{"id":810,"remedy_name":"Crotalus Horridus","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Hot","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the venom of Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake, a pit viper native to. North America, prepared for homeopathic use through extraction, serial dilution, and succussion to. eliminate toxicity and enhance therapeutic action. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  hemorrhagic,  septic,  and. neurological disorders, particularly those involving bleeding tendencies, septic states, and mental. confusion. It is noted for symptoms such as dark hemorrhages, septicemia, and delirium, often. aggravated by warmth, lying on the right side, or after sleep, and ameliorated by cold, open air, or. gentle motion. Modern Context: Indicated for hemorrhagic conditions (e.g., epistaxis, hematemesis), septic or. inflammatory  conditions (e.g.,  cellulitis,  septicemia),  neurological  symptoms (e.g.,  delirium,. tremors),  psychological symptoms  (e.g., depression, paranoia),  cardiovascular symptoms  (e.g.,. weak  pulse,  hypotension),  hepatic  symptoms (e.g.,  jaundice,  liver  dysfunction),  and  systemic. symptoms (e.g., fever, prostration). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized. by vascular instability, inflammatory states, mental cloudiness, or profound debility, typically. exacerbated by warmth, right-sided complaints, or post-sleep states, and often seen in critically ill. patients, those with infectious diseases, or individuals with hemorrhagic tendencies. The remedy is. particularly relevant for those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with physical. symptoms like dark bleeding or fever alongside psychological symptoms like paranoia or apathy,. commonly observed in patients with severe infections, coagulopathies, or post-traumatic stress.","modalities":"Worse from: Warmth (weather, environments, drinks), lying on the right side, after sleep,. night, exertion, emotional stress, warm stuffy rooms, dietary indiscretions (e.g., fatty foods,. alcohol), rest (in septic cases), darkness, swallowing (in throat cases).","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Clouded perception, impaired memory. Timid. Aversion to hisfamily. Weak memory, cannot express \nhimself correctly. Loss of memory, for words and figures. Mistakes in writing. Connected thoughts difficult. \nSenile dementia incipient, forgets figures, names and places or suspicious about his friends. \nWeeping mood, agony, despair. Melan choly. Sadness during headache. Readily moved to tears. Weeping, \ntearful mood, while reading. Marked indifference. \nThoughts dwell on death continually. Fears of evil. Sensitive to certain persons. \nNervous agitation, anxious, pale, with cold sweat. Irritable, cross. Impatient. Irritable, cross, infuriated by least \nannoyance. Sus picion and snappishness, or quiet indiffer ence. Plaintive speech. Intense restlessness, \ntwitching and nervous agitation. \nLoquacious with desire to escape. Delusions of cerebral decay. Feels as if surrounded by foes or hideous \nanimals. Delirium, with wide open eyes. Delirium, muttering, mumbles, jumbles and stumbles over his words. \nDelusions awakes struggling with imaginary foes. Delirium tremens with constant drowsiness, but with inability \nto sleep. Mania in zymotic diseases and when connected with puerperal or ovario -uterine disease. Insanity \nwith coldness of skin. Abdomen - Burning pain in abdomen. Swol len, hot, tender. Inguinal glands enlarged. \n \n \nBubo. Intestinal hemorrhage. Violent pain in left side near last ribs as if in diaphragm. Heat and tenderness of \nabdomen, can scarcely bear clothes on. Coldness in the stomach or abdomen as fro m a piece of ice. Violent \npains in colon. Violent pain in region of appendix. Appendix feels large. Peritonitis. Typhlitis. Clouded perception, impaired memory. Timid. Aversion to hisfamily. Weak memory, cannot express \nhimself correctly. Loss of memory, for words and figures. Mistakes in writing. Connected thoughts difficult. \nSenile dementia incipient, forgets figures, names and places or suspicious about his friends. \nWeeping mood, agony, despair. Melan choly. Sadness during headache. Readily moved to tears. Weeping, \ntearful mood, while reading. Marked indifference. \nThoughts dwell on death continually. Fears of evil. Sensitive to certain persons. \nNervous agitation, anxious, pale, with cold sweat. Irritable, cross. Impatient. Irritable, cross, infuriated by least \nannoyance. Sus picion and snappishness, or quiet indiffer ence. Plaintive speech. Intense restlessness, \ntwitching and nervous