Digitalis Purpurea

COMMON NAME:

      FOX-GLOVE.

Symptoms

      Pulse: Full, irregular; very slow and weak; intermitting every third, fifth or seventh beat (A).

Stinging pain in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities (Apis, Bryonia, Dulcamara, Guai., Kali carb., Kali-s., Rhus-t., Valer.).

The fingers :” go to sleep” frequently and easily (A).

Constant desire to breathe deeply, but it seemed as if the chest could be only half-filled because of some impediment in the chest (R).

Great weakness of the chest; cannot bear to talk (Stann.) (A).

Faintish debility with perspiration (Arsenicum, China, Cocc., Kali-p., Veratrum).

Attacks of excessive debility, especially after break fast and dinner (Carbo vegetabilis, Acid phosphoricum., Silicea)

FEELING OF WEAKNESS, EMPTINESS OR GONENESS IN THE ABDOMEN (Carb-An., Cocc., Kali-P., Olnd., Petroleum, Phosphorus, Podophyllum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Stann., Sulphur, Tabacum).

Nausea and vomiting (Arsenicum, Ipecac., Nux vomica, Tabacum, Veratrum).

A clean tongue with gastric and other derangements. (N).

Is often beneficial in nocturnal emissions when there is great weakness and mental despondency (Bt.).

Gloomy and apprehensive (Arsenicum, Kali-P., Natrum muriaticum) (D).

Great weakness of he genitals after coitus (Caladium, Can., Gelsemium, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (A).

Violent erections even chordee (Cantharis, Pic-Ac., Sulphur).

Dropsy of external and internal parts (Apis, Apocynum, Arsenicum, Blatta., China, Ferrum, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sulphur).

THE URINARY DISCHARGE IS TOO SCANTY Apis, Berberis, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Merc-C., Phosphorus, Terebintha).

Cyanosis (Carb-v., Lachesis, Veratrum).

Blue tongue (Ant-T., Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cupr-S., Iris, Mur-Ac., Opium, Tabacum).

SLOW PULSE (AN EXCELLENT INDICATION).

Frequent desire to urinate with small discharge (Apis, Cantharis, Gelsemium, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Thuja).

Urinary secretion increased (Apis, Kali-c., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Acid phosphoricum., Sulphur).

Cough after eating with vomiting of food (Ant-T., Bryonia, Coc-C., Drosera, Ferrum, Ipecac., Kali carb., Laur., Natrum mur., Pulsatilla, Sepia (N).

Enlarged prostate (Conium, Gelsemium, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Sep) (Br.).

Thick, yellow discharge from the urethra (Alumina, Arg-M., Cannabis sativa, Caps., Cub., Hepar, Hydrastis, Medorrhinum, Mercurius, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Silicea, Sulphur) (D).

VIOLENT AND AUDIBLE PALPITATION OF THE HEART (Aesculus, Agaricus, Am-C., Apis., Arsenicum, Belladonna, Calcarea, Colchicum, Iodium, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia, Spig, Thuja).

Heart slow, weak or irregular (Gelsemium, Kalm., Opium, Sepia, Stramonium) (B).

Blue lips (Arsenicum, Asafoetida, Baptisia, Belladonna, Bryonia, Camph., Cannabis indica, Carb-v., Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Ipecac., Lachesis, Morph., Opium, Veratrum, Verat-V.).

When going to sleep the breath fades away and seems to be gone, and the heart slows or stops; then awakens with a gasp to catch it. (N.).

Enlarged, sore and painful liver (Chelidonium, China, Hyoscyamus, Mercurius, Nat-S., Sepia) (Br.).

Breathing irregular, difficult, deep or sighing (Br.).

Cardiac dropsy (Apis, Arsenicum, Cact., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Spigelia) (Br).

SENSATION AS IF THE HEART WOULD STOP BEATING IF SHE MOVED (Ha.).

The least movement produces violent palpitation of the heart (Carbo vegetabilis, Conium, Phosphorus, Spigelia) (Bt.).

The stools are gay, ash-coloured or white (Arsenicum Calcarea, Chelidonium, Hydrastis, Kali carb., Mercurius, Mat-M., Opium, Acid phosphoricum., Phosphorus, Sepia).

Dropsical swelling of the genitals (Apis., Arsenicum, Sulphur) (Br).

OEdematous infiltration of the penis and scrotum (C).

Pneumonia of old people, with prune-juice like expectoration, symptoms of collapse and heart-failure (C).

Objects appear of various colours, as blue or green (F).

AGGRAVATION:

      When sitting, especially when sitting erect; from motion; after meals; from music; from exertion; from lying on the left side; and from sexual excesses.

AMELIORATION:

      From lying on back; in the open air; when the stomach is empty; and from rest.

RELATIONSHIP:

      ANTIDOTES; Camph. and China

Digitalis ANTIDOTES: Wine.

Compare: Ant-C., Apis, Apocynum, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Conium, Ferr-P., Helleborus, Ipecac., Kali-P., Lachesis, Lobelia, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nux-v., Opium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Spigelia, Sulphur, Tabacum, Veratrum, and Zincum met.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)