Homoeopathy — Page 459
Lachesis 459 their problem forever. About ten percent of such patients got significantly better like this, just with one dose of Lachesis 1000. Once the allergy becomes controlled and then recurs, in that case it should be repeated after two weeks or a month. If Lachesis fails, then Natrum Mur and Sabadilla also work well. So the proper diagnosis of the patient should be arrived at carefully. For any such patient who is predisposed to fall sick as a result of moving from the cold to a relatively warm temperature, due to the change of weather or a geographic change of place, Lachesis must be kept well in mind for his other ailments also. However, Dulcamara is the only one remedy that can be used in treating sneezing in any season. Bryonia is also of great use during the change of cold weather into warm weather. A peculiar symptom of Lachesis is that its ailments definitely get worse after sleep. Most of the patients bitten by snakes exhibit the same feature, but Lachesis is the most prominent of all snake venoms. Although it proves to be beneficial for the treatment of such patients whose ailments aggravate after sleep, it does not mean that every patient who shows this symptom must have been bitten by a snake. It simply means that it is a commonly shared symptom in which Lachesis is certainly useful. If indeed a person has been bitten by a Lachesis kind of snake and then goes to sleep, he may not wake up and thus will be untreatable. Every physician must remember that whenever he is called upon to see a patient bitten by a snake, he must make sure that the patient be kept awake under all circumstances, even if he has to be repeatedly slapped on his face. Once he remains awake or can be made to wake up, the chances of his survival become bright. The symptoms of a patient of Lachesis keep aggravating during sleep in which he observes scary dreams and by the morning, his illness has become very severe. He is extremely restless in the morning his head feels warm and hurts. His heart beats fast. Besides that, he becomes badly stricken with grief, which is typical of Lachesis. A patient of Gelsemium also wakes up with a headache but he sleeps comfortably at night without seeing any frightful dreams. In Gelsemium, the patient develops a headache if due to some reason, his routine of waking up in the morning or his timing for breakfast changes. In a headache of this kind the proper treatment is Gelsemium and not Lachesis.