LACHESIS uses [Lach uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Left sided. Haemorrhagic. Hot flushes. Warm blooded.
Better free secretions
Worse sleep after. Loquacity, sharp tongued
COMMON NAME
Surukuku snake poison-trituration. Bushmaster snake
The most commonly used snake remedy
FAMILY
Ophidia
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
| - | Brain-Congestion, coma, sensory nerve life destroyed |
| - | Cord-Spasms, convulsions, sudden prostration |
| - | Vagii-Spasms of throat, emesis |
| - | Blood-Rapid decomposition |
| - | Haemorrhage |
| - | Asthenic fever |
| - | Circulation-Vasomotor paralysis |
| - | Asthenia |
| - | Paralysis of the heart |
| - | Skin-Ecchymosis, gangrene, haemorrhages, jaundice |
| - | Glands-Congestion, fatty degeneration |
| - | Female-Ovarian atony, scanty delayed menses |
A/F
| - | Long lasting grief, sorrow, fright, jealousy, vexation, disappointed love |
| - | Suppression with quinine, climacteric |
| - | Bad effect of poison wounds |
| - | Suppressed discharges |
MODALITIES
| < | Sleep |
| < | Morning |
| < | Heat of summer and sun |
| < | Warm room /drinks |
| < | Swallowing, empty, liquids |
| < | Retarded discharges |
| < | Start and close of menses |
| < | Climacteric |
| < | Alcohol |
| < | Cloudy weather |
| > | Open air |
| > | Free secretions |
| > | Cold drink |
| > | Hard pressure |
| > | Bathing part |
MIND
| - | Mental symptoms < after sleep |
| - | PASSIONATE, expressive, outgoing |
| - | INTENSE. Creative, vital, lively. Constant overflowing ideas |
| - | Clairvoyance |
| - | LOQUACITY, which < if sexual desire is suppressed. Jumps from one subject to another. Communicative, expansive. SHARP TONGUED and WITTY. Aggressive. Critical. Sarcasm |
| - | Mocks, makes odd notions, crawls on the floor, hides, spits, laughs or is angry during spasms. Talking, singing, and whistling constantly |
| - | Attached to material values. Very possessive to things and persons. Envy. JEALOUSY (Hyos, Calc-s). Feels full of poison; malice. Revengeful |
| - | SUSPICIOUS. Fear of being poisoned |
| - | Dictatorial. Selfish. Don't want to be restricted. Intolerance to authority. Delusion is under superhuman control. Thinks she is pursued, hated and despised |
| - | Delusion of death people, talking with the death; of his own funeral |
| - | Anxiety and depression in the morning. Great disposition to feel sad Indolence, apathy and extraordinary weakness of memory with loss of every mental faculty |
| - | RELIGIOUS affections |
| - | Feelings of guilt. Delusion has committed a crime |
| - | Psychosis. Manic-depression. Paranoia (Hyos, Kali-br, Verat) |
| - | Fear of SNAKES (Lac-c), insanity (Calc, Cann-i, Manc, Puls), heart disease, being poisoned |
| - | Other aspect of Lachesis:
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Suited to emaciated persons especially women, during and after climacteric with a choleric temperament, freckles and red, lain, mottled, livid skin, and who are of more melancholic temperament with dark eyes and low spirits |
| - | LEFT SIDED REMEDY. Complaints from left to right side. < LYING ON LEFT SIDE |
| - | Warmblooded < Heat > Open air |
| - | < During or after SLEEP, sleeps into aggravation |
| - | > DISCHARGES < before menses, > onset < SUPPRESSED DISCHARGES |
| - | Everything that blocks circulation (collars, tight clothes, etc.) |
| - | < Suppressed sexual desire |
| - | < Slight touch |
| - | Flushes of heat, from below upwards |
| - | Desire: FARINACEOUS, oysters, ALCOHOL |
| - | Haemorrhagic tendency from any orifice, blood dark black, decomposed, thin, offensive |
| - | Trembling of extremities, of tongue when protruded, internal trembling |
| - | Paralytic conditions with heaviness and stiffness of parts-both body and mind worn out with relaxation of muscular force. Extreme prostration from any disease all out of proportion to the condition |
| - | Excessive painfulness of all complaints |
| - | Suffocation from the least thing coming near the mouth or nose, interferes with breathing. Desires fanning, but slowly and from a distance |
| - | Sensation of a ball rolling in the internal organs, ascending upward of complaints |
| - | Periodicity is strongly marked especially in the intermittent fevers every 14 days |
| - | Cannot look at the sun, or the heat of sun |
| - | Head-Headaches of alcoholics, migrainous, pulsating, hammering headaches, bursting sensation with flushes of heat especially on vertex. Ebullition of blood to the head < before menses < climacteric > during flow |
