HEART DISEASES
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Homeopathy Treatment for HEART DISEASES,
Cardiac Disorders is treated by the
Homoeopathic medicines and most of the drug are beneficial for all type of cardiac disorders on the basis of
totality of symptoms and also these medicines are use as preventive medicine
for prevention of fatal stage of
cardiac diseases and patients has to
develop stamina regarding their
disease with these medicines. Some important heart medicines are
mentioned below with full description
of symptoms that is why every patient
may assure that these drug is used for their disease for curation and
prevention. 14 drugs are mostly used by the homoeopaths are as under:-
Digitalis.
[Dig] (Drug
Ranking 1ST )
Digitalis
is known chiefly for its action on the heart, and it is rare that a patient
suffering from an affection of that organ does not get Digitalis in some
form. There is no doubt but that it is a much abused drug and when used in
strong doses its action is cumulative and dangerous. Its symptoms are,
however, clear, and briefly stated, as follows: The pulse is slow, but
primarily strong, there is great weakness of the cardiac tissue, and,
secondarily, the pulse becomes weak. Extra exertion increases its rapidity,
but diminishes its force, so that the quick pulse becomes irregular and
intermittent. This irregular intermittency is a marked symptom. The heart
feels as if the blood stood still.
here
is weakness and numbness of the left arm, and often blueness of the surface
of the body, or cyanosis. The patient fears that the heart will stop beating
if he should make any motion. This uneasy feeling about the chest rarely
amounts to real pain. Gelsemium has the opposite symptom to this. The patient
is roused out of sleep feeling that the heart will stop beating, and he is
impelled to move about to keep it going. A number of drugs have numbness of
the left arm in heart affections, notably Aconite, Kalmia, Rhus and
Pulsatilla. These are not "keynote " symptoms, however, as is shown
further on. The Digitalis patient has a doughy look to the skin; there is
often a sick feeling at the stomach after eating. Apis has a symptom that
will lead to its use in heart affections, namely: "He does not see how
he can get another breath." In pericarditis with effusion it is one of
our best remedies vieing here with Cantharis, but the latter has burning and
spasms. Cartier recommends the 30th or 200th. Like Arsenicum and Lachesis,
the tendency of Digitalis is downwards, and it must be used cautiously and
only when indicated homoeopathically. There are numerous other symptoms that
will indicate Digitalis. Disturbed sleep, apprehensiveness, deep sighing,
slow respiration,, dry cough, suffocative spells; in fact, such symptoms as
may be caused by an irregular distribution of the blood. Digitalis is also
indicated in dropsical conditions dependent on heart trouble, swelling of
feet and ankles, anasarca, cardiac dropsy associated with slow pulse, urine
suppressed or scanty. Apocynum is similar in this relation. The special field
of usefulness of Digitalis is inflammation of the heart muscle approaching
insidiously and in sudden cases of myo-or endo-carditis with the symptoms above
outlined. The first noticeable benefit is a steadier heart's action and an
increased flow of urine. To use it in strong doses for a long time will
render the patient incurable.
Cactus
grandiflorus. [Cact] (Drug Ranking 2nd )
The
next most important remedy in heart affections,from the homoeopathist's
standpoint, is Cactus. Its well known characteristic symptom, "Sensation
as if the heart were grasped with an iron hand," which clutches and
relaxes alternately, is ever present to the mind. It should be borne in mind
that not all patients express themselves alike. A squeezed sensation may mean
the same symptom. It has, however, other symptoms. It is similar to Arnica in
chest soreness and constriction; it has pains shooting into the left arm,
oedema and a quick, throbbing, tense, hard pulse, which may or may not
intermit. Carditis and pericarditis may call for Cactus. It presents a better
picture of rheumatic carditis than any other remedy. It seems to lie midway
between Aconite and Digitalis. It controls the inflammatory condition and
strengthens the heart's contractions, and does not poison the heart like
Digitalis or Strophanthus. There is great irritation of the cardiac nerve and
Cactus may be found to be the remedy for angina pectoris. It is a remedy
adapted to hypertrophy of the heart in young people. It is also very useful
in intense palpitation and fluttering sensations about the heart; it is
indicated for such symptoms in young girls about the age of puberty and at
menstrual epochs. Difficult breathing , suffocative , fainting, violent
palpitation and inability to lie down are symptoms indicating the cardiac
asthma or dyspnoea.
