LACHESIS

LACHESIS. [Laches.] Surukuku. Hering. Ophidia.

► Thinks herself under superhuman control. ► Complete insensibility. ► Memory weak, makes mistakes in orthography. ► Quick comprehension ; mental excitability, with almost prophetic perceptions ; ecstasy. ► Delirium, fears she will be damned. ► Delirium at night, muttering, drowsy, red face ; or slow, difficult speech and dropped jaw. ► Mania, with great loquacity, frequently jumping from one subject to another. ► Mania after overstudying. ► Delirium tremens, worse after sleep ; cannot bear pressure of neckcloth ; loquacious. ► Delirium from overwatching, overfatigue ; loss of fluids ; excessive study. ► Thinks she is dead, and that preparations are being made for her funeral ; thinks herself pursued by enemies ; fears the medicine is poison. ► Loquacity, with mocking jealousy ; frightful images. ► Talks, sings, whistles, makes odd motions. ► Proud ; jealous, suspicious. ► Peevish, disposed to be morose or to quarrel. ► Suicidal mood, tired to life. ► Great sadness and anxiety, worse in morning on awakening. ► Dread of death, fears to go to bed. ► Fears being poisoned.

► Vertigo : from looking at one and the same object ; from walking in the open air (at climaxis) ; from suppressed erysipelas ; with pale face ; migraine. ► Head heavy like lead, worse about occiput, with vertigo. ► Rush of blood to the head, after spirituous liquors ; from suppressed or irregular menses. ► Blowing expiration, cannot bear neck touched ; left-sided apoplexy, especially if after mental emotions, or abuse of alcohol. ► Severe pains all over the head, so giddy he could not stand ; could not see the letters, fell against the wall.

► Frontal headache, faint on rising. ► Headache over eyes and in occiput, morning, on rising. ► Pressing, bursting pains in temples, better when lying down. ► Temporal nerves pain, vertigo, pale face ; throbbing temples. ► One-sided headache ; pains intense, extend to neck and shoulders, with stiff neck ; paralytic tongue. ► Tearing on top of head from within outward. See face. ► Weight and pressure on the vertex. ► Burning of the vertex, at the menopause. ► Beating headache with heat, worse on the vertex and right side, or over the eyes, preceding a cold in the head, with stiff neck. ► Feeling in back of head as if pressed asunder. ► Headache in the sun, glimmering sight. ► Throbbing in the head from least movement ; congestion.

► Purplish swelling ; delirious talk when closing the eyes. θ Erysipelas. ► Tumors which perforate the skull. ► Hair falls off, worse during pregnancy ; averse to sun's rays.

► Oversensitive to light. ► Amblyopia, with lung or heart affections. ► Feels, when throat is pressed, as if eyes were forced out. ► Whites of the eyes yellow. ► Redness of the eyes. ► Retinitis apoplectica. ► Ulcers on the cornea. ► Severe pain in and above the eyes.

► Sensitiveness to sounds ; rushing and thundering in the ears. ► Hardness of hearing, with want of wax ; dryness in the ears ; numbness about the ear and cheek (left). ► Ear-wax too hard, pale, and insufficient.

► Nosebleed, dark ; with amenorrhoea ; typhus, etc. ; blowing of blood, mostly in the morning. ► Coryza preceded by headache ; discharge watery with red nostrils, herpes on the lips. ► Relieves paroxysms of sneezing in hay asthma. ► Nasal mucous membrane swollen ; sneezing. ► Pus and blood from the nose. ► Vesicular eruption about the nose. ► Nose red externally ; nose filled with scabs ; discharge of pus and blood ; mercurio-syphilis ; also in drunkards.

