Homeopathy Remedy Crotalus Horridus


Crotalus Horridus homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Crotalus Horridus…


      The venom of the rattlesnake is received on sugar of milk and triturated.

General Action

      It produces a general disorganization of the blood, with haematogenous jaundice, haemorrhages, etc.

Allies. The serpent poisons, also Canth, Phos, Carbo-veg.

Generalities

      Lying on back, with limbs flexed and head hanging slightly towards r. shoulder. Turning about much in bed. Motionless, eyes and ears inaccessible to any impressions. Bleeding from all orifices; suddenly, from eyes, ears, nose gums and beneath nails. General dropsy. Swelling of whole body; (<) head; yearly, with fever and maculae. General trembling. Nervous agitation. Twitching. Convulsions; in morning with trembling of limbs (compare snake venoms and Phosphorus!).

Pricking all over body. Pain universal; P. in muscles and joints; in wounded part after recovery, or twitchings in it; pains alternating rapidly with each other; burning pain in trunk, (<) touch, with sensibility; burning P. in trunk, (<) lower part, (<) touch. Soreness. Bruised pain in morning after waking, is scarcely able to rise; in all bones in morning on waking, (>) rising. Restlessness. Weakness; tired by slight exertion (Phos); by standing; in morning; in morning, with disinclination to rising and to taking his usual cold bath; and the muscles refuse their service; with head hanging upon his chest; trembling, as from apprehension; sudden. Faintness; with imperceptible pulse and pulse and nausea. Paralysis of one side. Symptoms chiefly in bones.

Clinical Palsy has been relieved. Chronic rheumatism. Tetanus was cured by the injection of the poison, though the patient was greatly prostrated thereby. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism, General exhaustion with numbness of extremities, vertigo, cold hands and feet, backs of hands mottled. Purpura haemorrhagica.

Mind

      Delirium; at night; with plaintive and feeble moans; with swollen face and besotted expression, pupils, dilated, vision lost, asked frequently if it was not raining hard, though the night was calm and clear. Excitement and loquacity; E. for example, when reading Humboldt’s lecture to naturalists in Berlin he was moved to tears. Ecstasy, Buoyancy. Anxiety; with restless heat. Apprehension. Dread of selecting remedies, which is usually an agreeable occupation. Peevishness and relaxation. Annoyed by the least noise. Depression. Melancholy was quickly changed into gay anticipations, then general dropsy. Misanthropic and indifferent mood, with sudden weakness, headache, heartache and excessive diarrhoea. Indifference, seems only half alive. Indolence and Dullness, so that he cannot express himself properly. Inability to think, comprehend or remember distinctly. Mistakes in writing, inability to spell correctly; though thinking of the proper letters. Memory weak. Speech confused. Answers disconnected, skin cold, pulse rapid; incoherent answers. Senses lost.

Clinical Incipient senile dementia, forgetful of figures, names and places, or he imagines himself surrounded by foes or hideous animals, antipathy to his family. Delirium of typhus and delirium tremens.

Head

      Aching; before going to sleep, (<) undressing, (>) sleep; from rush of blood and constipation; with melancholy; gradually increasing and decreasing; extending into eyes; extending into l. teeth; paroxysmal, (<) above r. eye, with vertigo and nausea on moving; neuralgic, and in neck. Singing, as after taking chloroform. Confusion. Lightness, with pressure in temples, (<) l, which makes him bite the teeth together. Heaviness Rush of blood; with convulsions. Feeling in morning on waking as if brain were contracted and fell about on moving head, with sensitiveness and grasping pain, synchronous with pulse. Feeling of intoxication. Vertigo; when sitting, (>) resting head and keeping quiet, but recurring on slightest movement, with heaviness of head, as if the cervical muscles were too weak to support it, both vertigo and heaviness (>) lying down; V. (>) walking in open air; with pain above eyes and in temples, (<) r, nausea, vomiting of bile, constipation and necessity to lie down; with nausea; with sopor; before eyes, even to falling, with dilated pupils, earthy paleness of face and blue rings around eyes; sudden, when writing.

