Crotalus Horridus Materia Medica
(venom of deadly rattle snake of N.America)
Associated to low septic states and a general disorganization of the blood caused by septic toxaemia or zymotic diseases (low grade infectious diseases).
A haemorrhagic or cancerous constitution in diseases that are of a putrid type coming on with great rapidity and reaching putridity very quickly.
Marked Features
- Periodicity – every spring as the warm weather comes on their symptoms get worse
- Sleep – tend to sleep into aggravations. Pains that come on after sleep
- Trembling – of the limbs, tremulous weakness. Protruding the tongue it quivers. Muscles that twitch
Haemorrhages
- cases that come on with great rapidity, breaking down the blood,
relaxation of the blood vessels, bleeding from all the orifices of the body
and rapidly increasing unconsciousness
- a thin, dark fluid decomposed blood that is difficult to coagulate, hence clots are not usually detected in the haemorrhage Haemorrhage of the retina and ecchymotic spots in different parts of the body
- gastric haemorrhage in which large quantities of almost black, water, sanious blood is brought up
- bleeding from the anus that is black, thin coffee-ground stools
Offensiveness
- bleeding with putridity
~diphtheria
~ typhoid with bleeding and putridity
- evacuations and discharges are offensive
- breath offensive
- stomach cancer, vomiting large quantities of bile mixed with blood
- stomach ulcers with dark haemorrhage that does not coagulate
- after haemorrhage the body looks like wax, anaemic, pale yellow. The body appears mottled black and blue mixed with yellow. Yellow colour of eyes
Constriction
- sensation of constriction of the throat, only able to swallow liquid food
- tends to be more sensitive on the skin on the right side of the body.
- can not bear clothes around the stomach
- produces profound nervous shock and prostration (expect to see if bitten)
- marked trembling
- disorganization of fluids and tissue – start to break down
- right sided symptoms
- malignant septic states
- E-Boli virus, Yellow Fever, Cholera
Mentals
- snappy + irritable (D/D Nux-v)
- furious at slightest annoyance (D/D Nux-vom)
- fear of death
- thoughts constantly dwelling on death
- fear of evil/danger
- desire to travel – due to fear of evil/danger
- suspicious of friends
- feels surrounded by enemies
- antipathy to his family (nasty)
- loquacious
- stumbles over words
- when down and debilitated appear intoxicated
(mild delirium, stupor, drowsiness)
- readily moved to tears
- perception quite cloudy
- delusions: animals frightful
- dreams – of driving in a car / activity
Rubrics
- aversion to certain persons/members of family
- death thoughts of
- delusions surrounded by enemies
- delusions journey he is on
- escape attempts to