LACHESIS

HEAD
Headache, heavy, bursting, down to nose, side (right) feels cut off. Migraine, pain extending to neck and shoulders. Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose. Weight, pressure or burning of the vertex. Waves of pain, worse after moving. Sun headaches with glimmering of vision. Headaches with flickerings, dim vision, very pale face. Falling of hair especially during pregnancy. Does not want hair touched. Perforating tumor of the skull.
VERTIGO
Vertigo. Relieved by onset of a discharge (menses or nasal catarrh). Vertigo, worse turning to right, closing eyes, looking at the one and same object from walking in open air. Fainting with pain in heart, nausea, pale face, vertigo.
EYES
Hardness of hearing with want of wax. Ear wax too hard, dry like chewed paper. Ear pain with sore throat. Pulsations in. Stricture of Eustachian tube. Tearing pain from zygoma into ear, also with sore throat.
EARS
Hardness of hearing with want of wax. Ear wax too hard, dry like chewed paper. Ear pain with sore throat. Pulsations in. Stricture of Eustachian tube. Tearing pain from zygoma into ear, also with sore throat.
NOSE
Discharge with every cough. Stopped up coryza. Nosebleeds with amenorrhea. Nosebleed on blowing the nose. Blood and pus from nose. Nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay asthma, paroxysms of sneezing. (Sil., Sabad.) Red pimples on nose (rum blossom) of alcoholics. Cannot bear anything before nose.
FACE
Purple, mottled, puffed, looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic during heat. Pale. Pain in facial bones. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat running up into head. (Phos.) Tearing pain in jaw-bones. (Amphis., Phos.) Lower jaw drops during coma. Septic mumps. Flushes of heat. Enormous swelling
of lips.
MOUTH
Aphthous and denuded spots with burning and rawness.
Gums, bluish, swollen, spongy, easily bleeding.
Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Bad odor from mouth. Much thick, pasty saliva. Thick blundering speech, cannot open mouth wide. Peppery, sour, taste. Nauseous taste. Cannot bear anything before mouth. Toothache, pain extends to ears. Chattering of teeth. Teeth feel too long. Sudden forcible protrusion and retraction of tongue.
THROAT
Purple, livid color of throat. Sore throats, began on the left side. Sore throats, worse left side, swallowing liquids. Throat pain extends to ear. Collar and neck-band must be very loose. Diphtheria,
membrane dusky, black, pain aggravated by hot drinks. Chronic sore throat with much hawking, mucus sticks. Tonsillitis. Tonsils purplish. Quinsy. Septic parotiditis. Constriction, better eating. Choking. Cannot swallow sweet or acrid things. Feeling as if something was swollen which must
be swallowed, worse swallowing saliva or liquids. As of a lump in throat, ascending and is swallowed back again. As of hot lump or soft body or crumb of bread. Throat pit feels swollen or sore spot back of pit. As of a skin hanging in or a valve in larynx. As of a plug moving up and down with cough. Larynx painful to touch. Loss of voice from paralysis of vocal cords or edema.
STOMACH
Any food causes distress. Pit of stomach painful to touch.
Gnawing pressure in stomach better by eating, but returning in few hours (cancer).
Soreness or cramp in epigastrium. Trembling movement in the epigastric region. Vomits during menses with headache. Belchings, before epilepsy, at menses. Nausea, comes on after going to bed after drinking ice water.
Desires for alcohol, wine, oysters. Craving for coffee which agrees. Hungry,
cannot wait for food or loss of hunger alternately. Hungry, cannot wait for
food. Better after eating, especially after fruit. The throat symptoms are
worse by hot drinks. Thirsty but fears to drink.
ABDOMEN
Tympanitic, sensitive, painful. (Bell.) Cutting pain in right side of abdomen causing fainting. Swelling in cecal region, must lie on back with knees drawn up, appendicitis. Pain from anus to navel. Abdomen hot, sensitive, painfully stiff front loin down thighs.
LIVER
Hepatitis and abscess. Septic gall bladder. Liver region sensitive. Sore festering, throb deep in liver, cannot bear anything around waist.

RECTUM
Constipated offensive stool. Constipation of pregnancy. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every time he sneezes or coughs. Hemorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particles. Hemorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish, stitches in them on sneezing or coughing. Constant urging in rectum, not for stool. Offensive stools. Beating in the anus as from hammers with menses. As of a ball, rolling when turning over. Diarrhea from fruits
and acids.
MALE
Strong sexual desire without physical power. During sex the emission is tardy or does not occur at all. Lascivious ideas without erection of penis. Prepuce thickened. Semen with pungent odor. Ill effects of masturbation. Cheerful after night emission.
