Snake poisons are supposed to be chemically Cyan hydrates of Soda and other salts. Alcohol is the natural solvent of these salts and is an antidote. Has a profound trophic action. Old age nutritional troubles.
Low septic states. General disorganization of the blood, haemorrhages and jaundice. A crotalin injection decreases the rate of coagulation of the blood. In epilepsy the average rate is far greater than in normal conditions. Blood decomposition, haemorrhages (dark fluid that forms no clots), tendency to carbuncles, malignant scarlatina, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, give opportunity to use this remedy. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Acts as a sedative. Sleeps into his symptoms. More right-sided in its action.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Mind ailments: Weeping mood; clouded perception and memory; impatient. Loquacious, with desire to escape. Sadness. Delusions of cerebral decay.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Head ailments: Vertigo, with weakness and trembling. Dull heavy occipital pain, on right side and right eye. Headache with pain in heart on lying on left side. Headache; must walk on tip-toe to avoid jarring.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Eyes ailments: Very sensitive to light, especially lamp light. Yellow color of eyes. Illusions; blue colors. Ciliary neuralgia; tearing, boring pain, as if a cut had been made around eye. For absorption of intra-ocular haemorrhages, into the vitreous, but particularly for non-inflammatory retinal haemorrhages. Diplobia.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Ears ailments: Auditory vertigo. Blood oozes from ears. Feeling of stoppage in right ear.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Nose ailments: Epistaxis, blood black and stringy, ozaena, after exanthemata or syphilis.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Face ailments: Acne. Lips swollen and numb. Leaden-colored and yellow face. Lockjaw.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Mouth ailments: Tongue red and small, but feels swollen. Tongue fiery red, dry in center, smooth and polished. Moldy smell of breath. Fills up with saliva. Tongue when protruding, goes to right. Spasmodic grinding of teeth at night. Cancer of tongue with haemorrhage.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Throat ailments: Dry, swollen, dark red. Spasm of oesophagus; cannot swallow any solid substance. Tight constriction. Gangrenous, with much swelling.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Stomach ailments: Intolerance of clothing around stomach. Unable to retain anything; violent vomiting of food; bilious vomiting, vomiting of blood. Constant nausea and vomiting every month, after menstruation. Cannot lie on right side, without vomiting dark-green matter. Black or coffee-grounds vomiting. Cancer of stomach with vomiting of bloody, slimy mucus. Trembling, fluttering feeling below the epigastrium. Intolerance of clothing about epigastrium. Faintness and sinking at stomach. Ulceration of the stomach. Atonic dyspepsia. Gastritis in chronic alcoholism. Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Abdomen ailments: Distended, hot, and tender. Pain in region of liver.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Stool ailments: Black, thin, offensive, like coffee-grounds. Intestinal haemorrhage; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable. Blood oozes from rectum when standing or walking.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Female ailments: Prolonged menses. Dysmenorrhoea; pain extends down thighs, with aching in region of heart. Uterine haemorrhage with faintness at stomach. Puerperal fever; offensive lochia. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Sensation as though uterus would drop out. Painful drawing in uterine ligaments. Cannot keep legs still.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Urinary ailments: Dark, bloody urine. Casts. Inflamed kidney. Albuminous, dark, scanty (Merc cor).
Crotalus horridus treatment for Heart ailments: Action feeble, pulse tremulous. Palpitation, especially at menstrual period. Trembling feeling of heart.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Respiratory ailments: Cough, with bloody expectoration. Tickling from a dry spot in larynx.
Extremities:
Hands tremble, swollen. Lower extremities go to sleep easily. Right-sided paralysis.Crotalus horridus treatment for Fever ailments: Malignant fevers of a haemorrhagic or putrescent character. Low bilious remittents. Yellow fever. Bloody sweat. Cerebro-spinal meningitis (Cicuta; Cup acet). Cold sweats.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Skin ailments: Swelling and discoloration, skin tense and shows every tint of color, with excruciating pain. Vesication. Sallow. Yellow color of the whole body. Great sensitiveness of skin of right half of body. Purpura haemorrhagica. Haemorrhage from every part of body. Bloody sweat. Chilblains, felons. Dissecting wounds. Pustular eruptions. Insect stings. Post-vaccination eruptions. Bad effects of vaccination. Lymphangitis and septicaemia. Boils, carbuncles, and eruptions are surrounded by purplish, mottled skin and oedema. Anthrax. Sore sensation relieved by pressure.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Sleep ailments: Dreams of the dead. Starting in sleep. Yawning. Smothering sensation when awaking.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Modalities ailments: Worse, right side; open air; evening and morning; in spring, coming on of warm weather; yearly; on awaking; damp and wet; jar.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Relationship ailments: Crotalus horridus treatment for Compare ailments: Bothrops; Naja (more nervous phenomena); Lachesis (more markedly worse on left side); Elaps (preferable in otorrhoea and affections of right lung); Crotalus cascavella (thoughts and dreams of death. Paralysis of articulation, embarrassed stertorous breathing and semi-consciousness. A magnetic state is produced; cutting sensation all around eyeball). Bungarus-Krait--(poliomyelitis).
Antidote: Lach; Alcohol. Radiant heat; camphor.
Crotalus horridus treatment for Dose ailments: Third to sixth potency.