REPERTORY OF HEART SYMPTOMS



Pulsatilla: In violent paroxysms, often with anguish and obscuration of sight; trembling of limbs; from chagrin, fright, or joy; with anaemia, chlorosis; strong, with suppressed pulse; after dinner.

Rhus tox: Violent when sitting still.

Rhus ven.: Palpitation, with stitches in the heart.

Ruta: Anxious.

Sabina: At every motion, especially when ascending.

Sanguinaria: Before vomiting, with great weakness.

Sarsaparilla: Without fear, mostly during the day.

Secale: Oftener at night, with contracted and frequently intermitting pulse.

Sepia: After emotions of mind; wakes up with violent beating of the heart; with anxiety about things which happened years ago.

Silica: While sitting, so that he has to hold on to something. Violent hammering after every quick or violent motion.

Spigelia: Violent; worse bending forward; high fever; stitching pains; when sits down; after rising in the morning; from deep inspiration or holding the breath; from worms; from the least motion.

Spongia: Violent, with pain, gasping respiration; suddenly awakened after midnight, with suffocation; great alarm; anxiety.

Staphisagria: From the least motion; from mental exertion; from music; after siesta.

Stramonium: Beating of the heart so increased by motion he cannot speak for hours; twitching, as in chorea; murmurs instead of regular sounds; consequent on fright.

Strychninum: Palpitation of the heart.

Sulphur: When going up-stairs or when climbing a hill.

Sulphuric ac.: With or without fear or anxiety.

Sumbul: Palpitation of the heart, with transient flushes of heat. Sinking of the heart, which beats softly, as if in water; palpitation from the least exertion; palpitation at 9 p.m.; palpitation and jerking of the heart at intervals, worse during the flush of heat, and especially after drinking stout; palpitation of the heart, violent and visible, prolonged after running up-stairs; palpitation of the heart, after drinking beer, increased by paying attention to it; beating of the heart at intervals without any apparent exciting cause; heart still palpitated, violent and irregular at times, with a bellows’ sound; flushes of heat in floods from the back.

Tabacum: At night, tight across the chest, with angina pectoris. (Hering.) Suffered chiefly at night, from paroxysms of praecordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between the shoulders. Palpitation and pain in the cardiac region. Palpitation while lying in bed, on the left side, which ceases on turning to the right side. For some time he suffered from palpitation, with pain and constriction of the chest, which came on in the form of an attack, either in the evening or night; afterwards a similar attack from inhaling the fumes. Palpitation, with tightness of the throat. For about a month during the night he frequently had attacks of palpitation, with oppression and pain about the shoulders. Violent palpitation all night. (Allen.)

tarentula: Palpitation, with sadness, inclined to tears, oppression, headache, with general perspiration and burning heat. Palpitation of the heart without any known cause. Palpitation of the heart, with great oppression, panting respiration headache and prostration. Palpitation of the heart, stitches interfering with breathing; pain in the back; painful feeling in the spinal column. Severe palpitation, with murmur in the heart.

Tellurium: With throbbing through body and full pulse, followed by sweat.

Thea: Heart sometimes palpitates, and at other times seemed motionless. Palpitation of the heart at night, with inability to lie on the left side. Violent palpitation and considerable pain.

Thuja: Periodical, in rest or motion; from ascending; anxious, when awaking in the morning; audible, with violent congestion to chest.

Valeriana: Palpitation.

Veratrum alb.: Strong, with chorea. Violent, visible, anxious palpitation. Palpitation in the anaemic; agony of death, legs cold; difficult breathing, better at rest or lying down.

Veratrum vir.: Faintness and blindness; when rising from lying; from sudden motions; better lying quietly.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

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

As if the heart was working in water: Bovista.

Darting in the region of the heart, with fulness: Aescul.

With pressure on the chest as if a lump lay there, or as if the chest was stuffed up: Ambra.

With contraction of the epigastrium and a weak feeling at the pit of the stomach: Ammonium carb.

After suppressed herpes or suppressed foot sweat: Arsen.

From suppression of discharges in women: Asafoetida

When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop: Aurum

Soreness in the region of the heart: Baryta.

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

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

Can bear no pressure on the throat or chest: Laches.

Pulsating tearing in the region of the heart: Lycop.

With hysteria, with weak, small pulse, and changing irregularity in the heart’s beat: Nux mosch.

Heart feels tired: Nux vomica

With weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at the same time fulness at the pit of the stomach: Oleand.

