Lachesis

William Boericke 1922

Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist. Especially suitable to drunkards.*" Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful. [Bell.] Stool. — Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every time he sneezes or coughs. Haemorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particles. Haemorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish. Stitches in them on sneezing or coughing. Constant urging in rectum, not for stool.

William Boericke 1922

feet icy cold ; hot flushes and hot perspiration. Paroxysm returns after acids. Intermittent fever every spring.

William Boericke 1922

Neuralgia of coccyx, tvorse rising from sitting posture; must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region.

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High single potencies classically; repetition only after clear relapse toward the same picture.

William Boericke 1922

Tearing pain from zygoma into ear; also with sore

William Boericke 1922

Defective vision after diphtheria, extrinsic nluscles too weak to maintain focus. Sensation as if eyes were drawn together by cords which were tied in a knot at root of

William Boericke 1922

Pale. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat running up into

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Climacteric disturbances with flushes and palpitations; menses black, offensive, relieved by flow; left ovarian complaints.

William Boericke 1922

Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, haemorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure of clothes. Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved hy the flow. [Eupion.] Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated. Mammae inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on ,^^ng from sitting posture. Acts especially well at be- ' Ifinning and close of menstruation.

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Haemorrhagic tendency with dark decomposed blood; left-sided predominance; any part cannot bear constriction.

William Boericke 1922

thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound. The modalities are most important in guiding to the remedy. Delirium tremens with much trembling and confusion. Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition. Ill effects of suppressed discharges. Diphtheritic paralysis. [Botulinum.] Diphtheria carriers.

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Flushes of heat to head and face; headaches sun-triggered; hair falls after illness; cannot bear hats or anything tight.

William Boericke 1922

[PAoj.] Tearing pain in jaw-bones. [Amphishoena; Phos.] Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic.

William Boericke 1922

Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain ; worse after moving. Sun headaches. With headache, very pale

William Boericke 1922

Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric. Constricted feeling, causing palpitation, with an.xiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats.

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Intense, loquacious, jealous states with symptoms worsening after sleep and unbearable constriction anywhere.

William Boericke 1922

Feels he must take a deep breath. Cramp-like distress in prsecordial region. Cough ; dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness ; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep. [Grind.] Larynx painful to touch. StMisation as of a plug [Ahac.] which moves up and down, with a short cough.

William Boericke 1922

Intense excitement of sexual organs.

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Loquacity jumping from topic to topic; jealousy and suspicion; heightened ego with wit and satire; depression worse mornings, especially on waking.

William Boericke 1922

Great loquacity. Amative. Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world. Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time. Jealous. Mental labor best performed at night. Religious insanity. [Vcrat.: Stram.] Derangement of the time sense.

William Boericke 1922

Worse, after sleep, (Kali bich.) Lachesis sleeps into aggravation; left side, in the spring, 448

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Worse: after sleep, heat, sun, tight clothing, touching throat, alcohol. Better: appearance of discharge (menses, lochia), open air, cold drinks.

William Boericke 1922

Gums swollen, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on

William Boericke 1922

Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay asthma; paroxysms of sneezing. [Silica.; Sabad.]

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Compare Lycopodium (right-sided, 4–8 p.m. vs Lachesis' left-sided post-sleep), Sepia (menopausal overlap); complementary Lycopodium, Hepar sulph.

William Boericke 1922

Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch. Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around

William Boericke 1922

Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores, with black edges. Blueblack swellings. Pyaemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis.

William Boericke 1922

Patient sleeps into an aggravation. Sudden starting when falling .sleep. Sleepiness, yet cannot

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Symptoms worsen during and after sleep — sleeps into aggravation; dreams of snakes and fire; avoids daytime sleep for this reason.

William Boericke 1922

[Bell.; Op.] Wide-awake in evening.

William Boericke 1922

Craving for alcohol, oysters. Any food causes distress. Pit of stomach painful to touch. Hungry, cannot wait for food. Gnawing pressure made better by eatipg, but returning in a few hours. Perceptible trembling movement in the epigastric region. Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids.

William Boericke 1922

Aphthous and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste. Teeth ache, pain extends to turs. Pain in facial bones. 446

William Boericke 1922

Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed ; zvorsc, swallowing saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neck-band must be very loose.

William Boericke 1922

Ear-wax hard, dry.

William Boericke 1922

compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window. Spasm of glottis; feels as if something ran from neck to

William Boericke 1922

Quinsy. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and internally. Diphtheria ; membrane dusky, blackish ; pain aggraz^atcd by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying. Worse on left side. In diphtheria, etc., the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of

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Worse from hot drinks; empty swallowing hurts more than swallowing solids; throat sensitive to touch externally — collars unbearable.