Crotalus Horridus



Throat

Tight constriction of throat. Sensation of a plug to be swallowed, as if uvula swollen or stiff, as of a dry spot or tickling, especially left side, worse on waking. Impossible to swallow solids. Gangrenous or diphtheritic throat with much swelling, much swelling of glands, head thrown up and backwards.

Stomach

Hunger with trembling, weakness, and occipital headache. Unquenchable burning thirst. Eructations, sharp, sour, rancid. Nausea on movement, bilious vomiting. Dark green vomiting immediately on lying on right side or back. Black vomit. Frequent faint sinking, hungry sensation about epigastrium with trembling and fluttering sensation lower down. Craving for stimulants. Agonizing pain, restlessness, coldness, weak pulse. Cannot bear clothes round stomach or hypochondria. Hematemesis, blood does not coagulate.

Abdomen

Stitches in region of liver on drawing a long breath, worse by pressure. Aching in liver, vomiting, coldness. Violent pain in left side near last ribs as if in diaphragm. Jaundice, malignant jaundice with haemorrhage. Heat and tenderness of abdomen, can scarcely bear clothes on. Swelling. Violent pain in course of colon, in region of appendix. Bubo.

Stool and Anus

Stools: black, thin, like coffee-grounds, offensive, dark green, followed by debility, yellow, watery with stinging in abdomen, low spirits and indifference to everything. Shuddering with diarrhoea, aphonia. Diarrhoea from noxious effluvia, from septic matter in food or drink, from high game, summer diarrhoea. Dysentery, septic, from foul water, food, etc., excessive flow of dark fluid blood, or involuntary evacuations, great debility and faintness. Constipation with congestion to head and headache. Vomiting, purging and micturition simultaneously caused by spasmodic contractions with tenesmus and strangury. White stools. Haemorrhage, dark, fluid, uncoagulable. Haemorrhoids: great tendency to bleed, on using paper, on straining a little at stool, or on standing, in pregnant women, with menstrual irregularities, with heart or liver disease, in inebriates.

Urinary Organs

Hematuria. Suppression or painful retention of urine. Urine: scanty, dark and red with blood, jelly-like, green-yellow from much bile, copious and light-coloured.

Male Sexual Organs.

Sexual instinct increased with entire relaxations of penis. Sharp cutting in glans.

Female Sexual Organs.

Menses a week too soon, first preceded by weight in head and ears, accompanied by pains in abdomen and back, and cold feet. The pains last some hours longer than usual, and go off after two days with intense frontal headache, which lasts from 10 P.M. to 1 a.m. Five days before menses much pain in hypogastrium and down thighs, in region of heart, left arm and shoulder-blade, with cold feet. In evening, severe sharp shooting, rather burning pain, repeated at short intervals, apparently starting left side of womb, passing up to region of transverse colon, there shooting or cutting across from both sides to center, thence passing up left side of trunk to left side of face and temple as a sharp, cutting, intermittent, neuralgic pain, and across middle of forehead there was a heavy, dull, continuous pain, the sharp pain in temple lasted an hour, the dull pain only ceased on going to sleep. Flushing and sinking of menopause. Puerperal fever, or convulsions, with albuminous and septic conditions. Offensive lochia. Inflamed breasts. Phlegmasia alba dolens, worse from slightest touch.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with weak, rough voice. Bruised pain from larynx to chest. Cough with stitch in left side and bloody expectoration. Dry cough on speaking, worse in dry or cold air. Nervous cough, especially laryngeal, dry tickling, constant choking, as if from dry, irritating vapors, or salt or pepper, or from dry spot in larynx, worse left side, provoked by: cold or dry air, deep inspiration, speaking, by external pressure, which cannot be borne, worse on waking. Whooping-cough, with blueness or pallor which is long in passing off, attacks followed by puffiness of face and haemorrhagic spots, bloodshot eyes, epistaxis, frothy, stringy, bloody expectorations, threatened edema and paralysis of lungs. Excessive oppression of chest. Burning in chest with heat in forehead. Pneumonia with tendency to gangrene. Lungs seem passive. Stitches in right chest near sternum.

Heart

Much pain in heart, through left shoulder-blade and down left arm. Palpitation with sore pain in and about heart, feeling as if heart tumbled over. Heart tender when lying on left side. Pulse hardly perceptible. Phlebitis, varicosis, varicocele.

Neck and Back.

Tearing pains from (right) shoulder to neck, worse on moving arm. Pain on top of shoulder and in ascending aorta. Aching in right kidney and in stomach.

Limbs.

Painful paralytic sensation. Rheumatic and neuralgic pains. Bruised pain in joints and bones. Heaviness, as if bones were made of heavy wood. Numb pain as after cramp in anterior of fingers and in toes. Contraction of flexors.

Upper Limbs

Bruised pains in bone of shoulder in paroxysms. Large inflamed furuncle on right upper arm near elbow. Tight, cord-like feeling extending from front of left elbow down front of forearm, with “round spots” of pain here and there along front of forearm. Tubercle on wrist, near end of radius, size of large split-pea, and rather blue from sting of insect some years before, more pronounced in summer months. Vesicular and pustular eruption about wrists. Trembling of hands. Hands (especially left) go dead on least exertion. Violent spasmodic pains in left palm as from bee-sting. Itching and heat of palms. Oozing of blood from under nails.

Lower Limbs

Starting, jerking, trembling, cramps, numbness. Drawing suddenly from left hip to foot. During and after walking, feels as if a tendon was drawing from sole of right foot through bone of leg. Small purple spots on legs.

Skin

Itching stinging all over, urticaria. Skin dry, stiff like thin parchment, usually cold. Yellow colour of whole body (hematic rather than hepatic jaundice). Petechiae. Vesicles, herpes, pimples, boils, carbuncles, burns, stings, pemphigus, ulcers, gangrene, felons, anthrax. Old cicatrices break out again. Poliosis rheumatica. Dropsies.

Sleep

Yawning, torpor, sopor. Drowsiness with inability to sleep. Starting in sleep. Dreams of travelling, of quarrels, of the dead. Symptoms worse after sleep.

Fever

Surface cold, especially extremities. Flushes of heat all over. Sweat: cold, coloured, especially axillary, bloody. Malignant scarlatina, with infiltration of tissues, especially of throat. Low, bilious remittents of South. Yellow fever, haemorrhagic, oozing of blood from every pore, vomiting and purging bloody and bilious, fainting. Septic or purpuric fevers. Cerebrospinal meningitis.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica