Heart, Palpitation

Pennsylvania, Repertory to Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, 1889, p. 390 · Remedy abbreviations · grades: bold 3, italic 2, roman 1

Palpitation
- Aconitum, Actaea rac, ifLsculus hip., ^Ethusa, Agaricus, Alumina, Ambra, Ammonium carb., Antimonium crud., Antimonium tart., Argentum met., Argentum nit., Arnica, Arsenicum, Asafoetida, Aurum, Baryta carb., Belladonna, Benzoicum ac, Berberis, Bovista, Bromium, Cactus grand., Calcarea carb., Calcarea phos., Camphora, Cannabis ind., Cantharis, Carbo an., Causticum, Chamomilla, Chelidonium, Cicuta, Cinchona, Cocculus ind., Coffea, Colchicum, Conium, Crocus, Cuprum, Cyclamen, Dulcamara, Ferrum met., Graphites, Guaiacum, Hamamelis, Helleborus, Hepar sulph., Hydrastis, Ignatia, IIlicium, Iodium, Kali bich., Kali carb., Kali iod., Kalmia, Lachesis, Laurocerasus, Ledum, Lilium tig., Lycopodium, Magnesia mur., Mancinella, Manganum acet., Mercurius, Mercurius cor., Millefolium, Muriaticum ac, Natrum carb., Natrum mur., Nitri ac, Nitrum, Nux mosch., Nux vom., Oleander, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Phosphoricum ac, Platina, Podophyllum, Pulsatilla, Rhus tox., Ruta, Sabina, Sanguinaria, Secale, Sepia, Silicea, Spigelia, Spongia, Staphisagria, Stramonium, Sulphur, Sulphuricum ac, Tabacum, Tellurium, Thuya, Veratrum alb.: Verat-v.
- With a feeling as if boiling water was poured into the chest: Acon.
- Unconsciousness: Cimic.
- Heart's action full, heavy, can feel the pulsations all over the body. Darting in the region of the heart, with fulness and palpitation: Æsc.
- With vertigo and headache: Æth.
- Violent, strongly felt, worse evenings ; with redness of the face ; on sitting down, some irregular, strong beats; anxious oppression: Agar.
- Awakens with palpitation; irregular, large and small beats intermixed: Alum.
- When walking in the open air, with paleness of the face. Violent, with pressure in chest as if a lump lay there, or as if the chest was stuffed up: Ambr.
- Frequent, with contraction of epigastrium and a weak feeling in the pit of the stomach. Audible, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying ; cold sweat; involuntary flow of tears; unable to speak ; loud, difficult breathing and trembling of hands: Am-c.
- Violent: Ant-cr., Canth.
- Increased by sudden muscular exertion: Arg-m.
- With nausea, with asthma; violent, from slightest mental emotion or sudden muscular exertion: Arg-n.
- From almost any exertion ; goes off by rest: Arn.
- Nervous, with small pulse, from overexertion or suppression of discharges (in women): Asaf.
- With great agony. When riding or walking palpitatation compels him to stop. With irregular intermittent pulse and short breathing: Aur.
- When lying on left side, with soreness in the region of the heart; great anxiety; renewed by thinking about it: Bar-c.
- A kind of palpitation, with gurgling at the heart, when going up-stairs: Bell.
- While sitting : worse after drinking ; also worse at night ; lying ; at times tearing, rheumatic pains in the extremities, relieving the heart: Benz-ac.
- Frequent: Berb.
- With tremor of hands. Visible palpitation after going up-stairs ; as if the heart was working in water ; after overexertion: Bov.
- Violent in the evening, so that she cannot lie on the left side: Brom.
- With vertigo, loss of consciousness ; dyspnoea, worse w alking, at night, lying on the left side, at the approach of the menses and from any exertion: Cact.
- With anxiety, also at night, or after meals: Calc-c.
- With anxiety, followed by trembling, weakness, particularly of the calves: Calc-p.
- Trembling palpitation, with anxiety. With sudden oppression of breathing ; with cold face, limbs and body; with pale face and cold body; after eating; after waking, with twitches: Camph.
- Awaking from sleep: Cann-i.
- After eating ; when singing in church ; morning, on on awaking, must lie still with eyes closed: Carb-an.
- And faintness: Cham.
- Very irregular. Violent, with tightness of the chest: Chel.
- Trembling palpitation: Cic.
- With rush of blood to face, heat and redness of face, with cold hands ; after loss of fluids: Chin.
