Bothrops Lanceolatus both.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Yellow Viper (BOTHROPS LANCIOLATUS - LACHESIS LANCIOLATUS)

General

Its venom is most coagulating, (also Lachesis). We should expect to find under these remedies the symptomatology of thrombosis, also thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia, inability to articulate (Linn J. Boyd).

Broken-down, hæmorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great lassitude and sluggishness; hæmorrhages from every orifice of the body; black spots. Hemiplegia with aphasia. Inability to articulate, without any affection of the tongue. Nervous trembling. Pain in right big toe. Diagonal course of symptoms. Pulmonary congestion.

Eyes

Amaurosis; blindness from hæmorrhage into retina. Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after sunrise; conjunctivial hæmorrhage.

Face

Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.

Throat

Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.

Stomach

Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense hæmatemesis. Tympanitis and bloody stools.

Skin

Swollen, livid, cold with hæmorrhagic infiltration. Gangrene. Lymphatics swollen. Anthrax. Malignant erysipelas.

Modalities

Worse, right side.

Relationship

Compare: Toxicophis.--Moccasin Snake (pain and fever recur annually, after bite from this snake, and sometimes change location with disappearance of first symptoms. An unusual dryness of skin follows the bite. Œdematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from one part to another). Other snake poisons, notably Lachesis.

Trachinus,-Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling, acute blood, poisoning, gangrene).

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Yellow viper. Vipera jaune. Fer-de-lance of the island of Martinique. N. O. Crotalidæ. Solution of the poison in glycerine; attenuations in rectified spirit.

Clinical

Blindness. Bones, necrosis of. Day-blindness. Gangrene. Hæmorrhages. Lungs, congestion of. Tongue, paralysis of.

Characteristics

The most peculiar symptoms of Bothrops , for which Ozanam is the authority, are these: Amaurosis. Day-blindness. ─ "can scarcely see her way after sunrise." Inability to articulate without any affection of the tongue. Hæmorrhages, the blood being fluid and black. All the symptoms of pulmonary congestion, oppressed breathing and bloody expectoration, more or less profuse. Paralysis of one arm or one leg only. After being bitten in the little finger of one hand, paralysis began in the finger-tips of the other hand and extended over the whole of that side. Deep gangrene, bones laid bare and necrotic. Intolerable pain in right great toe (patient bitten in left thumb). The diagonal course of symptoms is marked. Hemiplegia. Dissecting gangrene. Slight shivering followed by very profuse cold sweat.

Relations

Compare: Other serpent poisons. Bell has night -blindness.