LEDUM


LEDUM homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine LEDUM…


Symptoms

      1. Rheumatic, gouty diathesis; old people; constitutions suffering from abuse of alcohol.

2. Discontent and peevishness.

3. Alternating complaints, e.g. haemoptysis and rheumatism; also symptoms appearing diagonally esp. upper left and lower right (Ant. T., Agaricus, Stramonium; upper right lower left-Bromium, Medorr., Phosphorus, etc.).

4. Contusions esp. about the eye; patient bruises easily; long- remaining discoloration after injuries. Punctured wounds included insects bites esp. of mosquitoes (locally and internally)

5. Rheumatic and arthritic complaints; beginning lower limbs and ascending; first feet then hands; small joints mostly affected; painful nodosities; rarely useful if heat and swelling; pains (<) motion, night, warmth of bed; sometimes (>) only when holding feet in ice-water.

6. Skin eruptions; papular, eczematous; in habitual drunkards; esp. face and forehead; chronic eruptions with violent itching esp. feet and ankles (<) scratching warmth of bed.

7. Emphysemas and bronchitis of the aged (<) hot rooms spasmodic coughs.

8. Haemorrhages esp. of bright-red blood; intraocular haemorrhage.

9. Pains sticking, tearing or throbbing; rapidly change locality.

10. Patients lacks vital heats; always cold yet pains (<) heat esp. of bed, (>) cool applications.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.