# Digitalis Purpurea

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the fresh leaves of Digitalis purpurea, a biennial plant in the Plantaginaceae. family, native to Europe, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilution, and. succussion to eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for  cardiovascular, psychological,. hepatic, and systemic disorders , particularly those involving heart weakness, irregular pulse, and. mental distress. It is noted for symptoms such as slow pulse, palpitations, anxiety, and jaundice,. often aggravated by motion, warmth, or emotional stress, and ameliorated by rest, cool air, or lying. down. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  cardiovascular  conditions (e.g.,  heart  failure,  arrhythmias),. psychological  conditions (e.g.,  anxiety,  depression),  hepatic  conditions (e.g.,  jaundice,  liver. dysfunction),  respiratory conditions (e.g., dyspnea, cyanosis),  gastrointestinal conditions (e.g.,. nausea, vomiting), and  systemic conditions  (e.g., fatigue, edema). It suits patients with acute or. chronic symptoms characterized by cardiac irregularity, emotional distress, liver dysfunction, or. general debility, typically exacerbated by motion, warmth, or emotional triggers, and often seen in. elderly patients, those with heart disease, or individuals with stress-related exhaustion. The remedy. is particularly relevant for those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical. symptoms  like  slow  pulse  or  edema  alongside  psychological  symptoms  like  fear  or  sadness,. commonly  observed  in  patients  with  congestive  heart  failure,  anxiety  disorders,  or  hepatic. disorders.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Motion, warmth (weather, environments, drinks), emotional stress, warm. stuffy  rooms,  night,  exertion,  lying  flat  (in  respiratory  cases),  rich  foods,  dietary. indiscretions (e.g., fatty foods, alcohol), standing (in edema cases), emotional triggers. Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) 819.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Great anxiety, as from troubled conscience.
- Reproaches himself.
- Great guilt, better weeping.
- Anxious, low-spirited and tearful.
- Extreme anxiety related to the heart.
- Anxious about the future.
- Excitement, 
stammers when talking to strangers.
- Excitement at night.
- Suspicious.
- Fearful.
- Fear of suffocation at night.
- Fear of insanity.
- Fear from music.
- Fear of death while 
walking.
- Feels as if he would fly to pi eces.
- Every emotional shock strikes in epigastrium.
- Fear arising from 
stomach.
- Hurried, abrupt speech.
- Deep sighing and grief with heart problems (Ign., Calc-p.).
- Arrhythmias and palpitations that are worse since 
grief (Nat - m).
- Despair.
- Despondent.
- Sadness from unhappy love.
- Sadness, great depression, with 
sleeplessness.
- Weeping improves symptoms.
- Weeping from music.
- A broken heart with the sensation that 
the heart will fly to pieces.
- Melancholy, dull lethargic withslowpulse.
- Excessive desire to be alone.
- Tries to escape if others force 
themselves on her.
- Stammers when talking to strangers.
- Converses with absent people.
- Unsympathetic.
- Dullness of senses.
- Thinking difficult.
- Weak memory.
- Forgets everything imme diately.
- Insane obstinacy and 
disobedience, with desire to escape.
- Suspicious.
- Irritability after sex.
- Lascivious thoughts in old men with 
enlarged prostate.
- Great anxiety, as from troubled conscience.
- Reproaches himself.
- Great guilt, better weeping.
- Anxious, low-spirited and tearful.
- Extreme anxiety related to the heart.
- Anxious about the future.
- Excitement, 
stammers when talking to strangers.
- Excitement at night.
- Suspicious.
- Fearful.
- Fear of suffocation at night.
- Fear of insanity.
- Fear from music.
- Fear of death while 
walking.
- Feels as if he would fly to pi eces.
- Every emotional shock strikes in epigastrium.
- Fear arising from 
stomach.
- Hurried, abrupt speech.
- Deep sighing and grief with heart problems (Ign., Calc-p.).
- Arrhythmias and palpitations that are worse since 
grief (Nat - m).
- Despair.
- Despondent.
- Sadness from unhappy love.
- Sadness, great depression, with 
sleeplessness.
- Weeping improves symptoms.
- Weeping from music.
- A broken heart with the sensation that 
the heart will fly to pieces.
- Melancholy, dull lethargic withslowpulse.
- Excessive desire to be alone.
- Tries to escape if others force 
themselves on her.
- Stammers when talking to strangers.
- Converses with absent people.
- Unsympathetic.
- Dullness of senses.
- Thinking difficult.
- Weak memory.
- Forgets everything imme diately.
- Insane obstinacy and 
disobedience, with desire to escape.
- Suspicious.
- Irritability after sex.
- Lascivious thoughts in old men with 
enlarged prostate.