FEMALE
Menopausal troubles, like palpitations, hot flashes, hemorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells, worse pressure of clothes. Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation. Menses too short too feeble. Menses, black, scanty, lumpy, acrid, vicarious from nose. Less the flow more the pain. Dysmenorrhea, on first day. Desire to go in open air and run about before menses. Ovarian tumors. Left ovary, swollen indurated, painful, must lift covers. Uterine and ovarian pains, all relieved by the flow. (Eupion.) Uterus feels as if the os is open. Nymphomania. Leucorrhea, copious, smarting, staining and stiffening the linen greenish.
HEART
Palpitations with fainting spells, during menopause. Anxiety about the heart. Constricted feeling causing palpitations with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats. Restless, trembling. Heart, weak, turns over or too big. As if heart were hanging by a thread. Cyanosis neonatorum. Senile arteriosclerosis.
Carditis. Pulse, weak intermittent, slow, irregular.
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch. Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat, compels patient to spring from bed and rush
for open window. Feels he must take a deep breath. Cramp-like distress in precordial region. Cough, dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness, worse pressure on larynx after
sleep, open air. Cough during sleep without being conscious of it. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep. (Grind.) Sensation as of a plug (Anac.) which moves up and down with a short cough. Last stage of pneumonia. Abscess of the lungs. Expectoration, frothy, purulent, difficult, bloody with excessive perspiration.
BACK
Neck sensitive to least pressure. Neck stiff, moves jaws with difficulty. Neuralgia of coccyx worse rising from sitting, feels as if sitting on something sharp, must sit perfectly still. Sensation of threads stretchedfrom back to arms, legs, eyes. Sensation of threads stretched from back toarms, legs, eyes,
etc.
EXTREMITIES
Sciatica, right side, better lying down. Pain in tibia after sore throat. Shortening of tendons. Swollen glands in axilla. Garlic odor of sweat in axilla. Left arm numb, finger tips numb. Trembling of hands in alcoholics. Felon, bluish swelling. Tingling, pricking in left hand. Cracks in skin at the corners of nails. Knees cold or as if hot air is going through. Foot sweat, foul or cold. Sciatica, must lie still, worse by least motion. Toes feel broken. Pain in the shin bones in disorders of throat. Cramps in calves from fear. Phlegmasia alba dolens.
SKIN
Hot perspiration. Bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bed-sores with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Purpura with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Fungoid ulcers. Varicose ulcers. Pyemia, dissecting wounds. Scars, redden, hurt, break open and bleed. Capillaries dilated. Small wounds bleed much.
RELATIONS
Antidote: Radiate heat outwardly, Alcohol inwardly, Salt, effects of bite.
Antidotes to dilutions: Alum., Bell., Coccul., Coff., Hep., Merc., Nit. ac., Nux, Pho. ac. ; to the visible spasmodic tenesmus of rectum, Sep.
According to Teste the chief antidote is Cedron. It antidotes: Bufo, Crotal., Rhus.
Compatible: Aco., Ars., Bell., Bro., Carb. v., Chi., Hep., Hyo., Kali bi., Lac. can., Lyc., Merc., Nit. ac., Nux, Olean., Pho., Pul., Sil., Sul. (pneumonia), Tarent., (Plat. follows well when Hep. and Lach. fail to evacuate pus from ovarian abscess). Incompatible: Acet. ac. (Am. c.).
Complementary:Hep., Lyc., Nit. ac. [Lyc. is the chief complement ; it is the opposite of Lach. in many respects (right to left, right upper, left lower; > warm drinks); lod. and Kali iod., which are complementary to Lyc., are probably complementary to Lach. K. iod. has the diffused sensitiveness of Lach.]
Compare: Crotal., Naja, Bothrops., Helod., Apis, Sul. and Lyc. (aphasia);
Therid. and Mosch. (vertigo < closing eyes and sun headache);
Ars., Hydr. ac., Lauroc., Dig. and Ver. (fainting from cardiac weakness);
K. carb. (heart hanging by a thread) ; Glon., Bell., Camph., Nat. c., Therid. (< from heat of sun); Stram., Agar., Mephit., Act. right, and Paris. (loquacity) ;
Op., Hyo., Arn., Alum., Lyc., and Rhus (typhoid);
Merc., Chi., Pul., Bry. and Gels. (catarrhal and rheumatic headaches);
Sil. (> wrapping up head; aversion to touch); Crot., Pho., and Arn. (retinal apoplexy);
Crotal. and Elaps. (otorrhoea); Apis, Ars. and K. ca. (oedema of face) ;
Cic. (dyspnoea from spasm); Grind. (stops breathing on falling asleep); Apis, Rhus and Euphorb.
