# Crotalus Horridus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
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 
himself correctly.
- Loss of memory, for words and figures.
- Mistakes in writing.
- Connected thoughts difficult.
- Senile dementia incipient, forgets figures, names and places or suspicious about his friends.
- Weeping mood, agony, despair.
- Melan choly.
- Sadness during headache.
- Readily moved to tears.
- Weeping, 
tearful mood, while reading.
- Marked indifference.
- Thoughts dwell on death continually.
- Fears of evil.
- Sensitive to certain persons.
- Nervous agitation, anxious, pale, with cold sweat.
- Irritable, cross.
- Impatient.
- Irritable, cross, infuriated by least 
annoyance.
- Sus picion and snappishness, or quiet indiffer ence.
- Plaintive speech.
- Intense restlessness, 
twitching and nervous agitation.
- Loquacious with desire to escape.
- Delusions of cerebral decay.
- Feels as if surrounded by foes or hideous 
animals.
- Delirium, with wide open eyes.
- Delirium, muttering, mumbles, jumbles and stumbles over his words.
- Delusions awakes struggling with imaginary foes.
- Delirium tremens with constant drowsiness, but with inability 
to sleep.
- Mania in zymotic diseases and when connected with puerperal or ovario -uterine disease.
- Insanity 
with coldness of skin.
- Abdomen - Burning pain in abdomen.
- Swol len, hot, tender.
- Inguinal glands enlarged.
- Bubo.
- Intestinal hemorrhage.
- Violent pain in left side near last ribs as if in diaphragm.
- Heat and tenderness of 
abdomen, can scarcely bear clothes on.
- Coldness in the stomach or abdomen as fro m a piece of ice.
- Violent 
pains 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 
himself correctly.
- Loss of memory, for words and figures.
- Mistakes in writing.
- Connected thoughts difficult.
- Senile dementia incipient, forgets figures, names and places or suspicious about his friends.
- Weeping mood, agony, despair.
- Melan choly.
- Sadness during headache.
- Readily moved to tears.
- Weeping, 
tearful mood, while reading.
- Marked indifference.
- Thoughts dwell on death continually.
- Fears of evil.
- Sensitive to certain persons.
- Nervous agitation, anxious, pale, with cold sweat.
- Irritable, cross.
- Impatient.
- Irritable, cross, infuriated by least 
annoyance.
- Sus picion and snappishness, or quiet indiffer ence.
- Plaintive speech.
- Intense restlessness, 
twitching and nervous agitation.
- Loquacious with desire to escape.
- Delusions of cerebral decay.
- Feels as if surrounded by foes or hideous 
animals.
- Delirium, with wide open eyes.
- Delirium, muttering, mumbles, jumbles and stumbles over his words.
- Delusions awakes struggling with imaginary foes.
- Delirium tremens with constant drowsiness, but with inability 
to sleep.
- Mania in zymotic diseases and when connected with puerperal or ovario -uterine disease.
- Insanity 
with coldness of skin.
- Abdomen - Burning pain in abdomen.
- Swol len, hot, tender.
- Inguinal glands enlarged.
- Bubo.
- Intestinal hemorrhage.
- Violent pain in left side near last ribs as if in diaphragm.
- Heat and tenderness of 
abdomen, can scarcely bear clothes on.
- Coldness in the stomach or abdomen as fro m a piece of ice.
- Violent 
pains in colon.
- Violent pain in region of appendix.
- Appendix feels large.
- Peritonitis.
- Typhlitis.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with pale face.
- Auditory vertigo.
- Menière's disease.
- Vertigo with faintness, weakness and 
trembling.
- Fainting on assuming upright position.
- Dizziness and fainting with occipital headache.
- Anemic 
vertigo, better resting head.
- Vertigo from fright.
- Vertigo with dilated pupils.
- Vertigo from lightning or sunstroke.
- Vision - Amblyopia from hemorrhage, debility and exhaustion.
- Amblyopia from grief or from over use of vision.
- Diplopia.
- Illusions, blue colors.
- Dim vision for distant objects.
- Dim vision when reading.
- Lost vision with lethargy 
and coldness.
- Momentary disappearance of vision with profuse lachrymation.
- Muscae volitantes and various 
colored flames.
- Weak vision after an attack of keratitis or kerato-iritis.
- COMMENTS - Crot-h.
- produces profound nervous shock and prostration with trembling, mental alienation and 
disorganization of the fluids and tissues.
- Bleeding from all orifices and surfaces.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis caused 
by previous low states of system, by zymotic or septic poisoning, by abuse of alcohol, etc.
- Low, typhoid states with oppressed ner vous system and degraded blood -supply.
- Neuralgia occurring as a 
sequel of septic toxemic or even miasmatic disease or çhronic bilious, menopausal or albuminuric conditions.
- Broken-down constitutions.
- Sleepy, but cannot sleep.
- Grinds teeth.
- Predominantly a right-side medicine (Lach, is left).
- Acts strongly on the liver and corresponds to jaundice and 
yellow fever.
- Used as a prophylactic against yellow fever.
- For this inoculation with diluted virus has been 
practiced.
- The cobra poison (Naja.) coagulates blood into long strings.
- Crotalus poison is acid, the Viper neutral.
- The 
Rotton-snake (“Birri”) causes more sloughing than any other.
- Hering wrote that Crot-h.
- is preferable in fluid hemorrhages, with yellow skin, hence in yell ow fever with black 
vomit, and nosebleed of diphtheria.
- Naja, has more nervous phenomena.
- Lach, has cold, clammy skin, rather 
than cold and dry, hemorrhage with charred-straw sediment, and more markedly ailments of the left side.
- Elaps 
is preferable in otorrhea and in disorders of the right lung.
- Hayward observed that sloughing is a strong indication for Crot -h.
- and the cure with this remedy of his own 
daughter of scarlatina maligna with gangrenous-looking sore-throat was a dramatic outcome of his researches.
- Symptoms of Crotalus Durissus as well as Crotalus Horridus are included in the pathogenesis.
- A case of rattlesnake bite and its isopathic cure, related by Dr.
- J.
- S.
- M.
- Chaffee in Hom.
- News, Sept., 1892, 
gives a good general idea of the action of the venom.
- “I was called to see James Wright, aged 54 years, who, while binding wheat, was bitten on third finger of right 
hand by a rattlesnake.
- I found him bleeding from the bitten finger and from eyes, nose, ears, mouth, rectum 
and urethra, pulse 110, small, wiry, respiration 40, temperature 105, haggard expression, whole body bathed 
in hot perspiration, delirium.
- “This patient had the regular routine treatment of whisky, quinine and carbonate ammonia for ninety-six hours, 
when the attendants withdrew and pron ounced the case beyond the reach of medical aid.
- A marked 
characteristic symptom was a moldy smell of breath with scarlet red tongue and difficult swallowing.
- Great 
sensitiveness of skin of right half of body, so much so that the slightest touch would prod uce twitching of 
muscles of that side.
- “I prescribed Crot-h.
- 30c trituration, 30 grains in four ounces of water, a teaspoonful every hour, until my return 
visit, twenty- four hours later, when I found marked improvement.
- Temperature normal, pulse full, soft and regular, delirium gone, saliva and urine slightly tinged with blood, 
appetite returning, he having asked for food for the first time since the accident.
- The medicine was continued 
for two more days, when recovery was practically complete.”

