The heart’s action was distinctly felt by the hand applied to the chest: Strychnin.
The heart sounds were muffled and seemed to almost run into each other: Tabac.
Systolic murmur in aortic area and in the course of large vessels (?) : Tabac.
Sounds of the heart inaudible, and its movements scarcely felt: Tabac.
Feeble cardiac action and all the signs of impending dissolution: Tanac.
The flutterings of the heart have been succeeded by a momentary suspension of its action and long-continued swoonings : Thea.
AGGRAVATIONS.
Position.
Worse lying: Mercur., Tanac.
Worse lying on left side: Mercur., Natr. mur., Physos.
Worse lying on the back: China sulph., Kali nitr.
Motion.
Worse from motion: Aspar.
Exertion.
Worse from exertion: Argentum nitr., Aurum.
Worse after exertion: Iber.
Worse from active exercise: Tabac.
Time.
Worse in the morning: Lycopodium virg. (on awaking, intermission).
Worse in the forenoon : Valer.
Worse in the afternoon: Cereus bon.
Worse in the evening: China sulph., dulcam., Kali nitr. (in bed), Lycopodium virg., Scutell., Sumbul, Terebintha
Worse at night: Tabac.
Miscellaneous.
Worse after dinner: Ascl. tub., Cereus bon., Sepia.
Worse noticing the beating of heart: Argentum nitr.
Worse after wetting the hands in cold water: tarent.
AMELIORATIONS
Better from perspiration: Pilocarp. (pulse acceleration).
Better by lying still awhile: China sulph.
Better from moderate motion: China sulph.
Better sitting up: Kali nitr., tarent.
Better lying on the back: Physos.
Better from coffee: Physos.
SLOW CARDIAC ACTION AND PULSE.
Aconite, Aconitine, Aconite cam., Aconite fer., Adonis ver., Agaricus, Agnus, Aloes, Amygd. am., Ananth., Apocynum, Argent., Aspar., Atrop., Baptis., Baryta ac., Bufo, Baryta carb., Bellad., Benz. ac., Berber., Cactus, Caffeine, Cann. ind., Cann. sat., Cantharis, Capsic., Cepa, Chin, sulph., Chloral., Cicuta vir., Chelid., Coca, Conval., Colchic., Coloc., Crot. hor., Cuprum ac., Digit., Dulcam., Gelsem., Graphit., Helleb., Hydrastis ac., Hyosc., Iber., Ignat., Jabor., Junip. vir., Kali brom., Kali cyan., Kali ferocy., Kali nitr., Kalmia, Kreosotum, Lactuca, Lycopodium virg., Lobel., Mang. ac., Mercur., Mercurius cyan., Menyanth., Mezer., Naja tr., Nicot., Nitrum, Oleand., Opium, Paris, Petrol., Pilocarp., Physos., Plumbum, Pulsat., Ranunculus bulb., Rhodod., Sambuc., Sarsap., Secale, Scutell., spigel., Stercul. acum., Strophanth., Strychnin., Sumbul, Squilla, Tabac., Tanac., tarent., Terebintha, Thea, Thuya, Valer., Veratr., Verbascum vir., Zincum.
Aconite: When slow, almost imperceptible, thread-like, with anxiety.
Aconitine: Pulse at first, on entering a warm room, more frequent, then sinks far below normal, is small, weak and intermittent. Pulse falls to 60, and, in two hours after taking the medicine, was so feeble as to be almost imperceptible and difficult to count.
Aconitum cam.: Pulse slow, 51; small and weak, can hardly feel it. Pulse sinks, becomes irregular, small, weak.
Aconitum fer.: Pulse small, weak, 60.
Adonis vern.: The pulse is slow and the force of the systolic contraction increased.
Agaricus: Becomes slower, small, irregular.
Agnus: Slow and weak.
Aloes: Slow in the afternoon.
AMygdalae am. aq.: Pulse at first small, frequent and intermittent, then slow and regular. Pulse full and strong, but slow. Pulse slow and vibrating. Pulse from 70 down to 30, very feeble in carotid and radial arteries. Pulse slow and flickering. Diminished pulse.
Anantherum: Pulse slow and full, then accelerated, hard and dicrotic.
Antimonium crud.: Changing slow to rapid every few beats.
Apocynum: Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting.
Asclepias tub.: Pulse rose from 64 to 88; small.
Atropinum: Weak doses accelerate the heart and increase blood pressure; poisonous doses have the reverse effect. Pulse 60. Baptisia: At first accelerated, afterwards slow and faint.
Baryta ac.: Pulse remained pretty regular, but notably slackened (56 instead of 70); 65, 56; as low as 25.
Belladonna: Large, full and slow.
Benzoic ac.: Slower and weaker, intermittent.
Berberis: Slow, weak pulse.
Bufo: The heart-beats are sometimes quick, sometimes slow, intermittent or irregular.
Caffeine: In moderate doses diminishes the heart’s pulsations.
