Digitalis Purpurea

Digitalis Purpurea
The following are the indications of Digitalis Purpurea, as it relates to this part. Strongest indications are in bold, the next strongest are in italics, and the remaining indications are in a plain typeface.

MIND

Despondency, fearful, ANXIOUS about the future

Dullness of sense

Every shock strikes in epigastrium

Melancholia, dull lethargic with SLOW pulse.

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, anguish;

mind, emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition, suspicious;

mind, intellectual faculties, impaired thinking, confusion, as after being intoxicated;

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, anxiety;

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, anxiety, evening;

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, anxiety, of conscience (as if guilty of a crime);

mind, insecure, uncertain, scared, fear;

VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo, when walking and on rising, in cardiac and hepatic affections

vertigo, dizziness;

HEAD

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.

Sharp, shooting frontal pain, extending into nose, after drinking cold water or eating ice-cream

EYES

Blueness of eyelids

Dark bodies, like flies, before eyes

Change in acuteness of perception of shades of green

Objects appear green and yellow

Mydriasis, lid margins red, swollen, agglutinated in morning

Detachment of retina

Dim vision irregular pupils, diplopia.

EARS

ear, noises in ear, hissing;

FACE

face, pain, pulling;

face, skin, discoloration, bluish;

face, skin, discoloration, pale;

face, sunken;

MOUTH

mouth, discoloration, tongue, blue;

CHEST

Irregular heart especially of mitral disease

very slow pulse

intermits, weak

Cyanosis

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 dropsy.

chest, congestion;

chest, heart, sensation as if heart had ceased;

chest, heart, fluid build up around heart;

chest, heart, palpitations;

chest, heart, palpitations, anxiety;

chest, heart, palpitations, from exertion;

chest, heart, palpitations, on movement;

chest, heart, palpitations, tumultuous, violent, intense;

chest, murmurs;

Heart, The least movement causes violent palpitation, and sensation as if it would cease beating, if he moves ( Opposite: Gels.) Frequent stitches in heart

Desire to take a deep breath

Breathing irregular, difficult, deep sighing

Cough, with raw, sore feeling in chest

Dyspnoea, constant desire to breathe deeply, lungs feel compressed

Chronic bronchitis, passive congestion of the lungs, giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium

Cannot bear to talk

Hemoptysis with weak heart.

respiration, irregular;

respiration, sighing;

SKIN

Erythema, deep red, worse on back, like measles

Blue distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue

Dropsical

Itching and jaundiced.

skin, coldness;

skin, discoloration, bluish;

ABDOMEN

Stomach, Sweet taste with constant ptyalism

Faintness, Great weakness in stomach

Burning in stomach extending to oesophagus

After cold water or ice-cream, sharp pain in forehead, extending to nose

Tenderness of epigastrium

Copious salivation

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.

abdomen, hard, liver;

abdomen, pain, sore, bruised, tenderness, etc., behind lower ribs, right;

abdomen, bladder, fullness;

abdomen, bladder, fullness, after urinating;

abdomen, bladder, retention of urine (see urination delayed), from enlarged prostate;

abdomen, bladder, urge to urinate, but producing nothing;

abdomen, bladder, urging to urinate (unhealthy desire), night;

abdomen, bladder, urging to urinate (unhealthy desire), anxious;

abdomen, bladder, urging to urinate (unhealthy desire), constant;

abdomen, bladder, urging to urinate (unhealthy desire), constant, night;

abdomen, bladder, urging to urinate (unhealthy desire), ineffectual;

abdomen, bladder, urging to urinate (unhealthy desire), violent;

abdomen, stomach, sinking (see emptiness);

Discomfort, even after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell

Neuralgic pain in stomach, unconnected with taking food.

Excessive nausea, not relieved by vomiting

Faintness and vomiting from motion

RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stool

Diarrhoea during jaundice.

stool, light-coloured;

stool, white, milk like;

GENITALS ETC

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, phimosis, strangury

Full feeling after urination

Constriction and burning, as if urethra was too small

Brick-dust sediment.

urine, scanty;

urine, sediment, sand, red (brick-dust);

Hydrocele, scrotum enlarged like a bladder

genitals, urethra (urinary part of genitals), discharge, gonorrhoea;

Gonorrhoea, balanitis (Merc.), with oedema of prepuce

genitals, male, thick emission from penis;

Uterine hemorrhage.

Male, Nightly emission (Digitalin), with great weakness of genitals after coitus

Dropsical swelling of genitals ( Sulph.) Enlarged prostate.

genitals, male, prostate gland, enlargement;

genitals, male, prostate gland, enlargement, in aged persons;

Female, Labor-like pains in abdomen and back before menses

EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

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

Nocturnal swelling of fingers

Sensation in legs as If a red hot wire suddenly darted through them (Dudgeon).

extremities, limbs, coldness;

extremities, limbs, coldness, lower limbs, leg;

extremities, limbs, coldness, lower limbs, foot;

extremities, limbs, numbness (see tingling), fingers;

extremities, limbs, paralysis, upper limbs, left;

extremities, limbs, weakness, upper limbs;

FEVER AND CHILL

Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness.

chill, internal;

fever, one-sided;

GENERALITIES

Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height

Continuous sleepiness.

generalities, general physical anxiety;

generalities, blood vessels, blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood);

generalities, blood vessels, blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood), in infants;

generalities, physical exertion;

generalities, faintness, fainting;

generalities, fluid build up, external;

generalities, fluid build up, internal;

generalities, pulse, abnormal;

generalities, pulse, frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid;

generalities, pulse, full;

generalities, pulse, intermittent;

generalities, pulse, irregular;

generalities, pulse, heavy, and slow;

generalities, pulse, slow;

generalities, pulse, small;

generalities, pulse, soft;

generalities, rising;

generalities, swelling, puffy;

generalities, weakness (see lethargic, weariness);