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Crotalus horridus

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  1. Pharmacological Group
  2. Additional facts
  3. Mental
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Nervous system
  6. Mouth and throat
  7. Appetite and food preferences
  8. Gastrointestinal tract
  9. Urogenital system
  10. Chest organs
  11. Cardiovascular system
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Analogs by action
  14. Included in the composition
  15. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

crot-h, crotalus molossus homeopathy.

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen
Crotalus horridus

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

Additional facts

 C. horridus, Linn. Order, сrotalidae of the Ophidia family of serpents. Preparation: Trituration of the virus with sugar of milk.

Mental

 Mind.
 Emotional. Excessive excitability; for example, while reading Humboldt’s lecture to naturalists in вerlin, he was moved to tears,. Sublime ecstasy. Delirium. Delirium at night. Delirium at night, from time to time (seventeenth day), also the whole night. Delirium, with convulsions. For several days, a certain dread of selecting remedies, which usually is an agreeable occupation. Depression.
 Depression, and indifference to everything. Melancholy; misanthropic and indifferent, with sudden weakness, headache, heartache, and excessive diarrhoea. Anxiety, with restless heat.
 Apprehensiveness. Indifference, with sudden weakness. Most heavenly sensation; melancholy was quickly changed into gay anticipations,. Followed by S. 349. Remarkable indifference; seems only half alive; lasting fourteen years (chronic result of the bite). Intellectual. Remarkable heaviness and dulness, the first day, on account of which he is unable to express himself properly, and hence is unable to make a note of several symptoms.
 Makes mistakes in writing, cannot spell correctly. сonfused speech. His answers are disconnected, with cold skin.
 Disconnected answers, with coldness of the skin and rapid pulse.
 Remarkable weakness of memory. Loss of senses.

Head, face, and ears

 Head.
 Vertigo. Vertigo, with nausea. Vertigo, with sopor. Vertigo; headache in the forehead above the eyes, in the temples, worse in the right; with nausea, vomiting of bile; is obliged to lie down; together with constipation; better from walking in the open air.
 Dizziness before the eyes, even to falling down, with dilated pupils, earthy paleness of the face, and blue rings around the eyes (first day).
 General Head.
 Rush of blood to the head, with convulsions, followed by death.
 Feeling of lightness in the head, with pressure in the temples, especially in the left which makes him bite the teeth together.
 Dull sensation in the head. Pains through the whole head (immediately). Headache, gradually increasing and decreasing. Headache, extending into the eyes. Headache extending into the left teeth. Headache, shortly before going to sleep; especially very severe on undressing, but disappearing in the morning after a good night’s sleep. Headache, with melancholy.
 Forehead. Pains in the forehead. Pains in the whole forehead, which became steadily worse, and at last intolerable;afterwards they were somewhat relieved, although they continued till towards evening (after half an hour). Tension in the muscles of the forehead and nape of the neck. Pressive frontal headache, followed by sensation of nausea (after three hours).
 Temples. Muscular twitches in the temples. Pains in the temples.
 Several times, a drawing-pinching pain in the right temple.
 Pressure in the temples, especially in the left, which makes him bite his teeth together with a feeling of lightness of the head.
 Stitches in the left temple and whole left side of the head, lasting five minutes (after three-quarters of an hour). Momentary stitches and pains in the left temple. Dull stitches in both temples.
 Severe painless pulsation in the temples.
 Vertex. Headache in the vertex; pressive, comes on in the afternoon and lasts till night, for three days (after eighteenth day).
 On the fourth day it changed to forenoon, with heat and flushing of the face.
 Sides. Aching difficult to describe in the right side of the head, as though he would be seized with a violent headache, without its amounting thereto (after two hours). Shaking and wavering in the left upper part of the head, especially on ascending steps or walking rapidly. Alternations of various kinds of pains in the left side of the head, as for example, drawings, pressure, pinchings, tension, and bruised pain, which extends into the teeth and orbits.
 Occiput. Dull headache in the occiput. Pain as from a blow in the occiput, especially occurring on lying down again after rising, which he had experienced several years previously, now reappears.
 External Head.
 Violent itching of the scalp. Violent itching of the scalp, with a large quantity of dandruff.
 Eye.
 Objective. Eyes muddy and heavy, next morning. Red watery eyes (after one hour). Yellow color of the eyes; frequently of the whole body. вlue rings about the eyes, with pale face. вlood exudes from the eye. вlood flows from the eyes, ears and nose, at times. Dryness of the eye. The eyes feel dry. Sudden violent drawing pain from the vertex into the right eye, in the evening.
 Brow and Orbit.
 Pains above the eyes. Pressure and oppression above the eyes.
 Pressure above the right eye, nausea and vertigo, repeated for several days, at different times. Pressure above the left eye, with vertigo and sensation of nausea on moving; the pain is especially felt over the eyes, particularly the right, not continuous, paroxysmal, jerk like. Pressure deep in the orbits, behind the ears, and in the nasal bones, so that as with the pressure in the temples, he is obliged to bite the teeth together. Fine prickling and stinging above the left eye, as with fine needles.
 Lids. Dark redness of the left upper lid, with dryness and burning within the eyes and redness of the canthi. Eyes almost closed (after twenty-six hours). Itching in the canthi.
 Lachrymal Apparatus. Frequent lachrymation and momentary disappearance of vision, especially in damp weather.
 Ball. Pain in the eyeball on moving the eye, like a pressure, and as if the eye were too dry internally.
 Vision. Dimness of vision. Momentary disappearance of vision, with profuse lachrymation, especially in damp weather.
 Vanishing of vision, while reading.
 Ear.
 Objective. вleeding from the ears. External. вruised feeling in the lobules of the ears.
 Internal. Heat in the ears. Heat in the right ear, with bruised sensation in the lobules of the ears. Stopped sensation in the right ear, and drawing within both ears, painful in the right, with heat and sensation as though earwax would run down into the mouth. Drawing in both ears, with stoppage of them. Drawing in the right ear, with painfulness of the whole left side of the head, and paralyzed feeling of the left jaw. Painful drawing in the right ear, with sensation of heat in it. Hot, tickling sensation, as though earwax were in both ears.
 Nose.
 Violent sneezing, once at a time; with a stitch in the right side of the chest, near the shoulder-joint, followed by pains in the bones of the chest. вleeding from the nose and all the orifices of the body.
 Face.
 Objective. Paleness of the face, as in faintness. Discolored face.
 Earthy face, with vertigo. Yellow color of the face. Sickly yellow color of the face (chronic result). Face leaden-colored, immediately. Leaden color of the face, lasting during life.
 Swelling of the face, of the whole head, and body. Face somewhat bloated, next morning.
 Subjective. Pressive-drawing pains in the bones of the face, first in the right maxilla and zygoma, then in the left; then in both at the same time.
 Lips. Trembling lips, with weakness and faintness. Lips and throat dry, without thirst.
 Jaw. сramp in the jaws. Spasmodic contraction of the jaws, with swelling of the hand and arm, and other dangerous symptoms.
 Bruised pain in the whole right lower jaw and in the teeth.

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo. Dull confusion of the whole head.

Mouth and throat

 Teeth. The teeth are loose in their sockets. Inclination to press the tongue against the lower incisors, with crumbling of them on the inside. Pain in the teeth, coming from the larynx. Sudden very transient pain shooting into the right lower back teeth; it shoots up and down in them several times, and then disappears (first day).
 Violent shooting downward, almost like a blow, in an upper back tooth; immediately disappearing (second day). Teeth and jaws seem bruised.
 Gums.
 Gums white (fourth and subsequent days). вleeding of the gums.
 Tongue.
 Tongue red and sore (fourth and subsequent days. вrown tongue.
 Tongue brown and swollen, so that it closes the throat.
 Swelling of the tongue. Swelling of the tongue till there is no more room in the mouth, with inflammation of it. Tongue swollen to nearly twice the normal size. Tongue tumid (after twenty-six hours).
 General Mouth. Tickling of the palate and fauces.
 Saliva. Accumulation of saliva, obliging him to swallow.
 Throat.
 Dryness of the throat, with great thirst (after one hour). Throat dry, with thirst (fourth and subsequent days). Sensation in the throat as though earwax were running down, with heat in the ear. Sudden attack of sore throat, and bronchial catarrh, in the evening, which went away the next morning, and returned at night.
 Painful rawness in the throat. Tickling in the pit of the throat, as if in the trachea, provoking cough without expectoration; after some days simple tickling without cough.
 Pharynx. Tickling in the pharynx.
 Swallowing. Frequent swallowing of saliva, with sensation as though the neck were compressed, without dyspnoea. Deglutition impeded to some extent (after twenty-six hours).
 External Throat. Larynx is painful to touch (second day).
 Eructation. Eructations tasting of the food. Eructations of a sour, acrid fluid, after eating white bread (fourth day). Rancid eructations the whole afternoon (fourth day). Scraping rancid sensation, extending down the oesophagus to the stomach, with pressure in the pit of the stomach.
 Heartburn. Heartburn after the usual light supper. Heartburn at 4 , lasting the whole evening. Heartburn the whole day, especially in the afternoon, with a feeling as if the whole oesophagus up to the mouth were full of rancid food, with eructations tasting of the food.
 Voice.
 Hoarseness, with weak, rough voice.
 Cough and Expectoration. сough; a stitch in the left side, with bloody expectoration from the lungs. Moderate cough, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Spitting of blood.

Appetite and food preferences

 Taste. Sourish taste in the mouth, after the usual breakfast.
 Speech. Articulation indistinct (after twenty-six hours).
 Loss of speech and of the senses. Speechless, without moving, trembling pulse. Unable to speak; it seems as though the tongue and whole throat were tightly constricted.
 Appetite. Appetite bad (first and second days). Thirst. Thirst during the fever. Great thirst was an attendant symptom from the first, so much so that previous to my arrival she had allayed it with an immoderate quantity of water.
 Unquenchable burning thirst.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Nausea, relieved by vomiting.
 Nausea, soon after taking it, coming on by paroxysms, lasting till noon, especially while walking or standing, relieved by sitting. Nausea and vertigo with the headache. Nausea with headache.
 Nausea, with sensation as though he must vomit, which, however, he is unable to do in spite of efforts (first day). Nausea amounting to vomiting (immediately after a bite). Nausea and vomiting. Nausea and vomiting very decided, and always coming on very soon after the bite.
 Nausea, with a sensation as though something rancid rose in the oesophagus, and remained in the upper part of the chest. Nausea with coldness of the body. Nausea with cold skin. Extreme nausea and vomiting on the least exertion (after twenty-six hours).
 Vomiting preceded the faintness. Vomiting follows violent pains in the forehead. Vomiting with vertigo. Vomiting with headache.
 Vomiting, with thirst. Sudden vomiting. сonstant vomiting.
 Vomiting severely. Vomiting of food. Violent vomiting of food for several days after a meal. Green vomiting. Vomiting of a green fluid, with great pain in the chest. Vomiting of very bitter bile. Vomiting of blood. Stomach could retain only jellies, brandy, and coffee (fifth day). Stomach so irritable that it is unable to retain anything.
 Stomach. Intolerance of the clothing about the epigastric region and beneath the hypochondria, not noticed previously or subsequently with the same clothing. Painfulness in the pit of the stomach.
 Pains in the stomach. Pains in the stomach after breakfast and dinner (fifteenth day). вurning pain in the epigastrium for half an hour, when it ceased after a stool (tenth day). Fulness and pressure in the stomach were relieved by the medicine (first day). Pressure in the stomach, with discomfort in the epigastric and praecordial regions, as though he had eaten too much, similar to the sensation experienced before fainting (after a few minutes). Weight on stomach and chest (third and subsequent days). вreakfast lies heavy all day (third day). Sticking in the pit of the stomach. Stomach sore and tender on rising in the morning (fourth and subsequent days); worse after food (eleventh day). Soreness returned in the epigastrium, extending upwards under the sternum (fifteenth day). Throbbing at the pit of the stomach, with rancid sensation in the stomach.
 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Pain in the left side of the abdomen, like cuttings through the spleen after violent running, aggravated by deep inspiration (first day); the same pain remains on the second day after a larger dose, but is not so severe. Umbilical. Pains internally in the umbilical region, like a violent burning (first day). Pressive aching in the middle of the abdomen, beneath the umbilicus, as though it were too full.
 General Abdomen.
 Swelling of the whole abdomen. Inflammation of the viscera of the abdomen. Flatulency and eructations (third and subsequent days).
 Violent pain in the course of the colon at 11:30 p.m; (next day). вurning pains in the abdomen, lasting several days, with great sensitiveness, especially to touch. Violent burning pain in the abdomen. Tension in the abdomen, painful to touch, with burning pain.
 Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. In the night she was awakened by violent burning pain in the hypogastrium, going through to the sacrum (tenth day). The inguinal glands on that side were much enlarged (after twenty-six hours).
 Rectum and Anus.
 Bleeding from the anus and other openings of the body.
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, with nausea, anxiety, and thirst. Attack of diarrhoea; after which the bowels were costive and the evacuations hard during a week. Frequent diarrhoea-like stool with colic, extending downward from the umbilicus. Diarrhoea-like evacuation in the afternoon. Involuntary evacuation of the bowels, of a dark bilious color, next morning. Pasty stool. Has had several bloody passages from the bowels. Constipation. вowels were rather constipated.

