Heart, Slow Cardiac Action And Pulse
Pennsylvania, Repertory to Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, 1889, p. 377 · Remedy abbreviations · grades: bold 3, italic 2, roman 1
- Slow Cardiac Action And Pulse: Acon., Agar., Agn., All-c., Aloe, Apoc., Arg-m., Bapt., Bell., Benz-ac., Berb., Cact., Cann-i., Cann-s., Canth., Caps., Chel., Colch., Coloc., Dig., Gels., Graph., Hell., Hyos., Ign., Kali-n., Kalm., Kreas., Lept., Lobel., Mang., Merc., Mezer., Olnd., Op., Par., Petr., Plb., Puls., Ran-b., Rhodo., Samb., Sars., Secale, Spig., Squil., Tabac., Thuj., Verat., Verat-v., Zinc.
- When slow, almost imperceptible, thread-like, with anxiety: Acon.
- Becomes slower, small, irregular: Agar.
- Slow and weak: Agn., Rhodo.
- Slow in the afternoon: Aloe
- Changing from slow to rapid every few beats: Ant-cr.
- Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting: Apoc.
- At first accelerated, afterwards slow and faint: Bapt.
- Large, full and slow: Bell.
- Slower and weaker, intermittent: Benz-ac.
- Slow, weak pulse: Berb.
- At times frequent, at others slow: Cact.
- Pulse slow, as low as 46: Cann-i.
- At times intermittent, slow, feeble, scarcely perceptible: Canth.
- Slow, intermitting: Caps.
- Slow and hard: All-c.
- Full and slow ; slow and feeble: Colch.
- Less frequently slow and weak: Coloc.
- Small, irregular, slow ; extremely slow, particularly when at rest: Dig.
- Feeble, slow ; slow and full: Gels.
- Slow during the day and evening: Graph.
- Often slower than the beating of the heart: Hell.
- Slow and small: Hyos.
- Small and slow: Ign.
- Slow, weak: Kalm.
- Slow and full: Lept.
- Slower than usual: Lobel.
- Very uneven and irregular, sometimes rapid and sometimes soft and slow, but constantly soft and weak: Mang.
- Slower by day; when slow it is weak and trembling: Merc.
- Frequent in the morning, slow in the evening: Mezer.
- Slow in the morning: Kali-n., Olnd., Sars.
- Full and slow, with snoring: Op.
- Full, but slow: Par.
- Slow during rest: Petr.
- Variable ; generally small and slow, contracted ; at times hard and slow ; sinks even to 40: Plb.
- Slower in the morning: Puls.
- Occasional omission of heart-beat ; sometimes slow and full; sometimes intermitting: Samb.
- Generally slow and contracted ; at times intermittent and suppressed: Secale
- Strong, but slow: Spig.
- Small and slow, slightly hard: Squil.
- Exceedingly slow: Tabac.
- Slow and weak in the morning: Thuj.
- Slow, soft, intermittent ; sometimes slower than heart-beat: Verat.
- Slow, soft and weak: Verat-v.
- Slow in the morning; increased by wine: Zinc.
- Pulse Characters
- Large: Bell.
- Small: Agar., Dig., Hyos., Ign., Plb., Squil.
- Strong: Spig.
- Weak: Agn., Benz-ac., Berb., Coloc., Kalm., Rhodo., Verat-v.
- Hard: All-c., Plb., Squil.
- Soft: Mang., Verat., Verat-v.
- constantly soft and weak: Mang.
- Full: Bell., Colch., Gels., Op., Par., Samb.
- with snoring: Op.
- Feeble: Canth., Colch., Gels.
- Faint: Bapt.
- Irregular: Agar., Dig.
- Intermittent: Benz-ac., Canth., Caps., Samb., Secale
- Variable: Plb.
- Changeable: Ant-cr.
- Contracted: Plb., Secale
- Thread-like: Acon.
- Almost imperceptible: Acon., Canth.
