Heart, Sensations
Pennsylvania, Repertory to Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, 1889, p. 404 · Remedy abbreviations · grades: bold 3, italic 2, roman 1
- Sensations
- Tremor of the heart, felt towards the back: Absin.
- Oppression about the praecordia, burning flushes along the back. Palpitation, with a feeling as if boiling water was poured into the chest. Feeling of fulness ; pulse hard, strong, contracted. Fainting, with tingling: Acon.
- Left arm numb and as if bound to the side ; numbness of the body: Cimic.
- Burning in the region of the heart: Æsc.
- Anxious sensation of pressure. Constricted feeling of a lump in the epigastrium, with pain under the sternum ; drawing in region of diaphragm, sharp pains in left side: Agar.
- Dull pain and contracted feeling in the region of the base of the heart and centre of left lung: Ailan.
- Palpitation, with pressure in the chest as if a lump laythere or as if the chest was stuffed up: Ambr.
- Full feeling in the region of the heart ; frequent spasmodic though painless twitchings of whole cardiac muscle, especially on lying on back ; fears apoplexy: Arg-m.
- Heart's action irregular, intermittent, with an unpleasant sensation of fulness ; exertion causes strong beating, worse when noticing it: Arg-n.
- Region of the heart feels as if bruised: Arn.
- Pressure in the region of the heart as if the heart was too full and expanded, pulse small: Asaf.
- Feels as though the heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thump: Aur.
- Heart's pulsations seem to fill the chest: Bapt.
- Feels the heart beat: Bar-c.
- Pressure in the cardiac region which arrests the breathing and causes anxiety. Gurgling at the heart, a kind of palpitation, when going up-stairs: Bell.
- Sense of weakness in the prsecordia: Benz-ac.
- Sensation as if the heart was on the right side and was being squeezed: Bor.
- Visible palpitation after going up-stairs, as if the heart was working in water ; after overexertion: Bov.
- Oppression in the region of the heart: Bry.
- Sensation of constriction in heart, as if an iron hand had prevented its normal movements: Cact.
- Tremulous pulsation of heart, worse after eating, at night, with anguish: Calc-c.
- Feels the beating of the pulse, not frequent but quick ; while sitting feels it in the nape of the neck and left chest: Calc-p.
- Praecordial distress when loudly spoken to ; sensation of severe coldness and irresistible sleepiness: Camph.
- Sensation as if drops of water were falling from the heart: Cann-i.
- Violent beating of the heart on moving the body and on stooping, with a warm sensation about the heart: Cann-s.
- Stitch, followed by a crawling sensation: Canth.
- Oppression of the heart, with lowness of spirits: Caust.
- Feels as if the heart stopped beating : and sometimes faint feeling therewith: Cic.
- Buzzing in the region of the heart; sensation of something alive running in the heart: Cycl.
- Pressure in heart as if it was being contracted. Fulness in the heart. Purring noise in the region of the heart when lying ; pulse intermits ; must have head high ; worse when lying on left side, better on the right: Glon.
- Constriction ; pressure ; sensation like an electric shock from heart towards the front of neck: Graph.
- Sensation as if the heart was being squeezed together: Iod.
- Cold sensation about the heart; tightness of the chest ; dyspnoea: Kali-bi.
- Cramping pains, as if the heart was hanging by bands ; burning: Kali-c.
- Pressure like a marble from epigastrium towards the heart, with a strong, quick heart-beat. Every beat has a strumming, as if it would burst, along the sternum to throat. The third or fourth beat is harder, and is followed by an intermission: Kalm.
- Numbness of the left arm: Lach.
- Feels hot in the chest and around the heart. Boiling and bubbling in the chest and cardiac region. While lying feels the beating of his heart in his head: Lachn.
- Beating, fluttering sensation in the region of the heart; gasps for breath; sometimes has slight, dry cough: Laur.
- Pushing or pressure inward at left edge of sternum ; palpitation: Led.
- Feels as if squeezed in a vise. Heart feels as if grasped, with pain and heaviness of left mamma to scapula. Heart as if violently grasped, then suddenly released; and so on alternately. Constrictive pain about heart extending through to scapula. Heaviness in region of the heart. Fluttering, general pain and feeling, hurried and forced feeling about the apex; better sitting still. Fluttering awakens her at night, with cold hands and feet covered with cold sweat. Conscious pulsations over whole body, and out-pressing in the hands and arms, as if blood would burst through the vessels: Lil-t.
