Digitalis Purpurea

1 . Cardiac diseases with great anxiety ; dyspnoea, sudden sensation as if heart stood still ; pulse feeble, irregular, fluttering, intermittent or extremely slow ; any motion especially rising from bed or chair causes rapid, weak jerky pulse and sometimes cyanosis, even syncope.

2 . Patient low-spirited, tearful ; likes consolation ; anxiety even apart from heart disease.

3 . Dropsies ; all forms of cardiac origin.

4 . Liver disorders. with enlargement and induration ; jaundice ; urine scanty, high-coloured ; stools ashy white ; soreness liver region.

5 . Seminal weakness with weak heart ; involuntary emissions at night with or without dreams ; also acute prostatic troubles.

Notes : Antidoted by alcohol therefore use the Succus rather than the tincture.

Never given Digitalis to slow the pulse in pneumonias, etc.