- Suppressed: Secale
- Unusually slow: Apoc., Cann-i., Dig., Plb., Tabac.
- Full: Intermittent
- occasional omission of heart-beat: Samb.
- Full: Unusually
- 45 between attacks of vomiting: Apoc.
- as low as 46: Cann-i.
- sinks even to 40: Plb.
- General Symptoms
- With anxiety: Acon.
- At first accelerated: Bapt.
- Occasional omission of the heart-beat: Samb.
- At times frequent, at others slow: Cact., Mang.
- Pulse often slower than the beating of the heart: Hell., Verat.
- Constantly soft and weak: Mang.
- Changing from slow to rapid every few beats: Ant-cr.
- Aggravations
- Slower in the morning: Arg-m., Kali-n., Olnd., Puls., Ran-b., Sars., Thuj.
- Slower
- and weak: Thuj.
- Afternoon: Aloe, Kali-n.
- Day: Merc., Mur-ac.
- when slow, weak and trembling: Merc.
- frequent in the morning, slower in the evening: Mezer.
- Day and evening: Mezer.
- At rest: Dig., Petr.
- Rapid pulse: Acet-ac., Acon., Æsc., Æth., Agar., Ailan., All-c., Aloe, Alum., Am-c., Am-m., Ambr., Anac., Ant-cr., Ant-t., Apis, Arg-m., Arg-n., Arn., Ars., Arum-t., Asaf., Asar., Aur., Bapt., Bell., Benz-ac., Bor., Bov., Brom., Bry., Cact., Calad., Calc-c., Cann-i., Cann-s., Caps., Carb-an., Caust., Chel., Chin., Cimic., Cina, Clem., Cocc., Coff., Colch., Coloc., Croc., Cupr., Cycl., Dig., Eup-pur., Ferr., Fl-ac., Gels., Glon., Graph., Guai., Hep., Hyos., Hyper., Ign., Iod., Ip., Kali-bi., Kali-c., Kali-i., Kreas., Lach., Lachn., Laur., Lobel., Lyc., Mag-m., Manc., Mang., Merc., Mezer., Mill., Mur-ac., Nat-c., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Nux-m., Olnd., Op., Oxal-ac., Ph-ac., Plat., Plb., Puls., Ran-b., Ran-sc., Rheum, Rhus, Ruta, Sabin., Samb., Sang., Sars., Secale, Spong., Stann., Staph., Stram., Sul-ac., Sulph., Tabac., Tereb., Valer., Verat., Verat-v., Zinc.
- Morning: Graph., Kali-c., Mezer.
- rapid mornings ; slow evenings: Kali-c., Mezer.
- Evening: Arg-m., Arg-n., Caps., Carb-an., Caust., Chel., Graph., Kali-n., Lobel., Lyc., Mur-ac., Nat-c., Olnd., Puls., Ran-b., Rheum, Sars., Thuj., Zinc.
- in bed: Arg-m.
- with hot skin: Olnd.
- slow mornings, rapid evenings: Sars.
- Night: Ars., Benz-ac., Dulc., Kali-bi., Merc., Ran-sc.
- awakens suddenly with a start at 2 a.m.: Kali-bi.
- awakens after midnight with violent pulsations of heart: Benz-ac.
- During day slow: Merc., Mur-ac.
- During heat: Ruta, Secale
- During
- only during heat: Ruta
- After eating: Lyc.
- By motion: Arg-n., Dig., Glon., Petr.
- By exertion: Arg-n., Ferr., Iod.
- with nausea: Arg-n.
- with asthma: Arg-n.
- By
- By walking: Glon.
- Affected by alcohol: Rhus, Sul-ac.
- Affected
- by wine: Nux-m., Zinc.
- by beer: Rhus
- by coffee: Rhus
- Pulse Characters Accompanying Acceleration
- 96, full and regular, small, contracted: Acet-ac.
- Hard, strong, contracted: Acon.
- Weak and irregular: Cimic.
- Full, heavy, soft, weak: Æsc.