- Fluttering and trembling, sudden shocks in the cardiac region: Lith-c.
- Sensation of weakness and pressure in the epigastrium, rising to heart. Short sensation as if the heart would stand still; deep in, above the heart, a pain. Sawing sound about the heart, with violent pains, diarrhoea and vomiting: Lobel.
- Sensation as if the circulation stood still, or ebullitions: Lyc.
- Sudden shocks at the heart and in the left side of the chest from above downward: Mang.
- Weakness at the heart, as if life was ebbing away ; awakens with trembling at the heart, and agitation as if frightened: Merc.
- Fluttering of the heart, with weak, faint feeling, worse lying down: Nat-m.
- Feels as if her head would burst and her heart squeezed off. Trembling, fluttering of heart, as if from fright: Nux-m.
- Heart feels tired: Nux-v.
- Burning about the heart: Op.
- Cold feeling at the heart: Petr.
- Great pressure on the middle of the sternum, orthopnoea, dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself; palpitation: Phos.
- Awakens with lameness near the heart, worse during expiration, cannot get to sleep again: Phyt.
- Clucking sensation rising to throat, preventing respiration ; palpitation: Podo.
- Beating in the chest interrupts sleep ; old maids. Burning in the region of the heart. Heaviness, pressure or sensation of fulness every evening: Puls.
- Chest and heart feel weak after a walk ; trembling sensation in the heart ; numbness and lameness of left arm: Rhus
- Heart feels as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest. Burning in the region of the heart: Rumx.
- Weak feeling at the heart: Sang.
- Interruption of the beating of the heart, most after dinner; alarmed, quivering motion. An occasional hard " thump " of the heart: Sep.
- Purring feeling over the heart, not synchronous with the pulse: Spig.
- Attacks of oppression and cardiac pain, worse lying with the head low: Spong.
- Trembling beating of the heart: Staph.
- Sensation as if the heart was enlarged: Sulph.
- Oppression at heart, pulse feeble, irregular: Tabac.
- Burning, prickling: Verat-v.
- Feels as if a cap were over the heart ; spine affected: Zinc.
- Peculiar Symptoms
- A feeling as if boiling water was being poured into the chest: Acon.
- As if the heart was working in water: Bov.
- Beating like waves
- Viola tri: Viol-tr.
- Boiling and bubbling in the chest and cardiac region
- gurgling, Belladonna: Lachn.
- Feels hot in the chest and around the heart: Lachn.
- Heart's pulsations seem to fill the chest: Bapt.
- As if the heart was too full and expanded: Asaf.
- As if the heart was enlarged: Sulph.
- Constant feeling as of a lump in the epigastrium, with pain under the sternum: Agar.
- Sensation as if the circulation stood still: Lyc.
- Feels as though the heart ceased, and then suddenly gave one hard thump
- Sepia, Zincum: Aur.
- As if an iron hand prevented its normal movements: Cact.
- Feels as if squeezed in a vise: Lil-t.
- Sensation as if the heart was on the right side and was being squeezed: Bor.
- Heart as if suddenly grasped, then suddenly released, and so on alternately: Lil-t.
- Sensation of something alive running in the heart: Cycl.
- As if the heart was hanging by bands: Kali-c.
- Every beat has a strumming, as though it would burst, along the sternum: Kalm.
- Conscious pulsation over the whole body, and out-pressing in the hands and arms, as if the blood would burst through the vessels: Lil-t.
- Weakness at the heart as if life was ebbing away: Merc.
- Sudden shocks in the cardiac region: Lith-c.
- Sudden
- shocks at the heart and in the left side of the chest from above downward: Mang.
- Sensation like an electric shock from heart towards the front of the neck: Graph.
- Feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off: Nux-m.
- Sensation as if drops of water were falling from the heart: Cann-i.
- Sensation as if the heart was ascending to the throat: Phyt.
- The heart feels tired: Nux-v.
- Feels as if a cap were over the heart ; spine affected: Zinc.
