Rattlesnake
- Snake poisons are supposed to be chemically Cyan hydrates of Soda and other salts.
- Alcohol is the natural solvent of these salts and is an antidote.
- Has a profound trophic action.
- Old age nutritional troubles.
- Low septic states.
- General disorganization of the blood, hemorrhages and jaundice.
- A crotalin injection decreases the rate of coagulation of the blood.
- In epilepsy the average rate is far greater than in normal conditions.
- Blood decomposition, hemorrhages (dark fluid that forms no clots), tendency to carbuncles, malignant scarlatina, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, give opportunity to use this remedy.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis.
- Acts as a sedative.
- Sleeps into his symptoms.
- More right-sided in its action.
Mind
- Weeping mood; clouded perception and memory; impatient.
- Loquacious, with desire to escape.
- Sadness.
- Delusions of cerebral decay.
Head
- Vertigo, with weakness and trembling.
- Dull heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye.
- Headache with pain in heart on lying on left side.
- Headache; must walk on tip-toe to avoid jarring.
Eyes
- Very sensitive to light, especially lamp light.
- Yellow color of eyes.
- Illusions; blue colors.
- Ciliary neuralgia; tearing, boring pain, as if a cut had been made around eye.
- For absorption of intra-ocular hemorrhages, into the vitreous, but particularly for non-inflammatory retinal hemorrhages.
- Diplopia.
Ears
- Auditory vertigo.
- Blood oozes from ears.
- Feeling of stoppage in right ear.
Nose
- Epistaxis, blood black and stringy, ozaena, after exanthemata or syphilis.
Face
- Acne.
- Lips swollen and numb.
- Leaden-colored and yellow face.
- Lockjaw.
Mouth
- Tongue red and small, but feels swollen.
- Tongue fiery red, dry in center, smooth and polished.
- Moldy smell of breath.
- Fills up with saliva.
- Tongue when protruding, goes to right.
- Spasmodic grinding of teeth at night.
- Cancer of tongue with hemorrhage.
Throat
- Dry, swollen, dark red.
- Spasm of esophagus; cannot swallow any solid substance.
- Tight constriction.
- Gangrenous, with much swelling.
Stomach
- Intolerance of clothing around stomach.
- Unable to retain anything; violent vomiting of food; bilious vomiting, vomiting of blood.
- Constant nausea and vomiting every month, after menstruation.
- Cannot lie on right side, without vomiting dark-green matter.
- Black or coffee-grounds vomiting.
- Cancer of stomach with vomiting of bloody, slimy mucus.
- Trembling, fluttering feeling below the epigastrium.
- Intolerance of clothing about epigastrium.
- Faintness and sinking at stomach.
- Ulceration of the stomach.
- Atonic dyspepsia.
- Gastritis in chronic alcoholism.
- Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat.
Abdomen
- Distended, hot, and tender.
- Pain in region of liver.
Stool
- Black, thin, offensive, like coffee-grounds.
- Intestinal hemorrhage; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable.
- Blood oozes from rectum when standing or walking.
Female
- Prolonged menses.
- Dysmenorrhea; pain extends down thighs, with aching in region of heart.
- Uterine hemorrhage with faintness at stomach.
- Puerperal fever; offensive lochia.
- Phlegmasia alba dolens.
- Sensation as though uterus would drop out.
- Painful drawing in uterine ligaments.
- Cannot keep legs still.
Urinary
- Dark, bloody urine.
- Casts.
- Inflamed kidney.
- Albuminous, dark, scanty (Merc cor).
Heart
- Action feeble, pulse tremulous.
- Palpitation, especially at menstrual period.
- Trembling feeling of heart.
Respiratory
- Cough, with bloody expectoration.
- Tickling from a dry spot in larynx.
Extremities
- Hands tremble, swollen.
- Lower extremities go to sleep easily.
- Right-sided paralysis.
Fever
- Malignant fevers of a hemorrhagic or putrescent character.
- Low bilious remittent.
- Yellow fever.
- Bloody sweat.
- Cerebro-spinal meningitis (Cicuta; Cup acet).
- Cold sweats.
Skin
- Swelling and discoloration, skin tense and shows every tint of color, with excruciating pain.
- Vesication.
- Sallow.
- Yellow color of the whole body.
- Great sensitiveness of skin of right half of body.
- Purpura hemorrhagica.
- Hemorrhage from every part of body.
- Bloody sweat.
- Chilblains, felons.
- Dissecting wounds.
- Pustular eruptions.
- Insect stings.
- Post-vaccination eruptions.
- Bad effects of vaccination.
- Lymphangitis and septicemia.
- Boils, carbuncles, and eruptions are surrounded by purplish, mottled skin and edema.
- Anthrax.
- Sore sensation relieved by pressure.
Sleep
- Dreams of the dead.
- Starting in sleep.
- Yawning.
- Smothering sensation when awaking.
Modalities
- Worse, right side; open air; evening and morning; in spring, coming on of warm weather; yearly; on awaking; damp and wet; jar.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Bothrops;
- Naja (more nervous phenomena);
- Lachesis (more markedly worse on left side);
- Elaps (preferable in otorrhea and affections of right lung);
- Crotalus cascavella (thoughts and dreams of death. Paralysis of articulation, embarrassed stertorous breathing and semi-consciousness. A magnetic state is produced; cutting sensation all around eyeball).
- Bungarus-Krait--(poliomyelitis).
- Antidote: Lach; Alcohol. Radiant heat; camphor.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.
