- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Foxglove. (Scrophulariaceae) Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness and irregular intermitting pulse, occurring at the climacteric; < by least motion. Weak heart without valvular complications. Sensation as if heart would stop beating if she moved (Cocaine - fears that unless constantly on the…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Digitalis purpurea, L. Natural order , Scrophulariaceæ. Common names , Foxglove; (G.) Fingerhut. Preparation , Tincture prepared from the leaves of the second year of the plant. Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Foxglove (DIGITALIS) Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent , abnormally slow , and dropsy of external and internal parts. Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium . Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BLOWS, shocks, thrusts, crash, explosions, etc. (Comp. Shattered): BLUISH, PURPLE, LIVID, ETC. COATED FEELING DISCHARGES, vicarious EMPTY, hollow, sinking, internal weakness, sense of, etc. EXERTION, Agg. FAINT, faints easily, etc. FEARSOME, anxious, etc. FORCED, thru a narrow opening, as if GELATINOUS (Comp…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Vagus. HEART; muscle. CIRCULATION: Liver. Lungs. Stomach. Occiput. Genito-urinary organs. Raising up. Exertion. Heat. Lying on L. side. Motion. Smell of food. Cold drinks. Excesses: Sexual. Rest. Cool air. Lying flat on back. WEAKNESS, faint - like; can hardly talk. Heart slow, with indefinite or causeless symptoms…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“purpurea. Fox-glove. N. O. Scrophulariaceæ. Tincture from the leaves of the second year of the plant. Amaurosis / Angina pectoris / Asthma / Bright's disease / Cyanosis / Delirium tremens / Dropsy / Fever / Gonorrhœa / Headache / Heart, affections of / Hydrocele / Hydrocephalus / Impotence / Jaundice / Lungs…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“SCROPHULARIACEAE. Scrophulariaceae: Digitalis—Myrica cerifera; Spigelia; Kalmia; Helleborus; < China. Gratiola. Leptandra. Euphrasia. Verbascum. Linaria. From this order of plants we obtain Digitalis, Gratiola, Leptandra virginica, Euphrasia, Verbascum and Linaria. We have not many symptoms for each of these drugs…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“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. Bluish appearance of the face. Stools gray or ash-colored; discharge of urine too scanty (with slow pulse); pulsations of the heart intermit: cyanosis; dropsy of inner parts; fainting…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“FOXGLOVE.[]. This plant, which grows wild on open mountainous plateaux, is one of the most powerful medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom ; it has been frequently abused by the physicians of the old school ; who sought to gain consideration through violent action on the patient, without considering of what…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Foxglove) (The fresh expressed juice of the leaves of Digitalis purpurea mixed with equal parts of alcohol.) From vol. iv, 2nd edit., 1825. From the following symptoms, which are by no means complete as to their number, it is undeniably evident that the morbid conditions of a-chronic character, physicians have…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Foxglove. Scrophulariaceæ. Digitalis is cultivated in gardens, and in found wild throughout Europe, where it prefers siliceous soil, generally avoiding limestone districts. This fact was mentioned by Wm. Lewis, as early as 1768, in his Materia Medica, where he remarks : "It is observable of this plant that it grows…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“DIGITALIS . Digitalis purpurea, L. Purple foxglove. Nat. Ord., Scrophulariacea. I. Provings.-1 . HAHNEMANN, Fragmenta de Viribus. Contains 23 symptoms obtained by selfand 33 from authors . 2. IBID., Mat. Med. Pura, vol. iv of original, vol. iof translation. Contains 73 symptoms from self, 224 from ten fellow-provers…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“History: This drug as used by the Old School has done more mischief than any one drug in their Materia Medica. Every patient who had a fast heart, or anything the matter with the heart, was given Digitalis. It has caused more deaths than any drug. If administered when the heart is going fast it will soon produce a…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Stinging pain in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities. Faintish debility with perspiration. Attacks of excessive debility, especially after breakfast and dinner. Feeling of weakness; emptiness or goneness in the abdomen. Dropsy of external and internal parts. The urinary discharge is too scanty. Cyanosis…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great anxiety and inclination to shed tears; apprehension about the future. Gloomy and peevish. Indisposed to speak; inclination to lassitude. Giddiness, with trembling. Dulness of the head, with limited power of thinking. Stitches in the temples (evening and night). Stitches in the forehead, extending into the nose…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: fox-glove. Pulse: Full, irregular; very slow and weak; intermiting every third, fifth or seventh beat (A.). Stinging pain in the muscles of the upper and lower extremities (Apis, Bry., Dulc., Guai., Kali-C., Kali-S., Rhus-T., Valer.). The fingers "go to sleep" frequently and easily (A.). Constant desire…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Extremely slow, intermittent pulse; weak heart; or rapid, very irregular pulse. Respiration; irregular, difficult, slow, deep or performed by frequent deep sighs; sometimes stops on dropping off into sleep. Excessive jaundice, with slow, weak heart, and ashy-white stools. Faintness or sinking at the stomach; feels as…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Dropsy. (80) Case.—A boy had scarlatina. On the twelfth and thirteenth day from the appearance of the rash he had swelling of the right hand and fingers, with scanty, high-colored urine. Digitalis cm. (Fincke) every four hours for four doses. Next day hand nearly well, urine freer and paler. Recovered. Forty-one…”
