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Ledum Palustre
Ledum palustre · LED
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Origin Plant · Ericaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of dried small twigs and leaves collected after flowering begins. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Sources 18 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potency

Reason for useGladstone Clarke

1 . Rheumatic , gouty diathesis ; old people ; constitutions suffering from abuse of alcohol. 2 . Discontent and peevishness. 3 . Alternating complaints, e.g. haemoptysis and rheumatism ; also symptoms appearing diagonally especially upper left and lower right ( Ant. t., Agar., Stram. ; upper right lower left - Brom., Medorr., Phos., etc.). 4 . Contusions especially about the eye ; patient bruises easily ; long-remaining discoloration after injuries. Punctured wounds including insect bites especially of mosquitoes (locally and internally). 5 . Rheumatic and arthritic complaints ; beginning lower limbs and ascending ; first feet then hands ; small joints mostly affected ; painful nodosities ; rarely useful if heat and swelling ; pains < motion, night, warmth of bed ; sometimes > only when holding feet in ice-water. 6 . Skin eruptions ; papular, eczematous ; in habitual drunkards ; especially face and forehead ; chronic eruptions with violent itching especially feet and ankles < scratching warmth of bed. 7 . Emphysemas and bronchitis of the aged < hot rooms ; spasmodic coughs. 8 . Hemorrhages especially of bright-red blood ; intra ocular hemorrhage. 9 . Pains sticking, tearing or throbbing ; rapidly change locality. 10 . Patient lacks vital heat ; always cold yet pains < heat especially of bed, > cool applications.


Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 3, Angustura Vera, Apis Mellifica +2
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Arnica Montana, Croton Tiglium, Hamamelis Virginiana +23

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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