Lachesis


Lachesis homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Common name: Surukuku or Churkuku.

Introduction

Trigonocephalus lachesis, L. Natural order: Ophidia,

Preparation: Triturations.

Mind Emotional.

Maintains great quietness and firmness of mind during very vexatious and exciting events (7th and following days). Lively without any cause. Excited mood the whole morning (2nd day, 2nd proving); decidedly improved health, suffering only from too much smoking (3rd day). Excited for a very long time in the evening, lively in spite of constant sticking pressure beneath the scapulae. A kind of ecstasy, as after sublime impressions, or excessive joy, throughout the day; he constantly wishes to talk and do much, and even more seems to be at his command (3rd day). Fanciful imagining, with the evening fever. It seems to him during the day that he has dreamed everything that has happened only somewhat different. Great irritability; soothing poetry moved him to immoderate weeping; he was obliged to cry for joy; as for example when reading in Schiller’s Tell, he could not proceed; an unmanly rapture compelled him to desist; in exciting senses he broke into tears, and so on for a great many days; after much crying, pain above the eyes. Much talking during the febrile condition in the evening. Loquacity; in the evening, with physical laxity, sleepiness without being able to fall asleep; without sitting up he talks a great deal, wishes to tell stories, constantly goes from one to another; during this he, however he recollects himself and soon knows when he has mixed and distorted anything; he then corrects himself but repeats the same mistakes; thus he is tormented half the evening (1st day). An unusual inclination to be communicative. Great inclination to be communicative, extraordinary vivid imagination; therewith extremely impatient at tedious and dry things. Lively and communicative, even disagreeable feeling of fullness. Social and communicative. The more cause of fretfulness, the greater inclination for humor, jest, satire and humorous fancies. Depression of spirits, with chilliness. Depressed and anxious with shortness of breath. Great sadness in the morning, weak for short time in the forenoon, otherwise physically well (13th day). So great apprehensiveness while riding in the open air that it seemed to him some great evil was impending like evil forbidding; it torments him for more than an hour (after 3 to 4 hours),. Very easily frightened, in the evening (1st day). Very easily frightened, with sensitiveness of brain. Sudden doubts arise about truths of which he had hitherto been convinced in the afternoon. It frequently seems to him wrong to read long at time, although the subject interests him. Mistrustful and thinking evil. Towards evening very unusual almost crazy jealousy, as foolish as it is irresistible (after 6 hours). Irritability during the feverish heat. Extremely irritable. At times, can only think for a long time of some fancied worry. An infant is very fretful, cries much, will not lie down; then attacked by febrile heat, with many eructations; vomiting of milk; frequent stools; much crying and fretting; therewith it was hot to touch. Impatient; desires positive answers when this is not practicable. Peevishness (transient). Becomes easily peevish and mistrustful; believes himself intentionally injured by all his environments, and attaches the most hateful significance to the most innocent occurrences. Unusually contentious and obstinate, so that he quarrels with everything about him. So quarrelsome he disputes with a mother about the age of her daughter and affirms the younger to be the elder. Violent, scornful mood without being vexed (1st day). Breaks into a large about trifles. Indifferent and disinclined to work in the forenoon. Very remarkable and persistent indifference and forgetfulness. Intellectual. The mind was somewhat more collected after the first emission the 4th day than on the day previous. He wishes to do a great deal; begins many things. Need of being very busy, without the slightest perseverance. He sits up late at night at mental work, with great activity. He is impelled to productive work in the evening, although he had been much fatigued during the day; he sits all night without the slightest sleepiness or exhaustion; writes with the greatest freedom and increased vigor about everything that he knows; new things constantly throng his mind; also the next day, after very little sleep, he is just as excited; it only gradually diminishes without subsequent reaction of mind; on repeated provings. Increased power of originality in all mental work, increased activity of fancy; scenes and occurrences throng to him in an unusual amount. No sooner does one idea occurred to him than number of others follow in succession while he is writing it down, so that he is unable to finish the record. Gladly sits in meditation. Longing for amusement without however experiencing ennui, with lively fancies about which he himself laughs. Ennui with trembling. Mentally indolent, with physical weakness (16th day). Aversion to work. Disinclined to his own proper work; either an indifferent or sad mood, with weariness and general laxity (15th day). Must force himself to attend to business (later action). Dilatory, disinclined for any mental work. Dilatory; he cannot accomplish his business as usual. Cannot perform anything in an orderly manner. Inability for abstract thought; not the least persistence. Very distracted while reading, without interesting trains of thought. A kind of loss of ideas. An unusual confusion as to time; he dated everything the 26th, when it was only 6th; and on Wednesday he asked whether it was Saturday. Makes more mistakes than usual in writing. Constantly obliged to pay attention to his spellings in a language in which he is usually fluent. Writes a letter with numerous mistakes in spelling without noticing them himself, in words written both in Roman characters and in the usual German text (in one who hardly ever made such mistakes). Forgetful and indifferent. Weakness of memory, so that it was difficult to pay attention to what was said to him. Does not remember what has just happened. It became extremely difficult for him to listen to others though his hearing was not impaired; the words just spoken seemed obliterated. Has no memory at all; hears and understands nothing that others say to him; with good power of thought. Loss of consciousness, as before apoplexy. Loss of consciousness, with vomiting and purging (bite). Loss of consciousness (2 days after bite), with somewhat irregular motion of the limbs; covered with cold clammy sweat; pulse small, slow, almost imperceptible. Loss of consciousness with loss of strength and disappearance of the pulse (bite). Complete loss of consciousness at times with cold feet; it disappeared as soon as the feet became warm.

