Kalmia Latifolia

Ka/mia is the name of a genus of heathworts, natives of North America. K.

latifolia, which has large and showy flowers, is found in the northern parts of the United States.

Its flowers "yield a honey said to be deleterious, and its leaves and shoots certainly are so to

• ▸cattle.
• ▸K.
• ▸angustifolia, probably for the same reason, has received the name of Lambkill.
• ▸The

powdered leaves of some are used as a local remedy in some skin diseases. The hard wood of K.

latifolia is used in the manufacture of various useful articles. The Canadian partridge is said to

become poisonous as human food after feeding on Kal/mia berries" (Treasury of Botany). Hering

introduced Kalmia into homeceopathic practice, himself and his friends being the first provers.

The head, including eyes and face, shows the chief intensity of its action, and scarcely less so,

the heart. A number of skin symptoms confirm the popular use of the leaves; and among them a

"stiffness" of the skin (especially of the eyelids) is the most remarkable. Neuralgias (especially of

right side); wandering rheumatic pains which tend to travel from above downwards; tumultuous

action of the heart and slow pulse—these are the cardinal features of Kalm. Though Kalm. acts

most markedly on the right side of the head, it acts very markedly on the left (heart-) side of the

chest and left arm. Von der Luhe cured with Ka/m. 200 an intercostal neuralgia of left side, so

intense that the patient could not lie down or sleep at night. The chief guiding symptom was a

• ▸concomitant numb sensation of whole left arm (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiii.
• ▸503).
• ▸With the same potency I

cured in a married woman the following symptoms: "Sick feeling and pains flying about,

especially down left side; headache at vertex; chilliness"; and in a case of hypertrophied heart in

an unmarried woman, "pain through heart region with inability to lie on left side." Lambert has

• ▸recorded (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxx.
• ▸64) the case of a gate-keeper, 54, who had smoked since he was seven

years old, and who suffered from "tobacco heart," palpitation, occurring on least exertion or

fright, and sometimes awakening him in the night; pulse intermittent; no valvular lesion; tingling

in left arm and leg and sensation as if the blood did not circulate in them. He could walk all right,

but not far. The chief thing he complained of was sharp pain in right temple like pins and

needles, of eighteen months' duration. It was induced by touch and turning head quickly. Kalm.

3x cured the temporal neuralgia and greatly alleviated all the other symptoms. Kalm. also

relieved an old ataxic patient (man) of "vertigo and pains in legs which shoot and shift their

position frequently." In connection with this spinal case the effects on animals are worth

• ▸recalling.
• ▸Meadows (C.
• ▸D.
• ▸P.
• ▸, quoting Southern J.
• ▸of H.
• ▸, Apr.
• ▸, 1890,) says cattle eat Kalm.
• ▸in the

latter part of the winter when they are in want of something green. The first symptom is intense

thirst; then follow trembling, weakness, staggering, and jerking, the abdomen being full of wind.

Then clonic spasms, every fifteen to twenty minutes, increasing to violent convulsions, which are

renewed if the animal tries to rise in the intervals between the seizures. Eyes become fixed,

pupils turned up, head drawn back, limbs rigid, abdomen bloated, bowels loose. If the animal

recovers there is prostration for a week or more, and for three or four months it is weak, nervous,

and walks as if intoxicated, tottering as if unable to control its limbs. The spinal action is

unmistakable here, and the provings give "weakness and paralytic condition of limbs"; "shuns all

exertion, can hardly go upstairs"; and many symptoms of pain in back. Neuralgias appear in

almost all regions—in eye; in uterus (dysmenorrhcea); in stomach as well as head, chest, and

limbs. Pains in the periosteum preventing sleep. The rheumatic pains proceed from above

downwards, but some of the sensations ascend: as if a ball was rising in the throat. Sensation of

weakness in abdomen extending to throat. Every heart-beat has a strumming as if it would burst,

along sternum to throat. Pain between shoulders coming up over head. Also in rheumatism, the

lower limbs are affected first, then the upper. Other peculiar sensations are: As if something

loose in head diagonally across the top. As if the body was surcharged with electricity, a

shuddering without coldness. As if something would be pressed off below pit of stomach. As if

the stool was glazed. As if one squeezed throat with thumb and finger. Pain in chest (in hands, in

feet) as from a sprain. Pressure like a marble from epigastrium to heart. Cracking in head

frightens him, ending in sound in ears like blowing a horn. As if something was being pressed

away from under sternum. The pains and conditions requiring Ka/m. frequently have nausea and

slow pulse as concomitants. Among noteworthy symptoms are: Dry throat. Dry, stiff, swollen,

