Cardiomyopathy is a progressive disease of the myocardium, or heart muscle. In most cases, the heart muscle weakens and is unable to pump blood to the rest of the body as well as it should.
There are many different types of cardiomyopathy, caused by a range of factors, from coronary heart disease to certain drugs. Cardiomyopathy can lead to an irregular heartbeat, heart failure, or other complications.
Cardiomyopathy can be caused by coronary artery disease, a heart attack, or some other underlying health condition.
Types of cardiomyopathies
Cardiomyopathy generally has four types:
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Also sometimes called “enlarged heart,” dilated cardiomyopathy occurs when our heart muscle enlarges, or dilates, and may be too weak to pump blood efficiently. You can inherit it, or it can be the result of coronary artery disease. It’s the most common type of cardiomyopathy.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is believed to be genetic but it’s not (said Dr. Qaisar Ahmed), occurs when our heart walls thicken and prevent blood from flowing through our heart. This stiffens our heart and increases our risk of electrical problems and cause of all these is the deficiency of electrolytes.
Long-term high blood pressure, aging, diabetes, or thyroid disease can also cause acquired types of hypertension-related cardiomyopathy.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD)
This is a new form of cardiomyopathy; it’s the leading cause of sudden death in all ages even in young athletes. In this type of cardiomyopathy, fat and extra fibrous tissue replace the muscle of the right ventricle. This causes abnormal heart rhythms and abnormalities in the function of the right ventricle. Some allopathic medicines and some vaccines are thought to be possible causes.
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Restrictive cardiomyopathy occurs when the ventricles stiffen and can’t relax enough to fill up with blood. Heart disease, scarring of the heart, and cardiac amyloid, which frequently occurs after a heart transplant and some allopathic medicines and vaccines are thought to be possible causes.
Other types of cardiomyopathies
Most of the following types of cardiomyopathies belong to one of the previous four classifications, but each has unique causes or complications:
Peripartum cardiomyopathy
Peripartum cardiomyopathy occurs during or after pregnancy. This rare type occurs when the heart weakens within 5 months of delivery or within the final month of pregnancy. When it occurs after delivery, it’s sometimes called postpartum cardiomyopathy. This is a form of dilated cardiomyopathy, and it’s a life threatening condition. Having it once increases your risk with other pregnancies.
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy is due to drinking too much alcohol over a long period of time, which can weaken your heart so it can no longer pump blood efficiently. Your heart can also become enlarged. This is a form of dilated cardiomyopathy.
Ischemic cardiomyopathy
Ischemic cardiomyopathy occurs when your heart can no longer pump blood to the rest of your body due to coronary artery disease. Blood vessels to the heart muscle narrow and become blocked. This keeps oxygen from getting to the heart muscle. Ischemic cardiomyopathy is a common cause of heart failure. Alternatively, nonischemic cardiomyopathy is any form that isn’t related to coronary artery disease.
Noncompaction cardiomyopathy
This is also known as spongiform cardiomyopathy. It’s a rare disease present at birth and is caused by abnormal development of the heart muscle in the womb. Diagnosis may occur at any stage of life.
Pediatric cardiomyopathy
When cardiomyopathy affects a child, it’s called pediatric cardiomyopathy.
Idiopathic cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy of unknown cause is called idiopathic.
Symptoms of cardiomyopathy
The symptoms of all types of cardiomyopathy tend to be similar. In all cases, the heart can’t adequately pump blood to the tissues and organs of the body. It can result in symptoms such as:
- general weakness and fatigue,
- shortness of breath, particularly during exertion or exercise,
- lightheadedness or dizziness,
- chest pain,
- heart palpitations,
- fainting spells,
- high blood pressure,
- a bloated abdomen,
- coughing when lying down,
- edema, or swelling, of your feet, ankles, legs, or other body parts.
Causes of cardiomyopathy
The cause of cardiomyopathy is often unknown. In other cases, the cause can either be inherited or acquired:
- “Inherited” means that a person born with cardiomyopathy due to the genes he/she inherited from parents.
- “Acquired” means that you developed cardiomyopathy due to a health condition, disease, or some other type of illness during the course of your life, such as:
- coronary artery disease,
- heart tissue damage due to a heart attack,
- infections in the heart muscle.
