Digitalis purpurea CH

Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts. Weakness and dilatation of the Muscles of heart. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular on sitting up. Heart upper chamber beats too quick and rapid heart rate causes poor blood flow especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness 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, frequently call for Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Bluish appearance of face. Cardiac muscular failure when cardiac arrest is present. Stimulates the heart’s muscles, increases force of systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion. Collapse.

Mind: Despondency; fearful; anxious about the future. Dullness of sense. Every shock strikes in epigastrium. Melancholia, dull lethargic with slow pulse.

Head: Vertigo, when walking and on rising, in cardiac and hepatic affections. Sharp, shooting frontal pain, extending into nose, after drinking cold water or eating icecream. 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. Perception of shades of green. Objects, appear green and yellow. Dilated pupils; lid margins red, swollen, agglutinated in morning. Detachment of retina. Dim vision, irregular pupils, double vision.

Stomach: Sweet taste with constant hypersalivation. 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 salivation. 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, strangury. – 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 bleeding from vagina.

Male: Nightly emission, with great weakness of genitals after intercourse. Scrotum enlarged like a bladder. Venereal discharge involving inflammation in genitals, Inflammation of the foreskin and head of the penis, with swelling of prepuce. Swelling of genitals. 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 weakness in chest. Dyspnoea, constant desire to breathe deeply, lungs feel compressed. Inflammation of bronchial tube for long period; passive congestion of the lungs, giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium. Cannot bear to talk. Bloody sputum 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. Bluish discolouration of skin. 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 swelling.

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. Swelling of fingers at night. Sensation in legs as if a red hot wire suddenly darted through them.

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: Redness of skin, 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 meals and music. Better, when stomach is empty; in open air.

Dosage: Please note that the dosage of single homoeopathic medicines varies from drug to drug depending upon the condition, age, sensitivity and other things. In some cases they are given as regular doses as 3-5 drops 2-3 times a day whereas in other cases they are given only once in a week, month or even in a longer period. We strongly recommend that the medication should be taken as per the physician’s advice.