- From quick motion and mental excitement, with dizziness and faintness: Cocc.
- Violent, irregular, with trembling of limbs: Coff.
- Violent, with anxiety: Colch.
- Violent, after drinking: Con.
- Anxious: Croc., Ruta
- At night: Dulc.
- Better walking slowly ; also in onanists ; after loss of fluids ; with blood-spitting: Ferr.
- with anxiety ; with nosebleed: Graph.
- With fine stitches in the heart and left half of the chest: Hep.
- With faintings: Hydr.
- At night and in the mornings, in bed: Ign.
- With aphthae and weakness: Ill.
- Violent, worse from the least exertion: Iod.
- Dyspncea, accelerated pulse, heat, awakens suddenly with a start, 2 a.m: Kali-bi.
- In spells, taking his breath: Kali-c.
- Worse while walking: Kali-i.
- Dyspncea, pain in limbs; stitch in lower part of chest; right-sided prosopalgia: Kalm.
- Can bear no pressure on throat or chest ; must sit up or lie on the right side; numbness of the left arm; fainting ; anxiety: Lach.
- Pushing or pressing inward at the left edge of the sternum: Led.
- Worse lying on either side: Lil-t.
- Trembling, pulsating tearing in the region of the heart: Lyc.
- While sitting, going off on motion: Mag-m.
- And weakness: Manc.
- Strong, irregular trembling, without abnormal sounds: Mang.
- With fear, worse at night: Merc.
- In sleep: Merc-c.
- With excessive and bloody sputum: Mill.
- Felt in the face: Mur-ac.
- Violent, anxious palpitation when ascending, and at night when lying on left side: Nat-c.
- With morning headache, anxious, when moving or exerting one's self; when lying on left side. When going to sleep and on awaking: Nat-m.
- On rising, on moving about quickly, with heat of the face and oppression of chest: Kali-n.
- With fainting, followed by sleep ; hysteria, with weak, strong pulse and changing irregularity in heart's beat: Nux-m.
- Heart feels tired ; palpitation on lying down ; frequent belching. With orgasm of blood ; from mental emotions ; from protracted study ; after eating, especially after spices or coffee: Nux-v.
- With weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at the same time fulness in pit of stomach. Anxious ; chest feels expanded: Olnd.
- Fainting, with ebullitions ; heat ; pressing on the heart and palpitation: Petr.
- From every emotion, with rush of blood to the chest, especially in the rapidly growing youth: Phos.
- In children and young persons who grow too fast ; after grief ; after self-abuse: Ph-ac.
- With great anxiety: Plat.
- With a clucking sensation rising up to throat obstructing respiration. From mental emotion or exertion, with trembling in ascending colon, heavy sleep, fatigue on awaking in the morning ; drowsy all forenoon: Podo.
- In violent paroxysms, often with anguish and obscuration of sight ; trembling of limbs ; from chagrin, fright, or joy ; with amenia, chlorosis ; strong, with suppressed pulse ; after dinner: Puls.
- Violent when sitting still: Rhus
- At every motion, especially when ascending: Sabin.
- Before vomiting, with great weakness: Sang.
- Without fear, mostly during the day: Sars.
- Oftener at night, with contracted and frequently intermitting pulse: Secale
- After emotions of mind ; wakes up with violent beating of the heart ; with anxiety about things which happened years ago: Sep.
- While sitting, so that he has to hold on to something. Violent hammering after every quick or violent motion: Sil.
- Violent ; worse bending forward ; high fever ; stitching pains ; when he sits down ; after rising in the morning ; from deep inspiration or holding the breath ; from worms ; from the least motion: Spig.
- Violent, with pain, gasping respiration ; suddenly awakened after midnight, with suffocation ; great alarm ; anxiety: Spong.
- From the least motion ; from mental exertion ; from music ; after siesta: Staph.
- Beating of the heart, so increased by motion he cannot speak for hours ; twitching as in chorea ; murmurs instead of regular sounds ; consequent on fright: Stram.
- When going up-stairs or when climbing a hill: Sulph.
- With or without fear or anxiety: Sul-ac.
- At night, tight across the chest, with angina pectoris: Tabac.
- With throbbing through body and full pulse, followed by sweat: Tell.
- Periodical, in rest or motion, from ascending ; anxious when awaking in the morning ; audible, with violent congestion to chest: Thuj.
