CROTALUS HORRIDUS
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- is indicated in strumous, debilitated, haemorrhagic, broken-down constitutions; during zymotic diseases; in inebriates; tendency to carbuncles or blood boils
- diseases caused by a previous low state of the system; low septic typhoid or malarial fever; chronic alcoholism; exhausted vital force; genuine collapse
- apoplexy; apoplectic convulsions in inebriates, haemorrhagic or broken down constitutions
- haemorrhagic diathesis; blood flows from eyes, ears, nose, and every orifice of the body; bloody sweat
- yellow color of conjunctiva; clears up vision after keratitis, or kerato-iritis
- malignant jaundice; haematic rather than hepatic
- purpura haemorrhagica; comes on suddenly from all orifices, skin, nails, gums
- tongue fiery red, smooth and polished; intensely swollen
- malignant diphtheria or scarlatina; oedema or gangrene of fauces or tonsils; pain worse from empty swallowing; if vomiting or diarrhoea come on
- prostration of vital force; pulse scarely felt; blood poisoning
- vomiting: bilious, with anxiety and weak pulse; every month after menstruation; cannot lie on right side or back without instantly producing dark, green vomiting; black or coffee grounds, of yellow fever
- diarrhoea; stools black, thin; like coffee-grounds; offense; from noxious effluvia or septic matters in food or drinks; from \"high game\"; during yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, typhus
- intestinal haemorrhage when occurring in typical septic, or zymotic disease; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable
- dissecting wounds; insect stings; bad effects of vaccination
- vicarious menstruation; in debilitated constitutions
- menopause: intense flushings and drenching perspirations; faintness and sinking at stomach; prolonged metrorrhagia, dark, fluid, offensive; profound anaemia
- malignant diseases of uterus, great tendency to haemorrhage, blood dark, fluid, offensive