Crotalus horridus
Teucrium marum verum
Nasal and rectal symptoms marked. Polypi. Affections of children. Suitable after too much medicine has been taken. Oversensitiveness. Desire to stretch. A remedy of first importance in chronic nasal catarrh with atrophy; large, offensive crusts and clinkers. Ozaena. Loss of sense of smell.
Head: Excited, tremulous feeling. Frontal pain; worse, stooping. Strengthens brain after delirium tremens.
Eyes: Smarting in canthi; lids red and puffy; tarsal tumor (Staph).
Ears: Hissing and ringing otalgia.
Nose: Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils. Mucous polypus. Chronic catarrh; discharge of large, irregular clinkers. Foul breath. Crawling in nostrils, with lachrymation and sneezing. Coryza, with stoppage of nostrils.
Stomach: Vomiting of large quantities of dark-green masses. Constant hiccough, attended with pain in back. Unnatural appetite. Hiccough on eating, after nursing.
Respiratory: Dry cough, tickling in trachea; mouldy taste in throat when hawking up mucus, expectoration profuse.
Extremities: Affection of fingertips and joints of toes. Tearing pains in arms and legs. Pain in toenails, as if they had grown into flesh.
Rectum: Itching of anus, and constant irritation in the evening in bed. Ascarides, with nightly restlessness. Crawling in rectum after stool.
Sleep: Restless, with twitching, choking, and starting up frightened.
Skin: Itching causes tossing about all night. Very dry skin. Suppurating grooves in the nails.
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, haemorrhages 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, haemorrhages (dark fluid that forms no clots), tendency to carbuncles, malignant scarlatina, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, give opportunity to use this remedy. Haemorrhagic 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 haemorrhages, into the vitreous, but particularly for non-inflammatory retinal haemorrhages. Diplobia.
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 haemorrhage.
Throat: Dry, swollen, dark red. Spasm of oesophagus; 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 haemorrhage; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable. Blood oozes from rectum when standing or walking.
Female: Prolonged menses. Dysmenorrhoea; pain extends down thighs, with aching in region of heart. Uterine haemorrhage 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 haemorrhagic or putrescent character. Low bilious remittents. 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 haemorrhagica. Haemorrhage from every part of body. Bloody sweat. Chilblains, felons. Dissecting wounds. Pustular eruptions. Insect stings. Post-vaccination eruptions. Bad effects of vaccination. Lymphangitis and septicaemia. Boils, carbuncles, and eruptions are surrounded by purplish, mottled skin and oedema. 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.