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Digitalis Purpurea

30CDigitalis
Foxglove · "The Slow Pulse Remedy"
dig.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the heart muscle to improve strength and rhythm, particularly in cases of heart failure, slow pulse, and fluid retention.
📖 Boericke writes:
(DIGITALIS)
Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse isweak, 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 whenauricular 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 block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration andhypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Bluish appearance of face.Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present. Stimulates the heart's muscles, increases force of systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion. Collapse.
👤 Constitution
•Typically individuals with weak, failing heart function, often showing a bluish tint to the skin, lips, or tongue, and a tendency toward extreme physical exhaustion.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
DIGITALIS PURPUREA Foxglove (DIGITALIS) 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.
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Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium.
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Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in.
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Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration and hypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis.
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Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present.
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Change in acuteness of perception of shades of green.
eyes
Faintness, great weakness in stomach.
stomach
Tenderness of epigastrium.
stomach
Neuralgic pain in stomach, unconnected with taking food.
stomach
Enlarged, sore, painful liver.
abdomen
White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools.
stool
Continued urging, in drops, dark, hot, burning, with sharp cutting or throbbing pain at neck of bladder, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth; worse at night.
urine
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Prescribe for anxiety and mental lethargy linked to heart weakness.
Despondency; fearful; anxious about the future.
Dullness of sense.
Every shock strikes in epigastrium.
Melancholia, dull lethargic with slow pulse.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Reduce dose as soon as pulse rate lowers to 80 beats a minute.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Serpentaria →
🔄 Compare With
Oleander →Serum Anguillae →Digitoxinum →Liatris Spicata →Convallaria Majalis →Crataegus Oxyacantha →Kalmia Latifolia →
⚠️ Inimical
China Officinalis →
📚 Sources & References

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