Naja Tripudia naja.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Cerebellum. Medulla. NERVES; HEART (Mitral Valve). Respiration. Throat. Left side: Ovary. Temple. Arm.

Worse

Lying on left side. After: Sleep. Menses. Air: Cold. Drafts. Pressure of clothes. Alcohol.

Better

Riding in open air. Sneezing. Smoking.

General

Nervous, excited and tremulous; with cardiac effects; often reflex. Collapse. Sepsis. Many pains. Parts seem drawn together. Constrictions, throat, chest, etc. Insensible r. side.

Particulars

Suicidal brooding. Shootings in head. As of a blow on occiput and neck. Vertex sensitive to cold. As of a lump in throat. PAIN FROM L. OVARY TO HEART. Suffocative choking; grasps the throat. Puffing breathing. Cardiac asthma or cough. HEART; weakness at; violent pain; shooting to l. scapula, shoulder or neck; cramp ascend into neck; holds hand over it; excited, tremendous action; palpitation, visible; hypertrophy; endocarditis, septic. Dry or empty in l. lung. Ribs feel broken. Cramps in shoulder, nape or thigh. Puffy or sweating hands and feet. Itching cicatrices. Pulse changes force. Internal heat, < chest. Sweat on lumbar back and ankles.

Related

Related: Cimi. Lach. Laur. Spig.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Suicidal insanity , broods constantly over imaginary troubles (Aur.). Simple hypertrophy of heart. For restoring a heart damaged by acute inflammation, or from relief of sufferings of chronic hypertrophy and valvular lesions. Irritating, dry, sympathetic cough in the acute stage of rheumatic carditis, or chronic organic lesions (Spon.). Threatened paralysis of heart, post-diphtheritic. Pulse irregular in force, but regular in rhythm. Inability to speak with choking, nervous, chronic palpitation, especially after public speaking; pain < by carriage riding or lying on side. Severe stitching pain in region of heart.

Relations

Compare: Ars., Cac., Crot., Lach., Myg., Spig.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Virus of the Cobra

General

Naja produces a typical bulbar paralysis (L. J. Boyd). Causes no hæmorrhage but only œdema, hence the victims of this reptile frequently bear very little sign of external injury a small scratch or puncture being the only indication where the fangs have worked their havoc. The tissue lying beneath the wound is colored dark purple, and a large quantity of viscid blood-like fluid collects in the vicinity of the wound. An intense burning pain at the spot bitten is the first symptom. In man there follows an interval before fresh symptoms occur. The average is about an hour. Once developed, the symptoms follow a rapid course. A feeling of intoxication is produced, followed by a loss of power over the limbs. The patient is bereft of speech, swallowing, and the control over the movement of the lips. The saliva is ejected in large quantities, the respiration gradually becomes slower and slower, and at length ceases. Conscious all time. Is not a hæmorrhagic or septic, medicine like Lachesis and Crotalus. Its action settles around the heart; valvular troubles. Marked surging of blood upwards, marked dyspnœa, inability to lie on left side. Hypertrophy, and valvular lesions. Organs seem to be drawn together. Very susceptible to cold. With heart symptoms, pain in forehead and temples. Diseases, primarily depending upon degeneration of motor cells. Control of sphincters lost.

Mind

Broods constantly over imaginary troubles. Suicidal insanity (Aur). Depressed. Aversion to talking. Blurred speech. Melancholy. Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain.

Head

Pain in left temple and in left orbital region, extending to occiput, with nausea and vomiting. Hay-fever, with dry larynx. Suffocative spells after sleeping (Lach). Eyes staring. Ptosis of both lids.

Ears

Illusions of hearing; otalgia; chronic otorrhœa, black discharges; smells like herring brine.

Respiratory

Grasping at throat, with sense of choking. Irritating, dry cough, dependent on cardiac lesions (Spong; Lauroc) Sticky mucus and saliva. Asthmatic constriction in evening. Asthma beginning with coryza.

Heart

Dragging and anxiety in præcordia. Feeling of weight on heart. Angina pains extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death. With the heart symptoms pain in forehead and temples. Pulse irregular in force. Threatened paralysis of heart, body cold, pulse slow, weak, irregular, tremulous. Acute and chronic endocarditis. Palpitation. Stitching pain in region of heart. Damaged heart after infections diseases. Marked symptoms of low tension (Elaps, Vipera).

Female

Neuralgia of left ovary; often serviceable in obscure pain in left groin, especially in post-operative cases; seems to be drawn to heart.

Sleep

Profound, like a log, with stertorous breathing, a typical reptilian state.

Modalities

Worse, from use of stimulants; better, from walking or riding in open air.

Relationship

Compare: Serpent poisons generally. Bungarus Fasciatus (Banded Krait). This venom produces a condition like an acute polioencephalitis and myelitis, both symptomatically and histologically. Lach; Crotal; Spig; Spong.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Here is a blood relative of Lachesis, if serpent poisons may be called relatives, and according to the symptoms arising from the bite of the serpent it ought to be equally valuable as a curative, but it has not yet been found so. Why not? on referring to Allen's Encyclopædia we find twenty-nine provers, poisonings and all, for Lachesis, and forty-five for Naja. Of course, Lachesis has been longest in use; but has the difference in time been sufficient to account for the very great difference in utility? Another thing is noticeable; the provings of Lachesis were made mostly with potencies as high as the 30th, while those of Naja are almost all with the lowest preparation or the crude poison from the bite of the serpent. Does this account for it?

