It is also of value in nervous affections of the heart, with palpitation (111) and feeling as if the heart were growing up (113) and would suffocate him, or with the violent beating there is a sensation as if the heart turned over (114). It is a valuable palliative in congenital cyanosis (207) and “blue baby.”
Remember Lachesis in neuralgia and inflammation of the spine (171) and spinal nerves, myelitis, in neuritis and in neuralgia of the coccyx (34).
The skin under Lachesis is bluish or purple (207). In erysipelas (68) we would think of it in severe cases starting on the left side, and accompanied by great swelling and bluish look. In purpura haemorrhagica (158) the whole body is swollen, extremely sore and intolerant of the pressure of the clothing. There is tendency to ecchymoses, with purple or black spots (65), and to bed-sores and intolerant of the pressure of the clothing. There is tendency to ecchymoses, with purple or black spots (65), and to bed-sores (21), with black edges.
It is useful in indolent, varicose (205) and venereal ulcers, with sensitiveness, bluish-purple color, and general tendency of the sore to become gangrenous (82), as well as in carbuncle, suppurating wounds and ulcers which threaten to become gangrenous.
It is of value in pustular eruptions, which suppurate and become bluish-black, and has proved curative in the Bubonic plague.
In intermittent fever, Lachesis would be indicated in chronic cases, with tendency to recur in the spring, or recurring in the spring or summer “after suppression in previous fall by quinine” (Hering) and this latter symptom is called “guiding” by H. C. Allen.
The chill begins in the small of the back (121) and is “better in warm room or from external heat” (Hering) (121). During the fever we would have livid complexion, loquacity and the desire to loosen the clothes about the neck, as if they hindered the circulation and caused suffocation. The sweat is profuse and strong smelling, especially sweat in the axilla smelling like garlic.
Lachesis is useful in all typhoid types of disease, and in typhoid fever we would have in addition to the extreme prostration of the remedy, loquacity, dry, red tongue, offensive discharges and exhalations and the tendency to haemorrhages (193) of dark blood.
Lycopodium follows Lachesis well and Am. carb., Dulcamara, Acid nitricum, Psorinum, and “Acid aceticum” (Hering) are injurious or incompatible.
