DIGITALIS PURPUREA



ABDOMEN.

Anxious tightness and constriction about the hypochondria. Sensitiveness and pressure in the region of the liver. Most violent colic, continually. Colicky pain in the abdomen, with grumbling and rumbling. Pinching in the abdomen, as from a purgative. Cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus. Sticking pain in the region of the kidneys. Shooting pricklings in the whole abdomen. Sharp stitches in the umbilicus. Laceration colic around the umbilicus, early in the morning. Laceration in the abdomen, early in the morning, in the bed, with diarrhoea, followed by tenesmus. Distention of the abdomen. Ascites. during motion the abdomen becomes painful, as if it were ulcerated, not when touched.

STOOL.

Costiveness. Soft, liquid, frequent stool. violent diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with subsequent urging in the rectum. Diarrhoea with colic, during and previous to stool. Watery diarrhoea. Diarrhoea. faeces, and mucus, with previous colic or ache, at times a cutting pain, passing off with the stool. Ash colored diarrhoea, as in persons with jaundice. Dysentery which is almost incurable. Involuntary evacuation. Chilliness previous to stool.

URINE.

Retention of urine. Pressure on the bladder. violent unsuccessful desire to urinate. continual desire to urinate, only a few drops being emitted each time; the urine is dark, brown, hot and burning on passing. Alternation of diminished secretion of urine and copies emission of watery urine. Enuresis. Increased emission of urine. He retains the urine more easily in a recumbent posture. Involuntary emission of urine. Acrid urine. Contractive pain in the bladder during micturition. Pressing and burning in the center of the urethra, during micturition. Small, quick pulse during the enuresis and the diarrhoea, with cold hands and feet. Enuresis is succeeded by retention of urine, afterwards nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Inflammation of the neck of the bladder. Cutting before and after micturition.

GENERAL ORGANS.

Itching irritation in the glands. Hydrocele, the scrotum looks like a bladder filled with water Excited desire. Pollutions.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Roughness in the larynx. Hoarseness early in the morning. Frequent, painless hoarseness, Cough and coryza, he can scarcely talk. Titillation of the larynx, bringing on a short and dry cough. Dry spasmodic cough, after much talking. Dry cough with asthma, in the morning, after rising. Cough, with expectoration looking like boiled starch. Soreness as from excoriation in the chest. Expectoration from the chest streaked with blood.

CHEST.

Difficult, slow, and deep, breathing. Short, deficient respiration. Painful asthma, for many days, particularly in walking. Spasmodic constriction of the throat. Suffocating painful constriction of the chest. Oppressive drawing in the chest, when coughing. Raw feeling in the chest, with stitches. Throbbing, as of a large artery, in the right side of the chest. The beatings of the heart becomes stronger, with anguish and contractive pains under the sternum. The beats of the heart are scarcely felt. Increased activity of the heart, with slow pules. Great heat on the outer chest.

BACK AND NECK.

Pain in the small of the back, when stooping. Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised. Lacerating and sharp stitches in the small of the back, during motion. Drawing, with pressure, in the nape of the neck. cutting pain, with a feeling of numbness in the nape of the neck. Painful stiffness and tightness in the neck and nape of the neck, especially during motion.

ARMS.

Tight aching of the muscles of the arms and shoulders, when moving the arms. Paralytic weakness in the arms. Painful itching throbbing in the flesh of the upper arm. Dull sensation in the elbow joint. Paralytic pain in the middle of the ulna. Paralytic lacerating in the carpal bones and metacarpal bones. Swelling of the right hand and fingers, at night. Frequent and sudden stiffness of the fingers.

LEGS.

Pain in the things and legs, as if bruised. Great stiffness in the joints of the lower limbs. Weakness and lassitude of the lower extremities. Cramp like drawing in the muscles of the thigh above the bend of the knee. Feeling in the knee as of great fatigue, when going up stairs. Tightness in the bends of the knee. The legs feel weary. Swelling of the feet in the daytime. going off again at night.

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.