Lachesis

27/02/10

Appearance of anxiety, of unrest and distress.
Face is spotted or purple.
Inflamed spot, is purple.
Inflamed glands and cellular tissues, are of purple or mottled appearance.
Ulceration [small wounds {prick of a pin will ooze great drops of blood} bleed much like Phosphorus and Kreosote; uterus, nose, vomiting, hemorrhage from the bowels, menstruation ;blood from any part, when it dries or clots, looks like charred straw or becomes black] bleeds black blood, which soon coagulates and looks like charred straw. The menstrual pains increase violently until relieved by the flow. Sensitiveness over the lower abdomen; can scarcely allow her clothes to touch her.
Tendency to gangrene. Gangrene of parts that have been injured.
Veins become varicose (varicose veins after gestation).
Aggravation of symptoms in the Spring, when patient goes out from the cold weather into the mild and rainy, or cloudy weather.
The symptoms of Lachesis are worse on entering sleep hence < on awakening. Heart symptoms- as soon as he goes into a sleep he rouses up with palpitation, with dyspnoea, with suffocation, with exhaustion, with vertigo, with pain in the back of the head.
Attacks of suffocation and awful dreams during sleep, on rising dreadful headaches, with palpitation and melancholy.
Warm bath (fainting in a warm bath), warm application to inflamed parts < (mental symptoms, palpitation, headache).

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