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Sources 13 entries across 12 books: Hering, Nash, Dunham, T. F. Allen, Tyler …
Dose Dunham
9X, 6X, 8X
No doubt many are sincere in this objection. A few, it must be feared, gladly avail themselves of so fair a pretext for avoiding the study of the long list of symptoms which Lachesis presents. It is a pity that this whole class of objectors could not bring themselves to the point of fairly testing, by clinical experiment, the virtues of Lachesis. The result would be happy in a double sense. It wou
Reason for useT. F. Allen
Tremblings or jerkings, with faintness, sudden. Convulsive attacks, seeming to begin in the lower extremities. Swelling, especially of the upper part of the body, head and throat. Pains extend from left to right. General intolerance of the slightest touch. General aggravation from sleeping. General tendency to suppurations, gangrenous degeneration, abscesses, offensive discharges or exhalations.
By regionT. F. Allen
Mind Loquacity. Mental confusion or alienation ; tries to escape, with loquacity. Suffocative feeling about the throat, etc. Muttering delirium. …
Head Pain, extending into the nose, with vertigo ; flickering before the eyes. Bursting or throbbing pain in the temples, with heat, < motion. …
Eyes Sticking, drawing pain, extending to the vertex. Lachrymation. Eyes feel pressed out. Vision dim, with black flickering. …
Stomach Appetite increased ; longing for oysters. Insatiable thirst ; aggravation from alcohol and from acids. …
Extremities Weakness of the arms so that they can scarcely be raised. Pains in left arm particularly, seeming to come from left side of chest. …
Skin Erysipelatous eruptions. Sore places become gangrenous. Ecchymoses. Indolent ulcers, carbuncles. Pustular eruptions become black. …
Sleep Troubles become worse during sleep, until the patient wakes in fright or in distress.
Fever Coldness. Chill begins in the back. Heat as from surging of blood ; must loosen the clothes, with suffocation.
Books*
Antidoted by Belladonna 2, Mercurius Solubilis 2, Aceticum Acidum +20
Complementary Hepar, Lycopodium Clavatum, Nitricum Acidum
Follows well —
Compare Belladonna, Bryonia Alba, Gelsemium Sempervirens +37
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