REPERTORY OF HEART SYMPTOMS



Aconite: With a feeling as if boiling water was poured into the chest.

Actea: Unconsciousness.

AEsculus: Heart’s action full, heavy, can feel the pulsations all over the body. Darting in the region of the heart, with fulness and palpitation.

AEthusa: With vertigo and headache.

Agaricus: Violent, strongly felt, worse evenings; with redness of the face; on sitting down, some irregular, strong beats; anxious oppression.

Alumina: Awakens with palpitation; irregular, large and small beats intermixed.

Ambra: When walking in the open air, with paleness of the face. Violent, with pressure in chest as if a lump lay there, or as if the chest was stuffed up.

Ammonium carb.: Frequent, with contraction of epigastrium and a weak feeling in the pit of the stomach. Audible, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying; cold sweat; involuntary flow of tears; unable to speak; loud, difficult breathing and trembling of hands.

Anantherum: Violent palpitation, with suffocative attacks, from the least emotion.

Angustura: Violent palpitation of the heart in the evening when lying on the left side in bed; better when sitting up. Violent palpitation of the heart when sitting or stooping, with a painful sensation as if the heart was constricted. Painful thrust in the region of the heart.

Antimonium crud.: Violent.

Argentum: Increased by sudden muscular exertion.

Argentum nitr.: With nausea, with asthma; violent, from slightest mental emotion or sudden muscular exertion.

Arnica: From almost any exertion; goes off by rest.

Arsenicum: After suppressed herpes or foot sweat, with small, irregular pulse; strong, visible and audible, chiefly at night. With anguish; cannot lie on back; increased by going up-stairs.

Asafoetida: Nervous, with small pulse, from overexertion or suppression of discharges (in women).

Asparagus: Palpitation of the heart while sitting, so that the leaves of the book which he held in his hand trembled. Palpitation of the heart, especially after motion. Palpitation of the heart, with anxious restlessness, increased by motion and going up-stairs. Palpitation of the heart occurred, with oppression of the chest.

Aurum: With great agony. When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop. With irregular, intermittent pulse and short breathing.

Baryta carb.: When lying on left side, with soreness in the region of the heart; great anxiety; renewed by thinking about it.

Belladonna: A kind of palpitation, with gurgling at the heart, when going up-stairs.

Benzoic ac.: While sitting; worse after drinking. Also worse at night, lying; at times tearing, rheumatic pains in the extremities, relieving the heart.

Berberis: Frequent.

Bovista: With tremor of hands. Visible palpitation after going up-stairs; as if the heart was working in water; after over- exertion.

Bromium: Violent, in the evening, so that she cannot lie on the left side.

Bufo: Palpitation of the heart sounding in the ears like drum beats.

Cactus: With vertigo, loss of consciousness; dyspnoea, worse walking, at night, lying on the left side, at the approach of the menses and from any exertion.

Calcarea: With anxiety, also at night, or after meals.

Calcarea phosph.: With anxiety, followed by trembling weakness, particularly of calves.

Camphora: Trembling, palpitation, with anxiety. With sudden oppression of breathing; with cold face, limbs and body; with pale face and cold body; after eating; after waking, with twitches.

Cannabis ind.: Awaking from sleep.

Cantharis: Violent.

Carbo animalis: after eating; when singing in church; morning, on awaking, must lie still with eyes closed.

Chamomilla : And faintness.

Chininum ars.: Palpitation, noticed on leaning against the back.

Chininum sulph.: Woke on right side; palpitation; relived by lying in abdominal position. Roused suddenly; palpitation; “had to lie on it,” with hand supporting heart. After breakfast, sitting at stool, elbows on knees, palpitation, felt through chest, down back to sacrum, and through abdomen. Owing to indignation, in the morning, palpitation of the heart, better lying o it, alternating with change of position, stretching, etc. Woke in the morning with slight yet notable palpitation of the heart, ceasing on lying fairly upon it.

Chelidonium: Very irregular. Violent, with tightness of the chest. Cicuta: Trembling palpitation.

Cinchona: With rush of blood to face, heat and redness of face, with cold hands; after loss of fluids.

Coca : Violent palpitation of the heart.

Cocculus: From quick motion and mental excitement, with dizziness and faintness.

Coffea: Violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs.

Colchicum: Violent, with anxiety.

Conium: Violent, after drinking.

Crocus: Palpitation, anxiety at the heart, with a sensation of weakness extending thence through the whole abdomen and continuing down to the soles of the feet (Allen). Anxious (Hering).

Croton tigl.: Palpitation of the heart in the afternoon. Palpitation after dinner, especially on lying down. Violent palpitation.

Cuprum ac.: Violent palpitation of the heart.

Curare: Heaviness of t he heart, with severe palpitation.

Dulcamara: Palpitation, especially at night, violent and perceptible externally. Violent palpitation, as if he felt the heart beating outside the thorax (Allen). At night (Hering).

