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Crotalus Cascavella
30CCrot-cCrotalus Cascavella · Brazilian Rattlesnake · "The Brazilian Rattlesnake"
AnimalRareSyphilitic
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🎯 It acts as a powerful neurotoxic and hemorrhagic agent, profoundly affecting the nervous system and blood integrity.
📖 Clarke writes:
A Brazilian Rattle-snake. N. O. Crotalidae. (Proving by Mure, together with effects reported by Higgins.) Trituration of the virus with Saccharum lactis.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Poison is as deadly as that of the other Crotalidae
•General symptoms are like those of the other members of the group
•Magnetic state is induced
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•Mental symptoms are more pronounced and peculiar
•Hallucinations are marked and peculiar
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Lancinating pains are frequent
•Lancinating pains are WORSE (worse) by cold washings
•Many symptoms are WORSE (worse) at night
•Pains in bones
•Headache after sleep (as with Lachesis)
Comparative Materia Medica
•Compare: Crotalus horridus, Lachesis, etc.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Faintness relieved in the open air.
Clarke
Marked hallucinations, including seeing spectres of death or black skeletons.
Clarke
Sensation of the skull being compressed by an iron helmet.
Clarke
Intense lancinating pains that are aggravated by cold washing.
Clarke
Headache occurring immediately after waking from sleep.
Clarke
Sensation of something alive moving in a circle inside the head.
Clarke
Epistaxis of bright red blood.
Clarke
Great desire for snow, without thirst for water or wine.
Clarke
Sensation of a band or constriction around the abdomen.
Clarke
Intermitting metrorrhagia of vermilion-colored blood.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for states of extreme anxiety, clairvoyance, and terrifying hallucinations of death.
Magnetic state
she hears nothing, and again sees the spectre of death, as a gigantic black skeleton.
Hears a strange voice to l. and behind her, and follows it, throws herself against closed doors, and scratches them with her nails.
Attempts to throw herself out of window.
Fancies her eyes are falling out.
He fancies he hears groans.
Thoughts dwell on death.
Fright at night about indefinite things.
Clairvoyant.
Anxiety and inquietude.
Involuntary groaning.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Night
general symptoms
fright
cough
↑Better from
Open air
faintness
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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