LACHESIS
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Aggravation of symptoms in the Spring
- Worse in mild, rainy, or cloudy weather
- Worse when going from cold to warm climate
- Worse from warm south winds
- Symptoms worse on entering sleep
- Attacks of suffocation during sleep
- Awful dreams
- Dreadful headaches upon awakening
- Palpitation upon awakening
- Melancholy upon awakening
- Sorrows from head to foot upon awakening
- Cloudy state of mind
- Sadness
- Melancholy
- Insane notions
- Whims
- Jealousy
- Suspicion
- Mental symptoms aggravated by warm bath
- Mental symptoms aggravated by warm water
- Palpitation after warm bath
- Head feels like it would burst after warm bath
- Cold feet after warm bath
- Shocks all over after warm bath
- Pulsation all over
- Feeble heart
- Fainting in a warm bath
- Symptoms increase in a warm room
- Anxiety
- Unrest
- Distress
- Spotted or purple face
- Engorged eyes
- Suspicious eyes
- Inflamed spots are purple
- Inflamed glands are purple or mottled
- Ulceration bleeds black blood
- Blood coagulates like charred straw
- Much bleeding from wounds
- Small wounds bleed profusely
- Ulcers eat in
- False granulations
- Putrid ulcers
- Ulcers bleed easily
- Purple, mottled appearance around ulcers
- Gangrene
- Sloughing with great offensiveness
- Parts turn black and slough
- Varicose veins
- Extremities become cold from slight exertion or emotion
- Feeble heart from slight exertion or emotion
- Skin covered with sweat from slight exertion or emotion
- Hot head from slight exertion or emotion
- Cold feet and hands
- Aversion to heat
- Aversion to a warm room
- Suffocation
- Weakness of the heart
- Feeble and intermittent pulse
- Audible palpitation of the heart
- Complaints tend to affect the left side
- Paralysis begins on the left
- Left ovary affected first
- Inflammation begins on the left side of the throat
- Left side of the head commonly most affected
- Left eye painful
- Left side of the back of the head more affected
- Morning aggravation
- Aggravation after sleep
- Self-consciousness
- Self-conceit
- Envy
- Hatred
- Revenge
- Cruelty
- Confusion of the mind to insanity
- Impulsive insanity
- Mind is tired
- Appearance like a drunkard
- Thick lips
- Thick tongue
- Blunders and stumbles
- Face is purple
- Head is hot
- Choking
- Uneasiness about the neck
- Jealousy without any reason
- Unwarranted jealousy and suspicion
- Suspicious of girlfriends
- Imagines people are talking about her
- Suspects people are contriving to injure her
- Imagines friends, husband, and children are trying to damage her
- Apprehension of the future
- Thinks she is going to have heart disease
- Thinks she is going insane
- Thinks people are contriving to put her in an insane asylum
- Imagines relatives are trying to poison her
- Refuses to eat
- Thinks it is only a dream
- Thinks she is dead
- Dreams she is dead
- Thinks she is somebody else
- Thinks she is under superhuman control
- Compelled to do things by spirits
- Hears a command to steal, murder, or confess
- Imagines she is pursued
- Imagines she has stolen something
- Fears the law
- Hears voices and warnings
- Religious insanity
- Feels full of wickedness
- Feels she has committed the unpardonable sin