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Digitalis Purpurea

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Όλα τα βιβλία για Digitalis Purpurea → Αντιδοτείται απόApis MellificaCalcarea CarbonicaCamphoraCinchona OfficinalisEtherumMyrica CeriferaNitricum AcidumNux VomicaOpium
General EN

Digitalis.

Digitalis purpurea. Fox-glove. N. O. Scrophulariaceae. Tincture from the leaves of the second year of the plant.

Clinical EN

Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Bright's disease. Cyanosis. Delirium tremens. Dropsy.

Fever EN

Gonorrhoea.

Headache.

Heart, affections of.

Hydrocele.

Hydrocephalus.

Impotence.

Jaundice.

Lungs, congestion of.

Memory lost.

Meningitis.

Noises in head.

Paraphimosis.

Prostate, enlarged.

Ptyalism.

Spermatorrhoea.

Toothache.

Urinary disorders.

Vision, disorders of.

Characteristics EN

There are three main symptoms in the Digitalis pathogenesis which should be borne in mind: (1) Slow, weak, irregular and intermittent pulse. (2) Enlarged, sore, painful liver. (3) White, pasty stools. Along with these is prostration from slight exertion.

The mental condition is: anxious; low-spirited; tearful, wants to be alone; tries to escape if others force themselves on her. Anxiety as if conscience-troubled. "Anxious and concentrated sadness, with sleeplessness at night, owing to pains at the heart: for instance, from unhappy love, especially in women of brown complexions, firm and obstinate dispositions. In such cases far preferable to Ignatia" (Teste).

Teste classes Digit. with Bryonia and Ignatia. The stomach symptoms (from portal engorgement) are nausea and vomiting; the mere sight or smell of food excites violent nausea, with clean tongue, thirst for water, absence of fever; the complaints may come either from excessive venery or from high living. In old men there are: enlarged prostate; impotence; lascivious thoughts. Malcolm Macfarlan (H.

P., xiii. 490) reports Digit. having produced severe urethritis, phimosis, and strangury. He has cured with it many cases of gonorrhoea. Ballard cured a man of headache and dizziness originating probably in gonorrhoea suppressed several years before. He complained of feeling bad about the head after drinking, and this keynote symptom was elicited: "after drinking cold water the pain would seat itself in the forehead and extend down the nose." Delirium tremens in high livers, stomach and liver diseases with the mental state of the drug.

Nausea < from smell of food; not > by vomiting. The food eaten comes up by mouthfuls, cannot expectorate without vomiting. Every shock, like bad news strikes her in the epigastrium. Deathly sinking in the epigastrium.

The use of Digitalis as a remedy for pneumonia in the old school is well known. It has proved a very dangerous remedy, but it has been used by homoeopaths with very good effect in senile pneumonia (E. V. Ross., H.

P., xvii. 177). Ross regards the indications as being: "Dry cough with mucous râles and no expectoration or only 'prune-juice' expectoration; cyanosis, cold extremities; feeble, intermittent pulse deathly nausea or gone sensation at epigastrium." Restlessness with great nervous weakness. Lassitude, mental and bodily. Faintness.

Convulsions, with retraction of head, syncope, and collapse. Among the peculiar sensations of Digit. are: Sensation as if the heart would stand still if he moved, must hold the breath and keep still (Gels. has "must keep moving or the heart would stop.") As if the brain were loose; as if something fell forward in the head on stooping; as if the brain were made of fine glass and shattered at a blow; as if something were running out of urethra; as of a weight attached to stomach; as if the internal parts were grown together.

As if the lungs were constricted and tied up in bundles. As if heart stood still; as if heart had torn itself loose and were swaying to and fro by a thin thread; as if the stomach would sink into abdomen. Terrible pain at root of nose after vomiting.

Discharged blood coagulates slowly or not at all. Distended veins in eyes, ears, lips, and tongue. Blue skin. Digitalis is suited to the climacteric period: sudden flushes of heat followed by great debility; least motion = palpitation.

Nervous lymphatic constitutions. Children with very white complexions, light hair, scrofulous. Most symptoms are < at night or on waking in the morning. Symptoms are > when stomach is empty;

< after meals; from cold diet; after drinking (anything); < from spirituous liquors. Motion < most symptoms and may = fatal collapse. < From being raised up in bed.

< From touch or pressure. Great sensitiveness to cold air; cold weather; changes of weather; cold food; cold drinks; all of which <. Getting heated < cough. In a room, lachrymation is <.

With fear of suffocation there is desire for open air, and the symptoms of catarrh are > in open air. < From music; sadness from music.

