Vipera

▲   GENERAL

General

Viper poisoning causes a temporary increase in reflexes, paresis supervenes, a paraplegia of the lower extremities extending upwards. Resembles acute ascending paralysis of Landry ( Wells). Has special action on kidneys and induces hematuria. Cardiac dropsy.

Indicated in inflammation of veins with great swelling; Bursting sensation. enlargement of liver. Ailments of menopause. Oedema of glottis. Poly-neuritis, polio-myelitis.

Dose

Twelfth potency.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Relations

Pelius berus - Adder ( Prostration and fainting, faltering pulse, skin yellow, Pain about navel. Swelling of arm, tongue, right eye; giddiness, nervousness, faintness, sickness, compression of chest, could not breathe properly or take a deep breath; aching and stiffness of limbs, joints stiff, collapsed feeling, great thirst.) Eel Serum (heart and kidney diseases. Failure of compensation and impending asystole).

▲   MIND

Mind

Dazed

Death; presentiment of death

Delirium

alternating with other symptoms

unconsciousness

raging, raving

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; environment and surroundings; home; think is away from home

Desires, wants

death

to go home

Excitement

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anguish

irritability; during headache

rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium)

unhappy; sadness, mental depression; during the heat

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; confusion

Restlessness, nervousness

night

during headache

Talking, conversation

muttering (see delirium)

speech; hesitating

speech; incoherent

as if intoxicated

talks to himself

Unconsciousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Tendency to fall over

falling forward

falling sideways; falling to left

With nausea

With vomiting

▲   HEAD

Head

Coldness

Constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing)

Headache

Heaviness (see pain; pressing)

Pain, headache

from changes of weather

stitching, sudden, sharp

on change of weather

tearing, rending

shooting

Scalp

Skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; cold

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lids

falling of lids

stuck together; morning

Discoloration

redness

yellow

Pain; pressing

Paralysis; lids

Protrusion

Staring

Sunken

Swellings; lids

Wild look

Vision

Dim

Lost vision, blindness

▲   EARS

Hearing

Lost, deafness

▲   FACE

Face

Excessively swollen

Lips and tongue swollen, livid, protruding

Tongue dry, brown, black

Speech difficult.

Convulsions, spasms

Distortion

Expression

anxious

frightened

Appearance as if dead (see sunken)

Motions of jaw

clenched jaw

tired feeling in the jaw

Lips; discoloration; bluish

Pain; jaw

Perspiration

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; earthy

discoloration; pale

drawn, pulled

out-breaks on skin; spots

Swelling

parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Swelling

Gums and teeth

Teeth

sensation of elongated teeth

large and swollen, sensation

Saliva

Saliva; bloody

Tongue

Discoloration

tongue; black

tongue; red; edges

tongue; red; tip

tongue; white; border moist and red

tongue; yellow

Growths, blisters, swellings; blisters; tongue

Numbness; tongue

Pain

tongue

as if burnt; tongue; tip

Tongue

movement of tongue; protruded

trembling

▲   THROAT

Throat

Choking, constricting

Discoloration; cheesy deposits in tonsils

Feels hot

Inflammation

Pain

burning

Swallowing; difficult

Voice; lost

External throat

out-break on skin; small, fluid filled, cysts

spots

▲   CHEST

Chest

Anxiety; region of heart

Breast

indurated (hard from inflammation)

indurated (hard from inflammation); right

Swelling

Oppressed feeling

heart

Pain

arm pit

sides

left

heart

burning

pressing; heart

stitching, sudden, sharp; heart

Skin

discoloration; spots

discoloration; spots; black, mottled

discoloration; spots; mottled

out-breaks on skin; red

Swelling; breast

Respiration

Difficult (dyspnea)

Sighing

▲   SKIN

Skin

Livid

Skin peels in large plates

Lymphangioma, boils, carbuncles, with Bursting sensation, relieved by elevating parts.

