LEDUM PALUSTRE


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Ledum Palustre, described by Van Denburg in his book, Therapeutics of Respiratory system, cough & coryza, published in 1916….


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COUGH.

DRY COUGH –

Dry, hollow, racking, spasmodic cough, from suffocative tickling in the larynx; gets stiff all over before cough.

Loses breath before cough begins.

Spasmodic cough preceding an eruption (eczema).

Mouldy taste in mouth every time she coughs, causes much nausea, loss of appetite, and occasional vomiting.

CHRONIC COUGH –

Chronic cough : expectoration mostly after midnight, and in the morning; great deficiency of animal heat.

SPUTA –

None; or, Difficult, and only last part of night and in morning.

Bright red coming blood.

Suppurative sputa, greenish, bad tasting.

WORSE –

From motion, or walking.

RESPIRATION –

Spasmodic, double or sobbing.

Opisthotonous and arrested breathing before cough.

Constriction of chest.

Rapid and painful breathing.

M.W. Van Denburg
M. W. (Marvin W.) VAN DENBURG, A.M., M.D.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"