LACHESIS


Symptoms of the homeopathic medicine LACHESIS from A Text Book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics by A.C. Cowperthwaite. Find all the symptoms of LACHESIS …


      Synonym. Lachesis mutus. Natural Order. Ophidia. Common name. Bushmaster Snake of Brazil. Preparation. Triturations of the venom.

GENERAL ANALYSIS

Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, and more especially upon the pneumogastric. The nerve centres and poisoned, and as a result, prostration, convulsions and unconsciousness ensue, while from the influence of the pneumo-gastric we obtain irritable conditions of the throat, larynx bronchi and heart, yet not passing into distinct inflammation. As a further result of the poison, the blood becomes inoculated, decomposition sets in, the fibrin of he blood is destroyed and we have, resulting ecchymoses, haemorrhages asthenic inflammations, abscesses, malignant inflammations, gangrene, pyaemia; and with all, and as a result of all, a general typhoid condition. the chief characteristic of Lachesis is the aggravation of all its symptoms after sleep.

CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.

Mind. Memory weak (Agaricus, Ambr., Anacardium, Kreos, m Mercurius, Natr. mur., Nux moschata, Phosphorus ac.); makes mistakes in orthography (Lycopodium). Confusion as to time. Great mental activity,, ideas crowd rapidly (Coffea c., Cinchona). Loquacious; in the evening. Constantly changing from one subject to another (Cimic.(, with mocking jealousy, satire, ridiculous ideas, frightful images (Hyos,). Indifference. Great sadness and anxiety on awaking in the morning (Natr. mur.). Proud (Platina, Stramonium); jealous (Apis, Hyoscyamus); suspicious. Thinks herself under superhuman control.

Head. Vertigo in the morning on waking (alum., Phosphorus, Nitr. ac.); momentary, on closing the eyes (Thuja). Headache, extending into the root of the nose (Mercurius iod.). Headache with flickering before the eyes. Rush of blood to head. Heat in head. Pressive headache, with nausea. Headache in left frontal eminence; deep internal. Headache over the eyes and in the occiput, every morning on rising. Throbbing headache over right eye. One-sided headache pains intense, extend to neck and shoulders, with tension in muscles. Neck stiff (Rhus tox); tongue paralytic. Pressing bursting pains in the temples;l better when like lead, in the occiput (Carb v., chel.); can scarcely raise left temple from vertex down, and left side of face on touch or moving muscles, a sensation as if sunburnt. Numbness and crawling on left side of head, when touched or on moving the muscles in the evening and morning with crawling. Hair falls off (Graphites, Mercurius, Nitr. ac., Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur)); worse during pregnancy; aversion to sun’s rays (Belladonna, Gloninum, Natr. carb.).

Eyes. Dimness of vision; black flickering before the eyes; often makes reading difficult. Fog before the eyes (Kali often makes reading difficult. Fog before the eyes (Kali iod., Mercurius, Pulsatilla, sulph.); bright blue rings, filled with fiery rays, about the fright; zigzag figures. Sensitive to light. Lachrymation. Sticking, drawing pains in and above the eyes,.

Ears Pain in ears, with sore throat, Tearing extending from the zygoma into the ears. Whizzing, as from insects in the ear. Hearing diminished.

Nose. Coryza, preceded by headache (Hydras.); and stiffness of nape; discharge water, with red, sore nostrils; scabs in the nose (Mercurius) Nosebleed; blood thick and dark. Nosebleed in amenorrhoea, typhus, etc. Paroxysms of sneezing in any asthma. Many symptoms end with catarrh.

Face. pale, earthy, gray color of face (Arsenicum). Erysipelatous inflammation of the face (Belladonna, Graphites, Hepar s., Rhus tox.). heat and redness of the otherwise pale face. Tearing in zygoma, extending into the ear. Left side of face and lower jaw swollen and sensitive to touch. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, orbital, heat rubbing up into the head. Feeling of stiffness of the malar bone, coming from the cervical glands. Itching of the face.

Mouth. Toothache, tearing, jerking, sticking (Pulsatilla); often extending though jaw to ear;l periodic; after waking; after eating (Antim crud., Nux v., Staph); from warm and cold drinks. Feeling as if the teeth were too long when bitings them together. gums bleeding, swollen; spongy. Tongue dry, red, black, stiff, cracked (Baptisia, Belladonna, Naja, Rhus tox),. swollen and covered with blisters. Difficult speech; tongue heavy (Acid Muriaticum); cannot open mouth. Tongue trembles when protruded, or catches behind the teeth. Burning pain and rawness in mouth.,. then aphthous (Borax., Hydras, Mercurius, Iodi)

Throat. Hawking of mucus, with rawness in the throat at night on waking, without thirst (Apis,. Nux moschata, Pulsatilla) throat seems swollen, as if two large lumps came together, on empty swallowing food. Feeling of a crumb of bread left sticking in the throat, obliging her to constantly swallow. tonsillitis, worst on lets side. choking when swallowing; or when swallowing, pains from throat to ear (ambr., Belladonna, Kali bichromicum, Hepar s.); neck sensitive to touch Z(Apis)(. Pain and soreness begin left side of throat. Liquids cause more difficulty in swallowing than solids (Belladonna). External throat very sensitive to touch (not painful, but an uneasy sensation); in evening on lying down, with suffocative sensation; even to touch of linen.

