Kalmia Latifolia kalm.

A tincture of the fresh leaves of Kalmia latifolia, L., is used.

This remarkable drug causes tingling and numbness in various parts, neuralgic (or rheumatic) pains, which wander and cause restlessness, and, most marked of all, a slow, weak pulse.

Aconite , Cimicif., Rhus t., Spig., the Kali and Lithia.

Sticking in various parts. ▶ Tearing in right shoulder, left arm, right lower jaws, and in flesh of whole left leg downward. ▶ Rheumatic pains all over the body; often changing their position, especially in shoulder, elbow and wrist (Puls., Cimicif.). ▶ Pressing pains in whole body. ▶ Pains, in whole body. ▶ Pains, agg. moving, amel. lying. ▶ Bruised feeling all over body (Arn.). ▶ General feeling as if one had been exposed to a soaking rain. ▶ Restlessness; and frequent turning (Rhus t.). ▶ Desire to stretch. ▶ Aversion to exercise. ▶ Weakness; in morning; in evening; in evening, especially in limbs, so that it was almost impossible to ascend stairs; of muscles; of all muscles, agg. exertion, appearing first in those of mastication; could not go above three steps without being exhausted and likely to fall from weakness and dizziness (Rhus t.). ▶ Faintness, then, vertigo.

Rheumatoid pains in various parts, pains shifting, they go to the heart and involve the arms and shoulders, associated with stiffness and numbness (Compare Lithium). ▶ In chronic or subacute articular rheumatism the pains shift from joint to joint. ▶ With the neuralgic pains of Kalmia there are generally great weakness and trembling, symptoms of paralysis. ▶ Acute inflammatory rheumatism, shifting, arms and legs feel paralyzed.

Inflammation of the sclera, with extreme pain on turning the eyes, and sclero-choroiditis, both anteriorly and posteriorly, sometimes with exudation into the vitreous. ▶ Retinitis albuminuria, especially during pregnancy, paralysis of the upper lid, with feeling of stiffness (Rhus t., Caust.). ▶ Muscular asthenopia.

Facial neuralgia, especially of right side, with feeling of numbness and stiffness (Compare Aconite), generally caused by cold; facial neuralgia following herpes zoster (Mezer.).

Gastralgia in sudden paroxysms.

Subacute Bright's disease, with the peculiar pains in the back, with predominating palpitation, pains about the heart, etc. ▶ Very valuable in albuminuria of pregnancy.

Angina pectoris. ▶ Cardiac disease of an organic nature, rheumatic endocarditis, valvular insufficiency, hypertrophy and degeneration, slow pulse, paroxysms of extreme anguish about the heart and dyspnœa, wandering pains about the heart; extending down left arm.

Anxiety. ▶ Irritability towards evening and next morning. ▶ Dislike to be spoken to, do not feel like going to the office, take up a book, but cannot collect my thoughts. ▶ Do not want to study. ▶ Cannot study, restless.

▶ Tearing; and in neck (Cimicif.). ▶ Pain; in morning on waking and in evening; in morning on waking, amel. cold water; at noon, especially on right side; amel. pressure, especially in temples and forehead; with nausea; with flushed face; intermittent; wandering, in afternoon and evening, especially in parts back of forehead; internally; with sensation, when turning, of something loose diagonally across top; in all parts behind forehead. ▶ Drawing, and in eyes, agg. towards evening and in open air. ▶ Confusion; in evening. ▶ Dullness, with difficult hearing and pain in limbs. ▶ Dull, drowsy feeling on waking, for an hour after getting up did not feel like doing anything. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Surging of blood in H. and against left cheek, with heat of left cheek. ▶ Vertigo; on stooping and looking downward (from 8 to 9 A.M., and from 3 to 6 P.M.) (Puls., Anac.); on getting up after studying; agg. towards noon; with pain in limbs; with nausea and pain in head and limbs; with fugitive glow in different parts of surface and increase of sweat.

Shooting, extending into eye-teeth. ▶ Tearing in F. and head in morning on rising, then in hips and lower limbs to feet; across F.; in left side, extending into temples. ▶ Pain; in evening; in morning on waking; on rising, worse afterwards; over eyes; in upper part of glabella; above right eye about noon; agg. right side; with inability to concentrate mind on book; extending into roots of right upper molars; in supraorbital region, extending to occiput; in evening in F. and over eyes, moving backward and outwardly down sides of neck, then pain in left shoulder; sometimes shooting to eye-teeth, at one time easier in F., at another in teeth; pulsating.

Shootings to occiput; S. into eyes; to eyeballs at 10.30 A.M. ▶ Tearing in right, passing downward. ▶ Acute pain in left, agg. ascending stairs. ▶ Pain; in right; in T., and over eyes in morning on waking, amel. cold water; from left backward; heavy, in T., and especially in forehead, agg. mental effort, with pale face.