### Vertigo
- Constant dizziness with ringing in ears.
- Vertigo, when walking or riding.
- Vertigo with trembling.
- Vertigo on rising from sitting, with very slow pulse.
- Vertigo from cardiac or hepatic disorders.
- Vertigo with 
anxiety and faintness.
- Vertigo as if faintness would occur.
- Vision - Diplopia.
- Dim vision.
- Dark bodies like flies, before eyes.
- Change in acute ness of perception of 
shades of green.
- Objects appear green and yellow.
- Sees 
Digitalis purpurea hairs before his eyes.
- Loss of vision and many symptoms with anemia of retina and optic 
nerve.
- Hemiopia, as if upper part of field of vision were covered by a dark cloud.
- Optical illusions in bright or 
prismatic colors.
- COMMENTS - Slow, weak, irregular and intermittent pulse.
- Acute cyanosis (Carb -v.).
- Palpitations, with hot 
flashes.
- Prostration from slight exertion.
- Restlessness with a great nervous weakness.
- Lassitude, mental and 
bodily.
- Faintness.
- Convulsions with re traction of head, syncope and collapse.
- His tory of helping reduce or 
control aneurysm.
- Vertigo, dizziness as if intoxicated.
- Pneumonia and pleurisy.
- Senile pneumonia.
- Asthmatic sufferings as from hydrothorax.
- Respiration is painfully 
restricted at night, when lying down or in the day, when walking or seated.
- In the morning, suffocating 
constriction of the chest, forcing the patient to rise up in the bed.
- Delirium tremens in high livers, stomach and liver diseases with the mental state of the drug.
- Enlarged, sore, 
and painful liver.
- Deathly sinking in the epigastrium.
- Every shock, like bad news, strikes her in the epigastrium.
- Portal engorgement.
- White, pasty stools.
- Constant irritation or urge to urinate.
- Urine can be dark brown.
- Dribbling of the urine.
- Nausea and vomiting, worse from smell of food, not better by vomiting.
- Violent nausea with clean tongue.
- The 
food eaten comes up by mouthfuls, cannot expectorate without vomiting.
- Terrible pain at root of nose after 
vomiting.
- Thirst for water.
- Enlarged prostate in elderly men, with lascivious thoughts.
- Prostate enlargement and weaknesses with 
concomitant heart disease.
- Impotence.
- History of gonorrhea.
- Yellow -white urethral discharge.
- People with a 
history of excess, particularly sex and alcohol, with weakened heart or liver.
- Discharged blood coagulates slowly or not at all.
- Distended veins in eyes, e ars, lips and tongue.
- Blue skin.
- Absence of fever.
- Teste classed Dig.
- with Bry.
- and Ign.
- He noted that there is an “anxious and concen trated sadness with 
sleeplessness at night.
- owing to pains at the heart: for instance from unhappy love, especially in wo men of brown complexions, firm 
and obstinate dispositions.
- In such cases far preferable to Ignatia.” 
Ross regarded the indications as being: “dry cough with mucus rales and no expectoration or only "prune juice' 
expectoration, cyanosis, cold limbs, feeble  intermittent pulse, deathly nausea or gone sensation at 
epigastrium.” 
Malcolm Macfarlan reported Dig.
- having produced severe urethritis, phimosis and strangury.
- He cured with it 
many cases of gonorrhea.
- Ballard cured a man of headache and dizziness, originating probably in gonorrhea suppressed several years 
before.
- He complained of feeling bad about the head after drinking and this keynote symptom was elicited: 
“after drinking cold water the pain would seat itself in the forehead and extend down the nose.”

