Heart, Clinical Symptoms
Pennsylvania, Repertory to Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, 1889, p. 425 · Remedy abbreviations · grades: bold 3, italic 2, roman 1
- Clinical Symptoms
- Pain across chest, sharp and severe. Rheumatism: Abrot.
- Pulse full, hard and strong in fevers, inflammations ; small, intermittent, irregular, in asthma, quicker than the beat of the heart ; quick, hard, in peritonitis ; full, hard and frequent, succeeding chill, during which it was small and weak: Acon.
- Pulse rapid and small ; weak, sometimes scarcely perceptible. Scarlatina: Ailan.
- Audible palpitation, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying ; cold sweat, involuntary flow of tears ; loud difficult breathing and trembling of hands. Angina pectoris: Am-c.
- Great prsecordial excitement, with vomiting of mucus and bile: Ant-t.
- Blowing sound with the diastole: Apis
- Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting ; feeble. Metrorrhagia: Apoc.
- " Strain " of the heart from violent running. Fatty degeneration of the heart: Arn.
- Angina pectoris ; sudden tightness above the heart ; agonizing praecordial pain ; pains into the neck and occiput ; anxiety, oppression, breathing difficult ; fainting spells ; least motion makes him lose his breath ; sits bent forward or with the head thrown back, worse at night, especially from 1 to 5 a.m. Hydropericardium, with great irritability, anguish and restlessness: Ars.
- Nervous palpitation, with small pulse ; from overexertion or suppressed discharges (in women): Asaf.
- Gout affecting the heart: Benz-ac.
- Circulation irregular, face bluish, especially around the mouth, with blue look of finger-ends and feet ; with attacks during which the child became prostrated and as if suffocating: Bor.
- Cutting pains running upward. Heart disease: Brom.
- Endocardial murmurs ; excessive impulse ; increased praecordial dulness ; enlarged right ventricle. Palpitation of long standing caused by an unfortunate love affair. Irregularity of the heart's action, at times frequent, at others slow ; great irritation of the cardiac nerves ; enlarged left ventricle: Cact.
- Pulse hard and bounding, in intermittents ; very frequent, hardly to be felt, in typhus: Calad.
- Blood stagnates in capillaries, cyanosis; cold face and limbs; cold sweat; complete torpor; impending paralysis of heart: Carb-v.
- Heart disease, following acute rheumatism. Hydropericardium: Colch.
- Inflammation of pericardium, with copious serous exudation: Dig.
- Pulse accelerated and full. Ague: Eup-pur.
- Consecutive heart disease. Chlorosis. Hard strong beating of the heart. Pseudo-plethora. Throbbing in all bloodvessels ; soft bellows' sound at apex (?). (Base, if anaemic. — Snader.): Ferr.
- Nervous chill, yet skin is warm ; wants to be held that she may not shake so. Heart disease: Gels.
- Low, feeble pulse in sunstroke. Purring noise in the region of the heart when lying ; pulse intermittent; must have head high ; worse when lying on left side ; better on right: Glon.
- Frequent and soft, intermittent pulse in hydrocephalus ; small, irregular in hydrothorax: Hell.
- Pulse slow during the chill: Hydr.
- Systolic murmur ; stitch pain; second tick loud from pulmonary stagnation. Endocarditis. Insufficiency of mitral valves: Kali-c.
- Darting pains in the heart when walking ; after abuse of mercury ; after repeated endocarditis: Kali-i.
- When articular rheumatism has been treated externally and ca'rdiac symptoms ensue. When the pains suddenly leave the limbs and go to the heart. Hypertrophy and valvular insufficiency, or thickening after rheumatism. Severe pain in cardiac region, with slow, small pulse. Hypertrophy, with dilatation and aortic obstruction. Paroxysms of anguish about the heart, dyspnoea, febrile excitemerit; rheumatic, endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease. Angina pectoris. Fatty degeneration. Palpitation (gastralgia). Slow, small pulse. • Hypertrophy of heart. Remarkable slowness of the pulse, 48 in the minute (neuralgia). Quickened but weak pulse (rheumatism of the heart). Pulse only slightly accelerated and many times slow (acute rheumatism): Kalm.
