Ledum

Ledum palustre, Linn.

Natural order , Ericaceæ.

Common names , (Ger.), Sumpf-Porst, or Porst.

Preparation , Tincture of the dried herb.

Authorities.

1 , Hahnemann, Mat. Med., 4, 176; 2 , Franz, ibid.; 3 , Becher, ibid.; 4 , Hermann, ibid.; 5 , Langhammer, ibid.; 6 , Teuthorn, ibid.; 7 , Walther, ibid.; 8 , Linnæus, Flora Lapponica, p. 121, ibid.; 9 , Pallas, Flora Rossica, 1, part 2, p. 94, ibid.; 10 , Lembke, provings with tinct., repeated doses of 5 to 80 drops, A. H. Z., 39, p. 323 (1848); 11 , same, provings with tinct., doses 10 to 30 drops, symptoms observed three weeks after last dose, and probably would have continued longer, but for taking camphor (not affected by coffee, wine, or beer), N. Z. f. H. Kl., 1865; 12 , Dr. A. Lippe, new symptoms occurring after L. 2c (Jen.), in a patient with rheumatic pains in the feet, etc., Am. J. Hom. Mat. Med., 4, 96; 13 , Dr. L. Salzer, effects of wash of 10 drops of tincture in 4 ounces of water, used for prickly heat, Calcutta J. of Med., 2, p. 292 (Raue's Rec., 1875, 295); 14 , Berridge, effects of 1300 (Jen.), taken for injury to palmar tendons, A. J. of Hom. Mat. Med, 9, p. 261, 1876.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Unmanageable drunkenness, 8.
• Joyous mood, with desire for activity and contentment with himself, 5 . [Curative action. -Hahnemann.]
• Quiet and still mood the whole day; therewith he is lively and joyous, 5 . [Curative action, reaction. -Hahnemann.]
• Anxiety, 1.
• Fearfulness, 1.
• Irritable; he is easily aroused, 3.
• He is inclined to anger and peevishness, 11.
• Fretful; he is discontented with everything, 3.
• Fretful, morose mood, 1. [10.]
• Fretful; he went by himself, and almost weeping, wished to die, 5.
• Morose mood, with much uneasiness and irresolution; he is unable to reflect constantly upon anything, or work with a quiet mind, 5.
• Discontented all day with his companions, which at last amounts to misanthropy, 5.*
• Intellectual.
• Great earnestness all day; everything which happened to him was viewed thoughtfully and seriously, 5.
• Loss of understanding, 9 . [After prolonged intoxication. -Hughes.]

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Confusion of the head, 10.
• Head confused and dizzy (after one hour), 10.
• Confusion in the forehead, 10.
• Confusion of the forehead, with some staggering when walking, and especially when rising from stooping, 10.
• The forehead is confused and heavy, 10. [20.]
• Vertigo; the head sinks back, 4.
• Vertigo, while walking, 13.
• Vertigo while walking in the street, as if the body swayed to one side, which really might have happened, and on account of which I remained standing, until the sensation passed away; but, on continuing to walk, it returned; and so several times, for some ten minutes, 11.
• Vertigo, while walking and standing; he can scarcely keep erect (after nine hours), 5.
• Excessive vertigo, all day, even while sitting still, aggravated by stooping, and on walking it increases even to falling forward, as in drunkenness; with a feeling of heat in the whole body, especially the face, without thirst, and with paleness of the cheeks and forehead (after five hours), 5.
• Dizziness in the forehead, 10.
• Reeling after rising from stooping, 10.
• Drunkenness, dizziness, and confusion of the head, 1.
• He feels as if drunk while walking in the open air, 3.
• General Head.
• Heat of the head, especially of the forehead, with heaviness, 10. [30.]
• Headache causing dulness, 1.
• Violent headache, 8, 9 . [With the intoxication. -Hughes.]
• Raging headache, 1.
• He feels a dull headache in the morning, during sleep, 3.
• Drawing pains in all the cranial bones, 10.
• Dull, pressive, wandering pains in the head, 11.
• Pressive headache over the whole brain like a weight; lasting day and night for three days, with slight interruptions, 2.
• Headache, at first over the whole brain like a heavy weight; on the second day it becomes a dull pressure in a small spot in the right temple, .