Shooting from vertex into temples, with feeling as if head would burst. ▶ Tearing on vertex. ▶ Pain in vertex; extending in direction of cervical vertebræ; as if bound with a cord. ▶ Pain on right side of head; in whole left side, with throbbing in it and with stitches in left ear and behind right ear; intermittent, in a spot on right side above forehead in evening in bed. ▶ Heaviness on right side of head, then towards evening on left. ▶ Pain in occiput; and neck; dull, in occiput, with frequent sharp darting pain in right side of head.

Inflammation of left in morning, with burning jerking pain till near noon. ▶ Sticking; towards evening; in right in morning; under left ; in right, with pressing, the eyes feel dim and weak. ▶ Pain; in afternoon; in right; in right in evening; about eyes; which makes it painful to turn them; P., can hardly keep them open. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Burning, agg. left, with pressing. ▶ Itching; in left in afternoon, with burning; when rubbed with stinging. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Stiffness of muscles around eyes and of eyelids (Rhus t.). ▶ Lids sore; at edges. ▶ Sensation in ball as if the orbit were pressing it out of its socket.

▶ Glimmering exactly in point of vision, about 3 P.M., so that reading was difficult, with nausea. ▶ Vision imperfect. ▶ Dim, so that he could not read without spectacles; D. at intervals; agg. during paroxysms of vomiting. ▶ Almost blind when erect. ▶ Blind. ▶ Blackness about 8 or 9 A.M., when looking downward, with belching of wind and nausea. ▶ Vision affected, especially by darkness, coming before eyes every three or four minutes, and afterwards if in an erect position.

Stitches; at 4 P.M.; in right at night; in right and behind it. ▶ Darting pains through them. ▶ Pain in right; behind right. ▶ Ringing in afternoon. ▶ Cracking. ▶ Buzzing.

Pain deep in left side. ▶ Pressure on bridge, with frequent sneezing. ▶ Tickling; as before coryza. ▶ Sensation of coryza. ▶ Obstruction, agg. evening; O. of one nostril. ▶ Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing and increased sense of smell.

Flushed. ▶ Pale. ▶ Sticking in bones; in left upper jaw and zygoma; in jaws and teeth. ▶ Stinging in jaws. ▶ Tearing in bones of right or left side; in right lower jaw. ▶ Neuralgia. ▶ Darting pain in jaw. ▶ Pain between right eye and right side of nose in afternoon; in malar-bone, extending into right molars and bicuspids; under angles of jaw. ▶ Lips swollen, dry and stiff in morning.

Drawing tearing in teeth. ▶ Toothache; agg. in incisors and eye-teeth; in upper T.; in lower incisors; in molars at 10.30 A.M.; in right in evening; in molars for hours after 10 P.M.; as if a nerve were laid bare; neuralgic, in left upper molars and bicuspid. ▶ Tongue white and dry. ▶ Sticking in tongue. ▶ Cutting in right side of tongue, agg. biting it. ▶ Inflammation of sublingual glands. ▶ Tingling in salivary glands after eating, with sensation of fermentation in œsophagus and salivation. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Acrid, bitter taste.

Rising of slippery mucus, with tickling in larynx. ▶ Pain in region of submaxillary gland in evening, shooting towards parotid. ▶ Scraping; exciting cough; causing desire to cough. ▶ Rawness, with scraping and pain when swallowing and with throbbing in tonsils. ▶ Pressing, with nausea. ▶ Feeling of a ball rising. ▶ Swollen feeling. ▶ Swallowing difficult; from dryness.

Thirst. ▶ Eructations; of air. ▶ Nausea; in morning; at 10.30 A.M., after stool; in afternoon when riding, with incarceration of flatus, then stool with cutting in abdomen; in evening, then dullness and aching in head; with incarcerated flatus; with loss of sight; with flickering before eyes. ▶ Retching. ▶ Vomiting, with ruminating action; V. every three or five minutes, without nausea, of bile towards the end and action like rumination.

Pain as if something were tearing the walls from their connections. ▶ Drawing tearing in epigastrium, agg. movement and attempting to talk. ▶ Pain in epigastrium. ▶ Pressure in pit, amel. sitting erect, agg. sitting bent, with feeling as if something were pressed down beneath pit of stomach. ▶ Gnawing at epigastric region at 8 A.M., with emptiness. ▶ Emptiness; with rumbling; which caused headache and nausea. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Distress after dinner as if overloaded. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Contracted feeling; gradual, forcing its contents into œsophagus. ▶ Warmth; in epigastric region.

