Ledum: Pushing or pressure inward at left edge of sternum; palpitation.
Lilium: Feels as if squeezed in a vise. Heart feels as if grasped, with pain and heaviness of left mamma to scapula. Heart as if violently grasped, then suddenly released; and so on alternately. Constrictive pain about heart extending through to scapula. Heaviness in region of the heart. Fluttering, general pain and feeling; hurried and forced feeling about the apex; better sitting still. Fluttering awakens her at night, with cold hands and feet covered with cold sweat. Conscious pulsations over whole body, and out-pressing in the hands and arms, as if blood would burst through the vessels.
Lithium carb: Fluttering and trembling, sudden shocks in the cardiac region.
Lobelia: Sensation of weakness and pressure in epigastrium, rising to heart. Short sensation as if the heart would stand still; deep in above the heart, a pain. Sawing sound about the heart, with violent pains, diarrhoea and vomiting.
Lycopodium: Sensation, as if the circulation stood still, or ebullitions.
Lycopus virg.: A very marked sensation in the cardiac region of a constrictive character, lasting three hours, in the early part of the day. Cardiac distress, scarcely amounting to pain, most marked at the apex, after rising.
Manganum ac.: Sudden shocks at the heart and in the left side of the chest from above downward.
Mercurius: Weakness at the heart, as if life was ebbing away; awakens with trembling at the heart, and agitation as if frightened.
Naja trip.: Nervous sensation about the heart. Feeling of depression and lowness about the heart. For three days past has felt the want of something about the praecordia; several days ago tried to sing, but had no power to throw out the voice. Uneasiness about the heart while walking. Heat and uneasy about the heart toward evening. Fluttering of the heart attended with headache. Whilst writing a sudden attack of fluttering at the heart, with rising in the throat.
Natrum mur.: Fluttering of the heart, with weak, faint feeling, worse lying down.
Nux mosch.: Feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off. Trembling, fluttering of heart, as if from fright.
Nux vomica: Heart feels tired.
Oleander: Distress at the heart and anxiety.
Opium: Burning about the heart.
Petroleum: Cold feeling about the heart. (Arnica, Camphor, Kali carb., Natr mur., Oleand.)
Phosphorus: Great pressure on the middle of the sternum, orthopnoea, dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself; palpitation.
Phytolacca: Awakens with lameness near the heart, worse during expiration, cannot get to sleep again.
Physostigma: Uneasiness and distress about the heart, mostly without violent palpitation, but with a fulness and pulsation over the body, so that I counted the pulse, 72, by the ear; this uneasiness is principally at night, causing restlessness, tossing from one side to the other with dry heart all over. Happening to get on the left side, my attention was, for the first time, directed to the tumultuous action of the heart, which compelled me to turn again on the back to escape the strange sensation. As the fresh air struck me, a choking sensation, with fluttering of the heart, overcame me and oppressed me during the whole forenoon; I heard and felt the fluttering of my heart in my throat, with a sensation of faintness by motion and some relief in a recumbent sitting position, not by lying down; fluttering keeps steadily on, with attacks of vertigo, towards evening, especially when changing positions; heart’s action irregular; intermission every third, fourth or fifth beat; sometimes it seems to me as if I could hear every artery in my body beat. While sitting still he felt a pulsation through the whole body, particularly in the chest; each beat of the heart was distinctly perceptible in the chest and temples. Could readily count my pulse in the carotids, and hear the two sounds of the heart as my head lay upon the pillow.
Pilocarpinum: Weakness of the heart.
Podophyllum: Clucking sensation rising to throat, preventing respiration; palpitation.
Pulsatilla: Beating in the chest interrupts sleep; old maids. Burning in the region of the heart. Heaviness, pressure or sensation of fulness every evening.
Rhus: Chest and heart feel weak after a walk; trembling sensation in the heart; numbness and lameness of left arm.
Rumex: Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest. Burning in the region of the heart.
Sanguinaria: Weak feeling at the heart.
Scutellaria: Towards evening a sensation of throbbing about the heart.