Kalmia
latifolia. [Kalm] (Drug Ranking 3rd)
Kalmia is a remedy for cardiac hypertrophy, especially after rheumatism, and has the symptom so common in heart affections, namely , "numbness of the left arm." There is with Kalmia much pain and anguish about the heart, some dyspnoea, palpitation, and pressure from the epigastrium towards the heart. The heart is irregular and intermits every third or fourth beat. There are shooting pains through the chest to the scapula. Kalmia is an excellent remedy for cardiac troubles when they have been caused by the suppression of rheumatism by external applications. The pulse of Kalmia is slow, but not as slow as Digitalis. Phytolacca has tingling and numbness of the right arm, but the three chief remedies having this symptoms in the left arm are Kalmia, Rhus and Aconite. These pains, as Prof. W.B. Hinsdale points out, should not be considered as "keynotes." Their symptomatic value consists in pointing to a class of drugs rather than to an individual drug. The minutiae of the pains should be studied. Acute pericarditis depending upon rheumatism will call for Kalmia; the sharp pains taking away the breath will call attention to it. Hering says Kalmia has a most beneficial action in diminishing too rapid pulsation of the heart.
Spigelia.
[Spig] (Drug Ranking 4th )
Spigelia
is another remedy for the painful affections about the heart. It stands at
the head of the list for acute carditis and pericarditis. There are sharp
pains shooting from the heart to the back, and radiating from the heart down
the arm, over the chest, and down the spine. There is palpitation worse from
any movement of the arm or body. There is a purring sensation felt over the cardiac
region when placing the hand thereon. The pulse is intermittent, not
synchronous with the heart beat, and the slightest motion of the arm or hands
makes the patient worse. Heart symptoms accompanying neuralgia call for
Spigelia. Irregular and tumultuous action of the heart are well met by
Spigelia. At times the heart beat is even audible. We sometimes find this
symptom under Arsenicum, which is useful in hypertrophy of the heart from
climbing high places, mountains, etc., but Spigelia comes in earlier in heart
troubles than does Arsenicum. Rheumatic endocarditis will often find its
curative remedy in Spigelia, and it has a most beneficial action in angina
pectoris. In cardiac inflammation it comes in after Aconite. It corresponds
well to chronic affections of the heart, particularly valvular disease and
hypertrophy.
Cimicufuga.
[Cimic] (Drug Ranking 5th )
This is a remedy often indicated in heart troubles,especially when they supervene upon chorea or rheumatism of the bellies of the muscles. The headache confined to the forehead or as if the top of the head would fly off is present and an indicating feature. Pain under the left nipple and down the left arm may also be present. The pains is apt to come in shocks. Insomnia is persistent.
Aconite.
[Acon] (Drug Ranking 6th
)
Among the remedies having a marked influence of the heart is Aconite. It has, as has been seen, numbness of the left arm; it also has tingling in the fingers, associated with heart disease. Aconite produces a cardiac congestion, with anxiety, oppression and palpitation, worse when walking ; lancinating stitches occur, and also attacks of intense pain. It is the remedy in uncomplicated hypertrophy of the heart. In pericarditis and endocarditis when the inflammation sets in with fever with the intense mental anxiety so characteristic of the drug. The 30th acts marvellously in these conditions. Glonoine has a fulness in the region of the heart, with some sharp pains, fluttering of the heart with violent beating,as if the chest would burst open. Labored breathing pains radiating in all directions, even into arms. Must have head high and a pulsating headache to well indicate the remedy. Amyl nitrite has oppressed breathing and constriction about the heart. Both of these latter remedies are useful in angina pectoris. Veratrum viride has a condition simply of intense arterial excitement and is recommended as a remedy to be used continuously in hypertrophy with dilatation. The force and frequency of the pulse are abnormal, as a rule slow, sometimes rapid. It is an important remedy in all inflammatory affections of the heart and its membranes,especially those caused by infections.
Rhus
toxicodendron. [Rhus-t] (Drug Ranking 7th )
Rheumatic hypertrophy calls for Rhus. It is a palpitation of the heart from over-exertion, with numbness and lameness of the left arm and shoulder. Pericarditis or endocarditis from exposure to rain, getting wet, etc. These symptoms are worse on every change of the weather. Uncomplicated hypertrophy of the heart such as comes in athletes, machinists, etc., calls for Rhus; and among other remedies for this condition may be mentioned Arnica and Bromine. Pericarditis due to septic condition will call for Rhus, and in heart troubles, as in all others, it follows Bryonia well; and Bryonia may be an early remedy in pericarditis. The rheumatic basis of nearly all the heart symptoms and the general condition of the remedy will decide.
Bryonia.
[Bry] (Drug Ranking 8th )
In
affections about the membranes of the heart, of course, Bryonia is one of the
most prominent remedies. It corresponds to the first or second stage of
pericarditis when of rheumatic organ and especially if pleuritic symptoms be
present. There are intense fever, frontal or occipital headache, and acute
stitching pains which are aggravated by movement, and the friction murmur is
always present. It does not usually corresponds to pericarditis from Bright's
disease or pyaemia. Asclepias tuberosa is similar to Bryonia, but the
symptoms are not so acute, the fever is not intense, the pain is pricking and
extends to the left shoulder; there is a dry spasmodic cough and the pain is
relieved by bending forward. A valuable group of symptoms calling for Bryonia
is the following : Cramp in region of the heart, aggravated by walking,
raising one's self or using the slightest exertion, even raising the arm. Heart
beats valiantly and rapidly.
