Tremulous weakness, as from impending evil.
Sleep
Sleepless from disproportionate nervous agitation.
Starts in sleep.
Drowsy, but cannot sleep.
Torpor, drowsiness, coma.
Symptoms generally worse after sleep (Lachesis).
Dreams: of travelling; of quarrels: of the dead (C. Cascavella).
Time
Night:. Evening: Morning: After sleep:.
Chill Fever Sweat
Surface cold, especially extremities.
Flushes of heat all over.
Fever: dry skin, dark brown, dry tongue; or tongue coated yellow with red edges and tip; delirium, low muttering; drowsiness; urine dark, scanty; costive, or fetid, bilious or bloody stools: hemorrhagic tendency, oozing of blood from every orifice and even from the pores; skin yellow; vomiting of bile or blood; liver tender; heart weak, fainting, hence in typhoid, bilious remittent, yellow fever, pyaemia, etc.
Malignant scarlatina.
Sweat cold; sudden attacks of cold sweat.
Attacks
Marked periodicity; pains come and go suddenly or re-appear every three months, every year, etc.
Sides
In said to act more on the right side. Left:, Up down:.
Tissues
[Crotal] affects the nerves and the blood; causing dizziness, confusion or deep coma; trembling, Tetanic spasms, paralysis; congestion of the various tissues inflammations of a low type, ecchymoses and effusions into brain, lungs, heart, etc., and into serous cavities; hemorrhages dark, fluid; gangrene, sloughing. It is, therefore indicated in diseases of an dynamic character, whether caused by previous low states of the system, or by zymotic and septic poisoning, abuse of alcohol, etc. Especially characteristics are evidences of cardiac debility; feeble pulse, sluggish circulation, bluish skin, faintness, general debility.
OEdema of the whole body. General anasarca.
Bruised, drawing, or paralytic pains in the bones, worse awaking.
Contact Injuries etc.
Worse from touch:,,, Pressure:, Stings of insects; dissecting wounds; ailments from vaccination.
Skin
Itching, stinging, all over, Urticaria. Stinging of insects.
Skin dry, stiff, like thin parchment. Usually dry and cold.
Chilblains, gangrene pending; circulation sluggish.
Skin yellow; jaundice, septicaemia, etc.
Ecchymoses, purpura Hemorrhagia; petechiae.
Erysipelas, phlegmonous, phlyctenous or oedematous; skin bluish-red, low fever; during zymoses or in the enfeebled;’ also in wounds; more frequent in the face.
Felons, pemphigus, pustules, boils, gangrene, abscesses, etc., when the fever is low, the parts bluish and the discharges scanty, tardy or dark, fluid, unhealthy; diarrhoea with the gangrene.
Old cicatrices break open again.
Hot swellings, with cold skin and sickly appearance.
Obstinate ulcers, even malignant, with yellow complexion and great indifference.
Relationship
Very Similar are Laches., Naja and Elaps.; distinctions, therefore, are mainly relative. Crotal. is preferable in fluid hemorrhages, yellow skin (hence in yellow fever with black vomit, etc.), epistaxis of diphtheria. Naja has more nervous phenomena. Laches. has skin cold and clammy, rather than cold and dry; hemorrhages with charred straw sediment and more preferable in otorrhoea, and in affections of the right lung. The cobra-poison coagulates blood into long strings.
The Crotal. poison is acid; the Viper natural. The “Rattle- Snake” causes more sloughing than any other.
Compare also: Tarent. cub, Arsen. Lauroc. (tetanus, whooping- cough), Apis-carb. veg, Silic (vaccination), Camphor. (in coldness; probably Crotal. has more marked genuine collapse, with confused speech, etc.).
Effects modified by : Ammonium, Camphor., Opium., Coffea., Alcohol, radiated heat.