Risk factors for cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy can affect people of all ages. Major risk factors include:
- a family history of cardiomyopathy, sudden cardiac arrest, or heart failure,
- coronary artery disease,
- chronic (long-term) high blood pressure,
- damage to the heart due to a heart attack,
- infections that cause inflammation of the heart,
- heart valve disorders,
- Vaccinations,
- diabetes,
- obesity,
- thyroid disease,
- alcohol use disorder,
- sarcoidosis,
- hemochromatosis,
- amyloidosis,
- connective tissue disorders,
- use of cocaine or amphetamines,
- allopathic cancer medications,
- exposure to toxins, poisons or heavy metals etc.
When to see a doctor?
It’s possible to have cardiomyopathy and not have symptoms. But many people do develop some warning signs that their heart is weakening. If you notice any of these symptoms, it’s important that you contact your doctor as soon as possible:
- shortness of breath,
- new or unusual fatigue,
- swelling in your abdomen, legs, feet, ankles, or neck,
- chest pain, especially after physical exertion or large meals,
- passing out (fainting) during exercise or physical exertion,
- an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia).
How is cardiomyopathy diagnosed?
A doctor or cardiologist will incorporate the results of four components into patient’s diagnosis:
- patient’s medical history,
- patient’s family medical history,
- physical examination,
- diagnostic tests and procedures.
The diagnostic tests and procedures include:
Blood tests
Blood tests can provide information about patient’s heart and also help rule out other conditions.
Chest X-ray
A chest X-ray can help a doctor to see the size and structure of heart and lungs and check for any fluid buildup.
Stress test
A stress test gauges patient’s heart function while he/she exercises.
Electrocardiogram
An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is used to assess patient’s heart’s electrical activity over a short period of time.
Holter monitor
A Holter or event monitor can measure heart’s electrical activity over 24 or 48 hours.
Echocardiogram
An echocardiogram uses sound waves to create live images of heart and how it’s beating.
Heart MRI
A heart MRI uses magnets and radio waves to capture images of heart and coronary blood vessels.
A doctor may also perform some diagnostic procedures to confirm the diagnosis, especially if doctor is planning for surgery. These procedures may include:
- Cardiac catheterization. With cardiac catheterization, a long, thin tube is inserted into an artery or vein and threaded up to heart so doctor can evaluate patient’s heart for a number of potential issues, including artery blockages.
- Coronary angiography. With coronary angiography, doctor injects dye into patient’s bloodstream to look at the flow of blood through arteries and heart.
- Myocardial biopsy. A myocardial biopsy is a procedure that involves removing a small part of heart’s tissue so it can be examined under a microscope.
How is cardiomyopathy treated in allopathy?
Allopathic treatment varies depending on how damaged patent’s heart is due to cardiomyopathy and the resulting symptoms.
Some people may not require treatment until symptoms appear. Others who are beginning to struggle with breathlessness or chest pain may need to make some lifestyle changes or take medications.
With allopathic treatment you can’t reverse or cure cardiomyopathy, but you can manage it with some of the following options:
- Heart-healthy lifestyle changes, such as aiming for a moderate weight, trying to quit if you smoke, following a balanced and nutritious diet, managing stress when possible, and getting the right amount of physical activity,
- Medications, including medications used to treat high blood pressure, prevent water retention, keep the heart beating with a normal rhythm, prevent blood clots, and reduce inflammation,
- Surgically implanted devices, like pacemakers and defibrillators,
- Surgery, if symptoms are severe and medications don’t work well, bypass surgery or valve surgery may be an option. A less common procedure is septal myectomy, which involves removing some heart tissue in order to improve blood flow through the heart,
- Heart transplant, which is considered a last resort.
How is cardiomyopathy treated with Homeopathy?
The goal of Homeopathic treatment is to help patient’s heart work absolutely healthy/normal and to prevent further damage and loss of function.
Homeopathic treatment also varies depending on how damaged patent’s heart is due to cardiomyopathy and the resulting symptoms.
