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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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COMMON NAME |
: | Kombe
seed |
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Ailments from |
: | -Alcohol
-Tea -Tobacco -Ingestion of stimulants |
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MODALITIES |
: | < Exertion
< Darkness > Cold air > Hot bathing > Sunlight |
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MIND |
: | -Anxiety
especially from anticipation with
palpitation of heart and tendency to breathe deeply. -"Fear of ordeals". -Floating sensation, of being lifted up during sleep. -Mentally, these patients are irritable. -Loquacity (not as marked as in Lach). Precocious loquacity in children. -Alcoholism. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Strophanthus
is a muscle poison, it increases the
contractile power of all striped muscles, especially heart. -Used for corpulent persons and for children. Those suffering from chlorosis. Anaemic, irritability of he heart and in senile vertigo from cerebral anaemia. -Useful during the climacteric period, when there are aching pains through the hips and extensors of the thighs. -Alternations-Rapid pulse alternates with slow pulse. -Surging to head alternates with the heart. -Dilated pupils alternate with contracted pupils. -Very mobile pupils. -Craving for coffee. -Increased secretions especially of nose, urine. -Profound weakness from haemorrhage after operation, acute or chronic. -Pains-Stitching 2, throbbing. -Undulating sensation in the whole body, appears suddenly disappears gradually. -Head-Temporal pains with double vision. -Stitching pains. -Dimness of vision. Glimmering vision. -Dilatation and alternate contraction of pupils. -Senile vertigo. -C.V.S.-Functional disturbances of the heart from alcohol, tobacco and tea. -Weak aching or anguish, at sense of lively action. -Chronic nervous palpitation and arrest of breathing. -Stitches and twitches at apex beat. -Pulse rapid, alternating with slow, weak, small irregular pulse. -Cardiac dyspnoea. -Used with advantage to tone the heart and run off the dropsical accumulations. -In mitral regurgitations, where oedema and dropsy have supervened. -Irritable heart of tobacco smoke. -Arteriosclerosis rigid arteries of aged. -Restores tone to a brittle tissue especially of heart muscle and valves. -Anaemia with palpitation and breathlessness. -Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart. -Respiratory system-Dyspnoea on ascending. -Pulmonary oedema. -Congested lungs. -Skin-Urticaria, especially more chronic forms. -Itching > cold air. |
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -It
is particularly used for corpulent persons and
for children, those suffering from chlorosis, anaemia, irritability of
the heart. -Useful during climacteric peroid. |
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CLINICAL |
: | -Good
drug to remove alcohol habit. Causes an
aversion to it without withdrawal symptom. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Digitalis
[but is slow than Strophant in
its action] -Phos-ac [weak, irregular pulse, fluttering sensation in cardiac region, palpitation during sleep). |