Digitalis Purpurea Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the principal that 'like cures like', in a tiny dilution - so the indications below are what a healthy person would feel if taking Digitalis Purpurea. If your symptoms fit within the symptoms below, then Digitalis Purpurea would be a good bet. The following are the strongest indications of Digitalis Purpurea for its use in homeopathy. Entries on a white backgorund are from Boericke's Materia Medica, other entries are from a reversed Kent's repertory. Homeopathic remedies are not the same as herbal remedies. Please remember though, this homeopathy materia medica is provided for information only, with no guarantee of accuracy; it is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, nor as a claim for the effectiveness of Digitalis Purpurea in treating any of the symptoms below. If symptoms persist, seek professional medical advice - minor symptoms can often be a sign of a more serious underlying condition. Homeopathic remedies are very dilute, and while the homeopathic remedy may be beneficial, the raw product may be harmful. To purchase Digitalis Purpurea and other homeopathic remedies online, please click the button above. Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is Weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts. Weakness and dilation of the myocardium. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when Auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration and Hypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis Purpurea. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. BLUISH appearance of face. Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present. Stimulates the heart’s muscles, increases force of systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion. Collapse. BETTER, when stomach is empty; in open air. WORSE, when sitting erect, after meals and music. Relationships Antidotes; Camph.; Serpentaria. Incompatible: China. Compare: Nerium Odorum (resembles in heart effects Digitalis Purpurea, but also has an action like Strychnia on spinal cord. Spasms appear more in upper part of body. Palpitation; weak heart will be strengthened by it. Lock-jaw). Adonia; Crataegus (a true heart tonic); Kalmia; Spigel; Liatris; Compare also: Digitoxinum (Digitalis dissolved in Chloroform; which has yellow vision very marked, and distressing nausea, Aggravated by champagne and aerated waters.) nitri. sir. Dulc. increases action of Digit. Ichthyotoxin. Eel Serum ( Experiments show great analogy between the serum and the venom of Vipera. Indicated whenever the systole of the heart is insufficient, decompensated valvular disease, irregular pulse due to fibrillation of the auricle. Asystole, feeble, frequent, irregular pulse, dyspnoea and scanty urine. Liver enlarged, dyspnoea, albuminuria. No oedema.) Convallaria (heart disease with vertigo and digestive disturbances). Quinidine - Isomeric methoxyl compound. - (Restores normal rhythm in auricular fibrillation, often supplements the action of Digitalis. Two doses of 3 grains each, three hours apart - if no symptoms of cinchonism develop, 4 doses 6 grs. each daily ( C. Harlan Wells.) Paroxysmal tachycardia. Establishes normal heart rhythm at least temporarily, less in valvular lesions.) Despondency; fearful; ANXIOUS about the future mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; of conscience (as if guilty of a crime); mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; anguish; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; suspicious; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; confusion; as after being intoxicated; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; evening; ; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; fear; Melancholia, dull lethargic with SLOW pulse. Every shock strikes in epigastrium Dullness of sense vertigo, dizziness; Cracking sounds during a nap Vertigo, when walking and on rising, in cardiac and hepatic affections Sharp, shooting frontal pain, extending into nose, after drinking cold water or eating ice-cream Heaviness of head, with sensation as if it would fall backward Face bluish Confusion, fullness and noise in head Blue tongue and lips. Dark bodies, like flies, before eyes Dim vision irregular pupils, diplopia. Detachment of retina Mydriasis; lid margins red, swollen, agglutinated in morning Objects appear green and yellow Blueness of eyelids Change in acuteness of perception of shades of green ear; noises in ear; hissing; face; pain; pulling; face; skin; discoloration; bluish; face; skin; discoloration; pale; face; sunken; mouth; discoloration; tongue; blue; abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); constant; night; ; abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); ineffectual; abdomen; bladder; fullness; after urinating; ; abdomen; stomach; sinking (see emptiness); abdomen; bladder; fullness; abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); constant; abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); anxious; abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); night; ; abdomen; bladder; urge to urinate, but producing nothing; abdomen; bladder; retention of urine (see urination