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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 344 of 653tation and a variable irregularity of the heart's action. They archiefly adapted to hysteric palpitation of the heart.In hypochondria where the heart's action is as frequently disturbed as in hysteria, the main remedies are: Ifatrurri muriaiicuand Lycopodium^ moreover, CocculuSj Aurum^ and Nux vomica.Cannabis is next to Digitalis the surest remedy for palpitations404 Diseases of the Heart.occasioned by self-abuse and by an erethic weakness of the maleorgans.Cbamomilla and Opium are regarded as specific for palpitationcaused by fright. [Also Aconitum, H.]A third series is composed of drugs that may be classed indiscriminately in one or the other of these two series.Digitalis is here the most important remedy. We have given itscharacteristic symptoms on former occasions, and here again pointout a marked excitement of cardiac action associated with evidentweakness of the muscular tissue, and likewise the irregular movements of the heart. Digitalis is the surest remedy for palpitatiocaused by self-abuse, in general for palpitation arising from somcause in the male sexual sphere.Coflea. The palpitation is at times strong and visible, at othertimes is only felt by the patient ; a characteristic symptom is grestlessness with weariness, yet the patient has no sleep, more pticularly after a copious meal and late in the evening. Every onewho drinks coffee, has experienced the good effects of coffee indirection after a copious meal. For evening-palpitations Coffea gerally affords relief to such only as do not use coffee as an habbeverage. As a rule, the excitement of cardiac action occasionedby coffee is not associated with an increase of temperature orflushed face, even if the patients experience a sensation of incrwarmth.Calcarea oarbonica is an excellent remedy, not for a single paroxysm, but for the affection generally. It is particularly adaptedchlorotic females, without pallor of the face, and with great tenency to rush of blood; it is especially adapted to children andyoung women, whose habitual palpitation it very often cures without the aid of any other drug.Sulphur likewise is eminently useful in obstinate cases, where itoften effects a radical cure. It holds the same relation to malepersons of a somewhat advanced age, that Calcarea does to womenand children.Whether in a given case the treatment ought to be conductedwith reference to the single paroxysm or to the whole disease, issometimes difficult to decide. If the palpitation is excited bydefinite causes every day, or at least very frequently, the bestcourse to be pilrsued is, not to prescribe for the single paroxysbut to continue the suitable remedy at somewhat extended interhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt