Generalities
Used as an arrow poison, it increases the contractile power of all striped muscles esp. HEART; increasing the systole and diminishing the rapidity. It can be used with advantage to tone the heart and run off dropsical effusions. Has no cumulative action; safe for corpulent, aged persons, with rigid arteries. Functional disturbances of heart from alcohol, tobacco; tea. Mitral regurgitation. Arterio-sclerosis. Twitchings of the muscles. Stitching pains. Undulating sensation in whole body. Throbbings. Rapid alternations of symptoms, with slow pulse. Faintness. Anaemia with palpitation and breathlessness Goitre, exophthalmic. Increased secretions. Abolishes the taste for alcohol.
Worse
Exertion. Tobacco. Tea. Alcohol.
Mind
Fear of ordeals. Feels lifted up, during sleep. Precociously loquacious; children.
Head
Vertigo; with swimming vision; senile. Undulations in head.
Eyes
Glimmering vision. Pupils rapidly dilate and contract, even few minutes. Brilliant.
Face
Flushed; red spots on. Lips scarlet.
Throat
Seems constricted. Burnings, compelling empty swallowing.
Stomach
Craving for coffee. Loss of appetite. Nausea with disgust for alcohol. Loathing of food, followed by choking and vomiting after eating.
Abdomen
Rumbling and pinching at naval. Diarrhoea with burning and tenesmus in anus.
Urinary
Urine, increased secretion; or scanty albuminous.
Heart
Weak, aching or anguish at. Sense of lively action. Chronic; nervous palpitation, and arrest of breathing. Stitches and twitches at apex beat. Pulse; rapid, alternating with slow; weak, small irregular. Cardiac dyspnoea.
Extremities
Heaviness and pain in forearms and fingers. Itching and stitching in both feet.
Skin
Hives, chronic, receding.
Related
Apoc; Glon; Ign; Spigelia