REPERTORY OF HEART SYMPTOMS



With oppression of the chest: Aspar.

With a sensation of weakness extending from the heart through the whole abdomen and continuing down to the soles of the feet: Crocus.

With heaviness of the heart: Curare.

With long-continued pain in the heart: Euphras.

With soft, full pulse: Hydrastis ac.

With a sensation of weight and pressure in the region of the heart: Iber.

With occasional sharp, stinging pains in the region of the heart, passing from before backward and lasting but a short time: Iber.

With dizziness: Iber.

With cardiac distress: Lycopodium virg.

With altered rhythm: Lycopodium virg.

With throbbing all over the body: Physos.

With stitches in the heart: Rhus ven.

With jerking of the heart: Sumbul.

With a bellows’ sound: Sumbul.

With paroxysms of praecordial oppression: Tabac.

With pain between the shoulders: Tabac.

With pain in the cardiac region: Tabac.

With tightness of the throat: Tabac.

With oppression and pain about the shoulders: Tabac.

With sadness, inclined to tears: tarent.

With oppression: tarent.

With general perspiration and burning heat: tarent.

With panting respiration: tarent.

With prostration: tarent.

With murmur in the heart: tarent.

With painful feeling in the spinal column: tarent.

With stitches interfering with breathing: tarent.

With inability to lie on the left side: Thea.

With considerable pain: Thea.

With ebullitions: Aescul., Cinchon., Kali bichr., Kali nitr., Nux vomica, Petrol., Phosphor., Physos., Tellur., Sumbul., tarent.

Heart’s action full, heavy, can feel the pulsation all over the body: Aescul.

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

With rush of blood to the face: Cinchon.

With rush of blood to the chest: Phosphor.

With heat of the face and oppression of the chest: Physos.

With throbbing all over the body, at midnight: Sumbul.

With transient flushes of heat: Sumbul.

With flushes of heat in floods from the back: Sumbul.

With general perspiration and burning heat: tarent.

With paleness of the face: Ambra, Camphora.

And cold body: Camphora.

(Felt in the face): Acid Muriaticum

With stitches: Hepar, Kalmia, Spigel.

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

In the lower part of the chest: Kalmia.

With pressure on chest in region of heart: Ambra, Ledum, Petrol.

As if a lump lay there; or as if the chest was stuffed up: Ambra.

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

With soreness in the region of the heart: Baryta carb.

With numbness of the left arm: Actea, Laches.

With tightness across the chest: Chelid., Tabac.

With congestion of the chest: Thuja.

With empty feeling in the chest: Oleand.

From deep inspiration or holding the breath: Spigel.

With difficult breathing: Ammonium carb., Aurum, Cactus, Camphora, Kali bichr., Kalmia, Spongia, Veratrum alb.

And loud: Ammonium carb.

In spells: Kali carb.

With pain in the limb: Kalmia.

With a clucking sensation rushing up to the throat, obstructing respiration: Podoph.

With gasping respiration: Spongia.

With agony of death (n the anaemic); better at rest or lying down: Veratrum alb.

With asthma: Argentum nitr.

With suffocation: Spongia, (after midnight).

With cold sweat: Ammonium carb. (followed by sweat: Tellur.).

With cold face, hands and body: Camphora.

With cold hands: Cinchon.

With cold legs: Veratrum alb.

With trembling: Cicuta, Lycop.

Trembling of limbs: Coffea.

Trembling of hands: Ammonium carb., Bovista.

Trembling of calves: Calcarea phos.

With twitches: Camphora, Stramon.

As in chorea: Stramon.

GENERAL CHARACTER OF PALPITATION.

Periodical: Thuja.

Paroxysmal: Pulsat.

In spells: Kali carb.

Audible: Ammonium carb., Arsen., Thuja.

Chiefly at night, with anguish: Arsen.

With violent congestion to chest: Thuja.

Visible: Arsen., Bovista, Sumbul, Veratrum alb.

After going up-stairs, as if the heart was working in water: Bovista.

Anxious: with fainting: Veratrum alb.

Violent: Agaricus, Ambra, Ananth., Angust., Ant. tart., Arg-nitr., Bromin., Canthar., Coffea, Colchic., Conval., Crot. tigl., Cuprum ac., Dulcam., Euphras., Iodium, Kali nitr., Natr. carb., Physos., Rhus, Sepia, Silica, Spigel., Spongia, Sumbul, Thea, Veratrum alb.

In the evening, so that she cannot lie on left side: Bromium

With anxiety: Colchic.

After drinking: Conval.

From least exertion: Iodum.

When sitting still: Rhus.

Wakes from sleep: Sepia.

So that he has to hold on to something: Silica.

Worse on bending forward: Spigel.

With pain, gasping respiration: Spongia.

Visible, anxious: Veratrum alb.

And perceptible externally: Dulcam.

With the nervous motions: Physos.

Severe: Curare, tarent.

Slight: Iber.

Momentary: Kali nitr. (at times).

Strong: Agaricus, Arsen., Mercurius cyan., Pulsat., Veratrum alb.

With suppressed pulse: Pulsat.

With chorea: Veratrum alb.

Intermittent: Aurum, Secale.

Irregular: Agaricus, Alum, Arsen., Aurum, Coffea.

