in elbow joint.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s218}}Stitches in hands; hands feel as if they hand been sprained.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s219}}Pain in left wrist, causing hand to feel paralyzed.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s220}}Erysipelatous eruption on hands extending further.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s221}}Weakness in arms; pulse slow.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s223}}Tearing pain from hip down leg to feet.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s224}}Rheumatic pains in leg from hip down.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Pains in lower extremities.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s226}}Rheumatic pains in right leg, extending as far as toes, in morning.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s227}}Stitches: externally on knee; in feet, soles, toes, big toe.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s228}}Sensation of weakness in calves.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s229}}Feet feel sprained.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Unable to walk; ankles swollen; pains, though mostly confined to ankles, shift about from joint to joint.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s231}}~</span> <span grade3>Chronic rheumatism.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s233}}Rheumatism often attacks heart, and generally goes from upper to lower parts; pains shift suddenly.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s234}}Rheumatic pains, mostly in upper arms and lower parts of legs; agg. when going to sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s235}}Joints hot, red, swollen.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s236}}~</span> <span grade3>Acute rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s237}}Acute articular rheumatism; pains shift about from point to point, especially when beginning in upper extremities and subsequently felt in lower; joints hot, red and swollen; pains agg. on least motion and during evening, or soon after going to bed; rheumatoid pains from sudden chill or exposure to cold wind.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s238}}Arms feel weak, limbs cold.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s242}}Pains agg. : sitting bent, yet a feeling as if to do so was necessary, but amel. by sitting or standing upright.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s243}}~</span> <span grade3>Gastralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s244}}Pains agg. on least motion.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s245}}~</span> <span grade3>Acute rheumatism.</span>\\ {{anchor:s246}}In a recumbent posture: mental faculties and memory perfect, but on attempting to move vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Lying on left side, palpitation agg.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Lying on back: palpitation amel.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Must lie on back: on account of oppressed breathing; abdominal neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Sitting in a stooping position: pressure in pit of stomach agg.; palpitation agg.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Sitting erect: pressure in pit of stomach, pains across abdomen amel.; pressure behind sternum amel.; palpitation amel.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Stooping: vertigo; pressure behind sternum agg.\\ {{anchor:s253}}After rising: pain in forehead agg.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Standing: difficult on account of swelling of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Stands up and walks in his sleep.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Motion: of eyeballs causes pain; pains across abdomen agg.; slightest, pain in chest agg.; palpitation agg.; attended with violent pains in thorax, back and axillary joints; of muscles of neck painful; pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Turning head: sensation as of something loose in it.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Walking: difficult on account of swelling of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Shuns all exertion; weariness in all muscles.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Unable to walk: ankles swollen; can hardly go up stairs.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s262}}Weariness in all muscles; shuns all exertion, can hardly go up stairs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s263}}Weary and giddy, with diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s264}}Weakness the only general symptom with neuralgia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s265}}Trembling, thrilling, strumming, with palpitation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s266}}Weakness and paralytic condition of limbs.</span>

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s268}}Restless sleep, turns often.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s269}}Periosteal pains prevent sleep.</span>\\ {{anchor:s270}}While sleeping stands up and walks about; talks in sleep.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Dreams: racking his brains; fantastic; of murder.