### Head
- Dull, heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye.
- Pain in o cciput, as of a blow.
- Headache in 
waves from spine.
- Severe pain at the center of forehead.
- Headache with pain in heart, on lying on left side.
- Sick headache with vertigo.
- Headache worse jarring, must walk on tiptoe.
- Dull headache before attack of 
uremic coma.
- Bilious headache every few days.
- Throbbing headache with nausea before menses.
- Meningitis.
- Violentitching of scalp, eruptions, pustules.
- Falling off of hair, as a result of toxemia.
- Soreness in back of head 
on pressure.
- Dull, heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye.
- Pain in o cciput, as of a blow.
- Headache in 
waves from spine.
- Severe pain at the center of forehead.
- Headache with pain in heart, on lying on left side.
- Sick headache with vertigo.
- Headache worse jarring, must walk on tiptoe.
- Dull headache before attack of 
uremic coma.
- Bilious headache every few days.
- Throbbing headache with nausea before menses.
- Meningitis.
- Violentitching of scalp, eruptions, pustules.
- Falling off of hair, as a result of toxemia.
- Soreness in back of head 
on pressure.

### Eyes
- Dry and burning sensation.
- Yellow color of eyes.
- Burning, red with lachry mation.
- Ciliary neuralgia, 
tearing, boring pain, as if a cut had been made around eyes.
- Retinal hemorrhages.
- Bleeding eyes after 
strokes.
- Blood exudes from eyes.
- For absorption of eye hemorrhages into the vitreous.
- Photophobia, worse 
during 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 
oozes from ears.
- Feeling of stoppage in right ear.
- Full sensation in ears.
- Erysipelas of external ear.
- Deafness, 
illusions of hearing.
- Auditory vertigo.
- Sensitive to noises.

### Face
- Sallow.
- Dark, besotted face.
- Face yellow, death like pallor.
- Distorted on waking.
- Lips, swollen, stiff and 
numb.
- Lockjaw.
- Acne of masturbators.
- Small blisters around eyes.
- Eruption around mouth .
- Frequently 
recurring erysipelas of face.
- Face swollen and red during delirium tremens and fever.
- Swelling of submaxillary 
and parotid glands.