► Flushes of heat in drunkards. ► Expression of pain with sopor. ► Features distorted. ► Livid, grey complexion, with abdominal complaints or ague. ► Face pale, with fainting ; dizzy with headache. ► Yellow complexion, with vermillion redness of the cheeks, or with small red blood-vessels shining through the skin. ► Syphilis. ► Red face, as in apoplexy ; bloated red face, with headache, pains in limbs, stomach, etc. ► Erysipelas of the face, with burning and itching, worse after siesta ; with hammering headache. ► Neuralgia, left side, orbital ; rising of heat to the face before, and weak feeling in the abdomen after, the attack.

► Lower jaw hangs down. θ Coma. ► Lips dry, cracked, bleeding. ► Lower lip swollen.

► Decayed teeth pain when biting ; after sleep ; after abuse of mercury. ► Decayed teeth crumble. ► Cheek swollen, skin tense, hot and crisp, as if it would crack ; periodontitis. ► Gums bluish, swollen, bleeding, worse from warm drinks.

► Sour taste, everything turns sour. ► Difficult speech, tongue heavy, cannot open mouth wide. ► Puts the trembling tongue out with great difficulty. θ Diphtheria, etc. ► Tongue : trembles when protruded, or catches behind the teeth ; swollen, coated white ; papillae enlarged ; dry, red cracked at the tip ; red up and down centre ; mapped dry, black and stiff. ► Blisters, mostly about the tip. ► Talking : 26.

► Bad odor from the mouth. ► Saliva abundant, tenacious. ► Sore mouth in the last stages of phthisis. ► Sensation on roof of mouth as if the mucous membrane were peeling off.

► Uvula elongated ; fauces purplish and swollen, or ulcerated. ► Feeling of a lump in the throat ; suffocative sensation ; on swallowing, the lump descends, but returns at once : 48. ► When swallowing fluids, they escape through the nose ; worse when swallowing saliva, less from liquid, and even relieved by solids. ► Much phlegm in the fauces, with painful hawking. ► Pain and soreness begin on left side of throat. θ Tonsillitis. θ Diphtheria. ► Constriction of the throat ; feels as if tied ; worse from the least external pressure ; suffocating spells, worse during or awaking from sleep. ► Tonsils swollen, worse the left, with a tendency to the right ; inability to swallow, threatening suffocation ; or, on swallowing, pain shoots into the (left) ear ; cannot bear anything to touch the neck. ► Diphtheritic patches in the throat, spreading from left to right ; fetid breath ; worse after sleep ; great debility, feeble pulse ; clammy sweat ; headache and faintness. ► Aggravation by hot drinks ; liquids pain more than solids while swallowing. θ Tonsillitis. θ Diphtheria. ► Excessive tenderness of throat to external pressure. θ Tonsillitis. θ Diphtheria. ► Ulcers in the throat ; worse in wet weather ; after mercury ; from syphilis ; ulcers extend up into posterior nares ; throat so dry, he awakens choking ; soft palate full of cicatrices, with greenish-yellow ulcers between ; pains shooting ; fetid breath.

► Appetite gone. ► Thirst insatiable, with disgust for drink. ► Desire for oysters ; for wine and liquors ; for coffee, which agrees.

► After eating : gnawing in stomach better, but returns in a few hours. θ Cancer of stomach. ► After eating : vertigo, languor ; gagging and suffocation ; dyspnoea ; stomach puffed ; eructations, flushes of heat. ► After acids, symptoms worse. ► Worse from alcoholic drinks (except the snake-bite). ► Warm drink : 10, 13. After drinking : 13, 16.

► Eructations, which relieve. ► Everything sour ; heart-burn. ► Nausea after drinking. ► Nausea in attacks, weakness, dyspnoea, palpitation, cold sweat. ► Vomiting : of food ; of bile ; of mucus ; with copious saliva.

► Pit of stomach painful to touch. ► Dyspepsia worse as soon as he eats ; costive ; weak digestion, especially after mercury. ► Gnawing pressure ; relieved after eating, but returning as soon as the stomach is empty.