EYE

• Inflammation of the eyes, with tensive pain, 1.
• Pain in the eyes, without inflammation; a pressure behind the eyeball as if it would be forced out, 2.
• Burning pressure in the eyes, especially in the evening; they are agglutinated in the morning, with lachrymation during the day, even in the room (after four hours), 1.
• Boring pressure from the forehead to the eyes, and in the eyeballs, as if coming from above, 10. [90.]
• Stitches in the right inner canthus, 10.
• Fine stitches in the left eye, towards the inner canthus, 10.
• Great itching in the inner canthi, 10.
• Brow and Orbit.
• Boring pain above the beginning of the left eyebrow, 11.
• Dull pressive boring at the lower orbital margin of the right side, 10.
• Pressure on the outer margin of the right orbit, worse on moving about, 4.
• Tearing in the bone above the left eye, 10.
• Lids.
• The lids are agglutinated, without pain, 1.
• The lids are full of matter, but neither swollen nor inflamed, 1.
• Fine stitches in the margins of the right lids, towards the inner canthus, 10.
• Lachrymal Apparatus. [100.]
• Lachrymation (without inflammation of the white of the eye); the tears are acrid and biting, and make the lower lid and cheek sore, 1.
• Pupil.
• Pupils dilated (after three and a quarter, five and a quarter, and nine and a half hours), 5.
• Decided dilatation of the pupils (soon), 2.
• Extreme dilatation of the pupils, 1.
• Pupils contracted (after one hour), 5.
• Vision.
• Visual power weakened; does not see sharply, 3.
• Flickering before the eyes, he can see nothing definitely, 1.

EAR

• Pressure in the bone behind the left ear, 10. [110.]
• Dulness of hearing in the right ear, 1.
• Deafness of the right ear; it feels as if stopped with cotton, and as though he heard from a distance, 4.
• Transient deafness, as if something were placed before the drums of both ears (after thirteen hours), 5.
• Noise in the ear as from the ringing of a bell, or from a storm of wind, 1.
• Roaring in the ears, as from wind, 2.
• Violent, interrupted roaring in the ears, nearly all day, 2.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Sneezing on account of tickling in the left nostril, 10.
• Frequent sneezing, with increased nasal mucus, 10.
• Slight nosebleed; bloody mucus in the nose, 1.
• Subjective.
• Pain at the union of the nasal cartilage with the bone of the left side, worse when touched with accumulation of much thick mucus in the left nostril, so that it is difficult to get air through the nostril; as if from a swelling of the mucous membrane, 10. [120.]
• A burning pain as from a glowing coal internally in the nose, with soreness on pressing upon the nose or blowing it (after twenty-four hours), 1.
• Cutting-burning pain in the skin above the root of the nose, confined to a small spot, suddenly disappearing, 10.
• Boring pain in the left nasal bones, 10.

FACE

• Paleness of the face, yet without chilliness, 1.
• Drawing in the left half of the face, across the left temple as far as the forehead, 10.
• Drawing pain, beginning in the middle of the face, extending across the forehead and occiput into the nape of the neck, where it disappeared, 11.
• After some coarse stitches in the teeth, an intolerable tearing pain externally on the right side of the face, head and neck, lasting all night, which disappears after more stitches in the teeth, but returns from time to time; the attack ends with shivering, deep sleep, and loss of hunger and thirst (after nine-six hours), 1.
• Cheeks.
• Pains in the upper jaw on both sides of the nose, 11.
• Boring on the upper margin of the left zygoma, 10.
• Boring pain in the zygoma, 10. [130.]
• Boring pain in the left zygoma; in the frontal bone; in the upper part of the right frontal eminence, 10.
• Boring pains in the zygoma and lower jaw of the left side, in the evening, 10.
• Pressure in the right zygoma, 10.
• Chin.
• Boring in the right lower jaw, 10.
• Boring in the left side of the lower jaw, 10.
• Violent boring in the right articulation of the jaw, 10.
• Violent boring in the inferior maxillary bone of the right side, 10.
• Boring pain in the left angle of the lower jaw, while sitting, 10.
• Boring pain in the lower jaw of the right side; in the zygoma; also in the evening, 10.
• Drawing in the left side of the lower jaw, 10. [140.]
• Hard pressure on the lower jaw, from without inward (after one hour), 4.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Fine drawing pain, with a feeling of coldness in the lower incisors, 10.
• (Pressive toothache in the left lower and upper incisors), 3.
• Tongue.
• Fine sticking on the forepart of the tongue (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
• Stitches in the tongue together with burning, 11.
• Stitches and burning in the tip of the tongue, 11.
• Sharp stitches through the tongue, 11.
• Fine stitches in the tip of the tongue, 10.
• Fine stitches beneath the tip of the tongue, 10.
• General Mouth.
• Quite extraordinary dryness of the mouth, on waking from a sleep of two or three hours, 13. [150.]
• Feeling of dryness of the palate, with thirst for water, without heat, 2.
• Saliva.
• Much accumulation of saliva, 10.
• Much accumulation of saliva causing nausea, 10.
• Sudden running of water like saliva from the mouth, with colic; waterbrash, 1.
• Taste.
• Bitter taste in the mouth, 3.

