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Origin Mineral · Simple
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 useGladstone Clarke

1 . Dark, phlegmatic subjects ; or women with red hair and freckled complexion, especially at climaxis ; also broken-down constitutions. 2 . Extreme alternations, mind and sensorium, (a) Mental activity with almost prophetic perception ; ecstasy ; loquacity with rapid change of subject especially when delirious ; hurry and flurry ; delusion of voices, etc. (b) Depression with anxiety ; patient silent, suspicious ; jealous ; weak memory, writing mistakes ; deranged time sense ; self-consciousness and selfishness. 3 . Hyperaesthesia of the senses ; of body surface ; nervous intolerance of touch , pressure and constriction , even of clothing, especially about throat and abdomen. 4 . Marked aggravation of all complaints from sleep ; patient sleeps into an attack ; sleep disturbed by frightful dreams, of dead and dying people, of suffocation, etc. 5 . All distressing symptoms are > onset of discharges ; e.g. at menstrual period always > during flow. 6 . Ailments left-sided or travel from left to right ; yet a special affinity for the appendix. 7 . Adynamic fevers with low, muttering delirium ; face purplish, besotted-looking, dropped jaw ; offensive breath ; tremors especially of the tongue which is protruded with difficulty ; haemorrhages of dark, decomposed blood. 8 . Septic states ; malignant ulcerations and suppuration ; with offensive discharges and bluish , livid appearance ; gangrene. 9 . Tremors, cramps, spasms and even convulsions. 10 . Modalities ; < heat especially heat of sun ; muggy weather ; must have air ; < spring ; throat symptoms < hot drinks and empty swallowing or liquids < than solids. Note. The great trio of remedies for women at climaxis : Lachesis, Sepia and Sulphur .


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

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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