With a bellows’ sound: Sumbul.

Large and small beats intermixed: Alumina

With contracted pulse: Secale.

With suppressed pulse: Pulsat.

With small pulse: Arsen., Asafoetida

With full pulse: Tellur.

CLINICAL INDICATIONS.

(See also Mental Symptoms.)

After loss of fluids: Cinchon., Ferrum.

From indigestion: China sulph.

After self-abuse: Phosph. ac.

In onanists: Ferrum.

In the anaemic: Veratrum alb.

In rapidly-growing youth: Phosphor.

In children and young persons who grow too fast: Phosph. ac.

From worms: Spigel.

From suppressed herpes and foot-sweat: Arsen.

From suppressed discharges (in women): Asafoetida

AGGRAVATIONS AND DETERMINING CAUSES.

(See also Mental Symptoms.)

Time.

Morning: Ignat., Carb. an., China sulph., Natr. mur., Spigel., Thuja.

In bed: Ignat.

With headache: Natr. mur.

Day (during): Sarsap.

Afternoon: Crot. tigl., Euphras.

Evening: Angust., Bromin., Sumbul, Terebintha (so that she cannot lie on left side).

At 9 P.M.: Sumbul.

When lying: Angust.

Night: Arsen., Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Secale, Spongia, Tabac., Terebintha

While lying: Benz. ac.

Or in the morning in bed: Ignat.

In sleep: Mercur.

With contracted pulse, intermitting: Secale.

With tightness across the chest: Tabac.

Worse all night: Tabac.

At midnight: Kali nitr., Physos.

After midnight: Kali bichr., Spongia.

A wakens suddenly with a start at 2 P.M.: Kali bichr.

Motion and Rest.

From motion: Aspar., Coccul., Kali nitr., Natr. mur., Stramon., Thuja. Verbascum vir.

Quick: Coccul.

Sudden: Verbascum vir.

So increased by motion he cannot speak for hours: Stramon.

From every motion: Sabina, Silica.

Especially when ascending: Sabina.

Quick or violent: Silica.

From least motion: Spigel., Staphis.

(Compels him to stop: Aurum).

After motion: Aspar., Iber.

From rest: Thuja (or motion).

When ascending: Arsen., Bellad., Bovista, Lycopodium virg., Natr. carb., Sabina, Sulphur, Thuja.

Rapidly: Euphras.

When going up-stairs: Arsen., Aspar., Bellad., Bovista, Lycopodium virg., Sulphur, Sumbul.

Prolonged after running upstairs: Sumbul.

When climbing a hill: Sulphur.

When walking: Ambra, Aurum, Cactus, Euphras., Kali jod.

In the open air, with paleness of the face: Ambra.

Or riding; compels him to stop: Aurum.

At night: Cactus.

When riding: Aurum.

From rest (on motion): Thuja.

Worse in bed: Angust., Tabac.

Position.

From standing up: Kali nitr.,

When bending forward: Spigel.

When he sits down: Spigel. (after rising in the morning).

On sitting down: Agaricus (some irregular strong beats; anxious oppression).

While sitting: Angust, Aspar., Benz. ac., Magn. mur., Rhus, Silica.

So that he has to hold on to something: Silica.

Or stooping: Angust.

So that the leaves of the book he held in his hand trembled: Aspar.

While lying: Angust., Benz. ac., Crot. tigl., Laches., Lilium, Lycopodium virg., Nux vomica

While lying on the back: Argentum (cannot lie on the back).

On the left side in bed: Angust. When lying: Angust., Crot. tigl., Lycopodium virg.

When lying on the left side: Angust., Bromin., Baryta carb., Cactus, Lilium, Natr. mur., Tabac., Thea.

With soreness in the region of the heart: Baryta carb.

At night: Natr. carb.

Cannot lie on the left side: Bromium.

While lying on the right side: China sulph., Laches., Lilium, Kali nitr.

When lying on either side: Lilium, (cannot lie on either side).

When rising from lying: Verbascum vir.

When stooping: Angust. (or sitting).

Leaning against the back: China ars.

Exertion.

From exertion: Natr. mur., Podoph.

With a rumbling sensation in ascending colon, heavy sleep, fatigue on awaking; drowsy all forenoon: Podoph.

From any exertion: Arnica, Cactus, Iodum.

Violent: Iodum.

From sudden muscular exertion: Argentum, Argentum nitr.

From overexertion: Asafoetida, Bovista.

From slight exertion: Iber.

From the least exertion: Sumbul.

From rest: Thuja (or motion).

Sleep.

When going to sleep: Natr. mur.

Awakened by the palpitation: Alumina, Cann. ind., Carb. an., China sulph., Kali bichr., Natr. mur., Sepia, Spongia.

Morning: Carb. an.

With the violent beating: Sepia.

With suffocation Spongia.

On walking: Natr. mur., Thuja. In sleep: Mercur.

In the morning: Thuja.

After waking: Camphora, Spongia.

With twitches: Camphora.

After siesta: Staphis.

EATING AND DRINKING.

After drinking: Benz. ac., Conium.

After breakfast: China sulph.

After dinner: Pulsat., Crot. tigl.

After meals: Calcar.

After eating: Camphora, Carb. an., Nux vomica

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.