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Ledum Palustre

30C / 200CLedum
Marsh Tea · Wild Rosemary · "The Puncture Wound Remedy"
led.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 Acts primarily on the rheumatic diathesis and tissues affected by punctured wounds, especially where the parts feel cold.
📖 Boericke writes:
Marsh-Tea
(LEDUM)
Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto, as well as to stings of insects.There is a general lack of animal heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable. For punctured wounds, produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites particularly if thewounded parts are cold, this is the remedy. Tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound.
👤 Constitution
•Typically chilly individuals who suffer from rheumatic complaints that begin in the lower limbs and move upward, often with a tendency toward joint swelling and gouty deposits.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
There is a general lack of animal heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable.
introduction
For punctured wounds, produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites particularly if the wounded parts are cold, this is the remedy.
introduction
Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched.
face
Anal fissures.
rectum
Antidote to Rhus poisoning (Grindel; Cyprip; Anac).
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for vertigo and nosebleeds associated with head sensitivity.
Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall to one side.
Distress when head is covered.
Nosebleed (Mellilot; Bry).
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Rhus Toxicodendron →Latrodectus Mactans →Bellis Perennis →Hamamelis Virginiana →Ruta Graveolens →Arnica Montana →
🔄 Compare With
Arnica Montana →
📚 Sources & References

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