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Lachesis

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Lachesis
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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 wouDose · Dunham

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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.

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Mind

Loquacity.

Mental confusion or alienation ; tries to escape, with loquacity.

Suffocative feeling about the throat, etc.

Muttering delirium.

Insane jealousy.

Clinical

Dementia, with loquacity.

Religious melancholia.

Effects of lasting sorrow.

Head

Pain, extending into the nose, with vertigo ; flickering before the eyes.

Bursting or throbbing pain in the temples, with heat, < motion.

Pain like a rush of blood to the head, with heat.

Vertigo in the morning on waking, < closing the eyes.

Biting pain on the vertex, with weight and pressure, < the sun.

Pain, extending from the right side of the head into the neck and shoulders, with tension of muscles.

A leaden heaviness in the occiput in the morning on waking ; can hardly raise the head, with vertigo.

General amelioration from warm applications, aggravation on rising in the morning.

Headache worse on the right side.

Eyes

Sticking, drawing pain, extending to the vertex.

Lachrymation.

Eyes feel pressed out.

Vision dim, with black flickering.

Flickering, with apparent congestion of the head.

Blue ring around the light, with fiery rays.

Clinical

Neuralgia of the orbit.

Cellulitis of orbit.

Haemorrhage of the retina and optic nerve.

Asthenopia from paralysis of accommodation.

Ears

Pain in the ear (particularly left), with sore throat.

Difficult hearing, with dryness in the ears as from lack of wax.

Nose

Catarrh, with soreness, obstruction, headache, fluent coryza, preceded by headache, with sore throat.

Nose-bleed thick, dark.

Face

Swelling (erysipelatous).

Tearing pains in zygoma, extending to ear.

Mouth

Periodic toothache, always after waking, after eating, from warm and cold drinks, extending through jaw to ear.

Teeth feel too long when biting.

Gums swollen, spongy, bleeding.

Tongue dry, red, tremulous ; blisters on the tip ; aphthae.

Aphthae of the mouth, with burning pain, soreness and dryness.

Speech stammering.

Saliva abundant, tenacious.

Throat

Throat and neck swollen, extremely sensitive to the slightest touch, cannot bear any tight band around it.

Fauces purplish, swollen, ulcerated, uvula elongated, a feeling of a lump in the throat, especially of pain on the left side, extending to ear.

Most severe and malignant inflammation of the throat (diphtheritic), with internal swelling and sensitiveness.

Sensation of a crumb sticking in the throat.

Swallowing difficult, especially of liquids ; they regurgitate through the nose.

Throat externally swollen and very sensitive, not only the sides, but in front as far down as the pit of the throat.

Stomach

Appetite increased ; longing for oysters.

Insatiable thirst ; aggravation from alcohol and from acids.

Can bear nothing tight over the stomach ; must loosen clothes.

Sticking pains, extending to the chest.

Pressure after eating and general weakness.

Abdomen

Distention and soreness ; cannot bear the weight of the clothes, or of the hand.

Violent pain under the right hypochondrium (with inflammation and frequent abscess in liver).

Tearing pains in the right side.

Rectum and Stool :

Throbbing or beating as with hammers in the anus.

Protrusion after stool, followed by painful constriction.

Stool lies close to anus, but does not pass without urging.

Diarrhoea watery, with burning ; soft, bright yellow, very offensive ; pasty ; bright yellow.

Clinical

Haemorrhage from the bowels of putrid, decomposed blood.

Diarrhoea in hot weather or in low types of disease.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition.

Urine, strong odor, dark, blackish.

Clinical

Gangrenous ulcers on genitals.

Dysmenorrhoea, with pain shooting upward in left ovary ; great sensitiveness.

Suppressed menstruation, metritis, fetid lochia.

Climacteric troubles.

Respiratory organs :

Larynx painful to touch or on bending head backward.

Hoarseness, constant hawking ; cough, with efforts to expectorate.

Cough from pressure on the larynx in evening ; during sleep ; from smoking.

Cough dry, hacking.

Constantly obliged to take a deep breath.

Sense of suffocation in the larynx, with suffocative fullness in chest ; can bear nothing tight ; must sit up.

Pain on coughing, from larynx to left ear.

Pain in the left side of chest, extending upward.

Heart and Pulse :

Cramp-like pain in the region of the heart, palpitation and anxiety.

Constriction of heart.

Intolerance of pressure over heart (with pain and numbness of left arm).

Neck and Back :

Nape sensitive to pressure ; stiff.

Swelling of glands.

Drawing in the back, extend to hips or up back.

Pains in the coccyx, extending into legs, < rising up.

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.

Weakness of lower extremities.

Sciatica.

Skin

Erysipelatous eruptions.

Sore places become gangrenous.

Ecchymoses.

Indolent ulcers, carbuncles.