### Head
- Face bluish.
- Dullness of head as from intoxication, with increased mental activity.
- Heaviness of head 
with sensation as if it would fall backward.
- Brain feels fatigued and weak, from weak action of heart.
- Confusion, fullness and noises in head.
- Cr ashes, cracking in head, on drop ping to sleep.
- Bores head in the 
pillow.
- Pulls the hair.
- Violent, lancinating pains, in vertex and occiput.
- Spastic hemicrania.
- Throbbing, in 
forehead.
- Sharp, shooting pains in forehead, after drinking cold water or eating ice cream.
- Pressure in 
forehead when exerting mind or thinking of it.
- Sharp pains in temples, evening and night.
- Face bluish.
- Dullness of head as from intoxication, with increased mental activity.
- Heaviness of head 
with sensation as if it would fall backward.
- Brain feels fatigued and weak, from weak action of heart.
- Confusion, fullness and noises in head.
- Cr ashes, cracking in head, on drop ping to sleep.
- Bores head in the 
pillow.
- Pulls the hair.
- Violent, lancinating pains, in vertex and occiput.
- Spastic hemicrania.
- Throbbing, in 
forehead.
- Sharp, shooting pains in forehead, after drinking cold water or eating ice cream.
- Pressure in 
forehead when exerting mind or thinking of it.
- Sharp pains in temples, evening and night.

### Eyes
- Yellowish, red eyes.
- Both the eyes turned to left.
- Burning in eyes and stitches darting through them.
- Lachrymation, worse in bright light or cold air.
- Veins distended on eyes.
- Blueness of eyelids.
- Swelling of lower 
lid.
- Mydriasis.
- Lid margins red, swollen.
- Agglutinated lids in morning.
- Catarrhal inflammation of eye.
- Meibomian 
glands inflamed.
- Chronic conjunctivitis.
- Detachment of retina.
- Cataract.
- Painless obscuration of lens.
- Irregular 
pupils.
- Pupils dilated and insensible.

### Ears
- Otalgia with contractive pains in the ears.
- Swelling of the parotids and behind the ear.
- Veins distended 
 
 
on ears.
- Single stitches behind the ears.
- Hissing before the ears like boiling water, with hardness of hearing.

### Face
- Paleness of the face.
- Cyanosis.
- Blue color of the lips and eyelids.
- Bluish swelling  of the lips.
- Dryness 
of the lips.
- Eruptions on the lips.
- Eruptions with gnawing itching in the cheeks and in the chin.
- Cramp -like and 
drawing pains in the cheekbones.
- Distended veins.
- Pores of the face black and suppurating.

### Mouth
- Soreness of mouth, gums and tongue.
- Aphthae.
- Stomatitis.
- Bitter taste.
- Taste flat, clammy, slimy.
- Sweet taste, with constant salivation.
- Copious salivation.
- Salivation after smoking tobacco.
- Scraped feeling in 
mouth.
- Severe toothache in a hollow tooth.
- Nose - Coryza with hoarseness.
- Pain at the root of the nose, after vomiting.
- Nosebleeds.
- Perspiration - Cold, clammy sweat.
- Copi ous sweat at night.
- Perspiration after the chill, no heat intervening.
- Sweats on upper part of body, on face.
- Sweats during cough.
- Covered with copious perspiration, without relief 
of heart symptoms.
- Cold sweat, on body, warm on palms of hands.

### Throat
- Scraped feeling in throat.
- Sting ing in throat between acts of swallowing.
- Choking when he tries to 
swallow.
- Spasm of glottis with di arrhea and thirst.
- Edema of larynx.
- Frequent painless hoarseness.
- Hoarseness in early morning.
- Tongue - Blue tongue and lips.
- Tongue blue, thick, flabby.
- Tongue clean with nausea and vomiting.
- Veins 
distended on tongue.
- Tongue pale.
- Tongue coated white.

