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DIGITALIS PURPUREA
DIGITALIS PURPUREA
digPolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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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.
About: Digitalis is a primary remedy for heart conditions involving weak, irregular, or abnormally slow heartbeats, often accompanied by fluid retention (dropsy). It is specifically indicated when the heart's pumping ability fails, leading to symptoms like fainting, bluish skin, and extreme weakness. It is also used for liver-related jaundice and specific visual disturbances.
👤 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
Very slow, weak, or irregular pulse.
Boericke
Sudden sensation as if the heart has stopped beating.
Boericke
Excessive nausea not relieved by vomiting.
Boericke
Objects appear green or yellow.
Boericke
Dropsy (fluid retention) of internal and external parts.
Boericke
White, chalky, or ashy stools.
Boericke
Enlarged, sore, and painful liver.
Boericke
Sensation as if a red-hot wire is darting through the legs.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Prescribe for anxiety and mental lethargy linked to heart weakness.
Feeling hopeless and fearful about the future.
Mental dullness and lethargy associated with a slow pulse.
Every sudden shock is felt intensely in the pit of the stomach.
🔑 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.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
CAMPHORA →
🔄 Compare With
SULPHUR →MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗Hahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM
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