Cutting during stool; C. after breakfast, amel. loose stool. ▶ Occasional pain across A.; P. driving me to stool, diarrhœa, with tenesmus. ▶ Sensation as before a cathartic operation, but none followed. ▶ Weak feeling extending into throat; amel. eructations. ▶ Sticking in right hypochondrium at 8 A.M. ▶ Pain in right side; in liver region; in hypochondrium; about umbilicus.

Inclination to stool in forenoon. ▶ Burning in anus after stool. ▶ Stools soft and frequent; soft, twice in forenoon, with evacuation of wind. ▶ Pappy stool, easily discharged, as if smoothed over, then pressing in rectum. ▶ Hard, then burning in rectum. ▶ Too large and hard to pass in morning, passed with difficulty at 10 A.M. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Omitted, next day scanty, third day loose at noon after the morning stool.

Burning during micturition. ▶ Urging; frequent desire. ▶ Frequent micturition of yellow copious urine; frequent M. of small quantities of urine which feel hot. ▶ Urine increased.

Sticking in glans. ▶ Frequent erections without desire. ▶ Pain in right testicle in morning, in left in afternoon. ▶ Yellowish leucorrhœa in morning, eight days after appearance of menses (during the leucorrhœa several old symptoms). ▶ Menses eight days too early, next time fourteen days too late; M. scanty and delayed, with pain in loins, back and anterior part of thighs; painful M.

▶ Tickling in trachea. ▶ Cough day and night; in evening, with mucous expectoration; C., with expectoration of gray, smooth, unctuous matter, of a putrid, salt taste, which on being spread out separates into small pieces. ▶ Peculiar noise when breathing, as from spasmodic affection of glottis. ▶ Oppressed breathing; with palpitation and anxiety; and short.

▶ Sticking in lower part; S. in right lung, under third and fourth ribs, causing dyspnœa; below breast. ▶ Tearing in whole left side. ▶ Pressure in right side. ▶ Sensation as if strained by lifting. ▶ Oppression.

▶ Palpitation; with faint feeling. ▶ Fluttering of heart; on slowly ascending stairs. ▶ Pulse irregular; agg. mental effort and leaning over to write. ▶ Pulse rapid. ▶ Pulse slow; and feeble; S., weak and creeping, the artery slowly contracted and dilated, like the action of an earthworm. ▶ P. imperceptible.

Shooting externally down sides; S. from nape into head. ▶ Sticking on left side at night, with itching. ▶ Tearing in nape. ▶ Darting pain in upper vertebræ. ▶ Pain on both sides; in right side; in sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle; extending down back, afterwards increased to stiffness, agg. seventh cervical vertebra. ▶ Shock from nape towards occiput, with heat. ▶ Drawing in left side in afternoon and evening, with sticking. ▶ Stiffness in morning.

▶ Pain; at night in bed; during menses; down back; in spine, sometimes agg. lumbar region, with heat; extending through shoulders. ▶ Sensation as if spine would break, with anterior convexity. ▶ Sticking in lower part of left scapula at night. ▶ Pain in scapulæ; between S.; between S., extending over head into temples. ▶ Sharp pain in three upper dorsal vertebræ, extending through shoulders. ▶ Sticking in loins; agg. motion; drawing S. in sacral region and hip. ▶ Sharp pain in loins. ▶ Pain in loins; across loins, agg. evening; paralytic, in loins at 10 P.M. in bed, with dullness and pain in head. ▶ Lameness of loins in evening in bed.

Sticking; in all joints; in right index in evening, then pain in hollow of right knee and in calf; rapidly changing their position. ▶ Pain in all joints; P. in arms, hands and legs down to feet; right shoulder and left arm, especially in elbow, and in lower limbs, especially knees; above left elbow, then between elbow and hand, then alternating between the two places, then P. below knees extending to feet; left hand and fingers and posteriorly in left leg towards heel, with jerking of heel; bend of left knee, then in left index, then in right foot; in left shin, muscles of left arm and in right foot; in left shin, shoulder and left arm, then in right shoulder and arm; in left elbow, arm, and knee in morning, amel. lying, and in both arms in afternoon; in left arm in evening, and in both legs; in right arm when at rest, amel. rising, with tearing in left leg, it extends less severe through the whole left side and arm; frequent, here and there; frequent, in muscles; alternate pains in shoulder, hip and knee. ▶ Sprained pain at times in feet and hands. ▶ Feeling as if they had been beaten. ▶ Weariness; as after long walking. ▶ Numbness as if asleep.

Shoulder. ▶ Shooting in right; in joint of right. ▶ Tearing in right; from right down arm; in joint. ▶ Pain in left; right; beneath left ; in left at 10 A.M.; below left in evening; in morning on waking, they feel as if they had been bare all night; alternately in right S. and right elbow, locating itself in elbow; rheumatic, in S. and scapula. ▶ Rheumatism so that the arm could not be raised.

