- Digin is a poison of great activity.
- It produces a profound effect on mus cular tissue, both voluntary and involuntary, more especially on the heart.
- Irregular and intermittent action.
- Digin causes profound prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., even to inability to move a muscle.
- The heart is slowed or else its action is made rapid and feeble.
- Sensation as if the heart stood still.
- Paralytic weakness, numbness, tremulousnessInvoluntary trembling or shakingA state of shaking or quivering involuntarily, often due to weakness, fear, or nervous exhaustion. of the limbs.
- Cold, clammy surface.
- Goose-flesh.
- A sinking, faint sensation at the epigastrium.
- Shivering.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., the stools are not characteristically white as are those of the plant.
- Nausea and vomiting of egg yolk matter.
- Drinking causes nausea and vomit ing.
- Symptoms are better after dinner.
- Sensitiveness of eyes to light and nose to odors.
- Disorders of vision and hearing.
- Confusion of the head, better walking in open air.
- Ch illiness and fever worse in afternoon and evening.
- Heart pains are worse lying on left side.
- Pains in trunk worse during rest.
- Many symptoms appear on waking in the morning.
- COMMENTS - According to Hale, Digin is indicated in cases of “overburdened heart where it is constantly laboring." Digin cured the case of Mrs.
- X, who had for over a year swelling ofherright hand and fingers, which she thought to be rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues..
- Digitalis has the symptoms, “swelling of right hand and fingers,” and this would have been given, but only Digin was at hand.
- It was given in 4x potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration..
- After the second dose the swelling began to subside, and in two or three days was completely gone.
- One prover noted “frontal headache, dazzlings, loss of appetite, sinking at epi gastrium with intestinal flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind., borbo - rygmi, eructationBelching or burpingThe act of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth..
- Slight abdominal pains, urine abundant, great fatigue, painful heat in evening but no thirst.” For a whole day pressure in supra orbital region towards frontal sinus and when walk ing a feeling as if the ground gave way under his feet.
- Sexual weakness is shown in “Deep sleep in which an emission occurs without waking him.” “Sexual power diminished or quite abolished temporarily.”