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Kalmia Latifolia

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Mountain Laurel · "The Downward Shooting Pain Remedy"
kalm.PlantCommonPsoric
Source
🎯 A rheumatic remedy with a specific affinity for shifting pains, neuralgia, and cardiac conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia;pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. Albuminuria.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals prone to rheumatic and neuralgic complaints, often with cardiac involvement and a tendency toward shifting, shooting pains.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia.
introduction
Albuminuria.
introduction
Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes.
eyes
Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye.
eyes
Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect.
stomach
Palpitation; worse leaning forward.
heart
Sharp pains take away the breath.
heart
Lumbar 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 vertigo and neuralgic headaches that radiate from the head to the teeth or neck.
Vertigo; worse stooping.
Confusion of brain.
Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
6th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Benzoicum Acidum →
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Spigelia Anthelmia →Derris Pinnata →
📚 Sources & References

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