Convallaria.
[Con] (Drug Ranking 9th )
There
is quite a large class of remedies affecting the heart which might be termed
the newer remedies. Among these in Convallaria. It is useful in valvular
diseases of the heart with scanty urine, dropsy and great dyspnoea. It has so
relieved the oedema in a number of cases that the patient could lie down.
Dyspnoea, palpitation and oedema due to mitral disease have been relieved by
it. The provings of the remedy show a feeble heart sound, anaemic murmurs
over the jugular vein, pain in region of heart and an uneasy fluttering; a
sensation when exercising as if the heart stopped beating and then started up
again, causing a faint, sick feeling. This uneasiness about the heart should
suggest its use in the condition known as cigarette or tobacco heart.
Agaricine should also be thought of in patients addicted to the excessive use
of tea, coffee, or tobacco. Twitchings should be present to well indicate
this remedy. Dilatation associated with emphysema. Another of the new
remedies is Adonis vernalis. It increases arterial tension, regulates the
heart beats by lessening the frequency of the pulse and increasing the force
of the cardiac contraction. Blackwood thinks anasarca should be a prominent
symptom with scanty urine,low in urea and asthma or dyspnoea present. Dr.
Gisevius, of Germany, believes that a leading indication for Adonis is a
previous attack of rheumatism. It may be useful in serious dilatation or even
in fatty degeneration. The remedy is well tolerated, increases diuresis and
acts with rapidity. Otherwise it is similar to Digitalis. Cowperthwaite
praises it in feeble heart action, saying that it is far better and safer
than Digitalis,the continued administration of the latter being exceedingly
dangerous, to which the writer heartily agrees. Lycopus Virginicus is still
another heart remedy of this class. It is useful in cardiac irritability with
depressed force, after abuse of cardiac depressants or cardiac stimulants,
excessive hypertrophy, muscular weakness, etc. Its use has been limited,
chiefly confined to the condition known as cardiac asthma, where it works
well. The rapid regular pulse, tumultuous and forcible heart action, indicate
it in exophthalmic goitre. Another remedy useful in irritable heart is
Collinsonia, and like Digitalis and Lycopus it is secondarily homeopathic. It
suits hypertrophy of the heart with palpitation and pain. Irritability of the
heart due to suppression of haemorrhoidal flow especially indicates
Collinsonia. Strophanthus is one of our recent accessions to the line of
cardiac remedies. Dr. George Royal thinks it acts better in the lower
dilutions, 1,2 or 3, than in the customary large doses of the tincture, and
many observers have verified this observation. It has been found useful in
weak, hypertrophied, irritable heart, with tense arteries and a free
discharge of urine. It relieves dyspnoea and praecordial distress and
promotes diuresis and removes dropsy. It is useful in heart failure of the
aged and heart diseases in children. It reduces the pulse and increases the
power of the heart. It probably suits better heart troubles dependent on
kidney disease, or where coffee, tea, tobacco or alcohol have already
poisoned the heart. Crataegus oxyacantha. This is a new remedy, and useful
when the hearts action is feeble and irregular and the pulse small and
intermittent; sensation as if the heart would stop. It suits cases of failing
compensation with dilatation of the heart and also fatty hearts. It acts well
in functional diseases of the heart, palpitation and tachycardia dependent
upon anaemia. In threatened heart failure during acute diseases it will
frequently work well. Exhausting overwork. Nervous shock and neuraesthenia
are casual symptoms. Dr. G.H. Wells gives a painful sensation of pressure in
the left of the chest below the clavicle as a verified indication. As a
palliative in heart affections it is a far safer remedy than Digitalis and
can be used for a long period as a tonic to weakened hearts. Sparteine
sulphate has also been used in feeble heart and nervous and hysterical
persons, and at the climacteric; but as most of these remedies are used for
the physiological effect they, as yet, should find no place in homoeopahtic
therapeutics. Sparteine is said to be further indicated when compensation is
failing and the hearts action is weak; the pulse is irregular, feeble, and
dropsy is present; there are dyspeptic symptoms with great accumulation of
gas in the gastro-intestinal canal and the patient is subject to nervous and
hysterical attacks. Sudden painful "seizures" may further indicate
Sparteine. In such cases its use will be palliative.
Lachesis.