Relations EN

Antidoted by: Vegetable acids, Vinegar, infusion of galls, Ether, Camphor, Serpentaria. It antidotes: Wine, Myrica cerif. (Jaundice). Compatible: Bell., Bry., Cham., Chi., Lyc., Nux, Op., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sul., Verat.

Incompatible: Chin. (increases the anxiety); Spirit. nitros. dulcis. Compare: Acon.

(anxiety), Ant. t. (deathly nausea), Apocy., Arsen., Bell., Bry., Camph., Chi., Con., Zn., Kalm., Lach. (sleep), Lobel., Lycopus, Crataegus (weak heart), Nat. m., (frequent and intermittent pulse), Phos. (genital symptoms), Spi., Sul., Tabac.

(deathly nausea), Verat. In gonorrhoea, Sul. (prepuce indurated; Dig., puffed, infiltrated with serum); paraphimosis, Coloc.

Palpitation with diarrhoea, Ant. t. Act on base of brain, Lob., Tab. One hand cold, the other hot, Chi., Pul., Ip., Mosch. Fainting before stool, Sul.

(after stool, Nux, Crot. t.). Food eaten comes up by mouthfuls, Fer., Pho. Every shock strikes in pit of stomach, Pho., Mez., Kali c., Calc. Cracking in head, Alo.

Headache extending into nose, Diosc.

Causation EN

High living. Sexual abuse, or sexual excess. Alcohol.

Mind EN

Extreme anguish, esp. in the evening, with disposition to weep and great fear of the future

Gloomy and peevish

Indisposed to speak; inclination to lassitude

Remorse

Tearful moroseness; with sensation of internal uneasiness

Indifference

Great love of labour

Weakness of memory

Nocturnal delirium and agitation

Sadness from music.

Head EN

Dizziness

Vertigo with trembling

Dulness of the head, with limited power of thinking

Jerking pressure in the head, esp. during intellectual labour

Pressure in the forehead, from mental exertion

Tension in the forehead on turning the eyes

Tearing in temples and sides of the head

Shootings in the temples and in the forehead, sometimes extending to the point of the nose, esp. after drinking anything cold

Stitches in the temples (evening and night)

Itching in the brain, on one side of the head only

Sensation on stooping, as if the brain were falling forwards

Undulations in the brain, as if it contained water, with confusion in the head.—(Hydrocephalus; sensation as if waves or water were beating on the skull;

< while standing, talking, shaking the head and bending the head backward, > when lying down or bending the head forward.)

Swelling of the head

The head is constantly inclined backwards

Sudden cracking in the head (during a siesta) with starting, as in a fright.

Eyes EN

Aching in the eyes, greatly augmented by the touch

Burning pain and pressure above the eyes, with confused sight

Burning pain in the r. eyebrow

Shootings in the eyes

Inflammatory redness of the conjunctiva and of the eyelids, with swelling, and sensation as if sand were introduced into the eyes

Blueness of the eyelids

Inflammation of the meibomian glands

Smarting lachrymation, increased by a bright light, and by cold air

Agglutination of the eyelids, with copious secretion of mucus (in the morning)

Disposition of the eyes to turn sideways

Pupils insensible and dilated

Sight confused, as if directed through a mist

Obscuration of the sight and complete blindness, as from amaurosis

Opacity of the crystalline lens

Painless obscuration of the lens

Illusion of the sight

Phantoms, visions, and the colours of the rainbow before the eyes

Dark bodies, like flies, hover before the eyes

Objects appear green or yellow

Sparks before the eyes

Diplopia.

Ears EN

Hissing before the ears, like boiling water (with hardness of hearing)

Single stitches behind the ears

Otalgia, with tensive and contractive pains in the ears

Swelling of the parotids, and behind the ear.

Nose EN

Pain above the root of the nose.—Coryza, with hoarseness.

Face EN

Paleness of the face (bluish hue under the pale skin.)

Blue colour of the lips and eyelids

Convulsions on one (l.) side of the face

Cramp-like and drawing pains in the cheek-bones

Swelling of the cheek, with pain on being touched

Eruptions, with gnawing itching in the cheeks and in the chin

Pores of the face black and suppurating

Bluish swelling of the lips

Eruptions on the lips

Dryness of the lips.

8, 9.

Mouth and Throat

Roughness, excoriation and scraping in the mouth and throat, with clammy taste

Sweetish and fetid saliva

Profuse flow of frothy saliva compelling to spit all the time

Salivation with excoriation of the tongue, and of the gums

Bluish tongue

Swelling of the tongue

Ulcer on the tongue

Tongue loaded with white mucus (morning)

Stinging in throat between acts of swallowing

Peculiar sensation in fauces as if walls of pharynx swollen, or as if they were constricted by swelling of tonsils

Spasmodic constriction of throat

Sore pain on swallowing.

