DIGITALIS PURPUREA mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Lilienthal ll1 Pneumonia senilis, the heart's action failing; respiration irregular and performed by frequent deep sighs; respiratory murmur feeble; cough agg about midnight or towards morning, from talking, drinking anything cold, bending body forward; passive congestion of lungs, depending on a weakened, dilated heart; cough with profuse, loose, purulent sputa [with prune-juice expectoration lp2] or of a sweetish taste, sometimes with a little blood; passive hyperaemia of brain, which feels fatigued and weak. [Symptoms of collapse lp2] Hoyne hn1 Bronchitis and pleurisy in rheumatic persons with a weakened dilatated heart, yield to this remedy; irregularity and intermission of pulse; scanty secretion of urine and edematous swelling are its characteristic symptoms. Sime sime An irregular action of the heart is commonly to find in old people. And among them the irregularity may disappear during the height of the pneumonic fever. It again makes its appearances when the symptoms abate, and indicates then a return to the normal condition. But if the [ir]regularity reappears without an abatement of the general symptoms the outlook is very unfavourable unless a remedy like Dig. meets the case and causes speedy relief. Cact. is recommended for a like condition in pneumonia when the sensation of constriction characteristic of the drug is present also. Fisher fsr2 Pneumonia in children: Dig. may be called for when the pulse is exceedingly slow and feeble, extremities cold and the face cyanotic. The expectoration is like prune-juice and dyspnea is extreme. Dig. is much like Ant-t. and Chel. in the physical conditions, but the rales are coarse and louder and with efforts at expectoration there is vomiting. Hering hr1 Pneumonia: Pulse small, thready; sometimes purple expectoration; surface (esp. face and extremities) blue and cold; intense weakness and prostration; lungs feel constricted and tied up in bundles. Pleurisy with kidney disease. Burt btw2 Chronic bronchitis and interstitial pneumonia, with difficulty in breathing, dilatation of the right cavities of the heart, and general anasarca." Goullon goux I myself choose the first or second decimal dilution, putting ten drops into a wineglassful of water. Every three hours, or at longer intervals, I give one teaspoonful. Dig. is indicated in this way in the course of pneumonia, influenza, or in fatty degeneration of the heart, when the heart beats very quickly but feebly, and in cases of great tightness of the chest, dyspnea, nocturnal fits of anxiety, desire for more air [open windows], frequently accompanied with oedema of the feet [insufficiency of the valves]. Das danx Type: Lobar-pneumonia; ... Stages: Second stage; third stage. Location: Lower part of each lung; both sides. Expectoration: ... scanty, yellow, jelly-like mucus, expectorated with difficulty; like boiled starch; tenacious mucous in throat detached by coughing; expectoration only in the evening of yellow jelly-like mucus, tasting sweet; sometimes small quantities of dark blood are expectorated; bloody mucus; Cough: Cough with raw sore feeling in chest; cough worse at midnight by talking, walking, drinking anything cold, bending the body; spasmodic and hollow cough from roughness and scraping in throat; cough after eating; great prostration after coughing. Respiration: ... slow, difficult, asthmatic; fear of suffocation at night with desire for open air; dyspnea; constant desire to breathe deeply, lungs feel compressed, difficult respiration; can only breathe in gasps. Pulse: "A very slow pulse is one of the chief characteristics of this remedy; never think of it where there is a rapid pulse say over 80". (Guernsey) Pulse full, irregular, slow, very slow (esp. when at rest). Accompaniments: The head is inclined to sink backward, lachrymation in rooms; aversion to light, coryza with hoarseness. Blue face, lips and eye-lids; dry parched lips; blue tongue, stool gray, ash-colored, white; chilliness before stool; cold hands and feet. ... jaundice, cyanosis; dropsy, general paleness of the skin. Distended veins on lids; ears, lips and tongue. Great weakness of chest, cannot bear to talk. One hand hot the other cold. Aggravation: Warm room; ... getting heated; ... motion; lying down; sitting erect. Amelioration: Open air. Compare with: Ant-t. fsr2, Cact. sime, Chel. fsr2 Followed by: Phos. rma1 Dig: Useful in pneumonia,broncho-pneumonia, with paralysis of pneumogastric nerves. I have used in Passive congestion of lungs dependent upon weakened, dilated heart. Congestion of lungs that is traceable to impeded circulation.