agitation. \nLoquacious with desire to escape. Delusions of cerebral decay. Feels as if surrounded by foes or hideous \nanimals. Delirium, with wide open eyes. Delirium, muttering, mumbles, jumbles and stumbles over his words. \nDelusions awakes struggling with imaginary foes. Delirium tremens with constant drowsiness, but with inability \nto sleep. Mania in zymotic diseases and when connected with puerperal or ovario -uterine disease. Insanity \nwith coldness of skin. Abdomen - Burning pain in abdomen. Swol len, hot, tender. Inguinal glands enlarged. \n \n \nBubo. Intestinal hemorrhage. Violent pain in left side near last ribs as if in diaphragm. Heat and tenderness of \nabdomen, can scarcely bear clothes on. Coldness in the stomach or abdomen as fro m a piece of ice. Violent \npains in colon. Violent pain in region of appendix. Appendix feels large. Peritonitis. Typhlitis.","Vertigo":"Vertigo with pale face.  Auditory vertigo. Meni\u00e8re's disease. Vertigo with faintness, weakness and \ntrembling. Fainting on assuming upright position. Dizziness and fainting with occipital headache. Anemic \nvertigo, better resting head. Vertigo from fright. Vertigo with dilated pupils. Vertigo from lightning or sunstroke. \nVision - Amblyopia from hemorrhage, debility and exhaustion. Amblyopia from grief or from over use of vision. \nDiplopia. Illusions, blue colors. Dim vision for distant objects. Dim vision when reading. Lost vision with lethargy \nand coldness. Momentary disappearance of vision with profuse lachrymation. Muscae volitantes and various \ncolored flames. Weak vision after an attack of keratitis or kerato-iritis. \nCOMMENTS - Crot-h. produces profound nervous shock and prostration with trembling, mental alienation and \ndisorganization of the fluids and tissues. Bleeding from all orifices and surfaces. Hemorrhagic diathesis caused \nby previous low states of system, by zymotic or septic poisoning, by abuse of alcohol, etc.  \nLow, typhoid states with oppressed ner vous system and degraded blood -supply. Neuralgia occurring as a \nsequel of septic toxemic or even miasmatic disease or \u00e7hronic bilious, menopausal or albuminuric conditions. \nBroken-down constitutions. Sleepy, but cannot sleep. Grinds teeth. \nPredominantly a right-side medicine (Lach, is left). Acts strongly on the liver and corresponds to jaundice and \nyellow fever. Used as a prophylactic against yellow fever. For this inoculation with diluted virus has been \npracticed. \nThe cobra poison (Naja.) coagulates blood into long strings. Crotalus poison is acid, the Viper neutral. The \nRotton-snake (\u201cBirri\u201d) causes more sloughing than any other. \nHering wrote that Crot-h. is preferable in fluid hemorrhages, with yellow skin, hence in yell ow fever with black \nvomit, and nosebleed of diphtheria. Naja, has more nervous phenomena. Lach, has cold, clammy skin, rather \nthan cold and dry, hemorrhage with charred-straw sediment, and more markedly ailments of the left side. Elaps \nis preferable in otorrhea and in disorders of the right lung. \nHayward observed that sloughing is a strong indication for Crot -h. and the cure with this remedy of his own \ndaughter of scarlatina maligna with gangrenous-looking sore-throat was a dramatic outcome of his researches. \nSymptoms of Crotalus Durissus as well as Crotalus Horridus are included in the pathogenesis.  \nA case of rattlesnake bite and its isopathic cure, related by Dr. J. S. M. Chaffee in Hom. News, Sept., 1892, \ngives a good general idea of the action of the venom. \n\u201cI was called to see James Wright, aged 54 years, who, while binding wheat, was bitten on third finger of right \nhand by a rattlesnake. I found him bleeding from the bitten finger and from eyes, nose, ears, mouth, rectum \nand urethra, pulse 110, small, wiry, respiration 40, temperature 105, haggard expression, whole body bathed \nin hot perspiration, delirium. \n\u201cThis patient had the regular routine treatment of whisky, quinine and carbonate ammonia for ninety-six hours, \nwhen the attendants withdrew and pron ounced the case beyond the reach of medical aid. A marked \ncharacteristic symptom was a moldy smell of breath with scarlet red tongue and difficult swallowing. Great \nsensitiveness of skin of right half of body, so much so that the slightest touch would prod uce twitching of \nmuscles of that side. \n\u201cI prescribed Crot-h. 30c trituration, 30 grains in four ounces of water, a teaspoonful every hour, until my return \nvisit, twenty- four hours later, when I found marked improvement. \nTemperature normal, pulse full, soft and regular, delirium gone, saliva and urine slightly tinged with blood, \nappetite returning, he having asked for food for the first time since the accident. The medicine was continued \nfor two more days, when recovery was practically complete.