Euphrasia: Violent, long-continued pain in the heart, with audible palpitation, in the afternoon. Palpitation on walking rapidly.

Ferrum: Better walking slowly; also in onanists; after loss of fluids; with blood-spitting.

Graphites: With anxiety; with nosebleed.

Hepar: With fine stitches in the heart and left half of the chest.

Hydrastis: With faintings.

Hydrocyanic ac.: Palpitation, with soft, full pulse.

Iberis: Slight palpitation of the heart, with a sensation of weight and pressure in the region of the heart, with occasional sharp stinging pains in that region, passing from before backward and lasting but a short time. Each slight exertion caused slight palpitation, with dizziness. Palpitation seen plainly over the whole chest.

Ignatia: At night and in the morning, in bed.

Illicium: With aphthae and weakness.

Iodum: Violent, worse from the least exertion.

Jatropha: Palpitation of the heart, after moving about. Uneasiness in the night, from palpitation and rush of thoughts.

Kali bichr.: Dyspnoea, accelerated pulse, heart awakens suddenly with a start, 2 a.m.

Kali carb.: In spells, taking his breath.

Kali cyan.: Palpitation of the heart.

Kali jod.: Worse while walking.

Kali nitr.: Violent palpitation at midnight when lying on the right side. Palpitation on motion and on standing up, with heat of the face and oppression of the chest. Momentary palpitation at times.

Kalmia : Dyspnoea, pain in limbs; stitch in lower part of chest; right-sided prosopalgia.

Lachesis: Can bear no pressure on throat or chest; must sit up or lie on the right side; numbness of the left arm; fainting; anxiety.

Ledum: Pushing or pressing inward at the left edge of the sternum.

Lilium: Worse lying on either side.

Lycopodium: Trembling, pulsating tearing in the region of the heart.

Lycopus virg.: The cardiac distress and palpitation were increased by ascending (hill or stairs), by excitement, by deep inspiration, and by thinking of them. On lying down palpitation with altered rhythm, the systole being shortened and the interval lengthened.

Magnesium mur.: While sitting, going off on motion.

Mancinella: And weakness.

Manganum ac.: Strong, irregular, trembling, without abnormal sounds.

Mercurius: With fear, worse at night.

Mercurius cor.: In sleep.

Mercurius cyan.: Strong palpitation of the heart, lifting up the hand applied to the chest.

Millefolium: With excessive and bloody sputum.

Muriatic ac.: Felt in the face.

Naja trip.: Slight palpitation of the heart, soon.

Natrum carb.: Violent, anxious palpitation when ascending, and at night when lying on left side.

Natrum mur.: With morning headache, anxious, when moving or exerting one’s self; when lying on left side. When going to sleep and on awaking.

Nitric ac. :With anguish on going up-stairs.

Nitrum: On rising, on moving about quickly, with heat of the face and oppression of chest.

Nux mosch.: With fainting, followed by sleep; hysteria, with weak, strong pulse and changing irregularity in heart’s beat.

Nux vomica: Heart feels tired; palpitation on lying down; frequent belching. With orgasm of blood; from mental emotions; from protracted study after eating; especially after spices or coffee.

Oleander: With weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at the same time fulness in pit of stomach. Anxious; chest feels expanded.

Petroleum: Fainting, with ebullitions; heat; pressing on the heart and palpitation.

Phosphorus: From every emotion, with rush of blood to the chest, especially in the rapidly growing youth.

Phosphoric ac.: In children and young persons who grow too fast; after grief; after self-abuse.

Physostigma: Violent palpitation of the heart, with the nervous motions. Violent palpitation of the heart, with throbbing all over the body, at midnight.

Platina: With great anxiety.

Podophyllum: With a clucking sensation rising up to throat obstructing respiration. From mental emotion or exertion, with trembling in ascending colon, heavy sleep, fatigue on awaking in the morning; drowsy all forenoon.

Edwin Hale
Edwin Moses Hale 1829 – 1899 was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy graduated at the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College to become Professor Emeritus of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Hahnemann Medical College, editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy and The American Homeopathic Observer and a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Hale was also a member of The Chicago Literary Club.

Hale wrote Lectures On Diseases Of The Heart, Materia medica and special therapeutics of the new remedies Volume 1, Materia Medica And Special Therapeutics Of The New Remedies Volume 2, Saw Palmetto: (Sabal Serrulata. Serenoa Serrulata), The Medical, Surgical, and Hygienic Treatment of Diseases of Women, New Remedies: Their Pathogenetic Effects and Therapeutic Application, Ilex Cassine : the aboriginal North American tea, Repertory to the New Remedies with Charles Porter Hart, The Characteristics of the New Remedies, Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies, The Practice of Medicine, Homoeopathic Materia Medica of the New Remedies: Their Botanical Description etc.