A small evergreen shrub, growing in moist, swampy grounds in Europe and America. Introduced and proved by Hahnemann and his provers, supplemented by new symptoms occurring after high potencies used clinically by Lippe and Berridge. Clinical Axjthokities. — Asthenopia ; hemorrhage into interior chamber of eye ; Ptosis after injury; Ecchymosis of conjunctiva, Norton, Oph. Therap., p. 110; Bheu- matk ophthalmia, Alb, Norton's Oph. Therap.; Injuries to eye, Norton's Oph. Therap., p. 109 ; Metrorrhagia, Claude, Trans. World's Hom. Conv., 1876, p. 955 ; Whitlow, Smith, Hom. Phys., vol. 4, p. 149 ; Rheumatism in hip, Plange, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 241 ; Itching of feet, Williamson, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 152 ; Drysdale, B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 166 ; Synovitis, Von Tagen, Hom. Clin., vol. 1, p. 29 ; Bronchial catarrh, Kafka, Kiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 686 ; Whooping cough, Schron, Kiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 81; (30 cases) Lembke, N, A. J. H., vol. 11, p. 317; Schussle, Kaue's Eec, 1870, p. 185 ; Hoimoptysis, Hartman, Kiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 217 ; Hcemop- tysis alternating with rheumatism, Stens, Eaue's Eec, 1873; Epileptifoi'm attacks, Hughes, Pharmacodynamics, p. 500 ; Epilepsy after wound on head, Godfroid, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 337 ; Rheumatism, Fisher, Times Eetros., vol. 2, p. 14 ; Syphilitic periostitis, Kent, MSS. ; Purpura hemorrhagica, Bethmann, Kiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 4, p. 204; Prickly heat of newcomers in tropics, Salzer, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 295 ; Urtica- ria from sting of instrument. Smith, Times Eetros., vol. l,p. 136; Suggillations (2 cases), Wells, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 272 ; Punctured ivounds, Guernsey, Times Ee- tros., vol. 2, p. 14. ^ Mind. I Desire for solitude. I After nightmare, fears to go to sleep, lest she die. ■ Inclined to be out of humor and angry; vehement. ■ Discontented ; morose; hates his fellow beings, ^ Sensorium. ■Vertigo: as from intoxication, especially when walking in open air ; feels dull after eating ; head inclined to fall backward. ^ Inner Head. Headache : raging, pulsating ; causing dul- ness, or stupefaction ; pressing, with distress, when head is covered ; as if something was gnawing in her temples, occiput and ears, with red, bloated looking face and eyes ; dull, in morning, during sleep. A misstep causes a sensation of concussion in brain. ■ Head affected after getting wet. * Outer Head. ■Least covering of head intolerable. I I Pimples and boils on forehead. ^Drunkards. 87 LEDUM PALUSTRE. I I Itching eruption scattered thickly over scalp ; enlarged cervical glands. ^ Sight and Eyes, i i Pupils dilated. 1 Asthenopia, with dull pain behind eyeball, as if it would be forced out. I Hemorrhage into anterior chamber after iridectomy. ■ Left eye first affected; excessive photophobia, with se- vere pain upon attempting to open lids, pressing pain in head and eye, as if it at first was pressed asunder, then out of orbit, with great lachrymation and noctur- nal aggravation ; severe burning on border of lids and sticking in eyes, as from sand ; tearing, drawing pains in neck to insertion of deltoid muscle ; heat and chills. ^Rheumatic ophthalmia. ■ Complete ptosis, r. eye, from injury; ecchymosis of lids and conjunctiva. I I Contusions or wounds of eye and lids, especially if ac- companied by extravasation of blood. lEcchymoses of conjunctiva, traumatic or spontaneous. I Profuse suppuration with discharge of fetid pus. ■ Nightly agglutination without inflammation or pain. I Burning on border of lids and feeling of sand in eyes. I Lachrymation: acrid, making lower lids and cheeks sore. ^ Hearing and Ears, l l Noises in ear as from ringing of a bell, or from a storm of wind ; ringing and whizzing. ■ Hardness of hearing: (r. ear) as if ear was obstructed by cotton ; after cutting hair ; after chilling head ; after suppression of coryza or otorrhoea, I Rheumatic otitis. ^ Smell and Nose. Long lasting nosebleed ; afterward sore in upper part of nose, with violent burning ; blood pale. ■ Small pimples on root of nose. ® Upper Face, l Eruption of pimples on forehead, as in brandy drinkers, with biting itching on chest, as from lice ; red blotches and nettlerash. I Red tubercles on forehead, stinging when touched; pim- ples and blood boils. I Face : alternately pale and red ; bloated. I I Scaly, dry herpes in face, burning in open air. i I Large, rough exanthema on face. ■ Erysipelas of face and eyes from bites of insects. I Tetterlike, crusty eruption around nose and mouth, with itching, smarting and burning. I Red, pimply eruption on face. ^Drunkards. ^ Lower Face, l l Glandular swelling under chin. ^^ Taste and Tongue. 