We also notice on referring to the same authority that all the most marked verifications are of symptoms produced by the provings of the 30th of Lachesis. Does this indicate that Naja must be proven in the potencies to develop its most efficient powers? Naja has been found of very decided use in affections of the heart, especially weak heart (Nux vomica, tired feeling); diphtheria, where there is impending heart failure or paralysis. Dyspnœa and prostration from weak heart, sympathetic cough in organic diseases with weak heart action. (Dry cough, sympathetic in heart affections, Spongia.) Palpitation and bad feeling in heart, < walking. In these troubles, as well as in chronic weakness of heart, there is no doubt of the value of Naja. Constantly dwells on suicide like Aurum. But further than this I do not know of very many marked successes from its use. Nevertheless, I feel convinced that with further proving and investigation, along the same line as Lachesis, it may rival if not outshine it.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Naja tripudians. Cobra di Capello. The hooded snake of Hindustan. N. O. Elapidæ. Tincture of the fresh virus. Trituration of sugar of milk saturated with fresh virus.

Clinical

Angina pectoris . Asthma. Dysmenia. Hay-fever. Headache. Heart, affections of. Œsophagus, spasmodic stricture of. Ovaries, affections of. Plague . Spinal irritation (of nucha). Throat, sore .

Characteristics

The poison of the deadly cobra has been used from ancient times, says P. C. Majumdar ( Ind. Hom. Rev ., vi. 6), by Indian practitioners in many nervous and blood diseases. It was introduced into homœopathy by Russell and Stokes, who made the first provings along with some forty other provers, including Gillow, Pope, and Drysdale. It is rather remarkable that with so many able provers Naja should not have attained anything approaching the place of importance occupied by Lach . Nash suggests this may be due to the fact that many of the provings of Lach . were made with the 30th potency, whilst those of Naja were with low potencies. Majumdar had no success with Naja until he obtained fresh virus from the snake charmers (the cobra is the snake they charm) and made attenuations of that. Previously the Naja used by Indian homœopaths had been re-imported into India from England in the form of attenuations. Deane in his experience in the plague epidemic of 1899-1900 found Naja prepared from the fresh virus more efficacious than Lachesis , and he found its action more prompt if injected under the skin than if given by the mouth. The affinity of Naja for the medulla oblongata and cerebellum is well shown in an experience of Frank Buckland ( Curiosities of Natural History , 2nd edition, 225, quoted C. D. P .) after skinning a rat killed by a cobra bite: "I had not walked a hundred yards before all of a sudden I felt just as if somebody had come behind me and struck me a severe blow on the head and neck, and at the same time I experienced a most acute pain and sense of oppression at the chest, as though a hot iron had been run in and a hundredweight put on the top of it." His face turned green. He staggered into a chemist's shop and managed to get some ammonia, and was then able to walk to a friend's house, where he drank four large wineglasses of brandy without feeling tipsy. He was then able to start for his own house, and for the first time felt a most acute pain under the nail of left thumb, the pain running up the arm. About an hour before he examined the rat he had cleaned his nail with a penknife, and had slightly separated the skin, and that was how the virus entered. These symptoms of Buckland's are highly characteristic and valuable. The "hot-iron" symptom and weight on the chest should be especially noted. Majumdar (I nd. H. R ., vi. 8) relates this case: A young woman suffering from a heart affection had oppression of chest amounting almost to suffocation feeble, irregular, almost imperceptible pulse; anæmic appearance inability to speak. One dose of Naja was given, followed in four hours by a second. These sufficed for the cure. The next day, when the doctor called, his patient addressed him in a loud voice: "Doctor, you gave me a poison last night." When asked to explain, she said that after the first dose she " felt awful heat in her system ." This must be put beside Buckland's hot iron as a Naja indication. Majumdar has saved a number of apparently hopeless cases of cholera with Naja , in the collapse stage, with pulselessness and difficulty of breathing. In addition to the above symptoms of heart failure and distress the following will be found to be leading symptoms in heart cases: "Depression and lowness about the heart." "Inability to speak, with choking, nervous, chronic palpitation." "Severe pains in left temple, cardiac and ovarian regions." "Sensation as if heart and ovary were drawn together." "Pains about heart extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm, with anxiety and fear of death." Pulse slow, irregular. Symptoms < at night; on walking; by lying on left side. Ina case cured by Russell there was "dragging and anxiety in the præcordia occurring in great grief." According to Hering, nervous phenomena predominate in Naja over other serpent poisons. It "acts primarily upon nervous system, especially on respiratory nerves, pneumo-gastric, and glosso-pharyngeal." The last gives the characteristic "choking" of Naja and other serpents. Andrew M. Neatby ( M. H. R ., December, 1899) relates a cure with Naja 6 which had nervous palpitations and faintness; frequent sensation of swelling or "choking" in the throat, with dyspnœa, and occasionally of anæsthesia down right side. Another characteristic is "grasping at throat" with the choking sensations. Œsophagismus. Diphtheria with impending paralysis of heart indicates Naja , but the characteristic left to right direction of Lach . does not appear in the Naja provings. Naja has, however, < at night; patient awakens gasping; surface blue. Naja has somewhat marked neuralgias and headaches: Neuralgic pain in head, preceded or followed by nausea or vomiting, severe, throbbing in left orbital region drawing from thence back to occiput; from over-eating; from mental or physical exertion. Headache after cessation of catamenia. Dull, heavy constriction in forehead on waking. Dull shoots up occiput. Among the Sensations of Naja are "screwing-up" sensations and crampy pains: as if head screwed together; as if heart and ovary were drawn up together; crampy pains in left ovary; pains in temple and ovarian regions. Pain from heart to scapula. Sensation as of a hair in larynx; pain as from needles in tonsil. The left side is predominantly affected. Mahlon Preston ( Med. Adv ., xviii. 532) cured himself with Naja 30 of asthma with difficult breathing, < lying down, > sitting up. He cured many cases of hay-fever and autumnal catarrh, the symptoms being ─ ( 1 ) Flow of water from nose for a few minutes; then ( 2 ) intense sneezing, which > the breathing. After recurring for a few days there is dryness in the lungs with great difficulty of breathing, < on lying down, Kent cured with Naja 45m a case having these symptoms: "Almost constant heat of head and face. Pulse slow, sometimes as slow as 45. Cannot endure any mental exertion. Sweating of palms. Appetite voracious. Stitching pains in heart" ( Med. Adv ., xxii. 164). "Sweating palms" was a symptom which had been present from childhood and was cured with the others. Flora A. Waddell ( H. R ., viii. 445) relates a case in which heart pains were concomitant with left ovarian affection. The pains came on a week before menses, increased till the flow appeared, and then disappeared till next month. Naja entirely relieved. The following case was cured by Bunn ( H. W ., xxxi. 501): Miss S., 22, dysmenia since the function was established. Dilatation, galvanism, &c., had been tried in vain. She had shooting frontal headache, pains in eyeballs necessitating rubbing. Cramp pain in region of left. ovary. Faintness. Hypogastrium extremely sensitive to touch at time of menses. Examination revealed nothing abnormal except sensitiveness of ovarian region. Extreme restlessness with the pain. During the menses the pains suddenly became very severe. The flow stopped when the pain was at its worst, and returned next day with relief from pain. Naja 30 was given, and the next period passed absolutely free from discomfort. The symptoms are: < By touch; riding in carriage; at 3 p.m. (headache); at night; after sleep; by eating by alcohol; by exertion; by motion; by walking; lying on side on left side. Great > of pain and breathing by lying on right side. Very sensitive to cold. > By walking in open air; by smoking.

