Homoeopathy — Page 292
Crotalus Horridus 292 of the snakebite. The exuding blood is liquid and of dark colour. Within the circulatory system, the blood coagulates like the curdling of milk. The blood that exudes is like dirty water mixed with blood. In the case of some other snakebites, the venom, rather than clotting the blood, makes it thin. This kind of venom affects specifically the nervous system. Crotalus is very useful in the treatment of strange mental conditions like delirium, mumbling and shortness of temper. When somebody wants to talk to the patient, he will immediately interrupt, shut him up and then start talking himself. He cannot tolerate anybody else talking in his presence. In order to continue the conversation, he will devise some story, but will definitely cut everybody else’s conversation. Excessive talking is also noticed in a patient of Lachesis whose conversation is irregular and confusing. A patient of Crotalus also talks very fast and keeps on making stories, but he is not mentally aggressive. Rather, he is slow and tends to be sleepy. He is fearful of death, tends to cry and experiences cold sweats. The headache and dizziness alternate. When resting, he suffers from headache, and when moving he feels dizzy. Sleep aggravates the symptoms, especially the headache which becomes very severe. Sometimes, the patient wakes up due to a headache that he did not have before he went to bed. Raising the head up also aggravates the suffering. Waves of severe headache undulate from the back to the front of the head, resulting in severe weakness. Whenever the patient of snakebite suffers from some special illness, dark offensive blood exudes from the previous snakebite wounds, especially in the spring season. In the presence of diabetes, large dangerous kind of abscesses (carbuncles) form on the neck and the back, which spread rapidly and deep into the tissues. There is associated marked swelling around them. Crotalus would be very useful for the treatment of both these conditions. In such carbuncles Arsenic and Anthracinum are also effective. When women develop typhoid during pregnancy resulting in abortion, Crotalus will prevent against the subsequent possible complications. In Crotalus, sometimes, the patient either sleeps too much or does not sleep at all and both these conditions alternate with each other. When drowsy, it is difficult for him to get up. Once he is awake, it is difficult for him to go back to sleep.