THROAT

• A clogging sensation in throat, on waking from a sleep of two or three hours, 13.
• Sensation as of a plug in the throat; on swallowing there is a sticking, 1.
• Feeling of a plug in the throat, obliging him to swallow, associated with a feeling of a foreign body in the throat; repeated on going to sleep in the evening, 10.
• Feeling as if the throat was swollen, with an attack of nightmare (first night), 12.
• Sticking in the throat, when not swallowing, only in the forenoon; on sneezing, there was only a pressure in the back part of the throat, 1. [160.]
• Sore throat, with fine sticking pain, 1.
• Scratching and scraping in the throat in the evening, 10.
• Swelling of the glands in the forepart beneath the chin, with pressing pain when touched, 4.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Loss of appetite, 1.
• She is not hungry, and, if she eats, immediately feels as though she had eaten too much; it oppresses her and she becomes nauseated, 1.
• Aversion to smoking, with the usual appetite, 2.
• Thirst.
• (Much thirst; he is even obliged to drink at night), 1.
• Much thirst during the day; and at evening febrile chill, shortly before going to sleep, 2.
• Great thirst for cold drinks, especially water (after four and a quarter, eight, and twenty hours), 5.
• Constant loss of thirst, 4.
• Eructation and Hiccough. [170.]
• Eructations, with loss of appetite, and a feeling of warmth in the stomach, 10.
• Many eructations, 10.
• Eructations of air tasting of the drug, 10.
• Frequent eructations of air, 10.
• Many eructations of air, with dull pressure in the pit of the stomach, 10.
• (Bitter eructations, after eating), 1.
• Hiccough frequently recurring (after two hours and a half), 5.
• Nausea.
• Nausea, 9 ; early in morning, 1.
• Nausea, on walking in the open air, with sweat over the whole body, especially on the forehead, 1.
• Nausea and eructations (soon after a dose), 10. [180.]
• Nausea with accumulation of much saliva, yawning, cold hands, frequent chilliness over the back, 10.
• Nausea, weakness, and general perspiration, that afterwards became cool, with cold hands and feet and creeping chills over the back, lasting an hour and a half in the middle of the day, 10.
• Sensation of nausea, in the stomach, 10.
• A long-continuing feeling of nausea, 10.
• Constant feeling of nausea in the stomach, 10.
• An incipient sensation of nausea was noticed several times during the day, never amounting to real nausea; the appetite also was good; the nausea seemed to recur especially some time after taking food, and only during rest, .

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Great tension in the hypochondriac region, on breathing or holding the breath, 1.
• A slow stitch, like a sharp pressure, in the side above the hip, 1.
• Umbilical and Sides.
• Violent cutting pain in the umbilical region, with retraction of the walls of the abdomen, 10.
• (A feeling in the left side of the abdomen, as if, from overloading the stomach with food, a pressive swelling had appeared at this place), 1.
• General Abdomen. [200.]
• Abdomen distended by air, with tasteless eructations, 10.
• Distension of the upper abdomen, with dull pain lasting over an hour, 10.
• Rumbling in the abdomen, 10.
• Rumbling of air in the abdomen, 10.
• Much rumbling of air in the abdomen, 10.
• Much moving about of air in the abdomen, 10.
• Much noise of gas in the abdomen and emission of flatus, 10.
• Discharge of flatulence (first day), 2.
• Frequent discharge of flatulence (after one hour), 5.
• Pain in the abdomen, as in diarrhœa, 1. [210.]
• Pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines were crushed and weakened; a feeling like that remaining after the action of a violent purge (after six hours), 1.
• Colic; digging below the navel; with running of water from the mouth like waterbrash (after two hours), 2.
• Drawing pain in the abdomen, 1.
• Pressive pain deep in the abdomen, aggravated by external pressure, 10.
• Cutting colic, every evening, 1.
• Colic (cutting?), with flow of blood from the anus, 10.
• Wandering-cutting pains in the abdomen, aggravated by drawing the walls of the abdomen inward, 10.
• Dull sticking in the abdominal muscles, and pressure between the pelvis and lowest left ribs, 4.
• Colic as if diarrhœa would occur, extending from the navel to the anus; together with loss of appetite, natural taste, and cold feet, .

