Digitalis Purpurea

► Dulness of head as from inebriation, with increased mental activity. ► Overworked mind, pulse being weak. ► Lascivious fancies day and night. ► Tearfulness, low-spirited. ► Internal anxiety, like from troubled conscience. ► Anxiety, with great fear for the future, worse at 6 P.M.

► Vertigo : when walking or riding ; with trembling ; with very slow pulse.

► Pressure in forehead when exerting mind or thinking of it. ► Bores head in the pillow, pulls the hair ; shrill cry ; vomits easily ; urine scanty ; cyanotic.

► Diplopia. ► Objects appear either green, yellow, or as if silvered. ► Chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva. ► Yellowish redness of the conjunctiva palpebrarum. ► Pupils not very active. ► Inflammation of the meibomian glands. ► Swelling of the lower lid. ► Lachrymation, worse in bright light or cold air. ► Agglutination of the lids in the morning. ► Both eyes turn to the left.

► Sudden crashing noise in the head, on falling asleep ; awaking with a frightened start. ► Noise before the ears like boiling water.

► Bluish-red ; pale ; of death-like appearance.

► Taste : flat, slimy ; sweetish, with constant ptyalism. ► Talking : 27, 28. ► Tongue coated white.

► No appetite, tongue clean, stomach empty.

► Eating : 27. Drinking cold things : 27.

► Nausea, as if she would die. ► Constant nausea and gagging, with clean tongue, covered with white slime. ► Inclination to vomit. ► Persistent nausea and vomiting ; nausea even after the vomiting. ► Vomiting in the morning ; of food ; of bile.

► Burning in stomach, extending up the oesophagus. ► Weakness (sinking) at stomach, feels as if he were dying. ► Soreness and bloatedness of the pit of stomach.

► Soreness and hardness in region of liver. ► Jaundice and easy vomiting ; pulse slow.

► Cutting in the abdomen.

► Frequent desire to evacuate bowels, accompanying urging to urinate ; very small, soft stools without relief. ► Stools : violent diarrhoea, ash-colored, or very light ; delayed, chalky. ► Stool in evening, passing great quantities of thread-worms.

► Fruitless effort to urinate. ► Constant urging to urinate, with scanty discharge each time. ► Feeling of fulness continuing after urination. ► Increased desire to urinate after a few drops have passed, causing patient to walk about in distress, although motion increases the desire. ► Constriction and burning as if the urethra was too small ; enlarged prostate. ► Urine : scanty, thick, turbid, blackish. ► Brick-dust sediment in the urine. ► Throbbing pain in region of neck of bladder, during straining effort to pass water.

► Nightly emissions with great weakness of the genitals ; with sadness and despair (Digitaline) ; after emission sensation of something running out of urethra. ► Balanitis, phimosis, with great burning on urinating ; dropsy of the prepuce. ► Testicle swollen. ► Hydrocele.

► Labor-like pains in abdomen and back, before the menses. ► Leucorrhoea.

► Choking when trying to swallow. θ Spasm of the glottis. ► Hoarseness early in the morning.

► Respiration slow, asthmatic, paroxysm early in the morning, especially in cold weather. ► Distressing nausea at the pit of stomach with orthopnoea. ► Painful asthma, worse when walking.

► Hollow, deep, spasmodic cough, excited by roughness and scratching in roof of mouth and in the trachea, excited by roughness and scratching in roof of mouth and in the trachea ; morning without, evening with scanty, yellow, jelly-like mucus, expectorated with difficulty. ► Cough worse about midnight and towards morning ; from getting heated ; from eating ; from drinking cold fluids ; talking, or walking in the open air. ► Expectoration of sweetish taste ; sometimes with a little dark blood.

► Peculiar, seemingly rheumatic pains and catarrhal affections of the lungs, with serous exudation. ► Passive congestion of the lungs, depending on a weakened, dilated heart. ► Desires to lie on the back, lung constricted ; sputum tough or bloody mucus. ► Great weakness in the chest, can't bear to talk. ► Emphysema, in complication with heart disease, feels better while lying perfectly quiet in the horizontal position. ► Moist rales, yet cough dry ; pulse thready. θ Senile pneumonia.

► Violent but not very rapid beating of heart. ► Pulse : small, irregular ; slow ; extremely slow, particularly when at rest ; becomes accelerated, full and hard from every motion ; intermitting the third, fifth, or seventh beat.

► Heaviness or paralytic weakness of left arm. ► The fingers "go to sleep" frequently and easily.

► Swelling and painfulness of the feet. ► Paralytic feeling in the limbs.

► Great weakness.

► Lethargy, great sleepiness. ► Uneasy, unrefreshing sleep. ► Frequently startled and awaking, at night.

► Chill more internal, with warmth of face, beginning with cold extremities, then spreading over the body. ► Chilliness and shivering over the whole back. ► Internal chill, with external heat. ► Chill, with heat and redness of the face. ► Chill and heat in alternation. ► Excessive coldness of the hand and feet, with cold sweat. ► Great sensitiveness to cold. ► Sudden flushes of heat followed by weakness. ► Heat of body, with cold sweat of face. ► One hand hot the other cold. ► Sweat at night, generally cold and somewhat clammy. ► Sweat immediately after the chill. ► Sweat : on upper part of body ; on the face.

► Piercing pains in the joints. ► Distended veins on the eyes, ears, lips and tongue. ► Flabby, oedematous swelling all over ; with fluttering, weak pulse, cold legs.

► Riding : 2.

► Itching of the skin. ► Desquamation. ► Jaundice.

► During the climacteric, sudden flushes of heat followed by great debility, irregular pulse ; least motion brings on palpitation.

► Antidotes of large doses : sweet milk with Foenum graecum ; vegetable acids, vinegar, infusion of galls, ether, Camphor. ► Of small doses : Nux vom., Opium. ► Cinchon. increases anxiety of Digit. ► Compare : Convallaria, Magnolia grand., Lycop.