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Digitalis Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠 General & Mental Health
▲ GENERAL
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better when stomach i s empty.
  • Better from weeping.
  • Better lying flat on back.
  • Better sitting erect.
  • Better rest.
  • Better in open air, cool air.
  • Worse from lying on left side.
  • Worse sitting erect.
  • Worse being raised up in bed.
  • Worse touch, pressure.
  • Worse motion.
  • Worse exertion .
  • Worse sexual abuse or excess.
  • Worse from food.
  • Worse smell of food.
  • Worse cold food or drinks, alcohol.
  • Worse after meals.
  • Worse music.
  • Worse from cold air, cold weather.
  • Worse changes of weather.
  • Worse heat.
  • Worse night.
  • Worse waking in the morning
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:
🛡️ Antidotes & Antidoted By

Camph., China

📊 Side-by-Side Comparison
  • 1 Crat ➔ a true heart tonic.
  • 2 Adon., Kalm., Spig., Liatris, Serum ang
  • 3 Nerium odorum ➔ resembles in heart effects Digitalis, but also has an action like Stry. on spinal cord. Spasms appear more in upper part of body. Palpitations, weak heart will be strengthened by it. Lock-jaw.
  • 4 Digitoxinum. Nit -s-dulc. increases actionofDig
  • 5 Conval ➔ laria - heart disease with vertigo and digestive disturbances. Compatible: Bell., Bry., Cham., Lyc., Nux-v
⚠️ Incompatible Remedies

China.

▲ MIND
  • Great anxiety, as from troubled conscience.
  • Reproaches himself.
  • Great guilt, better weeping.
  • Anxious, low-spirited and tearful.
  • Extreme anxiety related to the heart.
  • Anxious about the future.
  • Excitement, stammers when talking to strangers.
  • Excitement at night.
  • Suspicious.
  • Fearful.
  • Fear of suffocation at night.
  • Fear of insanity.
  • Fear from music.
  • Fear of death while walking.
  • Feels as if he would fly to pi eces.
  • Every emotional shock strikes in epigastrium.
  • Fear arising from stomach.
  • Hurried, abrupt speech.
  • Deep sighing and grief with heart problems (Ign.🌿 Ign.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Calc-p.).
  • Arrhythmias and palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. that are worse since grief (Nat-m).
  • Despair.
  • Despondent.
  • Sadness from unhappy love.
  • Sadness, great depression, with sleeplessness.
  • Weeping improves symptoms.
  • Weeping from music.
  • A broken heart with the sensation that the heart will fly to pieces.
  • Melancholy, dull lethargic withslowpulse.
  • Excessive desire to be alone.
  • Tries to escape if others force themselves on her.🌿 Her.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
  • Stammers when talking to strangers.
  • Converses with absent people.
  • Unsympathetic.
  • Dullness of senses.
  • Thinking difficult.
  • Weak memory.
  • Forgets everything imme diately.
  • Insane obstinacy and disobedience, with desire to escape.
  • Irritability after sex.
  • Lascivious thoughts in old men with enlarged prostate.
  • Fearful.
  • Despair.
▲ SLEEP
  • Lethargy.
  • Continuous sleepiness.
  • Drow sy in the day.
  • Unrefreshing, agitated sleep.
  • SomnolencyAbnormal drowsiness or sleepinessA state of strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods. interrupted by fits of convulsive vomiting.
  • Uneasy sleep at night on account of constant desire to urinate.
  • Frequent waking, as from anxiety.
  • Nightmares.
  • Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height in a dream.
  • Dreams of falling from a height or into water.
  • Dreams with jerking and electric like sensations through the body
▲ GENERALITIES
  • As if the heart would stand still if he moved, must hold the breath and keep still (Gels, has “must keep moving or the heart would stop”).
  • As if heart had torn itself loose and were swaying to and fro by a thin thread.
  • As if the lungs were constricted and tied up in bundles.
  • As if the stomach would sink into abdomen.
  • As if something were running out of urethra, as of a weight attached to stomach, as if the internal parts were grown together.
