Aconite [Acon]
Chill followed by heat; stitching pain in region of heart; cannot lie right side; frequent sighing and taking deep breath; feeling of fulness in chest, dyspnoea, fainting, restlessness; or at a latter stage when the beats of heart become weaker, irregular, intermittent, unequal and the small feeble pulse is not synchronous to the beats of the heart; temperature lower while respiration increases. (Digitalis may follow in this later stage.).
Anacardium [Anac]
Rheumatic pericarditis with sharp stitches through cardiac region, these STITCHES BEING DOUBLE, one stitch, is quickly followed by another and then there is a long interval; restless; feeling of heart; pulse frequent, face red.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Pericarditis after suppression of measles or scarlatina, with agony, restlessness tingling in fingers, especially of left hand; palpitations (<) at night and when lying on back; oedema, beginning with puffiness of eyes and swelling of feet, ending in general anasarca; great dyspnoea, spells of suffocation, (<) after midnight and when lying down; burning thirst with intolerance of water.
Asclepias-tub [Asc-t]
Acute rheumatic pericarditis or subacute; slight dyspnoea aside from painful respiration; acute pain in chest felt on inspiration, movement of arms, stooping forward or lying on left side; indescribable uneasiness in shoulder and arm; pressure on intercostal spaces caused some pain, especially over region of heart.
Belladonna [Bell]
Acute stage with cerebral congestion and delirium; violent palpitation, reverberating in head.
Bryonia [Bry]
COMPLICATIONS WITH PLEURITIS; stitching pain in cardiac region, preventing motion and breathing; severe frontal headache, scanty acid urine, acid sweat; gastric symptoms and thirst; dryness of mouth, brown coating of tongue; inflammation of joints.
Cactus [Cact]
Sensation of constriction in the heart, as if it were grasped by an iron hand; acute pains and stitches in the heart; difficulty of breathing; attacks of suffocation, with fainting; palpitation when walking, and at night when lying on left side; cold sweat on face; no pulse.
Cimicifuga [Cimic]
Sudden and severe rheumatic pericarditis, with intense pain, diffused over whole left side and extending into the arm; heart’s action violent and irregular (choreic); pains aching, stitching, BENUMBING, COMING IN SUDDEN SHOCKS; sensation in head of bursting, as if top would fly off, with violent aching in eyeballs; mental depression, gloomy and taciturn.
Colchicum [Colch]
Violent palpitation with anxiety, and sensation as if chest were squeezed by a tight bandage; VERTIGO ON ASSUMING UPRIGHT POSITION; palpitation and stitches about heart, loss of consciousness. Effusion into pericardium with heart’s action muffled, indistinct, very weak; pulse thread like, imperceptible- following gout or acute rheumatism; sharp, rending pains along sternum and into left shoulder; distressing restlessness and sleeplessness; hot, dry skin, vomiting and purging with coated tongue and thirst.
Digitalis [Dig]
Copious serous exudation; muscular power of heart failing, excited, but weak action of heat; irregular, unequal, intermittent pulse; rapid respiration, oppressed breathing, cyanotic appearance of face and lips; brickdust sediment in urine; oedema pedum.
Iodum [Iod]
Complication with croupous pneumonia; purring feeling in the region of heart; violent palpitation, increased from slightest motion, better while lying perfectly quiet on back; fainting; complications with articular rheumatism.
Kali-carb [Kali-c]
Stitching pain in cardiac region; swelling between the eyebrows and the upper lips; jerking up of the limbs, much frightened when having the feet touched; worse about 3 A.M.; pulsations all over the body. Suits better later stages of cardiac affections.
Kali-iod [Kali-i]
(Ammonium iod.). After effusion has taken place, great dyspnoea, weakness of cardiac muscle; horrible smothering feeling about heart, awakening patient from sleep and compelling him to get out of bed.
Kalmia [Kalm]
First stage of pericarditis rheumatica; albuminuria, tumultuous, rapid and visible beating of heart; great anguish, dyspnoea, fever, stitches in the heart’s region.
Lachesis [Lach]
PERICARDITIS, SECONDARY TO NEPHRITIC TROUBLES and dropsy after scarlatina and diphtheria; palpitation, can bear no pressure on throat or chest, must sit up or lie on right side; numbness of left arm, fainting, anxiety; pulse small, weak, rapid.
Manaca [Franc]
(E.M. Hale).- Intense headache, like a band around the head, with symptoms of cerebral congestion; pain in occiput, neck and spine of a lancinating, sticking character; aching and heat all over, followed by profuse sweat, with relief from all pain. (No provings yet.)
Pulsatilla [Puls]
After decrease of the inflammatory symptoms there still remain severe palpitations, keeping on even after the fits of coughing; loose rattling cough, worse on first going to bed; rheumatic pains which quickly change locality.
Rumex [Rumx]
During rheumatism burning-stinging pain in left side of chest near heart when taking a deep inspiration, at night in bed.
Scilla [Squil]
Inflammation and exudation of lymph and serum; oppression across chest as if it were too tight, stitches in left side; palpitations, pulse small and contracted, retarded or variable.
Spigelia [Spig]
Severe cases of pericarditis, not relieved by Aconite, complicated with rheumatism, pneumonia or pleuritis; stitching pain in chest from the very slightest motion; clear rubbing sounds; purring feeling in cardiac region.
Sulphur [Sulph]
Palpitation after going up stairs, with shortness of breath steady pain in left side through the shoulders; red lips; sleeplessness; after suppressed itch.
Tartarus-emet [Ant-t]
Full feeling, constriction of chest; palpitation of heart, pulse rapid, weak and trembling, or smell and contracted; complication with pneumonia.
Veratrum-alb [Verat]
PARALYSIS OF HEART FROM EXCESSIVE EFFUSION; violent dyspnoea, constricted sensation in throat, short dry cough, convulsive motions of a clonic character, cold sweat, great thirst, tumultuous, but weak action of heart with weak, irregular pulse.
Veratrum-vir [Verat-v]
Constant burning distress in cardiac region; steady, aching pain under left nipple; faintness after rising from a recumbent position; fainting during a walk, only (>) when lying down.
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.