(erysipelas, herpes, &c.); Phyt. (sore throat);
Chi., Carb. v., He p., Kre., K. bi., Nux and Lyc. (dyspepsias and abdominal diseases);
Colch. and Elaps.(cold feeling in stomach); Bell., Caust., Nat. m., Nit. ac., Ign., K. bi.,
Op., Pb., Mez. and Coccul. (constriction of anus, anal tenesmus, and dysentery) ;
Anac. (sensation of plug in rectum) Hep., Asaf., Lyc., Mur. ac., Silic., Sulph. ac., and Ars. (ulceration); Apis, Arg. m., Plat., Murex, Pall., Lyc. and Graph. (ovarian and uterine diseases) ; Crotal., Helleb., Dig., Tereb., Apis and Colch. (vesical and rectal affections, with haematuria) ;
Calc. (gall stones); Pho. and Thu. (fungus haematodes); Nat. m. and Led. (effects of bee stings) ; Lact. ac. (fulness of throat and constriction) ; Lac. can. (diphtheria; changing sides; sees snakes) ; Tarent. cub. (carbuncles) Colch. and Carb. ac. (black urine);
Sel., Nat. c. and Nat. m. (< in warm, relaxing weather) ;
Carb. v. (craves coffee it > Lach. but not Carb. v.); Ant. t. (threatened paralysis of lungs) ;
Merc. (Lach. Occasionally antidotes Merc., when pus degenerates and becomes dark, thin, offensive);
Chi. sul. (intermittents after abuse of Quinine, when chills return in spring);
Am. c.(blueness, somnolence, engorgement of neck; but Am. c. right sided and without sensitiveness) Hep. (any kind of food = indigestion); Nat. m. (opp. Lach., has > from tight clothing) ;
Apis (jealousy); Ar. t. (diphtheria); Anac. (has two wills ; thinks he is under control of superhuman
power) ; Arn. (sensitiveness of chest Lach., of peripheral nerves; Arn.,soreness of over full blood vessels) ; Bry. (headache from suppressed coryza); Act. right (puerperal mania) ; Bapt. (offensive discharges; typhoid); Bell. (head symptoms; throat; scarlatina) ; Hyo. (talks of things of daily life,
jumps from one subject to another); Spi. (larynx sensitive Lach., hyperaesthesia; Spi., inflammation of cartilages, turning head suffocative spell) : Sul. (left side; inflammation of liver, going on to abscess ; < after sleep also Nat. m.; Pho. after sleep); Staph. (on swallowing pain runs externally along parotid gland to ears; perspiration impossible); Pho. (sensation as if anus open; Lach., as if uterus) ; Sil., Caul., Sul., Ustil. and Vib. 0. (left ovarian and left infra mammary pain). Nux m. (cough of pregnancy; Lach., cough at menstrual period when it is going off. Patient must swallow what she loosens) ; Puls. (menstrual cough ; menses scanty; but pain < as flow increases); Con., Graph. (scanty menses) ; Anthracin. (carbuncles; boils) ; Tereb., K. bi. (tongue glazed ; and shining, Apis, Lach.); Pul., Pho., Sul. and Mur. ac. (piles during menses) ; Solania, Bell. and Dulc. (paralysis of lungs) ;
Iris t. (appendicitis); Pho. ac. (disappointed love);
Hydrophobin.; Sabad. (throat affected left to right Sabad., more chronic).
CLINICAL CONDITIONS
Albuminuria. Alcoholism. Amblyopia. Aneurysm. Appendicitis. Asthenopia. Asthma. Atheroma. Bedsores. Boils. Bubo.
Cecum inflammation. Carbuncle. Catalepsy. Chancre. Chilblains. Ciliary neuralgia. Cough. Cyanosis. Delirium tremens. Diphtheria. Dog-bite. Dropsy. Dyspepsia.
Ears, disorders. Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Eyes, disorders. Fainting. Fistula lachrymalis. Flatulence. Gallstones. Gangrene. Glanders. Gums, bleeding.
Hay fever. Headache. Heart disorders. Heartburn. Hemiplegias. Hemorrhages. Hemorrhoids. Hernia. Herpes. High blood pressure. Hoarseness. Hysteria. Injuries. Intermittent fever. Jaundice.
Labor, pains. Laryngismus. Laryngitis. Leprosy. Liver disorders. Locomotor ataxia.
Malignant pustule. Mania. Manic-depression. Measles.
Meniere's disease. Menopause. Mercury, effects. Morvan's disease. Mumps.
Neuralgia. Nymphomania. Otorrhea. Ovary, disorders.
Paralysis. Perspiration. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Plague. Pneumonia. Puerperal fever. Pulmonaryedema. Purpura. Quinsy. Rabies. Scarlatina. Sciatica. Stings. Strokes. Syphilis.
Throat, sore. Trachea disorders. Traumatic fever. Tumors.
Ulcers. Varicose veins. Vertigo. Vicarious menstruation.
Warts. Whitlow. Wounds.