Digitalis purpurea

digi-pur

Foxglove

Dose: The third to thirtieth attenuation will bring about reaction when the drug is homeopathically indicated; but for palliative purposes the physiological dosage is required. For this purpose, the tincture made from the fresh plant, in doses of five to twenty drops, when the cardiac stimulation is desired, or the infusion of 1 1/2 per cent. Dose, one-half to one ounce if the diuretic action is wanted. The tincture may be given on sugar or bread, and nothing liquid be taken for twenty minutes before or after its administration. Of the powdered leaves, 1/2 to 2 grains in capsules. Digitoxin 1-250 grain. No matter what form of digitalis is given the dose should be reduced as soon as the pulse rate has been lowered to 80 beats a minute and the normal rhythm has been partially or completely restored. Under such conditions a good rule is to cut the dose in half and still more if there be a sudden falling off of the urinary output.

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 myocardium. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart bloc

Digitalis purpurea — Materia Medica

Digitalis purpurea — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger

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.

Digitalis purpurea — mind · William Boericke

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

Digitalis purpurea — general · James Tyler Kent

History: This drug as used by the Old School has done more mischief than any one drug in their Materia Medica. Every patient who had a fast heart, or anything the matter with the heart, was given Digitalis. It has caused more deaths than any drug. If administered when the heart is going fast it will soon produce a peculiar kind of paralysis; the heart then having lost its balance-wheel, compensation gives out, the patient sinks and finally dies. They do not know that many patients would have lived through fevers, pneumonia and other acute diseases if it had not been for this medicine, used as they have used it in the tincture, in many-drop doses, until the heart was slowed down. They call it sedative; yes, it is a sedative. It makes the patient very sedate. You have seen how very sedate a patient looks after he has been in the hands of an undertaker and has on his best garments. That is what Digitalis does. In that way it is a sedative in the hands of the allopath. A homoeopathic physician never prescribes to bring down the pulse. He prescribes for the patient and the heart's action takes care of itself. Digitalis is a very poor fever medicine. Instead of being indicated when the pulse is fast, the proving says it is indicated when the pulse is slow. The allopath gives it when the pulse is fast to make it slow; if given to a well person it will make the pulse slow, and when indicated in a sick person the pulse is slow. Liver: It produces a great disturbance of the liver. "Congestion and enlargement of the liver. Soreness of the liver." Tenderness about the liver-but during that time the pulse is slow.

Digitalis purpurea — modalities · H.C. Allen

Aggravation: When sitting, especially when sitting erect; motion.

Digitalis purpurea — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger

Raising up. Exertion. Heat. Lying on L. side. Motion. Smell of food. Cold drinks. Excesses: Sexual.

Digitalis purpurea — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger

Rest. Cool air. Lying flat on back.

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