Common Name: Surukuku Snake Poison
Family: The snake belongs to Ophidia family.
Constitution.-- Depressed persons with dark eyes, and lack of liveliness and interest for work. Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair.
Indications.-- Thin and emaciated persons who have been mentally and physically changed by their illness. Climacteric ailments like haemorrhoids, haemorrhages hot flushes and hot perspiration. Ailments from long lasting grief, sorrow, fright, anger, jealousy and disappointed love. Drunkards prone to erysipelas or apoplexy. Women who have not recovered from the change of life "have never felt well since that time".
Generalities.-- Left side of body mainly affected (left ovary, left testicle, left side of chest, etc.) or the diseases begin on the left side and goes to the right side. Great sensitiveness to touch especially of throat, stomach, abdomen. Cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen as they cause an uneasiness and make her nervous. Great debility from extremes of heat and cold. Great physical and mental exhaustion, worse in morning with trembling in whole body. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Small wounds bleed easily and profusely. Blood dark and non-coagulable.
Mind.-- Mental symptoms worse after sleep. Unhappy, distressed, anxious, sad. Worse in morning on waking. Excited delighted with almost prophetic perceptions and vivid imaginations. Great loquacity. Wants to talk all the time. Jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another story.
Head.-- Headache: pressing or bursting pain in temples worse from motion, pressure, stooping, lying and after sleep. Fears to go to sleep as she wakes with such a headache on doing so. Burning vertex, especially at or after the menopause. Weight and pressure on vertex like lead in occiput. Congestive headaches of drunkards.Rush of blood to head after alcohol, mental emotions, suppressed or irregular menses and at climaxis.
Throat.-- Introlerance of tight bands about neck. Diphtheria and tonsillitis begin on the left and extending to right side. Throat appears dark and purple. Throat complaints worse by hot drinks and after sleep. Liquids are more painful than solids when swallowing.
Abdomen.-- Intolerance of tight bands or clothing around waist.
Rectum.-- Haemorrhoids: strangulated with stitches shooting pains. Haemorrhoids with scanty menses, at climaxis. Haemorrhoids of drunkards.
Stool.-- Constipation due to inactivity. Stool lies in rectum with absence of urging. Sensation of constriction of sphincter.
Urine.-- Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder.
Female.-- Menses regular, too short and scanty. Pains all relieved by the flow. Feels always better during menses.
Respiratory.-- The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing. Wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance. Breathing stops soon after falling asleep.
Nervous System.-- Left-sided paralysis. Epilepsy: comes on during sleep; from loss of vital fluids, onanism or jealousy.
Fever.-- Annual fever. Sudden attack at every spring, from suppression by quinine. Typhoid fever: stupor or muttering delirium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding; conjunctiva yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow, bloody.
Skin.-- Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, malignant pustules and decubitus with intense pain. Dark, bluish, purple appeareance of skin complaints. Tendency to malignancy.
Aggravation.-- After sleep; sleeps into aggravation; contact; extremes of temperature; acids; alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun's rays; spring; summer.
Amelioration.-- From onset of discharges; during menses; in open air; cold application.
Relationship.-- Complementary: Hep., Lyc., Nit. Ac.
Incompatible: Acetic. Ac., Carb. ac.
In intermittent fever Nat.m. follows Lach. well when type changes.