Lachesis lach.

Mind. Throat. NERVES: CUTANEOUS. VASO-MOTOR. Sympathetic. PNEUMO-GASTRIC. BLOOD; HEART. CIRCULATION. LEFT SIDE; then right: THROAT. OVARIES. FEMALES. Vertex.

SLEEP; AFTER. MORNING. HEAT: SPRING. SUMMER SUN. ROOM. DRINKS. SWALLOWING; EMPTY; liquids. SENSITIVE TO: SLIGHT TOUCH OR PRESSURE OF CLOTHES; < NECK, Waist (Ap. Bro. Grap.); Noise. RETARDED DISCHARGES. Start and close of menses. CLIMAXIS. ALCOHOL. Cloudy weather.

OPEN AIR. FREE SECRETIONS. Hard pressure. Bathing part. COLD DRINKS.

Rapid onset, intensity, prostration or malignancy. LEFT-SIDED COMPLAINTS, OR MOVING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. Sepsis. Disintegration. Gangrene; diabetic. Carbuncle. Erysipelas. Blueness; hands. FETOR; of acrid discharges; oris; stools, etc. HÆMORRHAGE, thin; dark particles; nose-bleed; vicarious; bloody urine, etc. Purpura. ASCENDING SENSATIONS, in throat; from eyes over vertex; from nape; from ovary to heart; chills; FLUSHES OF HEAT; rushes of blood. A LUMP; ascends throat and is swallowed back again; in liver, abdomen, rectum; rolls about in bladder, etc. EXCESSIVE PAINFULNESS; of throat; ulcers; spots over body. Constriction; of throat, > eating; as of a skull cap; of anus. Drawing; vertex to jaws; in rectum, etc. Tremor; of tongue; hands, etc. Hard throbbing or hammering (Fer.). Congestion. Apoplexy. Epilepsy.

Nervous, excitable. LOQUACITY; rambling; then sadness or repeats same thing. Compelling delusions. Persistent, erotic ideas, without ability. Depression; on awaking. Insane jealousy. Suspicion. Feels full of poison. Fears, going to sleep, lying down, or that heart will stop. Indolence. Vertigo, < turning to right. Headache; heavy; bursting; down nose; side (r) feels cut off. Eyes feel small. Nose; stopped coryza; discharges with every cough; bloody pus from; rum blossom (Agar. Led.). Face purple, mottled; netted veinlets; dusky during heat. Faceache. Lower jaw drops. Septic mumps. Aphthæ. Much thick, pasty saliva. Tongue catches on teeth. Thick, blundering speech. Peppery taste. Can't bear anything before mouth or nose. THROAT; PAINFUL, into ears; as of a soft body in; choking; MUST LOOSEN COLLAR; hot lump in; pit feels swelled or sore spot back of pit. SWALLOWING; the wrong way; painful; returns through nose. Diphtheria; laryngeal. Tonsilitis. Quinsy. Hawks foul pellets from throat. Thirsty, but fears to drink. Dipsomania. Soreness or cramp in epigastrium. Sore festering throb, deep in liver. Septic gall-bladder. Pain from anus to navel. Constipation of pregnancy. Piles; < coughing. Pain in l. ovary; must lift covers. Dark, scanty menses. Suffocates on dropping to sleep. Must take deep breaths. Air hunger. Tickling, choking cough, < touching neck or auditory canal, > retching out a little expectorate. Larynx, as of a skin hanging in, or a valve. Heart weak; turns over or too big, as if. Carditis; metastatic. Axilla; swelled glands. Numb, l. arm; finger-tips. Cracks in skin, at corner of nails. Cold knees, or cold, foul foot-sweat. Toes feel broken. Mottled or livid skin; dark marks. Eating ulcers, on legs; with dark areolæ; fungoid; varicose. Sleepless from cerebral irritation; tipplers. Frightful dreams; of snakes. Dilated capillaries. Chill, < drinking; with sweat. HEAT; on vertex; IN FLUSHES, on waking or falling to sleep. Sweat; about neck, during sleep; in axillæ; bloody; staining blackish; garlicky.

Complementary: Lyc. Pho. Zin-io. Related: Caus. Sep. Zin.

Persons of a melancholy temperament, dark eyes, and a disposition to low spirits and indolence. Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair (Phos.). Better adapted to think and emaciated than to fleshy persons; to those who have been changed, both mentally and physically, by their illness. Climacteric ailments: haemorrhoids haemorrhages; hot flushes and hot perspiration; burning vertex headache, especially at or after the menopause (Sang., Sulph.). Ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.). Women who have not recovered from the change of life, "have never felt well since that time.". Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go the right side - left ovary, testicle, chest. Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, no because sore or tender, as in Apis or Bell., but clothes cause an uneasiness, make her nervous. Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist. Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility. Drunkards with congestive headaches and haemorrhoids; prone to erysipelas or apoplexy. Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temples < from motion, pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep; dreads to go to sleep because she awakens with such a headache. Rush of blood to head; after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed or irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy. Weight and pressure on vertex (Sep.); like lead, in occiput. All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into the aggravation; unhappy, distressed, anxious, sad < in morning on waking. Mental excitability; ecstacy, with almost prophetic perceptions; with a vivid imagination; great loquacity; (Agar., Stram.); want to talk all the time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another story. Constipation: inactivity, stools lies in rectum, without urging; sensation of constriction of sphincter (Caust., Nit. ac.). Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses (Zinc.). Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses (Zinc.). Piles: with scanty menses; at climaxis; strangulated; with stitches shooting upward (Nit. ac.). The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing; wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo v.). As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops (Am. c., Grind., Lac c., Op.). Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body, would constantly sink down from weakness; worse in the morning (Sulph., Tub.). Epilepsy; comes during sleep (Bufo); from loss of vital fluids; onanism, jealousy. Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed easily and profusely (Crot., Kreos., Phos.); blood dark, non-coagulable (Crot., Sec.). Boils, carbuncles, ulcers and intense pain (Tar.); malignant pustules; decubitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to malignancy. Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem (Pyr.). Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder. Fever annually returning; paroxysm every spring (Carbo v., Sulph.), after suppression by quinine the previous autumn. Fever: typhoid, typhus; stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding; conjunctiva yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody (Lyc.). Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and extending to right side (Lac. c., Sabad.); dark purple appearance (Naja); < by hot drinks, after sleep; liquids more painful than solids when swallowing (Bell., Bry., Ign.); prostration out of all proportion to appearance of throat.

Complementary: Hep., Lyc., Nit. ac. Incompatible: Acet. ac., Carb. ac. [Psor.]. In intermittent fever Nat. m. follows Lach. well when type changes.

After sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids; alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun's rays; spring. summer.

A strong indication for this remedy is any trouble beginning on the left side of any part of the body, particularly in the throat, whether going over to the right side subsequently, or remaining on the left side. In diphtheria, or any sore throat, where the trouble begins on the left of the throat or tonsils; if we find the soreness, swelling, or diphtheritic patches on both sides of the throat, ascertain which side was attacked first; or if it is almost entirely on the right side, ascertain whether it started on the left side. (Lycop. is just the reverse of the above; Lycop. troubles begin on the right side.) The patient will probably be restless, with very high pulse, great fever, etc.

Another characteristic is: where the patient sleeps into an aggravation; as e.g., in croup; is very well while awake, but as soon as goes to sleep, the croup symptoms appear in great violence; child almost suffocates, and the mother or nurse is consequently really afraid to let him go to sleep. Also in convulsions; patient has none while awake, but as soon as he is asleep they appear. And so with any trouble that is brought on by going to deep at any time, in day or night.

In all hæmorrhages from the bowels in the typhoid or typhus fever, when in the bottom of the vessel are seen black particles of blood like charred straw; there may be epistaxis, with bleeding from the mouth and bowels at the same time.

Amativeness; affections of the intellect in general. Sadness when wakening in the morning or night (particularly in the morning; no desire at all to mix with the world. Restless and uneasy); does not wish to attend to business, but wants to be off somewhere all the time.

Female: In females who never get well from the change of life--"have never felt well since that time;" may have unnatural unwell periods. During change of life, where she has flashes of heat all day, and cold flashes on retiring at night.

Burning of; blueness of. Flat exanthema which do not fill up. Blotches on; boils; blue-black swellings; pustulous exanthema; spongy excrescences; wounds bleed profusely and a great while; skin very hard to heal; itching blisters. Itching ulcers, and ulcers in general; with dark blisters around; bluish (ulcers); flat; hard on the circumference; with white spots in them; with black base or bottom; discharging too little pus; bleeding--especially if they bleed a great deal.

Affections in general of the right chest; left side of the throat; right lower extremity; right abdominal ring; symptoms generally appear on right side; symptoms beginning on left side with great tendency to spread to the right side. Apoplexy. Cyanosis. In old chronic sore throats--throat may not be very sore, but a great quantity of mucus will stick there, and occasions much hawking and spitting to no purpose--the mucus will stick and can't be forced up or down. Constipation where the anus feels tight, and as if nothing could go through it.

In the evening; on sleeping, suitable for sufferings of drunkards; from violent bleeding; from narcotic medicines; from spirituous liquors; from abuse of mercury; on rising from the bed; after rising from the bed.

While eating.

Acon., Arsen., Hyosc., Lycop., Mercur., Nux vom., Phosphor., Pulsat., Silic., Sulphur.

Bellad., Mercur.

