LACHESIS


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Lachesis from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Suitable to persons of a choleric, melancholy temperament, dark eyes and a disposition to low spirits and indolence.

Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair.

better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fat persons; or adapted to those who have been changed both mentally and physically by their illness.

Climacteric ailments; haemorrhoids, haemorrhages, hot flushes, burning vertex headaches; especially after the cessation of the flow.

Drunkards; with headaches, haemorrhoids; prone to erysipelatoid inflammations.

Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go to the right.

Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; can bear nothing tight around the waist; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, not because sore or tender as in Apis or Belladonna, but the clothes cause an uneasiness.

Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility.

All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep; unhappy; distressed.

Mental excitability; ecstasy, with almost prophetic perceptions; great loquacity.

Catamenia at regular time, but too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses.

Great physical and mental exhaustion, would constantly sink down from weakness, worse in the morning.

Epilepsy; comes on during sleep, from loss of fluids, onanism, jealousy.

Haemorrhagic tendency; small wounds bleed much; blood dark, non-coagulable.

Boils, carbuncles, ulcers; dark bluish-purple appearance; tend to malignancy.

Complementary to Lycopodium.

Religious mania.

Vertigo in the morning on waking; on closing the eyes.

Headache extending into the nose.

Dimness of vision; much black flickering before the eyes, that seem very near.

Pains in the ears, with a sore throat.

Tearing extending from the zygoma into the ear.

Yellow complexion, with redness of the cheeks.

Bad odor from the mouth.Anterior half of the tongue red, smooth, and shining; cracked at the tip.

Hawking of mucus, with rawness in the throat, after a nap in the daytime.

Dryness in the throat without thirst, on waking.

Left side of the face and lower jaw swollen and sensitive to touch.

Pains in the throat, in connection with those in the ears.

The throat and larynx are painful, even on bending the head backward.

The throat seems somewhat swollen, as if two lumps as large as the fists came together; only on empty swallowing, not on eating, which latter on account of this sensation seemed to do good.

Feeling as if a crumb of bread remained sticking in the throat.

Such a sore and ulcerated throat that she could swallow only with great difficulty.

Sensitiveness of the throat as if sore, with pain in the left side.

Liquids cause more difficulty in swallowing than solid food.

The throat is very sensitive to external pressure.

If in the evening, on lying down, anything touches the throat or larynx, it seems as though he would suffocate, and the pain is much worse.

Tenderness in the left iliac region, with intolerance of the slightest pressure.

Stitches in the rectum when laughing or sneezing.

Beating in the anus as from little hammers.

Haemorrhoidal tumors protrude after stool.

Stools: consisting of decomposed blood looking like charred straw; chocolate-colored; bloody water; very offensive; cadaverous smelling.

Menses: delayed, scanty, or intermittent; discharge is dark, lumpy, or acrid; reappearance of the suppressed menses, with diminution of the pains, at the climacteric period.

Labor-like pains, as if everything was being pressed out, followed by a slight discharge.

Cramps in the uterus.

Menstrual colic beginning in the left ovary.

Dysmenorrhoea at the critical period.

Leucorrhoea, a few days before menses, copious, stiffening the linen and leaving a greenish stain.

Smarting at the vulva.

She cannot bear any pressure, not even her clothing, upon the uterine region.

Larynx and the whole throat painful to touch.

Cough worse after every sleep.

Dry, hacking cough caused by touching the throat.

Constantly obliged to take a deep breath.

Cramp-like pain in the praecordial region, causing palpitation, with anxiety.

With every single cough stitches in the haemorrhoidal tumors.

Troubles beginning on left side.

Weakness of the whole body, in the morning on rising.

Great physical and mental exhaustion.

Sore spots became fungoid, dark-red to brownish.

Lively and wide awake, for a long time.

Chilliness in the back, commencing in the small of the back.

Violent chill, and longing for the fire.

Wants to be near the fire and lie down.

Child must be held firmly to relieve the pain in head and chest, and prevent shaking.

If held firmly or pressed down, feels relieved.

Chill and heat alternating and changing from place to place.

Internal sensation of heat, and cold feet.

Sweat: smelling like garlic; stains yellow; bloody, staining red.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.