Crotalus horridus (crot-h.)

Exercise 21 - EH Analysis

In the following graph, taken from the Encyclopedia Homeopathica (EH) software analysis, each symptom included in the search is represented by a different color. The length of the bar for a particular symptom (represented by a color), indicates how many times this symptom was mentioned in the materia medica for that remedy.

You will notice that, for the most part, only characteristic symptoms were chosen. This allows for easy differentiation of the correct remedy. The first remedy on the left is the correct remedy and the answer to the exercise. Usually, it has the longest bar of the graph, and comprehensively covers all the symptoms.

The EH screenshot is followed by a list of the RADAR Keynotes of that remedy, and a link to a query file that users may download and install into their own EH program in order to duplicate the analysis.

RADAR Keynotes for Crotalus horridus (crot-h.)

* Hemorrhagic tendency.

MIND:
- Sadness. Weepy mood.
- Aversion to members of family. Sensitive to certain persons.
- Muttering, talking to himself.
- Delusions of frightful animals; falling out of bed; surrounded by enemies.
- Weakness of memory for names, persons, places.
Mistakes in speaking and writing.

GENERALITIES:
- HEMORRHAGE: FROM ANY ORIFICE.
Passive, dark unclotted blood.
In very sick, weakened persons with fever.
- MALIGNANT CONDITIONS. SEPSIS.
- < BEGINNING OF SLEEP (Lach.); sleep in general.
- < RIGHT SIDE.
- Sudden weakness.
- Ailments from apoplexy: Convulsions, paralysis, aphasia, etc.
- Varicosities.

FOOD AND DRINKS:
- Desire: Pork, alcohol.

VERTIGO:
- During menopause.

HEAD:
- Apoplexy.
- Headache, < right side, jar; must walk tiptoe

EYE:
- Hemorrhages; retinal (Both, Ham, Lach, Phos); from tearduct;
ecchymosis.
- Photophobia, esp. lamplight.
- Ciliary neuralgia.

EAR:
- Discharge of blood.

NOSE:
- Epistaxis, dark, fluid; with perspiration on forehead.
- Varicosities (Carb-v).
- Blue discoloration of tip.
FACE:
- Varicosities.
Distented veins of face and lips. Face looks marbled.

MOUTH:
- Inflammation of tongue. Swelling tongue, protruding.
- Hemorrhage from mouth. Bleeding gums.

THROAT:
- Tonsils ooozing blood.
- Gangrene.
- Inflammation, < left side (Lach).
- Difficult swallowing of solids (Crot-c, Lach)
- Intolerant of clothing.

STOMACH:
- Bleeding. Vomiting of blood.
- Sensation of emptiness during menopause.
- Deathly nausea (Tab).

RECTUM:
- Diarrhea from septic conditions.
- Hemorrhage.

URINE:
- Dark. Bloody.

FEMALE GENITALIA:
- Abscess of ovaries. Cancer of uterus.
- Metrorrhagia, black, < menopause.

RESPIRATION:
- Difficult on falling asleep, from constriction of larynx.

EXPECTORATION:
- Bloody.

CHEST:
- Pain < lying on left side (Lach, Phos, Cact, Nat-m, Spig),
< ascending.
- Angina pectoris. Pain from heart to left hand (Lat-m).

EXTREMITIES:
- Blood oozing from finger nails.
- Varicose veins.

FEVER:
- Sceptic and zymotic fevers.

PERSPIRATION:
- Bloody.

SKIN:
- Mottled. Bluish spots. Jaundice.
- Purpura. Ecchymosis.
- Erysipelas.
- Boils, carbuncles, surrounded by purplish skin.
- Gangrene.
- Network of blood vessels.
- Very sensitive skin of right part of body.

Compl.: Carb-v, Lycps.

DD: Bapt, Both, Carb-v, Crot-c, Ham, Lach, Mill, Pyrog, Sec, Sul-ac.
 

EH Query File

Here is the EH Query file for you to install in your own program.

1. To download the file, right click on this link. Choose "Save File As", "Save Link As", or "Save Target As", depending on your browser.

2. Many browsers will change the file extension to .htm when you download. Be sure that the file name ends with .qry. If your browser has changed the extension, change it back to .qry

3. Open EH, go to the Find Window (F4) and chose the Search pull down menu. Select Recall the Query.

4. Double click on the query file you would like to open. You will then find the same query that was used to create the analysis screenshot for that remedy.

5. To view the analysis in EH, hit the function key (F8) and you will see the analysis for that query.

Note: EH owners who download these queries may get different results, based on the database of books they own. In particular, the Vermeulen books seem to be of great help in answering these exercises.