STROPHANTUS mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Royal ry2 Makeup: Persons who have used alcohol, tobacco or even tea and coffee to excess. Location: The muscles of the heart. Sensation: Stitching about the apex of the heart; restlessness. Agg. Lying down. We consider Stroph-h. the best remedy for the threatening heart failure during the pneumonia of alcoholics, that class of pneumonia patients we most dread. The pathological condition is a brittleness of the heart muscle or there maybe fatty degeneration; slight regurgitate mitral murmur; pulse weak, rapid and irregular; physiological dicrotism obliterated; stitching and twitching pains about the apex. Pressure; pain agg. by pressure. Cough agg. by lying down with expectoration of bright red blood; cold and edematous extremities. Begin the administration with small doses, as large doses have caused rupture of the heart. Five drops of the 2nd [Ed. ?C2] every 30 minutes is a good dose to begin with. It may be increased to five drops of the tincture. There is no cumulative effect of Stroph-h. as you find under Dig.