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Digitalis Purpurea

30CDigitalis
Foxglove · "The Slow Pulse Remedy"
dig.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 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 is weak, irregular, , abnormally slow, and of external and internal parts. Weakness and of the . Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to 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; from and of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis. 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. from slight exertion. .
👤 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, , abnormally slow, and of external and internal parts.
introduction
Weakness and of the .
introduction
Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in.
introduction
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; from and of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis.
introduction
Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present.
introduction
Change in acuteness of perception of shades of green.
eyes
Faintness, great weakness in stomach.
stomach
Tenderness of .
stomach
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 .
, dull lethargic with slow pulse.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th
Centesimal
📝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 →Liatris Spicata →DigitoxinumConvallaria Majalis →Crataegus Oxyacantha →Kalmia Latifolia →
⚠️ Inimical
China Officinalis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Digitalis Purpurea is listed in 261 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 84 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System37Circulatory System35Respiratory System27Locomotor System19Abdomen18Stomach16Eyes14Male Sexual System13Mind12Head11Generalities11Female Sexual System9Nervous System8Modalities6Skin5Fever5Ears5Face3Tongue2Mouth2Taste2Nose1

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