• ▸cracked lips.
• ▸Tingling in salivary glands immediately after eating.
• ▸Stitches in tongue.
• ▸Vomiting

with ruminating action; without the least nausea. Pressure on rectum after stool. The sensation of

"rigidity of the skin" should make us think of it in scleroderma. There is much external

sensitiveness: Face, pit of stomach, muscles of neck sore, < by touch. Rubbing eyes = stinging in

them. The pains are < during early part of night, or soon after going to sleep. Pain in forehead

conies on in morning on waking. The headache is < again in evening, when eye-symptoms and

• ▸pains generally are <.
• ▸Ka/m.
• ▸has a "sun-headache," < and > with the sun.
• ▸(H.
• ▸G.
• ▸Grahn cured in a

girl, 18, a headache "beginning in occiput, going over forehead; comes on at sunrise, gets <

towards noon and declines as sun sets," with Kalm. 2x. A few weeks later exposure to the sun

brought on another attack, which was promptly cured with the same remedy.) A sudden chill, or

exposure to a sudden wind = the pains. Heat < and cold > pain in head. Open air < headache and

• ▸eyes.
• ▸Every summer there is roughness of cheeks.
• ▸Mental effort < headache.
• ▸Motion <.
• ▸Lying

down, mental faculties and memory perfect, least motion = vertigo. Lying on back > breathing;

on left side < palpitation. The < from motion is very marked, almost equalling that of Bry.; even

motion of eyes and eyelids is painful. The pains in the stomach are < sitting bent, though he feels

impelled to do so, > sitting or standing upright. But symptoms of vision are < in erect position.

Vertigo is < on stooping; on looking down; on rising from a seat. Palpitation is < on bending

forward; and < by mental effort. (Proell cured with Kalm. 1, 2, and 3 headache and weakened

memory preventing him from continuing his studies, in a boy of 13 who had insufficiency of the

mitral valve.) The neuralgic pains are > by food; wine > vomiting. Symptoms < during

leucorrheea. A leading concomitant of the Kalmia neuralgias is a paralytic weakness and

trembling.

When lying down mental faculties and memory perfect, but on attempting to move,

vertigo.—Anxiety and palpitation. —Cross.

Rheumatism often attacks heart, and generally goes from upper to lower

parts; pains shift suddenly.—Weariness in all muscles; shuns all exertion, can hardly go

upstairs.—Weary and giddy, with diarrhoea—Weakness the only general symptom with

neuralgia.—Trembling, thrilling, strumming, with palpitation.

Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.

Vertigo: with headache (and nausea), blindness, pains in limbs, weariness; while

stooping and looking down; with aching in face.—Every motion = vertigo.—Aching in forehead,

followed by rending in bones of r. and 1. side of face; shooting down into teeth, moving

backward down neck and outwardly on both sides; followed by pains in |. shoulder; rending in

bones of legs and feet—Pain in r. eye; giddiness; eyes weak and watery.—Pressing pain on a

small spot r. side of head.—Headache internally, with sensation when turning of something loose

in head diagonally across top.—Pain between shoulders coming up over head to temples (not

affecting eyeballs).—Neuralgia every afternoon and night; begins back of neck and runs up;

affects also face, < r. side.—A cracking in head frightens him; it ends in a sound in ears like

blowing a horn.—Drowsy feeling, followed by raging headache in temples and occiput—A

shuddering without coldness commences with cracking as if surcharged with electricity.—Severe

pressing headache < and > with sun.—Sensation of heat in head, morning.—Dulness in head,

headache; backache; preceded by nausea.—Neuralgic paroxysmal pains.—Headache < in evening

and in open air.—A shock towards occiput from back of neck, with heat—Rheumatic pain in

scalp (r.).

• ▸Vision impaired.
• ▸Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes.
• ▸Rheumatic iritis.
• ▸Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye.

