Materia Medica de A a Z

BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS = LACHESIS LANCEOLATUS (both)

Its venom is most coagulating, [also Lachesis (Lach)]. We should expect to find under these remedies the symptomatology of thrombosis, also thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia, inability to articulate. (Linn J. Boyd.) Broken-down, haemorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great lassitude and sluggishness; haemorrhages from every orifice of the body; black spots. Hemiplegia with aphasia. Inability to articulate, without any affection of the tongue. Nervous trembling. Pain in right big toe. Diagonal course of symptoms. Pulmonary congestion.

Eyes

Amaurosis; blindness from haemorrhage into retina. Hemeralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after sunrise; conjunctival haemorrhage.

Face

Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.

Throat

Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.

Stomach

Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense haematemesis. Tympanitis and bloody stools.

Skin

Swollen, livid, cold with haemorrhagic infiltration. Gangrene. Lymphatics swollen. Anthrax. Malignant erysipelas.

Modalities

Worse: right side.

Relationship

Compare: Toxicophis (Toxi) — Moccasin Snake (pain and fever recur annually, after bite from this snake, and sometimes change location with disappearance of first symptoms, An unusual dryness of skin follows the bite. Oedematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from one part to another.) Other snake poisons, notably Lachesis (Lach).

Trachinus (Trach) - Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling acute blood poisoning, gangrene).

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.