RECTUM

• Dull stitches in the rectum, 10.
• Fine stitches in the rectum, 10.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Fecal diarrhœa, with mucus (after twenty-four hours), 2.
• Pasty stool, as in diarrhœa, without symptoms, 5.
• The stool is mixed with blood, 1.
• Constipation. [230.]
• Constipation for several days, 1.
• Stool very hard, scanty, and later than usual, 10.
• Stool retained (primary action), 10.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urethra.
• (Burning in the urethra, after urinating), 1.
• Stitches in the meatus urinarius, 10.
• Fine stitches in the meatus urinarius, 10.
• Repeated fine stitches in the meatus urinarius, 10.
• Tickling stitches in the meatus urinarius, 10.
• Voluptuous tickling at the meatus urinarius, frequently, 10.
• Micturition.
• Urging to urinate, 10. [240.]
• Desire to urinate, 10.
• Desire to urinate, almost without interruption all day, 30.
• Desire to urinate all day, not at night; at times the quantity of urine seemed increased, 10.
• Frequent desire to urinate all day, 10.
• Frequent urging to urinate all day, though no increase of urine, 10.
• Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge (after two hours), 5.
• Very frequent desire to urinate all day, 10.
• Constant desire to urinate all day, 10.
• Much desire to urinate all day, 10.
• Violent urging to urinate, 10. [250.]
• Frequent micturition, 10.
• He is obliged to urinate frequently, and passes much each time, urinating several times at night (first twelve hours), 4.
• Increased flow of urine, 1.
• Very infrequent and scanty discharge of urine (first twelve hours), 6.
• The urine is frequently retained, and will not pass; after passing it, there is a sticking, 1.
• Urine.
• Urine reddish (after twenty-four hours), 2.
• (Urine yellow, with white chalky sediment), 1.
• Urine straw-yellow, all day, 10.
• Urine increased in quantity, light yellow, 10.
• Urine diminished in quantity, 10. [260.]

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Swelling of the penis; the urethra seems swollen; he is obliged to press in order to urinate, and the stream is very thin, without pain (after three days), 1.
• Excessive and constant erections, 4.
• Tickling in the glans penis, 10.
• (Itching on the glans penis), 1.
• Nocturnal emissions, 4.
• Emissions two nights in succession, 10.
• Emissions at night, without dreams, 10.
• Nocturnal emissions of bloody or water semen (after twelve and thirty-six hours), 1.
• Female. [270.]
• Menstruation some days too early, 1.
• Menstruation every fourteen days, 1.
• Increased menstruation, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx and Trachea.
• Dull pressure on both sides of the larynx, 10.
• Stitches and tickling in the larynx, 10.
• Stitches in the larynx, which force tears into the eyes, 10.
• Scraping and tickling in the larynx, with much dry short cough, after which the tickling continues, 1.
• Crawling in the trachea, followed by rapid impeded respiration, 1.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Cough, without expectoration (after forty hours), 2.
• Cough, with purulent expectoration, only at night, or in the morning, 1. [280.]
• Expectoration of blood, with slight cough, 1.
• Profuse expectoration of blood, with violent cough, 1.
• Expectoration of bright-red blood on coughing, 1.*
• When he expectorates he is always nauseated and qualmish, 1.
• Respiration.
• (Breath offensive), 1.
• More or less heavy breathing on waking from a sleep of two or three hours, 13.
• A spasmodic, double inspiration, with sobbing, 1 . [As in children who have cried violently and been very angry. -Hahnemann.]
• Respiration painful, impeded, 1.
• She cannot get her breath all day, 1.
• Dyspnœa, on ascending steps, 1. [290.]
• Dyspnœa and difficult inspiration, while sitting, 10.
• Dyspnœa, with difficult, rapid breathing, as from constriction of the chest; with constant soreness of the sternum (after one hour and a half), 2.
• Suffocating (first night), 12.
• On coughing, she holds her breath as if she would suffocate, 1.
• Bronchial asthma, 1.