Glimmering before eyes.—Almost complete blindness when in erect

position.—Blindness < in erect position; < during paroxysms of vomiting; < looking

• ▸down.
• ▸—(Retinitis albuminurica; pain in back as if it would break.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Sclero-choroiditis anterior,

• ▸with glimmering before eye, < on reading with the other.
• ▸).
• ▸—Severe pain in r.
• ▸eye extending over

forehead; begins at sunrise, increases till noon, and leaves at sunset (cured after Aco. and Bell.

failed).—Pains in eyes; < turning them; < evening and in open air.—Stiffness in muscles round

eyes and lids.—Pressure (r.); stitches; itching in eyes.

Stitches in and behind r. ear; in neck and thighs, at night—Acute inflammation of

meatus.—Sound like blowing a horn, after cracking in head.—Menicre's disease.

Coryza; with increased sense of smell; with sneezing, dulness, headache, and

hoarseness.—Tearing in root of nose and nasal bones, with nausea.

Neuralgia; worse right side. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face.

Face: red, with throbbing headache; pale——Anxious expression.—Flushing with

• ▸vertigo.
• ▸—Pressing pains, r.
• ▸side of face, esp.
• ▸between eye and nose.
• ▸—Prosopalgia (r.
• ▸); pains,

rending; agonising; stupefying or threatening delirium; with alkaline taste in mouth.—Neuralgia

involving upper teeth, but not from caries.—R.—sided neuralgia after exposure to cold, going

down r. arm; attended or succeeded by numbness in the parts; pains shooting downward,

irregular; < by worry or mental exertion, > by food.—Face itches at night—Cheeks rough in

• ▸summer.
• ▸—Lips swollen, dry, stiff—Cracked lips, with dry skin.
• ▸—Stinging in jawbones.
• ▸—Tired

feeling in masticator muscles.—Stitches and tearing in lower jaw.

Bitter taste with nausea, > after eating —Tongue: white, dry; sore |. side; hurts when

• ▸talking.
• ▸—Stitches in tongue.
• ▸—Cutting pain r.
• ▸side of tongue > by biting on it—Tingling in

salivary glands, immediately after eating, with sense of fermentation in cesophagus and copious

salivation.—Sublingual salivary gland inflamed.

Throat feels swollen, sensation as of a ball rising.—Sensation of dryness in throat

(and actual dryness with aching pains, dryness causing cough), difficult swallowing,

thirst.—Pressure in throat, stitches in eyes and nausea.

• ▸Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium.
• ▸Nausea; vomiting.
• ▸Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect.
• ▸Bilious attacks, with nausea, vertigo, and headache.
• ▸Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium.

Pains > by food.—Eructations.—Nausea, everything black before eyes, pressure in

throat, incarcerated flatus, oppressed breathing, pains in limbs.—Vomiting with ruminating

action, without the least nausea.—Wind > vomiting.—Pressure in pit of stomach, like a marble; <

sitting in stooping position (yet a feeling as if this was necessary), > sitting erect; sensation as if

something would be pressed off behind pit of stomach.—Rumbling and sense of emptiness in

stomach, as if he had had no breakfast.—Pit of stomach sore to touch.

Pains in region of liver.—Incarcerated flatus with nausea.—Sensation of

weakness in abdomen extending to throat; > by eructation.—Sudden pains in paroxysms, across

abdomen, above umbilicus, from lower border of liver downward towards 1., then ceasing in r.

side; < from motion and from lying on either side, obliged to lie on back; > sitting up.—Neuralgia

of bowels in married women.

Stool like mush, easily discharged, as if glazed, followed by pressure on

rectum.—Diarrhcea, with dulness, dizziness, weariness, nausea, and bellyache.

Frequent micturition of large quantities of yellow urine.—Profuse

micturition > headache.—Frequent micturition in small quantities; it feels hot—Albuminuria:

with pains in lower limbs; with dropsy, casts, triple phosphates, sallow complexion, skin very

dry.

Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-scarlatinal nephritis.

Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrhoea follows menses.

Menses too soon, regular but painful.—During menses, pains in

limbs, loins, back, and interior of thighs.—Suppressed menses, with severe neuralgic pains

throughout body.—Leucorrhecea yellowish; one week after menses; symptoms < during

leucorrheea.

Frequent, spontaneous, lasting erections, without desire.—Pain in r.

testicle, morning; changed to |., afternoon.

