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General EN

Digitalinum.

An active principle (glucoside) of Digitalis purpurea. C5 H8 02. (Schimiedeburg); C27 H45 O15 (Kosmann). Trituration.

Clinical EN

Asthma. Diarrhoea. Emissions. Exophthalmus. Heart, affections of. Palpitation. Spermatorrhoea. Vertigo. Vision, hallucinations of.

Characteristics EN

Digilalinum is a poison of very great activity. It produces a profound effect on muscular tissue, both voluntary and involuntary, more especially on the heart. It causes profound prostration, even to inability to move a muscle. Paralytic weakness; numbness; tremulousness of the limbs.

Cold, clammy surface. Gooseflesh. The heart is slowed, or else its action is made rapid and feeble or "sensation as if the heart stood still." Digitalis has: Sensation as if the heart would stand still if he moved. According to Hale Dgn. is specially indicated in cases of "overburdened heart where it is constantly labouring." Irregular and intermittent action.

A sinking, faint sensation is felt at the epigastrium, nausea and vomiting of yolk-of-egg matter, shivering, diarrhoea, the stools not being noted characteristically white as are those of the plant. Sensitiveness of eyes to light and nose to odours. Disorders of vision and hearing are very numerous. One prover noted "frontal headache, dazzlings, loss of appetite, sinking at epigastrium, intestinal flatulence, borborygmi, eructation, slight abdominal pains; urine abundant; great fatigue; painful heat in evening but no thirst." For a whole day pressure in supra-orbital region towards frontal sinus, and when walking a feeling as if the ground gave way under his feet.

Sexual weakness is shown in: Deep sleep in which an emission occurs without waking him;" and "Sexual power diminished or quite abolished temporarily." Dgn. has cured the following case: Mrs.— had for over a year swelling of right hand and fingers, which she thought to be rheumatic. Digitalis has the symptom, "swelling of right hand and fingers," and this would have been given but only Digitalin was at hand. This was given in 4x. After the second dose the swelling began to subside, and in two or three days was completely gone.

(H. W., xxvi. 552). The heart pains are < lying on left side. Many symptoms appear on waking in the morning; chilliness and fever in afternoon and evening.

Confusion of the head is > walking in open air. Symptoms are > after dinner. Drinking = nausea, and vomiting. Pains in trunk < during rest.

Relations EN

Compare: Digitalis, Conium, Gratiol., Tabac., Gelsem., Secale. See under DIGITALIS.

Mind EN

Agitation

Hallucinations

Irritability

Sometimes dejection, sometimes hilariousness

Inability to fix attention; or to take in what is read.

Head EN

Vertigo, with unsteady vision; inability to fix distant objects

Objects seem to turn horizontally from l. to r.;

> closing eyes

Head thrown back

Lancinating pain in head; hot and confused towards evening

Forehead heavy, hot

Headache in morning, worse in afternoon, and increasing in evening to a violent migraine

A peculiar sensation of drawing, of raising up in occiput and vertex; afterwards a pressure in occiput.

Eyes EN

Sensation as if the eyes were becoming larger and were starting from their orbits; exophthalmus

Hallucinations of vision

Muscae volitantes, in evening upper part of visual field seemed shaded by a cloud

Flickering and dazzling

A large bright spot advancing, sometimes resembling a ring showing prismatic colours;

< after exertion

Circles floating before eyes

All objects in a room seem to run together

Yellow vision

Halo round candle flame.

Nose EN

Frequent sneezing and coryza; with pressing, throbbing pains in arms; nasal mucus streaked with blood in morning; smell lost.

Face EN

Face hot, red, and feverish; or else very pale.—Constant jerking of upper lip of l. side.

Teeth EN

Burrowing, sticking, pulsating pains in teeth; l. upper eye tooth; r. back lower teeth; l. and r. upper incisors.

Mouth EN

Tongue large and smooth with a saburral coating

Saliva rather thick, flows slowly from the mouth

Bitter taste.

Stomach EN

Violent sensation of hunger on waking

Very great thirst, esp. for beer

Drinking renews nausea and vomiting

Nausea

Violent vomiting; yellow like egg; white sourish mucus; with great sensitiveness of eyes to bright light and the nose to odours

Faint, sinking sensation

Feeling of fulness and nausea as if contents of stomach rose up in throat

Pinching or contracting pain

Stitches immediately after dinner.

Abdomen EN

Abdomen retracted without colic

Emission of much offensive flatus, in morning, immediately after rising, followed by copious pasty stools with violent griping

Stitching lightning-like pains

Violent labour-like pains from small of back into abdomen as if menses would appear.

Stool And Anus EN

Urgent desire for stool

Stools: diarrhoeic; loose; or soft without being diarrhoeic

Constipation; stool like rabbit's.

Urinary Organs EN

Urine increased; very abundant

Decidedly diminished

Falling off in urea and chlorides, increase in phosphoric and sulphuric acids.

Male Sexual Organs EN

Activity greatly depressed and even abolished.—During deep sleep an emission which does not awaken him.

Female Sexual Organs EN

Menstruation two days too early without usual premonitory pains.—Menstruation more profuse.

Respiratory Organs EN

Symptoms of cold, hoarse so could hardly speak, with violent sticking pains in larynx

Voice extinct

Short hacking cough; whitish-yellow sputa

Breath short; while walking; on waking.

Chest EN

Rush of blood to chest

Rheumatic pains; constriction; stitches

Pains in the r. or l. side

Rheumatic pains l. chest just below axilla only on motion

Boring l. chest from scapula forward to precordial region < deep breathing

Sticking in l. side between nipple and axilla, evening in bed, while lying on l. side

Throbbing-sticking, pulsating pains.

Heart EN

Sensation as though heart stood still for a moment while playing the piano

Peculiar sensation in heart with anxiety, and trembling with standing still, in the evening while sitting

Stitches corresponding to heart pulsations

Palpitation with dull sticking in heart while walking

Violent palpitation in bed lying on l. side

Action tumultuous, irregular

Pulse: slow; irregular; intermittent; jerking; hurried

Pulse not corresponding to heart's impulse, small, thready, nearly imperceptible, while heart is strong and hammering.

Neck And Back EN

Neck stiff in morning (l.)

Violent pain in neck

Violent pain between scapulae like cramp with oppression of breathing

Painful sensation as though scapulae would be drawn together.

Limbs EN

Limbs tremulous; weak; unsteady; heavy as if paralysed; pains < during rest.—Pains are sticking, pressive, pulsating.

Upper Limbs EN

Pressure in shoulders

Drawing pain in biceps muscle

Pressure; throbbing, tearing in elbows (r. at 4 p.m.)

Pressing asunder in the fingers.—(Swelling of r. hand and fingers.)

Lower Limbs EN

Cramp in thigh and calves

Pains in knees; above r. knee

Sprained pain in r. ankle

On walking sensation as if the ground sank away under the foot

Numb sensation of l. foot obliging him to move it frequently

Pressing asunder of toes of r. foot.

Fever EN

Chilliness and shivering

Feet and hands cold, palms moist

Shivering over back, esp. sacral region

Heat in nape rising up into head and extending over whole body

Profuse sweat at night

Cold sweat; after a cup of coffee

Bathed in cold sweat.