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Digitalis purpurea

Foxglove

12 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and fluid swelling (oedema) of external and internal parts.
  • Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium.
  • Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in.
  • Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up.
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  • Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever.
  • Heart block, very slow pulse.
  • Faint, as if dying.
  • Bluish appearance of face.
  • Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present.
  • Stimulates the heart's muscles, increases force of systole, increases length.
  • Extreme weakness from slight exertion.
  • Collapse.

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Mind & mood

  • Despondency; fearful; anxious about the future.
  • Dullness of sense.
  • Every shock strikes in epigastrium.
  • Deep sadness, dull lethargic with slow pulse.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

When sitting erectAfter meals and music

Better

When stomach is emptyIn open air

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness, when walking and on rising, in cardiac and hepatic affections. Sharp, shooting frontal pain, extending into nose, after drinking cold water or eating ice-cream. Heaviness of head, with sensation as if it would fall backward. Face bluish. Confusion, fullness and noise in head. Cracking sounds during a nap. Blue tongue and lips.

Eyes

Blueness of eyelids. Dark bodies, like flies, before eyes. Change in acuteness of perception of shades of green. Objects, appear green and yellow. Mydriasis; lid margins red, swollen, agglutinated in morning. Detachment of retina. Dim vision, irregular pupils, diplopia.

Stomach

Sweet taste with constant excess saliva. Excessive nausea, not relieved by vomiting. Faintness, great weakness in stomach. Burning in stomach extending to oesophagus. After cold water or ice-cream, sharp pain in forehead, extending to nose. Faintness and vomiting from motion. Discomfort, even after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell. Tenderness of epigastrium. Copious excess saliva. Neuralgic pain in stomach, unconnected with taking food.

Abdomen

Pain in left side apparently in descending colon and under false ribs. Severe abdominal pains, pulsation in abdominal aorta, and epigastric constriction. Enlarged, sore, painful liver.

Stool

White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools. Diarrhoea during jaundice.

Urine

Continued urging, in drops, dark, hot, burning, with sharp cutting or throbbing pain at neck of bladder, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth; worse at night. Suppressed. Ammoniacal, and turbid. Urethritis, phimosis, painful, drop-by-drop urination. Full feeling after urination. Constriction and burning, as if urethra was too small. Brick-dust sediment.

Female

Labor-like pains in abdomen and back before menses. Uterine haemorrhage.

Male

Nightly emission, with great weakness of genitals after coitus. Dropsical swelling of genitals. Enlarged prostate.

Respiratory

Desire to take a deep breath. Breathing irregular, difficult; deep sighing. Cough, with raw, sore feeling in chest. Phlegm coughed up sweetish. Senile pneumonia. Great weakness in chest. Dyspnoea, constant desire to breathe deeply, lungs feel compressed. Chronic bronchitis; passive congestion of the lungs, giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium. Cannot bear to talk. Coughing up blood with weak heart.

Heart

The least movement causes violent palpitation, and sensation as if it would cease beating, if he moves. Frequent stitches in heart. Irregular heart especially of mitral disease. Very slow pulse. Intermits; weak. Cyanosis. Inequality of pulse; it varies. Sudden sensation as if heart stood still. Pulse weak, and quickened by least movement. Pericarditis, copious serous exudation. Dilated heart, tired, irregular, with slow and feeble pulse. Hypertrophy with dilatation. Cardiac failure following fevers. Cardiac fluid swelling (oedema).

Extremities

Swelling of the feet. Fingers go to sleep easily. Coldness of hands and feet. Rheumatic pain in joints. Shining, white swelling of joints. Muscular debility. Nocturnal swelling of fingers. Sensation in legs as if a red hot wire suddenly darted through them (Dudgeon).

Sleep

Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height. Continuous sleepiness.

Fever

Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness.

Skin

Erythema, deep red, worse on back, like measles. Blue distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue. Dropsical. Itching and jaundiced.

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