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Digitoxinum

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Digitoxinum · Active Glycoside of Digitalis · "The Slow-Pulse Digitalis Glycoside"

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily as a powerful cardiac depressant that induces severe nausea, visual disturbances, and profound physical prostration.

📖 Clarke writes:

Digitoxine. "Crystallised Digitaline" (of Nativelle). (Neither a glucoside, nor an alkaloid) C31 H33 O7. (The most active principle of Digitalis). Trituration.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Profound weakness and physical exhaustion

•Inability to walk due to extreme weakness

•Limbs refuse service in spite of greatest exertion of will power

•Phlegmonous inflammation proceeding to suppuration (noted in subcutaneous injections in dogs)

•Symptoms begin to take effect within one hour of ingestion

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Restless sleep

•Confused, anxious dreams

•Frightful phantasies

•Exertion of will power to control limbs

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Pulse rate drops significantly (from 80-84 to 58, then to 42)

•Intermitting pulse (after every two beats)

•Heart-beats and intermission plainly felt in the chest

•Excessive, constant nausea

•Nausea aggravated by drinking champagne, aerated waters, and ordinary water

•Vomiting of dark greenish masses of mucus

•Vomiting gives instant, though short-lived, relief

•Weakness of sight; faces of friends indistinguishable

•Objects run together without outlines

•Vision limited to distinguishing dark, bright, large, or small images

•Yellow vision (objects appear in a slightly yellow light)

•Yellow vision is very persistent (lasting eight days) ✓ keynote

•Faintness and slight vertigo

•Extraordinary appetite during recovery

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Persistent yellow vision lasting for days, where bright objects appear in a yellow light.

Clarke

Pulse becomes markedly slow and intermittent, with heart-beats and intermissions plainly felt in the chest.

Clarke

Excessive, constant nausea that is not relieved by vomiting dark greenish mucus.

Clarke

Profound physical prostration where the limbs refuse to function despite the exertion of will power.

Clarke

Visual field where objects run together without outlines, making faces indistinguishable.

Clarke

Nausea is significantly aggravated by drinking champagne, aerated waters, or ordinary water.

Clarke

Restless sleep interrupted by confused, anxious dreams and frightful phantasies.

Clarke

Subcutaneous injections may cause phlegmonous inflammation leading to suppuration.

Clarke

Pulse is very easily excited by the slightest physical exertion.

Clarke

Aversion to every kind of food during the acute state, followed by an extraordinary appetite during recovery.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

✨ Clarke Exclusive

👤Head

Use for vertigo accompanied by faintness and nausea.

Slight vertigo, with nausea and faintness.

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Drinking champagne

nausea

↑Better from

Vomiting

nausea

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Digitalinum →Digitalis Purpurea →Cina Maritima →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak'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.