Heart, Cardiac Action And Accompaniments
Pennsylvania, Repertory to Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, 1889, p. 371 · Remedy abbreviations · grades: bold 3, italic 2, roman 1
- Cardiac Action And Accompaniments
- Weak and small: Abrot.
- Heart thumps; can be heard in the scapular region: Absin.
- Very weak and small: Acet-ac.
- Small, intermittent, irregular; quicker than the beat of the heart ; full, hard (and frequent) succeeding chill, during which it was small and weak. During"three beats the apex strikes only once: Acon.
- Feeble in the morning, with trembling and weakness. Heart's action ceases suddenly ; impending suffocation: Cimic.
- Feeble, scarcely perceptible: Agar.
- Often imperceptible: Agn.
- Suppressed after vomiting: Aloe
- Either unchanged or full (and accelerated): Alum.
- Feeble, scarcely perceptible at the wrist ; at times intermittent and imperceptible: Apis
- Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting ; feeble: Apoc.
- Beat sometimes omits ; often unchanged: Arg-m.
- Irregular, intermittent, with an unpleasant sensation of fulness ; exertion causes strong beating, worse when noticing it: Arg-n.
- Intermittent, feeble, hurried, irregular, fluttering: Arn.
- Heart beats more rapidly and stronger when lying on the back: Ars.
- Unchanged, unequal: Asaf.
- Violent beating of the heart after exertion: Aur.
- At times small and soft: Bell.
- Full: Acon., Alum., Bell., Benz-ac., Camph., Colch., Nat-m., Op., Stram.
- pulsating arteries and swollen veins in the neck: Op.
- Strong heart-beat ; pulse contracted, somewhat spasmodic, and at times intermittent: Bism.
- Circulation irregular, face bluish, especially around the mouth, nose and eyes, with blue look of finger-ends and feet ; with attacks during which the child became prostrated and as if suffocating: Bor.
- Irregularity of the heart's action (at times frequent ; at others slow): Cact.
- Full, weak ; not perceptible: Camph.
- Very weak, frequently almost imperceptible: Cann-s.
- Very variable ; at times intermittent, feeble, scarcely perceptible: Canth.
- Irregular, often intermitting: Caps.
- Thread-like, weak and small ; intermittent: Carb-v.
- Frequently very unequal, and then for a time weak: Cham.
- Feeble, unequal, intermitting: Chin.
- Unchanged: Clem., Ruta
- even during violent attacks: Secale
- Unequal in strength and sometimes irregular in rhythm: Con.
- Very changeable, thready, tense: Cupr.
- Violent, but not very rapid, beating of the heart. Intermitting the third, fifth or seventh beat: Dig.
- Collapsed: Dulc.
- A peculiar action of the heart, as though it attempted its beat, which it failed fully to accomplish, the pulse intermitting each time ; worse lying, especially on the left side: Gels.
- Laborious action of the heart ; easily excited: Glon.
- Almost imperceptible: Acon., Agar., Agn., Apis, Canth., Hell., Kalm., Laur., Puls.
- Weak and irregular: Hyos.
- Hard beating of the heart: Hyper.
- Variable: Canth., Ign., Plb., Rheum
- Irregular, small, contracted, with nosebleed: Kali-bi.
- Intermits; heart's action irregular; tumultuous or weak: Kali-c.
- Arms feel weak ; pulse scarcely perceptible ; limbs cold. The third or fourth beat is harder and is followed by an intermission: Kalm.
- Small and hard: Kreas.
- Irregular. Often imperceptible: Laur.
- Unaltered: Lyc.
- Very uneven and irregular (sometimes rapid, soft ; slow) ; but constantly soft and weak: Mang.
- Imperceptible, with warmth of the body: Merc.
- Small, weak, intermitting ; sometimes trembling: Merc-c.
- Sudden, spasmodic action ; labored, weak, irregular: Merc-i-fl.
- At times intermittent: Mezer.
- Irregular intermission of beating of the heart and of pulse; worse lying on the left side. Intermits every third beat: Nat-m.
- Irregular. One normal, followed by two small rapid beats ; fourth beat intermits: Nit-ac.
- Small, weak ; intermits, the intervals so long that they excite fear of death: Nux-m.
- Intermits every four or five beats: Nux-v.
- Changeable, irregular: Olnd.
- Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on the neck. Pulse varies. Irregular and unequal ; imperceptible: Op.
- Irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats: Ph-ac.
- Small, irregular, with great excitement in the chest, especially in the cardiac region ; full but soft: Phyt.
- Regular, but sometimes weak, sometimes tremulous: Plat.
- Weak, feeble: Psor.
- Small and weak ; often scarcely perceptible: Puls.
- Generally unchanged: Rheum
- Heart's beat stronger. Unchanged: Rhodo.
- Irregular, trembling or imperceptible: Rhus
- Unequal: Asaf., Cham., Chin., Clem., Con., Op., Sabin.
- and then weak: Cham.
- in strength and sometimes irregular in rhythm: Con.
- Irregularity of heart's action and pulse, with coldness, insensibility ; irregularity, with great weakness: Sang.
- Often unchanged, even during violent attacks ; at times intermittent or suppressed ; small, empty, weak: Secale
- Interruption of the beating of the heart, mostly after dinner ; alarmed ; quivering motion. Occasional hard " thump.": Sep.
- Irregular, trembling: Spig.
