KALMIA LATIFOLIA (Kalm.)
RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS ESPECIALLY OF HEART
MENTAL
Excitement in the morning.
Thoughts rapid and quick. Anxiety about future.
Fear of evil.
Memory weakness.
Averse to being spoken to.
PHYSICAL
Rheumatic remedy.
PROMINENT ACTION ON THE HEART.
Gouty heart. Fatty degeneration of heart. Rheumatic endocarditis. Affection of the heart after rheumatism. Pain in heart alternating with rheumatism.
Stitching pain in heart extending to left hand, to left scapula. Paroxysmal anxiety in heart region. Hypertrophy of heart.
Palpitation < bending forward. Arrested respiration during pains.
Rheumatic inflammation of iris, inflammation of retina, of cornea, sclera.
Eye pain on motion, on turning sideways. Stiffness of eyeballs and muscles about the eyes. Eye pain increases till noon and ceases in the evening, sunrise until sunset.
Pain in the pit of stomach < bending forward, > sitting erect.
Facial pain often with numbness esp. right sided <after suppressed eruption, exposure to cold. Come and go with sun.
Wandering pains.
Pains in extremities and head extend downward with numbness (Acon., Cham., Plat.).
Sudden, severe, acute arthritis < night, motion.
Pain in tongue when talking < left side.
MODALITIES
AGG.: exposure to sun, ascending, motion, cold, exertion.
AMEL.: lying on back.
