The remedies of the Ericaceae have four caracteristic fields of action.
First they all have rheumatic symptoms and gout. Targetorgans are joints, tendons, muscles and periosteum. Also pains in vhest worse respiration.
The second topic in this family is the urogenital tract with emphasis on the urinary organs: bladder, kidney, urethers and urethra (inflammations, sand or calculi, with all kinds of pains and colics).
The third field of action of these remedies is the mind. There often is a kind of weakness even leading to feelings of paralysis of the brain. There are not many mental symptoms; these people often are very basic. They are used to work hard and earn little. As the heather they seem to adapted to survive on poor sandy or sour soils. They do not leave this environment for more fertile territories nor for the city. Mental work is difficult or leads to aggravations of the symptoms.
Four: neuralgias (eyes: Gaul, Rhod, Chim; stomach: Gaul. ao.) and sciatica (Arbu, Chim, Gaul, Kalm, Led) is also encountered in many of them. Ledum extending upward (from the foot), kalmia downward.
The complaints often are chronic; tumors and cancers occur frequently in the remedy pictures.
Pains do extend from many organs into the body or limbs; in all directions; crosswise; Ledum extending upward (from the foot), Kalmia downward.
Also metastasis and shifting symptoms occur in some of the remedies.
Suppressions of eruptions or emotions lead to aggravations; this fits the picture of soft, mild people who are suppressed easily.
There is a strong but reaction to weather (amelioration or aggravation for wet, cloudy weather and thunderstorm), temperature (amelioration or aggravation form cold, heat or uncovering) and to motion or rest. (In general most of the remedies are worse from wet weather, cold in general and worse from motion. But there are important differences).