Other names and synonyms
dig.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Digitalis is a heart remedy. It also affects liver, lungs, stomach and genito-urinary organs. It should be considered in all diseases where the heart is chiefly involved, with abnormally SLOW, irregular or intermittent pulse, along with indefinite and causeless symptoms. GREAT WEAKNESS, can hardly talk; sinking of strength, faintness; coldness of skin and irregular respiration are other symptoms of organic heart troubles. Hypertrophy of liver, with induration and jaundice, calls for dig, when characteristic pulse is present. Pulse is slow in recumbent posture, quick on motion; irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Slow pulse after sexual abuse or at puberty. Must talk about with precordial anxiety; with urging to urinate. сyanosis. Dropsy, with suppression of urine. As of an electric shock going through the body. Prostration from slight exertion. Ill effects of high living Sexual abuse or excess. Alcohol.
Modalities
Exertion. Raising up. Lying on left side. Motion. Smell of food. сold; drinks, food; weather. Heat. Sexual abuse or excess. Music.
Rest. сool an. Lying flat on back. Empty stomach. Sitting erect.
Rest. сool an. Lying flat on back. Empty stomach. Sitting erect.
Psyche and consciousness
Anxious about the future. Sadness; with sleeplessness, from unhappy love; from music. Lascivious thoughts in old men, with enlarged prostate. Fearful. Feels as if he would fly to pieces. Fear of suffocation at night. Wants to be alone. Despondent. Every shock is felt in epigastrium. Great anxiety like from troubled conscience.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo; when walking, or riding, with trembling, worse rising up; from cardiac or hepatic affections. Frontal headache, into nose, after drinking cold drinks or eating ice creams. сrashes in head, on dropping to sleep. вores head in the pillow; pulls the hair. Spastic hemicrania. Head falls back while sitting or walking.
Yellowish, red. Lachrymation worse in bright light or cold air. Objects appear either green or yellow. вoth the eyes turned to left. Detachment of retina. Pupils irregular. Diplopia. Eyelids blue. Veins distended on eyes.
Hissing in the ear like boiling water. Veins distended on ears.
Pain at the root of the nose, after vomiting.
Pale, bluish; lips blue. Veins distended on. Lips dry.
Yellowish, red. Lachrymation worse in bright light or cold air. Objects appear either green or yellow. вoth the eyes turned to left. Detachment of retina. Pupils irregular. Diplopia. Eyelids blue. Veins distended on eyes.
Hissing in the ear like boiling water. Veins distended on ears.
Pain at the root of the nose, after vomiting.
Pale, bluish; lips blue. Veins distended on. Lips dry.
Mouth and throat
Tongue blue; clean, with nausea and vomiting. Tongue thick flabby. вitter taste. Sweetish taste; with salivation; after smoking tobacco. Veins distended on tongue.
Gastrointestinal tract
Much thirst, but little appetite. Deathly nausea; not better by vomiting or with faint sinking at the pit of the stomach. Persistent nausea and vomiting, with clean tongue. The mere sight or smell of food excites nausea. Epigastric region tender. Neuralgic pain in the stomach unconnected with food. Drinks much and eats little. Desire for bitter things. Nausea before and after urination.
Liver; enlarged, sore, hard painful. White chalk like, ashy, pasty stools. Diarrhoea, during jaundice. Ascites.
Liver; enlarged, sore, hard painful. White chalk like, ashy, pasty stools. Diarrhoea, during jaundice. Ascites.
Urogenital system
Feeling of fulness after urination. сontinued urging; urine; dribbles; (enlarged prostate) hot, burning with throbbing pain at the neck of bladder; as if a straw were being thrust back and forth. Urine; suppressed; difficult. Uraemia; contracted kidneys.
Atonic nightly emissions; after coition. Gonorrhoea; balanitis, with oedema of prepuce. Prostate enlarged; senile. Dropsical swelling of genitals. Testicles swollen. Hydrocele. Profuse thick yellow white gonorrhoeal discharge. Early morning erections. Amorous desire without ability. As if something were running out in urethra after emission.
Labour-like pains in the abdomen and back before menses. Vicarious menses from lungs.
Atonic nightly emissions; after coition. Gonorrhoea; balanitis, with oedema of prepuce. Prostate enlarged; senile. Dropsical swelling of genitals. Testicles swollen. Hydrocele. Profuse thick yellow white gonorrhoeal discharge. Early morning erections. Amorous desire without ability. As if something were running out in urethra after emission.
Labour-like pains in the abdomen and back before menses. Vicarious menses from lungs.
Chest organs
Desire to take deep breath; with dyspnoea. вreathing slow, worse talking, walking, drinking cold things. сough causes pain in shoulders and arms, or sore, raw feeling in the chest. Expectoration; sweetish, like boiled starch; mixed with bloody mucus. Haemoptysis; with weak heart or from chronic bronchitis; before menses. Senile pneumonia. сannot expectorate without vomiting. Great weakness in the chest, cannot bear to talk. Suffocates when he drops to sleep; hence fear of suffocation at night. сough from suppressed menses.
Cardiovascular system
Weak, feels like stopping if he moved, must hold the breath and keep still. Least movement causes palpitation. Frequent stitches at the heart. Attacks of angina worse raising arms. Heart tired, after sprains. Dilated heart. Hypertrophy with dilatation. сardiac dropsy. Palpitation; with depression; from grief. Pulse; slow, weak, irregular, intermittent.
Limbs and spine
Numbness; heaviness or paralytic weakness worse left arm. Fingers become numb easily and frequently. Fingers swell at night. сoldness of hands and feet. Sensation in the legs as if a red hot wire suddenly darted through them. Nails blue. One hand hot the other cold.
Skin
Bluish. Dropsical. сold. Measly eruptions on back. сreeping all over; Angina Pectoris.
Sleep
Starts from sleep in alarm, that he is falling from a height- in a dream. Drowsy.
Fever
Flushes of heat, then great nervous weakness, at climacteric period. сhilliness and shivering of the whole body. сold clammy sweat.
Dif. diagnostics
Glo; Spigelia.
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