Before vomiting, with great weakness: Sanguin.

With throbbing through whole body, and full pulse followed by sweat: Tellur.

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

Roused suddenly; palpitation; had to “lie on it,” with hand supporting heart: China sulph.

Violent palpitation as if he felt the heart beating outside the thorax: Dulcam.

Palpitation, seen plainly over the whole chest: Iber.

Uneasiness in the night, from palpitation and rush of thoughts: Jatropha.

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

Sinking of the heart, which beats softly as if in water: Sumbul.

Beating of the heart at intervals without any apparent exciting cause: Sumbul.

Palpitation of the heart without any known cause: tarent.

Heart sometimes palpitates and at other times seems motionless: Thea.

MENTAL SYMPTOMS.

Agony: Aurum, Verbascumalb.

Agony of death. Veratrum alb. (in the anaemic).

Anguish: Arsen., Pulsat.

Chiefly at night: Arsen.

With observation of sight: Pulsat.

Alarm: Spongia.

Fear: Mercur., Acid Sulphuricum Without fear: Sarsap.

At night: Mercur.

With or without fear: Acid Sulphuricum

Anxiety: Agaricus, Ammonium, Carb., Baryta carb., Calcar., Calcarea phosph., Camphora, Colchic., Crocus, Graphit., Laches., Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Oleand., Platina, Ruta, Sepia, Stannum, Spongia, Acid Sulphuricum, Thuja, Veratrum alb.

About things which happened years ago: Sepia.

Audible, as if dying: Ammonium carb.

Followed by trembling weakness, particularly of the calves: Calcarea phosph.

With sudden oppression of breathing: Camphora.

With nosebleed: Graphit.

When ascending: Natr. carb.

With morning headache: Natr. mur.

Chest feels expanded: Oleand.

From giving directions in her household affairs: Stannum.

On waking in the morning: Thuja.

With or without anxiety: Acid Sulphuricum

After emotions of mind: Sepia, Ananth.

From the least emotion: Ananth.

From mental emotion: Phosphor. (with rush of blood to chest).

From mental excitement: Coccul.

From excitement: Lycopodium virg.

From mental exertion: Staphis.

From protracted study: Nux vomica

After grief: Phosph. ac., Pulsat.

From fright: Pulsat., Stramon.

From indignation: China sulph.

From chagrin: Pulsat.

From joy: Pulsat.

From music: Staphis.

When singing in church: Carb. an.

Renewed by thinking about it: Argentum nitr., Baryta carb.

Worse thinking of the palpitation and cardiac distress: Lycopodium virg.

Worse paying attention to it: Argentum nit., Sumbul.

After drinking beer: Sumbul.

CONCOMITANTS.

With headache: Aethusa, Natr. mur., tarent.

In the morning: Natr. mur.

With right-sided prosopalgia: Kalmia.

With inability to speak: Ammonium carb., Stramon.

Beating of heart, so increased by motion he cannot speak for hours: Stramon.

With involuntary flow of tears: Ammonium carb.

With blindness: Veratrum alb.

With obscuration of sight: Pulsat.

With vertigo: Aethusa, Cactus, Coccul.

And faintness: Coccul.

With faintness: Chamom., Coccul., Veratrum alb.

And dizziness: Coccul.

And blindness: Veratrum alb.

With faintings: Hydrast., Laches., Nux mosch., Veratrum alb.

Followed by sleep; hysteria: Nux mosch.

Violent, visible: Veratrum alb.

With unconsciousness: Actea, Cactus.

With weakness: Illic., Mancin., Oleand., Sanguin.

And aphthae: Illic.

Before vomiting: Sanguin.

With fever: Spigel.

With redness of the face: Agaricus, Cinchon.

And heat with cold hands: Cinchon.

With chorea: Stramon., Veratrum alb.

With heavy sleep: Podoph.

With fatigue on waking: Podoph.

With frequent belching: Nux vomica

With nausea: Argentum nitr.

With excessive and bloody sputum: Millef.

With blood-spitting: Ferrum.

With nosebleed: Graphit.

With angina pectoris: Tabac.

With the approach of the menses: Cactus.

With anaemia, chlorosis: Pulsat.

With hysteria: Nux mosch.

With a kind of gurgling about the heart: Bellad.

With murmurs instead of the regular sounds: Stramon.

With suffocative attacks: Ananth.

With a painful sensation as if the heart was constricted: Angust.

With anxious restlessness: Aspar.

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.