Appetite EN

Sweetish taste, esp. after smoking tobacco, sometimes with constant accumulation of saliva in the mouth

Bitterness in the mouth

Clammy taste

Bitter taste of bread

Want of appetite, sometimes even with a clean tongue

Continuous thirst, with dry lips

Thirst esp. for acid drinks

Gulping up of an acrid or tasteless fluid

Great appetency for bitter things

After a meal, pressure and inflation of the abdomen and of the stomach.

Stomach EN

Sour eructation and regurgitations, sometimes after a meal

Pyrosis

Nausea, with inclination to vomit, moral dejection and inquietude

Convulsive retchings

Vomitings and nausea, with fulness and pressure on the epigastrium

Vomiting in the morning (of the ingesta; of a green liquid), or at night

Vomiting of mucus, of food, or bile, with excessive nausea

Nausea in the morning, on waking

Nausea and vomiting during a meal

Vomiting of food on expectorating

Sensation or retraction in the stomach

Burning in the stomach, extending up to the oesophagus

Pressure, burning pain, and heaviness in the stomach and in the epigastrium

Nausea, as if he would die with it; continuous, and not relieved by vomiting

Sensation of weakness in the stomach, as if life would be extinguished, esp. immediately after a meal

Deathly sinking in the stomach-pit

Cramp-like pains in the stomach, sometimes with nausea and vomiting, mitigated by eructations

Shootings in the pit of the stomach, extending to the sides and the back

Fulness in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen EN

Contractive tense pain in the hypochondria

Sensibility, and pressive pains, in the region of the liver

Twisting, and cramp-like pinching, in the intestines

Shooting and tearing colic, with inclination to vomit, esp. during movement and expiration

Inflation of the abdomen (ascites)

Dropsical swelling of the abdomen

Cuttings, as from a chill, or a diarrhroea

Cramp-like tension in the groins

Sufferings from flatulency.

Stool And Anus EN

Faeces white, like chalk, or the colour of ashes

Diarrhoea of excrement mixed with mucus, preceded by shiverings and cutting pains

Dysenteric evacuations

Involuntary stools

Retention of stool; prolonged constipation

Watery diarrhoea; with much thirst.

Urinary Organs EN

Retention of urine

Urgent and almost futile, inclination to make water, with discharge of hot, burning, and very scanty urine

Pressure on the bladder, with the sensation as if it were too full, continuing after micturition

Frequent emission of small quantities of water-coloured urine

While in a recumbent position the urine can be retained for a longer time

Difficult urination, as from contraction of the urethra

Wetting the bed at night

Urinary flux

Diminution of the secretion of urine, sometimes alternating with abundant emission

Incisive pains in the urethra, before and after the urinary discharge

Involuntary emission of urine

Urine of a deep colour, brownish or reddish

Nausea before and after urination

On making water, burning sensation and constriction in the; urethra

Inflammation of the neck of the bladder

Prostate enlarged.

15, 16.

Sexual Organs

Hydrocele (l.); scrotum looks like a bladder filled with water

Testes; bruise-like pain in; swelling of

Gonorrhoea; phimosis; with burning, and dropsy of prepuce

Desire strongly excited, frequent erections and pollutions

Dropsical swelling of genitals.—(Nymphomania

Menorrhagia.)

Respiratory Organs EN

Hoarseness (in the morning after a night sweat)

Hollow, spasmodic cough, from roughness and scraping in the throat; expectoration only in the evening, of yellow jelly-like mucus, tasting sweet

Hoarseness and coryza in the morning

Much phlegm in the larynx, which is detached by a slight cough

Cough, after a meal, with vomiting of food

Dry cough, with pains in the shoulders and arms

Cough, with expectoration of matter resembling starch

Smarting in the chest on coughing

Cough worse at midnight and during the morning hours

The cough is caused by talking, walking, drinking anything cold; when bending the body forward

Troublesome choking sensation with cough; mostly at night, and on physical exertion

Dry, cramp-like cough, excited by prolonged conversation

Sanguineous expectoration on coughing (small quantities of dark-blood).

Chest EN

Sensation of soreness in the chest

Respiration painfully restricted, esp. at night, when lying down, or in the day, when walking, or seated

In the morning, suffocating constriction of the chest, forcing the patient to rise up in the bed

Asthmatic sufferings as from hydrothorax

Pressure on the chest from keeping the body bent

Tension in the chest, with necessity to breathe deeply

Contractive pain in the chest, when sitting with the body bent

Smarting in the chest

Sensation of weakness in the chest, proceeding from the stomach

Congestion in the chest

Shuddering at the mammae.

