Symptoms
1. Cardiac diseases with great anxiety; dyspnoea, sudden sensation as if heart stood still; pulse feeble, irregular, fluttering, intermittent or extremely slow; any motion esp. rising from bed or chair causes rapid, weak jerky pulse and sometimes cyanosis, even syncope.
2. Patient low-spirited, tearful; likes consolation; anxiety even apart from heart disease.
3. Dropsies; all forms of cardiac origin.
4. Liver disorders with enlargement and induration; jaundice; urine scanty, high-coloured; stools ashy-white; soreness liver region.
5. Seminal weakness with weak heart; involuntary emissions at night with or without dreams; also acute prostatic troubles.
Notes. Antidoted by alcohol therefore use the succus rather than the tincture. Never given Digitalis to slow the pulse in pneumonias, etc.