Lachesis mutus
lach-mutBushmaster or Surucucu 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 suppr
Lachesis mutus — Materia Medica
Lachesis mutus — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Lachesis mutus — mind · James Tyler Kent
The next most important thing to be studied is the mental state. Nothing stands out more boldly than the self-consciousness, the self conceit, the envy, the hatred, the revenge and the cruelty of the man. These things, of course, are matters of self-consciousness, an improper love of self. Confusion of the mind to insanity. All sorts of impulsive insanity. The mind is tired. The patient puts on an appearance like the maudlin of a drunkard, talks with thick lips and thick tongue, blunders and stumbles, only partly finishing words; the face is purple and the head is hot. There is choking and the collar is uneasy about the neck; and the more uneasiness about the neck, the more choking, the more confusion of mind and the more appearance of intoxication. You will see if you talk with one who is intoxicated with whiskey symptoms like Lachesis, he stumbles through, hardly realizing what he says, half finishing his sentences and his words, leaving his "g's" off, all the present participles; he stumbles and blunders, he mutters, and tells you first one thing and then another. These symptoms are increased under the circumstances mentioned in the Spring; in the warm weather following a cold spell; in rainy weather; after a warm bath; after sleep. The mental state is large. Jealousy without any reason. Unwarranted jealousy and suspicion. Many times this medicine has cured suspicion in girls, when they were simply suspicious of their girl friends. She never sees a whispered conversation going on but they are talking about her, to her detriment. Suspects that they are contriving to injure her, and she will resort to any scheme to see if they were not talking of her to her detriment.
Lachesis mutus — general · James Tyler Kent
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.
Lachesis mutus — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: After sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids; alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun’s rays; spring; summer.
Lachesis mutus — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Lachesis mutus — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
OPEN AIR. FREE SECRETIONS. Hard pressure. Bathing part. COLD DRINKS. Rapid onset, intensity, prostration or malignancy. LEFT-SIDED COMPLAINTS, OR
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