### Chest
- Dyspnea  or  shortness  of  breath,  with  a  sensation  of  suffocation  or  oppression,.
- resembling pulmonary edema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, worse with.
- motion, warmth, or lying flat.
- Cyanosis or bluish discoloration, particularly in the extremities or lips, resembling.
- heart failure or hypoxemia, aggravated by exertion or warmth.
- Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) 818.
- Cough, dry or rattling, with chest tightness, resembling congestive heart failure,.
- worse with warmth or night.
- Tendency  to  respiratory  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  from  warm,  stuffy.
- environments or cardiac stress.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Nausea  or  vomiting,  with  a  sensation  of  sinking  or  faintness,  resembling.
- gastroparesis  or  cyclic  vomiting  syndrome,  worse  with  warmth,  rich  foods,  or.
- emotional stress.
- Dyspepsia or indigestion, with bloating or sour eructations, resembling functional.
- dyspepsia, aggravated by warm drinks, exertion, or emotional triggers.
- Abdominal discomfort or sluggish digestion, with a tendency to constipation, worse.
- with dietary indiscretions or fatigue.
- Tendency to digestive hypersensitivity, with aggravation from emotional or physical.
- strain.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or profound weakness, with a sensation of prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue  syndrome  or  post-viral  exhaustion,  worse  after  exertion,  warmth,  or.
- emotional stress.
- Edema,  particularly  in  the  extremities  or  face,  with  puffiness  or  heaviness,.
- resembling heart failure or nephrotic syndrome, aggravated by warmth, standing, or.
- night.
- Coldness or chills, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for cool.
- air or rest.
- Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cardiovascular or hepatic.
- states.
- Slow pulse or bradycardia, with a sensation of faintness or sinking, resembling heart.
- failure or sick sinus syndrome, worse with motion, warmth, or emotional stress.
- Palpitations or irregular heartbeat, with a feeling of fluttering or skipping beats,.
- resembling atrial fibrillation, aggravated by exertion, warmth, or night.
- Chest  oppression  or  angina-like  pain,  with  a  heavy  or  constrictive  sensation,.
- resembling ischemic heart disease, worse with motion, warmth, or lying flat.
- Tendency  to  cardiovascular  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  from  physical  or.
- emotional strain.
- Psychological:.
- Anxiety  or  fearfulness,  with  a  sensation  of  impending  doom  or  fear  of  death,.
- resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with warmth, night, or emotional.
- stress.
- Depression  or  sadness,  with  emotional  withdrawal  or  hopelessness,  resembling.
- persistent  depressive  disorder  (dysthymia),  aggravated  by  isolation,  fatigue,  or.
- cardiac symptoms.
- Irritability or restlessness, with sensitivity to contradiction, resembling adjustment.
- disorder, worse with emotional triggers or warmth.
- Tendency to emotional hypersensitivity, with aggravation during physical or hepatic.
- flare-ups.
- Hepatic:.
- Jaundice or sallow complexion, with yellowing of skin or eyes, resembling hepatitis.
- or obstructive jaundice, worse with warmth, rich foods, or emotional stress.
- Liver tenderness or heaviness, with a sensation of fullness, resembling non-alcoholic.
- fatty liver disease, aggravated by dietary indiscretions or warmth.
- Biliousness or bitter taste, with nausea or headache, resembling biliary dyskinesia,.
- worse with warmth or exertion.
- Tendency to hepatic irritability, with aggravation in cardiovascular or systemic states.
- Respiratory:.
- Dyspnea  or  shortness  of  breath,  with  a  sensation  of  suffocation  or  oppression,.
- resembling pulmonary edema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, worse with.
- motion, warmth, or lying flat.
