Kalmia – Mountain Laurel

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh leaves of the plant, Kalmia latifolia L., which occurs in North America from Canada to Ohio and Florida.

N.O. Ericaceae.

Kalmia has somewhat the same indications on the right-hand side as Spigelia has on the left: stabbing pains in the heart, extending to the right arm. Palpations pulsat- ing up the right side of the neck. Headache above the right eye. Pains radiate from the heart and eye as far as the last two fingers of the right hand. Angina pectoris. En- docarditis in rheumatism of the joints. Heart problems of a syphilitic origin. Incipi- ent aortic aneurysm.

The main indications are:

Has a specific action in iritis (rheumatic and syphilitic), also in aortic aneurysm and other aneurysms.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Kalmia latifolia, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for kalmia: rheumatic and other cardiac diseases; rheumatism; herpes zoster; neuralgia.