Forehead. Stinging above l. eye. Tearing in brain above root, of nose, (<) coughing and sneezing, with confusion. Pain; in front part of head; above eyes; in r. side and under r. orbit; over l. eye in morning on waking; (>) towards evening; above r. eye, with nausea and vertigo; above eyes, with oppression; then nausea; grasping, over back part of l. orbital plate; pulsative, behind l. orbit; heavy, across middle (>) sleep; in whole from part of brain, as if congested, also in morning on waking, (<) under surface of l. frontal lobe, with sharp pain in centre of l. occiput. Full, congested feeling in front of brain. Tension of muscles, and in nape. Confusion in front part of brain.

Muscular twitches in temples. Sticking in temples; l, and l. side of head; pain in temple; l. Drawing pinching in r. temple. Painless pulsations in temples. Pain in vertex in afternoon, till night, for three days. then in forenoon, with heat and flushing of face, Downward-pulling in a spot in r. side of vertex. Drawing pain from vertex into r. eye in evening. Shaking and wavering in l. upper part of head, (<) ascending steps or walking rapidly. Feeling as if there would be a violent pain in r. side of head. Alternations of different kinds of pains in l. side, drawing, pressure, pinching, tension and bruised pains, extending into orbits and teeth. Clawing pain in l. side of cerebellum. Pain in occiput; as from a blow, (<) lying down again after rising (felt years previously). Falling of all the hair. Itching; with much dandruff.

Clinical Vertigo; with faintness and weakness. Occipital headache recurring several times a day. Has relieved the extreme headache in diphtheria and frequent headache in dysmenorrhoea. Soreness of back of head, everything looks yellow, aching in liver, numbness of extremities and coldness, skin dark. Cerebrospinal meningitis, with red tongue, nosebleed, delirium, offensive bloody stools offensive breath, etc.

Eyes

      Yellow (Phos, Vip.). Red and watery. Looking as if shooting from the sockets. Sunken. Muddy and heavy; in morning. Dry. Lachrymation; (<) damp weather, with momentary loss of vision. Conjunctiva injected. Pain in ball on moving eye like a pressure and as if eye were too dry internally. Pupils contracted. Half open and staring. Dark redness of l. upper lid, with dryness and burning within eyes and redness of canthi. Lids swollen. Lids almost closed; closed, upper lid and superior recti being paralyzed, pupils slightly dilated and insensible to light, vision apparently lost, eyes looking straight forward, but, when the lids are forcibly opened the eyes were directed outward to escape the light. Quivering of l. lower lid. Itching of canthi. Heavy pain in back of orbit and at l. brow. Pressure deep in orbits, behind ears and in nasal bones, obliging him to bite the teeth together. Vision dim; (<) for distant objects; when reading, and double. Vision lost; when reading; in r. eye, with paralysis of levator muscle, injection of conjunctiva, (<) r., red zone around corner, (<) pupils contracted, aqueous humor cloudy, vision in l. as through a film, l. pupil grayish.

Clinical Ciliary neuralgia as from a cut around the eye, pain tearing, boring, photophobia, especially felt at the menstrual period. Haemorrhage in the retina, especially in Bright’s disease. Keratitis, cutting pains around eyes, swollen lids, especial aggravation at the menstrual period.

Ears

      Bruised feeling in lobules. Drawing behind r. and down neck; in r., with pain in l. side of head and paralyzed feeling in l. jaw. Tickling deep in r. meatus; hot tickling as from wax. Stoppage; in r. and drawing in both ears, painful in r., with heat and sensation as if wax would run into mouth. Dull hearing.

Clinical Otorrhoea with scarlatina, offensive and bloody, with deafness.

Nose

      Drawing-downward pain on r. side, near canthus, then changing to bruised pain. Stinging about nostrils. Coryza. Frequent sneezing and much catarrhal irritation; violent S., with sticking in chest near r. shoulder-joint, then pain in sternum.

Clinical Syphilitic ozaena.

Face

      Yellow Leaden-colored. Dark. red. Discolored. Swollen; in morning; and black. Pale. Anxious. Drawn. Convulsed. Drawing pains in bones, first in r. maxilla and zygoma, then in l., then in both together. Jaws, spasmodic contraction; cramp; locked; pain in lower and in direction of submaxillary nerve; bruised pain in lower, and in teeth. Lips swollen. Trembling of lips; with weakness and faintness; of lower, near l. corner of mouth. Lips covered with foam. Dryness of lips and throat with out thirst.

Clinical Erysipelas, Acne. Papular eruption on the chin, associated with delayed menstruation.

Mouth

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.