- Strong, with chorea. Violent, visible, anxious palpitation. Palpitation in the anaemic ; agony of death, legs cold ; difficult breathing, better at rest or lying down: Verat.
- Faintness and blindness ; when rising from lying ; from sudden motions ; better lying quietly: Verat-v.
- General Symptoms
  - With a feeling as if boiling water was being poured into the chest: Acon.
  - A feeling as if the heart was working in water: Bov.
  - Darting in the region of the heart, with fulness: Æsc.
  - With pressure on the chest as if a lump lay there, or as if the chest was stuffed up: Ambr.
  - With contraction of the epigastrium and a weak feeling at the pit of the stomach: Am-c.
  - After suppressed herpes or suppressed foot-sweat: Ars.
  - From suppression of discharges in women: Asaf.
  - When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop: Aur.
  - Soreness in the region of the heart: Bar-c.
  - A kind of palpitation, with gurgling at the heart on going upstairs: Bell.
  - With fine stitches in the heart and left half of the chest: Hep.
  - Can bear no pressure on the throat or chest: Lach.
  - Pulsating tearing in the region of the heart: Lyc.
  - With hysteria, with weak, strong pulse, and changing irregularity in the heart's beat: Nux-m.
  - Heart feels tired: Nux-v.
  - With weakness and empty feeling of chest, and at the same time fulness at the pit of the stomach: Olnd.
  - Before vomiting, with great weakness: Sang.
  - With throbbing through whole body, and full pulse, followed by sweat: Tell.
- Mental Symptoms
  - Agony: Aur.
  - Agony of death
    - in the anaemic: Verat.
  - Anguish: Ars., Puls.
    - chiefly at night: Ars.
    - with obscuration of sight: Puls.
  - Alarm: Spong.
  - Fear: Merc., Sul-ac.
    - without fear: Sars.
    - at night: Merc.
    - with or without fear: Sul-ac.
  - Anxiety: Agar., Am-c., Bar-c., Calc-c., Calc-p., Camph., Colch., Croc., Graph., Lach., Nat-c., Nat-m., Olnd., Plat., Ruta, Sep., Spong., Stann., Sul-ac., Thuj., Verat.
    - audible, as if dying: Am-c.
    - followed by trembling weakness, particularly of the calves: Calc-p.
    - with sudden oppression of breathing: Camph.
    - with nosebleed: Graph.
    - when ascending: Nat-c.
    - with morning headache: Nat-m.
    - chest feels expanded: Olnd.
    - about things which happened years ago: Sep.
    - from giving directions in her household affairs: Stann.
    - on waking in the morning: Thuj.
    - with or without anxiety: Sul-ac.
  - After emotions of mind: Sep.
  - From mental emotion: Arg-n., Phos.
  - From
    - with rush of blood to chest: Phos.
    - From music: Staph.
    - When singing in church: Carb-an.
    - Renewed by thinking about it: Bar-c.
  - From mental excitement: Cocc.
  - From mental exertion: Staph.
  - From protracted study: Nux-v.
  - After grief: Ph-ac., Puls.
  - From fright: Puls., Stram.
  - From chagrin: Puls.
  - From joy: Puls.
- Concomitants
  - With headache: Æth., Nat-m.
    - in the morning: Nat-m.
  - With right-sided prosopalgia: Kalm.
  - With inability to speak: Am-c., Stram.
  - With
    - Beating of heart, so increased by motion he cannot speak for hours: Stram.
    - Heart's action full, heavy, can feel the pulsation all over the body: Æsc.
    - With throbbing through whole body, and full pulse, followed by sweat: Tell.
    - with pushing or pressing inward at the left edge of the sternum: Led.
    - with pain in the limbs: Kalm.
    - with a clucking sensation rushing up to throat, obstructing respiration: Podo.
    - with gasping respiration: Spong.
    - with agony of death (in the anaemic) ; better at rest or lying down: Verat.
    - With twitches: Camph., Stram.
    - With chorea: Stram., Verat.
    - With heavy sleep: Podo.
    - With fatigue on awaking: Podo.
    - With frequent belching: Nux-v.
    - With nausea: Arg-n.
    - With excessive and bloody sputum: Mill.
    - With blood-spitting: Ferr.
    - With nosebleed: Graph.
    - With angina pectoris: Tabac.
    - With dyspnoea at the approach of the menses: Cact.
    - With amenia, chlorosis: Puls.
    - With hysteria: Nux-m.
    - With a kind of gurgling about the heart: Bell.
    - With murmurs instead of the regular sounds: Stram.
