Generalities
Kalmia affects the NERVES, HEART, circulation. Pains are neuralgic, with tingling, numbness; trembling or paralytic weakness. Pains shift rapidly; shooting outward along the nerves; with much nausea and slow pulse. Aching, bruised stiff feeling. Dull tearing, crushing pain, moving downwards; pain alternating, with cardiac symptoms, or between upper and lower limbs. Rheumatism, syphilitic. Neuralgia, after the disappearance of herpetic eruptions. Motion brings on complaints. Albuminuria. Great weakness with neuralgia.
Worse
MOTION. Lying on left side. Bending forward. Looking down. Heat; of sun. Becoming cold. With the sun. Sunrise to sunset. Stooping. During leucorrhoea.
Better
Eating Cloudy weather. Continued motion. Recumbent posture.
Mind
Memory and mental faculties are perfect in a recumbent posture.
Head
Vertigo; with headache, blindness, pains in the limbs and weariness; worse stooping; looking down. Cracking in head_frightens him, it sends in a sound in ears like blowing of a horn. Headache worse and better with sun. Shooing from nape to vertex and face. Maddening supra-orbital pain; (right).
Eyes
Stiff drawing sensation when moving the eyes. Vision becomes black on looking downwards. Iritis. Scleritis. Eyelids stiff. Retinitis albuminuria esp. during pregnancy.
Ears
Sound like blowing of a horn.
Nose
Coryza; with increased sense of smell.
Face
Flushing with vertigo. Neuralgia worse right side; from exposure to cold; Better food. Stitches and tearing in jaw bones. Lips; stiff, dry, swollen.
Mouth
Stitches in tongue. Tingling in salivary gland. Bitter taste, with nausea better eating. Tired feeling in chewing muscles.
Stomach
Pain in pit of stomach worse bending forward better sitting erect. Feeling as if something being pressed under the epigastrium. Wine better vomiting.
Urinary
Albuminuria; with pains in lower limbs. Frequent urination of large quantity of yellow urine; better headache.
Female
Suppressed menses, with severe neuralgic pains throughout the whole body. Leucorrhoea; one week after menses; symptoms worse during leucorrhoea.
Heart
Fluttering of heart with anxiety. Pains; sharp, burning shooting, stabbing, radiating to left scapula and arm; take away the breath, with slow pulse Palpitation worse bending forward; up to throat, after going to bed, trembling all over, visible; worse lying on left side; better lying on back. Hypertrophy; valvular insufficiency. Aortic obstruction. Tobacco heart. Pulse slow, weak, tremulous.
Neck and Back
Pain from neck down arm; brachialgia. Pain down back, as if it would break. Lumbar pain of nervous origin; with heat and burning.
Extremities
Deltoid rheumatism_right. Pains affect large part of the limb. Weakness, numbness, pricking and sense of coldness in limbs. Tingling and numbness of the left arm (heart pains). Pains along ulnar nerve into little or fourth finger. Joints, red, hot, swollen.
Sleep
Sleepless; turns often; wakes very early in the morning.
Fever
Protracted and continued fevers, with tympanites.
Skin
Stiff; dry.
Related
Acon; Dig; Rhus-t; Spigelia
Complementary
Benz-ac; Spigelia
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.