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DIGITALIS PURPUREA

Foxglove

Clinical Picture:
Fears the heart will stop beating, if body is moved (Cocainum muriaticum. That unless body is constantly on the move, the heart will stop:-Gelsemium sempervirens).
Pulse full, irregular, very slow and weak; intermittent every third, fifth or seventh beat.
Faintness or sinking in the stomach; exhaustion and extreme prostration; feels as if dying.
Nightly emissions, with great weakness of genitalia after coitus.
Face pale, death-like and bluish-red.
Blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, tongue; cyanosis.

Modalities:
Worse:

When sitting, especially sitting erect.
Motion.
After meals.

Better:

When stomach is empty.
In open air.

Relations:
Cinchona² antidotes the direct action of Digitalis on the heart and mind, and increases the anxiety.

Summary of Indications:
Anxiety, fear of; death - heart disorders.

Antidotes:
Apis mellifica
Calcarea carbonica
Camphora officinalis
Colchicum autumnale
Nitricum acidum
Nux vomica
Opium