Pressure as if one squeezed throat with thumb and finger.—Noise as

• ▸from spasm of glottis when breathing.
• ▸—Hoarseness with coryza.
• ▸—Tickling in trachea.
• ▸—Frequent

cough caused by dryness or scraping in throat —Expectoration easy, smooth, grey; tasting putrid;

saltish.—Difficult and oppressed breathing; throat feels swollen, nausea.—Oppressed breathing

with palpitation, anxiety; with pain (angina pectoris).

18. Chest.Feverish heat with great pain in chest; < when breathing and from slightest

motion.—Pain in chest as from a sprain.—Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blade;

• ▸pain in |.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Stitches in lower chest.
• ▸—Stitches below breast.
• ▸—(False pleurisy of winter

season.).—Rheumatism of muscles of thorax and back; < from every motion.

• ▸Weak, slow pulse (Dig; Apoc can).
• ▸Fluttering of heart, with anxiety.
• ▸Palpitation; worse leaning forward.
• ▸Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart.
• ▸Tachycardia, with pain (Thyroid).
• ▸Tobacco heart.
• ▸Dyspnoea and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart.
• ▸Sharp pains take away the breath.
• ▸Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades.
• ▸Frequent pulse.
• ▸Heart's action tumultuous, rapid and visible.
• ▸Paroxysms of anguish around heart.

Fluttering of heart.—Palpitation; with anxiety, suppressed breathing; with faint

feeling; with dyspneea, pain in limbs, stitches in lower chest; r.—sided prosopalgia.—Palpitation

up into throat, after going to bed, trembling all over; < lying on I. side; > lying on back;

anxiety.—Severe pain in cardiac region, slow, small pulse (hypertrophy, dilatation, aortic

obstruction).—Paroxysms of anguish about heart, dyspnoea, febrile excitement; rheumatic

endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease.—Pressure like a marble from

epigastrium towards heart, with strong, quick heart-beats; every beat has a strumming as if it

would burst, along sternum to throat; third or fourth beat louder, followed by an

• ▸intermission.
• ▸—Wandering rheumatic pains in region of heart, extending down |.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Shooting

stabbing from heart through to |. scapula causing violent beating of heart—Quickened but weak

pulse.—Pulse: slow, weak; arms feel weak; scarcely perceptible, limbs cold; irregular;

remarkably slow; 40 to 48; slow, very feeble.

Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebrae extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin.

Muscles of neck sore to touch and on moving them.—Stiffness in neck,

• ▸greatest at vertebra prominens.
• ▸—Pain in sterno-mastoid muscle.
• ▸—Tearing in nape.
• ▸—Pains from

neck down arm to little and fourth finger; neck tender to touch; pain, paroxysmal, < in early part

of night, and attended by stiffness; slow pulse.—Violent pain in upper three dorsal vertebre,

extending through scapulee.—Constant pain in spine, sometimes < in lumbar region, with great

heat and burning.—Sticking in lumbar region < on motion; comes and goes.—Pain in back during

menses.—Lameness in lumbar region.—Sensation as if spinal column would break with an

anterior convexity.—Feeling of paralysis in sacrum.—Aching across joints.

• ▸Pain in shoulders.
• ▸—Deltoid rheumatism, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸—Stitches in lower part of 1.

• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Paroxysmal pains in r.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Cracking in elbow-joint.
• ▸—Stitching in

hands; hands feel as if they had been sprained.—Pain in 1. wrist, causing hand to feel

paralysed.—Erysipelatous eruption on hands extending further.—Weakness in arms, pulse slow.

Tearing pains from hip (r.) down leg to feet.—Stitches: externally on knee; in

• ▸feet, soles, toes, big toe.
• ▸—Sensation of weakness in calves.
• ▸—Feet feel sprained.
• ▸—Unable to walk;

ankles swollen; pains, though mostly confined to ankles, shift about from joint to joint.

• ▸Deltoid rheumatism especially right.
• ▸Pains from hips to knees and feet.
• ▸Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly.
• ▸Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs.
• ▸Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger.
• ▸Joints red, hot, swollen.
• ▸Tingling and numbness of left arm.

Sensation of rigidity of skin.—Pricking sensation in skin, with moderate sweat.—Dry

skin.—Erysipelatous inflamed eruption on hand (like that of Rhus), with oppressed

breathing.—Eruption like itch —Red inflamed places here and there, exceedingly painful, as if

boils would form.