Stomach. Appetite variable; at times good, at others no appetite at all. Thirst, with dry tongue and skin. Desire for oysters. Eructations, which relieve; amounting to vomiting. dyspepsia; worse after eating (Cinchona, Nux v., Pulsatilla). STitches extending into the chest Gnawing in stomach; relieved after eating, but returns when stomach gets empty. Painless gnawing. Pressure in stomach; after eating; with weakness in knees. Great discomfort of having clothes tight around the waist (Bryonia, Calc c., Crot.).

Abdomen. Tearing and cutting pains in right side of abdomen. Abdomen distended and hard; hot sensitive; painful(Aconite,Belladonna) Sensation as if ligaments from stomach were stretched. so that she must wear clothes very loose. Drawing from anus to umbilicus. Felling of emptiness in the abdomen. Ulcerative pain about liver; inflammation and abscess. Swelling in caecal region; must lie on back, with limbs drawn up; typhlitis. Abdomen hot, sensitive; painfully stiff from loins down thighs; peritonitis; pus formed.

Stool. a and Anus. Burning in anus during and after stools (Arsenicum, Cantharis, Mercurius, Natr. mur., Sulphur). Constriction of rectum; of anus. Protrusion after stool. Beating in. the anus, as with little hammers. Stool lies close to anus without passing and without urging. Spasmodic pain in anus before and after stool. Closed feeling in anus. Tormenting, constant urging in the rectum, not for stool Stools watery offensive dark (Ars); water, frequent, sudden, about midnight, offensive, ammoniacal; soft, bright yellow; pasty putrid. Obstinate constipation (alum., Nux v., Opium, Plum.). Haemorrhoidal tumors, protruding (Aloe, Calcarea c., Acid Muriaticum, Puls), with stitches at each cough or sneeze.

Urinary Organs. Urine frequent, foaming, black. Pressure in bladder, with frequent urging. STicking, m cutting pains, or soreness in fore part of urethra. Inefficient urging to urinate.

Female. Organs. Menses scanty, feeble, but irregular; blood black. Labor-like pain during menses (Caulophyllum,Cimic., Puls). Uterine and ovarian pains; relieved by a flow of blood. Pains, like a knife thrust into abdomen. Uterus will not bear contact even of bed clothes; they cause uneasiness. Hot flashes; metrorrhagia and other troubles during climacteric period (Sanguinaria).

Respiratory Organs. Hoarseness; rawness, scraping and dryness in larynx (Aconite, Causticum, Chamomilla, Phosphorus); sensitive to touch (Aconite, Spongia); necessity to swallow; constant necessity to hawk. Voice will not come because something in larynx prevents, which cannot be hawked loose, though mucus is brought up. Suddenly something runs from neck to larynx, and interrupts breathing;l awakens him at night; spasms of glottis. Larynx and throat painful on bending head backward. Pain in sternum at night, with burning in chest; under left heart. Larynx sensitive; cannot bear anything about the throat (Apis); causes suffocation. Cough worse after sleep;cased by pressure on larynx; dry and hacking caused by touching the throat; from tickling the throat from crawling Ign); in evening on lying down. Constantly obliged to take to deep breath (Ign) worse when sitting. After a long wheezing cough, suddenly spits up profuse, frothy, tenacious mucus. Shortness of breath; attacks of suffocation (Aconite, Arsenicum, Apis., ipecac., Phosphorus). Oppression of the chest; in sleep. Spitting large quantities of ropy mucus.

Heart. Construction about he heart (Cact.) Cramp-like pain in. the precordial region, causing palpitation, with anxiety. Feels beating of the heart, with great weakness. Irregularity of bets in the heart (Cact., Laur.). Restless, trembling anxiety about he heat; suffocation on lying down; weight on chest; heart feels constricted; rheumatism down; weight on chest; heart feels constricted; rheumatism of heart. Fainting, with pain in heart; nausea; pale face; vertigo.

A.C. Cowperthwaite
A.C. (Allen Corson) Cowperthwaite 1848-1926.
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).