Heloderma suspectum Anhang
Clinical.
Brain, base of, affected.
Cerebrospinal meningitis.
Coldness.
Headache.
Heart failure.
Locomotor ataxy.
Neuralgia.
Numbness.
Paralysis.
Paralysis agitans.
Characteristics.
The information we possess
of the action of Heloderma is contained in vols-v. toxi. of Hom. Recorder,
including some remarkable and important provings by
Dr. R. Boocock. The name given to
this remedy by the Recorder is Heloderma horridum, but as there is no little
confusion between two species, I prefer to name
the remedy Heloderma simply. The
first notice of the remedy is in vol., v. p. 163, in letters from Dr. Charles
D. Belden, who supplied Messrs.
Boericke and Tafel with a living
specimen and also poison obtained by himself.
Dr. Belden calls his
specimens "H. horridum or R Suspectum." Now Dr. Belden writes from
Arizona, and the river Gila (pronounced "Hee-la ") from which the
lizard
takes its name "Gila
Monster" is an Arizona river, and the Arizona lizard is Heloderma
suspectum. Heloderma horridum, the "Crust lizard," also called
"Gila monster,"
is a Mexican lizard and is generally
regarded as harmless.
At any rate it is agreed
that there is one lizard that is poisonous, and that lizard is a Heloderma, and
our remedy obtained from the poison.
"An ugly,
disagreeable-looking creature, the head long and blunt, eyes black and
bead-like, tail half the length of the body, thick-set and club-like.
The
entire body cased in a thinly coated armor, marked curiously with yellow and
black." It is sluggish and slow of movement when kept in the dark, but may
develop great activity when brought into the sunlight.
It is most tenacious of
life, the only vulnerable part seems to be at the junction of the head with the
spine, a blow on which will kill it.
Of the bite of the reptile
Belden says: "This animal does not bite frequently, but when it does it is
understood that the result is a benumbing paralysis, like that of
paralysis agitans, or to locomotor
ataxy.
There is no tetanic
phase." The venom is alkaline in reaction.
A dog bitten in the nose
"uttered fearful howls, and when, after great difficulty, he was released,
had symptoms like 'blind staggers,' began turning around in a circle,
and died in twenty minutes."
A young miner bitten in the leg, through in
robust health at the time, at once began to lose flesh, became melancholy, and
died in a few months like one in rapid
consumption.
Helod. has the reputation of
being fatal to drinkers, and to affect the temperate less severely.
This, says Belden, is borne
out somewhat by the recovery of Mr. Vail, of Tucson, a man of temperate habits,
after a bite, and the death, after lingering several months,
of a man bitten whist drunk.
This lingering nature of the
action of the poison is markedly different from the snake poisons, which
generally kill quickly if at all.
An Indian woman bitten in
the leg, survived, but the leg shrivelled, and she became a semi-idiot, though
she lived over thirty years after.
The writer of an article
quoted by the Recorder from the New York sub relating her case, thus describes
the effect: Where the person survives an hour or two after the bite,
the agony is described
as awful to witness.
The poison goes through the
human system with lightning rapidity, and causes unspeakable pain and
excruciating agony from head to foot.
Though paralysed, every muscle,
bone, sinew, and nerve is keenly alive to intense pain.
The sufferer's head seems as
if it would split open.
Very few persons bitten can
speak after the first fifteen minutes, but unconsciousness seldom comes until a
few minutes before death.
Mr. Vail says his suffering
was intense, the pain proceeding from the wounded part to the head and back.
Immediately after receiving
the wound, which was on his index finger, both wrist and finger were tightly
bandaged.
Two hours later the wound
was cleansed and dressed and the bandages reapplied.
For three days those intense
pains would shoot toward the head and spine on loosening the bandages in the
least degree.
After three months the only perceptible
result was a swollen tongue which seemed then unwilling to resume its proper
size.
The treatment he received
was profuse sweating by administration of Jaborandi.
Experiments on animals
seemed to show that death occurred rather from heart failure than from
respiratory failure.
This much was known when Dr.