- Small, sometimes hard, unrhythmical: Æth.
- Violent; strongly felt: Agar.
- Small, weak, sometimes scarcely perceptible; very frequent and irregular: Ailan.
- Strong beat of the heart occasionally: Aloe
- Irregular; large and small beats intermixed: Alum.
- Hard, tense: Am-c.
- Extremely irregular ; now accelerated, again slow, changing every few beats: Ant-cr.
- Hard ; rapid, weak and trembling ; small, contracted: Ant-t.
- Hard, small ; full and strong: Apis
- Full, hard: Arn., Coloc., Ferr., Graph., Mezer., Ran-b.
- Small ; weak: Ars.
- Accelerated, but small: Asaf.
- Strong: Asar.
- Small: Aur., Fl-ac., Plb., Stann., Zinc.
- Acceleration, afterwards slow and faint; compass and frequency of the heart's pulsations seem increased: Bapt.
- Full, hard, tense: Bell.
- Intermittent: Benz-ac.
- Full, hard, rapid and tense ; at times intermittent ; violent: Bry.
- At times frequent: Cact.
- Hard, bounding (in intermittents): Calad.
- Full, often tremulous: Calc-c.
- As high as 160: Cann-i.
- Hard, full ; small: Canth.
- Full, strong: Caps.
- Frequent and full: All-c.
- Small, but tense: Cham.
- Small and quick ; full and hard: Chel.
- Small, but hard: Cina
- Small, hard: Chin., Sil., Verat.
- Small and spasmodic, seldom hard, often imperceptible: Cocc.
- More frequent, but less vigorous, even small and weak: Coff.
- Hard, thready: Colch.
- Feverish: Croc.
- Small, hard, moderately frequent: Cupr.
- Very rapid ; scarcely perceptible: Cycl.
- Violent, but not very rapid ; full and hard ; becomes full and hard from every motion: Dig.
- Full: Eup-pur., Merc.
- Excessive action of heart; soft, weak, almost imperceptible: Gels.
- Rises and falls alternately: Glon.
- Small, soft: Guai.
- Soft: Hell.
- Full, hard, strong: Hyos.
- Hard: Hyper., Op.
- Generally hard and full: Ign.
- Large, hard ; rapid, but weak and thread-like: Iod.
- Weak ; large and soft: Ip.
- Weak and small ; soft and trembling: Kreas.
- Small, weak ; unequal ; intermittent: Lach.
- 1 10, small, thin, hard (pneumonia): Lachn.
- While accelerated, seldom full and hard: Laur.
- Small, weak: Lobel.
- Weak: Manc.
- Sometimes rapid: Mang.
- Contracted: Mill.
- Weak and rapid: Nat-m.
- Alternate hard, rapid and small beats: Nit-ac.
- Hard, full, small: Nux-v.
- Full and hard ; small and weak: Phos.
- Regular, but small and weak ; sometimes tremulous: Plat.
- Small and weak: Puls.
- Full, but soft: Ran-sc.
- Only a little accelerated: Rheum
- Weak, faint, soft, trembling or imperceptible: Rhus
- Only during heat: Ruta
- Generally quick, strong and hard, sometimes unequal: Sabin.
- Generally very frequent and strong: Samb.
- Hard, small, quick: Sang.
- During the heat: Secale
- Hard, full or feeble: Spong.
- Small, often trembling: Staph.
- Full, strong, hard: Stram.
- Full, hard, at times intermittent: Sulph.
- Small, feeble: Sul-ac.
- Full, quick: Tabac.
- In the evening, violent pulsations: Thuj.
- Feeble, rapid: Tereb.
- Sometimes tense, or small and weak: Valer.
- Suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal: Verat-v.
- Summary of Pulse Characters
- Regular: Acet-ac.
- Irregular: Alum., Cimic.
- Intermittent: Benz-ac., Hell., Hep., Lach., Sulph.
- with orgasms of blood: Bry.
- in hydrocephaloid: Hell.
