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Digitalinum

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Digitalinum · Active Glycoside of Digitalis Purpurea · "The Concentrated Foxglove Glycoside"

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🎯 It acts as a potent cardiac poison that profoundly affects muscular tissue and the circulatory system.

📖 Clarke writes:

An active principle (glucoside) of Digitalis purpurea. C5 H8 02. (Schimiedeburg); C27 H45 O15 (Kosmann). Trituration.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Poison of very great activity

•Profound effect on muscular tissue, both voluntary and involuntary

•Profound effect on the heart

•Profound prostration, even to inability to move a muscle

•Paralytic weakness

•Numbness

•Tremulousness of the limbs

•Cold, clammy surface

•Gooseflesh

•Heart is slowed, or else its action is made rapid and feeble

•Sensation as if the heart stood still

•Overburdened heart where it is constantly labouring

•Irregular and intermittent heart action

•Sinking, faint sensation at the epigastrium

•Great fatigue

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Confusion of the head

•Confusion of the head is BETTER walking in open air

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Sensation as if the heart would stand still if he moved

•Nausea and vomiting of yolk-of-egg matter

•Shivering

•Diarrhoea

•Sensitiveness of eyes to light

•Sensitiveness of nose to odours

•Disorders of vision and hearing are very numerous

•Frontal headache

•Dazzlings

•Loss of appetite

•Intestinal flatulence

•Borborygmi

•Eructation

•Slight abdominal pains

•Urine abundant

•Painful heat in evening but no thirst

•Pressure in supra-orbital region towards frontal sinus

•Feeling as if the ground gave way under his feet when walking

•Sexual weakness: Deep sleep in which an emission occurs without waking him

•Sexual power diminished or quite abolished temporarily

•Swelling of right hand and fingers

•Heart pains are WORSE lying on left side

•Many symptoms appear on waking in the morning

•Chilliness and fever in afternoon and evening

•Symptoms are BETTER after dinner

•Drinking = nausea and vomiting

•Pains in trunk WORSE during rest

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Profound prostration with paralytic weakness and inability to move muscles.

Clarke

Heart action is irregular, intermittent, or feels as if it would stand still.

Clarke

Sinking, faint sensation at the pit of the stomach.

Clarke

Visual disturbances including flickering, dazzling, and yellow vision.

Clarke

Cold, clammy skin with gooseflesh.

Clarke

Nausea and vomiting of yellow, egg-like matter.

Clarke

Sensation as if the ground gives way under the feet when walking.

Clarke

Sexual power temporarily diminished or abolished.

Clarke

Swelling of the right hand and fingers.

Clarke

Sensitiveness of eyes to light and nose to odors.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Use for states of agitation, irritability, or inability to focus and fix attention.

Agitation.

Hallucinations.

Irritability.

Sometimes dejection, sometimes hilariousness.

Inability to fix attention

or to take in what is read.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Exertion

general

visual disturbances

↑Better from

Closing eyes

vertigo

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Tabacum →Digitalis Purpurea →Gelsemium Sempervirens →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.