Lachesis muta
作者：H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
In acute inflammatory rheumatism with swelling of joints, with the marked tendency to metastasis to the heart, and its numerous subjective symptoms, the characteristics will bring this wonderful remedy to the fore.
Compare: Bryonia, Gelsemium, Mercury, Pulsatilla, the snake venoms.
HEART
HEART FEELS AS IF TOO LARGE FOR THE CONTAINING CAVITY.
PALPITATION WITH NUMBNESS OF ARM, CHOKING FROM SLIGHTEST MOTION, > BY SITTING DOWN OR LYING ON RIGHT SIDE; WEIGHT ON CHEST, HEART FEELS CONSTRICTED.
RESTLESS AND TREMBLING, HASTY TALKING.
GREAT OPPRESSION, ANGUISH ABOUT HEART, SUFFOCATION ON LYING DOWN.
PERICARDITIS AND ENDOCARDITIS FROM METASTASIS OF RHEUMATISM; IRREGULAR BEATS IN PERICARDITIS. RESORPTION OF EXUDATE IN PERICARDITIS.
IN RHEUMATIC TROUBLES WHERE THERE ARE DEPOSITS ON SURFACE OF HEART AND VALVES AND IN ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVERS WITH THE CHARACTERISTIC HEART SYMPTOMS MENTIONED ABOVE.
NECK AND BACK
STIFFNESS OF NECK, MOVES JAW WITH DIFFICULTY; TEARING PAIN UP EITHER SIDE OF NECK TO TOP OF HEAD.
Neck stiff on right side.
PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK AS IF LAME AND WEAK.
STIFFNESS IN SACRUM ON BENDING OR BEGINNING TO MOVE EXTENDING TO HIPS AND THIGHS, AS IF CORDS WERE TOO SHORT.
PAIN IN OS COCCYX WHEN SITTING, SENSATION AS IF SITTING ON SOMETHING SHARP.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
LEFT HAND AND ARM NUMB, ALTERNATING WITH PAIN AND NUMBNESS AND REDNESS OF FOOT; WHEN ONE TROUBLES THE OTHER IS WELL.
RHEUMATIC SWELLING OF INDEX FINGER AND WRIST.
PAIN IN WRIST JOINTS AS IF SPRAINED.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
PAINFUL STIFFNESS FROM LOINS DOWN TO SACRUM AND THIGHS.
INTOLERABLE SHOOTING PAIN EXTENDING FROM LEFT HIP DOWN TO FOOT FOLLOWED BY SENSE OF INTENSE HEAT.
RHEUMATIC PAINS CONSTANTLY CHANGING LOCALITY, BURNING LIKE FIRE, ESPECIALLY IN HYPOGASTRIUM, LUMBAR REGION AND BEHIND STERNUM, associated with nervousness and palpitation of heart.
Sensation in right knee as if strained.
Aching pain in knees < morning on waking.
LEFT KNEE AS IF SPRAINED.
SENSATION AS IF A HOT IRON WERE GOING THROUGH KNEE JOINTS.
Pain and stiffness in legs, especially knees, after sitting.
ACHING PAIN IN SHIN BONES ONLY.
RHEUMATIC PAINS IN LEGS AS OF A JERKING, LANCINATING CHARACTER AS SOON AS HE FALLS ASLEEP; IRREGULAR HEART ACTION; IN METASTASIS.
ARTHRITIC CONTRACTIONS OF LIMBS.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
RHEUMATIC SWELLING OF WRISTS AND ANKLES.
ACUTE RHEUMATISM OCCURRING EVERY YEAR, ESPECIALLY IN SPRING.
AGGRAVATIONS
SLEEPS INTO AGGRAVATION.
SPRING.
AFTER SLEEP.
AT MENOPAUSE.
SLIGHTEST TOUCH.
LEFT SIDE.
SUNLIGHT.
EXERTION.
JARS.
CONCOMITANTS
SENSITIVE TO TOUCH OF CLOTHING ABOUT WAIST OR NECK.
CANNOT STAND WEIGHT OF BED CLOTHING.
SORENESS IN HANDLING PARTS.