Cenchris Contortrix

Cenchris has the main features of all the serpent poisons: Coma; semi-

consciousness; insensibility of cornea; swelling of upper lip; general swelling; paralysis; cold,

clammy sweat. Distinctive symptoms are: a marked alternation of moods; and dreamy absent-

mindedness. The dreams of Cenchris are very vivid and horrible, cannot be shaken off during

waking hours; often lascivious. Swelling above eyes, below brow, like an over-hanging bag of

waters. Diarrhoea has been cured having the following characters: "Pain before stool; stool

papescent cold but not chilly." Yellow Leucorrhcea; pain in right ovary herpetic eruption on

• ▸labia.
• ▸Hard, dry tickling cough, <3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸Restlessness and sense of suffocation; palpitation;

sensation of dying. Must lie with head drawn back, she chokes so. Tight clothing unbearable.

Chill or fever beginning in afternoon. Feeling as if whole body were enlarged to bursting; < in

region of heart. "Awoke with throbbing in vulva and anus, followed by a dull aching in the sacral

region, > by walking about." Symptoms < lying down; < afternoon; < evening and all night; < on

waking.

• ▸Memory lost.
• ▸—Lethargy.
• ▸—Anxiety, feels she will die suddenly.
• ▸—Alternating

moods.—Dreamy, absent-minded.—Took the wrong car without realising where she was

going.—When riding in the car rode past the place she intended to get off at—Suspicious, thinks

her husband is going to put her in an insane asylum; every day, 3 to 8 p.m., for ten days, yet she

knew it was a delusion.

Forgetful, absent-minded, alternating moods. Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth. Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in eyes.

Hard aching pain, commencing I. frontal eminence, spreading down 1. side to teeth,

thence to r. frontal eminence, then to teeth r. side.

Swelling like bags over eyes and under brows.—Aching and itching in eyes; dim

vision, redness of margins and twitching.—L. eye waters; from concussive cough.

• ▸Expression bloated, besotted.
• ▸—Face sallow.
• ▸—Burning face.
• ▸—Blue circles round eyes.

Accumulation of mucus; glossy, thick, tough.—Difficult empty swallowing, but easy

swallowing of solids and liquids.—Warm drinks grateful.

Diarrhcea early in morning, on, waking.—Stool, gushing, frequent, watery, at first

without pain; after several hours, great pain before the motions.

• ▸Increased desire.
• ▸—Y ellow leucorrhoea.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸ovary.
• ▸—Herpetic

eruption on labia—Menstrual flow very profuse; light with dark clots.

Feels distended, fills whole chest, as if it fell down in abdomen; sharp stitches, fluttering under left scapula.

Feels as if heart were distended, or swelled to fill the whole chest.—Strongly

conscious of heart.—Hard aching and sudden sharp stitching in heart—Throbbing or fluttering

• ▸under 1.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—At 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸sensation of fluttering followed by feeling that heart fell down into

abdomen; then pulse became feeble, with heat lasting until after midnight.

Dreams horrible and vivid; lascivious.

• ▸Amaurosis.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Eyes, swelling over.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.

• ▸Leucorrhoea.
• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Nightmare.
• ▸Ovary, pain in.
• ▸Throat, affections of.
• ▸Vulva, throbbing in;

eruption on.

Laches. is nearest, but affects left ovary more than right; Cench. has difficult empty

swallowing with easy swallowing of solids and liquids; Lach. can swallow solids but not liquids;

Crotal. (lost sense of position and direction); Crocus (alternating moods); Kali c. (swelling of

• ▸upper lids).
• ▸Antidoted by: Cham.
• ▸(internal hemorrhage); Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸(general symptoms).
• ▸Antidote

to: Puls.

• ▸Compare: Ars; Laches. Clotho Arictans--Puff Adder.
• ▸--Should have a great sphere of usefulness in many conditions where excessive swelling is a leading feature (John H.
• ▸Clarke, M.
• ▸D).

Sixth potency.