LACHESIS



APPETITE AND TASTE.

Offensive, bad taste in the mouth. Bad taste in the mouth, remaining after eating, with vomiting in the morning and pressure in the pit of the throat. salt taste, also about the lips only, or when hawking up mucus. Metallic taste with dryness of thee mouth. Bitter taste. Loss of appetite. Extreme aversion to food. Strong appetite, also with derangement of thee stomach, or with urging to lie down after a meal. hunger. Great desire for acids. Vomiting of food by coughing. Malaise, with rising of air, nausea, anxiety, inability to think intensely, and apprehensive felling until eructations take place, after every meal. Pressure in the stomach, also with weakness of the knees. Heaviness in the stomach. Gnawing and pressure in the stomach, a few hours after a meal. Pressure around umbilicus. Repletion. Shortness of breathing. Vertigo. Sore throat also early in the morning or in the evening. Drowsiness, after breakfast or supper, or aster dinner, with repletion, or languor. Indolence and heaviness; desire to lie down. Heaviness, after very copious meal. Weakness of digestion of the stomach, dyspepsia. Chronic complaints.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Empty eructation at night, with aggravation of thee pain. Eructations which afford relief, particularly when tormented by flatulence distending the stomach, or pressing against the chest as if incarcerated in the chest, or when accompanying a number of other affections. Regurgitation of the ingesta after eating. Gulping up of sour water after, or particularly in thee morning. Sensation as if heartburn would come on. A kind of loathing with nausea almost unto vomiting. Nausea, in paroxysms. Nausea and inclination to, accompanying other complaints. Vomiting, with nausea after the bite of a viper. Vomiting of thee ingesta. Spasmodic vomiting, with bill or nightly diarrhoea. Bilious vomiting, also early in the morning, with mucus. Green vomiting. Vomiting of mucus. Vomiting with diarrhea. Sudden inclination to vomit and urging to diarrhoea, but ineffectual. Vomiting of pregnant females. Affections of drunkards.

STOMACH.

Violent pain in the stomach. A good deal of pain in the pit of the stomach, with constant inclination to vomit, nausea, and diarrhoea. Pain as from soreness in thee pit the stomach. Gnawing in the stomach. Pressure in the stomach. Gnawing pressure, relieved after eating. Painful pressure in the stomach, preceded by a griping at the anus. Burning in the stomach and the region of thee liver, with distention of the stomach and abdomen.

HYPOCHONDRIA.

Pain when coughing, sometimes as if ulcerated. Cutting on taking a deep inspiration. Gnawing on both side, deep an thee abdomen, or laceratings from the side towards the middle. Tension as if the tendons were too short. Pains in thee region of the liver. Burning, also around the umbilicus, preceded by lacerating in the body. Hepatitis particularly in drunkards. Ramolissement of the liver. Abscesses of the liver. Violent pain in the region of the spleen.

ABDOMEN.

Pain across the abdomen, after walking, or across the umbilical region. early in the morning. Colic with constipation. Intolerable pains in thee abdomen, with burning and bloatedness. Intolerable pain in the lumbar region, particularly on the left side, with constipation. Pain as if diarrhoea would set in particularly in the umbilical region. Heaviness in thee abdomen, at night Pressure, with arrests the breathing, above umbilicus labor like pressing downwards proceeding from the loins during the menses. Violent spasmodic colic, with diarrhoea. Spasms in the abdomen, during the menses. Contractive sensation in the abdomen. Cutting in the abdomen, Particularly before the menses, or with burning and urging to urinate. Frequent attacks of lacerating lancinations, with pains in the rectum. Lacerating in the abdomen, during the menses. Sensation as of something alive in the abdomen. Beating in the abdomen and chest. Burning in the abdomen. mounting towards the chest and descending to the thighs. Burning with colic, bloatedness, and cutting. Burning around the umbilicus. Enteritis. Ascites. Distention of the abdomen, accompanying other affection. Hard distention of the abdomen. Incarceration of flatulence. On the abdominal integuments: Red sport like the bites of bed-bugs. Great sensitiveness of the hernial protrusion. Violent pain of long standing in thee groin. Painful swelling and induration in the side of the abdomen.

STOOL AND ANUS.

