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Kalmia Latifolia

30CKalmia
Mountain Laurel · "The Downward Shooting Pain Remedy"
kalm.PlantCommonPsoric
🎯 A remedy with a specific affinity for shifting pains, , and cardiac conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
A remedy. Pains shift rapidly. and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small , it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. ; pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of . Protracted and continuous fevers, with . sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. .
👤 Constitution
•Individuals prone to and complaints, often with cardiac involvement and a tendency toward shifting, shooting pains.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Fulgurating pains of .
introduction
.
introduction
Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes.
eyes
, pain increased by moving the eye.
eyes
Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect.
stomach
; worse leaning forward.
heart
Sharp pains take away the breath.
heart
pains, of nervous origin.
back
Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly.
extremities
Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger.
extremities
Sleepless, wakes very early in morning.
sleep
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for and that radiate from the head to the teeth or neck.
; worse stooping.
Confusion of brain.
Pain in front and region from head to and to teeth; from cardiac origin.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture
Mother Tincture
6th
Centesimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Benzoicum Acidum →
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Spigelia Anthelmia →Derris Pinnata

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Kalmia Latifolia is listed in 144 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 35 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System38Circulatory System28Nervous System18Eyes15Urinary System9Head7Modalities6Generalities5Stomach4Face4Female Sexual System4Skin3Respiratory System2Fever1

See all 144 rubrics for Kalmia Latifolia →