    - With contracted pulse: Secale
    - With suppressed pulse: Puls.
    - With small pulse: Ars., Asaf.
    - With full pulse: Tell.
  - With involuntary flow of tears: Am-c.
  - With blindness: Verat.
  - With obscuration of sight: Puls.
  - With vertigo: Æth., Cact., Cocc.
    - and faintness: Cocc.
  - With faintness: Cham., Cocc., Verat.
    - and dizziness: Cocc.
    - and blindness: Verat.
  - With faintings: Hydr., Lach., Nux-m., Verat.
    - followed by sleep ; hysteria: Nux-m.
    - violent, visible: Verat.
  - With unconsciousness: Cact., Cimic.
  - With weakness: Ill., Manc., Olnd., Sang.
    - and aphthae: Ill.
    - before vomiting: Sang.
  - With fever: Spig.
  - With ebullitions: Æsc., Chin., Kali-bi., Nux-v., Petr., Phos., Tell.
  - With rush of blood to the face: Chin.
  - With rush of blood to the chest: Phos.
  - With redness of the face: Agar., Chin.
  - With redness
    - and heat with cold hands: Chin.
  - With paleness of the face: Ambr., Camph.
  - With paleness
    - felt in the face: Mur-ac.
  - With paleness and cold body: Camph.
  - With stitches: Hep., Kalm., Spig.
  - With fine stitches in the heart and left half of chest: Hep.
  - With fine
    - in the lower part of the chest: Kalm.
    - from deep inspiration or holding the breath: Spig.
  - With pressure on chest in region of the heart: Ambr., Led., Petr.
  - With pressure
    - as if a lump lay there ; or as if the chest was stuffed up: Ambr.
  - With soreness in the region of the heart: Bar-c.
  - With numbness of the left arm: Cimic., Lach.
  - With tightness across the chest: Chel., Tabac.
  - With congestion of the chest: Thuj.
  - With empty feeling in chest: Olnd.
  - With difficult breathing: Am-c., Aur., Cact., Camph., Kali-bi., Kali-c., Kalm., Podo., Spong., Verat.
  - With difficult
    - and loud: Am-c.
    - in spells: Kali-c.
  - With asthma: Arg-n.
  - With suffocation
    - after midnight: Spong.
  - With cold sweat: Am-c., Tell.
  - Followed by sweat: Tell.
  - With cold face, hands and body: Camph.
  - With cold hands: Chin.
  - With cold legs: Verat.
  - With trembling: Cic., Lyc.
  - With trembling of limbs: Coff.
  - With trembling of hands: Am-c., Bov.
  - With trembling of calves: Calc-p.
  - With With twitches
    - as in chorea: Stram.
- General Character of Palpitation
  - Periodical: Thuj.
  - Paroxysmal: Puls.
  - In spells: Kali-c.
  - Audible: Am-c., Ars., Thuj.
    - chiefly at night, with anguish: Ars.
    - with violent congestion to chest: Thuj.
  - Visible: Ars., Bov., Verat.
    - after going up-stairs, as if the heart was working in water: Bov.
    - anxious, with fainting: Verat.
  - Violent: Agar., Ambr., Ant-t., Canth., Coff., Colch., Con., Iod., Nat-c., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Spig., Spong., Verat.
    - in the evening, so that she cannot lie on left side: Brom.
    - Violent, with anxiety: Colch.
    - Strong: Agar., Ars., Puls., Verat.
    - Intermittent: Aur., Secale
    - Irregular: Agar., Alum., Ars., Aur., Coff.
    - After loss of fluids: Chin., Ferr.
    - After self-abuse: Ph-ac.
    - In onanists: Ferr.
    - In the anaemic: Verat.
    - In rapidly-growing youth: Phos.
    - In children and young persons who grow too fast: Ph-ac.
    - Prom worms: Spig.
    - From suppressed herpes and foot-sweat: Ars.
    - From suppressed discharges (in women): Asaf.
    - Morning: Ignatia, Carbo an., Natrum mur., Spigelia, Thuya. in bed : Ignatia. with headache: Nat-m.
    - Morning: Thuj.
    - Day (during): Sars.
    - Evening
      - so that she cannot lie on left side: Brom.
  - Violent Violent
    - after drinking: Con.
    - from least exertion: Iod.
    - when sitting still: Rhus
    - wakes from sleep: Sep.
    - so that he has to hold on to something: Sil.
