Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.51.14
665.51.14 Digitalis purpurea
English: Purple Foxglove.
German: Purpurroter Fingerhut; Schwulstkraut.
French: Digitale pourpre.
Dutch: Vingerhoedskruid.
Source: Bailey.
Introduction
They have the feeling that they are powerless to do anything for the family. This leads to feelings of guilt. In order to get rid of those guilt feelings they try to act as if they do not have real responsibility, that it is not their duty or task to do anything for the family. Or they try to persuade themselves and others of the fact that their family did not want help, that they could not have done anything anyway. They feel guilty after having left their family and children for another woman, but they felt no love.
Mind
Feels emotionless from all good things being taken, a diabolical fate.
Guilt, anxiety conscience, < having left spouse and children, not taken care of them.
Reserved, taciturn, > alone, < strangers, desire to escape.
Sexual; lascivious.
Sad, tearful, despondency, melancholia, entangled in their problems, complaining.
Excitement.
Startling < sleep, feel of falling from a height.
Confusion, dullness of sense, dull, thinking foggy, woolly.
Work impossible, indifference, lethargic.
Irresolution, indecision.
Firm, obstinate, headstrong; pertinacity.
Oversensitive: smells of food, noise, music, morals.
Confused and bewildered << overwork, << thinking too much.
Desire to escape.
Bewilderment, mania; delirium, tremens; pulls his hair, bores head in pillow.
Ailments from unhappy love, high living, alcohol, sex.
Fear: reproved; suffocation, future, death; striking in epigastrium.
Delusion: animals, insects; light and thunder.
Delusion: criminals, being a criminal, done wrong.
Delusion: heart disease, dying, fainting; brain made of glass; flying to pieces.
Delusions: being light, incorporeal, immaterial.
Delusion: talking with absent people.
Dreams: falling from a height or into water, unsuccessful projects.
Dreams: anxious, frightful, confused, unpleasant, vivid, accidents, insects, light.
Dreams: amorous: lewd, lascivious, voluptuous, joyous.
General
Sensation: constriction, compression, electric shock through body.
Type: nervous, lymphatic, scrophulous; blond, pale; brown.
Weather: < cold air, cold weather, < change weather, > open air; flushes sudden; chilly, shivering of whole body.
Time: < 5-7 pm !, < night, 5-7 am.
Sweat: cold, clammy < night; after chill.
Desire: water, acid drinks, bitter.
Food: << tobacco; <<< alcohol; < cold water, food, ice-cream < eating, smell of food, > fasting; champagne, aerated water, carbonated water.
Sleep: uneasy, unrefreshing; sleepy all day; sleepless < dreams falling, < urge urination + agitation.
Physical: << slight exertion, motion; must move; < touch, pressure; < sitting erect; > rest, lying on back; < lying left side, bending forward, raising in bed.
Body
Fever: rheumatic, scarlatina.
Energy: weak < flushes, collapse; faint, as if dying, << raised to upright position, << slight exertion, talking.
Vertigo: < walking, rising, riding + trembling.
Head: headache, sharp shooting, spastic one-sided << falling asleep; ! frontal pain, extending nose, full, < cold, < ice; heavy, falling backward, < sitting, walking, < cold water, ice-cream sensation brain loose, made of glass, shattered by blow; hydrocephalus, meningitis.
Eyes: detachment of retina, turned to left; conjunctiva yellow, red; eyelids blue, red, swollen, agglutinated in morning, distended veins; chalazion; lachrymation << bright light, << cold air; pupils, irregular, mydriasis; vision dim, blindness, diplopia, sensation objects are yellow or green, << tobacco; dark bodies, like flies, before eyes.
Ears: cracking sounds < nap; hissing as boiling water; deaf; veins distended; stitching, swelling behind ear; contraction pain in ear; parotid swollen.
Face: bluish, pale; red < chilly; veins distended; cheeks cramping, drawing; lips blue, dry; eruption, black pores, suppurating, chin, cheek.
Nose: ! pain at root << vomiting; coryza + hoarseness.
Mouth: taste sweet, bitter, clammy; bread tastes bitter; salivation; tongue blue, clean, thick, flabby, distended veins. Toothache.
Lungs: compressed, congested, constricted, tied up in bundles; haemoptysis; pneumonia senile; expectoration, bloody, sweet, like boiled starch, like prune juice, << menses suppressed; respiration, difficult, irregular, slow < falling asleep; deep sighing. - > deep; cough, dry < menses suppressed, bronchitis; asthma, cardiac.
Heart: !!; weak, failing, dilated, fibrillating, block, irritable; pulse, weak intermittent, irregular dicrotic < sitting up; pulse slow, slower than heart < recumbent posture; palpitation, fast << motion, unequal; feels stopping if he moves, breathes; as if torn lose and swaying, hanging on a thread; mitral disease; hypertrophy; stitches frequent; cyanosis; pericarditis, copious serous; angina pectoris, < raising arms, motion; blood does not coagulate; dropsy cardiac, of external and internal parts.
Chest: sore, raw, smarting, weakness, < talking, congestion; contraction, pressure, << bending, tension > breathing deep; pain, creeping; breast shuddering; raw sore; <- talking.
Stomach: weak, fainting; burning extending oesophagus; neuralgia, = eating; discomfort, nausea deathly, << food, sight smell, = vomiting, < urination before and after; vomiting, mouthfuls, acrid, tasteless, < motion.
Abdomen: pain, left side, descending colon, under false ribs; ascites; pulsation in abdominal aorta; internal parts feel grown together; epigastrium constriction, painful, tender < touch; distension and pain << eating; weight attached, sinking into abdomen; liver hypertrophy induration, enlarged, hard, sore, obstructed, sore, portal engorgement; jaundice; spleen obstructed.
Rectum: stool white chalky ashy pasty, pipe-stem stool, involuntary; diarrhoea.
Urinary: urine dark, hot, burning, ammoniacal, turbid; brick-dust. suppressed; urging, continuous, in drops, urination painful, dribbling; bladder, full; Bright's disease; urethra too small, constriction; burning, inflamed; feeling something running out of urethra; pain, sharp cutting, throbbing; straw thrust back forth, < night; kidney contracted; uraemia; dropsy.
Male: genitals swollen, dropsy, weak < coitus; emissions, spermatorrhoea; impotence; prepuce oedema; balanitis, gonorrhoea, thick white yellow discharge; phimosis; scrotum enlarged, hydrocele, large full with water; prostate enlarged, senile; testes swollen, bruised.
Female: menses, copious, labour-like pains, abdomen back < before menses.
Back: stiff, pain, tension; neck pain drawing, bruising, loins < blowing nose, << fever.
Limbs: weak muscles, numb; joints rheumatic, swelling white shining < night; left arm heavy, paralytic; pain sore << cough; hands cold one sided; feet swollen, cold; fingers go to sleep easily, swell < night; muscles weak, numb, red hot wire darting through.
Skin: blue, yellow, pale; cold, dry, arid; erythema, deep red, measles, back; itch going to burning, pricking > scratching; sores; veins distended blue, lids, ears, lips tongue; nails blue; desquamation.