Relations

Antidoted by: Ammonia, Stimulants (effects of bite); Tabac. (to potencies). Compare: Depression and suicidal tendency, Aur. Ulcer on frænum linguæ, Nat. c., Agar. Headache from before backwards, Anac., Bry., Nux (from behind forwards, Gels., Lac can., Sang., Sil., Spi.). Diphtheria, Ar. t. Heart, Ars., Cact., Iberis, Lach., Spigel., Dig. Collapse, Carb. v., Camph., Tab. Mouth wide open, tongue cold, Camph. Loss of speech, Dulc., Gels., Caust., Hyo., Lauro. Dark red colour of fauces, Ail., Bapt., Phyt.

Causation

Grief.

Mind

Suicidal insanity. ─ Wandering of the mind. ─ Sad and serious; irresolute; melancholia; makes himself wretched brooding over imaginary wrongs and misfortunes. ─ Very forgetful; absent-minded. ─ Insensible; loss of consciousness. ─ Insanity, he suddenly split his own head in two with an axe. ─ Sadness: > evening; with irresolution, with distress about sexual organs; with headache and inability for exertion; as if everything were done wrong and could not be rectified, with increased perception of what I ought to do and uncontrollable inclination not to do it, causing restlessness. ─ Affected easily by wine or alcoholic drinks. ─ Stupid and confused feeling. ─ Consciousness almost or quite lost. ─ Insensible; and speechless. ─ Comatose.

Head

Vertigo, lasting a short time, followed by "stounding" pain in r. side of head. ─ Feeling of hollowness over entire head. ─ Confusion and dulness in head; in morning. ─ Dull frontal headache. ─ Very severe headache with intense depression. ─ Constriction across forehead. ─ Sensation as if brain of forehead was loose. ─ Severe throbbing and aching in temples. ─ Heat and congestion in head. ─ Headache supervening on cessation of menses. ─ Headache: all day; in morning on waking; in evening. ─ Very bad headache and stomach-ache at 9 p.m., caused by eating a pear. ─ Headache at night, slept much but conscious of headache in sleep. ─ Headache with intense depression, pain usually began in temples, < r., deep-seated, involving eyes, occasionally shooting, extending as a dull aching over forehead and vertex, < motion, slightly > open air, > smoking and alcoholic liquors. ─ Throbbing aching at 3 p.m. ─ Bad headache, just like a scald, < over l. eye, after breakfast; oppressive, at 8.30 a.m. ─ Neuralgic headache extending backwards from orbital region. ─ Heaviness. ─ Aching in temples; in morning on waking, with heaviness in eyes; about noon over r. temple and gradually extending to forehead, > afternoon; in evening. ─ Aching in vertex; with cold feet. ─ Shooting up occiput. ─ Feeling as of a blow from behind on head and nape. ─ Scurf on scalp. ─ Sensitiveness of scalp. ─ Hair falls off; esp. crown.

Eyes

Eyes fixed and staring; wide open and insensible to light. ─ Heaviness in eyelids. ─ Loss of the sense of vision. ─ Eyes require constant cleansing with lids, frequent prickling, vision confused on looking at small print, have to rub eyes and look at it closely. ─ Pupils dilated. ─ Pain in balls requiring them to be rubbed frequently; with tired feeling on looking at a book. ─ Hot pain at back of balls. ─ Ptosis and paralysis of iris. ─ Eyes wide open and insensible to light. ─ Lids swollen in morning.

Ears

Whizzing in l., ear with insipid, almost nauseous taste in mouth. ─ Noise as of a mill, waking him in morning.

Nose

Severe coryza, thin, acrid secretion. ─ Nose sore, hot, and swollen; with thin discharge. ─ Stuffing of nose, beginning in morning, increasing later, < in open air, > by discharge of thin, watery mucus. ─ Soreness of l. wing, with irritation; soreness of r. nostril, with ulcerated feeling. ─ Wing of nose becomes sore, with heat and tenderness; worse next day with swelling and pain, secretion suffused; next day > by an eruption on its edge.

