Common Name	:	Marsh Tea/ Wild Rosemary
Synonym	:	Ledum palustre
Natural order	:	Ericaceae
Habitat	:	An evergreen shrub growing in moist, swampy grounds
Found	:	In Europe, France, Asia, and British America
Preparation	:	Tincture from the fresh herb
General Analysis	:	Acts upon the serous, fibrous and mucus tissues, upon the periosteum, and upon the skin, producing inflammatory symptoms of an arthritic or rheumatic character, increasing and thickening secretions and causing a deposit of solid, earthy masses in the tissues
Sphere of action	:	Its seat of action is mainly on skin producing an eruption like poison oak, serous and mucous membrane, fibrous tissues, circulatory system and joints. Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis
Pathogenesis	:	The action of Ledum on skin retards capillary circulation, especially on the external surface of the body and the extremities, resulting in coldness of the surface and due to its affection on the fibrous tissues and the joints, joints are enlarged and become the seat of nodosities and the “gout-stones”
Constitutions
Hot & cold relation	:	Ledum patient is very chilly
Miasm	:	Psora and syphilis
Diathesis	:	Rheumatic diathesis
Therapeutic Use	:	A valuable remedy in rheumatic and arthritic affections. The smaller joints are most affected. It is also useful in sciatica, sprains of the ankles and feet and used locally for punctured or penetrating wounds, produced by shape pointed instruments. A remedy for the stings of insects, especially mosquitoes. Urticaria and other chronic eruptions with violent itching, worse from warmth of bed

     It is used in respiratory complaints particularly in tuberculosis which alternates with rheumatism. Ecchymoses of the conjunctiva. Intra-occular haemorrhage, asthenopia, rheumatic otitis, also calls this remedy . Ailments from abuse of alcoholic drinks.