DIGITALIS PURPUREA


DIGITALIS PURPUREA symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy DIGITALIS PURPUREA …


INTRODUCTION

Digitalis Fox Glove. Hahnemann’s “Chronic Diseases,” III. Duration of Action, from forty to fifty days.

Compare With.

Arsenicum, Belladonna, China., Coffea, Colocynthis, Conium, Helleborus, Hyoscyamus, Mercurius, Nux v., Opium, Petroleum, Pulsatilla, Spigelia, Sulph ac.,.

Antidotes.

Of large doses: sweat milk with Foenum graecum (Fene greek); vegetable acids, Vinegar; infusion of Galls: Ether; Camphor. Of small doses: Nux-v., opium According to Hahnemann, China increases the anxiety caused by Dig to deadly anguish. Dig antidotes Wine.

Dr. Gray.

“I have found the Digitalis very efficacious in several very severe cases of Vertigo. It is especially indicated when, with the vertigo, the pulse is very slow.”.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

The trunk and limbs, especially the things, are painfully stiff. General painfulness of the whole body. piercing pain in the joints. Drawing in the back, the things, legs, and fingers, as after a cold. Violent convulsion. Spasms. Epileptic fits. Nervous affections of very kind, and great weakness. Emaciation of the body proportional to an increases of intellectual activity. Feeling of great lightness of the body. Heaviness and laziness of the limbs. Lazy and faint, in the morning on rising from bed. Physical and mental languor. Great lassitude of the upper and lower limbs. Considerable lassitude, with vertigo and intermittent pulse. Sinking of the vital powers. General weakness. Great weakness. Sudden failing of strength, with general sweat and cough a few hours after. Serous apoplexy of old people. Fainting fits, with inclination to vomit. Fatal apoplectic fit.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.

The symptoms appear to be aggravated in a warm room.

SKIN.

Corrosive itching. Darting, burning, and somewhat itching pricking. Peeling off of the skin of the whole body. Elastic white swelling of the whole body, with great painfulness to the touch passing off by the swelling becoming soft and anasarca setting in Elastic painful swelling in the leg, afterwards of the hands and fore arms. General paleness of the skin. Jaundice.

SLEEP.

Frequent yawning and stretching, with chilliness. Drowsiness with weariness, slumber. Lethargy. Lethargy, interrupted by violent, convulsive fits of vomiting. Has difficulty in falling asleep. Uneasy, unrefreshing sleep. Violent pain at night, in the left shoulder and elbow joint. Confused, vivid dreams. Frequent waking at night, starting up from a dream as with fright.

FEVER.

Coldness of the limbs. Internal coldness in the whole body. Shuddering over the back. Excessive sensitiveness to cold. Feverish shivering, followed by heat, after which profuse perspiration. Chilliness over the whole body, with heat and redness of the face. Gastric and other fevers. Feverish feelings. Small, quick, hard pulse. Small, soft pulse. Irritated pulse. Accelerated pulse. Irregular, small pulse. Irregular, weak pulse. Irregular and slow pulse. Extremely slow pulse, afterwards so much more rapid and subdued. Slower, but stronger pulse. The pulse descends from one hundred to forty beats. Slow pulse of forty beats. The pulse becomes slower by one half. The pulse, which had becomes slower, is accelerated again by the slightest movement of the body.

MORAl SYMPTOMS.

Desponding and fearful sadness. Anxiousness, with great apprehension of the future. Internal anguish. Discouragement. Fear of death, Great irritability. Great inclination to solitude. Gloomy and out of humor.

SENSORIUM.

Delirium, and restlessness, at night. Concealed dementia, characterized by tractability and obstinacy. Weakness of memory. The head feels fatigued. Gloomy state of the mind, with indifference. Gloominess in the head, as if hypochondriac. Dizziness of the head, with inability to recollect. Dullness of the head, with very limited power of thinking. Vertigo and trembling.

HEAD.

Headache, in the forehead, Headache, pressure, and weight, as if caused by a congestion of blood to the head. Aching in the head, with slight stupefaction. Intense aching in the head. Pressure as from a hard load, in the middle and upper part of the forehead, while exerting his mind. Sharp aching pain in the fore head, at a small spot above the eye. pressure and tension in the sides of the head. Pressure, occurring in paroxysms, at times in the temples, at times in the whole head. Drawing in the sides of the head, which makes one feel giddy. Violent, lancinating headache, especially in the occiput and vertex. Throbbing ache in the fore head, or in the bottom of the orbits. Sensation as if the brain were beating like water against the skull. Sudden cracking in the head. Semilateral headache. Heat in and about the whole head. Swelling of the head.

