Crotalus Cascavella



Prolapsus recti for ten minutes (2nd day).

Urging and tenesmus, followed by discharge from the anus of mucus like white of eggs (2nd day).

Stool.

Yellowish diarrhoea (8th day). Obstinate constipation (8th day).

Urinary Organs.

Copious urination (after five hours and three-quarters and seven hours). Involuntary emissions of urine during sleep (7th day).

Sexual Organs.

Violent lancinations in the uterus, when washing herself with cold water; terrible lancinations if the water is warm, with weight on the uterus (4th day). Lancinations, like knife stabs, in the uterus and anus, especially when washing with cold water (8th day). Intermitting metrorrhagia of bright-red blood twice a day, in alternation with the paroxysms of mania (7th day).

Vermilion-colored metrorrhagia, which suddenly ceased in the course of the day (5th day). Leucorrhoea (3rd day).

Respiratory Organs.

Voice.

The voice is extinct (4th day).

Cough and Expectoration.

Dry cough, at night, from tickling in the throat (3rd day). Green expectoration, in the morning (2nd day).

Spitting of black blood. Spitting of blood mixed with thick phlegm (10th day).

Respiration.

Quiet breathing (after five hours and three-quarters).

Impeded respiration (after four hours and a quarter).

Oppression of breathing, as though there were not air enough in the house (6th day). Suffocative feeling (8th day). Suffocative feeling, with dread of another attack (4th day). Feeling of suffocation (7th day). The sense of suffocation increases (5th day).

Chest.

Sensation of water in the chest, with efforts to throw it up, and faint feeling, as if the heart were dipped in a liquid (3rd day).

Pain in the chest, extending to the back (3rd day). The chest and head feel as if compressed by an armor of iron (3rd day). Drawing from the neck to the epigastrium (5th day). Feeling of internal sores under the breasts (2nd day). Pain in the right clavicle (5th day).

Bone-pain and swelling of the left clavicle (6th day). The humeral extremity of the left clavicle continues to swell (7th day).

Sides. Pain in the left side (10th day). Stitches in the side (3rd day). Stitch in the left side, when drawing breath, after drinking (3rd day).

Heart and Pulse.

Precordium.

Feeling as if the heart were beating from above down wards (5th day).

Heart’s Action.

Palpitation of the heart (5th day). She cannot perceive any one at her right side without palpitation of the heart, and a real fatigue from pleasure (7th day).

Pulse.

Frequent pulse (after one hour and a half). Pulse 96 (after three hours). Pulse 98 (after three hours and three-quarters). Pulse 100 (after three hours and a quarter). Pulse 104 (after four hours and three-quarters). Pulse full, 110 to 140. Pulse rather heavy.

Neck and Back.

Neck.

Painful twitching in the sides of the neck when turning the head.

Back.

Dorsal.

Internal pain between the shoulders (5th day). Stitches as from pins in the dorsal spine (2nd day). Bruised feeling at the inside of the right scapula (2nd day). Bruised pain between the shoulders, and sometimes slow and measured lancinations when inclining backwards, as if a vertebra was fractured (4th day).

Lumbar.

Painful heaviness in the loins (2nd day). Pain, like lancinations, in the psoas magnus muscle (8th day). Great pain at the sacro-lumbar articulation (6th day).

Extremities in General.

All the limbs tremble (4th day). Weariness of the arms and legs (2nd day).

Superior Extremities.

Increased pain in the upper extremities, which gives the patient no rest, despite his extreme prostration (after four hours and a quarter). Weariness of the arms (2nd day).

Numbness of the arms (after three hours). Intense pains in the arms (after three hours and a half).

Shoulder.

Rheumatic pain in the right shoulder (10th day).

Lancinations under the right axilla, like two successive stabs with a dagger, arresting the breathing, and felt in the chest.

Elbow.

Pain in the elbows (3rd day). Pain in the elbow, as if the bones were pulled (2nd day).

Forearm.

The Pain and swelling extend over two-thirds of the forearm (after one hour and a half). Cramps in the arms, as if the nerves had been tied in a knot during venesection (10th day).

Wrist.

Rheumatic pain in the left wrist (11th day).

Hand.

Swelling of the hand, with drops of blood from the would.

Prodigious swelling of the hand, which feels cold, as also do the legs and feet (after one hour). The whole hand is swollen and painful (after one hour and a half). The hands tremble (5th day).

Pain in the hollow of the hand (2nd day). Pain in the palm of the hand, extending to the wrist (after 10 minutes).