- Cyanosis or bluish discoloration, particularly in the extremities or lips, resembling.
- heart failure or hypoxemia, aggravated by exertion or warmth.
- Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) 818.
- Cough, dry or rattling, with chest tightness, resembling congestive heart failure,.
- worse with warmth or night.
- Tendency  to  respiratory  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  from  warm,  stuffy.
- environments or cardiac stress.
- Gastrointestinal:.
- Nausea  or  vomiting,  with  a  sensation  of  sinking  or  faintness,  resembling.
- gastroparesis  or  cyclic  vomiting  syndrome,  worse  with  warmth,  rich  foods,  or.
- emotional stress.
- Dyspepsia or indigestion, with bloating or sour eructations, resembling functional.
- dyspepsia, aggravated by warm drinks, exertion, or emotional triggers.
- Abdominal discomfort or sluggish digestion, with a tendency to constipation, worse.
- with dietary indiscretions or fatigue.
- Tendency to digestive hypersensitivity, with aggravation from emotional or physical.
- strain.
- Systemic:.
- Fatigue or profound weakness, with a sensation of prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue  syndrome  or  post-viral  exhaustion,  worse  after  exertion,  warmth,  or.
- emotional stress.
- Edema,  particularly  in  the  extremities  or  face,  with  puffiness  or  heaviness,.
- resembling heart failure or nephrotic syndrome, aggravated by warmth, standing, or.
- night.
- Coldness or chills, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for cool.
- air or rest.
- Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cardiovascular or hepatic.
- states.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Discomfort in stomach, even after a small quantity of food, or from mere sight or smell.
- Burning in 
stomach and into esophagus.
- Faintness, great weakness in stomach.
- Extreme anxiety in pit causing 
frequent deep sighs.
- Epi- 
gastric region tender.
- Neuralgic pain in stomach.
- Stomach burning, extending to esophagus.
- Gulping up of 
an acrid or tasteless fluid.
- Deathly nausea, with faint sinking in stomach.
- Persistent nausea and vomiting 
with clean tongue (Ip.).
- Excessive nausea, not better vomiting.
- Nausea before and after urination.
- The mere 
sight or smell of food excites nausea.
- Nausea early on rising, with thirst.
- Faintness and vomiting from motion.
- Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
- Vomits easily, on taking anything into stomach.
- Vomiting, with extremely 
feeble and irregular pulse.
- Vomiting of bile, mucus.
- Temperature - Chills alternating with heat.
- Coldness in the hands and in the feet with cold perspiration.
- Chilliness and shivering of the whole body.
- Chills with head and redness of the face.
- Internal chills with external 
heat.
- Chilliness before stool.
- Frequent and sudden flushes of heat, followed by nervous weakness, at 
menopausal period.
- Sudden hot flushes, with palpitation from least motion.
- Heat of body with cold sweat 
of face.
- During cough.
- General violen t heat, with swollen veins and rapid pulse.
- Fever with profuse sweat.
- Heat of one hand and coldness of the other.
- Ascites.
- Severe abdominal pains.
- Pain in left side apparently in descending colon and under false 
ribs.
- Tenderness of epigastrium.
- Pulsation in the abdominal aorta and epigastric constriction.
- After a meal, 
pressure and inflation of the abdomen and of the stomach.
- Sensation as if intestines were twisted.
- Gripingpain.
- Incarcerated hernia.
- Bowel symptoms alternating with chest symptoms .
- Want of appetite, sometimes even with a clean tongue.
- Smell of food causes violent nausea and 
gagging.
- Desirefor bitter things.
- Desire for beer.
- Bread tastes bitter.
- Continuous thirst with dry lips.
- Thirst for 
acid, sour, cold drinks.
- Cough worse cold drinks.
- Worse after meals.
- Worse cold food or drinks, alcohol.
- Worse 
after drinking.
- Worse from spirituous liquors.
- After cold water or ice cream, sharp pain in forehead extending 
to nose.

### Urinary & Genital
- Dropsical swelling of genitals (Sulph.).
- Prostate enlarged, in elderly men.
- Hydrocele (left), scrotum 
looks like a bladder filled with water.
- Testicles swollen.
- Bruise-like pain in testes with swelling.
- Contusive pain 
in right testicle.
- Balanitis with edema of prepuce.
- Gonorrhea (Med.).
- Profuse, thick, yellow-white gonorrheal 
 
 
discharge.
- As if something were running out in urethra after emis sion.
- Irritation of sexual organs, with painful 
erections, night and day.
- Desire stro ngly excited, frequent erections and pollutions.
- Atonic nightly emissions 
after sex.
- Spermatorrhea.
- Pollutions always with lewd dreams and subsequent pains in penis.
- Early morning 
erections.
- Sexual desire without ability.
- Menses scanty and too  late.
- Labor-like pains in abdomen and back before menses.
- Menorrhagia.
- Uterine hemorrhage.
- Dropsy of uterus.
- Bleeding from lungs instead of menses.
- Menopausal  
period, sudden flushes of heat followed by great debility, least motion causes palpi tations.
- Le ucorrhea.
- Lascivious state of fancy day and night.
- Nymphomania.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in joints.
- Swelling of the feet.
- Sensation as if a red -hot wire suddenly darted 
through legs.
- Stinging pains in muscles of upper and lower limbs.
- Piercing pains in joints.
- Shini ng, white 
swelling of joints.
- Muscular debility.
- Numbness, heaviness or paralytic weak ness, worse left arm.
- Fingers 
become numb easily and frequently.
- Coldness of hands and feet.
- One hand hot, the other cold.
- Nails blue.
- Fingers swell at night.
- Liver - Enlarged, sore, painful liver.
- Soreness over region of liver, with jaundice.
- Liver, hard and painful.
- Jaundice from induration.
- Hypertrophy of the liver.
- Jaundice with heart disease.

### Neck & Back
- Stiffness and tension of the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck.
- Drawing pains in the back 
and in the loins, as after a chill.
- Bruise-like pains in the loins on blowing the nose.
- Tearing, sharp, ach ing and 
cutting pains, in neck.
- Lacerating, and sharp pains in lumbar region.
- Bladder - Cystitis, after passing a few drops the desire to urinate is increased and the patient walks about in 
great distress.
- Urethritis, phimosis, strangury.
- Full feeling after urination.
- Urine, suppressed.
- Sharp cutting 
or throbbing pain at neck of bladder.
- Difficult urination.
- Pain, as if a straw was being thrust back and forth, 
worse at night.
- Constriction and burning, as if urethra was too small.
- Dragging in bladder as if distended, not 
better frequent urination.
- Contractive pain in bladder, during urination.
- Urine more easily retained in recumbent 
position.
- After urination pressure in bladder and burning in urethra.
- Breasts - Shuddering at the breasts.
- Causations - Ill effects of high living, sexual abuse or excessive alcohol intake.

### Skin
- Fatigue or profound weakness, with a sensation of prostration, resembling chronic.
- fatigue  syndrome  or  post-viral  exhaustion,  worse  after  exertion,  warmth,  or.
- emotional stress.
- Edema,  particularly  in  the  extremities  or  face,  with  puffiness  or  heaviness,.
- resembling heart failure or nephrotic syndrome, aggravated by warmth, standing, or.
- night.
- Coldness or chills, with aggravation in warm, stuffy conditions and a desire for cool.
- air or rest.
- Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cardiovascular or hepatic.
- states.

### Sleep
- Lethargy.
- Continuous sleepiness.
- Drow sy in the day.
- Unrefreshing, agitated sleep.
- Somnolency 
interrupted by fits of convulsive vomiting.
- Uneasy sleep at night on account of constant desire to urinate.
- Frequent waking, as from anxiety.
- Nightmares.
- Starts from sleep in alarm that he is falling from a height in a 
dream.
- Dreams of falling from a height or into water.
- Dreams with jerking and electric like sensations through 
the body.

### Generalities
- As if the heart would stand still if he moved, must hold the breath and keep still (Gels, has “must 
keep moving or the heart would stop”).
- As if heart had torn itself loose and were swaying to and fro by a thin 
thread.
- As if the lungs were constricted and tied up in bundles.
- As if the stomach would sink into abdomen.
- As 
if something were running out of urethra, as of a weight attached to stomach, as if the internal parts were 
grown together.
- As if the brain were loose, as if something fell forward in the head on stooping, as if the brain 
were made of fine glass and shattered at a blow.