Tongue trembles when protruded, or catches behind the teeth. Sensation of a swelling in the throat, as if two large lumps came together, on empty swallowing; better on swallowing food. Tonsilitis worse on left side, choking when swallowing; or, when swallowing. pains from the throat to the ear; neck very sensitive to touch. Uterus will not bear contact, even of the bed clothes; they cause uneasiness in the abdomen; no tenderness. Menses at the regular time, but too short and feeble. Uterine and ovarian pains, relieved by a flow of blood. Suddenly something runs from the neck to the larynx and interrupts breathing; awakens him at night; spasm of glottis. Aching pain in the shin bones. Hot flashes, metrorrhagia, and other troubles during climacteric period. Most symptoms aggravated after sleep. Great physical and mental exhaustion in morning on rising.

Bushmaster or Surucucu (LACHESIS)

Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood, rendering it more fluid; hence a hæmorrhagic tendency is marked. Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound. The modalities are most important in guiding to the remedy. Delirium tremens with much trembling and confusion. Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition. Ill effects of suppressed discharges. Diphtheritic paralysis (Botulinum). Diphtheria carriers. Sensation of tension in various parts. Cannot bear anything tight anywhere.

Great loquacity. Amative. Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world. Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time. Jealous (Hyos). Mental labor best performed at night. Euthanasia. Suspicious; nightly delusion of fire. Religious insanity (Verat; Stram). Derangement of the time sense.

Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose. Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain; worse after moving. Sun headaches. With headache, flickerings, dim vision, very pale face. Vertigo. Relieved by onset of a discharge (menses or nasal catarrh).

Defective vision after diphtheria, extrinsic muscles too weak to maintain focus. Sensation as if eyes were drawn together by cords which were tied in a knot at root of nose.

Tearing pain from zygoma into ear; also with sore throat. Ear-wax hard, dry.

Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay asthma; paroxysms of sneezing (Silica; Sabad).

Pale. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat running up into head (Phos). Tearing pain in jaw-bones (Amphisbæna; Phos). Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic.

Gums swollen, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Aphthous and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste. Teeth ache, pain extends to ears. Pain in facial bones.

Sore, worse left side, swallowing liquids. Quinsy. Septic parotiditis. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and internally. Diphtheria; membrane dusky, blackish; pain aggravated by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying. In diphtheria, etc, the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed; worse, swallowing saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neck-band must be very loose.

Craving for alcohol, oysters. Any food causes distress. Pit of stomach painful to touch. Hungry, cannot wait for food. Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a few hours. Perceptible trembling movement in the epigastric region. Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids.

Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist. Especially suitable to drunkards. Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful (Bell).

Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every time be sneezes or coughs. Hæmorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particles. Hæmorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish. Stitches in them on sneezing or coughing. Constant urging in rectum, not for stool.

Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, hæmorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure of clothes. Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow (Eupion). Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated. Mammæ inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture. Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation.

Intense excitement of sexual organs.

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 præcordial region. Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep (Grind). Larynx painful to touch. Sensation as of a plug (Anac) which moves up and down, with a short cough.

Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric. Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats.

Neuralgia of coccyx, worse rising from sitting posture; must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region. Sensation of threads stretched from back to arms, legs, eyes, etc.

Sciatica, right side, better lying down. Pain in tibia (may follow sore throat). Shortening of tendons.

Patient sleeps into an aggravation. Sudden starting when falling asleep. Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep (Bell; Op). Wide-awake in evening.

Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration. Paroxysm returns after acids. Intermittent fever every spring.

Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers.

Worse, after sleep, (Kali bich). Lachesis sleeps into aggravation; ailments that come on during sleep (Calc); left side, in the spring, warm bath, pressure or constriction, hot drinks. Closing eyes. Better, appearance of discharges, warm applications.

Antidotes: Ars; Merc; Heat; Alcohol; Salt.

Complementary: Crotalus cascavella often completes curative work of Lachesis (Mure; Lycop; Hep; Salamandra).

Incompatible: Acet ac; Carb ac.

Compare: Cotyledon (climacteric troubles); Nat m; Nit ac; Crotal; Amphisbœna -snake lizard--(right jaw swollen and painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains. Eruption of vesicles and pimples); Naja; Lepidium.

Eighth to 200th potency. Doses ought not be repeated too frequently. If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to exhaust its action.

Feels very sad and despondent, < after sleeping, or in the morning.

Enemy of all constriction; must loosen everything (neck, chest, throat, abdomen, etc.)

Left-sided affections generally, especially throat, chest, ovaries.

Inflamed parts very tender to touch and of bluish or dark color.

Great weakness and trembling; tongue trembles when protruding it; catches under the teeth (lower).

Blood decomposes, breaks down, hæmorrhages; blood uncoagulable; ulcers and even slight wounds bleed profusely.

Many complains connected with the menopause: hot flushes, hot sweats, burning vertex headaches, hæmorrhoids, hæmorrhages.

Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body; would constantly sink from weakness.

To Dr. Constantine Hering belongs the honor of introducing and developing the wonderful medicinal properties of this snake poison. If he had never done anything beside this for medicine, the world would owe him an everlasting debt of gratitude. It alone would immortalize him. All this, and more; notwithstanding, Chas. Hempel wrote in his first volume of Materia Medica: "In spite of every effort to the contrary, the conviction has gradually forced itself upon my mind that the pretended pathogenesis of Lachesis, which has emanated from Dr. Hering's otherwise meritorius and highly praiseworthy efforts, is a great delusion, and that with the exception of the poisonous effects with which this publication is abundantly mingled the balance of the symptoms are unreliable." Hempel modified his views somewhat, I think, in later editions.

Now, it is interesting to note that in Allen's Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica, the verified, and especially the black-typed symptoms, almost all of them, are verifications of provings made with the 30th potency. It is also significant that the provings of Hahnemann's polycrest remedies, mostly made with the potencies, are among the most useful and reliable we have to-day. Some have sought to destroy confidence in the provings of all remedies which are made with the 30th potencies and upwards; not only that, but in their power to cure even when the provings were made with cruder preparations. With us, who know the value of these potencies, all such efforts only excite pity. But many who do not know are misled and prejudiced so as to never dare to test for themselves. To all such we say take no man's ipse dixit, but prove all things, "hold fast that which is true."

Lachesis is a remedy of wide range of action. It has an alternate action on the mind and sensorium, that of excitation and depression. Illustrative of the former are the following symptoms: "Quick comprehension, mental activity with almost prophetic perception, ecstasy, a kind of trance. Exceptional loquacity, with rapid change of subjects; jumps abruptly from one idea to another." This kind of excitation may be found in acute chronic complaints; in the delirium of fevers, or in mania of a settled form. On the side of depression occur: "Weakness of memory; makes mistakes in writing; confusion as to time. Delirium at night; muttering; drowsy; red face; slow, difficult speech and dropped jaw. Feels extremely sad, depressed, unhappy and distressed in mind," and this condition is very apt to be worse on awaking in the morning, or indeed after any sleep, day or night. "Chronic complaints from depressing cause, like long-lasting grief or sorrow." This depressed side of the remedy may also be found in both acute and chronic complaints. Again these opposite conditions may be found alternating in the same person, and a notable fact is that the alternations are extreme. Of course the causes of these conditions of mind and sensorium are varied, but we will often find them in old topers, subjects of broken-down constitution, and in the troubles incident to the climacteric age. Such cases are subject to sudden attacks of giving away of strength, fainting, vertigo from rush of blood to the head causing apoplectic seizure, or opposite symptoms arising from sudden anæmia of the brain. In short, the circulation in Lachesis subjects is very uncertain. This is what makes it so valuable in sudden flushes during the climacteric period.

Modalities: < at climacteric; touch, constriction or pressure, sun-heat, after sleeping; > after discharges (suppressed or delayed discharges).

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Loquaciousness, with mocking jealousy, with frightful images, great tendency to mock, satire and ridiculous ideas. Perfect happiness and cheerfulness followed by gradual fading of spirituality, want of self-control, and lasciviousness ; felt as if she was somebody else and in the hands of a stronger power. Nervous irritability. Discouragement ; distrust ; easily affected to tears.

Giddiness (after resting). Pulsating, beating headache with heat in the head, especially on the vertex or on the right lit side or over the eyes, preceding a cold in the head with stiffness of the neck. Pressing headache in the temples ; as ; if the brain were pressing out, in the morning after rising, from motion, from stooping ; aggravated from pressure and while ascending ; relieved from lying down after eating. Cutting headache as ; if a part of the right side of the head were cut off, worse after rising or ascending ; relieved from heat and after belching up wind. Headache preceding coryza. Headache in the sun. Falling off` of the hair, especially during pregnancy, with great aversion to the rays ; of the sun.

The eyes ; water with headache from a cold. Itching and burning of the eyes. Yellow color of the white of the eyes.

Dryness with want of wax and hardness of bearing.

Redness of the point of the nose. Bleeding of the nose (blood dark) and blowing of blood from the nose, especially in the morning. Discharge of blood and matter from the nose. Coryza a with discharge of thin water and red nostrils. Scabs in the nose.

Paleness, yellowness or lead-like color of the face. Heat and redness of the otherwise pale face. Erysipelatous inflammations of the cheeks.