Robert Boocock, of Flat bush, made his proving which has given the remedy a
definite place in the homeopathic materia medica.
The first experience was
with a solution of the 6x trituration, one drachm in four ounces of alcohol. Of
this he took three or four drops.
He was seized with an
internal coldness from the heart as if being frozen to death internally and had
no way of warming himself.
"Coldness from within
outward." The coldness of this remedy is more intense than that of any
other. "Arctic coldness," the prover called it.
The coldness was at times
followed by sensations of heat and burning.
Dr. Boocock's observation of
the cold sensations of Helod. was confirmed by a young clerk in the employment
of Messrs. Boericke and Tafel, who took six
doses of Helod. 6 out of bravado.
The second night he awoke,
and the impression that he was under the influence of Helod. flashed on his
mind.
He felt a cold sensation
creeping down his body and legs, and was in a very cold clammy sweat.
This lasted all the rest of
the night and he could get no more sleep. It began to pass off by morning, and
he felt no more of it.
The constricting sensations
of the serpent venoms were produced by Helod., also the numbness and darting
pains and the sensitiveness to external pressure.
Many of the symptoms came on
in the night waking the prover from sleep (like the "< from sleep"
of Lach.).
The tremors, spongy feeling
of feet on walking, pains in back and limbs, bear out Belden's commendation of
Helod. in locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans.
Dr. Boocock gave great
relief with the medicine in a case of the latter, and E.E. Case effected great
improvement in a case of locomotor ataxy in an auburn-haired woman,
55. She had the
classical symptoms of the complaint and "tingling, creeping sensations in
legs as if from insects, was < lying in bed at night/exposure/touch.
Arms numb. Legs insensible
to battery.
Tongue dry and cracked.
Swallowing difficult."
Under Helod. 900, and later, 45m, after the appearance of an eruption, she
recovered a fair degree of health and usefulness.
C.E. Johnson reported to Dr.
Boocock (H.R., ix. 141) the relief of a woman who had many of the symptoms of
the proving (and been pronounced incurable),
complaining especially of the
intense coldness.
She received Helod. 200, and
the coldness disappeared almost completely.
Boocock cured a case of
"blue hands," remaining long after diphtheritic paralysis, and he
restored two patients apparently moribund.
In one case the breathing
was slow, "tongue cold and slate-colored, breath cold." The other
case was that of a woman, 65.
In the act of dressing, strength suddenly left
her, mouth fell open, tongue and breath cold, and she was apparently dying and
felt so.
There was intense pain at
the back of the head." Helod. 200 was given, as in the other case, and she
made a good recovery.
The weakness Dr. Boocock
experienced in the proving he compared to that of Gels., only Gels. did not dry
up the mouth and secretions as Helod. did.
The modalities noted were worse from
cold with desire for warmth.
<: After sleep/at night;
>: From stretching;
DD.: Lach. Crot-h. Camph. (coldness), Arg-n. Alum. (locomotor ataxy),
Ant-t. and Merc. (paralysis agitans), Gels. Con. Lyss.
Repertory:
Mind: No inclination for exertion in any way.
Unable to confine his mind
to any object.
Difficulty in remembering
the spelling of simple words.
In spite of very severe
symptoms, not alarmed, passively indifferent.
Depressed, feels very blue.
Head: Vertigo and weakness when moving quickly.
Dizziness, with inclination
to fall backward.
Giddiness and cold pressure
from within skull.
Sensation of heat in head,
heat on vertex.
Headache over right eyebrow.
Pressure in head and scalp,
pressure in skull as if too full, mind clear all the same.
Soreness and stiffness in
occiput, extending down neck, sore spot in various parts of head.
Intense pain over left
eyebrow, through eye to base of brain and down back.
Very violent headache over
right temporal bone, as if a tumour forming and pressing within skull, whole
right side affected, producing numbness down left side of body.
Aching at base of brain.
Sharp, digging pains.
Benumbed feeling all over
head.
Burning feeling in brain,
head hot and full as if not room enough in skull.
