Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Digitalis Purpurea dig.

Guernsey (1887)In every bookSave

General

A very slow pulse is one of the chief characteristics of this remedy; never think of it where there is a rapid pulse, say over 80. Bluish appearance of the face. Stools gray or ash-colored; discharge of urine too scanty (with slow pulse); pulsations of the heart intermit: cyanosis; dropsy of inner parts; fainting.

Pulse

Pulse full; irregular; slow, very slow.

Worse

When sitting, especially when sitting erect.

Remedies following

Bellad., China, Lycop., Pulsat., Nux vom., Sulphur, Veratr.

Antidote

Camphor.