Urogenital system

 Urethra. Haemorrhage from the urethra.
 Micturition. Urine somewhat increased in quantity, and very high- colored, reddish-yellow (second to fifth day). Urine scanty and red (eleventh day).
 Urine.
 Urine looks like that in jaundice. No blood in the urine; (blood in the urine is common in these cases).
 Sexual Organs.
 Male. Sharp cuttings in the glans penis twice (without any other symptoms in this part). Unusual sexual excitement during the day, with complete relaxation of the genitals; apparent impotence.
 Female.
 Catamenia a week too soon (twenty-five days after last dose); free, preceded by weight in the head and ears, accompanied by pains in the abdomen and back and cold feet. The period lasts some hours longer than is usual, and goes off after two days with intense frontal headache, which lasts from 10 to 1 o’clock in the night.

Chest organs

 Larynx. Bruised pain, extending from the larynx to chin, and at times into the lower teeth; it appears by paroxysms; its seat is in the larynx, where it originates every time and is sharper than in the chin, up to which it shoots (second day).
 Respiration.
 Respiration 14; labored. Difficult respiration.
 Dyspnoea, with symptoms of inflammation of the lungs and intestines.
 Dyspnoea, with anxiety, thirst, nausea, diarrhoea.
 Chest.
 Inflammation of the lungs. Severe pains in the chest, with vomiting of a green fluid. The lungs seem passive; respiration in the evening in bed is difficult; the chest feels tight. Oppression of the chest while sitting, almost amounting to faintness (second day). During several days there was some soreness in the chest and cough in the morning. A severe sore pain and a sticking, as if in the bones of the chest, in the middle of the chest, somewhat to the right side; worse on touch, but not on deep inspiration (first day).
 Front.
 Constant dull stitch in the forepart of the chest, extending into the bones of the left shoulder (after a quarter of an hour), returning next day.
 Sides.
 Pain in the right side below the arm; afterwards also in the left. Pain beneath the left arm, extending into the left side of the chest, with very great pain on deep inspiration. Pressure in the right side of the chest; on the previous day pain in the left side.
 Stitches in the right side of the chest, quite near the sternum.
 Stitches in the right side of the chest, on sneezing.
 Mammae.
 The milk of the mother became deadly poison to her five months’ child. Sudden pain above the left nipple, as from a blow, lasting two minutes, repeated after a few minutes (first day).

Cardiovascular system

 Precordium. Pain in the heart. Heart’s Action.
 Palpitation during the fever. Heart-beat feeble (55 per minute).
 Pulse. Pulse rapid and full, at first. Pulse at first full, hard and rapid. Pulse weak, rapid, with fever and exhaustion. Pulse at first hard, rapid, then weak and slow.
 Pulse 100, with cold skin. Pulse weak, rapid, 102, 80, intermitting.
 Pulse small, 130, in the evening. Pulse low, and about 60 strokes in a minute (after twenty-six hours). Pulse strong and full, after the formation of an abscess. Pulse at first hard, afterwards weak. Pulse tremulous. Pulse scarcely noticed, with loss of motion and speech.
 His pulse was almost imperceptible and threadlike, the next morning.
 Pulse scarcely perceptible with faintness. Pulse not perceptible at the wrist. Pulse imperceptible.