Cactus: At times frequent, at other slow.
Cannabis ind.: Pulse slow, as low as 46.
Cantharis: At times intermittent, slow, feeble, scarcely perceptible.
Capsicum: Slow, intermitting.
Cepa: Slow and hard.
Chininum sulph.: Slowness of the pulse. Action on the circulation was constant; it usually occurred half an hour after taking, and proportionate to the size of the dose, producing slowness of the pulse. Pulse regular, slow and scarcely perceptible.
Chloralum: Pulse diminished.
Cicuta vir.: Pulse slow and full.
Pulse small and slow.
Coca: Pulse 60.
Colchicum: Full and slow; slow and feeble.
Colocynth.: Less slow and weak.
Convallaria maj.: The heart is at first slowed, but afterwards becomes accelerated.
Crot. hor.: Pulse at first full, hard and rapid, then weak and slow. Pulse low and about 60 strokes in the minute.
Cuprum ac.: Pulse large, slow and intermitting.
Digitalis: SMall, irregular, slow; extremely slow, particularly when at rest.
Dulcamara: Pulse slow, intermitting.
Erythrophloeum (Casca Bark): Slow and irregular action of the heart (in animals).
Gelsemium: Feeble, slow; slow and full.
Graphites: Slow during the day and evening.
Helleborus: Often slower than the beating of the heart.
Hellonias: Pulse at the wrist weak, hardly perceptible, and about 60 beats to the minute. Pulse small, weak and sometimes as infrequent as 40 beats to the minute.
Hydrocyanic ac.: Irregular beat of the heat, with slow depressed pulse. Pulse weak and slow. Pulse slow and scarcely perceptible.
Hyoscyamus: Slow and small.
Iberis: Pulse 70, intermittent, irregular, thin and wiry. Pulse 62, regular, but very easily compressed.
Jaborandi:At the moment the sweat was produced, there was an increase of pulse and temperature; then, during the period of active sweating, it was sometimes noted that these two elements remained at the same point as at the outset of the experiment; sometimes there was a slight diminution; but after sweating a notable diminution of the pulse and of the temperature were observed, which sometimes lasted two days after the experiment (in 32 experiments).
Juniperus virg.: Pulse less than 60, afterwards sank to 45, then intermitted. Pulse 55; after an hour it began to rise in frequency, became more regular, narrow, normal and firm. Pulse fluttering, feeble and slow, not more than 55 in a minute, and very irregular.
Ignatia: Small and slow.
Kali brom.: Action of the heart slow and fluttering. Accelerated heart, after a while it was at times several beats slower than natural. Pulse slower, except during actual vomiting. Small and slow pulse. Pulse weak and slow.
Kali cyan.: Pulse 70, large, soft and compressible. Pulse small but distinct, 60 per minute. Pulse scarcely perceptible, slow and irregular.
Kali ferocy.: Lessens the action of the heart, diminishes the number of beats in a minute, and softening and lessening the volume of the pulse. A full dose of this substance will often reduce the number of pulsations in a well person 10 beats in a minute, in a few minutes after being taken.
Kali nitr.: pulse slow, small and weak. Pulse very weak, small and thready at 60.
Kalmia: Slow, weak.
Lactuca: In some persons the pulse was reduced from 10 to 12 beats.
Leptandra: Slow and full.
Lobelia: Slower than usual.
Lycopus virg.: Intermittent character of cardiac pulsation, intermission at seventh, eighth, sixth, twenty-first, ninth, twenty-third and eighty-eighth, on waking, at 60.20 a.m., later the heart beats regular at 70.
Manganum acet.: Very uneven and irregular, sometimes rapid and sometimes soft and slow, but constantly soft and weak.
Mercurius: Slower by day; when slow it is weak and trembling.
Mercurius cyan.: Pulse small, slow and contracted. The pulse continued to sink constantly for twelve days, until it was only 52, after which it arose during the next week to 104.
Menyanthes; Pulse slow, 52.
Mezereum: Frequent in the morning, slow in the evening.
Naja trip.: Pulse 32, remarkably irregular both in rhythm and in force, some of the beats being strikingly full and bounding. Pulse weak and thready. Pulse hardly perceptible.
Nicotinum: Pulse and respiration very irregular, sometimes becoming very rapid, sometimes sinking.
Nitrum: Slow in the morning.
Oleander: Slow in the morning. (Hering.) Pulse weak and very slow. Intermissions every fourth or fifth beat. At one time rapid, at another very slow. Perceptible, violent and full, but slow pulsations in the carotids. (Gen. Lit.) Opium: Full and slow, with snoring.
Paris: Full, but slow.
Petroleum: Slow during rest.
Physostigma: Pulse slow: feeble; thready; intermittent; 60 very small, wiry, but regular; strong and full; weak.
Pilocarpinum: In its primary effect it causes slight increase in the frequency of the pulse and diminution of the blood pressure, from small doses; after larger doses the pulse becomes slow, with great diminution of the blood pressure.
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