Constipation. Chronic constipation without any other ailments. Costiveness of years’ standing. Hard stool, resembling sheep- dung. with difficult, scanty discharge, or with Tenesmus. Unsuccessful urging to stool. Thin stools, sometimes mixed with slippery balls. Alternate looseness and constipation of thee bowels. Tenacious, pitch-like stool. Burning stool, preceded by colic, and urging. Diarrhoea. Chronic diarrhoea, exhausting, generally evening and night. Diarrhoea, with violent spasmodic colic. diarrhoeic stools, which look as if hashed, with soreness of the anus, coldness, and headache. Diarrhoea after eating. Disposition to diarrhoea in warn weather. Discharge of blood and pus from the anus. Constriction of the anus. Lacerating griping in the anus, alternating with oppression of the chest. pressure in the anus Drawing in the anus. Pain in the rectum before stood. Burning in the anus during or after stool. Discharge of blood from the anus. Protrusion of thee rectum after stood. Haemorrhoidal sufferings Varicose of the anus and rectum, with pain and urging to stool. Haemorrhoidal tumors attending the scantiness of the menstrual flow at the critical age.

URINE.

Stitches in the region of the kidneys. dull pain in the bladder, during constipation. Pressure, as from hammerheads of the bladder. Difficulty of urinating. Urging to urinate. Frequent micturition, with copious emission of foaming urine, of a dark or also light color. Yellow urine, like sulphur, or saffron. Dark

and turbid urine, with sediment, in persons affected with rheumatism. Copious brown-red urine, as in typhus. Turbid and dark urine with a sediment of brown sand, and a severe cutting during micturition. Urine with red or brick-dust sediment. Burning during micturition, or with violent urging to urinate, with copious discharge.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Red spots on the glans, sometimes accompanied with syphilitic after urinating. Contusive pain in the testes, worse when sitting. Increased sexual instinct. Violent erections. Nocturnal emissions.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Pain in the parts as if swollen. Scanty, delaying, intermittent menses, also accompanied with toothache, or with discharge of mucus, blood, and pus by the anus, with tenesmus, costiveness, attended with burning and pressure over the abdomen up to the throat. Scanty menses, with increased leucorrhoea. Reappearance of the suppressed menses, with diminution of the pains, at the critical age. Lachesis is frequently indispensable at the critical age, even when the menses are too profuse, or with metrorrhagia. Before the menses. Vertigo with headache; attack of cardialgia, with oppression of the chest and eructation; leucorrhoea. During the menses lacerating in the abdomen; beating in the head; violent labor-like pressing from the loins downward; violent spasms in the abdomen. Leucorrhoea before the menses, copious, smarting, slimy. Thin blue milk, rejected by the infant. Pains attendant on cancer of the breast.

LARYNX AND COUGH.

Suffocative throbbing between the larynx and chest. Swelling of the larynx, with rawness, scraping, and urging to swallow. Pain as from soreness in the larynx, early in the morning. Pressure in the larynx. Noisy, troublesome, croupy breathing in laryngeal phthisis. Aggravation of the laryngeal and tracheal Phthisis, when the symptoms are worse at night and particularly after midnight, and when they are less at noon and in the afternoon (or during rest), accompanied with disposition to diarrhoea, fine white skin, red lips and cheeks. Hoarseness, with feeble voice and constriction of the throat. Hoarseness in the evening. Cough, occasioned by ulcers in the throat. Short and hacking cough, occasioned by talking constantly. Cough excited by pressure on the larynx. Titillating cough, violent in the evening, in bed, with hoarseness, headache from time to time, pain in the limbs, or in other parts of the body, here and there. Cough, accompanying a number of nervous affections. Short and hacking cough, occasioned by a tingling in the throat. Suffocative cough the whole night. Hard and fatiguing cough, even unto vomiting, with difficult cough with congestion to blood to the head and face, violent irritation in the throat. Dry cough, difficult, yellow expectoration. with rough, hollow voice, pain as from p73 soreness in the chest and sternum, with cough as if proceeding from the pit of the stomach. Bloody expectoration, with frothy mucus. Purulent pulmonary phthisis. Symptoms accompanying the cough. Discharge of water from the mouth; pain in the pit if the stomach, with sensitiveness in the trachea, burning deep in the left breast, and pain in over the ribs as if ulcerated; pain in the abdomen; vomiting; darting in the groin; pain in the anus. Noise in the trachea, after the cough. Light cough, which affords relief, with intermittent pulse.

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.