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Heart slow, feels will stop on motion, weak,
irregular with faint-like weakness.
Must walk about with precordial anxiety.
Deathly nausea or with faint sinking at pit of stomach.
Liver swelled with white, putty stools.
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COMMON NAME
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Fox glove
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FAMILY
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Scrophulariaceae
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SOURCE
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Tincture from the leaves of the second year of the
plant.
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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| - | Despondency, fearful, anxious about future. Every
shock strikes in epigastrium. Fear arising from stomach. Great anxiety as
from troubled conscience. Remorse.
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| - | Sadness, great depression < music. Sadness with sleeplessness from heart
pains, due to unhappy love, grief. Melancholia, from music.
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| - | Lascivious thoughts in old men with enlarged prostrate.
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| - | Excessive desire to be alone. Indisposed to speak. Tearful moroseness.
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| - | Sadness from unhappy love, especially in women with obstinate disposition -
in such cases preferable to Ignatia.
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| - | Reproaches himself, sadness about trifles.
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| - | Weeping > symptoms. Weeping from music.
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| - | Fear that HEART WILL STOP IF THEY MOVE (opposite of Gels).
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| - | Fear of death, about the future. Fear of death while walking. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Combination of heart and prostate or liver complaints.
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| - | Great weakness, can hardly talk, sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of
skin and irregular respiration are other symptoms. Prostration from slight
exertion.
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| - | Faintness or sinking at the stomach, exhaustion, extreme prostration. Feels
as if he were dying, great weakness of chest cannot bear to talk.
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| - | Vertigo - With heart or liver symptoms.
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| - | Head - Meningitis with state of effusion with scanty albuminous urine, cold
sweat, intermittent pulse.
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| - | Objects appear green and yellow. Colours of the rainbow before eyes. Changes
in perception of shades of green.
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| - | Face - Face and lips bluish.
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| - | Blue distented veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue.
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| - | Pale death-like, bluish red appearance.
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| - | Mouth - Tongue and gums blue.
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| - | Stomach - Nausea, < eating least food, smell or sight of food. Not
relieved by vomiting.
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| - | Faintness, great weakness in stomach. Sinking feeling at pit of stomach.
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| - | Abdomen - Enlarged, sore, painful liver. Hepatitis.
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| - | Hypertrophy of liver, with induration, and jaundice, along with
characteristic pulse, is present - ascites, nausea, vomiting, thirst for
water, clean tongue.
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| - | Rectum - Diarrhoea during jaundice.
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| - | Stools - White, chalk-like, pasty.
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| - | Very light, ash coloured, delayed, almost white, pipe-stem stool.
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| - | Urinary System - Constant urging < at night, with discharge of hot,
burning drops.
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| - | Sharp, cutting or throbbing pain at neck of bladder, as if straw were being
thrust back and forth.
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| - | Prostatitis. Prostate enlarged, especially in old people.
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| - | Urethritis. Constriction and burning as if urethra too small.
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| - | In interstitial nephritis is often of temporary value, when there is
threatened failure of the heart, or very scanty or suppressed urine, with
oedema of the lungs.
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| - | Male genitalia - Hydrocele.
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| - | Oedema of prepuce. Dropsical swelling of genitals.
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| - | Amorous desire with impotency.
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| - | Acute inflammation of prostrate with ineffectual urging to urinate with
desire after first few drops have passed, which causes the patient to walk
around in great distress.
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| - | Nightly emissions, with great weakness of genitals after coitus.
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| - | Acute gonorrhoea with phimosis.
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| - | Respiratory system - Dyspnoea associated with heart problems.
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| - | Hemoptysis instead of menses or before menses.
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| - | Pneumonia in old people. Chronic bronchitis.
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| - | Passive congestion of lungs with hemoptysis due to weak heart (Queb).
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| - | Respiration irregular, difficult, deep sighing, cyanosis with cold, clammy
sweat.
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| - | Cardiovascular system - SLOW PULSE, slower than heart.
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| - | Least motion causes violent palpitation. Weak pulse, quickened by least
motion. Pulse slow, irregular or intermittent pulse, every 3rd, 5th and 7th
beat missing along with indefinite and causeless symptoms.
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| - | Pulse is slow in recumbent posture, quick on motion, irregular and dicrotic
on sitting up, slow pulse after sexual abuse or at puberty.
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| - | WEAK HEART. FEELS AS IF IT WOULD STOP IF HE MOVED, must hold breath and keep
still. Sudden sensation as if heart stood still (Gels, Lob).
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| - | Angina pectoris < raising arms, exertion, coition, excitement.
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| - | Irregular heartbeat. Intermittent pulse.
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| - | Hypertrophy of heart. Dilatation. Cardiac dropsy.
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| - | Heart failure. Rheumatic heart disease.
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| - | PALPITATIONS, WITH DEPRESSION, FROM GRIEF (Ign, Ph-ac).
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| - | Weak heart without valvular complications.
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| - | Must walk about with precordial anxiety with urging to urinate.
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| - | Cyanosis, dropsy with suppression of urine.(where there is organic affection
of heart)
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| - | Extremities - Pain and numbness in left arm.
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| - | Dropsy. Shiny, white swelling joints. Swelling of fingers < night.
Swelling of feet.
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| - | Fingers go to sleep easily.
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| - | One hand cold, the other hot.
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| - | Sleep - Starts from sleep from fear of suffocation.
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| - | Starts from sleep, as if falling from height.
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| - | Cyanosis. Blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, tongue.
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| - | Distended veins on lids, ears, tongue.
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KEYNOTES
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- Heart troubles with slow and intermittent pulse.
- Sensation as of heart would stop if he moved with cyanosis.
- Jaundice with clay coloured stools and slow pulse.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Bad effects of high living, alcohol, tobacco and
sexual abuse or excess.
- Heart remedy with sensation as if heart would stop if he moves.
- Cyanosis external or internal with great desire to take deep breath to
relieve suffocation.
- Slow pulse.
- Pulse intermittent, irregular. Every 3rd, 5th, 7th beat missing.
- Jaundice with clay coloured stool.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Heart trouble (without valvular tension) with slow
or intermittent pulse and enlarged, tender liver.
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| - | Jaundice with clay coloured stools or slow pulse. |
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CLINICAL
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| - | Heart trouble or bradycardia.
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| - | Most reliable remedy to subdue hectic fever of phthisis - Dr.Bocher.
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| - | The best antidote to the depressing effects of coal tar drugs on the heart
- Dr. Grimmer. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Compare: Acon, Ant-t, Apoc, Ars, Bell, Bry, Camph, Cinch,
Con, Ferr, Kalm, Lach, Lob, Lyc, Nat-m, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Spig, Sulph, Tab,
Verat
Antidoted By: Camph, Serp
It Antidotes: Myric
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