Sleepless, wakes very early in morning.

Restless sleep, turns often.—Periosteal pains prevent sleep.—While sleeping stands up

and walks about; talks in sleep —Dreams: racking his brains; fantastic; of murder.

Chilliness with coldness; shaking chill in cold air; chills run over back.—Febrile

excitement.—General heat; with burning and pain in back and loins.—Cold sweat.

Kamala.

• ▸Croton coccineus.
• ▸Rottlera tinctoria.
• ▸(India, South Arabia, Tropical Australia.
• ▸) N.
• ▸O.

Euphorbiaceé. [A red mealy inflammable powder, obtained from the trilobed capsules of

• ▸the plant.
• ▸] Tincture.
• ▸Solution in Ether.
• ▸Trituration.

Skin, affections of. Tapeworm.

Characteristics—Kamala is best known in medicine as a remedy for tapeworm. It is given in

• ▸doses of half to two drachms.
• ▸Hanbury (Pharm.
• ▸Jour.
• ▸, February, 1858, quoted in Treas.
• ▸of Bot.
• ▸)

says: "Among the Arabs of Aden it is given internally in leprosy, and used in solution to remove

freckles and pustules; while in this country it has been used successfully in treating the eruption

known as "wildfire" (Strophulus volaticus) in children, by rubbing the powder over the affected

part with moist lint. It appears, however, to be most valued as an anthelmintic, and has been

extensively used with much success in India in cases of tapeworm, three drachms being

sufficient for a robust person, and half that quantity for one of feeble habit." Kamala shows by its

clinical uses its relationship with Croton and the other Euphorbians.

• ▸Antidoted by: Aco.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸Antidote to: Tab.
• ▸Follows well: Nux, Thyroidin, Spigel.

Compare: Tab. (slow pulse and heart; nausea; blindness); Puls. (wandering rheumatism; but

• ▸Puls.
• ▸has > by motion); Led.
• ▸(botan.
• ▸; rheumatism affects first lower then upper parts; but Led.

• ▸pains shoot up, Kalm.
• ▸pains shoot down); Rhod.
• ▸(botan.
• ▸; rheumatism); Abrot.
• ▸(metastasis of

rheumatic pains to heart); Arbut. (rheumatism < by movement; urinary symptoms); Asc. g.

• ▸(paralytic symptoms); Aésc.
• ▸h.
• ▸(rectal symptoms); Urt.
• ▸ur.
• ▸(gout); Rhus (rheumatism; numbness

• ▸of 1.
• ▸arm; but Rhus is > by movement); Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸(headache; eyes); Ced.
• ▸(supraorbital neuralgia;

• ▸Ced.
• ▸, 1.
• ▸; Kalm.
• ▸, r.
• ▸); Aco.
• ▸(heart; numbness of |.
• ▸arm and fingers); Ars.
• ▸(neuralgia, burning pains);

Dig. (chest rheumatism, pains so sharp, take away breath, shoot down into stomach, slow pulse;

Kalm. more suited to gout or rheumatism shifting from joints to heart); Gels. (ptosis—Kalm.

muscles and lids are stiff; Gels., heavy); Bell. (throbbing head, erysipelas, symptoms travel

• ▸down); Benz.
• ▸ac.
• ▸(gout); Calc.
• ▸(cardiac hypertrophy); Diosc.
• ▸(gastralgia); K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸(catarrhs,

• ▸shifting rheumatism); Lith.
• ▸c.
• ▸(heart); Lyc.
• ▸(rheumatic gout; urinary symptoms); Spigel.

(rheumatism, neuralgia, eyes, heart, tobacco antidote; < and > with sun; but Spigel. more left

side, and often affects whole head, pains stitching, run back, < by least jar or noise); Cact. (heart,

• ▸pains shooting down); Alo.
• ▸(cracking in head); Sang.
• ▸(headache < and > with sun).
• ▸Led.
• ▸, Rhod.
• ▸,

and Uva ursi are close allies.

Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin).

Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat.

Complementary: Benz acid.

Tincture, to sixth potency.

