Bothrops lanceolatus
Alias: Both., Bothrops lanciolatus, Lachesis lanciolatus
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Yellow Viper (BOTHROPS LANCIOLATUS - LACHESIS LANCIOLATUS)
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, haemorrhagic constitutions; septic states. Great lassitude and sluggishness; haemorrhages 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 haemorrhage into retina. Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after sunrise; conjunctivial haemorrhage.
Face.--Swollen and puffy. Besotted expression.
Throat.--Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.
Stomach.--Epigastric distress. Black vomiting. Intense haematemesis. Tympanitis and bloody stools.
Skin.--Swollen, livid, cold with haemorrhagic 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. OEdematous 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
Yellow viper. Vipera jaune. Fer-de-lance of the island of Martinique. N. O. Crotalidae. Solution of the poison in glycerine; attenuations in rectified spirit.
Clinical.─Blindness. Bones, necrosis of. Day-blindness. Gangrene. Haemorrhages. 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. Haemorrhages, 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.