REPERTORY OF HEART SYMPTOMS



Sensation like an electric shock from heart towards the front of the neck: Graphit.

Feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off: Nux mosch.

Sensation as if drops of water were falling from the heart: Can. ind.

Sensation as if the heart was ascending to the throat: Phytol.

The heart feels tired: Nux. vom.

Feels as if a cap were over the heart; spine affected: Zincum.

Sensation of a great stone lay upon the heart; soon after, sensation as if the chest was broken out just in front of the heart: Cereus bon.

Feeling as if the heart was transfixed by a blunt instrument, as on a bolt: Cereus bon.

Sensation of dilatation of the heart, with anxiety: Cent. tag.

Sensation as if the heart had stopped still: China ars.

No perception of the beating of the heart: China ars.

Sitting, heart’s action subjectively felt, extending to head: China sulph.

Pulsation of the heart, felt in the left chest, after going up- stairs, in the afternoon: China sulph.

Conscious pulsation from heart to left chest, arm and abdomen, in the forenoon: China sulph.

Warmth about the heart, with anxiety, and some oppression of breath, so that she cannot breathe deeply, with inclination to take a deep breath; she feels relieved every time after frequent yawning: 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: Crocus.

Some jerkings in the left side of the heart: Crot. tigl.

Sudden sensation as if the heart stopped, when walking: Cicuta vir.

Feels that he must move or his heart will stop beating: Gelsem.

A sudden sensation as though the heart stood still, with great anxiety: Digit.

On turning on the left side, a sharp sticking pain is felt as if a needle were crosswise in the ventricles and pricked at each contraction: Iber.

The beating of the heart suddenly became distinct to the hand and was even felt in the chest: Jatropha.

Violent beating of the heart, shaking the chest, when walking slowly about the room: Jatropha.

A very marked sensation in the cardiac region of a constrictive character: Lycopodium virg.

Cardiac distress, scarcely amounting to pain, most marked at the apex, after rising: Lycopodium virg.

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: Naja trip.

Fluttering of the heart attended with headache: Naja trip.

Whilst writing a sudden attack of fluttering at the heart, with rising in the throat: Naja trip.

Fulness and pulsation over the body, so that I counted the pulse, 72, by the ear: Physos.

As the fresh air struck me, a choking sensation, with fluttering of the heart, over came me and oppressed me during the whole forenoon: Physos.

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: Physos.

Burning and sensation of weight in heart, with sadness, anguish and fear of death: Ananth.

Lancinations, cramps and weakness of the heart, which seems too full of blood and unable to beat, with oppression: Ananth.

Sensation as if the blood vessels of the heart and larynx were contracted: Ananth.

Stitches and cramps in the heart, with sensation as if its apex were pinched very hard: Ananth.

Trembling of the heart, with sensation as if it shook: Ananth.

Sensation as if the great vessels of the heart were distended in various parts: Ananth.

Heavy and painful heart: Ananth. Heart seems paralyzed, as if it could not beat any more, with death-like weakness: Ananth.

Feeling as if the heart was very large and plunged in a vessel of water: Bufo.

Lancinating and pulling in the region of the heart, as if it were being distended: Bufo.

Sensation of scraping and weight in the heart: Bufo.

Trembling feeling at the heart: Bufo.

Sometimes it seems to me as if I could hear every artery in my body beat: Physos.

Each beat of the heart was distinctly perceptible in the chest and temples: Physos.

Could readily count my pulse in the carotids and hear the two sounds of the heart as my head lay upon the pillow: Physos.

The heart’s action was distinctly felt by the hand applied to the praecordia: Strychnin.

Fluttering sensation about the heart, with faintness, in the morning: Strychnin.

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: Tabac.

Pain as if the heart and aorta were torn, with a tingling sensation: tarent.

Sensation as if the heart turned and twisted around with pain in the chest and general perspiration: tarent.

Severe pain in the aorta, extending to the subclavian, as if it was going to burst, with slight beating of the heart: tarent.

Palpitation, which came on in the form of an attack either in the evening or night (with oppression and pain about the shoulders): Thea.

A feeling of warmth about the heart, while sitting, in the evening, so that she was obliged to yawn a great deal, with collection of water in the mouth: Terebintha

Unusual and distressing sensation about the praecordia, as if he was continually on the verge of fainting: Thea.

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

Tremulous, anxious sensation, which seems to come out of the abdomen: Valer.

