Kalmia latifolia
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 155
Mountain Laurel. Ericacece.
Keynotes
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 (Coc. — upward. Led.); attended or succeeded by numbness of affected part (Acon., Cham., Plat.).
Severe stitching pain in r. eye and orbit (1. 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 or 40 per minute) ; pale face and cold extremities.
Relationship
, — Similar: to, Led., Rhod., Spig., in rheumatic affections and gout.
It follows Spig. well in heart disease.