DIGITALIS :

– Pulford

IDENTIFICATION
Atonic weakness of muscles of heart and muscular coats of arteries, heat being too weak to contract with sufficient force to throw blood in sufficient quantity into arteries, and muscular coats of arteries too weak to contract with sufficient force to hurry on the blood already thrown into them; thus we get the SLOW weak small irregular or intermittent pulse so characteristic of this remedy.



Atonic weakness of muscles of heart and muscular coats of arteries

 
ESSENTIAL
Anxiety. Melancholy. Restless. Sad. Its chief characteristic is its extremely slow pulse. Blue eyelids, lips and tongue. Pale face. Deathlike sinking at stomach. Thirst, lips dry. Appetite lost. Liver enlarged, pains, sore. Stools white pasty or ashy gray. Urine high color. Prostate in old men enlarged. Jaundice. Weak, prostrated, from slight exertion; aggravation rising. Sudden sinking of strength, like Ars. Faint. COMMENT.

Weak pulse

Mind
Anxiety, 6 p.m.; fears death while walking; unsympathetic. (L): Confusion as from intoxication. Fear: of death, like Ars., or that the heart will cease to beat if one moves, reverse of Gels.; Lob. fears heart will cease to beat whether one moves or not. Anxious: of future; low spirited, wants to be alone, reverse of Ars. and Phos., tries to escape if others thrust themselves upon her, tearful, internal anguish; sad, sleepless at night, from pain in heart, as form unhappy love, in brown complexioned women who are firm and obstinate, said to be preferable to Ign. As if one would fly to pieces. Sad from music, like Acon., during menses: Natr-c.


Fear of Death


Vertigo
On ascending steps, or rising from sitting; trembles.

Head
Noise, sudden, crashing, frightened starting up, especially occurring with nervous prostration, or in threatened epilepsy. Meningitis, cerebral, effusion, albuminuria, cold sweat and above IDENTIFICATION; differs from Hell. only in the character of the pulse. Pain, settles in forehead, extends down to root of nose on drinking cold water. Brain as if made of glass and shattered at a blow.

Sudden noises frightened

Eyes
Veins on lids distended, also on ears, lips and tongue. Detached retina, like Gels. Retina and optic nerve anaemic. Digitoxinum (Dig. dissolved in alcohol) has yellow vision very marked, and distressing nausea aggravation champagne and aerated waters.

Ears
Ringing noise after coition. Sudden crashing noise, frightened starting up. Deaf, noise as of boiling water.