Face

Pale, thin, haggard; greenish-yellow colour; livid. ─ Neuralgic pains in face, sometimes shooting to eye and temple. ─ Lips dry, parched, and cracked, hot and sore. ─ Jaws firmly clenched. ─ Face red on rising, > washing, and covered with knots like erysipelas. ─ Face red in evening and burning. ─ Cheeks red, esp. cheek-bones, patchy. ─ Gnawing in l. upper jaw, soon after midnight, sometimes shooting to eye and temple. ─ Bruised pain in l. condyle of jaw, < moving it. ─ Drawing pain in r. jaw. ─ Sore on under lip opposite canine tooth, and gum swollen and inflamed. ─ Pimple on upper lip. ─ Purple sordes on lips, gum, and tongue. ─ Lips dry, black pores and cracks; dry, painful, excoriated.

Teeth

Gnawing toothache; gums hot, swollen, and painful to touch. ─ Gnawing and aching in l. teeth and side of jaw. ─ Pain in stumps of decayed teeth towards evening, with feeling in face and limbs as after catching cold, pain in face < night, and gums hot, swollen, and painful to touch, third day the swelling of gums extended to the other side, afterwards gnawing in l. sound teeth, next day drawing aching in l. teeth, < when stomach is empty.

Mouth

Mouth wide open, tongue cold. ─ Tongue coated thick yellow; white, dry, no thirst. ─ Ulcers on frænum. ─ Great dryness of the mouth. ─ Foaming at mouth. ─ Taste insipid, bitter, sour, metallic. ─ Loss of speech.

Throat

Much mucus in throat. ─ Pressure and gagging in throat. ─ Roughness and scraping in throat. ─ Grasping at throat, with sense of choking. ─ Dryness and constriction of throat and fauces. ─ Soreness and pricking in l. side of throat. ─ Stricture of the œsophagus; deglutition difficult or impossible. ─ Dark red colour of the fauces. ─ Redness of l. side in morning, with pain on swallowing. ─ Inflammation of l. tonsil at 8 a.m., with pain. ─ Shooting in l. tonsil. ─ Spasm. ─ Starting about his throat (external).

Appetite

Loss of appetite. ─ Craving for stimulants, which < the sufferings. ─ Thirst.

Stomach

Eructations; heartburn. ─ Nausea, with faint feeling; vomiting. ─ Uneasy, disagreeable feeling in stomach, as from indigestion; pressure as from stones, after a meal. ─ Eructations tasting like barley-water; eructations of hot, foul air. ─ Acidity in stomach.

Abdomen

Cutting, twisting, griping pains. ─ Much flatulence, with rumbling and colicky pains. ─ Swelling, with feeling of tightness and flatulence; swelling with tension and pain, the tightness spreading towards heart. ─ Rumbling in afternoon, with cutting; rumbling in evening after dinner, with aching as before diarrhœa, and often when sitting still a heavy pulsation appeared almost to lift up the bowels; rumbling after dinner with aching. ─ Flatulence; during day; at night, with pain. ─ Intermittent sticking backward in hypochondria during the day. ─ Anguish in l. hypochondrium and l. loin after dinner with flatulence. ─ Frequent griping in umbilical region. ─ Frequent cutting in umbilical region and small of back in afternoon, then profuse and sudden leucorrhœa.

Stool and Anus

Sudden urging to stool. ─ Bilious diarrhœa. ─ Constipation. ─ Feeling of a large stool which when voided was small. ─ Urging always sudden, whether followed by diarrhœa or not. ─ Sudden urging, then small bilious stool. ─ Heat in anal region, with itching smarting at anus. ─ Diarrhœa: with pain in abdomen; profuse; sudden; slimy, white or green (in an infant); bilious, always preceded by sudden urging and griping in abdomen; then stool omitted for two days, then stool partly costive, partly loose, with pain in abdomen.

Urinary Organs

Uneasiness and pressure in bladder. ─ Urine deposits red sediment, mixed with mucus. ─ Urine of deep straw colour. ─ Urine loaded with lithates and mucus.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire. ─ Nocturnal emissions. ─ Peculiar distress, great desire, but no physical power, with depression of mind. ─ Stinging, somewhat burning pain along r. side of penis, immediately under skin, at night in bed and in morning after rising. ─ Instinct and power excited. ─ Desire on going to bed, with little physical power, with frequent waking, vivid imaginations, painful state of mind, involuntary emissions, then prostration and distress.

Female Sexual Organs

Crampy pain in l. ovary. ─ Aching in l. ovary with pains in heart; come on a week before menses, grow worse till menses appear, then easier till next month. ─ Thin, whitish leucorrhœa in afternoon. ─ Milk decreased, next day returned freely; afterwards scanty.

Respiratory Organs

Cough with tightness and fulness in larynx. ─ Irritation and tickling in larynx and trachea. ─ Hoarseness; short, hoarse cough. ─ Short, puffing cough, every minute, 4 p.m. ─ Dry, hacking cough; blood-spitting. ─ Expectoration of whitish viscid mucus in morning on waking. ─ Spitting of blood, which had no tendency to coagulate. ─ Respiration very slow; shallow, and scarcely perceptible; laboured and difficult; gasping for breath.

Chest

Uneasiness and dull, heavy pain in chest. ─ Lancinating pains, < on deep inspiration. ─ Asthmatic constriction of chest; cannot expand lungs; followed by mucous expectoration. ─ Pain in l. pectoral muscles in forenoon. ─ Occasional pain top of both mammæ. ─ Most acute pain and oppression in chest as if a hot iron had been run in and a hundredweight put on top of it, instantly > by hartshorn and water. ─ Heavy pain over lower half of r. chest, with stabbing on deep inspiration; cannot cough for the stabbing; < lying l. side, > lying on affected side. ─ Dull pain to r. of sternum. ─ Tenderness over sternum and in throat.

