LEDUM PALUSTRE

! Dewey W A, Practical Homeopathic treatment. writes Ledum is a useful remedy in gout as well as in many articular troubles. great toe is swollen, sore and painful on stepping, drawing pains worse from warmth, pressure and from motion. Also gouty nodosities in the joints. it differs from Bryonia in having a scanty instead of a profuse effusion, it is perhaps, better adapted to hot swelling of the hip joint than Bryonia. ALL THE PAINS of LEDUM TRAVEL UPWARDS. Ledum after abuse of Colchicum wich is a very astenic remedy, producing great muscular weakness. Ledum a cold remedy, has genera chilliness and lack of animal heat. Ledum general characteristic is rheumatic inflammations of joints without fever, the pains travel upward, stiffness in the back as after sitting a long time aggravation by warmth on bed and by motion. For hemorrhages of drunkards, red, foamy blood. Also for sciatic pains mixed with rheumatism, synovitis, and knee joint pains. Affects left shoulder and right hip- joint. Ledum for Punctured wounds, mosquito bites, stabs by punctured stuff producing convulsions, felons caused by a prick of a needle, bites of small animals as rats, spiders, dog bites infected. Black eye from a blow of the fist no remedy equals Ledum 200th potency. Also after abuse of alcoholic drinks, pimples on the forehead, face bloated, awakens with a hot, tensive swellings of the toe and foot, with tearing, shooting, grinding pains, cannot bear the least covering or the warmth of the bed, foot becomes edematous, and yet the urine is copious and frequently passed. Old nodes, the sequelae of former attacks become excessively painful. If a horse picks up a nail, pull it out and give him a dose of Ledum. Beatriz H Hill, Medicina Homeopática behhill