Digitalinum
Digitalin (cardiac glycoside from Digitalis purpurea) · Plant · Plantaginaceae
Digitalinum suits individuals with overburdened hearts exhibiting constant laboring, irregular and intermittent action, and profound prostration. There is great fatigue, sinking sensation at the epigastrium, and sexual weakness. Disorders of vision and hearing are very numerous in this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Heart slowed or rapid and feeble, sensation as if it stood still
- Profound prostration with inability to move a muscle
- Paralytic weakness, numbness, and tremulousness of limbs
- Cold clammy surface and gooseflesh
- Nausea and vomiting of yolk-of-egg matter
- Irregular and intermittent heart action
- Sinking faint sensation at the epigastrium
- Sensitiveness of eyes to light and nose to odours
- Sexual power diminished or quite abolished temporarily
An active principle (glucoside) of Digitalis purpurea. C5 H8 02. (Schimiedeburg); C27 H45 O15 (Kosmann). Trituration.
Clinical
Asthma. Diarrhœa. Emissions. Exophthalmus. Heart, affections of. Palpitation. Spermatorrhœa. Vertigo. Vision, hallucinations of.
Characteristics
Digilalinum is a poison of very great activity. It produces a profound effect on muscular tissue, both voluntary and involuntary, more especially on the heart. It causes profound prostration, even to inability to move a muscle. Paralytic weakness; numbness; tremulousness of the limbs. Cold, clammy surface. Gooseflesh. The heart is slowed, or else its action is made rapid and feeble or "sensation as if the heart stood still." Digitalis has: Sensation as if the heart would stand still if he moved. According to Hale Dgn. is specially indicated in cases of "overburdened heart where it is constantly labouring." Irregular and intermittent action. A sinking, faint sensation is felt at the epigastrium, nausea and vomiting of yolk-of-egg matter, …
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