Sepia: Interruption of the beating of the heart, most after dinner; alarmed, quivering motion. An occasional hard “thump” of the heart. (See Aurum, Zincum.)
Spigelia: Purring feeling over the heart, not synchronous with the pulse.
Spongia: Attacks of oppression and cardiac pain, worse lying with the head low.
Staphisagria: Trembling beating of the heart.
Strychninum: Tightness about the praecordia. Fluttering sensation about the heart with faintness, in the morning. The heart’s action was distinctly felt by the hand applied to the praecordia.
Sulphur: Sensation as if the heart was enlarged.
Sumbul: Palpitation and jerking of the heart at intervals, worse during the flush of heat, and especially after drinking stout; jerkings of the heart in the evening.
Tabacum: Suffered, chiefly at night, from paroxysms of praecordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between the shoulders. Darting pain, extending from the heart up to the vertex and sensation of constriction across the front of upper chest, with dyspnoea and disposition to take a full inspiration. Palpitation, with tightness of the throat. 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. For about a month during the night he frequently had attacks of palpitation, with oppression and pain about the shoulders. (Allen.) Oppression at heart, pulse feeble, irregular. (Hering.)
tarentula: Oppression and pain in the heart, as if a misfortune had happened, with weeping and moaning, followed by cramps and coldness in the extremities. Pain as if the heart and aorta were torn, with a tingling sensation. Sensation as if the heart turned and twisted around, with pain in the chest and general perspiration. Severe pain in the aorta, extending to the subclavian, as if it was going to burst, with slight beating of the heart.
Terebinthina: Frightful oppression in the praecordial region. A feeling of warmth at the heart while sitting in the evening (of which she had noticed nothing during the whole day. though she had been in constant motion), so that she was obliged to yawn a great deal, with collection of water in the mouth.
Thea: Oppression of the heart and chest. Feeling of anxious oppression about the heart. A certain uneasiness of the heart, generally trembling and debility, making him feel somewhat sick the next day. Unusual and distressing sensation about the praecordia, as if he were continually on the verge of fainting. The heart some times palpitates, and at other times seemed motionless.
Valeriana: In the first quarter of an hour the beats are full and vigorous, in the second the diastole is shorter, the whole body being agreeably warm, and a tremulous, anxious sensation being experienced, which seems to come out of the abdomen.
Veratrum vir.: Burning, pricking.
Zincum: Feels as if a cap were over the heart; spine affected.
PECULIAR SYMPTOMS.
A feeling as if boiling water was being poured into the chest: Aconite
As if the heart was working in water: Bovista.
Beating like waves: Jacea (Viola tricolor).
Boiling and bubbling in the chest and cardiac region: Lachnanth. (gurgling, Bellad.).
Feels hot in the chest and around the heart: Lachnanth.
Heart’s pulsations seem to fill the chest: Baptis.
As if the heart was too full and expanded. Asafoetida
As if the heart was enlarged: Sulphur.
Constant feeling as of a lump in the epigastrium, with pain under the sternum: Agaricus
Sensation as if the circulation stood still: Lycop.
Feels as though the heart ceased, and then suddenly gave one hard thump. Aurum (Sepia, Zincum).
As if an iron band prevented its normal movement: Cactus.
Feels as if squeezed in a vise: Lilium.
Sensation as if the heart was on the right side and was being squeezed: Borax.
Heart feels if violently grasped, then suddenly released, and so on alternately: Lilium.
Sensation as of something alive running in the heart: Cyclam.
As if the heart was hanging by bands: Kali carb.
As if the heart would turn over: Lauroc.
Every beat has a strumming, as though it would burst, along the sternum: Kalmia.
Conscious pulsation over the whole body, and out-pressing in the hands and arms, as if the blood would burst through the vessels: Lilium.
Weakness at the heart as if life was ebbing away: Mercur.
Sudden shocks in the cardiac region: Lithium.
Sudden shocks at the heart and in the left side of the chest from above downward: Mang. acet.
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.