Heart and Pulse

Feeling of depression and uneasiness about heart. ─ Severe pain in region of heart. ─ Fluttering and palpitation of heart. ─ Audible beating of heart. ─ Pulse slow and irregular in rhythm and force; weak and thready, scarcely perceptible. ─ Action only recognised by pushing hand up behind sternum, then felt only a faint thrill resembling the cardiac thrill felt in the same way on a newborn infant. ─ Pulse rapid; and full; 120, some beats tolerably full and strong, afterwards 32, irregular in rhythm and force, some of the beats full and bounding.

Neck and Back

Cutting in nape. ─ Aching in nape. ─ Shooting from inner and upper angle of l. scapula to front of chest. ─ Tired feeling in dorsal vertebræ all day, with the peculiar burning often attendant on exhaustion. ─ Rheumatic pains in neck and back. ─ Pain between the shoulders as if in spine, afterwards involving scapulæ; in morning on waking; < moving arms. ─ Dragging sensation in spine between shoulders. ─ Aching in loins. ─ Acute pain in small of back; gnawing pain.

Limbs

Sudden prostration of strength in limbs. ─ Rheumatic pains in limbs. ─ Drawing, lacerating in various parts of r limbs, < motion. ─ Aching: in ankles, lower part of thighs, wrists, and shoulder-joints; in all parts on waking; bruised, on waking. ─ In afternoon occasional rheumatic pains in thighs and arms, < shoulder-joints; shifting rheumatism (drawing aching), pain in arms, shoulders, and legs, < l.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in shoulders; rheumatic drawing in l. shoulder in morning. ─ Burning pain in wrist, and he hung down his arm, from which a few drops of blood fell (from the bite). ─ Swelling: of hand and thumb; of hand and arm, with spots; of bitten hand, and of arm and breast of same side, with livid spots. ─ Numbness (crampy) and shifting rheumatic pains, < in shoulder-joints, and numbness of hands as if asleep. ─ Numb pain and feeling as if ether had been allowed to evaporate. ─ Aching in r. fourth and little fingers, then sensation of digging in middle of l. triceps, acute pain under l. thumb-nail (where virus had entered) running up arm. ─ (Sweating palms.)

Lower Limbs

Sudden weakness when walking in evening. ─ Staggering when walking. ─ Dragging when walking, with weariness. ─ Pressive and drawing sensations on points in lower limbs and feet. ─ Pain anteriorly in r. thigh; posteriorly in thighs in afternoon. ─ Shooting down leg and tingling in feet. ─ Drawing pain in lower part of tendo Achillis, < motion, afterwards increased to lameness, > evening. ─ Pain in the bitten toe, ascending to top of thigh, then pain in belly, which was tense and swollen, then the pain descended in the same track in which it had risen.

Generalities

Languor; fatigue; torpor. ─ Organs seem to be drawn together, esp. ovary and heart. ─ Depression of both mental and physical powers. ─ Symptoms < from stimulants; > when walking in open air. ─ Swelling of body. ─ Local inflammation. ─ Appearance as if intoxicated. ─ Convulsive movement of mouth and limbs. ─ Rolling about as if weak and faint. ─ Moaned, grasped his throat, tossed his head from side to side and moved his arms and legs uneasily. ─ Unnatural quiet, with groans and complaints of slight pains in the bitten arm. ─ Sensation of wasting away. ─ Restlessness in afternoon. ─ Inclination to lie in bed in morning. ─ Inability to support himself in a sitting posture. ─ Swooning fits. ─ Loss of sense of feeling.

Skin

Creeping, itching, and tingling sensation in skin. ─ Skin swelled, mottled, and of dark purple, livid colour. ─ Large pimples on inflamed base. ─ Small white blisters on inflamed base, with much itching. ─ Gangrene. ─ Boil-like swelling on back of middle phalanx of r. little finger. ─ Painful chilblains on feet. ─ Pimple: on upper lip; on l. ala nasi; on inflamed base, on tip of nose, nose sore in consequence; painful on brow. ─ White itching blisters on inflamed base, on neck and body in afternoon.

Sleep

Yawning; great sleepiness. ─ Restless, disturbed sleep. ─ Vivid dreams. ─ Little inclination for sleep, brain irritable. ─ Sleepiness in evening, and weakness, went to bed at 9 p.m. and fell asleep immediately; < after tea, > hard walking and profuse sweat. ─ Dozing and moaning. ─ Long and vivid dreams, little recollection of the subjects. ─ A vivid dreamy night; affairs of the day recalled, with additions, and new plans for the morrow. ─ Dreams of murders, suicides, fires, &c.

Fever

Body cold and collapsed. ─ Extremities very cold; icy coldness of feet. ─ Burning heat in face. ─ Feels very uncomfortable, hot, and feverish. ─ Free perspiration. ─ Heat, but he refused water; heat with prostration; with discomfort, dry lips, and tender, hot mouth. ─ Head hot; and full of blood. ─ Burning of ear. ─ Flushes of heat in face at different times of day; flushes in face, < l. side. ─ Hands hot, and much sweat in palms. ─ General sweat; cold, clammy.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Cobra Poison. Elapidæ.
The Cobra di Capello is the hooded snake of Hindostan usually employed by the snake charmers of India.
Provings by Stokes (Br. Jour. of Hom., vol. 11, p. 25, 1853), Russel (Br. Jour. of Hom., vol. 11, p. 593) ; other authorities, Du Chaillu, Fayrer, etc., have reported symptoms of the bite (Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 6, p. 447 ).
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Effects of grief , Stokes, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 598 ; Neuralgia in head , Colton, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 258 ; A. H. O., vol. 10, p. 574 ; Headache , Russell, B. J. H., vol. 13, p. 310 ; Chronic headaches , Russell, B. J. H., vol. 12, p. 214 ; Cerebro-spinal meningitis , Cummings, MSS. ; Pains in temples, cardiac and ovarian regions , Danforth, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 51 ; Congestion of conjunctiva , Stokes, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 598 ; Acute pharyngo-laryngitis , Russel, B. J. H., vol. 12, p. 213 ; Dyspepsia , Stokes, B. J. H., vol. 11, p. 598 ; Irritability of heart (2 cases), Russell, B. J. H., vol. 12, p. 372 ; Angina pectoris , Bradshaw, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 107, p. 134 ; Affection of heart , Hansen, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 113, p. 84 ; Organic disease of heart , Russell, B. J. H., vol. 12, p. 54.

