DIGITALIS PURPUREA
Foxglove
(DIGITALIS)
Comes into play in all ailments the place the coronary heart is chiefly involved, the place the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of exterior and interior parts. Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Its best indication is in failure of compensation and in particular when auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, however irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation particularly when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very gradual pulse. Other signs of natural coronary heart disease, such as excellent weak spot and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration and hypertrophy of the liver, regularly name for Digitalis. Jaundice with coronary heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Bluish look of face. Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present. Stimulates the heart’s muscles, will increase pressure of systole, will increase length. Prostration from moderate exertion. Collapse.
Mind.–Despondency; fearful; anxious about the future. Dullness of sense. Every shock strikes in epigastrium. Melancholia, stupid torpid with sluggish pulse.
Head.–Vertigo, when strolling and on rising, in cardiac and hepatic affections. Sharp, taking pictures frontal pain, extending into nose, after consuming bloodless water or consuming ice-cream. Heaviness of head, with sensation as if it would fall backward. Face bluish. Confusion, fullness and noise in head. Cracking sounds all through a nap. Blue tongue and lips.
Eyes.–Blueness of eyelids. Dark bodies, like flies, earlier than eyes. Change in acuteness of understanding of colours of green. Objects, show up inexperienced and yellow. Mydriasis; lid margins red, swollen, agglutinated in morning. Detachment of retina. Dim vision, irregular pupils, diplopia.
Stomach.–Sweet style with consistent ptyalism. Excessive nausea, no longer relieved with the aid of vomiting. Faintness, super weak spot in stomach. Burning in belly extending to oesophagus. After bloodless water or ice-cream, sharp ache in forehead, extending to nose. Faintness and vomiting from motion. Discomfort, even after a small volume of food, or from mere sight or smell. Tenderness of epigastrium. Copious salivation. Neuralgic ache in stomach, unconnected with taking food.
Abdomen.–Pain in left facet curiously in descending colon and below false ribs. Severe belly pains, pulsation in stomach aorta, and epigastric constriction. Enlarged, sore, painful liver.
Stool.–White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools. Diarrhoea at some stage in jaundice.
Urine.–Continued urging, in drops, dark, hot, burning, with sharp reducing or throbbing ache at neck of bladder, as if a straw was once being thrust returned and forth; worse at night. Suppressed. Ammoniacal, and turbid. Urethritis, phimosis, strangury. Full feeling after urination. Constriction and burning, as if urethra was once too small. Brick-dust sediment.
Female.–Labor-like pains in stomach and returned earlier than menses. Uterine haemorrhage.
Male.–Nightly emission (Digitalin), with wonderful weak point of genitals after coitus. Hydrocele; scrotum enlarged like a bladder. Gonorrhoea, balanitis (Merc), with oedema of prepuce. Dropsical swelling of genitals (Sulph). Enlarged prostate.
Respiratory.–Desire to take a deep breath. Breathing irregular, difficult; deep sighing. Cough, with raw, sore feeling in chest. Expectoration sweetish. Senile pneumonia. Great weak point in chest. Dyspnoea, steady wish to breathe deeply, lungs sense compressed. Chronic bronchitis; passive congestion of the lungs, giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium. Cannot undergo to talk. Haemoptysis with vulnerable heart.
Heart.–The least motion reasons violent palpitation, and sensation as if it would end beating, if he strikes (Opposite; Gels). Frequent stitches in heart. Irregular coronary heart particularly of mitral disease. Very gradual pulse. Intermits; weak. Cyanosis. Inequality of pulse; it varies. Sudden sensation as if coronary heart stood still. Pulse weak, and quickened with the aid of least movement. Pericarditis, copious serous exudation. Dilated heart, tired, irregular, with sluggish and feeble pulse. Hypertrophy with dilatation. Cardiac failure following fevers. Cardiac dropsy.
Extremities.–Swelling of the feet. Fingers go to sleep easily. Coldness of fingers and feet. Rheumatic ache in joints. Shining, white swelling of joints. Muscular debility. Nocturnal swelling of fingers. Sensation in legs as if a purple warm wire all at once darted thru them (Dudgeon).
Sleep.–Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height. Continuous sleepiness.
Fever.–Sudden flushes of heat, observed through extraordinary worried weakness.
Skin.–Erythema, deep red, worse on back, like measles. Blue distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue. Dropsical. Itching and jaundiced.
Modalities.–Worse, when sitting erect, after ingredients and music. Better, when belly is empty; in open air.
Relationship.–Antidotes: Camph; Serpentaria. Incompatible: China. Compare: Nerium odorum (resembles in coronary heart results Digitalis, however additionally has an motion like Strychnia on spinal cord. Spasms show up greater in higher phase of body. Palpitation; vulnerable coronary heart will be reinforced by way of it. Lock-jaw). Adonia; Crataegus (a authentic warmth tonic); Kalmia; Spigel; Liatris; Compare also; Digitoxinum (Digitalis dissolved in Chloroform; which has yellow imaginative and prescient very marked, and distressing nausea, aggravated by means of champagne and aerated waters). Nitri spir dulc will increase motion of Digit. Ichthyotoxin. Eel Serum (Experiments exhibit notable analogy between the serum and the venom of vipera. Indicated on every occasion the systole of the coronary heart is insufficient, decompensated valvular disease, irregular pulse due to fibrillation of the auricle. Assytole, feeble, frequent, irregular pulse, dyspnoea and scanty urine. Liver enlarged, dyspnoea, albuminuria. No oedema). Convallaria (heart sickness with vertigo and digestive disturbances). Quinidin-Isomeric methoxyl compound.–(Restores everyday rhythm in auricular fibrillation, frequently dietary supplements the motion of Digitalis. Two doses of three grains each, three hours apart-if no signs and symptoms of cinchonism develop, four doses 6 grs every every day (C. Harlan Wells). Paroxysmal tachycardia. Establishes ordinary coronary heart rhythm at least temporarily, much less in valvular lesions).
Dose.–The 1/3 to thirtieth attenuation will convey about response when the drug is homeopathically indicated; however for palliative functions the physiological dosage is required. For this purpose, the tincture made from the clean plant, in doses of 5 to twenty drops, when the cardiac stimulation is desired, or the infusion of 1 half of per cent. Dose, one-half to one ounce if the diuretic motion is wanted. The tincture may also be given on sugar or bread, and nothing liquid be taken for twenty minutes earlier than or after its administration. Of the powdered leaves, half of to two grains in capsules. Digitoxin 1-250 grain. No remember what structure of digitalis is given the dose must be decreased as quickly as the pulse price has been diminished to eighty beats a minute and the everyday rhythm has been in part or totally restored. Under such prerequisites a top rule is to reduce the dose in half of and nevertheless extra if there be a surprising falling off of the urinary output.
