DIGITALIS


DIGITALIS homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine DIGITALIS …


Symptoms

      1. Cardiac diseases with great anxiety; dyspnoea, sudden sensation as if heart stood still; pulse feeble, irregular, fluttering, intermittent or extremely slow; any motion esp. rising from bed or chair causes rapid, weak jerky pulse and sometimes cyanosis, even syncope.

2. Patient low-spirited, tearful; likes consolation; anxiety even apart from heart disease.

3. Dropsies; all forms of cardiac origin.

4. Liver disorders with enlargement and induration; jaundice; urine scanty, high-coloured; stools ashy-white; soreness liver region.

5. Seminal weakness with weak heart; involuntary emissions at night with or without dreams; also acute prostatic troubles.

Notes. Antidoted by alcohol therefore use the succus rather than the tincture. Never given Digitalis to slow the pulse in pneumonias, etc.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.