{"id":2997,"date":"2026-04-12T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:30:51","slug":"kalmia-latifolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/kalmia-latifolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalmia Latifolia: Homeopathic Medicine for Rheumatic Heart Disease & Neuralgic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mountain Laurel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart’s action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia<\/em>. Protracted and continuous fevers<\/em>, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. Albuminuria<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head.–<\/strong>Vertigo<\/em>; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyes.–<\/strong>Vision impaired. Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes<\/em>. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Face.–<\/strong>Neuralgia; worse right side<\/em>. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stomach.–<\/strong>Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium. Nausea<\/em>; vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect<\/em>. Bilious attacks, with nausea, vertigo, and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urinary.–<\/strong>Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-scarlatinal nephritis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heart.–<\/strong>Weak, slow<\/em> pulse (Dig; Apoc can<\/em>). Fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward<\/em>. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain (Thyroid<\/em>). Tobacco heart. Dyspn\u015ba and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath<\/em>. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart’s action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Female.–<\/strong>Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrh\u015ba follows menses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back.–<\/strong>Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebr\u0107 extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extremities.–<\/strong>Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb<\/em>, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve<\/em>, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep.–<\/strong>Sleepless, wakes very early in morning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modalities.–<\/strong>Worse<\/em>, leaning forward (opposite, Kali carb<\/em>); looking down; motion, open air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relationship.–<\/strong>Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris pinuta<\/em> (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Complementary: Benz acid<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dose.–<\/strong>Tincture, to sixth potency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mountain Laurel HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICAby William BOERICKE, M.D. A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart’s action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[112,113,101,115,116,118,114,109,98,110,111],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeopathic-materia-medica-study-material","tag-bradycardia","tag-cardiac-rheumatism","tag-heart-pain","tag-heart-weakness","tag-left-sided-complaints","tag-motion-aggravation","tag-neuralgic-pains","tag-pain-radiating-left-arm","tag-palpitation","tag-rheumatic-heart","tag-slow-pulse","pmpro-has-access"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}