Mind

Easily excited.
Great depression of spirits, with temporo-frontal headache, spinal pain and palpitation of heart.
Melancholy ; began to form images of possible wrongs and misfortunes over which the mind broods ; very wretched at times.
Suicidal insanity, broods constantly over imaginary troubles ; sleep full of frightful dreams, and wakes with dull pain in head and fluttering of heart ; uneasy dryness of fauces ; grasping of throat, with sensation of choking and lividity of face. θ Melancholia.
Paroxysms, twice a day, of delirium, incessant talking, seeing visions, imagines she is in a terrible rainstorm, complains of being so cold, and that the carriage has turned over and hurt her head. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Dragging and anxiety at precordia, occurring in great grief ; also smarting pains in back from same cause.

Inner head

Heaviness of eyes, with dryness of throat.
Temporo-frontal headache, depression of spirits ; spinal pain ; palpitation of heart.
Congestive headache dependent upon organic disease of heart.
Waking with dull pain in head, attended by fluttering of heart.
Weight and pressure at vertex, with cold feet and flushes of face.
Pain in head, ringing in ears, palpitation, small, quick, nervous pulse ; constipation ; abdomen large ; urine scanty and sedimentitious. θ Nervous headache.
Neuralgic pain in head, preceded or followed by nausea or vomiting ; pain severe in left orbital region, extended back to occiput ; aching around orbit, increased to throbbing, and thence it was drawing in character to back of head ; from overeating, mental or physical exertion.
Since cessation of catamenia eight years ago, subject to agonizing pain in head, depriving her of sense and memory ; pain comes on at noon ; pain in upper part of back, and flushes of face ; has not been more than two or three days free from an attack for some years ; sleep profound ; pulse regular and small.
Awakes with headache every morning ; dull, heavy constriction across forehead ; eyes sunken and dark ; incapacity for much exertion of mind or body ; headache sometimes wears off, at other times continues all day ; constant relaxed sore throat, dryness of fauces, hoarseness ; very susceptible to cold ; frequent emissions. θ Chronic headache.
Dull shoots up occiput ; tired feeling in cervical and dorsal vertebræ, with peculiar burning of exhaustion ; spinal irritation.

Sight and eyes

Eyes fixed and staring.
Passive congestion of palpebral conjunctiva ; lids look bluish and are glued together in morning.

Upper face

Livid face.

Lower face

Foaming at mouth.

Inner mouth

Great dryness of mouth.

Palate and throat

Pressure and gagging in throat.
Constriction and dryness of throat.
Grasping at throat, with sense of choking.
Œsophagismus or spasmodic stricture of œsophagus.
Soreness and pricking in left side of throat.
Pharyngo-laryngeal inflammation, with dark red color of fauces and spasmodic, irritable cough.
After catching cold, pain in throat and frequent tendency to short cough ; three days later, heat of skin, quick, full pulse, flushed face ; tongue white, moist and large ; r. tonsil swollen, with sharp pain in it, as from needles ; short, hard cough, < at night ; pain up right side of neck ; finally incessant cough ; considerable heat of skin ; fauces red ; larynx tender to touch, with inclination to cough when pressure was made there ; tonsils swollen. θ Acute pharyngo-laryngitis.
Diphtheria in cases just like Laches., when larynx is invaded ; patient grasps at throat, with sensation of choking, fauces dark red, fetid breath, short, hoarse cough, with raw feeling in upper part of trachea.
Diphtheria with impending paralysis of heart ; patient blue ; awakens from sleep gasping ; pulse intermittent and thready.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Dyspepsia with foul white or yellowish white tongue ; rawness of throat ; soreness of stomach or pressive pain.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa ; white, slimy, greenish stools.
Constipation ; difficult, painful evacuations.

Urinary organs

Urine yellow, loaded with mucus.

Female sexual organs

Crampy pains in left ovary with severe palpitation.
Ovarian congestive neuralgia, with violent palpitation.
Thin, whitish leucorrhœa in afternoon.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Constrictive irritation of larynx, giving rise to coughing.
Spasmodic croup ; clogging up of larynx and trachea with thick mucus, which is hawked up with difficulty.
Sensation of rawness in larynx and trachea, or as if there was a hair in it, causing constant tickling, coughing and hoarseness ; finally some expectoration of tenacious mucus ; breathing laborious ; gasping for breath for several hours.
Diphtheria invading larynx ; impending paralysis of heart.

Respiration

Dyspnœa and prostration. θ Organic disease of heart.

Cough

Short, hoarse cough, with rawness in larynx and upper part of trachea.
Irritating, sympathetic cough, attending organic disease of heart.
Cough of laryngeal and pulmonary phthisis.

