CROTALUS HORRIDUS
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Death is very near
- Subject is horrible to look upon
- Peculiar periodicity related to spring
- Sleeps into the aggravation
- Zymotic changes like scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid
- Breaking down of the blood
- Relaxation of the blood vessels
- Bleeding from all orifices of the body
- Rapidly increasing unconsciousness
- Mental and physical prostration almost paralytic
- Body appears mottled, blue intermingled with yellow
- Jaundice
- Eyes become yellow
- Skin becomes yellow and mottled
- Blue spots
- Black and blue spots as if bruised
- Anaemic skin after hemorrhages
- Haemorrhage from ears, eyes, nose, lungs, bowels, uterus
- Haemorrhagic constitution
- Putrid type of disease
- Sinking into besotted, benumbed, putrid, semi-conscious state
- Feeling as if death were coming
- Blood oozes out black
- Awful state of nervousness
- Trembling of limbs
- Tremulous weakness
- Tongue quivering on protrusion
- Tired by slightest exertion
- Sudden prostration of vital powers
- Paralytic weakness
- Twitching of muscles
- Sliding down in bed
- Convulsions
- Paralysis
- Twitching of muscles like chorea
- Localized spasms
- Hysterical manifestations
- Low form of delirium
- Muttering, talking to himself
- Loquacity
- Delirium with languor, drowsiness, stupor
- Loquacious delirium with desire to escape from bed
- Muttering delirium of typhus
- Sadness
- Thoughts dwell on death
- Excessive sensitiveness
- Moved to tears by reading
- Melancholy with timidity, fear
- Anxious and pale, with cold sweat
- Irritable, cross, infuriated by least annoyance
- Vertigo on motion
- Dizziness on motion
- Pain on keeping still
- Pain on going to sleep
- Headache after sleep
- Congestive headache with waxy face
- Yellow, purple, mottled face
- Headache extending into the eyes
- Bilious headache every few days
- Severe sick headache with dizziness
- Throbbing in the top of the head
- Dull, pulsating headaches
- Dull, heavy, throbbing, occipital headaches
- Congestion of the whole head
- Head feels too large
- Head feels full, feels as if it would burst
- Headaches in waves as if they came up the back
- Surging of blood upwards
- Orgasm described as if the blood rushed upwards
- Headache with surging excited by motion or jar, turning over in bed, rising up in bed, or lying down
- Haemorrhage from the eyes
- Yellow appearance of the eyes
- Blood exudes from the eye
- Burning in eyes
- Redness with lachrymation
- Pressure in the eyes as if the eyes would be pushed out
- Paralysis of the upper lids
- Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the lids
- Surging in the ears
- Sensitive to noises
- Dull aching and throbbing in the ears
- Fetid, copious, yellow, offensive, bloody discharges from the ears
- Blood oozing from the ears in drops
- Foetid catarrh with blood oozing
- Horrible, foetid, putrid discharges from the nose
- Ozana
- Inflammation of the parotid gland
- Blueness and discoloration of the face
- Yellow appearance of the face
- Marked jaundice
- Girls waxy or anaemic, yellowish green, missed menstrual period, pustules and pimples
- Grinding teeth during the night
- Bad, putrid taste
- Inflammation of the gums
- Bleeding from the mouth
- Inflammation of the throat with bleeding
- Burning in the throat and mouth
- Trembling, quivering and swollen tongue
- Trembling of the tongue when it is put out
- Trembling of the hands when they are moved
- Sore mouth with bleeding
- Ulcers in the mouth
- Bleeding ulcers in the mouth
- Difficult swallowing
- Malignant diphtheria
- Cannot lie on the right side or back without instantly producing black, bilious vomiting