delayed); from enlarged prostate; ; abdomen; pain; sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; behind lower ribs; right; ; abdomen; hard; liver; ; abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); violent; Excessive nausea, not relieved by vomiting Enlarged, sore, painful liver. Stomach; Sweet taste with constant ptyalism Severe abdominal pains, pulsation in abdominal aorta, and epigastric constriction Pain in left side apparently in descending colon and under false ribs Neuralgic pain in stomach, unconnected with taking food. Copious salivation Discomfort, even after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell Tenderness of epigastrium Faintness and vomiting from motion After cold water or ice-cream, sharp pain in forehead, extending to nose Burning in stomach extending to oesophagus Faintness, Great weakness in stomach stool; light-coloured; stool; white; milk like; Diarrhoea during jaundice. White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stool Full feeling after urination Brick-dust sediment. Constriction and burning, as if urethra was too small Urethritis, phimosis, strangury Ammoniacal, and turbid Suppressed Continued urging, in drops, dark, hot, burning, with sharp cutting or Throbbing pain at neck of bladder, As if a straw was being thrust back and forth; worse at night urine; scanty; urine; sediment; sand; red (brick-dust); Hydrocele; scrotum enlarged like a bladder Gonorrhoea, balanitis (Merc.), with oedema of prepuce genitals; male; prostate gland; enlargement; in aged persons; ; Dropsical swelling of genitals ( Sulph.) Enlarged prostate. genitals; urethra (urinary part of genitals); discharge; gonorrhoea; Female; Labor-like pains in abdomen and back before menses Uterine hemorrhage. Male; Nightly emission (Digitalin), with great weakness of genitals after coitus genitals; male; thick emission from penis; genitals; male; prostate gland; enlargement; Chronic bronchitis; passive congestion of the lungs, giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium Cannot bear to talk Cough, with raw, sore feeling in chest Breathing irregular, difficult; deep sighing Desire to take a deep breath Hemoptysis with weak heart. respiration; irregular; respiration; sighing; Dyspnoea, constant desire to breathe deeply, lungs feel compressed chest; heart; palpitations; on movement; ; chest; congestion; chest; heart; sensation as if heart had ceased; chest; heart; fluid build up around heart; chest; heart; palpitations; anxiety; ; chest; heart; palpitations; from exertion; ; chest; murmurs; chest; heart; palpitations; tumultuous, violent, intense; chest; heart; palpitations; Heart; The least movement causes violent palpitation, and sensation as if it would cease beating, if he moves ( Opposite: Gels.) Frequent stitches in heart Cardiac dropsy. Cardiac failure following fevers Hypertrophy with dilatation Dilated heart, tired, irregular, with slow and feeble pulse Pericarditis, copious serous exudation pulse weak; and quickened by least movement Inequality of pulse; it varies Cyanosis intermits; weak Sudden sensation as if heart stood still very slow pulse Irregular heart especially of mitral disease Swelling of the feet Fingers go to sleep easily Coldness of hands and feet extremities, limbs; weakness; upper limbs; ; extremities, limbs; paralysis; upper limbs; left; ; extremities, limbs; numbness (see tingling); fingers; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; foot; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; leg; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; Sensation in legs as If a red hot wire suddenly darted through them (Dudgeon). Nocturnal swelling of fingers Muscular debility Shining, white swelling of joints Rheumatic pain in joints Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height Continuous sleepiness. chill; internal; ; Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness. fever; one-sided; ; Blue distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue skin; discoloration; bluish; skin; coldness; Itching and jaundiced. Dropsical Erythema, deep red, worse on back, like measles generalities; pulse; intermittent; generalities; pulse; irregular; generalities; pulse; heavy; and slow; generalities; pulse; slow; generalities; pulse; small; generalities; pulse; soft; generalities; rising; generalities; swelling; puffy; generalities; pulse; full; generalities; pulse; frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid; generalities; general physical anxiety; generalities; blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood); generalities; blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood); in infants; generalities; physical exertion; generalities; faintness, fainting; generalities; fluid build up; external; ; generalities; fluid build up; internal; ; generalities; pulse; abnormal; generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); Digitalis Purpurea is available to buy through our online shop from WHP in USA, Boiron in USA, Boiron in Canada, Hylands in USA, Weleda in UK (not for export), Helios, Europe, by clicking the red 'View Purchase Options' button. Alternative names, keywords, and common mis-spellings Foxglove, Digitalis, Digital, Digit, Digital