► Acute pain in the liver, extending towards the stomach. ► Liver complaints at the climaxis ; after ague ; pain as if something had lodged in the right side, with stinging. ► Cannot bear any pressure about the hypochondria. ► Contractive pain in the region of the liver. ► Ulcerative pain about liver ; inflammation and abscess.

► Painful distention, flatulence ; can bear no pressure. ► Burning like fire in hypogastric and lumbar region. ► Cutting in right side of abdomen, causing fainting attacks. ► Swelling in caecal region ; must lie on the back with limbs drawn up. θ Typhlitis. ► Abdomen hot, sensitive, painfully stiff from loins down the thighs ; pus formed. θ Peritonitis.

► Thin, offensive stools. ► Stools : watery, light yellow, fecal ; dark, chocolate-colored, cadaverous-smelling ; of decomposed blood, looking like charred straw ; mixed blood and slime ; worse at night, after acids ; during warm weather. ► Painful straining, with discharge of croupous exudate. ► Diarrhoea and constipation in alternation. ► Costive, ineffectual urging ; anus feels closed. ► Stools offensive, even if formed. ► Beating in the anus as from hammers. ► Tormenting urging, but not to stool. ► Wants to pass stool, but the pain is so increased thereby, he must desist. ► Rectum prolapsed and tumefied. ► Piles protruding or strangulated, or, with stitches upward at each cough or sneeze ; worse at climaxis, or with drunkards. ► Itching at the anus ; worse after sleep.

► Stitches from kidneys, through the ureters. ► Urine : almost black ; frequent, foamy, dark. ► Ineffectual urging to urinate ; burning when it does pass. ► Feeling as of a ball rolling in the bladder or abdomen, when turning over. ► Discharge of offensive mucus during micturition ; catarrh of bladder.

► Sexual excitement. ► Onanism, with epilepsy. ► Buboes indurated or with fistulous openings and hectic ; after mercury. ► Indurated foreskin, after chancres.

► Sexual desire. θ Nymphomania. ► Swelling, induration, neuralgia, suppuration, etc., of left ovary. ► The uterine region feels swollen, will bear no contact not even of the clothing ; bearing down pains. ► Uterine and ovarian pains relieved by a flow of blood. ► Pains like a knife thrust into the abdomen. ► Uterus feels as if the os was open. ► Menses scanty feeble, but regular ; blood lumpy, black or acrid. ► Before menses : desire for open air ; vertigo, nosebleed ; labor-like pains, worse in left ovarian region ; bruised feeling in the hips all better when the flow begins. ► Leucorrhoea copious, smarting, stiffening the linen, staining it greenish. ► Redness and swelling of the external parts (with discharge of mucus). ► Suitable at the menopause : flashes, hot vertex ; metrorrhagia ; fainting.

► Lochia fetid ; urine suppressed ; face purple ; unconscious ; abdomen swollen. θ Puerperal fever. ► Milk thin, blue ; she awakens always sad, despairing. ► Lancinating pains in the mamma, pains down the arm ; breast bluish, with blackish streaks. ► Fungus haematodes, frequently bleeding.

► Hoarseness, rawness and dryness ; larynx sensitive to touch. ► Aphonia in phthisis ; sputum tough and green. ► Impending croup (during diphtheria), awakens suffocating, grasps the throat ; fears he is dying. ► Larynx externally sensitive to least touch which causes suffocation, feeling of a lump in the throat. ► Croup, when the patient is worse after sleep ; or, seemingly sleeps into the croupy spell. ► Suddenly something runs from neck to larynx, stopping the breathing, it awakens him at night. θ Spasmus glottidis.

► Asthma, worse from covering mouth or nose, or touching the throat, or moving the arms ; on awaking ; after eating or talking ; better sitting up bent forward. ► Chest feels constricted. ► In the morning when sitting up quickly, the breathing becomes slow, difficult, whistling. ► Chest stuffed ; short cough, with scanty, difficult expectoration. ► Asthma during scabies, if the itching ceases.

