Lachesis

Persons of a melancholy temperament, dark eyes, and a disposition to low spirits and indolence.

Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair ( Phos. ).

Better adapted to think and emaciated than to fleshy persons; to those who have been changed, both mentally and physically, by their illness.

Climacteric ailments: haemorrhoids haemorrhages; hot flushes and hot perspiration; burning vertex headache, especially at or after the menopause ( Sang. , Sulph. ).

Ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love ( Aur. , Ign. , Phos. ac. ).

Women who have not recovered from the change of life, “have never felt well since that time.”

Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go the right side – left ovary, testicle, chest.

Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, no because sore or tender, as in Apis or Bell. , but clothes cause an uneasiness, make her nervous.

Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist.

Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility.

Drunkards with congestive headaches and haemorrhoids; prone to erysipelas or apoplexy.

Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temples < from motion, pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep; dreads to go to sleep because she awakens with such a headache.

Rush of blood to head; after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed or irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy.

Weight and pressure on vertex ( Sep. ); like lead, in occiput.

All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into the aggravation; unhappy, distressed, anxious, sad < in morning on waking.

Mental excitability; ecstasy, with almost prophetic perceptions; with a vivid imagination; great loquacity; ( Agar. , Stram. ); want to talk all the time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another story.

Constipation: inactivity, stools lies in rectum, without urging; sensation of constriction of sphincter ( Caust. , Nit. ac. ).

Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses ( Zinc. ).

Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by the flow; always better during menses ( Zinc. ).

Piles: with scanty menses; at climaxis; strangulated; with stitches shooting upward ( Nit. ac. ).

The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing; wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo v. ).

As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops ( Am. c. , [Grind.], Lac c. , Op. ).

Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body, would constantly sink down from weakness; worse in the morning ( Sulph. , Tub. ).

Epilepsy; comes during sleep ([Bufo]); from loss of vital fluids; onanism, jealousy.

Haemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed easily and profusely ( Crot. , Kreos. , Phos. ); blood dark, non-coagulable ( Crot. , Sec. ).

Boils, carbuncles, ulcers and intense pain ( Tar. ); malignant pustules; decubitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to malignancy.

Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem ( Pyr. ).

Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder.

Fever annually returning; paroxysm every spring ( Carbo v. , Sulph. ), after suppression by quinine the previous autumn.

Fever: typhoid, typhus; stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding; conjunctiva yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody ( Lyc. ).

Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and extending to right side ( Lac. c. , Sabad. ); dark purple appearance ( Naja ); < by hot drinks, after sleep; liquids more painful than solids when swallowing ( Bell. , Bry. , Ign. ); prostration out of all proportion to appearance of throat.

Relations. – Complementary: Hep. , Lyc. , Nit. ac.

Incompatible: Acet. ac. , Carb. ac. [ Psor. ].

In intermittent fever Nat. m. follows Lach. well when type changes.

Aggravation. – After sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids; alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun’s rays; spring. summer.