[Lach] (Drug Ranking 10th
)
The
snake poisons exercise as a marked effect on the heart and circulation, as
well as on the blood itself. Lachesis produces a palpitation of the heart and
a constrictive feeling in the cardiac region. There is a smothering sensation
about the heart, waking the patient out of sleep. He can bear no pressure on
the chest. Pulse small and weak. It has more septic elements than the other
venoms. Kali hydroiodicum has this same smothering sensation about the heart,
waking him out of sleep and compelling him to get out of bed. Graphites has a
similar symptom, and also a cold feeling about the heart, found under
Petroleum and Natrum muriaticum as well. Naja tripudians, another of the
snake poisons, has been used with good effect in valvular affections of the
heart with a dry, teasing cough; there is also a tremulous action. The pulse
is slow, the patient is melancholic and all the symptoms are worse from
stimulants and better walking or riding in the open air. It is a remedy that
should not be overlooked. Hypotension is marked. It has much pain and
resembles herein Spigelia, but it comes in later in valvular affections.
Reflex palpitations and cardiac pain associated with ovarian neuralgia, well
indicate Naja. Oxalic acid is a useful remedy to subdue the praecordial pain
which radiates so frequently to the left shoulder in cases of aortic
insufficiency. Lachesis has also the symptom that the heart feels too large
for the chest. Atheromatous conditions of the heart and blood vessels call
for Lachesis,especially in old people when symptoms of dropsy are present.
Lilium
tigrinum. [Lil-t] (Drug Ranking 11th )
Lilium
has some important heart symptoms. It has a pain in the heart as if grasped
in a vise, which awakens the patient suddenly. There is much fluttering
about the heart, and faintness. It is a sensation as if the heart were
grasped and then released. Lilium will be found useful in purely functional
affections, independent of organic lesion. There is much cardiac irritability
by lying on the left side. Motion aggravates. Sulphur may be the remedy when
it seems as if there were almost too much blood sent to the heart , producing
palpitation, grasping for breath, and sensation as if the heart were too
large for the chest. Lilium is useful in conditions of nervous palpitation,
and in functional cardiac disorders in women with uterine disease.
Arsenicum.
[Ars] (Drug Ranking 12th
)
Arsenicum
is a remedy often thought of in heart affections and often useful. Like
Lachesis, it is more adapted to later stages of heart trouble, when the
course is downwards. Arsenicum produces great irregularity of the heart, or
the pulse may be quick and weak. It is especially useful in pericarditis or
endocarditis after suppression of measles or scarlatina. A grand remedy in
disease of the heart depending upon constitutional causes like sepsis, also
in affections of the heart depending upon fatty degeneration of the blood
vessels. Restlessness will be present, and oedema, puffiness of the eyes and
swelling of the feet. Great dyspnoea,attacks of suffocations at night on
lying down and particularly after midnight. Phosphorus affects rather the
right heart producing a venous stagnation, and it is exceedingly useful in
fatty degeneration of this organ. Vanadium 6X, said Dr. A. L. Blackwood, is
of service in strengthening the heart's action when there is present fatty
degeneration of the liver and heart, with degeneration of the arterial walls.
It will be found of special benefit in those cases where anaemia, chronic
rheumatism, diabetes, neurasthenia or tuberculosis is the exciting cause. It
increases the appetite and strengthens the digestive function. Arsenicum
rather affects the left heart, has more oppression of the chest in breathing,
more orthopnoea and more anasarca. The patient cannot lie down or go
upstairs. Two other remedies useful in fatty degeneration of the heart are
Cuprum aceticum and Phytolacca decandra.
Collinsonia.
[Coll] (Drug Ranking 13th )
In
functional disorders of the heart, Collinsonia is an excellent remedy,
especially when they are reflex from haemorrhoidal troubles or alternate with
them. Although the provings do not indicate a specific action on the heart,it
has been found useful where there is much cardiac irritability, traceable to
suppressed haemorrhoidal bleeding, the cardiac nerves seem irriated, and
there is great sensitiveness about the heart , fulness and oppression about
the chest, with difficult breathing and faintness. It cured for the writer a
case of severe constrictive pain about the heart in a man who habitually
passed blood with this stools; upon the disappearance of the blood from the
stools the heart symptoms commenced and when the flow of blood became
re-established the heart symptoms disappeared. Collinsonia entirely cured
both conditions. A characterizing indications is a persistent, rapid n, but
weak pulse; the action is excessive, but the force is deficient. Hale thinks
Collinsonia acts on the heart by removing obstruction or irritations in the
liver, portal system, or kidneys, and by increasing muscular tonicity.
Strychnia.
[Stry] (Drug Ranking 14th )
This
is a pure and simple heart stimulant. Its only legitimate field is when
paralysis threatens and during the course of any affection, you have
dyspnoea, blueness of the finger tips and lips, sour eructations and symptoms
of disturbed digestion. Here 1/64 of a grain hypodermically may bridge the
chasm. Its frequent and injudicious use is more than harmful and leads to an
increased mortality in many affections. Caffeine is another powerful heart
energizer, but is not a curative remedy.
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
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