► Gagging, persistent cough, from tickling in the throat under the sternum, or in the stomach ; worse on falling asleep or during the day ; from change of temperature ; after alcoholic drinks. ► Has to cough hard and long before he can raise. ► Expectoration scanty, difficult, watery, saltish, must be swallowed again ; or is accompanied with straining and vomiting. ► Spitting large quantities of ropy mucus. θ Diphtheria. ► Cough from ulcers in the throat. ► Cough, with slimy, bloody sputum. ► After a long, wheezing cough, suddenly spits up profuse, frothy, tenacious mucus.

► Oppressive pain in chest as if full of wind, better eructations. ► Pain in the chest as from soreness. ► Burning in the chest. ► Stitches in the (left) chest, with dyspnoea. ► Pneumonia, hepatization, mostly of left lung ; great dyspnoea on awaking. ► Useful when tubercles follow pneumonia. ► Dropsy of the chest ; awakens with suffocating spells ; liver swollen ; scanty, dark urine ; palpitation. θ After scarlatina.

► Palpitation, can bear no pressure on throat or chest ; must sit up or lie on the right side ; numbness of the left arm, fainting, anxiety. ► Pericarditis, dropsy, diphtheritic patches in the throat after scarlatina. ► Restless, trembling ; anxiety about the heart ; hasty speech ; suffocation on lying down ; weight on the chest ; heart feels constricted. θ Rheumatism of the heart. ► Cyanosis neonatorum. ► Pulse : small, weak and accelerated ; unequal ; intermittent ; alternately full and small.

► Stiff neck, moves jaw with great difficulty, tearing from nape of neck up either side, to top of head. ► Pain in the small of the back, with constipation. ► Pain in the os coccygis, when sitting down, feeling as if sitting on something sharp.

► Left shoulder and arm weak and lame, worse when lying on the arm. ► Soreness of the right shoulder, worse when lying on it. ► Axillary glands swollen. ► Garlic-like smell of the sweat in the axillae. ► Tingling-prickling in the left hand. ► Trembling of the hands. θ In drunkards. ► Rheumatic swelling of index-finger and wrist ; worse after sleep. ► Panaritium, bluish swelling ; even necrosis, with fistulous openings, or erysipelas ; stinging-pricking pains. ► Numbness of the finger-tips (morning).

► Contraction of psoas muscle, after abscess. ► Sciatica, left-sided ; pain as from a hot iron ; worse after sleep. ► Uneasiness in the lower limbs. ► Contraction of the hamstrings, after a popliteal abscess. ► Stinging-tearing in the knees, with swelling. ► Aching pain in the skin-bones. ► Flat ulcers on legs, with thin, offensive discharge, and bluish areolae. ► Caries of the tibia. ► Lacerating, jerking, rheumatic pains in the legs, as soon as he falls asleep. ► Swelling of the feet, worse after walking. θ During pregnancy. ► Tingling in the toes. ► Rhagades of the toes. ► Gangrenous ulcers on the legs and toes.

► Erysipelas of the legs or arms ; surface bluish, glossy, swelling, impending gangrene. ► Bluish swelling of the joints, after sprains. ► Dark bluish swelling of cellular tissue on hands, arms, legs ; very sensitive ; impending gangrene. ► Nightly burning in palms and soles. ► Limbs stiff or curved after mercurialization.

► Motion : erysipelas excited by too much walking ; relieves the periodical sufferings. ► Walking in open air : 2. After walking : 33. Moving the arms : 26. Turning over : 21. On rising : 3. Must sit up : 29. Sitting : 31. Sitting bent forwards : 26. Lying down : 3, 29, 32. Must lie on back : 19. Lying on right side : 29.

► Crawls on the floor, spits often, hides, laughs, or is angry ; spasms. ► Epilepsy comes on during sleep, from jealousy, onanism, loss of fluids. ► Spasms of the legs. ► Awkward gait ; left side weak ; gressus galinaceous. ► Paralysis, left-sided ; after apoplexy, or cerebral exhaustion. ► Trembling all over ; exhausted, faint. ► Fainting, with pain in heart, nausea, pale face, vertigo.

