Lachesis

A General Aggravation After Sleep

He sleeps into an aggravation.

Its Use In Climacteric Disorders

5. General blueness of the skin and all eruptions.

What are the characteristic mental symptoms ?

Great loquacity, patient jumping from one subject to another, jealous, fear of being poisoned and refuses the medicine, muttering delirium with drooping of the lower jaw and illusions, such as imagining that he is under some superhuman control.

What are the head symptoms of Lachesis ?

Headache over the left eye accompanying a cold, but as soon as discharge is established headache is better. Headache worse from heat of sun.

Give some characteristic ear symptoms of Lachesis.

Roaring and singing in the ears, which are relieved by putting the finger in the ear and shaking it, showing its catarrhal origin. Ears full of pasty, offensive wax.

Give the indications for Lachesis in facial erysipelas.

More on the left side, at first bright red then dark bluish or purplish, great infiltration of cellular tissues and great weakness ; patient drowsy, perhaps has delirium and is loquacious.

What are the nasal symptoms of Lachesis ?

Watery discharge, worse from the left nostril, with a throbbing headache, which is relieved when the discharge appears.

What is the characteristic tongue of Lachesis ?

Dry tongue protruded with difficulty, catches on the teeth and trembles, cracked a tip and brown on dorsum.

Give the characteristic throat symptoms of Lachesis.

Sensation of lump in left side of the throat, which seems to go down when swallowing, but returns again ; constriction of throat and difficult breathing, worse on arousing from sleep or after sleep ; empty swallowing is painful and fluids escape from the nose ; throat sensitive externally.

What are its indications in diphtheria ?

Great difficulty in swallowing, great fetor and exhaustion, infiltration of tissues about the neck, membrane more on left side. Thin excoriating discharge from the nose.

When would Lachesis be indicated in pneumonia ?

In the typhoid form ; late in the disease, when pus forms in the lungs and the patient is bathed in a profuse sweat and the sputa are mixed with blood and pus.

What are the symptoms of Lachesis about the heart and circulation ?

Constriction about the heart ; flushes of heat at the climacteric. Dark, bluish skin. Aroused from sleep suffocating.

What is the great craving of Lachesis ?

Oysters.

Give the diarrhoea of Lachesis.

Horribly offensive diarrhoea, preceded by sopor ; the offensiveness of the stool indicates it in low forms of disease ; constant urging in the rectum and a sensation of beating as of little hammers there ; the sphincter is unduly irritable.

Give the indications for Lachesis in ovarian troubles.

Pain in the left ovary relieved by a discharge from the uterus ; can bear nothing heavy on this region ; it also affects, in a like manner, the right ovary. Suppurative ovaritis.

What are the menstrual symptoms ?

Menses scanty and feeble, black and offensive, with pain in the hips and bearing down in the left ovary ; better when flow is established.

What are the symptoms indicating Lachesis in haemorrhages ?

Haemorrhages of dark blood, depositing a sediment resembling charred straw ; small wounds bleed profusely and the blood remains fluid, does not coagulate.

Give the indications for Lachesis in bed scores, carbuncles, boils, abscesses, etc.

When there is great sensitiveness of the surface, bluish in appearance and perhaps surrounded by many small pimples ; carbuncles which slough and are very offensive.

Give its symptoms in scarlet fever.

When the rash is slowly and imperfectly developed, dark and accompanied with diphtheritic deposits ; pulse weak, surface dark, and perhaps dark haemorrhages.

To what climacteric symptoms does Lachesis correspond ?

The headache, and the fact that non-appearing discharges make the patient worse ; flushes of heat during the day..