Digitalis purpurea
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
WEAKNESS, faint-like; can hardly talk. Heart slow, with indefinite or causeless symptoms. HEART SLOW, weak or irregular; quick, on motion; with liver or sexual symptoms; at puberty. Must walk about, with precordial anxiety; with teasing to urinate. .................... Anxious solicitude. Dizzy. Crashes in head; on dropping to sleep. Spastic hemicrania. Yellow- red conjuctiva. Seething in ears. Face pale; bluish, also lips and tongue. Thick, flabby tongue. Much thirst, little appetite (Sul.), but no fever. Deathly nausea or with faint sinking at pit of stomach. Liver sore, swelled. White, putty-like stools. Dribbling urination. Dropsy. Throbbing in neck of bladder. Early morning erection. Swelled prostate; senile. Atonic night losses. Glans inflamed; gonorrhœa of (Jaca.). Profuse, thick, yellow-white gonorrhœa. Slow breathing. Cough, with pains in shoulders and arms. HEART; weak; feels like stopping; sprains; palpitation. Slow, intermittent pulse. Numb or weak left arm. Drowsy. Dreams of falling; wakes with a shock. Cold skin. Flushes of heat, then great weakness. Cold, clammy sweat.
Worse
Raising up. Exertion. Heat. Lying on L. side. Motion. Smell of food. Cold drinks. Excesses: Sexual.
Better
Rest. Cool air. Lying flat on back.
Region
Vagus. HEART; muscle. CIRCULATION: Liver. Lungs. Stomach. Occiput. Genito-urinary organs.
Relationships
Related: Glo. Spi.
What the other books say about Digitalis purpurea
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Digitalis purpurea in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Digitalis purpurea in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Digitalis purpurea in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Digitalis purpurea in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Digitalis purpurea — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/digitalis-purpurea. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.