Materia Medica de A a Z

CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHA ET MONOGYNA (crat)

Produces giddiness, lowered pulse, and air hunger and reduction in blood- pressure. Acts on muscle of heart, and IS A HEART TONIC. No influence on the endocardium. Myocarditis. Failing compensation. IRREGULARITY OF HEART. Insomnia of aortic sufferers anaemia; oedema, cutaneous chilliness. High arterial tension. Is a sedative in cross, irritable patients with cardiac symptoms. Chronic heart disease, with extreme weakness. Very feeble and irregular heart action. General anasarca. Very nervous, with pain in back of head and neck. Collapse of typhoid. Haemorrhage from bowels. Cold extremities, pallor; irregular pulse and breathing. Painful sensation of pressure in left side of chest below the clavicle. Dyspepsia and nervous prostration, with heart failure. In the beginning of heart mischief after rheumatism. ARTERIOSCLEROSIS. SAID TO HAVE A SOLVENT POWER UPON CRUSTACEOUS AND CALCAREOUS DEPOSITS IN ARTERIES.

Head

Apprehensive, despondent. Very nervous and irritable, with pain in back of head and neck. Mental dullness conjunctival irritation nasal discharges.

Urinary

DIABETES, especially in children.

Heart

CARDIAC DROPSY. Fatty degeneration. Aortic disease. EXTREME DYSPNOEA ON LEAST EXERTION, without much increase of pulse. Pain in region of heart and UNDER LEFT CLAVICLE. Heart muscles seem flabby, worn out. Cough. HEART DILATED; FIRST SOUND WEAK. Pulse accelerated, IRREGULAR, FEEBLE, INTERMITTENT. Valvular murmurs, angina pectoris. Cutaneous chilliness, blueness of fingers and toes; all aggravated by exertion or excitement. Sustains heart in infectious diseases.

Skin

Excessive perspiration. Skin eruptions.

Sleep

Insomnia of aortic patients.

Modalities

Worse: in warm room.

Better: fresh air, quiet and rest.

Relationship

Strophanthus (Stroph-h); Digit (Dig); Iberis (Iber); Naja; Cactus (Cact).

Dose

Fluid extract or tincture, one to fifteen drops. Must be used for some time in order to obtain good results.