CHEST

• On breathing, a pain in the chest, as if from something alive there, 1.
• Pains in the pectoral muscles, aggravated by inspiration, 11.
• Constriction in the chest, with cutting pain, as if the parts in the middle of the chest were constricted with a string, which takes away the breath; the whole attack lasts only a few seconds in the afternoon, 10.
• Asthmatic attack of constriction in the chest, aggravated by moving and walking, 1.
• Spasmodic cramplike pain beneath the short ribs and just above the hips, towards evening, so violent that he was obliged to cry out; it took away his breath and he was unable to rise from his chair alone, in the evening (after thirteen days), 1. [300.]
• Drawing externally in the chest, while walking and on inspiration, together with some stitches, 3.
• Pressure upon the chest while walking, 3.
• Pressure in the upper part of the chest, impeding respiration, 10.
• Pressure in various places in the wall of the thorax, on the sides of the sternum, 10.
• Pressure in the right wall of the thorax in various places, frequently, 10.
• Pressure in the left wall of the thorax in the afternoon, 10.
• Pressure in the left clavicle, 11.
• Constant pressure on the chest while sitting, with pressure behind the seventh and eighth left costal cartilages, 10.
• Pressive sensation in the chest, 10.
• Pressive sensation in the chest, causing difficult respiration, 10. [310.]
• Sticking pains in various places in the right wall of the chest during the afternoon, 10.
• Stitches in the chest, in the morning, 3.
• Stitches in the right chest on inspiration in the morning, 10.
• Stitches in the wall of the chest, especially in the left side, not impeding respiration in the evening, 10.
• Stitches, now and then, in the walls of the thorax, at the sides of the sternum, in the morning, 10.
• Stitches in the left lung, not aggravated by inspiration, 10.
• Stitches between the left lower ribs on inspiration, 11.

HEART

• A dull pressive pain deep in the region of the heart (this symptom similar to that in other muscles, may really have affected the heart), 11.
• Palpitation of the heart, 1.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck.
• Stiffness in the left side of the nape of the neck, 10. [340.]
• Stiffness in the cervical muscles of the right side, 10.
• Painful stiffness of the cervical muscles of the left side, relieved by moving the neck, 10.
• Drawing from the neck to the right shoulder, 10.
• Pressure in the lower cervical vertebræ, aggravated by bending the head far forward, 11.
• Pressure in the left cervical muscles frequently repeated, momentarily relieved by moving the head and neck, 11.
• Back.
• Painful stiffness of the back and scapulæ , on moving, 1.*
• Painful stiffness of the back and loins, after sitting, 1.
• Dull stitches and pressure near the vertebræ, worse on inspiration, 4.
• Dorsal.
• Dull aching pain below left scapula, worse on moving left arm, walking, or deep inspiration; for five days, 14.
• Pressure in the dorsal muscles, to the right of the dorsal vertebræ, 10. [350.]
• Pressure in the lower angle of the left scapula, 10.
• Pressure in the right scapula, afterwards at the side of the right elbow, 10.
• Pressure in the muscles of the right scapula, 11.
• Stitches in the muscles near the first dorsal vertebræ, 11.
• Bruised pain beneath the left scapula, 1.
• Lumbar.
• Pain in the loins, after sitting, 1.
• Drawing in the small of the back, and stiffness of the back (after twelve days), 1.
• Drawing pain in the small of the back, while standing, disappearing on pressure, 1.
• Pressure to the left of the lumbar vertebræ, deep internally, 10.
• Dull pressure in the lumbar region, 10. [360.]
• Dull pressure in the region of the lumbar vertebræ, .

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Objective.
• *Painful hard nodes, and calcareous concretions on the joints, 1.
• Trembling of the knees (and hands), while sitting and walking, 2.*
• Subjective. [370.]
• Desire to stretch the upper limbs (after thirty hours), 2.
• The limbs are numb and fall asleep, 1.
• A feeling of numbness and heaviness of the limbs, with pain in the bones (after twenty hours), 1.
• Painful feeling of weakness above the left elbow, and in the left knee, several times, 10.
• A painful feeling of stiffness in the wrist, elbow, and knee of the left side, 10.
• Painful heaviness of the right arm, at times worse in the shoulder or in the elbow, relieved by moving the joint; afterwards the same sensation in the knee and leg; even in bed, after 11 o'clock, some of the symptoms in the limbs are felt, 11.
• Pains in the knees, wrists, muscles on the inner sides of both upper arms; above the ankle, 11.
• *Paralytic pain in all the joints, on moving the body at night in bed, 1.
• Feeling of compression in the muscles of the left upper arm and in the ankles, 11.
• A feeling of compression in the lower portion of both calves, on the sides of the tendo Achillis; in the left forearm; in the shoulder-joints; several times during the day, 10. [380.]
• Compression in the lower portion of the right forearm; afterwards in the lower legs, 11.
• Very painful compression in the muscles of the right forearm; after some hours, the same sensation in the muscles of the right leg, worse towards the outer part, above the external malleolus, 11.
• Violent compression in the calves, forearms, and lower portion of the legs, 11.
• Boring below the left elbow-joint and in the right ankle, while sitting, 10.
• Drawing in all the long bones of the body, on motion, 3.
• Drawing in the lower portion of the right calf, and in the left upper arm, 10.