Limbs and spine

 Tensive pains, extending from the shoulder to the neck, worse on moving the arm. Drawing-tensive pain, extending from the right shoulder up along the neck, as if some one were pulling on a tendon extending from the shoulder to the neck, and drawn tense under the skin; moving the arm, especially bending it backward, and also pressure upon the affected part aggravated the pain. Drawing on the left side of the neck, posteriorly, extending to the shoulders.
 Back. Extravasation of blood in the loins. Visible twitching of the muscles of the lumbar region.
 Extremities in General.
 Objective. Whole extremity swollen to nearly double its size, and very painful. сonvulsive movements of the limbs. Subjective. Heaviness of the arms and legs, as if the bones were made of heavy wood. Painful paralytic sensation in the bones of the fingers, arms, and legs, in the evening while sitting. A numb pain, as after a cramp, frequently in the toes and anterior portion of the fingers (second day). Tearing in the limbs; yearly, or at times.
 Superior Extremities.
 Objective. The affected arms became inflamed, swollen, and gangrenous; diarrhoea, with delirium, and death on the eighteenth day. Next morning, the arm, from the shoulder and front of the thorax to the fingers, was swollen to twice its size. Swelling and heaviness of the arm that was bitten. The arm became again swollen and inflamed on the tenth day; on the eleventh he was unable to rise, on account of heaviness of the arms and pains; on the twelfth, it was worse; on the thirteenth, diarrhoea, chills, with the formation of a large abscess on the outer side of the elbow, from which was discharged a reddish-brown matter, with membranous portions of the cellular tissue; on the fourteenth, less redness and swelling; on the fifteenth, less suppuration, diarrhoea;on the night of the sixteenth, chill, followed by rapid extension of the ulceration; on the seventeenth, the skin near the shoulder became gangrenous; on the nineteenth, death.
 Subjective. The arms feel numb in the morning. The arm was very painful when moved the next morning. Drawing in the bones of the right arm, extending into the thumb and little finger, together with pain in the left foot.
 Shoulder. In the forepart of the shoulder-joint above the axilla, several small soft lumps under the skin, with many persistent stitches, as from sharp needles thrust into the flesh; worse on bending the arm backward (second day). Glands in left axilla swollen and tender. вruised pain in the bones of the shoulder, extending backward, especially on bending the arm backward, by paroxysms (second day).
 Arm. Violent pain in the right upper arm just above the elbow.
 Bruised pain in both upper arms, a cramp like sensation.
 Elbow. Pain in the right elbow, together with a throbbing bruised pain in the ribs beneath the right arm; worse when touched, and on moving the arm up and down.
 Forearm. Swelling of left forearm, extending up the arm, of right arm only to the elbow; severe pain in left, moderate in right.
 The bite was followed by severe pain, and great swelling of the forearm and arm nearly to the shoulder, accompanied by discoloration of the integument.
 Hand.
 Both hands and forearms swollen, and very painful.
 Cold swelling of the hand and arm, with painfulness to pressure.
 Trembling of the hands, during rest. Marked contraction of some of the flexors of the hand. Paralytic weakness in the hands and fingers.
 Violent pain in the palm of the left hand, as after the sting of a bee, but more spasmodic; much worse on moving the middle finger, in the last joint of which the pain is first felt.
 Fingers. Oozing of blood from under the nails. Pain from the bite pierces to the extreme tips of the fingers. Pain in the last joint of the middle finger, on moving it. Violent pain in the last phalanges of the right little finger and of the left middle finger, as when in winter one suddenly brings a very cold hand very near the fire; frequently the same pain attacks the left ring finger. At times, paralytic pain in the bones of the fingers, chiefly in the right index finger. Violent dull drawing pains in the bones of the left thumb. вruised pain through the first (metacarpal) joints of the fingers of the right hand.

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