Lachesis

Lachesis
(bushmaster or surucucu)
* Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood, rendering it more fluid; hence a
haemorrhagic 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.
Mind
- 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.
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 headache, flickerings, dim vision, very pale face.
- Vertigo.
- Relieved by onset of a discharge (menses or nasal catarrh).
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 running up into head. [Phos.]
- Tearing pain in jaw-bones. [Amphisbaena; Phos.]
- Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated,jaundiced, chlorotic.
Mouth
- 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.
Throat
- 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.
Stomach
- 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 epigastricregion.
- Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids.
Abdomen
- Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist.
- Especially suitable to drunkards.
- Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful. [Bell.]
Stool
- Constipated, offensive stool.
- Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go throughit.
- Pain darting up the rectum every time be sneezesor coughs.
- Haemorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particles.
- Haemorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish.
- Stitches in them on sneezing or coughing.
- Constant urging in rectum, not for stool.
Female
- Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, haemorrhages, vertex headache, fainting
spells; worse, pressure of clothes.
- Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relievedby the flow. [Eupion.] Left ovary very
painful and swollen, indurated.
- Mammae inflamed, bluish.
- Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture.
- Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation.
Male
- Intense excitement of sexual organs.
Respiratory
- 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 fromneck to larynx.
- Feels he must take a deep breath.
- Cramp-like distress in praecordial 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.
Heart
- Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric.
- Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety.
- Cyanosis.
- Irregular beats.
Back
- 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.
Extremities
- Sciatica, right side, better lying down.
- Pain in tibia (may follow sore throat).
- Shortening of tendons.
Sleep
- Patient sleeps into an aggravation.
- Sudden starting when falling asleep.
- Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep. [Bell.; Op.]
- Wide-awake in evening.
Fever
- Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration.
- Paroxysm returns after acids.
- Intermittent fever every spring.
Skin
- Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance.
- Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings.
- Dark blisters.
- Bed-sores, with black edges.
- Blue-black swellings.
- Pyaemia; dissecting wounds.
- Purpura, with intense prostration.
- Senile erysipelas.
- Wens.
- Cellulitis.
- Varicose ulcers.
Modalities
- 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.
Relationship
- 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.; Amphisboena -snake
lizard-(right jaw swollen and painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains.
Eruption of vesicles and pimples); Naja; Lepidium.
Dose
- Eighth to 200th potency.
- Doses ought not be repeated too frequently.
- If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to exhaust its action.