This article is from the book, The Green Pharmacy , by James A. Duke, Ph. To send a link and summary of this article to a friend, click here . Cardiac Arrhythmia A very frightened father called me asking for help. Arrhythmias are much worse than the more common heart palpitations, a condition in which the heart occasionally seems to skip a beat or two.
Heart palpitations are often minor and self-correcting.
Cardiac arrhythmias are not. They often don't normalize by themselves, and they can lead to a potentially fatal heart attack. Arrhythmias are usually diagnosed in people over 50, but here was a father telling me that his little girl had this problem. He told me that his daughter had been taking a calcium channel blocker, a standard type of heart medication, but that it hadn't helped. Now you want to switch to an herbal medicine, and you want me to tell you which one and how much to take.