\u201d","Head":"Dull, heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye. Pain in o cciput, as of a blow.  Headache in \nwaves from spine. Severe pain at the center of forehead. Headache with pain in heart, on lying on left side. \nSick headache with vertigo. Headache worse jarring, must walk on tiptoe. Dull headache before attack of \nuremic coma. Bilious headache every few days. Throbbing headache with nausea before menses. Meningitis. \nViolentitching of scalp, eruptions, pustules. Falling off of hair, as a result of toxemia. Soreness in back of head \non pressure. Dull, heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye. Pain in o cciput, as of a blow.  Headache in \nwaves from spine. Severe pain at the center of forehead. Headache with pain in heart, on lying on left side. \nSick headache with vertigo. Headache worse jarring, must walk on tiptoe. Dull headache before attack of \nuremic coma. Bilious headache every few days. Throbbing headache with nausea before menses. Meningitis. \nViolentitching of scalp, eruptions, pustules. Falling off of hair, as a result of toxemia. Soreness in back of head \non pressure.","Eyes":"Dry and burning sensation. Yellow color of eyes. Burning, red with lachry mation. Ciliary neuralgia, \ntearing, boring pain, as if a cut had been made around eyes. Retinal hemorrhages.  Bleeding eyes after \nstrokes. Blood exudes from eyes. For absorption of eye hemorrhages into the vitreous. Photophobia, worse \nduring menses. Very sensitive to light, especially lamp light. Ptosis. Keratitis. Exopthalmic goitre.","Ears":"Otorrhea after scarlatina, offensive and bloody, with deafness. Otorrhea, result of alcoholism. Blood \noozes from ears. Feeling of stoppage in right ear. Full sensation in ears. Erysipelas of external ear. Deafness, \nillusions of hearing. Auditory vertigo. Sensitive to noises.","Face":"Sallow. Dark, besotted face. Face yellow, death like pallor. Distorted on waking. Lips, swollen, stiff and \nnumb. Lockjaw. Acne of masturbators. Small blisters around eyes. Eruption around mouth . Frequently \nrecurring erysipelas of face. Face swollen and red during delirium tremens and fever. Swelling of submaxillary \nand parotid glands.","Mouth":"Complete loss of taste. Fills up with saliva. Saliva bloody, frothy. Salivation at night. Stiff palate. \nCannot speak on ac count of sensation of constriction around tongue and throat. Fetid breath. Putrid, sore \nmouth. Moldy smell of breath. \nNose - Nosebleed especially during diphtheria or other septic diseases. Nosebleed, blood black and stringy. \nOzaena after exanthemata or syphilis. Nosebleed with flushes of face, vertigo or fainting. Bloody discharge. \nTip of nose swollen and cold. Tip of nose, blue and red. \nPerspiration - Bloody sweat. Sudden attacks of cold sweat. Colored sweat.","Throat":"Dry, swollen, dark red with thirst. Spasm of esophagus, cannot swallow any solid substance. \nGangrenous with much swelling. Tickling from  a dry spot in larynx. Tight constriction of throat. Hoarseness, \nwith weak, rough voice. Sore throat. Fauces sensitive to dry or cold air. Quinsy with much venous congestion. \nTonsils bulge and are tender. Laryngismus stridulus. Edema glottidis. Paralytic a phonia. Ulceration from \nnecrosis of cartilages of larynx. Acute laryngitis from burns. Laryngitis from stings of insects.  \nTongue - Glossitis. Tongue numb and stiff. Tongue, yellow, enormously swollen, protruded to the right. Tongue \nred and small, but feels swollen. Tongue fiery red, dry in center, smooth and polished. Cancer of tongue with \nhemorrhage. Tongue very foul, with red tip. Tongue swollen to nearly twice the normal size. Edema of tongue \nafter sting of insects.","Chest":"Weak pulse or hypotension, with a sensation of faintness, resembling hypovolemic. shock or orthostatic hypotension, worse with warmth, exertion, or emotional stress. Palpitations or irregular heartbeat, with a sinking feeling, resembling arrhythmias,. aggravated by warmth, lying on the right side, or night. Cold extremities or cyanosis, with a tendency to poor circulation, worse with warmth. or fatigue. Tendency to cardiovascular instability, with aggravation in septic or hemorrhagic. states. Hepatic:. Jaundice or sallow complexion, with yellowing of skin or eyes, resembling hepatitis. or cirrhosis, worse with warmth, rich foods, or emotional stress. Liver tenderness or heaviness, with a sensation of fullness, resembling non-alcoholic. fatty liver disease, aggravated by dietary indiscretions or warmth. Biliousness or bitter taste, with nausea or headache, resembling biliary dyskinesia,. worse with warmth or exertion. Tendency to hepatic irritability, with aggravation in septic or hemorrhagic states. Systemic:. Prostration or profound weakness, with a sensation of collapse, resembling chronic. fatigue syndrome or post-infectious exhaustion, worse after warmth, exertion, or. emotional stress. Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, stuffy environments and a desire for. cold, open air. Chills or alternating heat and cold, resembling post-infectious syndromes, worse with. warmth or night. Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in critical or inflammatory. states.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Atonic dyspepsia. Trembling, fluttering below the epigastrium. Heart burn. Intolerance of clothing \nabout epigas trium. Faintness and sinking at stomach. U lceration of the stomach. Gastritis in chronic \nalcoholism. Cancer of stomach with vomiting of bloody, slimy mucus. Constriction of pylorus. Nausea on \nmovement. Unable to retain anything. Violent vomiting of food. Constant nausea and vomiting every month \nafter menstruation. Cannot lie on right side without vomit ing dark -green matter. Black or coffee - grounds \nvomiting. Bilious vomiting. Vomiting of blood. Ulceration of stomach. Vomiting on \u00a1east exertion. Hunger with trembling, weakness, and occipital headache. Aversion to meat. Craves pork. Desires \nstimulants, sugar. Diseases caused by abuse of alcohol. Unquenchable burning thirst.","Urinary & Genital":"Prostate cancer, painful (Con.). Sexual instinct increased with entire relaxations of penis. Sharp cutting \nin glans. Uterine hemorrhage with faintness at stomcch. Sensation as if the uterus would drop out. Prolonged \nmenses. Dysmenorrhea with pain in hy pogastrium, down the thighs with aching in the region of the heart. \nPainful drawing in uterine ligaments. Puerperal fever. Offensive lochia. Phlegmasia alba dolens, worse touch. \nAlcoholics with delayed menses. Ovarian neu ralgia. Ovarian abscess. Vicarious menses. Menopausal \nflushings, sweat. Fungoid cancer of uterus. Cauliflower \nexcrescences. Miscarriage during course of septic or zymotic disease.  Miscarriage from other blood -\npoisoning causes.","Extremities":"Phlebitis, varicose veins and varicocele. Right-sided paralysis. Paralysis of left hand and leg. Arms \nand legs become numb, first one and then the other. \n \n \nLower limbs go to sleep easily. Cannot keep legs still. Pain in top of shoulders. Hands tremble, swollen. Hands \nfeel dead when sewing. Heaviness as  if bones were made of heavy wood. Bruised pain in joints and bones. \nNumb pain as after cramp, in anterior of fingers and in toes. Right -sided paralysis. Limbs inflamed, swollen \nand gangrenous. Contraction of flexors. Gonorrheal rheumatism. Cannot keep leg s still. \nLiver - Jaundice, malignant with hemorrhage. Stitches in region of liver on drawing a long breath, worse by \npressure. Aching in liver, vomiting, coldness. Pain in region of liver and top of shoulders.","Neck & Back":"Tearing pains from right shoulder to neck, worse on moving arm. Pain on top of shoulder and in \nascending aorta. Aching in right kidney and in stomach. Drawing, tensive pain from right shoulder along neck, \nas from a tense tendon, worse pressure and moving arm. Softening of spinal cord. Carbuncles, boils, pustules, \npimples or bed sores. \nBreasts - Inflamed breasts. \nCausations - Ill effects of fright, alcohol, sun. lightning, foul water, insect stings, noxious effluvia, or \nvaccinations.","Skin":"Prostration or profound weakness, with a sensation of collapse, resembling chronic. fatigue syndrome or post-infectious exhaustion, worse after warmth, exertion, or. emotional stress. Heat intolerance, with aggravation in warm, stuffy environments and a desire for. cold, open air. Chills or alternating heat and cold, resembling post-infectious syndromes, worse with. warmth or night. Tendency to systemic hypersensitivity, with aggravation in critical or inflammatory. states.","Sleep":"Drowsy, but cannot sleep. Sleeplessness from nervous and mental distress. Sleepless from \nnervous agitation. Starting in sleep. Smothering sensation when \nawaking. Symptoms worse after slee p. Dreams of dead persons. Travelling dreams. Dreams of quarrels. \nHorrible dreams. Yawning.","Generalities":"As from a blow on occiput. As if tongue and all around throat were tied up. As of a plug in throat \nto be swallowed, of choking. As if the heart turned over like a tumbler pigeon."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}