► Sleepy day and night ; sleeps well unless the cough annoys him. ► Children toss about, morning, during sleep. ► Restless sleep, with many dreams and frequent waking. ► Persistent sleeplessness ; sleepless in the evening, with talkativeness. ► Awakens at night and cannot sleep again. ► The mind worse after sleep.

► Morning : 1, 3, 7, 26, 32. Afternoon : 40. Evening : 37, 40. Night : 1, 20, 25, 34, 37, 40. Day : 27. Day and night : 37.

► Worse from the sun's rays : 3, 4. Worse during Spring and Summer ; or from extremes of temperature, debility : 20. Change of temperature : 26. Wet weather : 13. Desire for the open air : 23. Worse in the open air : 2. Warmth : 44. Warm room : 40. Hot drinks : 13.

► Chill : runs up the back to head, often on alternate days ; abates in the warm room ; with chattering of the teeth, desires external warmth. ► Wants to be held, or to be pressed down during chill. ► After icy-cold calves, shaking chill with warm sweat ; then strumming through limbs, intermingled with flushes of heat. ► Spasms during every paroxysm, in nursing children. ► Chill at night, flushes of heat by day. ► Heat, particularly on the hands and feet, in the evening. ► Burning in the palms and soles, evening and night. ► Heat at night, as from orgasm of blood, throat sensitive. ► Internal sensation of heat, with cold feet. ► Profuse sweat, with most complaints ; sweat about the neck after the first nap ; phthisis. ► Sweat cold, stains yellow ; or bloody, staining red. ► Intermittent fever recurs every Spring, or after suppression in the previous Fall by quinine ; worse in the afternoon, 2 P.M. ; face red, headache, feet cold ; talking during hot stage ; excessive burning and rending pain during relapse into bilious intermittent after quinine.

► Periodical attacks : every fourteen days, every Spring : 40.

► Right : 3, 18, 19, 32. Left : 2, 6, 8, 13, 23, 28, 29, 32, 33, 36. Left to right : throat and ovarian symptoms ; also 44. Below up : 40. Within outwards : 3.

► Neuralgic pains change locality, with palpitation. ► Tearing pains ; prickling ; pulsating.

► Blood dark, non-coagulable ; small wounds bleed much. ► Affected parts bluish. ► Gangrene. ► Ulcers sensitive to touch ; ichorous, offensive discharge ; many small pimples surround them ; areolae purple ; better from warmth. ► Dropsy from liver and spleen diseases ; after scarlatina ; urine black, legs oedematous, first left, then right. ► Cellulitis, with burning and blue color of skin.

► Touch : 2, 13, 25, 26, 44. Pressure : 1, 13, 29. ► The greatest sensitiveness, even to touch of edge of bed-clothing on throat, common bed-covering on abdomen.

► Itching of the whole body, burning ; yellow or purplish blisters ; scabies. ► Military eruption ; rash appears slowly or turns livid or black ; comatose. ► Bullae dark from bloody serum within. ► Carbuncles, with purple surroundings and many small boils around them ; must rise at night and bathe to allay burning ; also when suppuration is tardy and systemic weakness obtains. ► Malignant pustule. ► Scars redden, hurt, break open and bleed. ► Bed-sores, with black edges.

► Followed by Arsen., Bellad., Carb. veg., Caustic., Conium, Mercur., Lycop. ► Tarent. cub. compare well in carbuncles ; the pains are atrocious. ► Follows : Arsen., Bellad., Mercur., Nitr. ac., Hepar. ► Complementary to Lycop. ► Antidotes : Arsen., Bellad., heat, alcohol, salt. ► Compare : Lact. ac. in lump or fulness in throat like a puff-ball, not better swallowing, keeps swallowing frothy mucus ; constricted feeling low in throat with nausea.