MENTAL SYMPTOMS.

Anguish: Ananth., Calcar. (at night).

Alarm: Sepia (interruption of the beating of the heart most after dinner; alarmed, quivering motion).

Anxiety: Ananth., Agaricus, Bellad., Cent. tag., Crocus, Digit., Jacea, Thea, Valer., Oleand.

With pressure: Agaricus

And arrest of breathing: Bellad.

While lying, with beating like waves: Jacea.

With fine stitches and formication in the heart: Ananth.

With sensation of dilatation of the heart: Cent. tag.

Fear of death: Ananth.

Sadness: Ananth.

Weeping: tarent. (oppression and pain in the heart as if a misfortune had happened, with weeping and moaning, followed by cramps and coldness in the extremities).

Moaning: tarent.

Uneasiness: Jatropha, Physos., Thea.

From palpitation and rush of thoughts: Jatropha.

Depression: Naja trip. (and lowness about the heart).

Distress: Camphora, Oleand., Physos.

About the heart when loudly spoken to: Camphora.

Lowness of spirits: Caustic., Naja trip.

With oppression about the heart: Caustic.

Fears apoplexy: Argent.

Worse when noticing the beating of the heart: Argentum nitr.

SUMMARIZED SENSATIONS.

Dull: Ailanth., Digit.

Pushing: Ledum.

Pulling: Bufo.

Pressure: Agaricus, Ambra, Asafoetida, Bellad., Glonoin., Graphit., Iber., Kalmia, Ledum, Lobel., Phosph., Pulsat.

With anxiety: Agaricus

In the region of the heart, as if it was too full and expanded: Asafoetida

Arrests the breathing and causes anxiety: Bellad.

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

Like a marble from epigastrium towards the heart, with a strong, quick heart-beat: Kalmia.

Or pushing inward at the left edge of the sternum: Ledum. And weakness in the epigastrium, rising to the heart: Lobel.

On the middle of the sternum; orthopnoea; dyspnoea; with inability to exert himself: Phosphor.

Or heaviness or fulness, worse in the evening: Pulsat.

Heavy: Ananth., Curare.

Heaviness: Lilium, Pulsat.

And pain in left mamma to left scapula: Lilium.

Or pressure, or fulness, worse evenings: Pulsat.

Weight: Ananth., Bufo, Cereus bon., Iber.

Sensation of a great stone laid upon the heart: Iber.

Oppression: Aconite, Agaricus, Amyl nitr., Aspar., Bryon., Caustic., Jacea., Physos., Spongia, Tabac., tarent., Terebintha, Thea.

With burning flushes along the back: Aconite

On bending forward: Agaricus

And stitches on bending forward when sitting: Jacea.

About the chest: Thea.

And cardiac pain, worse lying with head low: Spongia.

With lowness of spirits: Caustic.

With weak, irregular pulse: Tabac.

Fulness: Aconite, Argent., Argentum nitr., Glonoin., Pulsat.

With hard, strong, contracted pulse: Aconite

Heart’s action irregular, intermittent: Argentum nitr.

Worse evenings: Pulsat.

Large: Bufo.

Dilatation: Cent. tag.

Distended: Bufo.

Emptiness: Crocus.

Enlarged (as if): Sulphur.

Tightness: Arsen., Strychnin.

Contracted: Ailanth., Glonoin.

And dull pain in the region of base of heart and the centre of the left lung: Ailanth.

Constrictive: Lycop. virg.

Constriction: Angust., Cactus, Graphit., Tabac.

In heart, as if an iron band prevented its normal movements: Cactus.

Squeezed: Borax, Lilium, Iodum, Nux mosch.

And as if the heart were on the right side: Borax.

As if in a vise, with pain in left mamma to scapula: Lilium.

Feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off: Nux mosch.

Grasped: Lilium. (Heart feels as if violently grasped, then released, and so on alternately).

Stuffed up: Ambra.

Weakness: Ananth., Benz. ac., Crocus., Lobel., Mercur., Natr. mur., Pilocarp., Rhus tox., Sanguin.

And pressure in epigastrium, rising to the heart: Lobel.

As though life was ebbing away: Mercur.

Tired: Nux vomica, Rhus tox.

After a walk: Rhus tox.

Pulsations: Baptis., Calcar., China sulph., Lilium, Lycop., Physos.

Seem to fill the chest: Baptis.

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.