# Bothrops Lanceolatus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The venom of the yellow viper is a coagulant, therefore it is expected to be useful in 
thrombosis and thrombotic disorders. 
After being bitten in the little finger of one hand, paralysis began in the fingertips of the other hand and extended 
over the whole of that side. Intolerable pain in right great toe (patient bitten in left thumb). Marked diagonal 
course of symptoms. 
Ozanam noted some peculiar symptoms, including amaurosis. Day blindness, can scarcely see her way after 
sunrise. Deep gangrene, dissecting, bones laid bare and necrotic. 
Bothrops lanceolatus 
Hemorrhages from every orifice of the body.  Black spots. Blindness f rom hemor rhage into retina. 
Pulmonary congestion, oppressed breathing and bloody expecto ration. more or less profuse. Hemorrhages 
from the wounds. 
Great lassitude and sluggishness. Nervous trembling. Syncope. Sudden or rapid debility and emaciation. Slight 
shivering, followed by profuse sweat. Aphasia, inability to articulate, without any tongue problems. Hemiplegia, 
with aphasia. Paralysis of one arm or one leg only.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse on right side.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Persistent hypochondriasis.
- Mental symptoms after having a stroke.
- Behaves as if he had a stroke.
- Aphasia, inability to articulate.
- Forgetful of words while speaking.
- Mistakes, using wrong words.
- Stupefaction, 
as if intoxicated.
- Anguish.
- Stupor, syncope.
- Unconsciousness, coma.
- Persistent hypochondriasis.
- Mental symptoms after having a stroke.
- Behaves as if he had a stroke.
- Aphasia, inability to articulate.
- Forgetful of words while speaking.
- Mistakes, using wrong words.
- Stupefaction, 
as if intoxicated.
- Anguish.
- Stupor, syncope.
- Unconsciousness, coma.

### Head
- Hemicrania, stupor, vertigo.
- Migraine headaches.
- One-sided headaches.
- Hemicrania, stupor, vertigo.
- Migraine headaches.
- One-sided headaches.

### Eyes
- Conjunctival hemorrhage.
- Blindness from hemorrhage into retina.
- Day - blindness.
- Amaurosis without 
any notable pupillary dilatation.

### Face
- Swollen and puffy.
- Besotted expression.
- Swollen, injected, cyanotic.
- Lockjaw.

### Mouth
- Trismus.
- Aphasia, inability to articulate words, while the tongue retains all its functions.
- Nerves - Hemiplegia.
- Nervous, trembling.
- Perspiration - Clammy sweats.
- Profuse sweats.
- Chills with abundant sweats.
- Abundant cold sweats at the 
beginning and end of the malady.

### Throat
- Red, dry, constricted, swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.
- COMMENTS - The main idea of Bothrops is thrombosis and phlebitis.
- Tendency to form blood clots (Lach.).
- Eizayaga used this remedy for clots in the legs, specifically for clots that form in the veins in the legs, and then 
go somewhere else.
- Also for “milk leg,” phlebitis in nursing women.

### Chest
- Heart pains.
- Precordial pains, syncope.
- Frequent, tight pulse.
- Kidneys - Hematuria.
- Bloody expectoration, pneumonia.
- Pulmonary congestion, oppressed breathing and bloody 
expectoration, more or less profuse.
- Spitting of blood.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Intense hematemesis.
- Epigastric distress.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Black vom iting.
- Gastric mucosa 
is red and dotted.
- Temperature - Septic fever.
- Coldness.
- General heat.
- Chills with abundant sweats.
- Tympanitis.

### Extremities
- Abscess, leg.
- Edema.
- Heaviness, lower limbs.
- Paralysis of the right leg.
- Paralysis of the right arm.
- Muscular tissues are filled with black blood.
- Nu mbness.
- Phlebitis.
- Consecutive necrosis.
- Suppuration, leg.
- Varicose veins.
- Leg is badly infected after surgery for varicose veins.
- Swollen veins.
- Gangrene, toes, legs.
- Gangrenous ulcers.

### Neck & Back
- Opisthotonos.
- Blood - Septicemia.
- Hemorrhages from every orifice of the body.
- Blood being fluid and black.
- Lymphangitis.
- Dissecting gangrene.
- Blood clots.
- Thrombosis.
- Constitutions - Broken-down and hemorrhagic constitutions, septic states.

### Skin
- Formication and itching.
- Burning pains.
- Skin bluish, as from deep and extensive contusion.
- Skin yellow, 
as in yellow fever.
- Blackish skin.
- Swollen, livid skin, cold with hemorrhagic infiltration.
- Anthrax.
- Gangrene.
- Lymphatics swollen.
- Malignant erysipelas.
- Septic wounds and ulcers.
- Scars, bleeding and break open.
- Wounds heal slowly.

### Sleep
- Tendency to sleep, somnolence; coma, deeper and deeper until death.