DIGITALIS PURPUREA

Respiration irregular, difficult, performed by
frequent deep sighs. Sudden sensation as if
the heart stood still, with great anxiety.
Extremely slow pulse.

The chief interest in this drug centres about its action on the heart ; vigorous
systolic contractions, which become very irregular ; the pulse becomes slow,
arterioles are contracted and arterial tension increased. General weakness and
faintness, < rising. Cold, pale, and covered with
profuse sweat. Restlessness. The symptoms, especially those of the
circulation, < suddenly rising.

Great anxiety and fear of death. General apprehension, with depressed
spirits, especially < music. Inability to think. Forgetfulness.

Sudden cracking noises in the head, starting one up from the midday nap.
Confusion and pain, as if the head were full. Vertigo ; worse on rising from
a seat, with weakness of the limbs.
On stooping a feeling as if something fell forward
in the head. Head is inclined to fall backward
while sitting and walking, as if the muscles were too weak
to hold it up.

Blue rings about the eyes. Pupils dilated. Insensible. Loss of vision and
many symptoms associated with anæmia of the retina and
optic nerve.

Hissing like boiling water. Sudden crashing noises, deep in the head.

Pale, sickly expression ; a bluish color, especially about the eyes and mouth.

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SLEEPLESSNESS
Without sleep, you become more susceptible to health problems, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and depression. The foundations of good health are good diet, good exercise and good sleep, but two out of three doesn’t get you there. Sleep is important in maintaining your health, say experts. Without it, you become more susceptible to health problems, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and depression.
One of the following remedy may help you getting enough sleep.

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A healthy meal plan for diabetics is generally the same as a healthy diet for anyone: it has to be low in fat (particularly saturated fats and trans fats) and must have moderate amounts of salt and starch. In addition, the meals must be based on whole grains, vegetables and fruits. This comprises a mix of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, legumes, nuts and olive oil. It must be emphasized that the so called ‘diabetic’ foods offer no special benefits. Rather, many of them raise blood glucose levels, are usually more expensive and can also have a laxative effect. It, however, needs to be understood that no diet by itself will be effective unless accompanied by certain ground rules that include eating meals on time and at regular intervals and involve controlling portion sizes. These principles remain crucial to the management of the disease.Read more http://www.homoeopathynow.com/homoeo-articles/153-gastric-derangements

Appearance of anxiety, of unrest and distress.
Face is spotted or purple.
Inflamed spot, is purple.
Inflamed glands and cellular tissues, are of purple or mottled appearance.
Ulceration [small wounds {prick of a pin will ooze great drops of blood} bleed much like Phosphorus and Kreosote; uterus, nose, vomiting, hemorrhage from the bowels, menstruation ;blood from any part, when it dries or clots, looks like charred straw or becomes black] bleeds black blood, which soon coagulates and looks like charred straw. The menstrual pains increase violently until relieved by the flow. Sensitiveness over the lower abdomen; can scarcely allow her clothes to touch her.
Tendency to gangrene. Gangrene of parts that have been injured.
Veins become varicose (varicose veins after gestation).
Aggravation of symptoms in the Spring, when patient goes out from the cold weather into the mild and rainy, or cloudy weather.
The symptoms of Lachesis are worse on entering sleep hence < on awakening. Heart symptoms- as soon as he goes into a sleep he rouses up with palpitation, with dyspnoea, with suffocation, with exhaustion, with vertigo, with pain in the back of the head.
Attacks of suffocation and awful dreams during sleep, on rising dreadful headaches, with palpitation and melancholy.
Warm bath (fainting in a warm bath), warm application to inflamed parts < (mental symptoms, palpitation, headache).

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NEBULIZER – Device used to deliver liquid medication in the form of a fine mist is called nebulizer. Patient inhales the medication while breathing normally through a mouthpiece or face mask.

ASTHMA (Breathlessness)
Asthma is an allergic disorder characterised by breathlessness, which is the result of a spasmodic narrowing of the respiratory passages.
In ASTHMA there are paroxysmal attacks of dyspnoea. Inspiration (drawing in air) is short. Expiration is prolonged.
Cause is narrowing of trachea, bronchi and bronchioles especially marked during expiration. Asthma may occur at any age.There may be a family history of allergy (urticaria, hay fever, migraine, attacks of asthma). Asthma attack may last for minutes, hours or days. Homoeopathy may do a great good to the suffering humanity in this very painful troubling disease.

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Lupus is an autoimmune disease.

Symptoms may be local and limited to the skin , or generalized with marked systemic involvement.

No sharp line can be drawn between the different types.

(A) The localized variety occurs in three forms:

(i) The chronic discoid type is the commonest variety. It especially affects women around 40 yrs of age. Lesions occur most frequently on the face where they assume a butterfly distribution or persists as discrete discoid patches. The scalp may be involved. A sharply defined plaque of congestive erythema is covered by scales, underneath which small plugs extend into the enlarged hair follicles. As congestion subsides atrophic scarring and telangiectasia become evident. Slow or rapid centrifugal extension may occur.

Telangiectasias are small dilated blood vessels near the surface of the skin or mucous membranes, measuring between 0.5 and 1 millimeter in diameter. They can develop anywhere on the body but are commonly seen on the face around the nose, cheeks, and chin. They can also develop on the legs, specifically on the upper thigh, below the knee joint, and around the ankles.

