Ledum

Characteristic symptoms

Rheumatic and arthritic pains ; rheumatic pains first attack the feet, and extend upwards y pressing, tearing pains in joints and muscles ; aggravation in the evening till bedtime, but not in bed ; pains change location quickly ; no swelling of affected parts ; left-sided affections; dropsy; herpes; boils; ascites; cough with greenish or bloody expectoration ; asthma, aggravated by exercise ; haemoptysis with spasmodic cough ; menses too soon and too copious ; haemorrhages connected with fibrous tumors / weakness and heaviness in the inferior extremities; pains, simulating sciatica; swelling of the feet unci legs; bites of poisonous insects. LEFT. Leptandra-virginica. — Weakness and faintness ; general relaxation of the system ; physical and mental depression with vertigo and drowsiness ; universal chilliness ; stupor, heat and dryness of the skin, calor mordax or coldness of the extremities; constant dull frontal headache; dizziness while walking ; feeling, as if the hair were being pulled out ; tongue coated yellow in the centre, flat pappy taste ; nausea with faintness ; severe vomiting with diarrhœa ; constant distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and upper portions of the umbilical regions ; sinking sensation in the pit of the stomach; dull, aching, burning distress in the liver; sharp, cutting pains near the gall-bladder; jaundice; dark, almost black evacuations from the boioels ; sharp cutting pains in umbilical region ; thin, brown, often fetid stool ; stools of mixed mucus, flocculent and watery, with yellow bile or blood ; mucous, bloody stool, mixed with shred-like substances ; stools of pure blood ; pains in the bowels after stool, but no tenesmus.