  • As if the brain were loose, as if something fell forward in the head on stooping, as if the brain were made of fine glass and shattered at a blow
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👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Constant dizziness with ringing in ears.
  • Vertigo, when walking or riding.
  • Vertigo with trembling.
  • Vertigo on rising from sitting, with very slow pulse.
  • Vertigo from cardiac or hepatic disorders.
  • Vertigo with anxiety and faintness.
  • Vertigo as if faintness would occur.
  • Vision-DiplopiaDouble visionThe simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, or diagonally..
  • Dim vision.
  • Dark bodies like flies, before eyes.
  • Change in acute ness of perception of shades of green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • Objects appear green and yellow.
  • Sees Digitalis purpurea hairs before his eyes.
  • Loss of vision and many symptoms with anemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. of retina and optic nerve.
  • Hemiopia, as if upper part of field of vision were covered by a dark cloud.
  • Optical illusions in bright or prismatic colors
▲ HEAD
  • Face bluish.
  • Dullness of head as from intoxication, with increased mental activity.
  • Heaviness of head with sensation as if it would fall backward.
  • Brain feels fatigued and weak, from weak action of heart.
  • Confusion, fullness and noises in head.
  • Cr ashes, cracking in head, on drop ping to sleep.
  • Bores head in the pillow.
  • Pulls the hair.
  • Violent, lancinating pains, in vertex and occiput.
  • Spastic hemicrania.
  • Throbbing, in forehead.
  • Sharp, shooting pains in forehead, after drinking cold water or eating ice cream.
  • Pressure in forehead when exerting mind or thinking of it.
  • Sharp pains in temples, evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and night.
▲ EYES
▲ EARS
  • Otalgia with contractive pains in the ears.
  • Swelling of the parotids and behind the ear.
  • Veins distended on ears.
  • Single stitches behind the ears.
  • Hissing before the ears like boiling water, with hardness of hearing
▲ FACE
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
▲ MOUTH
  • Soreness of mouth, gums and tongue.
  • AphthaeSmall painful mouth ulcers (canker sores)Small, painful, shallow ulcers that develop inside the mouth, on the tongue, cheeks, or gums..
  • StomatitisInflammation of the mouth liningInflammation of the mucous membranes inside the mouth, causing painful sores, redness, or swelling..
  • Bitter taste flat, clammy, slimy.
  • Sweet🌿 SweetMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. taste, with constant salivation.
  • Copious salivation after smoking tobacco.
  • Scraped feeling in mouth.
  • Severe toothache in a hollow tooth.
  • Nose-CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. with hoarseness.
  • Pain at the root of the nose, after vomiting.
  • Nosebleeds.
  • Perspiration-Cold, clammy sweat.
  • Copi ous sweat at night.
  • Perspiration after the chill, no heat intervening.
  • Sweats on upper part of body, on face.
  • Sweats during cough.
  • Covered with copious perspiration, without relief of heart symptoms.
  • Cold sweat, on body, warm on palms of hands
▲ THROAT
  • Scraped feeling in throat.
  • Sting ing in throat between acts of swallowing.
  • Choking when he tries to swallow.
  • Spasm of glottis with di arrhea and thirst.
  • EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. of larynx.
  • Frequent painless hoarseness in early morning.
  • Tongue-Blue tongue and lips.
  • Tongue blue, thick, flabby.
  • Tongue clean with nausea and vomiting.
  • Veins distended on tongue pale.
  • Tongue coated white
▲ CHEST
  • Angiria pectoris.
  • Great weakness in chest, can't bear to talk.
  • Suffocative painful constriction ofchest, as if internal parts were grown together.
  • Creeping all Digitalis purpurea over skin.
  • Smarting in the chest.
  • Tens ion in the chest with necessity to breathe deeply.
  • Contractive, pressing pain in the chest, when sitting with the body bent.
  • Sensation of soreness.
  • Congestion in the chest.
  • Raw, sore feeling in chest, with cough.
  • Trembling in chest.
  • Constitutions-Nervous lymphatic constitutions.
  • Children with very pale complexions, light hair, scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes..
  • Cough-Dry cough, on deep inspiration.