Inner chest and lungs

Asthmatic constriction of chest for half an hour, ending in mucous expectoration.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Feeling of depression and lowness about heart.
Fluttering of heart, with headache ; pulse regular in rhythm, but irregular in force ; acute pain and sense of oppression in chest as though a hot iron had been run into it and a hundredweight put upon it ; cannot lie a moment on left side, but great relief of pain and breathing on lying on right side.
Chronic nervous palpitation ; palpitation after preaching.
Inability to speak, with choking, nervous, chronic palpitation ; chronic hypertrophy and valvular disease of heart ; considerable pain after riding in a carriage, extending to left scapula ; pain not affected by inspiration. θ Angina pectoris.
Attacks of severe stitching pains in region of heart, during which respirations almost cease and death seems impending. θ Angina pectoris.
Severe pains in left temple, cardiac and left ovarian regions ; great mental depression ; aversion to talking ; sensation as if heart and ovary were drawn up together ; a sense of contraction or drawing together between the organs.
Pressing pain in vertex as from a weight ; shortness of breath ; palpitation of heart, < walking and lying on side ; constrictive sensation in cardiac region, as if heart was screwed together ; great anxiety ; loss of appetite ; stool normal ; slight enlargement of heart ; first sound followed by a grating, second sound accentuated ; pulse irregular, weak ; pains about heart extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm, with anxiety and fear of death ; attacks occur frequently during night ; pains accompanied by dry cough, particularly emanating from trachea.
Irritating, sympathetic cough in acute stage of rheumatic carditis, and afterwards organic changes in valves, giving rise to tumultuous action of heart, violent, sudden throbbing, attended with endocardial murmur and increased size of organs.
Simple hypertrophy of heart.
For restoration of heart damaged by acute inflammation and for assuaging sufferings of chronic hypertrophy and valvular disease.
Valvular disease, with loud regurgitative sounds ; pulse 60, with general anasarca.
Deficient nervous influence of par vagum ; dilatation and fatty degeneration of heart.
Threatening paralysis of heart. θ Diphtheria.

Neck and back

Cough, laryngismus and even spasmodic stricture of œsophagus, result of spinal irritation affecting the nucha.
Pain in back, < in evening.
Spinal irritation.

Limbs in general

Sudden prostration of strength in limbs.
Limbs swollen double natural size. θ Organic disease of heart.

Rest. position. motion

Lying on side : palpitation <.
Lying on right side : great relief of pain and breathing.
Cannot lie a moment upon left side : pain in chest.
Physical exertion : neuralgic pain in head.
Walking : palpitation <.

Time

Morning : eyelids glued together.
Noon : pain comes on.
All day : headache sometimes lasts.
Afternoon : leucorrhœa.
Evening : pain in back <.
Night : cough < ; attacks of pain about heart frequent.

Temperature and weather

Cold, very susceptible.

Attacks, periodicity

For half an hour : asthmatic constriction of chest.
For several hours : gasping for breath.
Every morning : awakes with headache.
For some years has not been free from an attack of pain in head for more than two or three days.

Locality and direction

Right : tonsil swollen, with pain ; pain in side of neck.
Left : severe pain in orbital region ; soreness and pricking in side of throat ; crampy pains in ovary ; cannot lie upon side ; pain from heart to scapula ; severe pain in temple and ovarian regions.

Sensations

Pain as from needles in tonsil ; as if there was a hair in larynx ; as though a hot iron had been run into it ; as if heart and ovary were drawn up together ; pain as from a weight in vertex ; as if heart was screwed together.
Pain : in head ; in spine ; in upper part of back ; in throat ; in right side of neck ; in heart ; about heart to nape of neck ; left shoulder and arm.
Agonizing pain : in head.
Acute pain : in chest.
Severe pain : in left orbital region ; in left temple, cardiac and ovarian regions.
Sharp pain : in right tonsil.
Severe stitching pains : in region of heart.
Neuralgic pain : in head ; in ovary.
Crampy pains : in left ovary.
Aching : around orbit, increased to throbbing, and thence it was drawing in character to back of head.
Dull shoots : up occiput.
Pressive pain : of stomach ; in vertex.
Smarting pain : in back.
Dull pain : in head.
Peculiar burning : of exhaustion.
Soreness : in left side of throat ; of stomach.
Pricking : on left side of throat.
Raw feeling : in upper part of trachea ; of throat ; in larynx.
Depression and lowness : about heart.
Dragging and anxiety : at precordia.
Tired feeling : in cervical and dorsal vertebræ.
Pressure : in throat.
Weight and pressure : at vertex.
Heaviness : over eyes.
Dull, heavy constriction : across forehead.
Constrictive sensation : in cardiac region.
Choking sensation.
Uneasy dryness : of fauces.
Dryness : of throat ; of fauces ; of mouth.

Tissues

Acts primarily upon nervous system, especially upon respiratory nerves, the pneumogastric and glosso-pharyngeal.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : larynx tender.
Riding in a carriage : considerable pain in heart.

Stage of life, constitution

Woman, æt. 20 ; cerebrospinal meningitis.
Miss, æt. 26, fair, florid, nervous, sanguine ; angina.
Man, æt. 27, dark, bilious temperament ; chronic headaches.
Man, æt. 32, baker, eight years ago suffered from obstinate articular rheumatism, six years ago had syphilis ; affection of heart.
Woman, æt. 32, feeble, nervous, suffering several years ; neuralgia in head.
Woman, æt. 35, mother of four children, has frequently aborted, brother and sister died of consumption, she herself having been homeopathically cured of the disease, a slight dyspnœa only remaining ; angina pectoris.
Woman, æt. 50, suffering about a year ; irritability of heart.
Woman, æt. 56, catamenia cease eight years ago, since then suffering ; headaches.
Woman, æt. 60 ; headache.

Relations

Compare : Arsen., Cactus, Crotal., Iberis, Laches., Mygale, Sumbul, Spigel .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

The use of Naja has extended far beyond its proving.