- at times: Hep.
- Large: Alum., Iod., Ip., Tabac.
- Small: Ailan., Alum., Ant-t., Ars., Asaf., Aur., Canth., Cham., Chel., Chin., Cocc., Cupr., Fl-ac., Guai., Ip., Kreas., Lach., Lobel., Nit-ac., Plat., Puls., Samb., Sul-ac., Valer., Zinc.
- Full: Acet-ac., Æsc., All-c., Apis, Arn., Bapt., Bell., Bry., Calc-c., Canth., Caps., Coloc., Dig., Eup-pur., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Hyos., Lach., Merc., Mezer., Nux-v., Olnd., Phos., Ran-sc., Spong., Stram., Sulph.
- often tremulous: Calc-c.
- seldom full: Laur.
- Weak: Æsc., Ailan., Ant-t., Ars., Cimic., Coff., Gels., Ip., Kreas., Lach., Lobel., Manc., Nat-m., Ph-ac., Rhus
- in the evening: Lobel.
- Strong: Acon., Apis, Asar., Bapt., Benz-ac., Caps., Ph-ac., Stram.
- Soft: Guai., Hell., Ip., Mang., Ran-sc., Rhus
- Hard: Acon., Æth., Am-c., Ant-t., Apis, Arn., Bell., Bry., Calad., Canth., Chel., Chin., Cina, Colch., Coloc., Cupr., Dig., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Hyos., Ign., Iod., Lachn., Mezer., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Op., Phos., Ran-b., Sabin., Sang., Sil., Stram., Verat.
- with anxious breathing: Op.
- seldom hard: Cocc.
- seldom full and hard: Laur.
- Hurried: Arn.
- Contracted: Acet-ac., Acon., Ant-t., Mill.
- Spasmodic: Cann-i.
- Thin: Lachn.
- Thready: Colch.
- Thread-like: Ars., Iod.
- Double beat: Agar., Cycl., Phos.
- Unrhythmical: Æth.
- Heavy: Æsc.
- Almost imperceptible: Ars., Cycl., Gels., Oxal-ac., Rhus
- Tremulous: Calc-c., Plat.
- Trembling: Ant-t., Kreas., Nux-m., Rhus, Staph.
- Excited: Caust., Clem.
- Violent: Bry., Dig., Nux-m.
- Thin: Almost
- or trembling: Rhus
- with deadly coldness, clammy sweats ; livid nails: Oxal-ac.
- Unclassifiable Symptoms
- Increased in force and frequency: Tereb.
- Alternately full and small: Acon., Lach.
- Quicker than beat of the heart: Arn., Rhus
- Bounding (in intermittents): Calad.
- Rises and falls alternately: Glon.
- Alternately hard, rapid and small beats: Nit-ac.
- Large and small beats intermixed: Alum.
- Changing from slow to rapid every few beats: Ant-cr.
- Suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal: Verat-v.
- Noticing the beat of the heart increases it: Arg-n.
- Constantly soft and weak: Mang.
- Generally hard and full: Ign.
- With orgasms, ebullitions, etc.: Æsc., Agar., Ambr., Anac., Bapt., Benz-ac., Bry., Carb-an., Caust., Clem., Ign., Mag-m., Merc., Nat-c., Olnd., Puls., Verat-v.
- With
- Heart beats more strongly and rapidly when lying on the back: Ars.
- Felt all over the body: Æsc.
- Strongly felt: Agar.
- Beating in the bloodvessels: Anac., Carb-an., Iod.
- Heart's pulsations seem to fill the chest: Bapt.
- Internal but no external heat ; cannot go to sleep: Benz-ac.
- Strong orgasm of blood: Bry.
- Towards evening: Caust.
- Throbbing in the veins: Clem.
- With beating in the bloodvessels: Ign.
- With distended bloodvessels: Puls.
- At night with excited pulse: Nat-c.
- While sitting: Mag-m.
- Amelioration
- More quiet after meals: Chin.