Crumbling off of the decayed teeth. Difficulty of moving the tongue, with impossibility of opening the mouth wide. Tongue dry, red, black, cracked, especially on the tip. Swelling of the tongue. Much slimy saliva, especially in the back part of the mouth. Sensation of a plug in the throat, or as if a lump of mucus had collected in the throat, with continued painful desire to swallow. The fluid which is swallowed escapes through the nose. Ulcers in the throat and on the inflamed tonsils. Empty swallowing aggravates the pain in the throat more that the swallowing of food, or fluids ; are swallowed with less pain then solids. Cannot swallow the food after masticating it, because it rests on the back part of the tongue, and produces a thrilling pain there. Tonsils swollen, mostly the left one. When swallowing the pain extends to the (left) ear. The inflammation and ulceration of the throat begin on the left side and extend later to the right side : (vide Lycopodium). Much hawking up of mucus, which is excessively painful. The external throat is very sensitive to the touch.

Desire for wine ; desire for oysters. Great thirst. Nausea and vomiting of food. Vomiting of bile or mucus. The pit of the stomach is very painful to the touch. Heat in the abdomen. Inflammation and abscess of the liver. Great discomfort from having the clothes tight around the waist.

Constipation, with ineffectual effort to evacuate. Stools excessively offensive. Diarrhœa and constipation in alternation. Constriction in tine rectum, or sensation of a plug in the anus. The desire to evacuate continues after a pappy, offensive stool. Stitch in the rectum when laughing or sneezing. Hæmorrhoidal tumors protrude after the stool, with constriction of the sphincter. Large hæmorrhoidal tumors (in persons addicted to spirituous drinks).

Urine foaming. Sensation as if a ball were rolling in the bladder.

Men. Great excitement of the sexual desire. Induration of the prepuce. Mercurio-syphilitic ulcers. Women. Menstruation suppressed. Menstruation too scanty (blood black). Menstrual colic, beginning in the left ovary. During menstruation labor-like pain, as if everything were pressed downward, followed by a slight flow. The uterus feels as if the os were open. Redness and swelling of the external parts (with discharge of mucus). Swelling, induration, pain and other anomalies of the left ovary. Mammæ swollen. Nipples swollen, erect, painful to the touch. Sexual desire excited : Nymphomania.

Burning in the chest. Oppressed breathing, worse when talking and after eating. Shortness of breath and suffocative attacks are caused by touching the larynx and are aggravated on moving the arms. Periodical attacks of asthma (cannot lie down). Hoarseness with a sensation of rawness and dryness in the larynx. Contraction of the chest wakens him after midnight, with slow heavy wheezing breathing, compelling him to sit up with his chest bent forward. Oppressive pain in the chest as if full of wind, relieved by eructations. Stitches in the (left side of the) chest, with difficult breathing. Pain as from soreness in the chest. Pneumonia (hepatization of the inflamed lungs). Palpitation of the heart, with fainting and anxiety. Palpitation of the heart and choking from the slightest exertion. Rheumatism of the heart. Irregularity of the beats ; of the heart. Constrictive sensation in the region of the heart. Cough caused by pressure on the larynx, or by any covering of the throat ; by a tickling in the pit of the throat and sternum ; when falling asleep ; from ulcers in the throat. Cough, with rawness of the chest, difficult expectoration and pains in the throat, head and eyes. Frequent attacks of short cough from tickling in the pit of the stomach, dry during the night ; difficult sometimes watery salty mucus, which has to be swallowed again, is raised. The cough is worse, during the day, after sleeping, from changes in the temperature, from alcoholic drinks, from acids and sour drinks. Cough with hoarseness. -Diphtheria.

Pain in the small of back, with constipation, intermittent fever, palpitation of the heart or dyspnœa. Pain in the os coccygis, when sitting down one feels as if sitting on something sharp. Stiffness of the neck.

Upper. Lameness in the left shoulder. Pain in the right shoulder-joint with headache. Perspiration in the axillæ of strong smell (like garlic). Pains in the wrist-joints as if sprained. The hands go to sleep. Trembling of the hands (in drunkards). Tingling and pricking in the left hand. Swelling of the hands. Numbness on the tips of the fingers (morning). Stinging in the tips of the fingers. The hands are cold, as if dead. Lower. Uneasiness in the lower limbs. Trembling of the legs. Stinging in the knees. Sensation as if hot air were going through the knee-joints, which were shaky. The (left) knee feels as if sprained. Swelling of the knees. Caries of the tibia. Coldness of the feet. Swelling of the feet, worse after walking (during pregnancy). Tingling in the toes. Cracked skin between and on the toes, deep rhagades like cuts across the toes. Flat ulcers on the lower extremities, with blue or purple surroundings. Gangrenous ulcers on the legs (toes).

Tearing, pricking, and pulsating pains. Contractions of the muscles. The left side is principally affected (paralysis), (throat), (ovaries). Excessively cold and excessively warm weather causes great debility. Inclination to lie down and aversion to move.

Sleeplessness, especially before midnight. When falling asleep he is awakened by a tickling cough. Restless sleep, with many dreams and frequent waking. Sleeplessness in the evening with talkativeness.

Pulse small and weak, but accelerated unequal or intermittent, or alternately full and small. Chill, with chattering of the teeth. Chill ascending the back often on alternate days. Chill and heat alternating and changing localities. Heat, especially in the evening in the hands and feet. Burning in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet at night. Flushes of heat with great sensitiveness of the neck at night. Internal sensation of heat, with cold feet. Perspiration coloring the linen yellow red ; cold ; bloody. Intermittent fever, the paroxysms come on every spring, or after the suppression of the fever in the previous fall by quinine ; in the afternoon ; are accompanied by violent pain in the small of the back and limbs, oppression of the chest, violent headache with a red face and cold feet ; during the hot stage continuous talking ; face yellow or ashy. Typhus fever, especially when the tongue is red or black, dry or in fissures especially on the tip, or when the tongue trembles when it is put out, or if, while endeavoring to put it out, the tip remains under the lower teeth or lip and cannot be put out.

Itching. Erysipelas. Color of the skin bluish red (purple) or yellow (jaundice). Ulcers with great sensitiveness to the touch, uneven bottom, ichorous, offensive discharge, or burning when touched, especially around the lower extremities ; around the ulcer many small pimples or small ulcers on a purple skin. Carbuncles, with purple-colored surroundings and many smaller boils around them. Gangrenous ulcers. Gangrenous blisters. Purple spots. Small wounds bleed a good deal. Ulcers bleed readily. Cicatrices bleed readily. Pain in old cicatrices.

Exacerbation in the evening. Periodically (every spring, every fortnight), returning attacks (sore throat), (intermittent). All the symptoms are worse after sleep, especially after the siesta, or from taking acids, from alcoholic drinks, from the abuse of China and Mercury. After Lachesis, Lycopodium often follows well. Lachesis follows well after Arsenicum, Belladonna and Mercury.

Trigonocephalus lachesis. The Surukuku Snake of South America. N. O. Ophidia. Trituration. Dilution.

Albuminuria. Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Aneurism. Apoplexy. Appendicitis. Asthenopia. Asthma. Atheroma. Bedsores. Boils. Bubo. Cæcum, inflammation of. Carbuncle. Catalepsy . Chancre. Change of life . Chilblains. Ciliary neuralgia. Cough . Cyanosis. Delirium tremens. Diphtheria . Dog-bite. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Ears, polypus of; wax in; noises in. Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of ; hæmorrhage into. Fainting. Fistula lachrymalis. Flatulence . Fungus hæmatodes. Gall-stones. Gangrene. Glanders . Gums, bleeding of. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Hay fever. Headache. Heart, affections of . Heartburn. Hemiplegia. Hernia. Herpes facialis. Hoarseness. Hydrophobia . Hysteria. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Labour, pains after . Laryngismus. Laryngitis . Leprosy. Liver, affections of. Locomotor ataxy. Malignant pustule . Measles. Ménière's disease . Mercury, effects of. Mind, affections of. Morvan's disease . Mouth, sore. Mumps. Neuralgia. Neurasthenia . Noises in ears. Nymphomania. Œdema of lungs. Otorrhœa. Ovaries, affections of . Paralysis. Paraphimosis. Perityphilitis. Perspiration, bloody ; absent. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Plague . Pneumonia. Puerperal fever and convulsions. Purpura. Pyæmia . Quinsy. Rabies. Scarlatina . Sciatica. Scurvy. Small-pox. Stings . Strangury. Syphilis. Throat, sore. Trachea , affections of. Traumatic fever . Tumours. Ulcers. Veins, varicose . Vertigo. Vicarious menstruation (nosebleed). Warts. Whitlow. Wounds .

