Lachesis mutus

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

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.

Worse

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.

Better

OPEN AIR. FREE SECRETIONS. Hard pressure. Bathing part. COLD DRINKS. Rapid onset, intensity, prostration or malignancy. LEFT-SIDED COMPLAINTS, OR

Region

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

Relationships

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

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Lachesis mutus — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/lachesis-mutus. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.