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Kalmia Latifolia

Mountain Laurel. Ericaceae.

Adapted to acute neuralgia, rheumatism, gouty complaints, especially when heart is involved as a sequel of rheumatism or gout.

In heart diseases that have developed from rheumatism, or alternate with it.

Pains sticking, darting, pressing, shooting in a downward direction ( Cac. - upward, Led. ); attended or succeeded by numbness of affected part ( Acon. , Cham. , Plat. ).

Severe stitching pain in right eye and orbit (left eye, Spig. ); stiffness in muscles, pain < when turning the eyes ( Spig. ); begins at sunrise, < at noon and leaves at sunset ( Nat. m. ).

Rheumatism: pains intense, change places suddenly going from joint to joint; joint hot, red, swollen; worse from least movement.

Vertigo when stooping or looking down ( Spig. ).

Pulse slow, scarcely perceptible (35 to 40 per minute); pale face and cold extremities.

Relations. - Similar: to, Led. , Rhod. , Spig. , in rheumatic affections and gout.

It follows Spig. well in heart disease.