====== TIME. [38] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s273}}Pains agg. during early part of night, or soon after going to sleep.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s274}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s275}}~</span> <span grade3>Acute rheumatism.</span>\\ {{anchor:s276}}Morning: pain in forehead; heat in head; nausea and eructations of wind; pressure behind sternum agg.; rheumatic pains in right leg.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Towards evening and next forenoon; very cross.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Evening: headache agg.; pressure in right eye; eye symptoms agg.; pressing pain in molars; pressure behind sternum; lameness of back; pains agg.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Night: headache; stitches in neck and thighs; face itches; early part, pains from neck down arms.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s281}}Pains are felt from a sudden chill, or exposure to a sudden wind. <span sbita>{{anchor:s282}}~</span> Acute rheumatism. <span sbita>{{anchor:s283}}~</span> Neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Heat: pain in head agg.\\ {{anchor:s285}}With sun: headache agg. and amel.; pain in right eye agg. and amel.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Open air: headache agg.; eyes agg.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Cold: pain in head amel.\\ {{anchor:s288}}After exposure to cold: pain in right side of head, ear and face; rheumatoid pains.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade4>{{anchor:s290}}Chilliness, with coldness; shaking chill in cold air; chills run over back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s291}}Febrile excitement.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s292}}~</span> <span grade3>Endocarditis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s293}}General heat; with burning and pain in back and loins.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s294}}Cold sweat.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s296}}Pain occurring at irregular times, continuing for no definite period, coming suddenly or gradually, and leaving as uncertainly.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s297}}~</span> <span grade3>Neuralgia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s298}}Paroxysmal pains: in head; across abdomen above umbilicus; from neck down arms; in arms.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Every afternoon: headache, lasts through night.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Every Summer: roughness of cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s301}}One week after menses: leucorrhea.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s303}}Right: rending in bones of side of face; pain over eye; pressing pain on a small spot on side of head, severe pain in eye; pressure in eye, above eye; stitches in and behind ear; pressing pains in side of face; prosopalgia; severe neuralgia; pains in side of head, face and ear; deltoid rheumatism agg.; pains in arm; rheumatic pain in leg.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Left: rending in bones of side of face; pain in shoulder; tongue sore on side; pain in arm; lying on side palpitation agg.; wandering rheumatic pains down arm; shooting pains from heart through to scapula; stitches in lower part of shoulder blade; pains in arm; pain in wrist.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Downward: pain shooting into eye teeth; pain across abdomen from lower border of liver down to left, then ceasing in right side.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Moving backward: pain down neck and outwardly on both sides.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s307}}Pains change places.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s308}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ {{anchor:s309}}Pains move downward: head; bones of face; from ear to arm; down spine; down leg; arm to fingers.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Pains move upward: neck over head; ball in throat; lower limbs, then upper.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s312}}Sensation as if body was surcharged with electricity.\\ {{anchor:s313}}As of something loose in head diagonally across top; a shuddering without coldness commences with cracking, as if surcharged with electricity; as if back would break; as if a ball was rising in throat; as if something would be pressed off below pit of stomach; stool as if glazed; as if some one squeezed throat with thumb and finger; pain in chest as from a sprain; pressure like a marble from epigastrium towards heart; a cracking in head frightens him, it ends in a sound in ears like blowing a horn; every heart beat has a strumming as if it would burst, along sternum to throat; as if something was being pressed away from under sternum; hands as if they had been sprained; feet as if sprained; as if furuncles would form here and there.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Pains: in limbs; in forehead; in left shoulder; over right eye; in head; in back; from back of neck up over scalp to top of head and temples; in eyeball; in eyes; in right side of head, ear and face; in region of liver; in lower limbs; in loins; in interior of thighs; in chest; in left arm; suddenly leave extremities and go to heart; from neck down arm to little and fourth finger; in spine; in left wrist, causing hand to feel paralyzed.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Sudden pains in paroxysms: across abdomen, above umbilicus, from lower border of liver, downward toward left; in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Anguish: about heart.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Violent pain: in upper three dorsal vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s318}}Severe pain: in right eye to forehead; in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s319}}Great pain: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s320}}Much pain: in lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s321}}Tearing: in root of nose and nasal bones; in lower jaw; in one side of head from hip down leg to feet.\\ {{anchor:s322}}Rending: in bones of right or left side of face; in bones of legs to feet.\\ {{anchor:s323}}Shooting, stabbing pain: from heart through to left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s324}}Shooting, twitching pain: over head.