"The first trituration and first dilution in alcohol of the snake-poison Trigonocephalus lachesis was made by Hering on July 28, 1828. The first cases were published in the Archives in 1835. In 1837 this remedy was introduced into our materia medica." I quote from Hering's Guiding Symptoms , vol. vi., of which Lach . occupies nearly one hundred pages, and comprises the substance of a monograph he was compiling at the time of his death to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the remedy into the materia medica. To the genius and the heroism of Hering the world owes this remedy and many another of which this has been the forerunner. When Hering's first experiments were made he was botanising and zoologising on the Upper Amazon for the German Government. Except his wife, all those about him were natives, who told him so much about the dreaded Surukuku that he offered a good reward for a live specimen. At last one was brought in a bamboo box, and those who brought it immediately fled, and all his native servants with them. Hering stunned the snake with a blow on the head as the box opened, then, holding its head in a forked stick, he pressed its venom out of the poison bag upon sugar of milk. The effect of handling the virus and preparing the lower attenuations was to throw Hering into a fever with tossing delirium and mania — much to his wife's dismay. Towards morning he slept, and on waking his mind was clear. He drank a little water to moisten his throat, and the first question this indomitable prover asked was: "What did I do and say?" His wife remembered vividly enough. The symptoms were written down, and this was the first instalment of the proving of Lachesis . The natives crept back one by one next day, and were astonished to find Hering and his wife alive. The snake grows to seven feet and upwards in length, has fangs nearly an inch long, a reddish brown skin marked along the back with blackish brown rhomboidal spots. Nearly all the provings of Lachesis were made with the 30th and higher attenuations. — The four grand characteristics of Lach . are: ( 1 ) < By sleep. ( 2 ) Excessive sensitiveness of the surface with intolerance of touch or constriction. ( 3 ) Left-sidedness, and the direction left to right: symptoms begin on the left side and either remain there or proceed to the right. ( 4 ) > From the onset of a discharge. There is headache > as soon as nasal catarrh comes on. Uterine pains > as soon as menses appear. The other side of this is < from non-appearance of an expected discharge, and it is this which is the foundation of the appropriateness of Lach . to the climacteric state. Wherever one or more of these features is prominent in any case Lach . will most likely prove the remedy. Homœopathic literature abounds with illustrations of the first named — < from sleep. I will take an illustration from Nash: An old syphilitic suffered from obstinate constipation, and was taken with severe attacks of colic. The pains seemed to extend all through the abdomen, and always came on at night. The man was not making any progress, when one day he remarked to Nash, "Doctor, if I could only keep awake I would never have another attack." And in response to an inquiring look from the doctor, he added, "I mean that I sleep into the attack and waken in it." He never had another. One dose of Lach . 200 cured the colic and the constipation too. "Sleeps into an aggravation;" " < after sleep whether by day or by night;" "as soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops " — there are endless varieties of forms in which this peculiarity may be met with. < By closing the eyes (vertigo) is allied to this. But the presence of the opposite condition > after sleep) does not necessarily contraindicate Lach . Rushmore ( H. P ., xii. 64) cured with Lach . c.m. a married woman who had been a great sufferer from headache, which always began with dim and aching eyes. The pain was of sharp, neuralgic character, in temples and eyes, < right side. If she could not be still with it she had nausea and very bitter vomiting. Sometimes unable to be still a minute, at others could not stir. Brought on by least fatigue. Keeps her in bed all day, and one attack is scarcely over before another comes on. Mental excitement, as receiving a call; induces it. With the headaches she is very cold; and with and after them has a very bitter mouth. Wants to close the eyes with the headache, which is > by sleep . Smarting in eyeballs and dim vision for several days after headache. During the headache much heart trouble; after the headache "skipping beats," soreness about head, pain in side. Loss of appetite after headache. Menses regular, painless, too free. Leucorrhœa many ears. A single dose of Lach . was given at the time, and the severe headache left on the way home. A constant light headache, with heaviness of head in morning, remained some days; but, without repetition, the remedy completely cured the headaches and the heart trouble as well. The hæmorrhages of Lach . have this peculiarity — they contain flakes of decomposed blood looking like charred wheat straw. Uterine hæmorrhage and hæmorrhages in typhoid fever presenting these characters will find their remedy in Lach . The sensitiveness to contact of Lach . is not so much on account of pain or aggravation of pain as on account of the uneasiness it causes. In uterine affections the patient wants to lift the clothes up to prevent contact with lower abdomen. Touching the throat in laryngeal affections causes suffocative spasms. A minor characteristic of Lach . is pain in the shin bones. "Much pain in shin bones of an aching kind only." This has been frequently verified, but W. J. Guernsey ( H. P ., x. 476) has pointed out Rat when such pains occur concomitantly with throat affections, Lach . is specific. This I have confirmed. Guernsey remarks that in such cases it will always be found that the throat affection is < on left side or commenced on left side. According to Hering, Lach. is particularly suitable to those of melancholic disposition (Such provers showed most symptoms); next, to choleric individuals. Phlegmatic and lymphatic persons are also suitable, but principally when their dispositions border on the melancholic , with dark eyes and tendency to laziness and sadness. Lach . does not suit sanguine persons with high colour, fine, delicate skins, and impressible natures, unless the disease should have imparted to their disposition a choleric or melancholy tinge. Lach . especially suits choleric women with freckles and red hair. To this list must be added: Persons who have peculiar sensitiveness of the surface of the body. Women who "have never been well since the change of life." Debilitated, weakened persons. Thin rather than fat persons; persons who have been changed both mentally and physically by their illness. Drunkards. Sufferers from effect of masturbation. Persons who have been overdosed with Mercury; and to syphilitic, mercurial affections. Children and old people. Persons who cannot stand the sun and who are < in summer weather. A patient of mine, a tall, broad-shouldered, very nervous man of forty-seven, who had fled from the Cape as he could not bear the summer there, sent for me to see him at his hotel because he did not dare venture out in the middle of the day for fear of being caught in the sun. Lach . 200 soon enabled him to attend garden parties. The delirium of Lach . is of the low, muttering type; at times the patient sinks into a torpid state, with cold extremities, tremor of body and hands, tremor of tongue. Tremor of tongue is a leading feature of many Lach . states. It not only trembles, but it catches in the teeth or lower lip when the patient attempts to put it out. The mind is profoundly disturbed. There are rapidly alternating states: exalted powers, rapid succession of ideas; and again there is weak memory; frequent mistakes in writing; confusion. " Frantic loquacity , jumps from one subject to another," is a strong characteristic; "talks, sings, or whistles constantly; makes odd motions with arms"; "insane jealousy"; "intense sadness and anxiety"; "irritable, irascible, peevish, malicious." A curious symptom in the mental sphere is a derangement of the time sense . It occurs also in Merc . (to which Lach . is an antidote); but is more prominent in Lach ., when a patient is always making mistakes in the time of day, and confounds the morning hours with the evening hours, Lach . will generally put this right, if it does no more. Fainting fits and vertigo on closing eyes; on looking intently at any object; in morning on waking. Rush of blood to head. Sun-headaches. Headache with very pale face. Throbbing headaches in temple, with heat of head. Headache extending into nose; > when nasal catarrh comes on. A woman, forty-four, to whom I gave Lach . 12 for a poisoned finger, experienced after each dose a sensation "as if a hand were in her head, moving and squeezing," an eruption of spots came out, and she felt as if she had no energy. The finger healed, but when she left off the medicine on account of the head pains, the finger became worse with cramping pains and a feeling of pins and needles. There is intense nervous irritability, restless, tossing, moving; nervous exaltation, hysteria. Trembling in whole body, thinks she will faint or sink down from weakness. Convulsions, spasms. Cases of hydrophobia have been cured with Lach ., the thirst, spasms, sensitiveness and nervous prostration closely corresponding to the symptoms of rabies. Fainting accompanying other complaints is an indication for Lach .: with pain at heart; with nausea; with vertigo and pale face. Catalepsy. Awkward gait; left side weak. Gressus gallinaceus. Disturbances of sight and hearing are numerous. I have frequently cured with it noises in the ears when < after sleep. In hay fever it is the remedy when there is headache extending into nose < on suppression of the discharge, which may occur in sleep; or when the paroxysms are < after sleep. Sore nostrils and lips. Pus and blood from nose. Red nose of drunkards. Dark red eruptions; purplish swellings; black and blue spots are characteristic of Lach . Ulcer sensitive to least touch. Small ulcers surrounding larger. The throat is in an especial degree the seat of the Lach . action. Sore throats of almost all descriptions come within its range, provided some of the characteristics are present: < after sleep; by touch; symptoms < left side or proceeding from left to right; cannot bear any pressure about neck ; empty swallowing is agonising, liquids are swallowed with less pain and solids with least pain. Diphtheria, mercurial and syphilitic sore throat. Fetid breath. The prostration is out of all proportion to the appearance of the throat. — Lach . has sinking at the stomach, and cannot go long without food. Unquenchable thirst. Desires: oysters, wine, coffee (coffee agrees). Symptoms are > after eating, especially after fruit. The throat symptoms are < by hot drinks. Nausea always after drinking. Everything sours; heartburn. Alcoholic drinks < (except the immediate effects of the bite). Although Lach . is a left-side medicine, it has a powerful action on the liver as well as the spleen. "Acute pain in liver extending towards stomach," though contrary to the general "left to right" direction, is characteristic, as I can testify. Lach . is also one of the most prominent remedies in appendicitis. The general characteristics will guide here. Bubos. Lach . and Naja have had the greatest success of all homœopathic remedies in the recent epidemics of Plague in India. The bladder and rectum are most painfully affected. There is a very characteristic symptom in the bladder: Sensation as if a ball were rolling loose in the bladder or abdomen on turning over. The urine is almost black; frequent; foaming; dark. ("The patient always has to urinate after lying down, day or night, especially after sleep; more frequent in the night. Urine has little black spots or flakes like soot floating in it." — H. N. Martin.) Stitches in kidneys. The ball sensation occurs elsewhere: as if a ball, or lump, or button in throat; as if two balls threatened to close the throat; as if a ball rose from abdomen to throat; as if a plug were in anus. Many severe and characteristic symptoms appear in rectum and anus. Diarrhœa of fetid, cadaverous kind and also constipation. Atony of rectum. Painful hæmorrhoids. Visible spasmodic tenesmus in paroxysms, from two to five minutes, extorting cries; passes blood and mucus. Painful constriction of anus followed by collapse. Hæmorrhoids with scanty menses. Burning in rectum. Stitch in rectum (upwards) when coughing or sneezing. Full feeling in rectum, and sensation as of little hammers beating. Tugging upward sensation as from a mouse. Both ovaries are affected, but principally the left; swelling, induration, tumours. Menses regular but scanty; pains > when flow is established. In a case of mine, Lach . 12 postponed menses for a week. Many symptoms occur in connection with menses. The breasts are affected. I have seen most obstinate and distressing eruptions appear on the nipples and areolæ of a middle-aged woman after a dose of Lach . in high potency. Cancer of the breast when assuming a bluish appearance will be helped by Lach . Lochia are thin, ichorous, insufficient. Milk thin, blue, nipples extremely sensitive to touch. In the respiratory sphere the sensitiveness of the parts to touch, constriction, and < by anything tight round neck, are the ruling conditions. Tickling, irritating cough. The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing. Sleeps into an attack of asthma. Threatened paralysis of lungs. The heart feels too large — cramp-like pain in precordia. Constriction. Palpitation with numbness down arm. Cyanosis. Varicosis. Peculiar sensations of Lach . (in addition to those already mentioned) are: As if frightened by visions behind him; as if knives were being thrust into brow; as if tongue bound or tied up; as if a part of right-side of head cut away; as if a thread was drawn from behind to eye; stitches as from knives in eyes; eyes as if they had been taken out, squeezed and put back; ears as if closed from within; as if stuffed up as if insects whizzing in ears; as if he had a moustache of ice as if a small crumb lodged in throat; as if he had had a blow on neck; as if a stricture in rectum. As if heart hanging by a thread and every beat would tear it off; as though heart turned over and ceased beating for a moment; as if heart hadn't room to beat. As if neck constricted with a cord. ( Lach . is one of the remedies for "gridle pain") as if burnt or scalded in different parts (tongue, tibia, hypogastrium). Burning sensation and pains are a leading feature throughout this remedy. Lach . is called for in many kinds of fever, particularly intermittents after abuse of Quinine . The symptoms of Lach . are < in spring or summer; from extremes of temperature; from sun's rays; change of weather, especially in a warm spell. Must have open air, which > ; but draughts of air < External warmth > (wants head closely wrapped up); hot drinks < thirst; = toothache and bleeding of gums. Cold weather, cold washing < . Most symptoms appear or are < at night and in early morning after sleep. Lying down > pain in head; < vertigo, throat, cough, breathing. Lying right side > earache in right ear; palpitation. Lying left side = pain in heart. > Sitting bent. < Standing or stooping. < Motion generally. < Contact. < Constriction. Swallowing = stitches into ears. > By discharges.

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Lachesis. (Lachesis Mutus.)

Loss of consciousness.
Weakness of memory ; makes mistakes in writing ; confusion as to time.
Great dulness of mind with bodily weakness. θ Typhus.
Mind confused and wandering. θ Diphtheria.
Quick comprehension ; mental activity, with almost prophetical perception ; ecstasy ; a kind of trance.
No sooner does one idea occur to him, than a number of others follow in quick succession while he is writing.
Visions and delirious talk as soon as he shuts eyes ; < noon till midnight.
Thinks : she is somebody else and in the hands of a stronger power ; she is dead, and preparations are made for funeral, or that she is nearly dead and wishes some one would help her off ; herself pursued by enemies, or fears medicine is poison ; there are robbers in
house and wants to jump out of window ; herself under super-human control ; visions real ; he will die.
Imagines he is followed by enemies who are trying to harm him ; attempts to leave room as if frightened by visions behind him. θ Fistula.
Delirium at night, muttering, drowsy, red face ; slow, difficult speech and dropped jaw.
Violent delirium especially after sleeping. θ Typhoid.
Delirium ; fears she will be damned.
Constant delirium which changes rapidly from one subject to another. θ Diphtheria.
Delirium from overwatching, overfatigue ; loss of fluids ; excessive study.
Delirium tremens, attacks come most in afternoon, or after sleep ; loquacious, jumps from subject to subject, cannot bear shirt or neckband to touch throat.
Most extraordinary loquacity, making speeches in very select phrases, but jumping off to most heterogeneous subjects ; at same time proud, full of mistrust. θ Mania.
Religious monomania, fear of being damned.
One word often leads into midst of another story.
Insane jealousy.
His mind is disturbed before the attack. θ Epilepsy.
After operation for fistula in ano, complained of his head, particularly pain in left temple and occiput ; aching pain in lumbar region ; came home from work dizzy, faint and nauseated ; talked incoherently, talked as it were in a strange language ; since then quite
without mind ; will frequently cry and whine, then laugh in silliest manner ; does not sleep at night ; sleeps only a minute or two at a time during day ; is often violent, only with difficulty can be kept in bed ; endeavors to climb up bedpost ; has an idiotic
expression ; articulation imperfect ; tongue lolling about in mouth ; eyes rolling vacantly ; frequently rises, with great effort and awkwardness ; body when standing bends toward left, must be supported ; drags his feet in walking, direction of steps toward
left ; entirely unable to feed himself ; seems indifferent to food ; imagines he is followed by enemies who are trying to harm him ; attempts to leave room as if frightened by visions behind him. θ Mental
disorder.
She is tempted to commit suicide. θ Mania.
Loquacity ; much rapid talking ; wants to talk all the time. θ Fevers.
Inclination to be communicative ; vivid imagination ; extremely impatient at tedious and dry things.
Is morbidly talkative and gives a rambling account of her ailments.
Jealousy, with frightful images, great tendency to mock, to satire and ridiculous ideas.
Exceptional loquacity with rapid change of subject ; jumps abruptly from one idea to another.
Talks, sings or whistles constantly ; makes odd motions with arm. θ Diphtheria.
Violent laughing for one hour ; dyspnœa.
Undertakes many things, perseveres in nothing.
Disinclined to his own proper work ; complains of trifles.
Aversion of woman to marry.
(In sick :) Perfect happiness and cheerfulness, followed by gradual fading of spirituality ; want of self control ; lascivious ; felt as if she was clear animal right through, whilst all mental power was dormant ; sensation as if in hands of stronger
power, as if charmed, and as if she could not break the spell.
Quiet, sorrowful, lowness of spirits, > by sighing ; repugnance to society and dislike to talk ; solicitude about future, with disgust for life ; inclination to doubt everything ; mistrusts and misconstrues ; indolence ; aversion
to every kind of labor and motion. θ Melancholia.
Feels extremely sad, unhappy and distressed in mind on waking in morning.
Sad ; loathing of life ; suspicious and peevish ; moaning and complaining ; skin shriveled and livid ; nose, ears and forehead cold ; as soon as he shuts his eyes he is delirious. θ Traumatic
delirium.
Fainting fits with great and almost unconquerable sadness and gloom ; dreads society ; persistent constipation with sensation as though anus was closed.
Great sadness and anxiety, < in morning on awaking.
Weak and unhappy, particularly in morning, when she feels, on awaking, friendless and forsaken ; same symptoms if she awakens at night ; appetite poor ; constipated ; feeling of constriction of anus ; urine scanty and dark
colored ; has had domestic troubles. θ Melancholia.
Hopelessness.
Dread of death, fears to go to bed ; fears of being poisoned.
Discouraged, loathing life. θ Melancholy after confinement.
Weary of life, looks at everything from dark side ; < morning, > through day ; least noise disturbs sleep.
Satiety of life with longing for death.
She is tormented by idea that her better principles might be overcome by irresistible desire to suicide. θ Mania.
Voluptuous, irritated state, fights it. θ Epilepsy.
Amorousness ; amativeness.
Great sensitiveness and anxiety. θ Liver complaint.
Irritability ; ill humor ; sensitive disposition.
Peevish, disposed to be morose or quarrelsome.
Proud ; jealous, suspicious ; developing into mania.
Malice ; thinks only of mischief.
Sensitiveness, or general aggravation after mental exertion.
A girl, after excessive study, uses exalted language ; exceedingly particular about language she uses, often correcting herself after using a word, and substituting another of very similar meaning ; talks about being under influence of a superior power. θ Mania.
Nightly attacks of anxiety ; afraid of cholera, gets cramps in calves from fear ; nausea, heavy feeling in abdomen, rolling in umbilical region.
Chronic complaints after long lasting grief or sorrow.
After domestic calamity ; sleepless, or, when overcome by exhaustion, short naps disturbed by frightful dreams ; springing up in bed with terror, and suffocation of chest and palpitation ; irritability alternating with loquacious
delirium ; nightly hallucinations causing mental suffering ; conscious of her state. θ Mental disturbance.
Mental derangement after vexation.
Ailments from fright, disappointed love or jealousy.
After a jealous quarrel, she put both hands to her chest and cried out "Oh! my heart!" then fell down and was in an asphyctic state for nearly twenty-four hours ; no pulse could be felt, breathing hardly perceptible ; lay on her back.

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Lachesis is a frequently indicated remedy, and one that you will need to study much in order to know how to use. Lachesis seems to fit the whole human race, for the race is pretty well filled up with snake as to disposition and character and this venom only causes to appear that which is in man.

We will first give a survey or the general symptoms, those which characterize the remedy and are of greatest importance, and the circumstances under which the symptoms appear, are brought out or are aggravated.