With Homeopathic treatment you can not only reverse and cure cardiomyopathy, but at the same time you can cure patient’s blood pressure, make the heart rhythm normal, remove/clean blood clots and also cure inflammation with same treatment plane. No need for any surgeries, pacemakers, defibrillators etc.
Here are few Homeopathic medicines for cardiomyopathy treatment:
Cactus Grandiflorus
Cardiac pain with jerking body, frequently repeated. Pricking and stitches in the heart. Tachycardia, palpitation in small irregular beats (at times frequent, at others slow). Pains in apex of heart, shooting down left arm to ends of fingers; feeble pulse; dyspnea. Endocardial murmurs; excessive impulse; increased precordial dullness; enlarged ventricle. Edema of left hand only. Aneurism. Atheromatous arteries. Edema of the feet. General weakness and prostration of strength.
Crataegus Oxyacantha
Cardiac dropsy. Fatty degeneration. Aortic disease. Extreme dyspnea on least exertion, without much increase of pulse. Pain in region of heart and under left clavicle. Heart muscles seem flabby, worn out. Cough (cardiac cough). First cardiac sound weak. Pulse accelerated, irregular, feeble, intermittent. Valvular murmurs. Cutaneous chilliness, cyanosis; all these symptoms aggravated by exertion or excitement. Sustains heart in infectious diseases. Excessive perspiration. Insomnia of aortic patients.
Glonoinum (Nitro-glycerin)
Tachycardia with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the carotid arteries, distinct pulsation over the whole body. In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness, and heat, with labored beating of the heart. Severe stitches from the heart, extending into the back. Purring cardiac sounds when lying.
Fainting with consciousness. Great weakness and prostration. Unconscious falling down (low brain blood circulation). Painless throbbing in the whole body. Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar sensation of warmth through the body.
Yawning with headache. Insomnia but is difficult to waken. Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid. Perspiration principally in the face, forehead, chest and after sleeping. Perspiration relieves the nausea.
Naja Tripudians
Angina pectoris. Endocarditis. Asthma. Dysmenia. Aortic valve stenosis. Cardiac diseases. Spasmodic esophagus.
Uneasiness and dull, heavy pain in chest. Lancinating pains feels better on deep inspiration.
Fluttering and palpitation of heart. Loud audible beating. Pulse slow and irregular in rhythm and force; weak and thread like, scarcely perceptible. Pulse rapid; and full; 120, some beats tolerably full and strong, afterwards 32, irregular in rhythm and force, some of the beats full and bounding.
Gangrene. Body cold and collapsed. Extremities very cold; icy coldness. Burning heat in face. Free perspiration. Flushes of heat in face at different times of day; flushes in face, hands, palms sweating, general sweating.
Digitalis
Angina pectoris. Aortic valve stenosis. Asthma. Bright’s disease. Cyanosis. Delirium tremens. Dropsy. Fever. Gonorrhea. Headache. Heart, affections of.
Hydrocephalus. Lung’s congestion. Tinnitus.
Sensation of soreness in the chest. Tachycardia with palpitations that can be heard (with slow pulse), anguish, and contraction in the sternum. On rising up in bed pulse becomes much more frequent and irregular and intermittent, confusion of heart, sudden sensation as though heart stood still, with great anxiety and necessity for holding breath, after dinner; must keep perfectly still.
Peculiar sensation as though heart standing still; single, violent, slow heartbeats, with sudden violent heat in occiput, and transient unconsciousness (the whole lasting only a moment). Oppression must breathe deeper. Heart’s action has lost its force; beats more frequent, intermittent, irregular. Palpitation easily excited on going up slight ascent. Heart seems to dilate slowly; palpitation at each movement of body; slight uneasiness at heart, cold sweats.
Syncope. Attacks of angina. Inexpressible anxiety with fainting; for a moment heart seems to stand still, and then several rapid and violent pulsations occur, with sensation as if heart had torn itself loose and were swaying to and fro by a thin thread.
Rauwolfia Serpentina
Rauwolfia or ‘” Choti Chandan or Sarpa Gandha”, alkaloids work by controlling nerve impulses along certain nerve pathways. As a result, they act on the heart and blood vessels to lower blood pressure.
Rauwolfia q due to its sedative action helps reduce high blood pressure including insanity-produced irritation of the central nervous system and alleviates its associated symptoms such as irregular beats, increased emotional excitability, and mild depression.
Rauwolfia serpentina q is also used as a laxative, diuretic and antidote to snake venom, hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning.
Kalmia Latifolia
Angina pectoris. Blindness. Bright’s disease. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhea. Gastralgia. Globus hystericus. Gout. Headache. Endocarditis, Cardiac diseases. Difficult and oppressed breathing; throat feels swollen, nausea. Oppressed breathing with palpitation, anxiety; with pain (angina pectoris).
Feverish heat with great pain in chest. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blade to left hand. Rheumatism of muscles of thorax and back.
Fluttering of heart. Tachycardia with anxiety, suppressed breathing; with faint feeling; with dyspnea, pain in limbs. Severe pain in cardiac region, slow, small pulse (hypertrophy, dilatation, aortic obstruction), febrile excitement; rheumatic endocarditis, with consequent hypertrophy and valvular disease. Quickened but weak pulse. Pulse slow, weak; arms feel weak; scarcely perceptible, limbs cold. General heat; with burning and pain in back and loins. Cold sweat.
Arsenicum Album
Shortness of breath, difficulty of respiration, choking, dyspnea, and attack of suffocation, endocarditis, sometimes with cold sweat, spasmodic constriction of the chest or of the larynx, anguish, great weakness, body cold, pain in the pit of the stomach, and paroxysm of cough.
Respiration anxious, stertorous, and wheezing. Oppression of the chest on coughing, on walking, and ongoing upstairs. Constriction and compression of the chest, sometimes with great anxiety, inability to speak, and fainting fits. Tension and pressure in the chest. Stitches and pressing in the sternum. Shooting pains in the chest and in the sternum. Chilliness or coldness in the chest. Shivering, or great heat and burning in the chest. Heat, burning, itching in the chest. Yellowish spots on the chest.
Violent and insupportable throbbing of the heart, chiefly when lying on the back. Irregular beatings (bradycardia) sometimes with anguish and cramps. Palpitation and trembling weakness after stool; must lie down. Palpitation after suppressed herpes or foot-sweat. Angina pectoris. Hydropericardium. Fatty degeneration.
Aconitum Napellus
Convulsions. Deafness. Dyspnea. Landry’s paralysis. Liver enlargement. Neuralgia. Esophagus spasms. General Spasms. Spleen enlargement. Tetanus. Tongue affections. Trismus. Vomiting. Short breathing, chiefly during sleep, and on getting up. Breathing painful, anxious, and attended with groans, rapid and superficial, or full, noisy, and with the mouth open. Breathing slow during sleep, breath hot, fetid. Constriction and anxious oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing.
Asthma of Millar. Attack of suffocation, with anxiety. Sensation of heaviness and of compression at the chest which interrupts respiration. Painful pricking in the chest, chiefly when breathing, coughing, and moving (even the arms).
Tachycardia, anxiety, heat of body, chiefly in the face, and great weariness in the limbs. Heart Attack. Shootings in the region of the heart. Sensation of compression and blows in the region of the heart. Inflammation of the heart. Chronic diseases of the heart, with continuous pressure in the left side of the chest, oppressed breathing, stitches in the region of the heart, congestions to the head; attacks of fainting and tingling in the fingers. Fainting with tingling. Pulse full, strong, hard; slow, feeble; threadlike with anxiety; quick, hard, small.
Adonis Vernalis
A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright’s disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Aortic valve stenosis. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca.
Heart Attack. Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis, Fatty heart pericarditis. Rheumatic Endocarditis. Precordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnea. Marked venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma. Fatty heart. Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid, irregular.
Aspidosperma Quebracho
Asthma, Cardiac asthma. Fever. Heart Attack. Quebracho is a Brazilian fever remedy from which the alkaloid Aspidospermine has been isolated. Respiratory paralysis, slowe heart, and paralysis of extremities. It relieves dyspnea in phthisis and pleurisy, but without influencing the fever.
The 1x relieved asthma with livid face; and dyspnea with cyanosis is frequently relieved by it.
Mitral incompetence and stenosis with severe nocturnal dyspnea. Aortic valve stenosis. Fatty heart (Queb. had no influence on the edema, which was removed by Dig.). Cardiomegaly especially of right side, much dyspnea, and a slight mitral murmur.
Emphysema and severe attacks of asthma. Stool heard, and “pearls” of rounded gelatinous masses were expectorated. Aspidospermine 3x gave more relief than any other remedy.
Terminalia Arjuna
Terminalia Arjuna is useful in both organic and functional diseases of the heart. Heart Attack. Cardiac asthma and bronchodilator. Aortic valve stenosis. An astringent, demulcent, expectorant, cardiotonic, styptic, antidysentery, urinary astringent, and has shown to be useful in fracture, ulcers, leukorrhea, diabetes, anemia, cardiomyopathy, endocarditis and cirrhosis.
This homeopathic medicine improves cardiovascular health, and it strengthens cardiac muscles and prevents any serious illness affecting it, anginal pain, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and dyslipidemia. Helps in improving energy levels and reduces fatigue, reduces risk factors.
Spigelia
Adenoids. Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Mitral valve stenosis. Ciliary neuralgia. Cold. Constipation. Depression of spirits. Diaphragm, stitches in. Exophthalmic goiter. Eyes pains. Gastric catarrh. Glaucoma. Headache. Cardiac diseases, Endocarditis. Hernia, inguinal. Iritis. Jaw-joint, pain in. Neuralgia. Otalgia. Post-nasal catarrh. Prostatorrhea. Pterygium. Rectum cancer. Rheumatism. Scarlatina. Sigmoid flexure cancer. Stammering. Strabismus. Tinnitus. Tobacco habit. Toothache. Worms.
Contraction of chest, with anguish and obstructed respiration. Stitches in diaphragm with dyspnea. Cardiac regurgitation. Pressure, burning or incisive sensation pain. Sensation of trembling in thorax. Spasmodic sensation in chest, proceeding from pit of stomach and causing choking. Heart Attack. Sensation in heart as if squeezed with hand or as if crushed. Lancinations in region of heart. Stitches in heart sometimes synchronous with the pulse. Sensation of cardiac trembling.
Heartbeat do not correspond with those of the pulse. Pulse weak, irregular, trembling. Visible pulsation of heart. Violent, oppressive action of heart extending to top of head. Tumultuous action of heart in acute rheumatism and other acute disorders.
Needle-like stitches in upper dorsal vertebrae and in right scapula. Sensation in l. scapula as though blood were dripping through a valve, a kind of bubbling, pain in parotid gland.
Veratrum viride
Amaurosis. Amenorrhea. Aortic valve stenosis. Mitral valve stenosis. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bunions. Inflammation of caecum. Chilblains. Chorea. Convulsions. Endocarditis. Diplopia. Diaphragmitis. Headache, nervous; sick. Heart affections. Congestion of chest with rapid respiration, nausea, vomiting; dull burning in region of heart. Pneumonia and pleurisy: pulse hard, strong, quick, or slow and intermittent; lungs engorged; faint feeling in stomach; high fever, face flushed.
Palpitation and dyspnea. Violent palpitation of heart and faint feeling. Faintness and biliousness. Pulse: slow, soft and weak; irregular, intermittent; suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal.
Heart Attack. Aching in neck and shoulder. Pallor with syncope. Tremor. Spasm with violent shrieks; opisthotonos; face dark blue; breath suspended; lasting two minutes and recurring after few minutes’ interval. Convulsions. Chorea, movements continuing in sleep. Hemorrhage from various organs.
Body cold but moist skin. Profuse diaphoresis and sense of utter prostration. Bathed in cold sweat. Cold, clammy sweat on forehead.
Amylenum Nitrosum
On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushing of face, heat, and throbbing in the head: Superficial arterial hyperemia. Palpitation of the heart. Heart Attack. Dyspnea and asthmatic feelings. Aortic valve stenosis. Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough. Precordial anxiety. Tumultuous action of heart. Pain and constriction around heart. Fluttering at slightest excitement.
Calcarea Carbonica
Raised blood coagulability (Strontium). Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum. Palpitation at night and after eating. Aortic valve stenosis. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption. Heart Attack. Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from over lifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at night.
Aurum Metallicum
Alcohol’s effects. Amenorrhea. Angina pectoris. Mitral valve stenosis. Asthma. Aortic valve stenosis. Bone affections. Breath offensive. Corpulency. Depression. Paralysis. Burning heat and cutting pain in right hypochondrium. Great difficulty of respiration at night, and on walking in the open air, requiring deep inspirations. Paroxysms of suffocation with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of sense, and facial cyanosis. Pain as if there were a plug placed under the ribs. Heart Attack. Continuous aching in left side of the chest. Incisive pain, and obtuse shootings, near the sternum. Great weight on chest; especially on sternum. Much congestion in the chest.
Anxious palpitation of the heart, from congestion to the chest. Bradycardia sometimes by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest. Cardiac pain extending down left arm to fingers. Floundering heart. When walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose. Sensation as if the heart stood still. Palpitation compels him to stop.
Pulse small but accelerated. Febrile shivering over the whole body, while in bed in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst. Body coldness with bluish color of the nails (capillary blood circulation), nauseous taste with inclination to vomit. Heat of the face, with cold in upper and lower extremities. Copious general morning perspiration; mostly about genitals.
Baryta Carbonica
Dry, suffocative cough. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs feel full smoke. Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Aneurysm. Aortic valve stenosis. Mitral valve stenosis Accelerates the heart’s action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels. Heart Attack. Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially; pulse full and hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot-sweat.
Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet. Fetid foot-sweats. Numbness of limbs. Numb feeling from knees to scrotum; disappears when sitting down. Toes and soles sore; soles painful when walking. Pain in joints; burning pains in lower limbs.
Rhus Toxicodendron
Tickling behind upper sternum. Oppression of the chest cannot get breath with sticking pains. Cardiac hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Heart Attack. Trembling and palpitation when sitting still. Aortic valve stenosis.
Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.
Kalium Carbonicum
Cutting pain in chest. Coldness of chest. Sensation as if heart were suspended. Aortic valve stenosis. Palpitation and burning in heart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to digestive disturbance. Threatened heart failure. Heart Attack.
Lachesis Mutus
Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch. Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window. Spasm of glottis; feels as if something ran from neck to larynx. Feels he must take a deep breath. Cramp-like distress in precordial region. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep. Larynx painful to touch. Sensation as of a plug which moves up and down, with a short cough.
Heart Attack. Cardiac palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric. Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats. Aortic valve stenosis.
Strophanthus Hispidus
Strophanthus is a muscle poison; it increases the contractile power of all striped muscles. Acts on the
heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity. Aortic valve stenosis.
Dyspnea, especially on ascending. Lungs congested. edema of lungs. Bronchial and cardiac asthma. Pulse quickened. Heart’s action weak, rapid irregular, due to muscular debility; and insufficiency. Cardiac pain.
Apocynum Cannabinum
Sighing. Heart Attack. Oppression about epigastrium and chest. Aortic valve stenosis. Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy. Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue. Edema and dropsy. Hyperhidrosis/diaphoresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A diminished frequency of the pulse.
This is one of our most efficient remedies, in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury. Arrhythmia. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Acute alcoholism. Relaxation of sphincters.
Apis Melifistida
Hydrothorax. Sensation of soreness in the chest. Oppression of the chest, shortness of breath, dull aching pain in the left side of the chest near the middle of the sternum. Expectoration of copious transparent, frothy, bloody mucus.
Sudden pain just below the heart, soon extending toward right chest, with suffocation. Very feeble action of the heart; violent beats, shaking the whole body; intermittent beats. Heart Attack. Region of heart sensitive to least pressure; rasping sounds of systole and diastole unmistakably audible. Palpitation of heart from scanty secretion of urine, perfectly cured by establishing the natural quantity.
Pulse almost imperceptible at wrist; accelerated and full; very frequent and hard; wiry; irregular and slow pulse; intermittent.
Laurocerasus
Apoplexy, threatened. Asphyxia, neonatorum. Asthma. Cholera. Chorea. Climacteric sufferings. Convulsions. Cough. Cramps. Cyanosis. Epilepsy. Heart affections. Liver affections. Palpitation. Anemic.
Spasmodic constriction of the trachea. Little short cough, excited by a tickling and scraping in throat. Abundant gelatinous expectoration, with small specks of blood. Slow, weak, anxious respiration. Rattling, stertorous respiration. Obstruction to respiration in region of stomach. Pressure on chest. Constriction of chest, with oppression. Burning and stitches in chest. Heart Attack.
Pains in region of heart. Slow and irregular beating of heart. The patient puts his hand to his heart, as if there was some trouble there; this may result from running a short distance, which puts him/her completely out of breath; going upstairs, walking, any exercise may bring this on.
Lithium Carbonicum.
Albuminuria. Aneurysm. Angina Pectoris. Gallstones. Gastralgia. Glands swelling. Gout. Headaches. Heart, affections of Hemiopia. Obesity. Ossification of arteries. Prostatitis. Retina’s anemia. Rheumatism. Spleen affections. Pressure in middle of chest. Constriction of chest when walking (after breakfast). Heart Attack. Rheumatic soreness in region of heart. Violent pain in region of heart as he/she bent over bed, morning on rising. Sudden shock in heart. Throbbing; like a dull stitch in region of heart. Pains in heart after pains in bladder. Pains in heart before and at time of commencement of menses. Trembling and fluttering of heart (after mental agitation of a vexatious character). Pains in heart before and at time of urinating. Pressure in region of heart on rising to urinate.
Spongia Tosta.
Aneurysm. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Catalepsy. Fainting. Goiter; exophthalmic. Heart hypertrophy. Hernia. Jaw-joint, pain in. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism. Respiration, quick, anxious, and difficult, sometimes with fits of suffocation, and mucous rattling in chest. Short, panting respiration. Spasmodic, constrictive pains in whole chest (and larynx). Dyspnea. Burning sensation, which ascends into chest. Ebullition of blood (congestions) in chest after slightest effort and least movement, with obstructed respiration, anguish, nausea, and weakness, which induces syncope.
Pains and anxiety in region of heart. Constricting, stinging, pressing pain in cardiac region. Tachycardia, with suffocation, violent gasping respiration, pain in heart. Rheumatic affections of valves of heart (fibrous deposit on valves). Violent palpitation of heart, beats rapid (each beat was accompanied by a loud blowing as of a bellows), awakens him after midnight, with a sense of suffocation, loud cough, great alarm, agitation, anxiety, and difficult respiration. Pulse full, hard, and frequent. Heart Attack.
Zincum Metallicum
Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Asthma. Brain fag. Brain paralysis. Chorea. Constipation. Gastralgia. Headache; nervous; chlorotic. Hydrocephalus. Hyperpyrexia, nervous. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Inframammary pain. Joints, creaking in. Reaction, defective. Rheumatism. Screaming. Sleepiness. Somnambulism. Spleen neuralgia. Strabismus. Varicose.
Difficult respiration and oppression, with pressive pain in the chest. Constrictive sensation around the chest, with pain in the chest. Spasmodic dyspnea. Shortness of breath, caused by flatulence after a meal. Mucus. Cardiac palpitation. Burning sensation in chest. Pain beneath costal arches.
Tachycardia with or without anguish. Heart Attack. Irregular movements of heart. Shocks in heart and intermittent palpitation, with suffocation. Tension and stitches in the precordial region. Sudden, spasmodic, bursting sensation about heart. Violent pulsations in blood vessels during heat. Rapid pulse.
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P. S: This article is only for doctors and students having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy.

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Dr. Sayyad Qaisar Ahmed (MD {Ukraine}, DHMS), Abdominal Surgeries, Oncological surgeries, Gastroenterologist, Specialist Homeopathic Medicines.
Senior research officer at Dnepropetrovsk state medical academy Ukraine.
Location: Al-Haytham clinic, Umer Farooq Chowk Risalpur Sadder (0923631023, 03119884588), K.P.K, Pakistan.
Find more about Dr Sayed Qaisar Ahmed at:
https://www.youtube.com/Dr Qaisar Ahmed