- Restless, trembling ; anxiety about the heart, hasty speech ; suffocation on lying down ; weight on the chest; heart feels constricted (rheumatism of the heart). Cyanosis neonatorum. Pericarditis, dropsy, diphtheritic patches in the throat after scarlatina: Lach.
- Pulse 1 10, small, thin, hard. Pneumonia: Lachn.
- Apoplexy. Cyanosis neonatorum: Laur.
- Valvular deficiencies, worse from mental agitation, which causes a fluttering and trembling of the heart. Rheumatic soreness in the cardiac region: Lith-c.
- Sawing sound about the heart, with violent pains, diar-: Lobel.
- Hydropericardium: Lyc.
- Pulse small, weak ; nun's murmur in the carotids: Nux-m.
- Full and slow, with snoring; imperceptible, face purple. Cyanosis neonatorum: Op.
- Disease of the right heart, with consequent venous stagnation. Dilatation of the heart following endocarditis or fatty degeneration: Phos.
- In children and young persons who grow too fast ; after self-abuse: Ph-ac.
- Shocks of pain in the cardiac region. Angina pectoris. Pain goes into right arm. Heart's action weak, with constipation: Phyt.
- Great anxiety and palpitation. Commencing endo- or pericarditis: Plat.
- Rush of blood to the heart during a rapid walk; anguish, cold sweat; stitches during inspiration. Hypertrophy: Plb.
- Pericarditis, psoric origin. Rheumatic pericarditis ; effusion, cannot lie down: Psor.
- Beating in the chest, interrupting sleep; old maids: Puls.
- Uncomplicated hypertrophy from violent exertion. Organic disease of the heart, with sticking pains and soreness ; numbness and lameness of left arm: Rhus
- Irregularity of the heart's action, with coldness, insensibility, etc: Sang.
- Angina pectoris; contracting pain about the heart, suffocation, anxious sweat. Aneurism of the aorta ; dry, paroxysmal cough, worse lying down. Palpitation violent, with pain, gasping respiration ; suddenly awakened after midnight, with suffocation, great alarm ; anxiety. Valvular insufficiency. Rheumatic endocarditis ; loud blowing with each heart-beat: Spong.
- Pulse slow in typhus. Beating of heart so increased from motion he cannot speak for hours ; trembling ; twitches as in chorea ; murmurs instead of regular sounds ; consequent on fright: Stram.
- Palpitation in attacks at night, tight across the chest,: Tabac.
- Anxiety about heart; sharp pains radiate to arm and: Ther.
- Tumultuous, irregular contraction of heart, forerunners of paralysis; intermittent action of the heart in feeble persons, with some obstruction to the hepatic circulation. Palpitation in the anaemic ; agony of death, legs cold ; difficult breathing, better at rest or lying down: Verat.
- Feels as if a cap were over the heart ; spine affected: Zinc.
- Diseases of the Heart and Appendages
- Angina pectoris: Am-c., Ars., Oxal-ac., Phyt., Spong., Tabac.
- Fatty degeneration: Arn., Kalm., Phos.
- Endocarditis: Kali-c., Kalm., Spig.
- commencing: Plat.
- Valvular insufficiency: Lith-c., Spong.
- mitral: Kali-c.
- aortic obstruction: Kalm.
- Murmurs: Apis, Cact., Ferr., Kali-c., Lobel., Nux-m., Spig.
- Probably organic ; blowing sound with the diastole: Apis
- Probably
- systolic: Kali-c.
- systolic at apex ; also hard-blowing sound with each heart-beat: Spig.
- nun's murmur in the carotids: Nux-m.
- sawing sound: Lobel.
- Probably inorganic; soft bellows' sound at the apex (?): Ferr.
- Hypertrophy: Kalm.
- uncomplicated: Rhus
- Dilatation (enlarged ventricles): Kalm.
- left: Cact.
- right: Phos.
- Cyanosis: Bor., Carb-v.
- Cyanosis neonatorum: Lach., Laur., Op.
- Pericarditis: Dig., Lach., Psor.