One who is a constitutional Lachesis patient will find himself suffering from an aggravation of his symptoms in the Spring, when he goes out from the cold weather into the milder weather, and especially is that so if it mild and rainy, or cloudy weather. Or if he goes from a cold into a warmer climate the symptoms of Lachesis will come out. The warm south winds excite the Lachesis symptoms.

The symptoms of Lachesis are worse on entering sleep. He may have felt nothing of his symptoms when awake, but when sleep comes on they are aroused, and they gradually increase as the sleep is prolonged, so that a very long sleep will aggravate all the state and condition of a Lachesis patient, and when awakening from sleep he looks back on that sleep with sorrow.

The sleep has been disturbed by attacks of suffocation and by awful dreams, and now, after having slept a long time, he arouses with dreadful headaches, with palpitation, with melancholy, with sorrows from head to foot. His body is full of suffering and his mind sees no brightness in anything.

There is a cloudy state, sadness, melancholy, insane notions, whims, jealousy and suspicion. When taking a warm bath, or applying warm water to places that are inflamed, his mental symptoms are aggravated. After a warm bath or after getting warmed up, or, if he becomes chilled from being out on a cold day and then goes into a warm room, the symptoms come on. After going into a warm bath, palpitation comes on; it seems as if his head would burst, his feet become cold, and he is shocked all over, pulsation all over, or feeble heart. Fainting in a warm bath. Girls sometimes faint when going into a warm bath. The patient may be cold and chilly yet the warm room increases or brings out the symptoms.

The general aspect of the patient and the localities will point some times to Lachesis. Upon the face there is an appearance of anxiety, of unrest and distress. The face is spotted or purple and the eyes are engorged. The eyes look suspicious. If there is an inflamed spot, it is purple. If there is an inflamed gland, and Lachesis is full of inflammation of the glands and cellular tissues, there is a purple or mottled appearance.

If there is an ulceration the ulceration bleeds black blood, which soon coagulates and looks like charred straw. From the wounds there is much bleeding. Small wounds bleed much like Phosphorus and Kreosote. A prick of a pin will ooze great drops of blood. Ulcers eat in, have false granulations, are putrid, bleed easily, and the blood is black, and all round the ulceration there is a purple, mottled appearance, looking as if about to become gangrenous.

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Persons of a choleric, melancholy temperament, dark eyes and a disposition to low spirits and indolence.

Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair.

Better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fleshy persons; to those who have been changed both mentally and physically by their illness.

Climacteric ailments: hemorrhoids, hemorrhages, hot flushes, hot sweats; burning vertex headaches; especially at or after the menopause (Sang.).

Ailments from long-lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Phos. ac.).

Women who have not recovered from the change of life, "have never felt well since that time."

Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temple < from motion, pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep; dreads to go to sleep because she wakens with such a headache.

Rush of blood to head: after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed or irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy.

Weight and pressure on vertex (Sep.); like lead, in occiput (Petr.).

Drunkards: with congestive headaches or hemorrhoids; prone to erysipelas or apoplexy.

Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go to the right side—ovary, testicle, chest, face, throat.

Great sensitiveness to touch, throat, stomach, abdomen; can bear nothing tight around the neck or waist; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, not because sore or tender as in Apis or Belladonna, but the clothes cause an uneasiness (Agar.).

Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility.

All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into the aggravation; unhappy, distressed, anxious, sad, < in morning on waking.

Mental excitability: ecstacy, with almost prophetic perceptions; with a vivid imagination; great loquacity (Agar., Stram.); wants to talk all the time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another story.

Constipation: inactivity, stool lies in rectum, without urging; sensation of constriction of sphincter (Caust., Nit. ac.).

Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses (Zinc.).

Piles: with scanty menses; at climaxsis; strangulated; with stitches shooting upward (Nit. ac.).

The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing; wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo v.).

As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops (Am. c., Grind., Lac c., Op.).

Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body, would constantly sink from weakness; worse in the morning (Sulph., Tub.).

Epilepsy: comes on during sleep (Bufo); from loss of vital fluids, onanism, jealousy; during menses (Ced.).

Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed easily and profusely (Crot., Kreos., Phos.); blood dark, non-coagulable (Crot., Sec.); typhoid, yellow fever, great prostration (Kreos.).

Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with intense pain (Tar.); malignant pustules; decubitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to malignancy.

Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem (Pyr.).

Complementary: Lycopodium, Nitric acid.

Natrum mur. follows well when type of fever changes.

After sleeping; from acids, alcohol, cinchona, mercury; contact; morning and evening; extremes of temperature; in the sun; spring; summer.

Warmth.

Periodicity strongly marked. 12 M. to 2 P. M. Afternoon or evening chill; fever lasting all night.

Quotidian; tertian; quartan; malarial; typhoid, typhus, septic, yellow fever. Every fourteen days.

Annually returning paroxysm every spring (Carbo v., Ign., Sul.), after suppression by quinine the previous autumn. This is guiding.

Especially useful when paroxysms of fever are sure to return after taking acids, or in the spring after quinine.

Thirst, then shuddering (shuddering after drinking, Caps.).

Without thirst; commencing in the small of the back (Eup. purp.), runs up the back to the head (Gels.), less- ened in a warm room. Violent chill in the evening, with chatter-ing of the teeth, soreness of chest, and longing for the fire. Wants to be near the fire and lie down; heat makes him feel better, but his chill continues as long as if he were in bed (heat of stove > the chill. Chill does not amount to much; if he can sit near a hot stove he gets warm, Ign.). Pain in the limbs; pleuritic stitches, oppression of the chest; convulsive movements, and in children, convulsions. Child must be held firm to relieve the pain in head and chest, and prevent shaking (Gels.). If held firm or pressed down, feels relieved. "A lady wanted her daughter to lie with her full weight across her during chill; a boy wanted a sack of flour put on him to keep him from shaking." Chill and heat alternating and changing from place to place. Nausea and vomiting accompany paroxysm when severe, with some thirst. Coldness in one side of the head. Icy cold feet, with oppression of the chest. After icy cold calves, shaking chill with warm sweat; then strumming through the limbs, intermingled with flushes of heat.

With thirst; violent headache; livid complexion; oppression of the chest; backache, deep breathing and sleep; or great loquacity (Mar. v.—during chill and heat, Pod.). Violent fever every evening, with loss of appetite and headache; internal chill, external heat; in the evening great febrile heat which lasted all night. Heat in the evening, with red spots on the cheeks. Internal sensation of heat with cold feet. Burning in the palms and soles, evening and night, must be uncovered (Acon., Sec.). Heat in ears. face, abdomen, pit of stomach, alternating with coldness, with shivering when lifting the bedclothes (Nux). Flushes of heat as from orgasm of the blood, with great sensitiveness of throat at night.

Profuse sweat, which affords relief, or light, warm, transient sweat. Perspiration between the paroxysms of fever; on the back which stains sulphur-yellow. Strong-smelling perspiration in axilla, smelling like garlic (sweat in axilla, like onions, Bov.). Sweat cold; stains yellow; or bloody, staining red.

Trembles when protruded; or catches behind the teeth; mapped, coated white, or dry, red tip and brown centre. Sour taste, everything turns sour (everything bitter, Ipec.).

Palpitation; can bear no pressure on throat or chest. Pulse weak and small, or full and small alternately, but accelerated; intermittent; unequal. The least movement causes feeling of suffocation around the heart.

Complete remission of all the symptoms; complexion livid, yellow, or ashy, often with vermillion redness of the cheeks; great weakness of the whole body in the morning on rising, especially of the extremities.

"Intermittent fever: the paroxysms come on every spring, or after the suppression of the fever in the previous fall by Quinine; occur in the afternoon; are accompanied by violent pain in the small of the back and limbs, oppression of the chest, violent headache, with a red face and cold feet; during the hot stage continuous talking; face yellow or ash-colored."—LIPPE.

Chill; commencing in the small of the back; longing for the fire, heat >; wants to be held firmly to > chill and prevent shaking.

Heat; headache, face livid, or vermillion red cheeks, oppressed breathing; great loquacity or sleep.

Sweat; profuse which >; cold, stains yellow, bloody.

Fever: Septic, typhoid, typhus, yellow; stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding; conjunctiva yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody (Crot., Lyc.).

Thinks herself under superhuman control.
Complete insensibility.
Memory weak, makes mistakes in orthography.
Quick comprehension; mental excitability, with almost prophetic perceptions; ecstasy.
Delirium, fears she will be damned.
Delirium at night, muttering, drowsy, red face; or slow, difficult speech and dropped jaw.
Mania, with great loquacity, frequently jumping from one subject to another.
Mania after overstudying.
Delirium tremens, worse after sleep; cannot bear pressure of neckcloth; loquacious.
Delirium from overwatching, overfatigue; loss of fluids; excessive study.
Thinks she is dead, and that preparations are being made for her funeral; thinks herself pursued by enemies; fears the medicine is poison.
Loquacity, with mocking jealousy; frightful images.
Talks, sings, whistles, makes odd motions.
Proud; jealous, suspicious.
Peevish, disposed to be morose or to quarrel.
Suicidal mood, tired to life.
Great sadness and anxiety, worse in morning on awakening.
Dread of death, fears to go to bed.
Fears being poisoned.

Vertigo: from looking at one and the same object; from walking in the open air (at climaxis); from suppressed erysipelas; with pale face; migraine.
Head heavy like lead, worse about occiput, with vertigo.
Rush of blood to the head, after spirituous liquors; from suppressed or irregular menses.
Blowing expiration, cannot bear neck touched; left-sided apoplexy, especially if after mental emotions, or abuse of alcohol.
Severe pains all over the head, so giddy he could not stand; could not see the letters, fell against the wall.

Frontal headache, faint on rising.
Headache over eyes and in occiput, morning, on rising.
Pressing, bursting pains in temples, better when lying down.
Temporal nerves pain, vertigo, pale face; throbbing temples.
One-sided headache; pains intense, extend to neck and shoulders, with stiff neck; paralytic tongue.
Tearing on top of head from within outward. See face.
Weight and pressure on the vertex.
Burning of the vertex, at the menopause.
Beating headache with heat, worse on the vertex and right side, or over the eyes, preceding a cold in the head, with stiff neck.
Feeling in back of head as if pressed asunder.
Headache in the sun, glimmering sight.
Throbbing in the head from least movement; congestion.

Purplish swelling; delirious talk when closing the eyes. θ Erysipelas.
Tumors which perforate the skull.
Hair falls off, worse during pregnancy; averse to sun's rays.

Oversensitive to light.
Amblyopia, with lung or heart affections.
Feels, when throat is pressed, as if eyes were forced out.
Whites of the eyes yellow.
Redness of the eyes.
Retinitis apoplectica.
Ulcers on the cornea.
Severe pain in and above the eyes.

Sensitiveness to sounds; rushing and thundering in the ears.
Hardness of hearing, with want of wax; dryness in the ears; numbness about the ear and cheek (left).
Ear-wax too hard, pale, and insufficient.

Nosebleed, dark; with amenorrhœa; typhus, etc.; blowing of blood, mostly in the morning.
Coryza preceded by headache; discharge watery with red nostrils, herpes on the lips.
Relieves paroxysms of sneezing in hay asthma.
Nasal mucous membrane swollen; sneezing.
Pus and blood from the nose.
Vesicular eruption about the nose.
Nose red externally; nose filled with scabs; discharge of pus and blood; mercurio-syphilis; also in drunkards.

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The venom of the Trigonocephalus Lachesis, L., is triturated.

Like all the serpent-venoms its action is directly upon the blood, destroying its vitality and inducing a great variety of disorders characterized by disintegration of tissue. ▶ The nervous phenomena by Lachesis are peculiar and characteristic. ▶ Note particularly the universal distress which increases during sleep and wakes the sufferer in agony and fright, also the extreme sensitiveness of affected parts (out of proportion to the severity of the disease).

It is not to be compared with any other substance, except, in a very general way, with the serpent-poisons.

▶ Emaciation, with suffering and weakness. ▶ Audible beating of carotids and feeling of throbbing in chest and abdomen. ▶ Stretching after breakfast. ▶ Trembling as from anxiety, without anxiety (Arg. nit., Cimicif., Gels.); sensation of faintlike T. jerking; sudden, of whole body when sitting, starting from below. ▶ Limbs stiffly outstretched, head bent back, eyes distorted. ▶ Fell unconscious to the ground as if struck by lightning, had an involuntary stool and vomited.

Stitches in various parts; S. over whole body, loins, face, agg. night; deep in flesh, extending outward through skin; in neck, back, right arm, with feeling as if right arm were asleep and itching of arms, hips and lower limbs. ▶ Tearing in flesh, now here, now there, afterwards here and there in the body. ▶ Sharp pains, agg. forenoon, in temples, jaws and eyes, with sticking from head of towards eyes, nose and temples, eyes swollen, agg. afternoon, running of cold water from left eye and nostril, redness of left eye, the swelling gradually extended over the whole face so that the eyes were closed (Apis), face pale and itching, also head and whole body, agg. afternoon and evening, amel. night.

In evening on lying down alternations of headache, hoarseness, tickling in throat and violent cough, with frequent pains in limbs and other parts. ▶ Pain in left shoulder and in forepart of left foot, then in left knee, wrist and shoulder, then in right limb, arm and teeth; in left arm and elbow side and hand, next day in right side, in neck, elbow, lower extremity and shoulder; in evening when sitting, above left knee, then below it, extending to foot, then in right arm and right ear; here and there when coughing. ▶ Pressure on right eye and on right side of forehead, then in left temple, then on right side of face, as if in an upper tooth, then in left leg and foot in the evening. ▶ Rheumatic pain in left side, then in right, and frequently alternating, at times from right to left and back again, always in different places, in shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, lower limbs, knee, calf, foot and teeth. ▶ Bruised feeling all day; in morning after waking; after midday nap, also with pains in loins, between shoulders and in spine; always after sleep, with stiffness.

Drawing, jerking tension in bones of skull and cheeks and lower jaw. ▶ Intolerance of slightest touch, it almost puts him into a rage. ▶ Longing to get into the open air. ▶ Restlessness driving him into the open air. ▶ Necessity to do everything very rapidly, he bolts his food and afterwards cannot remain sitting. ▶ Inclination to lie down; in morning and forenoon; agg. eating. ▶ Indolence after eating. ▶ Feeling as if the body were overwhelmed by a disintegrating tendency, with sinking of all forces. ▶ Aversion to motion.

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Emaciation, with weakness, trembling.
Tremblings or jerkings, with faintness, sudden.
Convulsive attacks, seeming to begin in the lower extremities.
Swelling, especially of the upper part of the body, head and throat.
Pains extend from left to right.
General intolerance of the slightest touch.
General aggravation from sleeping.
General tendency to suppurations, gangrenous degeneration, abscesses, offensive discharges or exhalations.

Loquacity.
Mental confusion or alienation; tries to escape, with loquacity.
Suffocative feeling about the throat, etc.
Muttering delirium.
Insane jealousy.

Clinical:
Dementia, with loquacity.
Religious melancholia.
Effects of lasting sorrow.

Pain, extending into the nose, with vertigo; flickering before the eyes.
Bursting or throbbing pain in the temples, with heat, < motion.
Pain like a rush of blood to the head, with heat.
Vertigo in the morning on waking, < closing the eyes.
Biting pain on the vertex, with weight and pressure, < the sun.
Pain, extending from the right side of the head into the neck and shoulders, with tension of muscles.
A leaden heaviness in the occiput in the morning on waking; can hardly raise the head, with vertigo.
General amelioration from warm applications, aggravation on rising in the morning.
Headache worse on the right side.

Sticking, drawing pain, extending to the vertex.
Lachrymation.
Eyes feel pressed out.
Vision dim, with black flickering.
Flickering, with apparent congestion of the head.
Blue ring around the light, with fiery rays.

Clinical:
Neuralgia of the orbit.
Cellulitis of orbit.
Hæmorrhage of the retina and optic nerve.
Asthenopia from paralysis of accommodation.

Pain in the ear (particularly left), with sore throat.
Difficult hearing, with dryness in the ears as from lack of wax.

Catarrh, with soreness, obstruction, headache, fluent coryza, preceded by headache, with sore throat.
Nose-bleed thick, dark.

Swelling (erysipelatous).
Tearing pains in zygoma, extending to ear.

Periodic toothache, always after waking, after eating, from warm and cold drinks, extending through jaw to ear.
Teeth feel too long when biting.
Gums swollen, spongy, bleeding.
Tongue dry, red, tremulous; blisters on the tip; aphthæ.
Aphthæ of the mouth, with burning pain, soreness and dryness.
Speech stammering.
Saliva abundant, tenacious.

Throat and neck swollen, extremely sensitive to the slightest touch, cannot bear any tight band around it.
Fauces purplish, swollen, ulcerated, uvula elongated, a feeling of a lump in the throat, especially of pain on the left side, extending to ear.
Most severe and malignant inflammation of the throat (diphtheritic), with internal swelling and sensitiveness.
Sensation of a crumb sticking in the throat.
Swallowing difficult, especially of liquids; they regurgitate through the nose.
Throat externally swollen and very sensitive, not only the sides, but in front as far down as the pit of the throat.

Appetite increased; longing for oysters.
Insatiable thirst; aggravation from alcohol and from acids.
Can bear nothing tight over the stomach; must loosen clothes.
Sticking pains, extending to the chest.
Pressure after eating and general weakness.

Distention and soreness; cannot bear the weight of the clothes, or of the hand.
Violent pain under the right hypochondrium (with inflammation and frequent abscess in liver).
Tearing pains in the right side.

Throbbing or beating as with hammers in the anus.
Protrusion after stool, followed by painful constriction.
Stool lies close to anus, but does not pass without urging.
Diarrhœa watery, with burning; soft, bright yellow, very offensive; pasty; bright yellow.

Clinical:
Hæmorrhage from the bowels of putrid, decomposed blood.
Diarrhœa in hot weather or in low types of disease.

Frequent micturition.
Urine, strong odor, dark, blackish.

Clinical:
Gangrenous ulcers on genitals.
Dysmenorrhœa, with pain shooting upward in left ovary; great sensitiveness.
Suppressed menstruation, metritis, fetid lochia.
Climacteric troubles.

Larynx painful to touch or on bending head backward.
Hoarseness, constant hawking; cough, with efforts to expectorate.
Cough from pressure on the larynx in evening; during sleep; from smoking.
Cough dry, hacking.
Constantly obliged to take a deep breath.
Sense of suffocation in the larynx, with suffocative fullness in chest; can bear nothing tight; must sit up.
Pain on coughing, from larynx to left ear.
Pain in the left side of chest, extending upward.

Cramp-like pain in the region of the heart, palpitation and anxiety.
Constriction of heart.
Intolerance of pressure over heart (with pain and numbness of left arm).