Head Confusion and Vertigo.

Confusion of the head in the morning, lasting till the tenth day. Confusion of the head in the morning, and in the afternoon pain on the right side of the head (3rd day). Confusion in the head in the morning with heaviness and blowing of the blood from the nose, with headache in the forenoon and congestion of the head in the afternoon. Confusion of the head in the morning with inability to think correctly; does not disappear after sleep, but remains with weakness in all the limbs till evening (4th day). Confusion of the head (after 1 hour); with heat and violent congestion (after 2 hours), lasting till afternoon. Vertigo (chronic result of the bite). Vertigo, with general illness in the morning. Vertigo in the morning on waking. Vertigo after rising. Vertigo, with reeling towards the left side, in the morning, immediately after rising. Vertigo in the evening. Vertigo, with reeling and attacks of loss of consciousness, as if he would be attacked by apoplexy; as if it were threatening him; two evenings in succession. Vertigo, previous to violent vomiting, at night. Vertigo as soon as he goes into the street. Vertigo, with rush of blood, after a stool. Vertigo precedes the faintness. Vertigo and headache. Vertigo so that he must hold on to something, especially after stooping. Vertigo, even to falling down. Slight momentary vertigo, at times on closing the eyes; at 11 a. m. (after 1 hour). Dizziness almost like vertigo, with pressure in the eyes. Dizzy while sitting (1st day). Dizzy while sitting after walking (2nd day). Dizzy while standing, disappearing on sitting in the morning. Dizzy pressive headache. A condition similar to intoxication (bite). General head. Swelling of the head and face, so that the eyes are closed. Dulness in the head so that he could remember nothing that had just happened; he feels confused in the head and distracted. Dulness, dizziness, with roaring in the ears, during fever. Dull sensation in the head, with nausea, in the afternoon. Heaviness of the head in the morning, followed by pain in the vicinity of the right eye (2nd day). Feeling of heaviness in the head at 11 a. m. Fullness in the head during the febrile heat. Feeling of fullness in the head; some headache next day. Tensive pain in the head, better from pressure; a roaring in it; it feels hot; much sneezing and fluent catarrh and hard stool (after the 7th dose). Tensive pain in the whole head, better in the open air and from pressure with an indolent hard stool (after 6th dose). Drawing, jerking tensive sensation in the bones of the skull and cheeks also in the lower jaw. Rush of blood to the head in the forenoon, on stooping together with headache on the right side extending toward the occiput (17th day). Rush of blood to the head for a few hours in the forenoon, especially on stooping preceded by headache above the right eye (5th day). Rush of blood to the head in the afternoon, immediately on stooping very violent (7th day). Rush of blood to the head especially on stooping and on walking; preceded by headache; more in the afternoon; blowing of blood from the nose in the morning. Rush of blood to the head before and after the headache. Rush of blood to the head with hemorrhoidal troubles. Rush of blood to the head and vertigo, after satisfactory pasty stool (3rd day). Rush of blood to the head and face with the cough. Rush of blood to the head with confusion; with vertigo. Rush of blood, with heat in the head. Rush of blood to the head, with painful pressure under the whole skull; he was conscious of every diseased tooth though they were not painful; blowing of bright red blood from the nose, with a drawing sensation in the nose and frontal sinuses and under the whole skull, as if water had been injected into it. Rush of blood to the head, with flickering before the eyes. Rush of blood to the head with a beating roaring in the ear. Congestion to the head (after 8 days). Much rush of blood to the head (3rd to 7th days). Constriction of the head above the ears, and pressure in both temples towards the ears; not persistent (after 1 hour). Headache, with vomiting of food. Headache before the menstruation. Headache alternates with cough. Headache extending into the nose. Headache extending to the root of the nose. Headache with vertigo in the evening. Headache with rush of blood to the head. Headache with nasal catarrh and full hard pulse. Headache with nasal catarrh and fever. Headache disappears after the nasal catarrh. Violent headache, with flickering before the eyes, as if nasal catarrh would break out. Deep internal headache. Painful pressure beneath the skull, with rush of blood. Pressive sensation beneath the skull, as from taking cold, after going out; the same, associated with nausea, comes and goes; very much aggravated by stooping; the pain alternates with heat. Pressive headache for two days; on the 3rd day congestion to the head, with flickering before the eyes in wonderful jagged figures, followed by headache. Pressive headache, after the attack of vomiting at night. Pressive headache with nausea. Pressive headache with sleepiness. Oppressive heavy sensation in the