Some telangiectasia are due to developmental abnormalities that can closely mimic the behaviour of benign vascular neoplasms. They may be composed of abnormal aggregations of arterioles, capillaries, or venules. Because telangiectasias are vascular lesions, they blanch when tested with diascopy.

(ii) In the acute localized edematous type the lesions are circumscribed edematous plaques, which may completely disappear or may develop into chronic discoid lesions.

(iii)In the chronic disseminated type, numerous extensive lesions of the chronic discoid type are present but systemic symptoms are slight or absent.

(B)Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Disseminated Lupus Erythematosus)may follow discoid and other local skin lesions, it much more commonly starts as a generalized disease. The manifestations in different organs are numerous.

Symptoms vary in different cases.-(1) Pain in joints is the first to be complained of in 90% of patients. There may be a general aching of the joints and muscles (resembling fibrositis), a migratory form of polyarthritis or a chronic form hardly distinguishable from rheumatoid disease. (2) A severe constitutional disturbance follows , with a high evening temperature , profuse sweating, loss of appetite and loss of weight. (3) Anaemia is usually noticed and this is accompanied by a polymorph leucopenia; sometimes a severe haemolytic anaemia arises. (4)Skin changes are of several different types and tend to occur late; purpura, petechiae, ulcers in mouth and less commonly rashes which resemble lichen planus or psoriasis. Alopecia areata may be found. (5) Enlarged and sometimes tender superficial lymph glands are sometimes associated with enlargement of the liver and spleen. (6) Pleurisy often occurs but large effusions are rare; pulmonary infiltration and consolidation may give rise to severe dyspnoea. (7) The heart and blood vessels may show a variety of changes; myocardial damage gives rise to enlargement and failure, and pericarditis or endocarditis can be found. Vascular occlusion of the vessels of the fingers gives rise to the Raynaud phenomena and on occasion local gangrene occurs. (8) Renal involvement causes albuminuria microscopic haematuria and renal casts ; oedema and later uraemia are always of serious significance. (9) Epileptiform convulsions, hemiplagia and psychoneurosis are mainly the result of vascular damage to the brain. (10) Abdominal pain , nausea and vomiting may be met.The natural course is subject to spontaneous remissions.

Antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as “sticky blood,” is an autoimmune disorder in which the body makes antibodies to its own blood proteins. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) can occur in individuals without any associated disease. This is called primary APS. The disorder may also occur with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or another autoimmune disorder. This is called secondary APS.

How frequently antiphospholipid syndrome occurs is not yet known. APS antibodies can be found in as many as 50% of people with lupus and in about 1-5% of the rest of the population. Antiphospholipid syndrome most commonly occurs in young to middle-aged adults, but it can begin at any age.

Symptoms

Along with the antibodies, the body begins producing blood clots. The blood clots can block arteries and veins and thus cut off blood supply to a part of the body. The symptoms the individual experiences come from the effects of the blood clots:

Veins or arteries of the arms or legs – may cause pain, swelling, numbness, tingling in the hands or feet, or leg ulcers. If the blood supply was completely cut off to a part, such as a toe, the individual could lose the toe.

Arteries of the heart – may cause chest pain or heart attack. The individual may also have a heart murmur or heart valve problems.

Blood vessels of the skin – may cause bruises (purpura) or a blotchy, bluish rash called livedo reticularis.

Blood vessels of the brain – if a clot cuts off blood supply to a part of the brain, this causes a stroke. An individual with APS may also experience migraine headaches or seizures.

Placenta during pregnancy – Women with APS may have frequent miscarriages or premature births.

Serious antiphospholipid syndrome, called catastrophic APS, occurs when many internal organs develop blood clots over a period of days to weeks.

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An adolescent or young adult with a family history of similar attacks , complains of recurrent paroxysm of unilateral spreading head pains, photophobia and biliousness, preceded by transitory visual aura.

The headaches are paroxysmal , recurrent and date from adolescence.
Each attack lasts 4-48 hours or longer.
Two phases can often be distinguished
(1)The AURA
Lasts 15-20 minutes.
The commonest aura is visual and consists of glittering zig-zag lines, curved or straight castellated or fortification figures, often in movement in one half of the field of vision (teichopsia, visual spectrum).
There may be a scotoma or himianopia blotting one part of the vision.
Scotoma or scintillations may occur singly or together affecting sometimes one half of the visual field, sometimes the other.
Paraesthesiae constitute a less frequent aura.
If they occur in the right hand and round the lips and tongue in right handed people , there may be transient difficulty in finding words (dysphasia) or in writing (dysgraphia).
Much less commonly transient vertigo or double vision lasting 2-3 minutes are met as a migrainous aura.

(2)The headache succeeds, or is contemporary with the aura; it never precedes it.
Typically the headache starts in one frontal region, spreading to the opposite side of the head; sometimes, however, it remains a hemicrania, confined to one half of the head.
It ia accompanied by photophobia, flushing, pallor, or by vomiting or faint feelings.
The pain lasts 4-48 hours and may leave the patient exhausted if the attack has been unduly prolonged.
During an attack unequal pupils may be observed.
Attacks may be heralded by bouts of euphoria, anxiety or depression.
They may be precipitated by menstruation , eyestrain , or dietetic indiscretions.
Paroxysms occur at varying intervals and may consist of (1)reccurrent headaches, (2)reccurrent headaches with vomiting, (3) the aura with a subsequent headache, or (4) the aura alone.
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