Thorns in the foot and Ledum Palustre

Last Tuesday, as I was about to close for the day, I suddenly heard a loud wailing coming from the corner of the road where my Clinic is located.

Going out to investigate, I saw the spectacle of a girl of about ten years, being ( very reluctantly ) dragged in the direction of my clinic.

She was limping, or rather, hopping along on one foot, being supported on either side by two people who I assumed were her parents.

They hauled her in, screaming and protesting and I saw an abscess on the undersurface of her affected foot.
She had stepped barefoot, into a thorny

She wouldn't let me touch it, or even get anywhere near her foot, nor even talk to me.
All she would tell me, between sobs, was that her name was Kamala. I felt sorry for her.

I managed to give her an injection of tetanus toxoid, but that is all she would let me do.
The thorns were so tiny that it wouldn't have been possible to draw them out one by one, anyway.

So I gave her an antibiotic ( to help treat the infection ), some analgesics and a few globules of LEDUM PALUSTRE, the wonder herb which I knew would help extrude the thorns of their own.

Advising them to wash the affected foot as often as they could, I sent them home, telling them to return the next morning.
They didn't come the next morning. Nor the morning after that, either.

I had almost forgotten about this case, when all of a sudden, a few days later, a bright and chirpy girl bounced into my clinic.
She was followed by her smiling mother.

It was obvious that Ledum had done its work beautifully.
The wound had healed almost completely and there was no pain and swelling at all,
which meant there was no thorn left in it.

Now the little girl allowed me to look at her foot from close. The abscess had healed and was draining well, too.
I cleaned and dressed the foot properly this time. A couple of follow-ups later, the foot was right as rain.

Dr. Jayashree Joshi, MD

www.farawaysister.com
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