There are kidney affections. All the organs are related to each

oihcr but especially the heart and kidneys. When the kidneys are

not working well, the heart is very often troublesome. All through

ilic varying forms of Brights disease the heart is troublesome. Dnti-

Gulties of breathing, difficult heart action, with albuminuria. It will

relieve the breatliing. Again, associated with kidney affections, we

have many eye complaints, difficulties of vision, and these also especially call for this remedy. It is often indicated in Bright's disease,

with disturbance of vision, occurring during pregnancy. For the

pains in the eyes, the stitching, tearing pains that occur during kidney

disturbance in pregnancy, or during albuminuria, Kalmia ‘becomes a

remedy. This remedy is useful in neuralgia ; neuralgia, of the eye,

neuralgia of the face, violent, tearing pains in the face. Sometimes

it takes the form of a nightly < and sometimes it takes the form of

daily <. The aggravation in the daytime comes and goes with the

sun. The < at night time comes with the lying down. “Anxious

expression of countenance" associated with rheumatism of the heart.

“Flushing of the face, with vertigo."

After the disappearance of a herpetic eruption, violent neuralgic

pains, shooting, tearing pains in those nerves that supply the part

where the eruption was. When shingles, ring-worm, cold sore, or

isolated vesicular eruptions disappear, suddenly from some violent

cause or inappropriate treatment, or from catching cold, violent neuralgias come in their place and continue until the eruption comes out

again. This remedy becomes suitable if the symptoms agree ; that is,

if the whole patient is in agreement with the state of the remedy. The

pains are stitching and tearing, very severe, sometimes cutting and

shooting when this remedy is most useful. The pain will seem to

take hold of a nerve and will hold on to it for many minutes, coming

with violence, coming suddenly and letting loose suddenly. Pains

come in the extremities in the same way, taking hold as if the nerve

were being pinched by nippers, or as if it were being torn to pieces.

‘There, now it is gone 1” says the patient. Pretty soon, again, you

will see his face in a state of horrible distress. The pain is there

again and he cannot move a muscle, and “there, it is gone 1” he says,

and it remains away for some minutes and sometimes for hours.

The heart has many symptoms which should be studied. “Fluttering of the heart, palpitation of the heart.'* “Palpitation up into the

throat, after going to bed, trembling all over." Very stow^ pulse, I

remember a patient, an old syphilitic, who was told if he ever made

a violent move he would die, the valves of his heart were so badly

affected. He had all the murmurs that it seemed possible from the

heart valves. He had travelled all over and had taken large doses of

Mercury, and his syphilitic condition had to a great extent been suppressed, until finally the whole trouble had located in the heart.

Kalmia removed all the dyspnoea and palpitation in a few months, and

it was nearly two years before there was a 'marked return of the

symptoms and a repetition put him in a state of health, so that he

needed no more medicine. This shows what a deep-acting remedy

Kalmia is, how long it may act, what wonderful changes it may effect.

A remedy must be capable of going deep into the life to do such things.

“Wandering rheumatic pains in the region of the heart." “When/

articular rheumatism has been treated externally and cardiac symptoms ensue." Rheumatism that goes from the lower to the upper

limbs. Not uncommonly you will m^t such things. These “rubbers"

that go around the streets with a Strong liniment and considerable

magnetism frequently do cause a rheumatism to leave the knee joint,

and, when it does that, the heart is likely to be the organ that suffers.

Then Kalmia, Aurum, Bryonia, Rhus tox,, Ledum, Calc, and Abrotanum, and sometimes Cactus, are remedies that prove suitable for

such cardiac affections. Rlieumatic affections that are driven away

in this manner are changed without being cured. The people cannot

realize the danger of merely removing symptoms. Every removal

that is not in accordance with cure affects the centres of man, that is

the heart and brain. Rubbing is a dangerous thing. When you are

importuned with the question, “Doctor, will it hurt me to have this

rubbed?" you reply, “If rubbing does not affect any change in the

symptoms, it will do no harm." In proportion as it ‘mitigates the

symptoms or relieves, just in that proportion it does the patient harm,

for the whole vital economy is weakened. There are instances where

rubbing is of benefit, but not in rheumatism. In paralyzed muscles

it is a beneficial exercise, for then rubbing can take the place of exercise of the patient himself, of the muscles. But rubbing is not admissible if it is used to reduce pain. The more agreeable it is, the worse

it is for the patient. In a Phosphorus patient you would be aston-

Rheumatic pains, mostly in upper arms and lower part of legs, < when going to

sleep.—Joints hot, red, swollen.—Pains shift suddenly.