1 1 Stinging on forepart of tongue. I I Bitter taste in mouth. ^^ Inner Mouth, i l Offensive breath. LEDUM PALUSTRE. 38 1 I Sudden running of waterlike saliva from mouth, with colic; waterbrash. 13 Throat.- I Sore throat, with fine, stinging pain, < when not swallowing ; sensation as from a lump in throat. I I Malignant sore throat. I I Great heat in throat when moving in open air. ^^ Eating and Drinking. After eating : hurriedly, contract- ing pain in breast bone ; pressure in stomach after a small quantity of food ; feels dull. Bad effects from alcoholic drinks. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Sudden running of water from mouth ; waterbrash. I I Nausea and qualmishness when spitting. ^^ Abdomen, i i Sensation of fulness in upper part of abdomen. I I Colic every evening. I I Pain as if diarrhoea would set in, from umbilicus to anus, with loss of appetite and cold feet. 1 I Pain in loins after sitting. I I Ascites. ^° Stool and Rectum, i l Diarrhoea, stool mixed with mucus and blood ; want of animal heat ; constipation ; stool mixed with blood. I I Sore, itching, smarting humid spot, between anus and coccyx. ^'Urinary Organs. lUrination frequent; quantity dimin- ished or increased ; stream often stops during flow. I I Enuresis. ■ Burning in urethra after urinating ; itching, redness, dis- charge of pus. ^^ Male Sexual Organs, i Inflammatory swelling of penis; urethra is almost closed. I I Increased sexual desire; nocturnal emission bloody. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. iFibroustumors, or polypi, with menorrhagia ; constant draining away of blood. Displacement of uterus. I Menstruation too early and too profuse; blood bright red ; absence of vital heat. ■ Profuse leucorrhoea; pale face; copious urination, even at night. ^ Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation. iMilk leg. ■ During last months of pregnancy, indescribable pain, like gnawing stiffness, in sacrum and hip bone, down over whole thigh, < standing. ^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. ■ Tickling in larynx, with haemoptysis. I I Tingling in trachea. ^Bronchitis. ■Mouldy taste in mouth every time she coughs, causing great "nausea, loss of appetite, and occasionally watery vomiting. ^Bronchitis. 39 LEDUM PALUSTRE. '^ Respiration. ■ Spasmodic, double insjoiration, with sobbing, as after hard crying. I I Oppressed, rapid and painful breathing. I I Suffocative arrest of breathing and opisthotonos previ- ous to coughing. I I Oppressive constriction of chest, < from motion and walking. ^ Cough. I I Hollow, racking, spasmodic cough, from tickling in larynx ; loses breath before cough ; after cough, dizzi- ness, staggering. I I Chronic cough characterized by cold and deficiency of animal heat. ■ Spasmodic cough, preceding for a few days eruption of eczema or an attack of gout. ■ Child gets stiff before paroxysm; bends himself back- ward^ followed by expectoration of clear, frothy blood. ^Whooping cough. ■ Before paroxj^sm, arrest of breathing; during it, epistaxis, shattered feeling in head and chest, rapid respiration ; after it, staggering, spasmodic contraction of diaphragm, sobbing respiration. ^Pertussis. ■ Expectoration: after midnight and in morning; fetid, purulent; bright red, foaming blood. ^ Inner Chest and Lungs, i i Spasmodic constriction of chest when walking and ascending. ■ Burning soreness or stitches in chest; soreness under sternum. ■ Haemoptysis: alternating with coxalgia or rheumatism; with congestion; with violent cough in paroxysms, caused by tickling in larynx and trachea ; burning pain in some point of chest, from which blood seems to come ; stagnation in liver and portal veins. ■ Bright red, profuse haemoptysis, with severe cough and rattling and hissing in air passages ; burning pain in fixed spot in chest. ■Phthisical symptoms alternating with coxalgia or rheu- matism. ■ Suppuration of lungs; purulent, greenish expectoration; after neglected pneumonia. ^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. ' i Pushing or pressure in- ward at 1. edge of sternum ; palpitation. ■ Pulse: full and rapid; strong and hard; can be felt on one arm only. ^° Outer Chest. l l Eruption, like varicella, on chest and upper arms, with desquamation. 1 I Red spots and rash, with smarting itching on chest. ■ Pain and soreness on and in breast bone, or below it. ■ Chest hurts when touched. LEDUM PALUSTRE. 40 ^' Neck and Back, i Painful stiffness of back and scapula). ■ Painful stiffness of loins when rising from a seat. ■ Sticking in shoulder when lifting arms. ^^ Upper Limbs. ■Severe stitch in shoulder when raising arm. ■ Painful throbbing in r. shoulder. ■ Painful pressure in 1. or both shoulder joints, < from