Amphisbaena
Animal
Amphisbaena is a right-sided remedy with prominent action on the bones of the jaw and skull, producing swelling, pain, and lancinating sensations similar to Silica. The patient suffers from severe, unusual headaches, jaw pains, and a state of ennui and sadness especially in the morning.
Key symptoms
- Severe pain and swelling in the right jaw, worse from air and dampness
- Horrible headache with sensation as if the feet were in the brain
- Lancinating pains throughout the right side of the head
- Vertigo with tendency to fall to one side, worse when turning around
- Constriction of the right eye as if strung together with a cord
- Eruptions of vesicles and pimples
- Right-sided complaints predominating
- Generally worse from motion
Worse (aggravation)
- Air and dampness (jaw pain worse)
- Motion
- Turning around (vertigo worse)
Amphisbæna vermicularis. N. O. Lacertilia. The jaw containing the poison is removed and triturated.
Clinical
Constipation. Cramps. Headache. Hernia. Jaw, pains in. Toothache.
Characteristics
Amphisbæna is a snake-like lizard, without limbs, and progressing (as its name implies) either backwards or forwards. Mure is the authority for its effects. It is prepared from the jaw as well as the poison of the animal, and has symptoms indicating action on bone like that of Sil. It acts most markedly on the jaws, causing swelling and pain, especially in the right jaw, < by air and dampness. Many kinds of severe headaches are complained of, one with a sensation "as if the feet were in the head." Lancinating pains are frequent. Eruptions of vesicles and pimples. It is a right-side medicine. There is generally < from motion.
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