Lachesis



Heart

      Palpitation, with fainting spells. Restless, trembling, anxiety about the heart. Heart; weak; turns over or too big as if, or as if hanging by a thread. Pulse; weak, intermittent; slow; irregular. Cyanosis neonatorum. Carditis; metastatic. Senile arteriosclerosis.

Neck and Back

      Neck sensitive to least pressure. Neck stiff; moves jaws with difficulty. Neuralgia of coccyx worse rising from sitting, feels as if sitting on something sharp. Sensation of threads stretched from back to arms, legs, eyes.

Extremities

      Swelled glands in axilla. Left arm numb; finger tips numb. Trembling of hands (in drunkards). Garlic odour of sweat in axilla. Felon, bluish swelling. Tingling; pricking in left hand. Cracks in skin at the corners of nails. Knees cold; or as if hot air is going through. Foot sweat foul or cold. Sciatica; must lie still; worse by least motion. Tendons contracted. Toes feel broken. Pain in the shin bones, in affections of throat. Cramps in calves, from fear. Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Sleep

      Sleeps into Worse. Sleeplessness; from cerebral irritation; of drunkards. Frightful dreams; of snakes. Children toss about moaning in sleep. Sleepiness yet cannot sleep.

Fever

      Chill worse drinking; with sweat. HEAT; on vertex; IN FLUSHES; on waking, on falling to sleep. Sweat; about neck; during sleep; in axilla; bloody, staining, blackish, yellow; garlicky. Feet icy cold.

Skin

      Mottled or livid; dark marks; ulcers; eating, on legs; with bluish, purple areolae. Fungoid ulcers. Varicose ulcers. Carbuncles, boils, with bluish areolae. Bed sores with black edges. Cellulitis. Erysipelas; of old age. Purpura with intense prostration. Cicatrices; redden; hurt, break open and bleed. Capillaries dilated. Small wounds bleed much.

Related

      Caust; Sep; Zincum met.

Complementary

      Lyc; Phos; Zinc-i.

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.