  • Cough followed by great prostration.
  • Cough after eating, with vomiting of food.
  • Cough causes pain in shoulders and arms or sore , raw feeling in the chest.
  • Cough from suppressed menses.
  • HemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract. with weak heart or from chronic bronchitis🩺 Chronic BronchitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., before menses.
  • Hollow, deep, spasmodic cough, excited by roughness and scratching in palate and in trachea.
  • Sinking feeling at heart.
  • Sudden sensation as if heart stood still.
  • Sensation as if heart would cease beating if he moves, must hold the breath and keep still (opposite of Gels.).
  • Precordial anxiety, with sensation of weakness in forearm.
  • Audible throbbing of heart.
  • Metallic sounding heart-beat.
  • The least movement causes violent palpitations with depression from grief.
  • Angina pectoris🩺 Angina PectorisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Attacks of anginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart., worse raising arms with tingling in arm and fingers.
  • Constant pain or anguish in region of heart.
  • Frequent sharp pains in heart.
  • Irregular heartbeat especially with mitral valve disease.
  • Cardiac failure following fevers.
  • Heart tired after sprains.
  • Hypertrophy with dilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart)..
  • Cardiac dropsy.
  • Pericarditis🩺 PericarditisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., copious serous exudationDischarge of fluid or pus from tissueThe process of fluid, cells, or other cellular substances slowly discharging from blood vessels or inflamed tissues..
  • RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. of heart with irregular pulse weak and quickened by least movement.
  • Pulse small, weak and excessively slow, irregular, intermitting.
  • Very slow pulse.
  • Especially slow when at rest, every other beat intermits, but accelerated by the slightest movement.
  • Thready pulse.
  • Breasts-Shuddering at the breasts.
  • Causations-Ill effects of high living, sexual abuse or excessive alcohol intake
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🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Discomfort in stomach, even after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell.
  • Burning in stomach and into esophagus.
  • Faintness, great weakness in stomach.
  • Extreme anxiety in pit causing frequent deep sighs.
  • Epi-gastric region tender.
  • NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pain in stomach burning, extending to esophagus.
  • Gulping up of an acrid or tasteless fluid.
  • Deathly nausea, with faint sinking in stomach.
  • Persistent nausea and vomiting with clean tongue (Ip.).
  • Excessive nausea, not better vomiting.
  • Nausea before and after urination.
  • The mere sight or smell of food excites nausea early on rising, with thirst.
  • Faintness and vomiting from motion.
  • Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
  • Vomits easily, on taking anything into stomach.
  • Vomiting, with extremely feeble and irregular pulse.
  • Vomiting of bile, mucus
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Kidneys-NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling. after scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash..
  • Uremia🩺 UremiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Contracted kidneys.
  • Profuse and frequent emission of clear pale urine.
  • Frequent urination at night.
  • Continued urging, urine in drops, dark, hot burning.
  • Sup pressed urine.
  • Ammoniacal and turbid urine.
  • Brick-dust sediment.
  • Urine thick, turbid, yellowish-brown, blackish, acrid.
  • Diminished secretion alternating with copious secretion of watery urine.
  • Cardiac asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Slow, asthmatic attack early in morning.
  • Great weakness in the lungs feel compressed.
  • DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., constant desire to breathe deeply.
  • Breathing irregular, difficult.
  • Deep sigh ing.
  • Breathing slow, worse talking, walk ing, drinking cold things.
  • Cannot bear to talk (Stan.🌿 Stan.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
  • Suffocates when he drops to sleep, fearof suffocation at night.
  • Can only breathe in gasps, each one seeming as if it would be the last.
  • Chronic bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing., passive congestion of the lungs, giving bloody sputum due to fa iling myocardiumHeart muscle tissueThe muscular wall of the heart that contracts to pump blood throughout the body..
  • Expectoration, sweetish like boiled starch, mixed with bloody mucus.
  • Yellow, jelly like mucus, difficult expectoration.
  • Can not expectorate without vomiting.
  • Moist rales, yet cough dry.
  • Senile pneumonia.
