Crotalus Horridus

Rattlesnake

Abdomen

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Distended, hot, and tender. Pain in region of

Blood

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Constant nausea and vomiting every month, after mensturation. Cannot lie on right side, without vomiting dark-green matter. Black or coffee-grounds vomiting. Trembling, fluttering feeling below the epigastrium. Intolerance of clothing about epigastrium. Faintness and sinking at

William Boericke 1922

In epilepsy the average rate is far greater than in normal conditions. Blood decomposition, haemorrhages (dark fluid that forms no clots), tendency to carbuncles, malignant scarlatina, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, give opportunity to use this remedy. Hcemorrhagic diathesis. Plague, Sleeps into his symptoms.

Compare

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Bothrops; Naja (more nervous phenomena) ; Lachesis (more markedly worse on left side) ; Efaps (preferable in otorrhoea and af fections of right lung) ; Crotalus cascavella (thoughts and dreams of death. A magnetic state is produced). Bungarus ( poliomyelitis ) . Antidote: I^ch.; Alcohol.

Dose

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Third to sixth potency.

Ears

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Auditory vertigo. Blood oozes from

Extremities

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Hands tremble, swollen. Lower extremities go to sleep easily. Right-sided paralysis.

Eyes

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Very sensitive to light, especially lamp light. Yellow color of

William Boericke 1922

Illusions: blue colors. Ciliary neuralgia; tearing, boring pain, as if a cut had been made around eye. For absorption of intra-ocular heemorrhages, into the a itreous, but particularly for noninflammatory retinal hemorrhages. Diplopia.

Face

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Acne. Lips swollen and numb. Leadencolored and yellow

Female

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Prolonged menses. Dysmenorrhcea ; pain extends down thighs, with aching in region of

Fever

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offensive lochia. Phlegmasia ^Iba dolens. Sensation as though uterus would drop out. Painful drawing in uterine ligaments. Cannot keep legs still. 282

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Malignant fevers of a haemorrhagic or putrescent character. Low bilious remittents. Yellow

Guiding symptoms

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Snake poisons are supposed to be chemically Cyan, hydrates of Soda and other salts. Alcohol is the natural solvent of these salts and is an antidote. Low septic states. General disorganization of the blood, brcmorrhages and jaundice. A crotalin injection decreases the rate of coagulation of the

Head

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Vertigo, with weakness and trembling. Dull heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye. Headache with pain in heart on lying on left side. Headache; must walk on tip-toe to avoid jarring.

Heart

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Action feeble, pulse tremulous. Palpitation, especially at menstrual period.

William Boericke 1922

Uterine haemorrhage, with faintness at

Liver

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Stool. — Black, thin, offensive, like coffee-grounds. Intestinal haemorrhage ; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable. Blood oozes from rectum when standing or walkiflg.

Mind

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Weeping mood; clouded perception and memory ; impatient. Loquacious, with desire to escape. Sadness.

Modalities

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IV orse, right side ; open air ; evening and morning; in spring, coming on of warm weather; on awaking; damp and wet; jar.

Mouth

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Tongue red and small, but feels swollen. Tongue fiery red, dry in center, smooth and polished. Moldy smell of breath. Fills up with saliva. Tongue when protruding, goes to right.

Nose

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Epistaxis, blood black and stringy, ozaena, after exanthemata or syphilis.

Respiratory

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Cough, with bloody expectoration. Tickling from a dry spot in

Skin

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Sallow. Yellow color of the whole body. Great sensitiveness of skin of right half of body. Purpura hcrmorrfiagica. Haemorrhage from every part of body Bloody

Sleep

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Yawning. Srrtothering sensation when awaking.

William Boericke 1922

-- Dreams of the dead. Starting in

Stomach

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Ulceration of the

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Unable to retain anything; violent vomiting of food; bilious vomiting, vomiting of

William Boericke 1922

Intolerance of clothing around

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Atonic dyspepsia. Gastritis in chronic alcoholism.

Sweat

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Cerebrospinal meningitis. [Cicuta; Cup. acet.]

William Boericke 1922

Chilblains, felons. Dissecting wounds. Pustular eruptions. Insect stings. Post-vaccirution eruptions. Dad effects of vaccination. Lymphangitis and septicaemia. Boils, carbuncles, and eruptions are surrounded by purplish, mottled skin and oedema. Anthrax. Sore sensation relieved by pressure.

Throat

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Dry, swollen, dark red. Spasm of oesophagus; cannot swallow any solid substance. Tight constriction. Gangrenous, with much swelling.

Urinary

William Boericke 1922

Dai k, bloody urine. Casts. Inflamed kidney. Albuminous, dark, scanty. [Merc, cor.]

References

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