- commencing: Plat.
- Hydropericardium: Ars., Colch., Lyc.
- " Heart disease" (character not mentioned): Brom., Colch., Gels.
- " Rheumatism of the heart": Kalm., Lach.
- Organic diseases of the heart: Rhus
- "Strain of the heart": Arn.
- Impending paralysis of the heart: Carb-v., Verat.
- Great irritability of the cardiac nerves: Cact.
- Gout of the heart: Benz-ac.
- Aneurism of the aorta: Spong.
- Other Diseases
- Apoplexy: Laur.
- Asthma: Acon.
- Chill: Acon., Gels., Hydr.
- Cholera: Tabac.
- Chlorosis: Abrot.
- Constipation: Phyt.
- Diarrhcea: Lobel.
- Fever: Acon.
- Hemorrhages: Secale
- Hemorrhoidal colic: Abrot.
- Hepatic obstruction: Verat.
- Hydrocephalus ; hydrothorax: Hell.
- Inflammations: Acon., Kalm.
- Insensibility: Sang.
- Metrorrhagia: Apoc.
- Neuralgia: Kalm.
- Pain: Abrot., Kali-i., Kalm.
- Pneumonia: Lachn.
- Peritonitis: Acon.
- Pseudo-plethora: Ferr.
- Rheumatism: Abrot.
- Scarlatina: Ailan., Lach.
- Spine affected: Zinc.
- Sunstroke: Glon.
- Typhus: Calad., Stram.
- Uraemia: Ars.
- Vomiting: Ant-t., Lobel.
- The Pulse in Heart and Other Diseases
- Slow small pulse (hypertrophy). Slow and feeble (angina pectoris). Quickened but weak pulse (rheumatism of the heart). Pulse slightly accelerated and many times slow (acute rheumatism): Kalm.
- Full and slow, with snoring ; imperceptible, face purplish (cyanosis neonatorum): Op.
- Pulse weak and small (chlorosis): Abrot.
- Full hard, strong (fevers and inflammation). Small, intermittent, irregular (in asthma). Quick and hard (peritonitis). Small and weak (during chill): Acon.
- Rapid and small ; weak, sometimes scarcely perceptible, very frequent and irregular (scarlatina): Ailan.
- Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting (metrorrhagia): Apoc.
- Pulse hard and bounding (in intermittents). Very frequent, hardly to be felt (typhus): Calad.
- Pulse accelerated and full (ague): Eup-pur.
- Low, feeble (sunstroke): Glon.
- Frequent, soft, intermittent pulse (in hydrocephalus). Small, irregular (in hydrothorax): Hell.
- Pulse slow during the chill: Hydr.
- Slow, small pulse (with severe pain in the cardiac region). Slow, small pulse (hypertrophy). Remarkable slowness of the pulse, 48 in the minute (neuralgia): Kalm.
- Pulse no, small, thin, hard (pneumonia): Lachn.
- Full and slow, with snoring: Op.
- Heart's action weak (with constipation): Phyt.
- Irregularity of the heart's action and pulse (with coldness, insensibility): Sang.
- Pulse thread-like (in hemorrhages): Secale
- Pulse slow (in typhus): Stram.
- Oppression about the heart ; feeble pulse (cholera): Tabac.
- Pulse intermittent, in feeble persons (with some hepatic obstruction): Verat.
- Causative and Clinical Relationships
- Following rheumatism: Colch.
- Consecutive to chlorosis: Ferr.
- After abuse of mercury: Kali-i.
- After repeated endocarditis: Kali-i.
- When articular rheumatism has been treated externally: Kalm.
- Thickening of the valves after rheumatism: Kalm.
- Pericarditis, dropsy, diphtheritic patches in the throat, after scarlatina: Lach.
- Dilatation, following endocarditis or fatty degeneration: Phos.
- Psoric origin: Psor.
- From violent exertion: Rhus
- From violent running: Arn.
- From overexertion or suppressed discharges (in women): Asaf.
- Consequent on fright: Stram.
- In children and young persons who grow too fast; after selfabuse: Ph-ac.