LEDUM. SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Weakness of the upper limbs and pressure in several places, a kind of paralysis (after half an hour), 4.
• Feeling of heaviness in the arms, especially the elbows, 11. [420.]
• A peculiar sensation of heaviness and as if bruised in the left arm, especially in the elbows, worse during rest; the same sensation was afterwards noticed in the wrists and ankles, 11.
• Pressure and tearing pressure, with a feeling of heaviness in various places in the right arm, especially the joints, in which the pain is much worse on moving about (after thirty-two hours), 4.
• Violent pressure in the right arm above the elbow, and the same sensation along the ulnar margin of the left hand, 11.
• Tearing pain in the arms (after three hours), 1.
• Pressive bruised pain in the left elbow and shoulder-joints; afterwards in the right wrist, 10.
• Shoulder.
• Painful sensation of heaviness in the right shoulder-joint on motion, 11.
• Drawing pains in the muscles about the left shoulder-joint, 10.
• Pressure in the shoulder-joints, 11.
• Pressure in both shoulder-joints, worse on moving about, 4.
• Pressure in the left shoulder-joint, worse on moving about, 4. [430.]
• Pressure in the forepart of the right shoulder-joint, 11.
• Pressure and drawing in the shoulder-joints and in the left forearm, 10.
• Pressure in the left axilla from within outward, 4.
• Violent pressure on the right shoulder-joint, 10.
• Violent pressure in the forepart of the left shoulder-joint, 10, 11.
• Tearing pressure in the right shoulder-joint, worse on moving, 4.
• Sticking in the forepart of the left shoulder-joint, 10.
• An extremely painful sticking in the shoulder, on raising the arm, 1.
• Stitches below the right shoulder, 11.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Drawing pains through the left lower limb, 10.
• Drawing pain in the lower legs, in the right thigh, in the outer and upper portion; several times, while walking and when at rest, 10. [510.]
• Drawing pains in the whole outer portion of the left leg, 11.
• Tearing pressure from the hip-joints to the ankles, worse on motion, 4.
• Pressive pains in the legs, noticed early in the morning, when awakened by a noise, 11.
• Drawing and sticking on the outer margin of the sole of the left foot and in the muscles above the right patella, while walking, 11.
• Hip.
• Pain in both hip-joints and in the small of the back, when rising from sitting, 4.
• Pinching-drawing pain in the sockets of both hip-joints, also extending to the posterior portion of the thigh (after two hours), 6.
• Pressure in the right hip-joint , worse on moving it (after four days), 4.
• Thigh.
• The posterior muscles of the thighs feel paralyzed, 1.
• Pain in the muscles of the right thigh while walking, so violent that the knees involuntarily give way, 11.
• Boring in the trochanter and tuber ischii of the left side, 10. [520.]
• Jerklike boring in the middle of the left femur, while sitting, 10.
• Boring pain in the thigh above the right patella, several times, 10.
• Boring-pushing pain in and behind the left trochanter, 10.
• Drawing in the external soft parts of the right thigh, 10.
• Drawing and pressive pain along the posterior surface of the left thigh, frequently while sitting, 11.
• Violent drawing pain in the whole posterior surface of the left thigh, 11.
• Pressure in the great trochanter and tuberosity of the ischium of the left side, 10.
• Pressure on the left thigh towards the posterior portion; it seems as though the muscles were not in their proper position, like a pain from a sprain; in every position, though especially when walking or touched (after twelve days), .

