CROTALUS


CROTALUS symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy CROTALUS…


INTRODUCTION

CROTAL. Crot. Horridus, Rattlesnake Poison. Hering, “On the Poison of Serpents.” Duration of Action: Several weeks.

COMPARE WITH.

Lachesis and the analogous remedies.

ANTIDOTES.

Phosph.? (See the antidotes of Lachesis).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Spring complaints; Irregular stool, with pimples in the face, particularly in warm weather, headache and nausea, painfulness near the pit of the stomach, in the region of the hip and in other parts. Colic after dinner, and early in the morning. Vertigo with headache and nausea. Sore throat after a cold. The bones feel bruised in the morning, relieved after rising. Old rheumatism. Paralysis. The action of the nervous and muscular systems is increased in patients. Languor, and sudden decrease of the vital forces, with fever. Frequent fainting spells, with imperceptible pulse and inclination to vomit. Appears dead, is motionless, tremulous, speechless, with trembling pulse. Trembling of the whole body. Paroxysms trembling and convulsions Spasms and convulsions, with violent cries and delirium. Haemorrhage from every orifice of the body, even from the pores of the skin. The would bleeds readily, with swelling and ecchymosis. Discharge of bloody serum from the wound. Makes the blood redder, in sick people. Chlorosis.?.

CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES.

Yearly recurrence of blue-yellow spots, with swellings, pains, and fever. The pains, except the headache, came and went off suddenly. The pains succeed one another rapidly, and return frequently. Most of the symptoms appear on the right side. The pains occasioned by Crot. appear to be more particularly seated in the bones of the extremities. Crot. appears to affect fat persons more than thin, and white people more than colored.

SKIN.

Black spots over the whole body. Red spots and blisters. Yellow, green, bluish spots. Blue and yellow spots, with swelling and fever. The whole body and urine look yellow, as in jaundice. Erysipelatous inflammations (in the face). The skin is covered with little blotches. Blisters and livid spots on the body, with frequent faintings fits and imperceptible pulse. Hot swellings, with cold skin and sickly appearance. Swellings of the whole body. General anasarca. Large abscess on the elbow, with diarrhoea and shivering. Fluctuating swelling on the wrist- joining containing serum.. Old cicatrices break open again. Gangrene over the whole body.

SLEEP.

Irresistible drowsiness. Drowsiness with cold skin. Sopor. Feels bruised on waking in the morning.

FEVER.

Cold skin, with nausea, pulse 100. Cold hands and feet, the latter burn occasionally. Shuddering with diarrhoea. Delirium in typhus, with muttering. Delirium with open eyes, horrid headache, red face, in fever and ague. Pulse 100 to 130, with cold skin and frequent fainting turns. Pulse feeble and quick, with fever and languor. Pulse first hard, then quick, then feeble and slow. Tremulous, imperceptible pulse, with loss of motion and speech. Intermittent pulse. Dry, consumptive fever, with dry tongue and thirst. Constant fever, with thirst, bilious vomiting, palpitation of the heart anguish, quick and feeble pulse, languor, and rapid sinking of the vital forces. Yellow fever. Typhus. Tertian, intermittent, first chilliness, then heat with pain in the small of the back, pain of all the limbs, restless tossing with oppression of the chest, horrid headache, red, bloated face, and delirium with open eyes. Fever with swelling and pain. Thirst during the fever. Bloody sweat.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Lowness of spirits, indifference to everything. Out of humor, languor, Restlessness, also with fainting spells. Melancholy, dread of men, with sudden weakness, headache, sickness at the stomach, diarrhoea. Melancholy, sadness. Quarrelsome.?

SENSORIUM.

Crazy, imbecile. Inertia, dullness of mind, with inability to express his ideas correctly. Incoherent answers, with cold skin and quick pulse. Striking weakness of memory. Rush of blood to the head, when affected with constipation, attended with headache, or during the convulsions. Vertigo with nausea. The eyes swim, with dilation of the pupil, chalk-colored face, and blue margins around the eyes.

HEAD.

Pains in the whole head, immediately after the bite. Headache from congestion of blood and constipation. Feeling of tightness in the head, with pressure in the temples. Pressure in the forehead, with frequent paroxysms of vertigo and nausea. Dartings in the temples, particularly the left. Aching in the forehead, with vertigo, nausea, bilious vomiting, constipation, relieved by open air.

SCALP.

Tension in the frontal and posterior cervical muscles. Shivering over the hairy scalp. Itching of the hairy scalp. Swelling of the head, particularly the face.

EYES.

