DIGITALIS PURPUREA 6

Action of Medicine:

• Suited to nervous lymphatic constitutions with paleness of face.
• Sensation as if the heart would stop beating when moving.
• Pulse full, irregular, very slow, and weak; intermitting every third, fifth, or seventh beat.
• The blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, and tongue. The face is pale with a deathlike appearance.
• Respiration is irregular, difficult, slow, deep, or performed by frequent deep sighs. Sometimes it stops on dropping off into sleep.
• Faintness with great weakness in the stomach and nausea not relieved by vomiting.
• Jaundice with the enlarged, sore, and painful liver. Diarrhea during jaundice with white, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools.
• Worse- when sitting erect, after meals and music. Better- when the stomach is empty and in the open air.

References: Boericke’s New Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory