Cardiac hypertrophy
Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as extracellular matrix. Causes can be physiological for example, the amount of exercise performed by an athlete or pathological for example, as a result of hypertension or valvular disease.
Treatment.—The treatment of cardiac hypertrophy needs a careful study of each case, and will depend altogether upon the conditions present. When compensation is properly maintained, the treatment will be largely dietetic and hygienic
*Aconite adds tone to the heart, and encourages normal muscular action by removing irritation, and the small, frequent, hard pulse will be the symptoms calling for it. As the pulse is diminished in frequency, it gains in power.
*Cactus encourages nutrition, adds tone to the organ, and is one of the best remedies in maintaining a stage of compensation
*Macrotys is an old and well-tried remedy where there is soreness and pain in the precordial region.
Lobelia will be called for to relieve asthmatic conditions where there is a sense of oppression, weight, and fullness in the precordial region, and where the pulse is of the same character.