LEDUM. GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• She had to lie with the head high (night), 12.
• Suddenly great weakness in the evening, followed by chilliness, lasting an hour, so that he was obliged to warmly cover himself; externally the skin was quite cool; very perceptible general trembling of the muscles, with heat and heaviness of the head, small and rapid pulse; the whole night following this attack was wakeful, restless; sleep with confused dreams, frequent micturition with cutting pain, many pains in the limbs, pains in the scalp, walls of the chest, like Ledum symptoms, but much more severe and persistent (without heat, sweat, or thirst); next morning, woke very early; excessive weakness lasted all day; much chilliness, painful sensitiveness of the whole skin of the limbs and scalp to touch, pain and violent tearings in the bones of the legs especially, boring in the parietal bones, and at intervals flushes of heat in the forehead and redness of the face, stitches in the throat, swollen tonsils, small, rapid pulse and ill-humor; the prover went to bed after dinner and took Bryonia, having previously taken Camphor without relief; on the next day the prover was much better, but there remained no more Ledum symptoms, pains in the joints, etc., 10.
• (So exhausted after nocturnal emissions that he could scarcely move his feet along), 1.
• Faintness, 1.
• Stupefaction of the whole body, as in vertigo (after half an hour), 5.
• Subjective. [690.]
• Distressing weakness and weariness while sitting, standing, and walking; after sitting a long time he feels a pain in the coccyx, 4.
• General sensation of heaviness and weakness, 11.
• Desire for smoking in one unaccustomed to it, so that the prover smoked a small pipe of Turkish tobacco; this was immediately followed by vertigo, so that he was obliged to steady himself; the forehead was heavy and confused, followed by nausea and much accumulation of saliva, general cold sweat, paleness of the face, deep lines from the wings of the nose to the mouth, small, rapid pulse, palpitation, oppression of the stomach, rumbling in the abdomen; every exertion renewed the nausea, so that he took Nux vom., which relieved after half an hour; the weakness, bitter taste, and confusion of the head lasted three hours; somewhat refreshed by washing the face in cold water, 10 . [As the effects of the tobacco passed off, the Ledum symptoms returned.]
• Almost incessant wandering pains, 11.
• Pain in the knees, left wrist, left side of the occiput, soon after rising in the morning, .

SKIN

• Eruptions, Dry.
• Bluish spots, like petechiæ, over the whole body, 1.
• Dry, intensely itching spots on the body, with anxiety, 1.
• Eruption of small pimples, like red millet-seeds, over the whole body (excepting the face, neck, and hands), with itching during the day and only at times during the night, not relieved by scratching, 1.
• Small, round, red spots, without sensation, on the inner side of the arm, on the abdomen, and feet (after forty-eight hours), 1.
• Itching eruption in the hollow of the knee, 1.
• Itching rash on the wrists, 1.
• Eruption of pimples on the forehead, as in brandy drinkers, with biting-itching on the chest, as from lice; red blotches and nettlerash eruption, 1.*
• A painless pimples above the middle joint of the index finger, 1.
• Fine pimply eruption on the back of the feet, which itches in the evening, 1. [750.]
• Red, pimply eruption on the face , with sticking pains when touched, 1.*
• Small pimples on the root of the nose (three pimples previously noticed, two on the left temple and one on the left cheek, have dried up), 10.*
• *Two small pimples in the forehead, somewhat hard, and with a little point, 11.
• Dry pimples on the forehead, especially in the middle, like millet-seeds, without sensation, lasting six days (after twenty-four hours), 5.
• Some red, painless pimples on the left temple and cheek, partly elevated above the skin, lasting several days, 10.
• Small red pimples on the back, which itch constantly, 1.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• A red moist place on the coccyx above the anus, painful, with biting, sore itching, while sitting and walking (after forty-eight hours), 1.
• Chicken-pox on the chest and arms, which desquamates after five days, 1.
• Eruptions, Pustular.
• Pustules on the margins of the upper lip, with burning itching, which obliges scratching, and is aggravated thereby (after twenty-four hours), .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Sleepiness, 4.
• Great inclination to lie down, in the morning; he is sleepy, anxious, and out of humor (fourth day), 1.
• Deep, uneasy sleep; he lies at night upon the unusual side and cannot arouse himself in the morning, 3.
• Sleeplessness.
• Sleeplessness, lasting till midnight, 6.
• Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about, 1. [780.]
• Sleep restless, with confused dreams, 1.
• Uneasy sleep at night, tossing about in bed; in the morning in bed violent chill, he is then quite unable to get warm, followed by an unusually long morning sleep, 3.
• He wakes frequently, and cannot fall asleep for some time, 1.
• Started and was frightened out of sleep, and afraid to go to sleep again, because she would die (first night), 12.
• She is unable to sleep, and constantly starts up; if she closes the eyes she has fantasies and visions, while almost wide awake, 1.
• Dreams.
• Vivid, voluptuous dreams, with erections, without emissions, 5.
• Lascivious dreams, 4.
• Dream full of shame, with perspiration, at night, 1.
• Uneasy dreams two nights, 10.
• Uneasy dream; he is now in one, now in another place, busy now with one, now with another subject, 4. [790.]
• Dream full of anxiety, with profuse perspiration, 1.
• Awakened by a dream which causes her to start up, 1.
• Vivid dream of great misfortunes, 5.
• The morning sleep full of dreams of murder and violence, 6.
• Attack of nightmare, with a feeling as if the throat was swollen (first night), 12.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Chilliness, as if this or that part had been dashed with cold water, 1.
• At one time much, at another less febrile chilliness, with shaking all over; lasting three days; without heat, but with thirst for cold water, with heat in the hard palate, 2.
• He is very chilly in the forenoon, 3.
• Violent chill, in the morning in bed; he is quite unable to get warm, 3.
• (Shaking chill, with trembling, towards evening, without thirst or subsequent heat), 1. [800.]
• General coldness and chilliness, 1.
• Coldness of the body, in the morning, without sensation of chilliness, 1.
• Shivering and chilliness for twenty-four hours, with gooseflesh, without external coldness, 1.
• Chilliness in the back; subsequently repeated (soon after first dose), 10.
• Chilliness in the lumbar region, 10.
• Chilliness in the region of the lumbar vertebræ, frequently repeated, 10.
• Frequent chilliness in the back, with cold hands, at 9.45 A.M.; the same symptoms were noticed yesterday at the same time, and also at 2.30 P.M., without being dependent on any external cause, 10.
• Chilliness and febrile drawings in the limbs, without subsequent heat, 1.
• Chilliness, without subsequent heat; the rest of the body was warm, only the external portions of the limbs were cold (after three hours), 4. [810.]
• Much chilliness in the back, with cold extremities; the chilliness was at first more between the shoulders, afterwards in the lumbar region, 10.
• Shaking chill over the whole back, with somewhat hot cheeks and hot forehead, without redness of the face or thirst, with cold hands (after three quarters of an hour, and two hours and three-quarters), 5.
• Feeling of coldness in the lumbar region, 10.
• Sensation of coldness confined to the lower legs, while sitting, yet they are not cold, 1.
• Heat.
• Heat all over, without thirst, 1.
• He soon becomes warm and hot while walking, and the forehead perspires, .

