LACHESIS
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- persons of a melancholy temperament, dark eyes, and a disposition to low spirits and indolence
- women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair
- better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fleshy persons
- climacteric ailments: haemorrhoids, haemorrhages; hot flushes and hot perspiration
- burning vertex headache, especially at or after the menopause
- women who have not recovered from the change of life, \"have never felt well since that time\"
- ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or disappointed love
- mental excitability; ecstasy, with almost prophetic perceptions; with a vivid imagination; great loquacity
- want to talk all the time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another story
- all symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep
- left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go to the right side
- great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen
- intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist
- 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
- least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing; wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance
- as soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops
- diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and extending to right side; dark purple appearance
- throat: < by hot drinks, after sleep; liquids more painful than solids when swallowing
- aggravation: after sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids; alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun\u0027s rays; spring, summer