Lactuca-virosa [Lact]
Crampy stitching in left chest, extending to left scapula, and indescribable tightness of whole chest; great oppression of chest at night, waking him from sleep and obliging him to sit up with anxious suddenness; feels as if he would suffocate, and finds himself suddenly on his feet in the room; pulse slow, contracted and small.
Laurocerasus [Laur]
Attacks of suffocation, with gasping for breath, and cyanosis when sitting up; stitches in praecordial region; violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech; eructations tasting of bitter almonds; coldness; cold, moist skin; convulsions of the muscles of face; nervous cough arising from cardiac affection.
Lycopodium [Lyc]
Cramp and constriction in chest, cannot get breath; stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of back and shoulders; sharp pain shooting into heart; sensation of stoppage of circulation at night, with fright and then perspiration; pulse quick, unsteady; cannot bear being covered.
Magnesia-phos [Mag-p]
Neuralgic constrictive pains in chest and throat; nervous spasmodic palpitation; dry, tickling cough without expectoration.
Moschus [Mosch]
Tightness of chest so that he is obliged to take a deeper breath than usual; sensation of trembling around heart, with constriction in whole chest, almost suffocation.
Naja-tripudians [Naja]
Sudden attack of fluttering at the heart, with rising in the throat, and headache; sudden agonizing pain in heart; unusual beating of heart, audible to patient; heat and uneasy aching, with oppression in heart; stitching pains in heart; inability to speak, with choking; pain not affected by inspiration; nervous chronic palpitations.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Haemorrhoidal tendency; constrictive pain in thorax, as if sternum were pressed inward; stitches in cardiac region, palpitations; especially at night in bed or towards morning, (<) from mental emotions, protracted study, after eating.
Oxalic-acid [Ox-ac]
Sharp darting in heart and left lung, extending down to epigastrium; jerking pains, like short stitches, confined to
small space, lasting only a few seconds; numbness and weakness in back and limbs; soreness, stitches in heart from behind forward and from above downward.
Petroleum [Petr]
Pressing pain, much (<) between the shoulder-blades; feeling as if there were a cold stone in the heart; feeble impulse of the heart with irregular and intermitting pulse; pulse accelerated by every motion, slow during rest.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Cardiac cough, sharp, rough, short and dry-expiration prevails; pressing pain under sternum, with feeling of tightness across chest; dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself; palpitation from every motion, (<) before a thunderstorm; suitable to rapidly growing youth.
Phytolacca [Phyt]
Shocks of pain in cardiac region, shooting into right arm; heart’s action weak, with constipation; awakens with lameness near heart, (<) during expiration, cannot go to sleep again; pulse full, but soft.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Tendency to fainting; stitches in heart, with lameness and stiffness of whole body and limbs; chest and heart feel weak after a walk; violent beating of heart when sitting still.
Sambucus [Samb]
Spasmodic attacks of suffocation during night, with sibilant and accelerated respiration, fear and crying; occasional omission of heart beat.
Sepia [Sep]
Affections of heart, with violent, unequal intermittent palpitating and tremulous motion of heart; flushes of heat, with cold hands and feet.
Spigelia [Spig]
Abnormal action of heart, with pain, (<) when stretching himself out, when bending forward, lifting arms or from the least motion; (>) in stooping touching the stomach externally; severe stabbing stitches in the heart at every beat; pain rapidly passing around the body from left to right, inside, to the scrobiculus cordis; sudden severe pain in left chest so violent that it knocks her down; weak, irregular pulse; strong but slow pulse; spasmodic pain in stomach inducing vomiting of contents of stomach and mucus, but no bile.
Spongia [Spong]
Contracting pain in heart; heat, suffocation, faintness and anxious sweat; pressure across chest, as from a heavy weight, especially at aortic arch (aneurisma aortae); sudden awaking after midnight, with suffocation, great alarm and anxiety; (<) with the head lying low, at every attempt to lie down.
Tabacum [Tab]
Violent beating of heart and carotids; sudden praecordial anguish; violent palpitation lying on left side, passes away when turning to right; nocturnal attacks of tightness of chest, with palpitation and paroxysmal oppression; neuralgia up to the neck; pale face, cold extremities and clammy sweat; glowing heat in face, with redness frequently only on one side.
Tarentula [Tarent]
Palpitation, with panting respiration and prostrations; acceleration and suspension of movements of heart; trembling of heart as when frightened; suffocation, so that patient thinks he is going to die.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
Periodical attacks of contractive, crampy pain in left chest, or cutting pains with excessive agony, arresting breathing and extending to shoulder; violent, visible, anxious palpitation, with fainting; cramps in limbs; cold and clammy skin.
Viburnum [Vib]
Sharp, shooting pain in left chest, felt as if the breath would leave her body; irregular breathing, weak and sighing; pulse weak, irregular, with great prostration and dizziness; dysmenorrhoea; severe after pains. (E.M.H.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.
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