\\ {{anchor:s325}}Shooting: downward into eye teeth; through chest above heart into shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Stitches: in eyes, ears, fingers and feet; in and behind right ear; in neck and thighs; in lower jaw; in tongue; in lower part of chest; in lower part of shoulder blade; in hands; externally on knee; in feet, soles, toes, big toe.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Stitching: in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Stitching, tearing, pressing or shooting pains; in a downward direction in face.\\ {{anchor:s329}}Stinging: in jawbones.\\ {{anchor:s330}}Pricking sensation: in skin.\\ {{anchor:s331}}Rheumatic pain: in scalp; in heart; in limbs; in region of heart, extending down left arm; in arms; in leg from hip down; in right leg; shift from joint to joint; mostly in upper arms and lower parts of legs; all over body.\\ {{anchor:s332}}Severe neuralgia: in right cheek; throughout whole body.\\ {{anchor:s333}}Neuralgic paroxysmal pains: in head.\\ {{anchor:s334}}Neuralgia: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s335}}Throbbing headache.\\ {{anchor:s336}}Pulsating headache: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Aching: in face; in forehead; in throat; across loins.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Severe pressing headache.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Pressing pain: on a small spot on right side of head; in right side of face; in molars.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Pressure: in right eye; above right eye; in throat; in pit of stomach; from epigastrium to heart; behind sternum; in region of heart.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Burning: in spine.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Great heat: in spine.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Heat: in head.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Soreness: of left side of tongue.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Dryness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Dullness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Swollen feeling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Constriction: of throat.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Stiff, drawing sensation: in muscles on moving eyes.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Rigidity of skin.\\ {{anchor:s351}}Numbness: in affected parts after pain.\\ {{anchor:s352}}Feeling of paralysis: in sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s353}}Stiffness: of muscles around eyes and of eyelids.\\ {{anchor:s354}}Lameness: in back.\\ {{anchor:s355}}Weakness: in abdomen extending to throat; in calves.\\ {{anchor:s356}}Tired feeling: in chewing muscles.\\ {{anchor:s357}}Cracking: in elbow joints.\\ {{anchor:s358}}Tingling: in salivary glands.\\ {{anchor:s359}}Tickling: in trachea.\\ {{anchor:s360}}Itching: in eyes; in face.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s362}}Acute rheumatism, going from joint to joint; violent fever; pains intense; ankles most painful and swollen; agg. from least movement.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s363}}Rheumatic pains all over body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s364}}Pains shifting, pains suddenly changing position; tendency to metastasis to heart.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s365}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s366}}Every joint and every muscle of body affected; high fever; every attempt to move attended with excruciating pains; afterwards paralysis of arms and legs.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s367}}~</span> <span grade3>Rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s368}}Dropsy from cold with rheumatic complaints.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s372}}Touch: face tender; pit of stomach sore; muscles of neck sore.\\ {{anchor:s373}}Rubbing: eyes causes stinging.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s375}}Sensation of rigidity of skin.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s376}}Pricking sensation in skin, with moderate sweat.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s377}}Dry skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s378}}Erysipelatous, inflamed eruption on hand (similar to eruption caused by Rhus tox.), with oppressed breathing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s379}}Eruption like itch.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s380}}Red, inflamed places here and there, exceedingly painful, as if furuncles would form.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s382}}Girl, aet. 10, scrofulous diathesis, suffering three months; Bright's disease.\\ {{anchor:s383}}Girl, aet. 10, suffering ten days; endocarditis.\\ {{anchor:s384}}Boy, aet. 12; rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s385}}Young German; chronic rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s386}}Servant girl, suffering three months; sun headache.\\ {{anchor:s387}}Woman, suffering one week; neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s388}}Man, aet. 27, fourth attack within ten years, each attack lasting from two to four months; neuralgia oculorum.\\ {{anchor:s389}}Man, aet. 33, formerly treated for ulcer of stomach; pressure in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s390}}Man, aet. 47, rheumatic; pressure in epigastrium.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s392}}Antidoted by: <span grade2>Acon., Bellad.</span>\\ {{anchor:s393}}Compare: <span grade2>Bellad.</span> (throbbing head, erysipelas); <span grade2>Benz. ac.</span> (gout, valvular disease); <span grade2>Calc. ostr.</span> (cardiac hypertrophy); <span grade2>Diosc.</span> (gastralgia); <span grade2>Kali bich.</span> (catarrhs, rheumatism); <span grade2>Lith. carb.</span> (valvular disease); <span grade2>Lycop.</span> (rheumatic gout, urinary symptoms); <span grade2>Natr. mur.</span> (hemiopia); <span grade2>Pulsat.</span>, rheumatism, shifting pains; <span grade2>Rhus tox.</span> (rheumatism); <span grade2>Spigel.</span> (rheumatic endocarditis).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 06, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r180|Kalmia latifolia]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r180|Kalmia latifolia]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}