Animal
Lachesis
Bushmaster or Surucucu
Repertory abbreviation: Lach.
Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood, rendering it niore fluid; hence a hxmorrhagic tendency is marked. Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, 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 n a g confusion. Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition. Ill effects of suppressed discharges. Diphtheritic paralysis. [Botuli- num.] Diphtheria carriers.
Mind
Great loquacity. Amative. Sad in the morn- ing; no desire to mix with the worid. Restless and un- easy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time. Jealous. [Hyos.] Mental labor best performed at night.1 Religious insanity. [Vcrat.: Stram.] Derangement of the time sense.
Head
Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain; worse after moving. Sun headaches. With head- ache, very pale face. Vertigo.
Eyes
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.
Ears
Tearing pain from zygoma into ear ; also with sore throat. Ear-wax hard, dry.
Nose
Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay asthma; paroxysms of sneezing. [Silica.; Sabad.]
Face
Pale. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat run- ning up into head. [Phos.] Tearing pain in jaw-bones. [Amphisbena; Phos.] Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic.
Mouth
Gums swo!len, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Aphtlious and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste. Teeth ache, pain extends to urs. Pain in facial bones.
Throat
Quin.sy. 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. Worse on left side. In diph- theria, etc., the trouble bcgan on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed ; zcorse, swallowiny saliva or liquids. Pain into car. Collar and
Stomach
Craving for alcohol, oysters. Any food causes distress. Pit of stomach painful to toucli. Hun- gry, cannot wait for food. Gnawing pressure made bet- ter ly eating, but returning in a few hours. Perceptible trembling movement in the epigastric region. I Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids.
Abdomen
Liver region sensitive, cannot bear any- thing around waist. Especially I suitable to drunkards.- Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful. [Bell.]
Stool
Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every time he sneezes or coughs. Hemorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particics. Hemorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish. Stitches in them 1 on sneezing or coughing.( Constant urging in rectum, not for stool.
Male
Intense excitement of sexual organs.
Female
Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, hamorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure of clothes. 1 Menses too s short, too feeble; pains all relieved hy the flow. [Eupion.l Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated. Mamma in- famed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture. Acts especially well at be- ginning and close of menstruation. 447
Respiratory
Upper part of windpipe very suscepti- ble 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 some- thing ran from neck to larynx. Feels he must take a deep breath. ( Cramp-like distress in precordial region. Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air. Brcathiny almost stops on falling asleep. [Grind.] Larynx painful to touch. Sensation as of a plug [lnac.] which moves up and down, with a short cough.
Heart
Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric. Constricted feeling, causing palpita- tion, with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats.
Back
Neuralgia of coccyx, worse rising from sitting posture; must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region.
Skin
Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surround- ings. Dark llisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blue- black swellings. Pyamia ; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis.
Sleep
Patient sleeps into an aggravation. Sudden starting when falling sleep.S Sleepiness, yet cannot [Bell.; Op.] Wide-awake in evening.
Fever
Chilly in back; feet icy cold ; hot flushes and hot perspiration. Paroxysm returns after acids. Inter- mittent fever every spring.
Neck
band must bc very loose.
Modalities
W'orse, after sleep, (Kali bich.) Lach- sis sleeps into aggravation; left side, in the spring, warm bath, pressure or constriction, hot drinks. Better, appearance of discharges, warm applications.
Relationships
Antidotes: Ars.; Merc.; Heat; Alco- hol; Salt. Complementary : Lycop.: Hep.; Salamandra. Incompatible: Acet. ac.: Carb. ac. Compare: C'otyledon (climacteric troubles) ; Nat. m.; Nit. ac.; Crotal.: Amphisbona — snake lizard -— (right jaw swollen and painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains. Eruption of vesicles and pimples) ; Naja; Scolo pendra — Centipede - (malignant pustule; angina pectoris). Lepidium (affections of the breast, heart, lancinating pains).
Dose
Eight to 200th potency. Doses ought not be repeated too frequently. If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to exhaust its action.