Lachesis Materia Medica
APPEARANCE/TYPE
- persons aggravated by sleep, worse on waking
- enormous swelling of the lips
- purple mottled face worse for heat
- warm-blooded (D/D Sulph, Lyc)
- active and extroverted with many ideas
- women going through menopause
- the alcoholic
CAUSATION
- ill effects of injuries, puncture wounds, sprains, injury (blueness of parts)
- never well since climaxes
- disappointed love
- jealousy
- grief
- fright
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
- worse during and after sleep
e.g. can wake up with asthma or feeling suffocated
feels drugged if they sleep in.
wake early 5-7 am or they feel dopey if they sleep in late
- better for short naps
- excessive sensitivity to slight touch – due to constricted feeling
- better for onset of discharges (mentally and physically)
e.g. nymphomania goes when menses starts
become less loquacious with start of menses
- a left sided remedy
- symptoms also move from left à right
- likes to wear certain colours i.e. red and black
- they are flashy people
- an extrovert remedy that is very suppressed
- wear lots of make-up and jewelry
- very talkative
- protrudes tongue often (like a snake)
- good for climaxes
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- rapid onset remedy (D/D Bella)
- great prostration (nervous exhaustion) with rapid onset
- sensation of ball rolling around in the body (D/D Sepia)
MENTALS
1. Loquacity
- very talkative
- jumps from subject to subject when talking
- repeats the same thing
- insanity - meglomania
2. Delusions
- think they are under super human control (good or bad) (D/D Thuja, Op, Plat)
- she is dead and preparations are being made for her funeral
- is being pursued by enemies
- is floating (out of body)
- snakes are in and around her (dream this or feel it physically) (D/D Calc carb,Strom)
3. Jealousy
- for animals, about animals or animals
- inanimate objects i.e. people having material things
- jealousy, brutal – striking partner
- jealousy with quarrels
- tears hair from jealousy
- during drunkenness
4. Fear of being Poisoned
- patient refuses to take medicine
- fear to lie down and sleep least his heart will stop
5. Time
- things seem strange and unreal
- time passes slowly
- fritters away time
6. Sensation
- ball rolling about in body
7. PQRS
- heart is hanging by a thread
- tongue protrudes and trembles (like snake)
- eyes feel small as if drawn together by a cord
8. Hypersensitivity
- worse for soft/slight pressure
- better for hard pressure
9. Discharges
- hemorrhagic remedy
- small cuts bleed much
- black like charred straw
- mentally and physically feel better for discharges
10. Pains
- neuralgic pains with heart palpitations
- fainting and nausea with pain
- throbbing hammering pain
-.suicidal from pains
11. Sexual / reproductive
- left ovarian pain
- pain travels left to right ovary
- menses – black and scanty
- aggravation at menopause
12. Body heat
- flushes of heat. Flushes increased
- worse for heat of room
13. General
- religious affections in children and puberty (D/D Ars, Stram, Calc, Sulph)
- women have an aversion to marriage (D/D Puls, Nux)
- suicidal from pains (D/D Sepia, Nux, Aurum met)
- prophetic – predict the future correctly
- no inclination to mix with the world
14. Desires / aversions / aggravations / ameliorations
- desires – coffee, fruit, oysters, alcohol (spirits)
- aggravations – hot drinks
- ameliorations – cold drinks, fruit
- better for open air, bathing affected part
- persons aggravated by sleep, worse on waking
- enormous swelling of the lips
- purple mottled face worse for heat
- warm-blooded (D/D Sulph, Lyc)
- active and extroverted with many ideas
- women going through menopause
- the alcoholic
CAUSATION
- ill effects of injuries, puncture wounds, sprains, injury (blueness of parts)
- never well since climaxes
- disappointed love
- jealousy
- grief
- fright
PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
- worse during and after sleep
e.g. can wake up with asthma or feeling suffocated
feels drugged if they sleep in.
wake early 5-7 am or they feel dopey if they sleep in late
- better for short naps
- excessive sensitivity to slight touch – due to constricted feeling
- better for onset of discharges (mentally and physically)
e.g. nymphomania goes when menses starts
become less loquacious with start of menses
- a left sided remedy
- symptoms also move from left à right
- likes to wear certain colours i.e. red and black
- they are flashy people
- an extrovert remedy that is very suppressed
- wear lots of make-up and jewelry
- very talkative
- protrudes tongue often (like a snake)
- good for climaxes
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- rapid onset remedy (D/D Bella)
- great prostration (nervous exhaustion) with rapid onset
- sensation of ball rolling around in the body (D/D Sepia)
MENTALS
1. Loquacity
- very talkative
- jumps from subject to subject when talking
- repeats the same thing
- insanity - meglomania
2. Delusions
- think they are under super human control (good or bad) (D/D Thuja, Op, Plat)
- she is dead and preparations are being made for her funeral
- is being pursued by enemies
- is floating (out of body)
- snakes are in and around her (dream this or feel it physically) (D/D Calc carb,Strom)
3. Jealousy
- for animals, about animals or animals
- inanimate objects i.e. people having material things
- jealousy, brutal – striking partner
- jealousy with quarrels
- tears hair from jealousy
- during drunkenness
4. Fear of being Poisoned
- patient refuses to take medicine
- fear to lie down and sleep least his heart will stop
5. Time
- things seem strange and unreal
- time passes slowly
- fritters away time
6. Sensation
- ball rolling about in body
7. PQRS
- heart is hanging by a thread
- tongue protrudes and trembles (like snake)
- eyes feel small as if drawn together by a cord
8. Hypersensitivity
- worse for soft/slight pressure
- better for hard pressure
9. Discharges
- hemorrhagic remedy
- small cuts bleed much
- black like charred straw
- mentally and physically feel better for discharges
10. Pains
- neuralgic pains with heart palpitations
- fainting and nausea with pain
- throbbing hammering pain
-.suicidal from pains
11. Sexual / reproductive
- left ovarian pain
- pain travels left to right ovary
- menses – black and scanty
- aggravation at menopause
12. Body heat
- flushes of heat. Flushes increased
- worse for heat of room
13. General
- religious affections in children and puberty (D/D Ars, Stram, Calc, Sulph)
- women have an aversion to marriage (D/D Puls, Nux)
- suicidal from pains (D/D Sepia, Nux, Aurum met)
- prophetic – predict the future correctly
- no inclination to mix with the world
14. Desires / aversions / aggravations / ameliorations
- desires – coffee, fruit, oysters, alcohol (spirits)
- aggravations – hot drinks
- ameliorations – cold drinks, fruit
- better for open air, bathing affected part