Heart EN

Acceleration of the movements of the heart, with palpitations that can be heard (with slow pulse), anguish, and contraction in the sternum

Very slow pulse

On rising up in bed pulse becomes much more frequent and irregular

Irregular and intermittent pulse

Dull uneasiness in various parts of heart region, with sensation of weakness in forearm

Feeling of slight confusion of heart, esp. on moving, with painful sensation of weakness in wrist and forearms

Sudden sensation as though heart stood still, with great anxiety and necessity for holding breath, after dinner; must keep perfectly still

Peculiar sensation as though heart standing still; single, violent, slow heart-beats, with sudden violent heat in occiput, and transient unconsciousness (the whole lasting only a moment)

Shifting pains in heart

Oppression, must breathe deeper

Heart's action has lost its force; beats more frequent, intermittent, irregular

Palpitation easily excited on going up slight ascent

Heart seems to dilate slowly; palpitation at each movement of body; slight uneasiness at heart, cold sweats

Constant pain or anguish at heart, with palpitation, < by exercise or mental emotion; at times < without apparent cause, when perfectly at rest; paroxysms accompanied by sinking sensation, face purple; fainting, believes she is dying; dizziness ringing in ears; sharp pain in l. shoulder and l. arm, tingling in arm and fingers; paroxysms come sometimes at night, with suffocation, wakes up in anguish; terrifying dreams

Heart so weak that even sitting up in bed has caused fatal syncope

Attacks of angina brought on by any slight careless movement, esp. of arms in an upward direction; inexpressible anxiety with fainting; for a moment heart seems to stand still, and then several rapid and violent pulsations occur, with sensation as if heart had torn itself loose and were swaying to and fro by a thin thread

Cyanosis

Frightful stitches in region of heart, coming on every fifteen minutes, lasting only five or six seconds each time.

Neck And Back EN

Stiffness and tension of the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck

Drawing pains in the back and in the loins, as after a chill

Bruise-like pains in the loins on blowing the nose.

Upper Limbs EN

Paralytic pullings, and tearings in the arms

Heaviness or paralytic weakness of the l. arm

Sharp pain in l. shoulder and arm, tingling in arm and fingers; with heart affection

Nocturnal swelling of the r. hand and of the fingers

Coldness of the hands

Tearings in the joints of the fingers

Sudden and paralytic stiffness in the fingers

Torpor and disposition to numbness of the fingers.

Lower Limbs EN

Pain in the hip-joint

Great stiffness in the legs after being seated, which abates when walking

Want of energy, and paralytic weakness in the legs

Swelling in the knee, like steatoma

Incisive pains in the thigh, and burning sensation in the calf of the leg, on crossing the legs

Tension in the ham

Coldness of the feet

Swelling in the feet, by day only (diminished at night).

Generalities EN

Burning shootings and tearings, esp. in the limbs Penetrating pains, and painful weariness in the joints, as after great fatigue Engorgement of the glands Tense and painful swellings, esp. of the limbs

Convulsions Epileptic fits Dropsical swellings of internal and external parts Emaciation

Great dejection and nervous weakness Throbbing in every part of the body, < by pressure Gouty nodosities Pricking pain in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities

Fits of excessive weakness esp. after breakfast and dinner Sudden prostration of strength, as if about to faint, with general perspiration.

Skin EN

Gnawing itching, which changes, if the skin be not scratched, into a burning and insupportable pricking

Dry, and heat of skin

Desquamation of the skin from the whole body

Jaundice

Bluish skin (cyanosis), particularly at the eyelids, lips, tongue, and nails

Dropsy

Elastic white swelling of the whole body

General paleness of the skin.

Sleep EN

Continuous sleepiness during the day (lethargy)

Uneasy, unrefreshing sleep

Drowsiness in the day, and somnolency interrupted by fits of convulsive vomiting

At night, half-asleep with agitation

Nocturnal sleep, interrupted by anxious dreams, with starts (as if one were failing from a height or into water)

Uneasy sleep at night on account of constant desire to urinate

Feeling of great emptiness of the stomach frequently, previous to falling asleep.

Fever EN

Chilliness with heat and redness of face

Coldness of the body, often with cold sweat, esp. on the forehead or one side of the body only

Coldness in the hands and in the feet (with cold perspiration)

Heat of one hand and coldness of the other

Frequent and sudden flushes of heat, followed by weakness

Copious nocturnal perspiration, preceded sometimes by shivering and shuddering, with internal heat (beginning with coldness of the extremities, from them extending over the whole body), during the day

Perspiration generally at night; cold and clammy

Perspiration after the chill, no heat intervening

Pulse small, weak, and excessively slow (esp. when at rest, every other beat intermits), but accelerated by the slightest movement

Pulse irregular; intermitting.