### Mouth
- Complete loss of taste.
- Fills up with saliva.
- Saliva bloody, frothy.
- Salivation at night.
- Stiff palate.
- Cannot speak on ac count of sensation of constriction around tongue and throat.
- Fetid breath.
- Putrid, sore 
mouth.
- Moldy smell of breath.
- Nose - Nosebleed especially during diphtheria or other septic diseases.
- Nosebleed, blood black and stringy.
- Ozaena after exanthemata or syphilis.
- Nosebleed with flushes of face, vertigo or fainting.
- Bloody discharge.
- Tip of nose swollen and cold.
- Tip of nose, blue and red.
- Perspiration - Bloody sweat.
- Sudden attacks of cold sweat.
- Colored sweat.

### Throat
- Dry, swollen, dark red with thirst.
- Spasm of esophagus, cannot swallow any solid substance.
- Gangrenous with much swelling.
- Tickling from  a dry spot in larynx.
- Tight constriction of throat.
- Hoarseness, 
with weak, rough voice.
- Sore throat.
- Fauces sensitive to dry or cold air.
- Quinsy with much venous congestion.
- Tonsils bulge and are tender.
- Laryngismus stridulus.
- Edema glottidis.
- Paralytic a phonia.
- Ulceration from 
necrosis of cartilages of larynx.
- Acute laryngitis from burns.
- Laryngitis from stings of insects.
- Tongue - Glossitis.
- Tongue numb and stiff.
- Tongue, yellow, enormously swollen, protruded to the right.
- Tongue 
red and small, but feels swollen.
- Tongue fiery red, dry in center, smooth and polished.
- Cancer of tongue with 
hemorrhage.
- Tongue very foul, with red tip.
- Tongue swollen to nearly twice the normal size.
- Edema of tongue 
after 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 
about epigas trium.
- Faintness and sinking at stomach.
- U lceration of the stomach.
- Gastritis in chronic 
alcoholism.
- Cancer of stomach with vomiting of bloody, slimy mucus.
- Constriction of pylorus.
- Nausea on 
movement.
- Unable to retain anything.
- Violent vomiting of food.
- Constant nausea and vomiting every month 
after menstruation.
- Cannot lie on right side without vomit ing dark -green matter.
- Black or coffee - grounds 
vomiting.
- Bilious vomiting.
- Vomiting of blood.
- Ulceration of stomach.
- Vomiting on ¡east exertion.
- Hunger with trembling, weakness, and occipital headache.
- Aversion to meat.
- Craves pork.
- Desires 
stimulants, 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 
in glans.
- Uterine hemorrhage with faintness at stomcch.
- Sensation as if the uterus would drop out.
- Prolonged 
menses.
- Dysmenorrhea with pain in hy pogastrium, down the thighs with aching in the region of the heart.
- Painful drawing in uterine ligaments.
- Puerperal fever.
- Offensive lochia.
- Phlegmasia alba dolens, worse touch.
- Alcoholics with delayed menses.
- Ovarian neu ralgia.
- Ovarian abscess.
- Vicarious menses.
- Menopausal 
flushings, sweat.
- Fungoid cancer of uterus.
- Cauliflower 
excrescences.
- Miscarriage during course of septic or zymotic disease.
- Miscarriage from other blood -
poisoning causes.

### Extremities
- Phlebitis, varicose veins and varicocele.
- Right-sided paralysis.
- Paralysis of left hand and leg.
- Arms 
and legs become numb, first one and then the other.
- Lower limbs go to sleep easily.
- Cannot keep legs still.
- Pain in top of shoulders.
- Hands tremble, swollen.
- Hands 
feel dead when sewing.
- Heaviness as  if bones were made of heavy wood.
- Bruised pain in joints and bones.
- Numb pain as after cramp, in anterior of fingers and in toes.
- Right -sided paralysis.
- Limbs inflamed, swollen 
and gangrenous.
- Contraction of flexors.
- Gonorrheal rheumatism.
- Cannot keep leg s still.
- Liver - Jaundice, malignant with hemorrhage.
- Stitches in region of liver on drawing a long breath, worse by 
pressure.
- 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 
ascending aorta.
- Aching in right kidney and in stomach.
- Drawing, tensive pain from right shoulder along neck, 
as from a tense tendon, worse pressure and moving arm.
- Softening of spinal cord.
- Carbuncles, boils, pustules, 
pimples or bed sores.
- Breasts - Inflamed breasts.
- Causations - Ill effects of fright, alcohol, sun.
- lightning, foul water, insect stings, noxious effluvia, or 
vaccinations.

### 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 
nervous agitation.
- Starting in sleep.
- Smothering sensation when 
awaking.
- Symptoms worse after slee p.
- Dreams of dead persons.
- Travelling dreams.
- Dreams of quarrels.
- Horrible 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 
to be swallowed, of choking.
- As if the heart turned over like a tumbler pigeon.