Sticking; under left. ▶ Tearing in left. ▶ Pain; and in hands; in right; drawing, on inner side of left at night. ▶ Pressure in left. ▶ Tired, do not feel like writing. ▶ Lancinations in middle of humerus. ▶ Pressure in upper.

Frequent cracking in afternoon. ▶ Sticking. ▶ Tearing, extending to index; from left to index, which is flexed in a jerking manner. ▶ Pain in left ; extending to wrist; P. extending to wrist and causing sensation as if forearm were in a vise. ▶ Neuralgic pain in right, which alternately drew to shoulder and wrist but finally located itself in elbow. ▶ Cramplike pain in middle of forearm.

Sticking and weakness in wrist, almost preventing writing. ▶ Pain in left wrist, so that hand seems palsied. ▶ Sticking in hands. ▶ Pains in hands; in left, agg. palm close to wrist; sprained. ▶ Gnawing in palms at metacarpo-phalangeal joints at 4 P.M. paralyzed sensation in right hand. ▶ Sticking in fingers; in index; in left little, shooting along ulna. ▶ Tearing from knuckle; in left little, shooting along ulna. ▶ Tearing from knuckle of right little finger to elbow. ▶ Pain in all left fingers; in left little, forcibly flexing it; in left little, extending to wrist and along ulna to elbow; in ball of right thumb. ▶ Drawing pain in little finger, extending along ulna.

Tearing in left. ▶ Pain. ▶ Sticking in hip-bones in evening, extending from right side; S. in thigh, extending to knee. ▶ Tearing in hip-bones, extending to feet; in hips and lower extremities, in bones down to feet. ▶ Pain in right nates; in right gluteus muscle; in right thigh. ▶ Rheumatic pain from hip down leg. ▶ Soreness of hip. ▶ Sensation when descending stairs as if tendon of quadriceps extensor would give way and I would fall down-stairs.

Stitches on lower part, on outside, in evening. ▶ Pain; in left ; in right under patella; in patella; in right near patella at night in bed and in left ankle.

Tearing in flesh down whole left. ▶ Pain; in left tibia; in left shin at 8 A.M.; down to feet; through right to toes; in left down to heel; below knees, extending to feet; peculiar, down outside of left, frequently. ▶ Neuralgic pain below right knee; N. pain between ankle and knees; along tibia. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right in morning, extending to toes. ▶ Rheumatism in right. ▶ Weakness below knees on standing, with feeling as if I would fall. ▶ Shins numb in afternoon.

Neuralgic pain in ankle. ▶ Aching in right tarsal bones. ▶ Jerking in heels. ▶ Stitches in feet; in soles. ▶ Pain in feet; sprained. ▶ Pressure on left foot. ▶ Sticking in toes; in left great. ▶ Pain in ball of left great toe in evening.

Erysipelatous eruption; and itching, similar to Rhus, on hand, then spreading, with dangerous respiratory troubles, afterwards every year at the same time roughness of cheeks. ▶ Red itching spot on left, burning pain, then a second spot on outside of leg close to knee, next morning on right knee. ▶ Red, inflamed spots in different parts like beginning of blood-boils, painful. ▶ Prickling; (such as he often felt in the spring), to be compared with nothing but the effect on mouth from peppermint, which is a coolness with pricking by minute points (Compare Aconite), agg. scalp, with increased tendency to sweat. ▶ Itching; in bend of right knee in afternoon; on face at night; all over body, with burning, as if bitter by mosquitœs.

Sleepiness; at 3 P.M.; preventing study. ▶ Sleeplessness for two hours, with tossing about and feeling as if I had worked too hard; S., with restlessness, woke at 4, could sleep only a few minutes at a time, would wake out of annoying dreams. ▶ Restless sleep, unpleasant dream, woke at 4.30 A.M. with dull headache, then could sleep only a few minutes at a time, waking from frightful dreams. ▶ Talking in sleep. ▶ Getting up and walking in sleep. ▶ Dreams fantastic; and busy. ▶ Unpleasant dreams; and wild, all night.

Chill. ▶ Rapid alternations of chill and heat (Acon.). ▶ Shivering, with coldness. ▶ Shivering, without coldness; at 10 P.M. in bed, passing from vertex to neck, under scalp, with cracking noise and alarm, a sensation as if the body were surcharged with electricity, repeated four times in half an hour, and the whole ended with sound of a horn before ears. ▶ Cold limbs. ▶ Creeping over back; with weariness of limbs. ▶ Heat; with pain in loins; with flushed face. ▶ Hot head and flushed face; H. head in morning. ▶ Heat in left shoulder, extending to forearm and then to fingertips. ▶ Sweat; cold. ▶ Dry skin; and cracked lips.