SBL Digitalis Purpurea Dilution is a powerful homoeopathic medicine prepared from the plant Digitalis purpurea, commonly known as Foxglove. It belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family and acts primarily on the heart. Practitioners prescribe Digitalis for cardiac dysfunction marked by weak, irregular, or slow pulse and signs of heart failure. The medicine works deeply on the myocardium and strengthens the heart in conditions such as dilatation, auricular fibrillation, and dropsical states. It proves especially useful in heart disorders following rheumatic fever and also supports liver function, urinary complaints, and respiratory distress caused by cardiac weakness.
Common Name
English: Foxglove
Therapeutic Uses of SBL’s Digitalis
Heart Fluttering and Irregular Pulse
Digitalis strengthens weak, irregular, intermittent, or abnormally slow pulse. It supports cases of auricular fibrillation, auricular flutter, heart block, and asystole. The remedy helps manage cardiac dropsy, mitral valve disease, dilated or hypertrophied heart, and pericarditis. It also relieves cardiac collapse and extreme prostration triggered by even slight exertion. Patients often experience cyanosis, palpitations, and a sensation that the heart may stop with the slightest movement.
Hypertrophy of Liver and Jaundice
Digitalis improves jaundice of cardiac origin and relieves liver induration and hypertrophy. It eases liver soreness with severe abdominal pain and addresses white, chalky stools along with hepatic tenderness.
Urinary Disorders
The medicine relieves frequent urging to urinate accompanied by burning and cutting pain, especially at night. It improves scanty, hot, dark urine with brick-dust sediment and supports conditions such as urethritis, strangury, and phimosis.
Dyspnea and Bronchitis
Digitalis eases irregular, sighing, and difficult breathing caused by cardiac insufficiency. It supports recovery in chronic bronchitis, senile pneumonia, and haemoptysis linked to weak heart action. The remedy also relieves cough with a raw, sore sensation and chest tightness with weakness.
Neurological and Mental Dullness
Digitalis addresses mental dullness, melancholia, and anxiety about the future. It relieves vertigo on rising or walking and reduces heaviness of the head with sharp frontal pain. The remedy clears confusion and fullness in the head, often accompanied by bluish discoloration of the face and lips.
Gastrointestinal Disturbances
The medicine controls constant nausea that does not improve after vomiting. It relieves burning in the stomach, sweet taste, excessive salivation, faintness after eating, and aversion to food triggered by its sight or smell.
Skin Rashes and Oedema
Digitalis reduces dropsical swelling of the feet, genitals, and joints. It improves bluish skin tone with distended veins, especially on the eyelids, lips, and ears, and helps manage erythematous, measles-like rashes.
Restless Sleep and Fever
The remedy calms restless sleep with easy startling and dreams of falling. It also relieves constant drowsiness and sudden heat flushes followed by profound weakness.