head, with nauseous vertigo, after drinking wine. Pressive dizzy headache. Violent pressing pains and congestion to the head, in the morning (16th day). Sudden violently pressing pain about the upper portion of the head, in the evening; worse in both temples, where he feels every step on walking. (* After Phosphoric acid, ineffectually taken as an antidote *) Fine deep-sticking headache. Stitches in the head, with nasal catarrh. Tearing in the head. Beating in the head on stooping, with erysipelas of the face. A heavy spot in the middle of the head that goes back and forth as he moves the head. Forehead. Pressive heavy sensation in the forehead. Headache in the forehead. Headache in the forehead, at times (5th day). Headache first over the whole forehead, afterwards becoming more concentrated towards the left frontal sinus. Headache in the left frontal eminence deep internally as if connected with the ear; it is also painful externally on pressure, as if bruised, in the morning. Headache over the eyes, extending to the root of the nose (after 2 hours), and lasting nearly all day. Headache near the right eye (4th day). Dull headache in the forehead (after 2 and 3 hours ). Aching or pressive headache deep in the forehead and left temple. Transient drawing from the left temple to the forehead. Pressure in the forehead. Pressure inwards in the forehead, disappears in the open air and on moving about, but returns when sitting still in the house; two evenings. Pressure above the left eye in the forenoon (11th day). Writhing in the forehead above the right eye (1st day). Sudden shooting in the forehead (followed by throbbing headache that she had often had formerly. Tearing sticking in the forehead across above the eyebrows. Tearing in the forehead above the eyebrows also as if in the bones in the morning (5th day). Headache in the left frontal sinus, as if sore. Violent throbbing above the left eye. (Throbbing pain above the right eye, with nausea, bad taste in the mouth, heartburn). Pain as if swollen in the angle in front of the styloid process, worse when pressing upon it. Temples. Headache in both temples. Pressure beneath the both temples, extending to the ear. Pressure, quite severe in the left temple, lasting the forenoon. Stitches in the left temple and side of the head. Tearing extending upwards from the ears to the temples. Throbbing in both temples, in the morning on waking, lasting quarter of an hour (2nd day). Constant beating in the temples for ten days before menstruation. Pulsating pain in the right temple, that extends into the right orbit. Vertex. Boring and sticking on the vertex. Very painful drawing from one spot above the right ear to the crown, recurring five times with intervals of some seconds; an hour after eating, sticking in the vertex and temples, as with knives and forks; extending through the head, with catarrh and stiffness of the nape of the neck. Stitches on the vertex. Stitches in the vertex, coming from the eyes. Headache on the vertex as if beaten, internally, worse on external pressure. Parietals. (Headache on the right side extending to the neck and shoulders, with tension in the muscles). Sudden headache on the left side, continuing during the forenoon (15th day). Drawing and sticking in the right side of the head; from only smelling coffee, as if he had drunk it. Feeling as if some one cutting pieces from the right parietal bone, in the afternoon. Pressive sticking pain in the right side of the head. Two transient stitches in the right side of the head, as if starting from a scar on that side, immediately. Occiput. Heaviness like lead in the occiput; can scarcely raise it from pillow, in the morning after waking, with vertigo. Tensive pain in the right side occiput; afterwards extending to the orbits and down into the nasal bones. External Head. Desquamation of the skin of the scalp and face. Numbness and crawling on the left side of the head, as in the whole left side, in the evening and next morning. Violent burning on the scalp after slight scratching, with congestion and headache (7th day). Great lightness and an unpleasant swimming sensation in the head (soon after second powder ), followed by headache, which continued for two days; she said she never knew before what it was to have the headache; the pain was confined to the back of the head and the sensation was “as if the hair were tied too tight”. Tension and the drawing pains in an old scar above the right ear, at night as though it were painful, on sudden sharp changes in the weather. Tearing in the old scar on the head. Scalp painful to touch. Painfulness of the whole left side of the head. Around painful spot in the center of the head. Painful sensitiveness in the left temple from the vertex down, and in the left half of the face, when touched, or on moving the muscles, as, for example laughing, chewing, etc.; a sensation as if the skin had been burnt by great heat of the sun, which was not the case; lasting three days, gradually disappearing. Violent itching on the scalp, as from ants. Violent itching on the scalp, and over the whole body.

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.