- Mental Symptoms Accompanying Sensations
- Anguish
- at night: Calc-c.
- Alarm
- interruption of the beating of the heart most after dinner ; alarmed, quivering motion: Sep.
- Anxiety: Agar., Bell., Viol-tr.
- with pressure: Agar.
- and arrest of breathing: Bell.
- while lying, with beating like waves: Viol-tr.
- Distress
- about the heart when loudly spoken to: Camph.
- Lovvness of spirits
- with oppression about the heart: Caust.
- Fears apoplexy: Arg-m.
- Worse when noticing the beating of the heart: Arg-n.
- Anguish
- Summarized Sensations
- Dull: Ailan.
- Pushing: Led.
- Pressure: Agar., Ambr., Asaf., Bell., Glon., Graph., Kalm., Led., Phos., Puls.
- with anxiety: Agar.
- in the region of the heart, as if it was too full and expanded: Asaf.
- arrests the breathing and causes anxiety: Bell.
- in the chest, as if a lump lay there, or the chest was stuffed up: Ambr.
- like a marble from epigastrium towards the heart, with a strong, quick heart-beat: Kalm.
- or pushing inward at the left edge of the sternum: Led.
- and weakness in the epigastrium, rising to the heart: Lobel.
- on the middle of the sternum ; orthopnoea ; dyspnoea ; with inability to exert himself: Phos.
- or heaviness or fulness, worse in the evening: Puls.
- Heaviness: Lil-t., Puls.
- and pain in left mamma to left scapula: Lil-t.
- or pressure, or fulness, worse evenings: Puls.
- Oppression: Acon., Agar., Bry., Caust., Spong., Tabac., Viol-tr.
- with burning flushes along the back: Acon.
- on bending forward: Agar.
- and stitches on bending forward when sitting: Viol-tr.
- and cardiac pain, worse lying with the head low: Spong.
- with lowness of spirits: Caust.
- with weak, irregular pulse: Tabac.
- Fulness: Acon., Arg-m., Arg-n., Glon., Puls.
- with hard, strong, contracted pulse: Acon.
- heart's action irregular, intermittent: Arg-n.
- worse evenings: Puls.
- Enlarged (as if): Sulph.
- Tightness: Ars.
- Contracted: Ailan., Glon.
- and dull pain in region of base of heart and the centre of the left lung: Ailan.
- Constriction: Cact., Graph.
- in heart, as if an iron hand prevented its normal movements: Cact.
- Squeezed: Arn., Bor., Iod., Lil-t., Nux-m.
- and as if the heart were on the right side: Bor.
- as if in a vise, with pain and heaviness in left mamma to scapula: Lil-t.
- feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off: Nux-m.
- Grasped
- heart feels as if suddenly grasped, then released, and so on alternately: Lil-t.
- Stuffed up: Ambr.
- Weakness: Benz-ac., Lobel., Merc., Nat-m., Rhus, Sang.
- and pressure in the epigastrium, rising to the heart: Lobel.
- as though life was ebbing away: Merc.
- Tired: Nux-v., Rhus
- after a walk: Rhus
- Pulsations: Bapt., Calc-c., Lil-t., Lyc.
- seem to fill the chest: Bapt.
- conscious over the whole body, with out-pressing in hands and arms, as if the blood would burst through the vessels: Lil-t.
- Pulsations tremulous after eating at night, with anguish: Calc-c.
- Hurried: Lil-t.
- Beating: Laur., Puls., Viol-tr.
- like waves: Viol-tr.
- interrupting sleep ; old maids: Puls.
- Buzzing: Cycl.
- Purring: Glon., Spig.
- and noise when lying: Glon.
- not synchronous with the pulse: Spig.
- Sawing (sound): Lobel.
- Strumming
- every beat has a strumming, as if it would burst, along the sternum: Kalm.
- Quivering: Sep.
- Tremor
- felt towards the back: Absin.
- Tremulous: Calc-c.
- Trembling: Lith-c., Nux-m., Rhus, Staph.
- with numbness and lameness of the left arm: Rhus
- Fluttering: Laur., Lil-t., Lith-c., Nat-m., Nux-m.
- with gasping for breath: Laur.
- and general faint feeling, hurried and forced feeling about the apex ; awakes her at night, with cold hands and feet, covered with cold sweat ; with sharp, quick pain in the heart: Lil-t.
- with faint feelings, worse lying down: Nat-m.
- Gurgling
- with a kind of palpitation going upstairs: Bell.
- Clucking
- rising to the throat, preventing respiration: Phyt.
- Drawing
- in the region of the diaphragm; sharp pains in the left side: Agar.
- Crawling
- stitch, followed by a crawling sensation: Canth.
- Tingling
- with fainting: Acon.
- Numbness: Cimic., Lach., Rhus
- of left arm: Lach.
- and lameness: Rhus
- Numbness, the left arm numb and as if bound to the side: Cimic.
- Prickling: Verat-v.
- Twitchings: Arg-m., Camph., Stram.
- painless, of the whole cardiac muscle, especially lying on the back ; fears apoplexy: Arg-m.
- Cramping: Kali-c.
- Boiling and bubbling
- in chest and cardiac region: Lachn.
- Burning: Æsc., Kali-c., Op., Puls., Rumx., Verat-v.
- Heat
- in the chest and around the heart: Lachn.
- Warmth
- with violent beating of the heart on, moving the body and on stooping: Cann-s.
- Coldness: Camph., Kali-bi., Petr.
- and irresistible sleepiness: Camph.
- and tightness of chest: Kali-bi.
- Bruised: Arn.
- Lameness: Phyt., Rhus
- Lump: Agar., Ambr.
- under the sternum, with pain: Ambr.
- Shock: Arn., Graph., Lith-c., Mang.
- like an electric shock from the heart to front of neck: Graph.
- sudden shocks in the heart and in the left side of the chest from above downward: Mang.
- Feels the heart beat: Bar-c., Calc-p., Lachn.
- Feels
- of the pulse not frequent, but quick ; while sitting feels it in the nape of the neck and left chest: Calc-p.
- felt in the face: Mur-ac.
- in his head while lying: Lachn.
- As though the heart stopped beating: Aur., Cic., Lobel., Lyc., Rumx.
- As though
- and then suddenly gave one hard thump: Aur.
- sometimes a faint feeling therewith: Cic.
- heart seems as if it suddenly stopped beating, followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest: Rumx.
- Sensation as if the circulation stood still, or ebullitions: Lyc.
- short sensations as if the heart would stand still ; deep in above the heart, a pain: Lobel.
- Concomitants
- With pain: Agar., Ailan., Arn., Canth., Kali-c., Lil-t., Lobel., Phyt., Rhus, Viol-tr.
- With
- under the sternum: Agar.
- sharp pain in left side, with drawing in the region of the diaphragm: Agar.
- bruised: Arn.
- stitch, followed by a crawling sensation: Canth.
- stitches: Viol-tr.
- cramping, as if the heart was hanging by bands: Kali-c.
- sharp quick pains in left chest, awakened from sleep with a hurried and forced feeling about the apex: Lil-t.
- deep in, above the heart, pain violent, with sawing sound about the heart, diarrhoea, vomiting: Lobel.
- lameness: Phyt., Rhus
- a feeling as if boiling water was being poured into the chest: Acon.
- as if the heart was working in water after going up-stairs: Bov.
- as if a lump lay there, or the chest was stuffed up: Ambr.
- with pushing or pressure at the left edge of the sternum: Led.
- feels as if the heart stopped beating: Cic.
- With palpitation: Acon., Ambr., Bov., Led., Phos., Phyt.
- With dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself: Phos.
- With clucking sensation, rising to the throat, preventing respiration: Phyt.
- With fainting
- with tingling: Acon.
- With faint feeling: Cic., Lil-t., Nat-m.
- With feels as
- sitting still: Lil-t.
- With orthopnoea: Phos.
- With dyspncea: Bell., Kali-bi., Laur., Phos.
- and anxiety: Bell.
- gasps for breath: Laur.
- With stitches: Canth., Viol-tr.
- With irresistible sleepiness: Camph.
- With tightness of the chest: Kali-bi., Tabac.
- With (sometimes) slight cough: Laur.
- With cold hands and feet, covered with sweat: Lil-t.
- With diarrhoea: Lobel.
- With vomiting: Lobel.