DR KESSLER’S HOMEOPATHY BOOK

LEDUM PALUSTRE
Wild Rosemary
Ledum is a cold remedy. The patient is cold and yet cold gives relief. It causes edema in feet
and calves.
Bites and stab wounds. Insect bites, bee and wasp stings. Rat bites (Hyp); needle pricks,
which lead to abscess. Tetanus (Hyp); rheumatism , gout, small joints. In comparison with
Arnica , Ledum is affecting dry and robust tissues which lack cellular matrix.
Rheumatism if cold alleviates pain. (opposite Rhod) Pain propagate upwards, with Kalmia
downwards. Coxa, knee and finger joints. Paronychia of fingers.
Whole body eczema with prickling itch, protruding into the mouth and supposedly into the
air passages causing spasmodic cough. Eczema frequently on one shank only. Vesicular
eruptions.
Tremor of hands during motion and when trying to access something. Tremor of knees and
hands when sitting or walking. Feet are held fast on the ground as if by magnets when trying
to move.
Whooping cough and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (Nat mur)
Tuberculosis, Erythema nodosum. Pain in windpipe during infection.
The same phenomena is seen with Rhus-t. and Crot-t.
Arnica.-group: Crot-t., ferr-mag., rhus-t. and spig