Nape sensitive to pressure; stiff.
Swelling of glands.
Drawing in the back, extend to hips or up back.
Pains in the coccyx, extending into legs, < rising up.

Weakness of the arms so that they can scarcely be raised.
Pains in left arm particularly, seeming to come from left side of chest.
Weakness of lower extremities.
Sciatica.

Erysipelatous eruptions.
Sore places become gangrenous.
Ecchymoses.
Indolent ulcers, carbuncles.
Pustular eruptions become black.
General tendency to sub-cutaneous decomposition.

Troubles become worse during sleep, until the patient wakes in fright or in distress.

Coldness.
Chill begins in the back.
Heat as from surging of blood; must loosen the clothes, with suffocation.

Lach. / (2d L.) / Lackey.

Lachesis,-to thee we turn
When a blueness we discern
In affected parts; and when
Tenderness to touch we ken,
And distress from pressure on
Throat or womb or abdomen.
When we find with jealousy,
Proneness to loquacity.
Vertigo and aching head,
In the morning when in bed.
Sight beset with flickering haze,
Rings of blue and zigzag rays.
Earache whilst the throat is sore;
Toothache-after sleeping more.
Trembling tongue, in typhoid state,
Dry and black with sense of weight.
Throat inflammed, with choking, much
Worse by pressure and by touch.
Soreness moving left to right
(Lycopodium opposite).
In the empty stomach, aching,
Better after victuals taking.
In the anus urging, beating,
Burning piles, and stitches meeting.
Urine colored black and brown,
In the womb a bearing down
pain, relieved by flowing rife,
Or distress at change of like.
When occurreth smothering spells
Whilst asleep, the rest repels.
When the heart, a tight sensation
Feels, with pain, and palpitation.
When the skin show pimples blue,
Boils and ulcers similar hue.
Fungoid growth in sores obtain,
Wounds once healed break out again.
Spasms in full parade,
(Calling Mercury in to aid).
Chills beginning in the back,
Flushes nightly in attack.
Burning in the palms and soles,
Such as Sulphur, too, controls,
Worse on waking, and from all
Acid food and alcohol.

The Lackey,-Has suffocation on waking.

The Lackey, Sam Bap, has an eye on Amanda's sportive goat.

This Lackey,-Who is subject to a trembling of the tongue,- Is at Jesse Agars, with Cimi, eyeing her negro lamb.

Suffocation on waking: Lach., Sam., Bap., Apis, Am. c., Spo., Graph., Thuj.

Trembling Tongue: Lach., Gel., Agar., Cimi., Apis, Hell., Lyco., Mer., Bell.

Indicated in low fevers, septic states, and in all conditions characterized by utter prostration and blood deterioration. In diphtheria, purpura, low fevers, malignant scarlet fever. Has the reputation of great usefulness in all climacteric troubles, in the treatment of diseases arising from suppressed discharges. Chronic sore throat, with tenacious mucus sticking to the throat.

Symptoms always worse when first awaking from sleep.

Trembling of the tongue when it is protruded; the tongue catches behind the teeth.

Tongue dry, cracked, blistered at the tip.

Flushes of heat during climacteric.

Haemorrhages of dark, decomposed blood from the orifices of the body.

Delirium, mumbling, loquacious; worse when waking from sleep. Suspicious, even of friends.

Intolerance of pressure about throat and abdomen. Cannot bear anything tight.

Attacks return in spring or fall, or yearly.

Worse on left side; disease extends from left to right.

Fluids swallowed return through the nose.

Headache left-sided, deep-seated, undulating, frontal.

Sensation of a lump in the left throat, which disappears when swallowing, but returns.

Constant desire to swallow; when swallowing sharp pain into the ear.

Throat swollen, dark red, with gangrenous spots; worse from hot drinks. Accompanied by constitutional symptoms which are far more severe than seems warranted by the local condition.

Constipation like the excrements of sheep. Stool difficult to expel on account of constriction of sphincter ani.

Diarrhoea looking like charred straw and of cadaverous odor.

Drawing and hammering in the anus.

Copious, smarting leucorrhoea, stiffening the linen and coloring it green.

Glandular enlargements and tumors, with pain which is sharp and lancinating, and becomes burning when touched.

Skin dark, mottled (mastitis).

Eruptions, appearing slowly, turning livid or black.

Old scars redden, hurt, break open and bleed.

Indolent, phlegmatic disposition. Increased mental power. Ecstatic, easily excitable nature. Loving tenderness. Unhappy love. Inclination to silent grief. Grumbling discontent. Hasty speech. Easily frightened. Insane jealousy with mistrust and suspicion. Dogmatic. Spiteful. Extraordinary loquacity. Greatly inclined to mockery, satire and breaking out into laughter. Despair and satiety of life. Anxious trembling. Restlessness, driving him into the open air. Hideous phantasies.

Pressive ache in temples like an outward urging, in morning after rising. Violent congestion to. Hammering headache when stooping. Headache over eyes early in morning after rising. sharp cutting pain, as with knives, in vertex, or as if someone cut a piece out of (r.) parietal bone. Worse: Stooping, external pressure, rest, ascending steps, after rising from bed, in the sun. Better: Eating, lying, after sleep, warmth, eructations.

Hair falls out, especially during pregnancy, with biting itching on scalp, scratching causes swellings and thickening of skin. Great sensitiveness of the uncovered head to sunshine.

Tension in.

Sensitive to wind, to noise.

Itching, when eating. Pain in nasal bones. Nosebleed and blowing of blood from. Purulent discharge from. Fluent coryza in evening, stuffed coryza with obstruction, early in morning. Fluent coryza with inflammation of margin of nostrils and acrid, watery discharge.

Sunken or unnaturally red. Heat and redness of the usually pale face. Lead colored. Livid. Itching of. Swellings here and there upon. Blue circles around eyes. Erysipelatous inflammation of cheeks just below eyes. Bluish erysipelas, just below eyes.

Hollow, crumbling. Boring pain in molars extending into maxillary bones, especially after eating. Swollen gums.

Scratching on posterior palate. Rawness in throat Sensation, as though something had lodged in the throat, which necessitates continual swallowing. (Mag-c.) Sensitiveness of internal throat to external pressure. Empty swallowing increases the throat pains, but swallowing solids does not. Salivation. Swallowing saliva is painful but swallowing food is painless.

Appetite: Loss of, early in morning. Desire for smoking is lost, without having any particular aversion to tobacco. Continual thirst. Intense craving for wine and beer. Craving for coffee which. Very weak digestion.

Nausea. - and forcible vomiting of ingesta, and bile.

Pit painful to pressure. Spasm of. Alternate coldness and burning in.

Distension of. Heat in. Empty sensation in. Hypochondria feel bruised.

Papescent, clayey, very offensive, followed by tenesmus. Constipation, flatus only is passed. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

Burning in. Prolapsus recti during stool.

Clear, foamy. Burning when urinating. Continual dribbling after stool, as well as after urination.

Great lasciviousness and violent sexual excitement.

Menses: Too scanty.

Tightness of, after eating. Inclination to take a deep breath when sitting. Touching larynx externally causes fear of suffocation.

During and after every nap. Paroxysms of short, very fatiguing hacking c. excited by tickling in stomach, rarely in larynx, dry in evening and night, in morning and by day, with difficult dislodgement of scanty, watery, sometimes salty mucus which is swallowed.

Painfully sensitive. Feeling of something fluttering above. Hollow voice, Hoarseness and aphonia as though a foreign body were tightly lodged in 1, and could not be hawked loose.

Burning on c., at night. Anxious palpitation. Soreness in, also of sternum.

A stitch deep in, as though something stuck therein, necessitating taking a deep breath and bending backward.

- Itch vesicles on hands and fingers. Panaritia. Livid swelling of hands. Writers cramp.

Weak, stiff knees. Cramps in calves. Bluish flat ulcers on legs. Coldness, with internal burning of feet. Swollen feet. Deep, itching fissures on toes.

Great emaciation. Relaxation and weariness in evening. Apoplexy. The complaints are intensified at night. Aversion to motion, with inclination to lie down. Bad effects of mental exertion, wine or tobacco.

Unhealthy. Itching, after scratching skin becomes thickened and large lumps appear. Spongy ulcers which burn when touched. Bluish, black vesicles upon hands and feet. Angry ulcers.

Sleepiness with loquacity in evening. Falls to sleep late in evening. Constant sleeplessness. Many frightful or lascivious dreams. Restlessness, with many dreams and frequent waking.

Pulse: Small and weak, but accelerated, often alternating with a full, strong best, generally very irregular and intermittent. Chill: Universal, warmth, and external, benumbing coldness. shivering, running up the back, often every other day. Alternating with heat, changing from place to place. Every other day. Alternating with heat, changing from place to place. Every other day. Heat: In evening, especially on hands and feet. Burning in palms of hands and soles of feet, in evening and at night. Nightly, as if from ebullition of blood, with great sensitiveness of neck. Sense of internal heat with cold feet. Sweat: Profuse, with most complaints. Great inclination to. Cold, straining yellow, bloody, or red.

Allied Remedies: Alum., Ap., Ars., BELL., Carbo - v., CAUST., Chin., CON., Gel., HEP., LYC., MERC., Nat - m., Nux-v., Phos-sc., PLAT., PULS., Stans., Sul-ac. Zinc.

Complementary: Ars., Carb-v., Calc-c.