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), After rising, retching, etc.; stitches in chest; pressure beneath nipple; after rising, pressure in knees, etc.; pressure in forearm; early, pains in legs; pressure in ankle-bones; stiffness in feet; boring in bones of feet; in bed, tearing in metatarsal bones; pain in great toe-joint; boring in great toe; soon after rising, pains in knees, etc.; in bed, chill; coldness of body, etc.; perspiration of knees.
• ( Forenoon ), Chilliness; about 9.45 o'clock, chilliness in back, etc.
• ( Afternoon ), Pains in wall of chest; towards evening, pains in knees, etc.; tearing in left leg; tearing in tibia; towards evening, while sitting, pressive pains in ankle-bones, etc.; about 5 o'clock, pressive etc., pains; towards evening, the symptoms, 11 ; towards evening, shaking chill, etc.
• ( Evening ), Pressure in eyes; pains in zygoma, etc.; cutting colic; stitches in wall of chest; pressive drawing in knees, etc.; pressure in wrist; pain in left metacarpus; pressure in finger-joints; pressure in knee; swelling of legs, etc.; compression in leg; tearing in leg; tearing along tibia; in bed, boring in malleolus; pressure on back of foot; stitches in tibia, etc.; tearing from back into occiput, etc.; shivering, etc.; 5 o'clock, until lying down, but not in bed, the pains, 11; heat in hands, etc.
• ( Night ), On waking, pressure in knee; while lying, cramp in calves; during sleep, cutting in toes; perspiration.
• ( Cool air ), Pressure in thumb-joint.
• ( Cold damp weather ), The symptoms, 10.
• ( Eating ), Drawing, etc., in pit of stomach.
• ( Lying ), Weariness of feet; tearing in eye.
• ( Motion ), Pressure on margin of orbit; asthmatic attack in chest ; pressure on sternum; drawing in long bones; pains in joints; pressure in joints of arm; heaviness in shoulder-joint; pressure in shoulder-joints; pressure in left shoulder-joint ; pressure in elbow-joint; trembling of hands; tearing in fingers, etc.; pressure from hip-joint to ankles; pressure on hip-joint ; pressure near left patella; pressure in knee joint ; sticking, etc.; in knees joint; ; pressure in joints of left sole; pressure where toes join metatarsus; tearing pains.