  • Emphysema🩺 EmphysemaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with heart disease.
  • Edema of lungs.
  • Hydrothorax.
  • Bladder-CystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination., after passing a few drops the desire to urinate is increased and the patient walks about in great distress.
  • Urethritis, phimosis, strangury.
  • Full feeling after urination.
  • Urine, suppressed.
  • Sharp cutting or throbbing pain at neck of bladder.
  • Difficult urination.
  • Pain, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth, worse at night.
  • Constriction and burning, as if urethra was too small.
  • Dragging in bladder as if distended, not better frequent urination.
  • Contractive pain in bladder, during urination.
  • Urine more easily retained in recumbent position.
  • After urination pressure in bladder and burning in urethra.
  • Dropsical swelling of genitals (Sulph.).
  • Prostate enlarged, in elderly men.🌿 Men.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
  • Hydrocele (left), scrotum looks like a bladder filled with water.
  • Testicles swollen.
  • Bruise-like pain in testes with swelling.
  • Contusive pain in right testicle.
  • Balanitis with edema of prepuce.
  • Gonorrhea (Med.🌿 Med.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
  • Profuse, thick, yellow-white gonorrheal discharge.
  • As if something were running out in urethra after emis sion.
  • Irritation of sexual organs, with painful erections, night and day.
  • Desire stro ngly excited, frequent erections and pollutions.
  • Atonic nightly emissions after sex.
  • SpermatorrheaInvoluntary seminal dischargeAn abnormal, involuntary discharge of semen without orgasm or sexual stimulation, often due to nervous weakness..
  • Pollutions always with lewd dreams and subsequent pains in penis.
  • Early morning erections.
  • Sexual desire without ability.
  • Menses scanty and too late.
  • Labor-like pains in abdomen and back before menses.
  • Menorrhagia🩺 MenorrhagiaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Uterine hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
  • Dropsy of uterus.
  • Bleeding from lungs instead of menses.
  • Menopausal period, sudden flushes of heat followed by great debility, least motion causes palpi tations.
  • Le ucorrhea.
  • Lascivious state of fancy day and night.
  • Nymphomania
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Rheumatic pain in joints.
  • Swelling of the feet.
  • Sensation as if a red-hot wire suddenly darted through legs.
  • Stinging pains in muscles of upper and lower limbs.
  • Piercing pains in joints.
  • Shini ng, white swelling of joints.
  • Muscular debility.
  • Numbness, heaviness or paralytic weak ness, worse left arm.
  • Fingers become numb easily and frequently.
  • Coldness of hands and feet.
  • One hand hot, the other cold.
  • Nails blue.🌿 Blue.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
  • Fingers swell at night.
  • Liver-Enlarged, sore, painful liver.
  • Soreness over region of liver, with jaundice.
  • Liver, hard and painful.
  • Jaundice from induration.
  • Hypertrophy of the liver.
  • Jaundice with heart disease
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Stiffness and tension of the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck.
  • Drawing pains in the back and in the loins, as after a chill.
  • Bruise-like pains in the loins on blowing the nose.
  • Tearing, sharp, ach ing and cutting pains, in neck.
  • Lacerating, and sharp pains in lumbar region
▲ SKIN
  • Dry, arid heat of skin.
  • Paleness of the skin.
  • Cyanosis.
  • Bluish skin particularly at the eyelids, lips tongue and nails.
  • Blue distended veins.
  • Cold skin.
  • Dropsy.
  • Elastic white swelling of whole body.
  • Itching and jaundiced.
  • Gnawing itching increasing to intolerable burning pricking.
  • Corrosive itching.
  • ErythemaRedness of the skin from inflammationAn abnormal redness of the skin caused by congestion and dilation of the capillaries, often from inflammation., deep red, worse on back like measles.
  • Measly eruptions on back.
  • Sebaceous follicles ulcerate.
  • Skin painful to touch.
  • DesquamationPeeling or shedding of skin layersThe shedding or peeling of the outer layers of the skin, typically in scales or sheets, following inflammation or infection. of the skin

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🧬 Miasm Tubercular Miasm
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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.

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