Lachesis



Heat at night, especially after sleep, from orgasm of blood (N.)

Muttering delirium, with dropping of the lower jaw (Lycopodium) and illusions (d.)

Typhoid pneumonia: Indicated late in the disease, when pus forms in the lungs (Kali carb.), and the patient is bathed in a profuse sweat and sputa is mixed with blood and pus (D.)

Much pain of an aching kind in the shin-bones only (N.)

Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with intense pain (tarent.) (A.)

Red, bluish, painful swelling on the limbs; very sensitive; impending gangrene (N.).

MALIGNANT PUSTULES, WITH DARK BLUISH OR PURPLE APPEARANCE (A.).

Perspiration cold, or stains yellow or bloody (Lycopodium) (A.)

Sticking, drawing pains in the spine extending into the hips and legs, especially in the ischium (R.)

Sticking, tearing in the arms and legs (R).

Post-diphtheritic paralysis (R).

Thirsty, but fears to drink (Lyss.) (R.)

AGGRAVATION:

      At climacteric; from touch; from constriction or pressure; from the heat of the sun; after sleeping; from suppressed or delayed discharges; during spring, or summer; from acids; from alcohol; from empty deglutition; from extremes of temperature; from hot drink; and from hot room.

AMELIORATION:

      From the onset of a discharge; during menses; in the open air; and from cold application.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Incompatible: Acet-Ac., and Carb-Ac.

Complementary: Hepar, Lycopodium and Acid nitricum

In intermittent fever Natrum muriaticum follows Lachesis well when the type changes.

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)