REPERTORY OF HEART SYMPTOMS



Tremulous after eating at night, with anguish: Rhus tox.

Conscious over the whole body, with out-pressing in hands and arms, as if blood would burst through the vessels: Lilium.

Nervous: Naja trip.

Stopped: China ars., Cicuta vir., Digit.

Motionless: Thea.

Transfixed: Cereus bon. (as by a bolt).

Hurried: Lilium.

Beating: Jacea, Lauroc., Pulsat. Like waves: Jacea. (See Spigel.) Interrupting sleep; old maids: Pulsat.

Buzzing: Cyclam.

Purring: Glonoin., Spigel.

And nose when lying: Glonoin. Not synchronous with the pulse: Spigel.

Sawing (sound): Lobel.

Strumming: Kalmia (every beat has a strumming, as if it would burst, along the sternum).

Scraping: Bufo.

Quivering: Sepia.

Tremor: Absynth. (felt towards the back).

Tremulous: Calcar., Valer.

Trembling: Ananth., Bufo, Nux mosch., Lithium, Rhus, Staphis.

With numbness and lameness of the left arm: Rhus.

Fluttering: Naja trip., Nux mosch., Lauroc., Lilium, Lithium, Physos., Natrum mur., Strychnin.

With gasping for breath: Lauroc. And general faint feeling, hurried and forced feeling about the apex; awakes her at night, with cold hands and feet, covered with cold sweat; with sharp, quick pain in the heart: Lilium.

With faint feelings, worse lying down: Natr. mur.

Gurgling: Bellad. (with a kind of palpitation going up-stairs).

Clucking: Phytol. (rising to throat, preventing respiration).

Drawing: Agaricus (in region of the diaphragm, sharp pains in left side).

Crawling: Canthar. (stitch, followed by a crawling sensation).

Tingling: Aconite (with fainting) tarent.

Formication: Ananth.

Numbness: Actea, Laches, Rhus tox.

In left arm as if bound to the side: Actea.

Left arm: Actea, Laches.

And lameness: Rhus tox.

Prickling: Verbascum vir.

Twitchings: Argent., Camphora, Stramon.

Painless, of the whole cardiac muscle, especially lying on the back; fears apoplexy: Argent.

Cramping: Ananth., Kali carb.

Colic-like: Crocus.

Boiling and bubbling: Lachnanth. (in chest and cardiac region).

Burning: Ananth., Cereus bon., Aescul., Kali carb., Opium, Pulsat., Rumex, Ver vir.

Heat: Lachnanth., Naja trip.

In the chest and around the heart: Lachnanth.

Warmth: Cann. sat., Crocus, Terebintha, Valer.

With violent beating of the heart on moving the body and on stooping: Cann. sat.

Coldness: Arnica, Camphora, Kali bichr., Natr. mur., Oleand., Petrol.

And irresistible sleepiness: Camphora.

And tightness of chest: Kali bichr.

Bruised: Arnica.

Lameness: Phytol. Rhus.

Lump: Agaricus, Ambra (under the sternum, with pain).

Jerking: Crot. tigl.: Sumbul.

Shock: Arnica, Graphit., Lithium carb. carb., Mang. ac.

Like an electric shock from the heart to front of neck: Graphit.

Sudden shocks in the heart and in the left side of the chest from above downward: Mang.

Feels the heart beat: Baryta carb., Calcarea phosph., Laches., Murex

ac.

Of the pulse not frequent, but quick; while sitting feels it in the nape of the neck and left chest: Calcarea phosph.

Felt in the face: Acid Muriaticum

In his head while lying: Lachnanth.

Painful: Ananth.

Needle-like: Iber. (as if a needle were crosswise in the ventricle and pricked at each contraction.) Sharp: Iber.

Lancinations: Ananth., Bufo.

Torn: tarent.

Sticking: Iber.

Drawing: Crocus.

Throbbing: Scutell.

Paralyzed: Ananth., Cereus serp. At 9.50 P.M., Cereus serp.

Uneasiness: China sulph., Digit., Jatropha, Naja trip., Thea. Distress: Lycopodium, virg., (scarcely amounting to pain, most marked at the apex, after rising.) Feels as though the heart stopped beating: Aurum, Cicuta, Lobel., Lycop., Rumex. And then suddenly gave one hard thump: Aurum.

Sometimes a faint feeling therewith: Cicuta.

Heart seems as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest: Rumex.

Sensation as if the circulation stood still, or ebullitions: Lycop.

Short sensation as if the heart would stand still; deep in above the heart, a pain: Lobel.

CONCOMITANTS.

With pain: Agaricus, Ailanth., Arnica, Canthar., Iber., Jacea, Kali carb., Lilium, Lobel., Phytol., Rhus, tarent., Tabac.

Under the sternum: Agaricus

Sharp pain in left side, with drawing in the region of the diaphragm: Agaricus

Dull pain and contracted feeling in the region of the heart: Ailanth.

Bruised: Arnica.

Stitch followed by a crawling sensation: Canthar.

Stitches: Jacea.

Cramping, as if the heart was hanging by bands: Kali carb. Sharp, quick pains in the left chest, awakened from sleep with a hurried and forced feeling about the apex.: Lilium.

With pain in the chest: tarent.

With oppression and pain about the shoulders: Tabac.

With pain between the shoulders: Tabac.

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

Deep in above the heart, a pain, violent, with sawing sound about the heart, diarrhoea, vomiting: Lobel.

Lameness: Phytol., Rhus.

With palpitation: Aconite Angus., Aspar., Ambra, Bovista, Crocus, Curare, Iber., Jatropha, Ledum, Phosphor., Phytol., Physos., Sumbul, Tabac.

When sitting or standing, with a painful sensation as if the heart was contracted: Angust. With oppression of the chest: Aspar.

With heaviness of the heart: Curare.

With pain between the shoulders: Tabac.

With tightness of the throat: Tabac.

With pain and contraction of chest: Tabac.

Mostly without palpitation: Physos. With a feeling as if boiling water was being poured into the chest: Aconite

As if the heart was working in water after going up-stairs: Bovista.

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

With pushing or pressure at left edge of sternum: Ledum.

Dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself: Phosphor.

With clucking sensation, rising to the throat, preventing respiration: Phytol.

With choking sensation: Physos.

With faintness by motion: Physos.

With vertigo: Physos., (towards evening, especially when changing position).

With faintness:Strychnin.

With pulse slow and full, then accelerated, hard and dicrotic: Ananth.

With death-like weakness: Ananth.

With protrusion of mucous membrane of right side of anus: China sulph.

With a sensation of weakness in the forearm, all the evening: Digit.

With collection of water in the mouth: Terebintha

With headache: Naja trip.

With rising in the throat: Naja trip.

With restlessness, tossing about: Physos.

With dry heat all over: Physos.

With orgasm: China sulph., Physos., Scutel., Sumbul, Valer.

With fainting: Aconite (with tingling).

With faint feeling: Cicuta, Lilium, Natr. mur.

Feels as if the heart stopped beating: Cicuta.

General, with a hurried and forced feeling about the apex, better sitting still: Lilium.

With orthopnoea: Phosphor.

With dyspnoea: Bellad., Kali bichr., Lauroc., Tabac.

And anxiety: Bellad.

Gasps for breath: Lauroc.

With stitches: Canthar., Jacea. With irresistible sleepiness: Camphora.

With tightness of the chest: Kali bichr., Tabac.

With (sometimes) slight cough: Lauroc.

With cold hands and feet covered with sweat: Lilium.

With diarrhoea: Lobel.

With vomiting: Lobel.

PULSE CHARACTERS ACCOMPANYING SENSATIONS.

Accelerated: Ananth.

Full: Ananth.

Slow: Ananth.

Tumultuous: Amyl nitr.

Dicrotic: Ananth.

Violent: Cann. sat., Sepia.

Hard: Aconite, Kalmia.

Strong: Aconite, Kalmia.

Small: Asafoetida

Contracted: Aconite

Weak: Tabac.

Irregular: Aconite, Tabac.

Intermittent: Argent., Glonoin., Kalmia.

Strong, quick heart-beat. The third or fourth beat is hard, and is followed by an intermission: Kalmia.

AGGRAVATION AND DETERMINING CAUSES.

Time.

Morning: Lycopodium virg., Strychnin.

Forenoon: China sulph., Physos.

Afternoon: China ars., China sulph.

Towards evening: Naja trip., Scutel.

Evening: Digit., Pulsat., Sumbul, Tabac., Terebintha

Night: Arsen., Calcar., Cereus serp., Jatropha, Physos., Tabac., Lilium, Mercur.

With anguish: Calcar.

Awakes her: Lilium.

Position.

On bending forward: Agaricus (pressure).

On bending forward when sitting: Jacea.

On stooping: Canthar. sat.

When sitting: Calcarea phosph., Jacea, Physos.

Feels the beating of the heart in the nape of the neck and left chest: Calcarea phosph.

After rising: Lycopodium virg.

When lying: Glonoin., Jacea, Lachnanth., Natr. mur.

Beating like waves: Jacea.

Then feels the beating of his heart in his head: Lachnanth.

With the head low: Glonoin., Spongia.

When lying on the back: Argent.

When lying on the left side: Glonoin.

Motion.

Turning to the left side: Iber.

Motion: Physos. (faintness).

On moving the body: Cann. ind.

Moving slowly about the room: Jatropha.

When going up-stairs: Bellad.

After going up-stairs: China sulph., Bovista.

Visible palpitation, as if the heart was working in water: Bovista.

When walking: Cicuta vir., Naja trip.

After a walk: Rhus.

Eating and Drinking.

After eating: Aspar., Calcar.

After dinner: Sepia.

After drinking stout: Sumbul.

Exertion.

Exertion causes strong beating, worse when noticing it: Argent.

After overexertion: Bovista.

While writing: Naja trip.

Sleep.

Wakes from sleep at night: Lilium, Mercur., Phytol., Sepia.

With trembling and agitation, as if frightened: Mercur.

With lameness near the heart, worse during expiration: Phytol.

With violent beating of the heart: Sepia.

Interrupting sleep: Phytol.

Unclassifiable.

During expiration: Phytol.

When loudly spoken to: Camphora (distress).

Worse when the fresh air strikes him: Physos.

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.