So many of the Ophidian family present symptoms in common with it, that much has been presumed truly so.

Many characteristics run through these remedies, each remedy having its own peculiar sphere. Taken together the family presents a wide range of curative action.

Mure, of Brazil, thought that the snake family presented curative powers for the healing of the nations.

In the mineral kingdom, man may find his remedy when sick, so in the vegetable and animal kingdom. It is possible that the product of the serpent may be everything needed for the healing of man. Extend this to the whole animal kingdom and it is probably so.

There seems to be everything existing in one kingdom that exists in another. The lowest is the mineral, the next the vegetable, and last the animal kingdom. If we had a perfect knowledge of any one kingdom, we could probably cover the entire scope of curative possibilities. But we have only a knowledge of a few remedies in each kingdom.

Another idea has been advanced that in any particular region, the vegetable kingdom provides all that is necessary for curing in that region. If we were acquainted with all the vegetable growths, how much we would know in comparison with what we do know!

It is highly probable that there is a throwing off from the sick human race of something that is absorbed by the plants, The evils that are thrown off by man may be absorbed by the vegetable kingdom. Plants will correspond to men in the region in which they grow, if there is anything in this.

In two thousand years there might be a necessity for some kind of a check upon the growth of plants. The absorption of these evils may cause them to vary in species, and if they continue to grow and each to absorb the evils from the human race, they will continue to differ. This favors evolution and explains it in a sense.

It is important to compare the symptoms of Naja with those of the other snakes. The patient is disturbed by closeness of the collar, < after sleep.

There are exhaustion and trembling, trembling, of the muscles. Its direction is somewhat like Lach., from left to right,, i. e., the ovarian pains, the diphtheria, the joint affections go from left to right.

Naja, like Lach., is < in damp weather. On inflamed surfaces it produces grayish exudations. It does not partake so, extensively of this character as do Lach. and Crotalus . There is only a shadow of the septic in Naja, but it is extensive in Lach. and extremely marked in Crotalus. Naja is not as subject to haemorrhage as either Lach. or Crotalus.

There is trembling of the muscles, a rheumatic diathesis, and tendency of all complaints to settle about the heart. It is used in valvular troubles of the heart, in young persons who grow up with cardiac valvular diseases. The whole trouble settled about the heart. This suggests Naja, and Naja has often cured.

If the valvular trouble is congenital it can not be cured, but if not, it shows that all the disturbing forces have settled about the heart. All the symptoms have settled about the heart; Naja has this. In school boys and girls who have no symptoms this is the generic remedy for this kind of complaint. Always prescribe Naja unless guided away from it by some specific symptom.

Naja has more nervous, Lach. more septic symptoms. Naja, marked agitation without sepsis, Lach., all the nervousness. with a tendency to hemorrhage and sepsis; black blood, like charred straw; dark clotted blood.

Naja has surging of the blood upwards, like Lachesis - a distressing symptom. There is marked dyspnoea, cardiac or otherwise. There is stuffing up of the chest; great rawness of the trachea and larynx, the whole passage is raw as if excoriated.

There is much sneezing, with running of water from the nose; inability to lie down at night; dryness of the air passages of the nose, hay fever. The patient has suffocative attacks in August.

The whole chest is in a state of congestion; emptiness of the left side of the chest; low pulse or intermittent pulse. With all the complaints of the chest there is inability to lie on the left side. Numbness of the left arm. There is dyspnoea; if he goes to sleep, he wakes up suffocating, gasping, choking or he starts. from sleep as if from a dream. In most complaints there is inability to lie on the left side.

There is a dry, hacking cough with sweating in the palms of the hands that is cured by Naja. These cardiac cases are often attended by a dry, hacking cough, a cough with every little exertion. It is not catarrhal state, nor is it tubercular. The heart beats slowly and will not be urged to work, and a cough comes on from exertion. Cactus also has a cardiac cough.

The extremities are cold and blue and the head hot. The head symptoms are < in a warm room; the head feels warm, fevered, yet the feet and limb do not become warm. There is copious sweating of the hands and feet causing the gloves and shoes to rot out; but the sweat is not offensive.

There is a sense of fullness and puffiness of the hands and feet, showing a slow circulation in the veins which we might expect.

We might naturally expect that this patient would be intense and excitable, which is the case. There is a suicidal tendency.

The headaches are nondescript; of a congestive character all over the head, especially in the occiput. Headaches accompanied by a quick and nervous pulse.

Profound sleep is consistent with all the makes. There is deep, profound sleep with stertorous breathing.

She wakes with a headache every morning. It is natural for the Naja headache to be present in the morning and wear off with exertion. The other complains are < exertion. The mind symptoms are < exertion of the mind.

There are symptoms in connection with hay fever. The rawness in the throat and larynx; dreadful aching in the throat extending to the larynx, which swallowing does not relieve. The Lach. state is expressed more by a lump in the throat; grasping of the throat with a sense of choking.

The Naja patient is subject to severe attacks of bronchitis. There is rawness between the larynx and trachea, < after coughing.

This is a great remedy in asthma, especially cardiac asthma. The breathing is so bad that he cannot lie down.

Useful in chronic nervous palpitation; palpitation after exertion of any kind. Chronic nervous palpitation with inability to speak on account of choking.

There is a continued, dull, aching pain through the back between the shoulders, associated with cardiac affections.

Sometimes there is little beside this sensation of heat, of aching, to indicate the remedy; he is so tired in that spot that be wants to lie down or lean backwards to test his back.

The palpitation is < lying on the left side, < walking.

This is the most useful of all the remedies we have in a cardiac state with very, few symptoms. It is true that this region is particularly singled out by Naja to produce its symptoms.