| - | Throat-Tonsillitis and diphtheria beginning on left side and going to the right, with much soreness, dryness and constriction in the throat with dark blue purplish appearance of throat with a sense of lump and great sensitivity to touch, liquids more painful than solids on swallowing. With much prostration < sleep, < hot drinks, > cold drinks, < touch. Pain radiates to the ear |
| - | Chest-Useful in last stages of pneumonia, abscess of the lungs. With pin in the left side of the chest going upwards. Swelling of axillary glands |
| - | Respiration-Suffocative, constrictive feeling; must take a deep breath. Cough dry, suffocative; tickling; with much sensitiveness. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep. Respiration difficult > bending forwards |
| - | Heart-Violent palpitation with sense of oppression, must sit up, restless and trembling unable to lie on the left side. Cardiac neurosis or cardiac asthenia. Blueness of body with collapsed condition. Wants to be fanned slowly from a distance |
| - | Female-Climateric complaints. Palpitations, flushes of heat. Women who have never been well since menopause. Menses too short, too feeble, black, lumpy. Pains > at the onset of flow. Left ovary swollen, painful. Vicarious menstruation. Nosebleed instead of menses. Leucorrhoea copious, smarting, staining the linen greenish. Lochia bluish. Mammae inflamed. Nymphomania |
| - | Fevers-Indicated in the later stages (2nd / 3rd week) of Typhoid kinds of fevers with stupor or muttering delirium, sunken face, fallen lower jaw, trembling dry black tongue, which catches between the teeth when protruding, cold bloody perspiration with haemorrhage from bowels, exhaustion and trembling of whole body. Chilliness begins in the back, feet are icy cold, with a sense of oppression of chest. Periodic, every spring, alternate day. Heat on vertex, in flushes < sleep during and after. Burning of palms and soles |
| - | Skin-Hot; Sticky, perspiration with garlicky odour, stains yellow. Boils, carbuncles, malignant ulcers with bluish, purplish surroundings. Bedsores. Pyaemia. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellutitis with mottled appearance of skin. Small wounds bleed much. Gangrenous tendency to subcutaneous decomposition |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Left sided complaints of women at climateric who are jealous, suspicious, malicious and highly loquacious |
| - | < after sleep (mental and physical) > during menstrual flow / free discharges / secretions |
| - | General sensitivity to touch |
| - | Great prostration & trembling |
| - | Blueness of skin / mucous membranes, late stages of affections with degenerations and offensiveness |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Circulation. High blood pressure. Strokes. Dark haemorrhages |
| - | Hormonal disturbances. Menopause. Pregnancy |
| - | Faintness during climacteric |
| - | LACHESIS, PHOS & SILICEA are very dangerous remedies if there is pretubercular tendency-Dr. Elizabeth Hubbard |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Crot-c, Hep, Lyc, Nit-ac, Salam
Follows Well: , Acon, Ars, Bell, Brom, Bry, Calc, Carb-v, Cham, Cinch,
Hep, Hyos, Kali-bi, Lac-c, Lyc, Merc, Nit-ac, Nux-v, Olnd, Phos, Puls,
Rhus-t, Sep, Staph, Stram, Sulph, Tarent, Verat
Inimical: Acet-ac, Am-c, Carb-ac, Dulc, Nit-ac, Psor
Compare: Agar, Alum, Am-c, Amph, Anac, Anthr, Ant-t, Apis, Arg-m, Arn,
Ars, Asaf, Bapt, Bell, Both-l, Bry, Calc-p, Camph, Carb-ac, Carb-v, Caul,
Caust, Chin-s, Cic, Cimic, Cinch, Cocc, Colch, Con, Crot-h, Dig, Dulc, Elaps,
Euph, Gels, Glon, Graph, Grind, Hell, Helo, Hep, Hydr-ac, Hyos, Ign, Iris-t,
Kali-bi, Kali-c, Kreos, Lac-ac, Lac-c, Laur, Led, Lepi, Lyc, Lyss, Meph,
Merc, Mez, Mosch, Mur-ac, Murx, Naja, Nat-c, Nat-m, Nit-ac, Nux-m, Nux-v, Op,
Pall, Par, Ph-ac, Phos, Phyt, Plat, Plb, Puls, Rhus-t, Sabad, Sel, Sil, Spig,
Staph, Stram, Sul-ac, Sulph, Tarent, Ter, Ther, Thuj, Ust, Verat, Vib
Similar: Agar, Alum, Anac, Apis, Arg-m, Arn, Asaf, Bell, Both-l, Bry,
Calc, Camph, Carb-v, Caust, Cic, Cinch, Cocc, Colch, Crot-h, Dig, Elaps,
Gels, Glon, Graph, Hell, Hydr-ac, Hyos, Ign, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Kreos, Lac-ac,
Lac-c, Laur, Led, Lyc, Meph, Merc, Mez, Mosch, Mur-ac, Murx, Naja, Nat-c,
Nat-m, Nit-ac, Nux-v, Op, Pall, Phyt, Plat, Plb, Puls, Rhus-t, Sil, Stram, Sul-ac,
Sulph, Tarent, Ter, Ther, Thuj, Verat
Antidoted By: Alum, Ars, Bell, Carb-v, Cham, Cocc, Coff, Hep, Led,
Merc, Nit-ac, Nux-v, Op, Ph-ac
It Antidotes: Bufo, Crot-h, Rhus-t
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