Throbbing on top of head,
head sore and bruised.
Sensation of band around
head.
Cold band around head.
Sensation as if scalp was
drawn tight over skull.
Bores head in pillow.
Awakened suddenly with a
jerking in head.
Central part of frontal bone
so queer as to awaken him.
Eyes: Itching of eyelids, lachrymation.
Weight of eyelids, difficult
to keep them open.
Sight improved, astigmatism
removed.
Ears: Pressure behind left ear, pressure in ear
from within outward.
Copious flow of wax (more
left)
Ears dry and scurfy.
Ringing in ear like
night-bell.
Nose: Left nostril sore, ulcerated.
Dry, itching scurfs in
nostrils.
Severe attack of sneezing (a
severe chill and down back).
Fluent discharge.
Face: Sensation of heat in face.
Flushes of heat.
Cold, crawling feeling from
temple down right cheek, from right upper jaw to cheek.
Sensation as if pricked with
points of ice.
Sensation as if facial
muscles were drawn tight over bones.
Stiffness of jaw.
Dryness of lips.
Mouth: Soreness of mouth.
Very thirsty.
Tongue tender and
dry/swollen (lasting for three months after bite).
Throat: Dryness, parched sensation in throat.
Tingling.
Soreness of throat and
tenderness to outside touch.
Stinging, sore feeling in
right tonsil.
Stomach: Acid burning
Immoderate thirst.
Abdomen: Gurgling in region of spleen.
Sharp shooting pain in
bowels, more on left side.
Pain across pubic bones,
extending down into left testicle.
Stitching pains in bowels
(as if filled with pins).
Woke in night with very hard
pain in bowels, left hypogastric region.
Rumbling in bowels.
Feeling as if waist-band too
tight.
Anus: Hemorrhoids swollen, itch and bleed.
Stool: Loose, copious stool, lumpy, preceded by
stitches in abdomen.
Stool loose, mushy, with
considerable flatus.
Bowels torpid.
Stool soft, dark, difficult
to expel.
Urinary Organs: Stitch-like pain in right kidney while
sitting, as if being drawn together, followed by prickling in fingers.
Bladder irritable, frequent
urging to pass urine.
Dreamed of urinating in bed
but did not, awoke and passed a large quantity very clear and bright.
Tenderness in urethra, with
sensation of discharge.
Urine not as free as usual,
muddy.
Intermittent flow, as if
obstructed by calculus.
Urine, specific gravity,
1010, greenish yellow, fetid (like decaying fruit).
Male Sexual Organs: Erection, but felt too tired for coition.
Coitus prolonged, with great
enjoyment and large flow of semen.
Intensely cold penis and
testicle, tip like a piece of ice, with gluey discharge.
Pain and enlargement of left
testicle.
Pain under pubes and along
penis.
Respiratory Organs: Slight, hacking cough, with pain in left
scapula.
Fullness in chest, requiring
an effort to inflate the lungs.
Oppressed for breath from
least exertion.
Chest: Sharp stitch through right nipple to inside
of right arm.
Cold feeling in right lung.
Heart: Pressure at heart.
Coldness at heart as if
being frozen to death, cold from within outward.
Twitches about heart as if
difficult for blood to get in or out.
Tingling around heart.
Trembling and coldness
around heart.
Oppression around heart.
Beating of heart felt all
over body.
Heart bounds as if it had
not room, whole body vibrates.
Sticking pains, shooting
from left to right
Stitches in heart.
Soreness in heart, more
under left nipple.
Pulse, 56-72, full and
jerky.
Neck and Back: Stiff neck, aching in bones of neck.
Painfulness of upper neck.
Coldness across scapula.
Chill in back from base of
brain to buttock.
Pain in back, intense pain
in lumbar muscles awakening him (with stitches in intestines).
Aching in right kidney,
stitch pain in right kidneys.
Upper Limbs: Numbness of right arm and hand with
trembling.
Tingling in arms and hands.
Tingling in palm of left
hand and along fingers.
Drawing in left hand,
followed by tingling and prickling.
Pains in hands, if holding
anything for some time.
Trembling of hands.
Hands blue, cracked, and
rough.
Lower Limbs: Numb feeling around and down left thigh.
Pain in left thigh and calf
as if bruised.
Numb feeling down right leg.
Coldness extending from knee
to calf.
Coldness of legs and feet.
Boring, sharp pain on tibia
of right leg.
Sensation of tight band
around left ankle.
Trembling of limbs.
Jerking of limbs.
Tingling and burning of feet
as if recovering from being frozen.
Burning in feet, preventing
sleep, had to put them out of bed.
Sensation as if walking on
sponge or as if feet swollen.
Staggering gait.
Tendency to turn to the
right when walking.
When walking lifts feet
higher than usual and puts down heel hard.
Skin: Itching of skin as from insects.
Skin of hands very rough,
cracked.
Sleep: Drowsiness, but inability to sleep.
Restless sleep, awakens at 3
h.
Awakened from sleep by
jerking in head, trembling of limbs, pain in lumbar muscles.
Awakened by feeling a cold
sensation creeping down body and legs, in a very cold, clammy sweat, lasting
till morning.
Dreams: Vivid dream about giving a lecture in spite
of feeling prostrate.
Dreamed of the lizard.
Dreamed of urinating in bed,
but did not, awoke and passed a large quantity.
(This dream with consequent
free micturition was repeated two nights in succession.)
Dreams repeated the same
night.
Fever: Internal coldness, as if being frozen from
within outward.
Cold waves ascend from feet, or go
downward from base of brain.
Severe chill ran down back.
Cold rings around body.
Sensitive to cold, shrinks
from exposure.
Feeling of heat in head and
face, some headache over right eyebrow.
Hot flushes and burnings in head and along
spine.
Feet very hot, heat
throughout body, soon passing off, followed by arctic coldness.
Cold, clammy sweat.
Generalities: Startled easily.
Trembling, tired feeling,
very weak and nervous.
Fainting.
Intense aching in bones and
all parts of body.
Trembling of left side,
hands shaky.
Trembling can be controlled
by effort of will.
Trembling along nerves, in
limbs (mainly thighs and arms), when in bed, often strong enough to wake him.
Sometimes when quietly
reading trembling will seize him shaking body so as to prevent reading (or
writing), for a few seconds at a time.
The poison goes like
lightning through the system, causing agony from head to foot.
Though paralysed, every muscle and bone is
the seat of pain.
Pains proceed from part
bitten to head and back.
Great emaciation and
lingering death.
A condition like galloping
consumption.
Limb affected shrivels.
All secretions dried up.
Stretching relieves pains in
muscles and limbs.
Stitch pains going from left
to right
Numb sensations.
Weak, giddy, making it
difficult to stand.
"Blind staggers,"
the animal bitten turns round in a circle and dies in twenty minutes.
Unable to balance myself.
Movement does not increase
the pain.
Throbbing all over body.
Startled, trembling
condition on slight noise.
Bone pains.
Great swelling of bitten limb,
intense pain, gangrene.
[Amati Holle]
Heloderma horrida
Massimo Mangliavori
Das Gift ist mit Crotalus cascavella identisch. Aber benutzt ihr Gift nicht zu töten. Können länger als ein Jahr ohne Nahrung leben. Im Schwanz ein Speicher.
Und dann doch plötzlich das Maul aufreißen. Beißen zu und halten das Opfer fest bis das Gift sich verbreitet hat.
Humorvoll.
Angst im Dunkeln.
Stur, am Ende Recht behalten.
Starrsinn, Fettleibigkeit, Schwere. Langsamkeit. Träge,
Arbeit abgeneigt
Kämpft gegen die Zeit. (Einziger Dinosaurier, der überlebt hat)
Fehler beim Sprechen, lässt Worte aus. Lernt langsam.
Ameisenlaufen der unteren Extremitäten (abends im Bett).
Empfindungen von Kälte. Fehlende Lebenswärme
Verlangen: Eier
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum