CASES

DIGITALIS

Common Name: Foxglove

Mental:

Fear of death from cardiac symptoms.

Fear that the HEART COULD STOP < if they move.

Dull and lethargic.

Weakness of memory.

Every shock strikes in the epigastrium.

Anxiety of conscience, massive self-reproach.

Anxiety with restlessness.

Anguish with nausea. Anxiety from motion.

Excitement alternating with melancholy.

Anxiety with great dread of future < about 6pm with sadness and weeping, which bring relief.

Fearful apprehensiveness with sadness, extremely aggravated by music.

Physical:

Pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, 40-45 beats per minute.

Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium.

SLOW PULSE.

Sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin and irregular respiration.

Objects appear green and yellow.

Blue tongue and lips. Blueness of eyelids.

Jaundice from hypertrophy of the liver.

Jaundice with HEART involvement.

Great Anxiety in stomach.

Deathly nausea and emptiness in stomach.

After cold water or ice cream - sharp pain in forehead and extends down the nose.

Vertigo with anxious sensation as though would faint.

Faintness and vomiting from motion.

Discomfort after a small quantity of food, even on sight or smell > if stomach is empty.

Tenderness of epigastrium. Copious saliva.

Stitching pain in the bladder, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth.

Dropsical swelling of genitals.

Breathing is irregular, difficult, with deep sighing.

Dyspnoea, constant desire to breathe deeply.

Sudden sensation as if heart stood still < by motion (opposite Gels).

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

Modalities :

Agg: Warm air of a room; motion, especially sudden & violent; lying on left side; music; odor of food.

Amel: Rest, especially when lying flat on back; open air.

 

CASES