CROTALUS HORRIDUSLiquid

Crotalus horridus is a potent homoeopathic medicine prepared from the venom of the Rattlesnake. It exhibits a profound action on the blood, nerves, and skin, especially in conditions involving hemorrhagic tendencies, septic states, and degenerative processes. This medicine is especially indicated in low vitality conditions, old age nutritional decline, and blood disorganization. It plays a crucial role in managing infections with bleeding, dark non-coagulable blood, jaundice, and symptoms following exanthemata, vaccination, or septic wounds. Its right-sided affinity, as well as its sedative and decomposing action, make it indispensable in serious acute and chronic disorders.

Common Name: Rattlesnake

SBL’s Crotalus horridus can be helpful in the following conditions:

Hemorrhagic and Septic States

• Crotalus horridus aids in blood decomposition and septicemia with dark, fluid, non-coagulable hemorrhages.
• Helps in bleeding from all orifices, including ears, nose, rectum, and skin.
• Supports conditions like purpura hemorrhagica, malignant fevers, yellow fever, cholera, and plague.
• Manages carbuncles and anthrax surrounded by purplish, mottled skin and edema.
• Relieves symptoms of dissecting wounds, lymphangitis, and post-vaccination eruptions.

Vertigo with Meningitis

• Relieves vertigo with weakness and trembling, especially on the right side.
• Supports mental states marked by weeping, sadness, impatience, and delusions of cerebral decay.
• Helps in clouded memory, loquacity, and a desire to escape or flee.
• Aids in epilepsy and cerebro-spinal meningitis with low vitality and hemorrhagic complications.

Visual Disturbances and Eye Pain

• Manages intraocular and retinal hemorrhages, particularly non-inflammatory in nature.
• Aids in ciliary neuralgia with tearing, boring pain around the eye.
• Supports extreme sensitivity to light and illusions of blue colors.
• Helps in diplopia and yellow discoloration of the eyes.

Gastrointestinal Ulceration and Vomiting

• Relieves persistent nausea and vomiting, especially after menstruation or in chronic alcoholism.
• Helps in bilious, bloody, or black coffee-ground vomiting from gastric ulcer or cancer.
• Manages intolerance to tight clothing over the stomach and trembling below the epigastrium.
• Aids in chronic gastritis and atonic dyspepsia with faintness and sinking at the stomach.

Hemorrhagic Stool and Rectal Discharge

• Aids in black, thin, offensive stool resembling coffee-grounds.
• Helps in intestinal hemorrhages with dark, fluid blood.
• Manages blood oozing from the rectum while walking or standing.

Painful Menses and Puerperal Fever

• Supports prolonged or painful menstruation with faintness and aching near the heart.
• Relieves uterine hemorrhage with dragging sensations as if the uterus would fall out.
• Aids in puerperal fever with offensive lochia, phlegmasia alba dolens, and painful ligamentous drawing.
• Helps in restlessness of the legs during menstrual complaints.

Bloody Urine and Kidney Inflammation

• Manages dark, bloody urine with albumin and casts, indicating inflamed kidneys.
• Supports scanty, offensive urination often seen in septic states.

Palpitation and Circulatory Weakness

• Helps in feeble heart action with tremulous pulse and fluttering sensations.
• Aids in palpitations linked to menstrual disorders or systemic septicemia.

Cough with Tickling in Larynx

• Supports bloody cough with tickling in the larynx from a dry spot.
• Helps in suffocative sensations upon waking and during fever states.

Pain, Paralysis, and Tremors

• Relieves trembling and swelling of the hands, and right-sided paralysis.
• Manages legs that go numb easily and constant involuntary trembling.
• Supports soreness that is paradoxically relieved by pressure.

Skin Disorders and Color Changes

• Helps in pustular eruptions, boils, felons, insect stings, and bad effects from vaccination.
• Aids in swollen, discolored skin with every shade of color and excruciating pain.
• Manages yellow discoloration of the body, sallow skin, and purplish eruptions around carbuncles.
• Supports vesication and extreme sensitivity, especially on the right side of the body.

Sleep Disturbed

• Crotalus horridus relieves smothering sensations upon awakening, yawning, and dreams of the dead.
• Aids in disturbed sleep with sudden starting and jerking.