EYES.

Excessive pain in the eye ball, when touching it. Aching in the eye balls. throbbing pain in the orbits. Stinging in the eyes. Burning pain in the right eye brow, with dim sightedness as through gauze. Burning in the outer canthi, as if excoriated. Redness of the eyes, with pain especially in the evening. Inflammation of the meibomian glands. Violent inflammation of the eyes. Inflammatory redness of the conjunctiva and lids, with swelling of the eyes, and pain as from sand. Ophthalmia, particularly in scrofulous and arthritic individuals. Swelling of the lower lid, incommoding one when looking down. Lachrymation. Watery running from the eyes, more violent in the room than in the open air; the eyes are dim, hot full of red little veins, with aching pain, and gum in the canthi. The lachrymation is aggravated by bright light and cold air. Agglutination of the eyes, in the morning, with subsequent weakness. Smarting tears. considerable contraction of the pupils. Dilatation and insensibility of the pupils. Diminished irritability of the pupil. Obscuration of sight. Dull, indistinct sight. Dim sightedness. Blindness, amaurosis. Obscuration of the lens. Diplopia. Visions before the eyes. Dark bodies like flies, or shining bodies before the eyes. Various colors before the eyes. Things appear either green or yellow. Twinkling before the eyes.

EARS.

Pain in the ears, as if constricted within, with pulsations in the ears. Twitchings in the ear. Drawing pain in the muscles under the mastoid process. Single stitches behind the ear. Painful swelling of the parotid glands and behind the ear. The hearing is suddenly obstructed, with tingling in the ear. Hissing before the ears like boiling water.

NOSE.

Pain above the root of the nose. Bleeding from both nostrils, the blood being light colored. Sneezing. Fluent coryza, with sneezing and subsequent stoppage of the nose.

FACE.

Pale face. Blue lips and eye lids. Convulsions on the left side of the face. Swelling of the cheek. Gnawing and itching of the cheek and chin. Black pores in the skin of the face, which suppurate and become ulcerated. Swelling of the lips. The lips are dry, parched.

MOUTH AND JAWS.

Stitches in the lower jaw. Fetid odor from the mouth. Swelling of the tongue. Coated tongue. White coated tongue, early in the morning. Accumulation of saliva. Ptyalism, from abuse of Mercury. Violent, fetid ptyalism. Ptyalism, with soreness of the mouth, tongue, and gums. Ulcer on the tongue. Blue tongue.

THROAT.

Dryness of the throat. Scraping and burning of the fauces and oesophagus. Sensation in the fauces as if the walls of the pharynx were swollen. Stinging sore throat, between the acts of deglutition. Sore throat, when swallowing. Soreness of the mouth, fauces, and oesophagus.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Flat, slimy taste. Sweetish taste, with constant ptyalism. Bitterness in the mouth. Want of appetite, with clean tongue. Total loss of appetite, morning and evening. Thirst.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Great drowsiness after dinner. Gulping up of a sourish fluid. Gulping up of the tasteless fluid. Heartburn, afternoon and evening. A sort of acrid burning, extending from the stomach to the oesophagus. Hiccough. Loathing. Nausea. Nausea after a meal. Paroxysms of nausea, with inclination to vomit, excessive, with great despondency and fits of anguish. Nausea, on waking in the morning. Nausea, which continues after the vomiting. Inclination to vomit. Retching. Convulsive efforts to vomit. vomiting. Vomiting in the morning. Nightly vomiting. Excessive vomiting, with excessive inclination to vomit, coldness of the limbs. Retching and vomiting, with violent nausea, great anguish in the pit of the stomach, external heat with occasional chills, and subsequent sweat with chilliness. Vomiting of the ingesta, with nausea while eating. Vomiting of the ingesta, after every spitting, surrounded with a white, tasteless mucus, with increase of nausea, and diminution of colic. Vomiting of green bile, with excessive nausea. Bilious vomiting. Vomiting of mucus.

STOMACH.

Pains in the stomach. Weakness of the digestive faculty of the stomach, for a long time. Weakness of the stomach, particularly after eating. Weight in the stomach. Frequent pressure in the stomach and epigastrium. Repletion and pressure in the pit of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting. Feeling of constriction across the region of the stomach, towards the liver. Spasms of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting, relieved by eructations. Spasmodic pains in the stomach. Cutting pains in the stomach. Lancinations from the pit of the stomach to the sides and back. Great heat in the stomach, with pain. Burning in the stomach, extending up to the oesophagus.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.