Pustular eruptions become black.

General tendency to sub-cutaneous decomposition.

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.

Complete text of the Lachesis entry in T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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  1. Facilitating Healing in Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using Homeopathy in a Multi-Disciplinary Integrative Approach: Two Evidence-Based Case ReportsPonnam HB · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2025 · Case Reports · doi
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  3. Randomised Controlled Trial on Prophylaxis of Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia Syndrome in Swine using Caulophyllum Logoplex and Lachesis LogoplexBüttner K, Oelkers J, Burfeind O et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2024 · doi
  4. Efficacy of individualized homeopathic medicines in treatment of post-stroke hemiparesis: A randomized trialDutta A, Singh S, Saha S et al. · Explore (New York, N.Y.) · 2023 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  5. Multimorbidity in a 35-Year-Old Female Patient Treated with Homeopathy: A Case ReportMallangi J, Chaudhuri J, Varanasi R et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2023 · Case Reports · doi
  6. Anti-oxidant Effect of High Dilutions of Arnica montana, Arsenicum Album, and Lachesis Mutus in Microglial Cells in VitroPaumier A, Verre J, Tribolo S et al. · Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society · 2022 · doi
  7. Efficacy of Individualized Homeopathy in Treatment-Resistant DepressionZepeda-Quiroz N, Luna-Reséndiz R, Soto-Sánchez J · Cureus · 2021 · Case Reports · doi
  8. Homeopathic Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Pregnant Women With Mental Disorders: A Double-blind, Controlled Clinical TrialVilhena EC, Castilho EA · Alternative therapies in health and medicine · 2016 · Randomized Controlled Trial
  9. Clinical verification in homeopathy and allergic conditionsVan Wassenhoven M · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2013 · doi
  10. Homeopathic treatment of premenstrual syndrome: a case seriesDanno K, Colas A, Terzan L et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2013 · doi
  11. Efficacy of a non-hormonal treatment, BRN-01, on menopausal hot flashes: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trialColau JC, Vincent S, Marijnen P et al. · Drugs in R&D · 2012 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  12. Management of distress during climacteric years by homeopathic therapyNayak C, Singh V, Singh K et al. · Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2011 · doi
  13. Efficacy of homeopathic remedies as prophylaxis of bovine endometritisArlt S, Padberg W, Drillich M et al. · Journal of dairy science · 2009 · Randomized Controlled Trial · doi
  14. Treating hot flushes in menopausal women with homeopathic treatment--results of an observational studyBordet MF, Colas A, Marijnen P et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2008 · doi
  15. Rat models of acute inflammation: a randomized controlled study on the effects of homeopathic remediesConforti A, Bellavite P, Bertani S et al. · BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2007 · doi
  16. [Homeopathic prophylaxis in dairy cows on an organic farm part 1--fertility]Fidelak Ch, Klocke P, Heuwieser W · DTW. Deutsche tierarztliche Wochenschrift · 2007 · Randomized Controlled Trial
  17. Canova, a Brazilian medical formulation, alters oxidative metabolism of mice macrophagesde Oliveira CC, de Oliveira SM, Godoy LM et al. · The Journal of infection · 2006 · doi
  18. Activation of bone marrow cells treated with Canova in vitroAbud AP, Cesar B, Cavazzani LF et al. · Cell biology international · 2006 · doi
  19. Gas discharge visualization evaluation of ultramolecular doses of homeopathic medicines under blinded, controlled conditionsBell IR, Lewis DA 2nd, Brooks AJ et al. · Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2003 · doi
  20. The anticancer homeopathic composite "Canova Method" is not genotoxic for human lymphocytes in vitroSeligmann IC, Lima PD, Cardoso PC et al. · Genetics and molecular research : GMR · 2003
  21. Homeopathic constitutional type questionnaire correlates of conventional psychological and physical health scales: individual difference characteristics of young adultsBell IR, Baldwin CM, Schwartz GE et al. · Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy · 2002 · doi
  22. The homoeopathic treatment of otitis media in children--comparisons with conventional therapyFriese KH, Kruse S, Lüdtke R et al. · International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 1997 · Clinical Trial
  23. [Acute otitis media in children. Comparison between conventional and homeopathic therapy]Friese KH, Kruse S, Moeller H · HNO · 1996
  24. [Is research in veterinary homeopathy justified? Thoughts concerning principles and synopsis of 5 years of research on the subject, "Use of homeopathy in domestic animals," at the branch of the Free University of Berlin in Schwarzenbek]Schütte A · Berliner und Munchener tierarztliche Wochenschrift · 1994 · Clinical Trial
  25. [The administration of homeopathic drugs for the treatment of acute mastitis in cattle]Merck CC, Sonnenwald B, Rollwage H · Berliner und Munchener tierarztliche Wochenschrift · 1989

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