Pressure in and above the orbits, behind the ears, and in the nasal bone. Burning in the eyes. Redness of the eyes, with lachrymation. Blood oozes from the eyes, which looked ecchymosed. Yellow, faint, sunken eyes. Dilated pupil. Frequent vanishing of the visual power and lachrymation in damp weather. Vanishing of sight in reading.

EARS.

Heat and titillation in the ears. Drawing in the ears, with stoppage, painfulness of the whole left side of the head, and lameness of the jaw. Blood comes out of the ears. Stoppage, with sensation as if wax would flow into the mouth.

NOSE.

Violent sneezing, with stitch in the chest.

FACE.

Chalk-colored face. Yellow face, for a long while. Pale cheeks turn red. Swelling of the face (and head). Distended red face, with delirium and fever and ague. Erysipelas of the face, recurring frequently. Pimples in spring, with headache, nausea, irregular stool, in girls. Drawing with pressure in the malar and jaw-bones. Tremor of the lips. Foam at the mouth. Spasmodic lock- jaw, with swelling of hands and arms. Immobility of the jaws, the tongue protrudes between the teeth.

TEETH.

Bruised pain in the right lower jaw and teeth. Exfoliation of the teeth on the inner side. Looseness of the teeth. Bleeding gums.

MOUTH.

Fetid smell from the mouth. Brown, swollen tongue. Aphonia.

THROAT,.

Painful roughness and dryness in the throat. Difficult deglutition of saliva. Hydrophobia.?.

APPETITE, TASTE,.

Sour taste. Unquenchable, burning thirst. Rancid eructations. Heartburn. Hiccough. Nausea shortly after the bite. Inclination to vomit, with cold skin. Vomiting, green bilious fever. Violent vomiting every time he eats.

STOMACH.

Pain in the stomach and pit of the stomach, with nausea and qualmishness. Pressure in the pit of the stomach.

HYPOCHONDRIA.

Cannot bear tight clothes. Burning in the region of the liver. Yellow fever, jaundice. Cutting in the region of the spleen, as after running.

ABDOMEN.

Pressure in the abdomen, as if too full. Cutting in the abdomen, after a meal. Burning in the abdomen. Ascites, arising from blood-letting in enlargement of the heart, is diminished. Distention of the abdomen.

STOOL.

Constipation and headache. Papescent stool. Involuntary stool. Haemorrhage from the rectum and from every part of the body.

URINE.

Painful retention of urine in a boy of eight years, with loud screams, sensation as if a ball were rolling about in the bladder and were pushing through the urethra, loss of sense, swelling of the face and sensation as if the swelling were turning round like a ball. Urine highly colored, red-yellow, as in jaundice. Haemorrhage from the urethra.

GENERAL ORGANS.

Increase of sexual instinct, with entire relaxation of the penis. Pains in the cancer of the breast.? The cancerous ulcer exhibits almost back streaks of coagulated blood on its base.

LARYNX.

Hoarseness, and weak, rough voice. Cough, with stitch in the side and bloody expectoration from the lungs.

CHEST.

Sudden breathing, with open mouth and distortion of the eyes outwards. Snoring or wheezing breathing. Relieved greatly the excessive oppression of the chest in old people affected with hydrothorax. Difficulty of breathing, with unquenchable thirst and tightness of the chest as if the lungs would not expand. Asthma, with anguish, thirst, nausea, and diarrhoea. Oppression of the chest, also in fever and ague, particularly when sitting. Violent pains in the chest, with vomiting of a green fluid. Stitches through the sternum, with soreness in the chest. Pneumonia. Pain about the heart. Palpitation of the heart during the fever.

BACK.

Pain in the small of the back, in fever and ague. Bruised pain in the neck, from the larynx to the chin and lower teeth, in sudden paroxysms. Considerable swelling under the jaw and around the neck.

ARMS.

Soft tubercles under the skin, in the region of the shoulder- joint. Bruised pain in the bones about the shoulder, worse when moving the arms backwards. Swelling of the arm, with heaviness. Spasmodic bruised pain in the upper arms. Trembling of the hands during rest. Laming bone-pains in the fingers. Blood oozes from under the nails.

LEGS.

Spasmodic pain, as from weariness, toward the abdomen and buttocks. Arthritic drawing in the patella and leg. Rheumatic drawing in the bend of the knee. Drawing pain in the marrow, from the knee to the sole. Swelling of the leg, burning like fire. Burning and stinging in the sole of the foot, with weight of the foot as of lead. Bruised pain in malleoli, in walking. Soreness of the sole, as from walking on a sharp body. Swelling of the feet, with coldness and burning. Painful numbness in the toes, as after a cramp.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.