- Source: Derived from the fresh leaves of Digitalis purpurea, a biennial plant in the Plantaginaceae family, native to Europe, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity., and succussionVigorous shaking of homeopathic dilutionThe process of vigorously shaking a liquid homeopathic solution against a firm surface during dilution to potentize it. to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action.
- Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for cardiovascular, psychological,.
- Hepatic, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving heart weakness, irregular pulse, and mental distress.
- It is noted for symptoms such as slow pulse, palpitations, anxiety, and jaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin.,.
- Often aggravated by motion, warmth, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by rest, cool air, or lying down.
- Modern Context: Indicated for cardiovascular conditions (e.g., heart failure, arrhythmias),.
- Psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression), hepatic conditions (e.g., jaundice, liver dysfunction), respiratory conditions (e.g., dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., cyanosisBluish discoloration of the skinA bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to low oxygen levels in the blood.), gastrointestinal conditions (e.g.,.
- Nausea, vomiting), and systemic conditions (e.g., fatigue, edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body.).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by cardiac irregularity, emotional distress, liver dysfunction, or general debility, typically exacerbated by motion, warmth, or emotional triggers, and often seen in elderly patients, those with heart disease, or individuals with stress-related exhaustion.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical symptoms like slow pulse or edema alongside psychological symptoms like fear or sadness,.
- Commonly observed in patients with congestive heart failure, anxiety disorders, or hepatic disorders.
- COMMENTS-Slow, weak, irregular and intermittent pulse.
- Acute cyanosis (Carb-v.).
- Palpitations, with hot flashes.
- ProstrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. from slight exertion.
- Restlessness with a great nervous weakness.
- Lassitude, mental and bodily.
- Faintness.
- Convulsions with re traction of head, syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain. and collapse.
- His tory of helping reduce or control aneurysm.
- VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., dizziness as if intoxicated.
- Pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and pleurisy🌿 PleurisyMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Senile pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
- Asthmatic sufferings as from hydrothoraxFluid accumulation around the lungsA non-inflammatory accumulation of serous fluid in the pleural cavity (around the lungs)..
- Respiration is painfully restricted at night, when lying down or in the day, when walking or seated.
- In the morning, suffocating constriction of the chest, forcing the patient to rise up in the bed.
- Delirium🩺 DeliriumClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. tremens in high livers, stomach and liver diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. with the mental state of the drug.
- Enlarged, sore, and painful liver.
- Deathly sinking in the epigastrium.
- Every shock, like bad news, strikes her in the epigastrium.
- Portal engorgement.
- White🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., pasty stools.
- Constant irritation or urge to urinate.
- Urine can be dark brown.
- Dribbling of the urine.
- Nausea and vomiting, worse from smell of food, not better by vomiting.
- Violent nausea with clean tongue.
- The food eaten comes up by mouthfuls, cannot expectorate without vomiting.
- Terrible pain at root of nose after vomiting.
- Thirst for water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Enlarged prostate in elderly men, with lascivious thoughts.
- Prostate enlargement and weaknesses with concomitant heart disease.
- Impotence.
- History of gonorrhea🩺 GonorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Yellow🌿 YellowMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-white urethral discharge.
- People with a history of excess, particularly sex and alcohol, with weakened heart or liver.
- Discharged blood coagulates slowly or not at all.🌿 All.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Distended veins in eyes, e ars, lips and tongue.
- Blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. skin.
- Absence of fever.
- Teste classed Dig with Bry and Ign. He noted that there is an “anxious and concen trated sadness with sleeplessness at night owing to pains at the heart: for instance from unhappy love, especially in wo men of brown complexions, firm and obstinate dispositions.
- In such cases far preferable to Ignatia🌿 IgnatiaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..” Ross regarded the indications as being: “dry cough with mucus rales and no expectoration or only "prune juice' expectoration, cyanosis, cold limbs, feeble intermittent pulse, deathly nausea or gone sensation at epigastrium.” Malcolm Macfarlan reported Dig having produced severe urethritis🩺 UrethritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., phimosisTightness of the foreskinA condition where the foreskin is too tight and cannot be pulled back (retracted) over the head of the penis. and strangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge..
- He cured with it many cases of gonorrhea.
- Ballard cured a man of headache and dizziness, originating probably in gonorrhea suppressed several years before.
- He complained of feeling bad about the head after drinking and this keynote symptom was elicited: “after drinking cold water the pain would seat itself in the forehead and extend down the nose.” Temperature-Chills alternating with heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Coldness in the hands and in the feet with cold perspiration.
- Chilliness and shivering of the whole body.
- Chills with head and redness of the face.
- Internal chills with external heat.
- Chilliness before stool.
- Frequent and sudden flushes of heat, followed by nervous weakness, at menopausal period.
- Sudden hot flushes, with palpitation from least motion.
- Heat of body with cold sweat of face.
- During cough.
- General violen t heat, with swollen veins and rapid pulse.
- Fever with profuse sweat.
- Heat of one hand and coldness of the other.
- AscitesFluid accumulation in the abdomenAn abnormal buildup of fluid in the peritoneal cavity of the abdomen, causing swelling, bloating, and discomfort..
- Severe abdominal pains.
- Pain in left side apparently in descending colon and under false🌿 FalseMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. ribs.
- Tenderness of epigastrium.
- Pulsation in the abdominal aorta and epigastric constriction.
- After a meal, pressure and inflation of the abdomen and of the stomach.
- Sensation as if intestines were twisted.
- Gripingpain.
- Incarcerated hernia.
- Bowel symptoms alternating with chest symptoms .
- Want of appetite, sometimes even with a clean tongue.
- Smell of food causes violent nausea and gagging.
- Desirefor bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. things.
- Desire for beer.
- Bread tastes bitter.
- Continuous thirst with dry lips.
- Thirst for acid, sour, cold drinks.
- Cough worse cold drinks.
- Worse after meals.
- Worse cold food or drinks, alcohol.
- Worse after drinking.
- Worse from spirituous liquors.
- After cold water or ice cream, sharp pain in forehead extending to nose