    - worse on bending forward: Spig.
    - with pain, gasping respiration: Spong.
    - visible, anxious: Verat.
  - Violent Strong
    - with suppressed pulse: Puls.
    - with chorea: Verat.
  - Violent Irregular
    - large and small beats intermixed: Alum.
  - Night: Ars., Benz-ac., Cact., Calc-c., Dulc., Ign., Kali-bi., Merc-c., Nat-m., Secale, Spong., Tabac.
    - while lying: Benz-ac.
    - or in the morning, in bed: Ign.
    - in sleep: Merc-c.
    - with contracted pulse, intermitting: Secale
    - with tightness across the chest: Tabac.
  - After midnight: Kali-bi., Spong.
    - awakens suddenly with a start at 2 a.m.: Kali-bi.
- Motion and Rest
  - From motion: Cocc., Nat-m., Stram., Thuj., Verat-v.
    - quick: Cocc.
    - sudden: Verat-v.
    - so increased by motion he cannot speak for hours: Stram.
  - Every motion: Sabin., Sil.
    - especially when ascending: Sabin.
    - quick or violent: Sil.
  - Least motion: Aur., Spig., Staph., Thuj.
    - (compels him to stop: Aur.
  - When ascending: Ars., Bell., Bov., Nat-c., Sabin., Sulph., Thuj.
  - When
    - going up-stairs: Ars., Bell., Bov., Sulph.
    - climbing a hill: Sulph.
  - Walking: Ambr., Aur., Cact., Kali-i.
    - in the open air, with paleness of the face: Ambr.
    - or riding; compels him to stop: Aur.
    - at night: Cact.
  - Riding: Aur.
  - Rest
    - or motion: Thuj.
- Position
  - When bending forward: Spig.
  - When
    - when he sits down
      - after rising in the morning: Spig.
  - On sitting down
    - some irregular strong beats ; anxious oppression: Agar.
  - While sitting: Benz-ac., Mag-m., Rhus, Sil.
    - so that he has to hold on to something: Sil.
  - While lying: Benz-ac., Lach., Lil-t., Nux-v.
    - on the back
      - cannot lie on the back: Ars.
    - on the left side: Bar-c., Brom., Cact., Lil-t., Nat-c., Nat-m.
    - with soreness in the region of the heart: Bar-c.
    - at night: Nat-c.
    - cannot lie on the left side: Brom.
    - on either side
      - cannot lie on either side: Lil-t.
  - While lying ox the right side: Lach., Lil-t.
  - When rising from lying: Verat-v.
- Exertion
  - From exertion: Nat-m., Podo.
  - From
    - with a rumbling sensation in ascending colon, heavy sleep, fatigue on awaking ; drowsy all forenoon: Podo.
    - violent: Iod.
  - From any exertion: Arn., Cact., Iod.
  - From sudden muscular exertion: Arg-m., Arg-n.
  - From overexertion: Asaf., Bov.
  - From rest
    - or motion: Thuj.
- Sleep
  - When going to sleep: Nat-m.
  - Awakened by the palpitation: Alum., Cann-i., Carb-an., Kali-bi., Nat-m., Sep., Spong.
  - Awakened
    - morning: Carb-an.
    - with the violent beating: Sep.
    - with suffocation: Spong.
  - On waking: Nat-m., Thuj.
  - On
    - in the morning: Thuj.
  - In sleep: Merc-c.
  - After waking: Camph., Spong.
  - After
    - with twitches: Camph.
  - After siesta: Staph.
- Eating and Drinking
  - After drinking: Benz-ac., Con.
  - After dinner: Puls.
  - After meals: Calc-c.
  - After eating: Camph., Carb-an., Nux-v.
  - Especially after spices or coffee: Nux-v.
- Ameliorations
  - Rest: Arn., Carb-an., Verat., Verat-v.
    - goes off by rest: Arn.
    - must lie still, with the eyes closed: Carb-an.
  - Goes off lying on right side: Tabac.
  - Better lying down: Carb-an., Verat., Verat-v.
  - Motion: Ferr., Mag-m.
    - goes off on motion: Mag-m.
    - better walking slowly: Ferr.
  - Better sitting up: Lach.
  - Lying on right side: Lach., Tabac.
  - Lying
    - must sit up or lie on the right side: Lach.
  - Better closing the eyes: Carb-an.
  - Pains: Benz-ac.
    - at times tearing rheumatic pains in the extremities, relieving the heart: Benz-ac.