Fingers.

The tips of the fingers are blue (10th day). The nails are red (3rd day). The roots of the nails are laid bare (10th day).

Jerking in the fingers (2nd day). The last phalanges feel as if broken (10th day). Smarting at the finger tips (3rd day).

Inferior Extremities.

Drawing up of the lower limb from the hip to the foot, with crampy pain (3rd day). Sensation as if the right leg, from the hip to the heel, were shortened; this sensation though illusory, causes him to limp.

Hip.

Pressure on the left hip, as with the blade of a knife (7th day).

Thigh.

Acute pulling in the thigh, with momentary paralysis of the right lower extremity (2nd day).

Knee.

While drinking cold water, the veins of the knee have a deep- black color (8th day). Pricking, as from needles, behind the knees (4th day).

Foot.

Violent cramps in the heel (12th day).

Toes.

Swelling of the three last toes of the left foot (7th day).

Contraction of the toes (6th day). The toes remain bent (3rd day).

General Symptoms.

Visible tremors in whole body (after one hour and thirty minutes).

Patient excessively prostrated (after four hours).

Muscular prostration (after five hours and thirty minutes).

The whole body seems to fill itself up (after one hour and twenty minutes).

Great pain in the surface of the whole body (after four hours and thirty minutes).

Body a much darker red (after four hours).

The blood starts from a pustule in the arm-pit (after three hours and thirty minutes).

Objective.

Visible trembling of the whole body (after one hour and a half).

Great debility (4th day). Muscular prostration (after 5 hours and three-quarter). Faintness, relieved in the open air (3rd day).

Fainting from hunger, before eating (7th day). Increasing restlessness and anxiety (after three hours). Desire to move about (10th day).

Subjective.

Torpor (after five hours and three-quarters). Numbness all over.

Even while awake, he feels as if falling out of bed (6th day).

She feels uncomfortable in consequence of having her courses, and is out of humor on account of having them (10th day). Pain in the bones, especially of the joints; at the shoulder-blades, elbows, phalanges of the fingers, at the knees, the hip, and under the toenails (7th day). Great pain all over (after four hours and three quarters). Lancinations in various parts of the body (6th day).

Skin.

General redness increases (after four hours and a quarter).

Circular spot between the breasts, which is black at the upper and red at the lower portion (8th day). Bright yellow freckles, or spots of sunburn, on the upper part of the right hand (8th day).

Excoriation and pustules on the left toes (7th day).

Eruptions, Dry.

Small red pimples all over (10th day). Small red pimples with a white tip (8th day). The pimples begin with a red spot on the skin, like a fleabite; they then appear as conical elevations, which become the center of an exfoliation, less extensive than that caused by the Elaps corallinus, with a small black speck remaining in the middle (3rd day). Eruption of small red conical pimples on the wrist (2nd day). Small red pimples on the left foot, like those which appeared on the hand, on the 2nd day of the proving (8th day).

Eruptions, Pustular.

Blood is discharged from a pustule under the arm (after 3 hours and three-quarters).

Subjective.

Prickling all over the body. Acute sensation of burning and redness of the skin, which is perceptibly depressed at the opening of the right nostril (3rd day). Formication in the face (after forty minutes). Formication in the feet, as far as the ankles (4th day). Itching at the epigastrium (6th day). Itching of the thighs (2nd day). Violent itching of the calves (8th day).

Itching under the feet (4th day).

Sleep and Dreams.

Sleepiness.

Constant yawning (3rd day). Sleepiness in the morning.

Somnolence, with moaning (after 7 hours). Drowsiness (after one hour and a half). Drowsiness, the whole morning (7th day). Sleep (after nine hours and a half).

Sleeplessness. Sleeplessness, with restlessness (3rd day).

Piteous moaning in sleep (6th day). Startings in sleep.

Dreams.

Dreams about evening parties, with illuminations, quarrels, battles (2nd day). Dreams about enormous hairy spiders, which approach and try to climb up one’s person (8th day).

Dream about a horse which bathes in a pool, and is gradually drowned (6th day). Dreams about corpses and ghosts (10th day).

Fever.

Chilliness.

General coldness, not relieved by covering (4th day).

Patient is cold, and covers himself up (after one hour and three- quarters). Coldness in the back (6th day). Coldness in the back, after eating (5th day). Coldness of the hands (5th day). The feet are cold (2nd day). The feet are icy cold (5th day). The feet feel cold (after one hour and five-sixths).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.