LACHESIS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

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

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

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