- Trembling beating of the heart; often trembling: Staph.
- Full, hard, strong ; irregular ; small and spasmodic, sometimes double (and very quick), with quiet respiration: Stram.
- Imperceptible, small, intermittent: Tabac.
- Violent pulsations in the evening: Thuj.
- Heart beats loud, strong (suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal) ; irregular, intermittent: Verat-v.
- Irregular, spasmodic action of the heart ; occasionally one violent " thump." Pulse Characters: Zinc.
- Large: Bell.
- Small: Abrot., Acet-ac., Acon., Agar., Bell., Carb-v., Dig., Hyos., Ign., Kali-bi., Kreas., Laur., Merc-c., Nit-ac., Nux-m., Phyt., Plb., Puls., Squil., Stram.
- Strong: Bism., Rhodo., Spig., Stram.
- Weak: Abrot., Acet-ac., Acon., Agn., Benz-ac., Berb., Camph., Cann-s., Carb-v., Cham., Coloc., Hyos., Kalm., Mang., Merc., Merc-c., Merc-i-fl., Mur-ac., Nux-m., Olnd., Plat., Psor., Puls., Rhodo., Secale, Thuj., Verat-v.
- during the day: Merc.
- in the morning: Thuj.
- Feeble: Agar., Apis, Apoc., Arn., Canth., Chin., Cimic., Colch.
- with trembling and weakness: Cimic.
- Empty: Secale
- Tense: Cupr.
- Contracted: Bism., Kali-bi., Plb.
- with nosebleed: Kali-bi.
- Hard: Acon., Hyper., Kreas., Plb.
- Soft: Bell., Mang., Verat., Verat-v.
- constantly soft and weak: Mang.
- Trembling: Merc-c., Rhus, Spig., Staph., Stram.
- Tremulous: Plat.
- Thready: Cupr.
- Thread-like: Acon., Carb-v.
- Fluttering: Arn.
- Suppressed: Aloe, Secale
- after vomiting: Aloe
- Almost
- arms weak ; limbs cold: Kalm.
- Imperceptible: Camph., Merc., Op., Rhus, Stram.
- with warmth of body: Merc.
- Spasmodic: Bism., Stram., Zinc.
- Labored: Merc-i-fl.
- Irregular: Acon., Agar., Arg-m., Bor., Cact., Dig., Hyos., Kali-c., Laur., Mang., Merc-i-fl., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Op., Ph-ac., Rhus, Sang., Sil., Spig., Stram., Verat-v., Zinc.
- quicker than the beat of the heart: Acon.
- circulation irregular, face bluish, especially around the mouth, nose and eyes, with blue look of the fingerends and feet, with attacks during which the child became prostrated and as if suffocated: Bor.
- irregularity of the heart's action, at times frequent, at others slow: Cact.
- sudden, spasmodic action: Merc-i-fl.
- one normal, followed by two small, rapid beats: Nit-ac.
- irregularity of the heart's action and pulse, with coldness, insensibility, irregularity, with great weakness: Sang.
- frequently irregular, and then slow: Sil.
- irregular, spasmodic action. Occasionally one violent thump. Zincum met. (Aloes, Aurum: Sep.
- Irregular and unequal: Op.
- Regular (but sometimes weak and trembling): Plat.
- Uneven: Mang.
- Intermittent: Acon., Alum., Arg-m., Arg-n., Arn., Benz-ac., Bism., Canth., Caps., Carb-v., Chin., Dig., Gels., Kali-c., Kalm., Merc-c., Mezer., Mur-ac., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Nux-m., Ph-ac., Secale, Sep., Tabac., Verat., Verat-v.
- quicker than the beat of the heart. During three beats the apex strikes only once: Acon.
- beat sometimes omits: Arg-m.
- with an unpleasant sensation of fulness: Arg-n.
- slow: Caps.
- the third, fifth or seventh beat intermits: Dig.
- a peculiar action of the heart, as though it attempted its beat, which it failed fully to accomplish, the pulse intermitting each time, worse lying, especially on left side: Gels.
- the third or fourth beat is harder, followed by an intermission. Irregular intermission of the beating of the heart and of the pulse ; worse lying on the left side ; intermits every third beat: Nat-m.
- fourth beat intermits: Nit-ac.
- intermits, the intervals so long that they excite fear of death: Nux-m.
- one or two beats: Ph-ac.
- interruption of the beating of the heart, mostly after dinner ; alarmed ; quivering motion: Sep.
- Intermittent or suppressed: Secale
- Changeable: Cupr., Olnd.
- Unchanged (often): Alum., Arg-m., Asaf., Rheum, Rhodo., Secale
- Easily excited: Glon.
- Unclassified Symptoms
- Heart thumps, can be heard in the scapular region: Absin.
- Heart's action ceases suddenly ; impending suffocation: Cimic.
- Noticing the beating of the heart increases it: Arg-n.
- Exertion causes strong beating, worse noticing it: Arg-n.
- Strong heart-beat: Bism.
- Laborious action of the heart: Glon.
- Hard beating of the heart: Hyper.
- Heart beats stronger: Rhodo.
- Trembling beating of the heart: Staph.
- Aggravations
- Worse lying: Merc.
- Worse lying on left side: Merc., Nat-m.
- Worse from exertion: Arg-n., Aur.
- Worse after dinner: Sep.
- Worse noticing the beating of heart: Arg-n.