Blisters

black

bluish

cracked, breaking

red

with red circle around

generating pus

watery

yellow

Discoloration

blackish; spots

bluish

green spots

red; spots

spots; like lentils

spots; small

yellow, jaundice, etc.

spots

Abnormal growths; ulcers; swollen

Out-breaks on skin

blackish

blisters

blotches

crusty; black

rash (see granular); red

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain; aching; lumbar (lower half of back)

Skin

discoloration; bluish; right side of back

bruising, lumbar (lower half of back)

out-breaks on skin; blisters; on shoulder blades

spots; red

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Violent pain in enlarged liver, with jaundice and fever; extends to shoulder and hip.

Pain

alternating with other symptoms; pain in limbs

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; behind lower ribs

Skin

discoloration; blackness

discoloration; blackness; in spots

Tension

behind lower ribs

Bladder; urination; dribbling (by drops)

Kidneys

pain; sudden, sharp, stinging, sticking

suppression of urine

Stomach

desires, cravings; cold drinks

pain; from pressure

retching; convulsive

thirst; morning

thirst; burning, intense

Vomiting

vomiting; convulsive

vomiting; after drinking; after milk

vomiting; during headache

vomiting; during vertigo, dizziness

vomiting; bitter

vomiting; blood

vomiting; green

vomiting; water

vomiting; yellow

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Odour; offensive

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Colour; dark

Copious

with headache

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Patient is obliged to keep the extremities elevated

When they are allowed to hand down, it seems as if they would burst, and the pain is unbearable ( diad.) varicose veins and acute phlebitis

Veins swollen, sensitive; bursting pain

Severe cramps in lower extremities.

Awkwardness

lower limbs; knocks limbs against things

Coldness

upper limbs

hands

fingers

Cramps; lower limbs

Fullness

hand; veins of hand

leg; veins of leg

Gangrene

in spots

foot

Letting limbs hang down

Heat

upper limbs

foot

Inflammation

skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Movements and positions

movement of fingers; difficult

trembling

Numbness (see tingling)

upper limbs

hand

lower limbs

leg

foot

Pain

touch

upper limbs

annual

extending to other parts

to chest

shoulder

fingers

thumb

lower limbs

knee; on walking

aching; foot

burning

forearm

fingers

foot; heel

foot; heel; extending to tongue

sore, bruised; upper limbs

sore, bruised; hand

sore, bruised; thumb

tip

stitching, sudden, sharp; hand

on movement

stitching, sudden, sharp; fingers

tips of fingers

stitching, sudden, sharp; thumb; tip

stitching, sudden, sharp; knee

from changes of weather

stitching, sudden, sharp; leg

stitching, sudden, sharp; foot

on change of weather

tearing; fingers; extending to chest, elbow, shoulder and wrist

tearing; fingers; extending to wrist

tearing; knee

on change of weather

tearing; foot; on change of weather

Paralysis

upper limbs

leg, sensation of paralysis

foot

Relaxation

Skin

chicken pox (see swelling); lower limbs

discoloration; blackness

discoloration; dark coloured

discoloration; bruising

discoloration; greenish yellow

discoloration; bruise-like black and blue; yellowish

discoloration; bruise-like black and blue; in spots

discoloration; red

in spots

in spots; bluish red

discoloration; yellowish; in spots

discoloration; upper limbs; black; in spots

discoloration; upper limbs; blue; reddish

discoloration; upper limbs; bruising

discoloration; upper limbs; bluish-grey

discoloration; upper limbs; orange coloured

discoloration; upper limbs; red

discoloration; upper limbs; spots

discoloration; upper limbs; yellow; in spots

discoloration; shoulder; blackness in spots

discoloration; upper arm; bruising

discoloration; elbow; spots

discoloration; forearm; bruise-like black and blue

discoloration; hand; black

discoloration; hand; purple

discoloration; hand; back of hand; red

in streaks

discoloration; fingers; black

discoloration; fingers; blue

discoloration; fingers; white

discoloration; fingers; thumb; black

discoloration; fingers; thumb; white

discoloration; lower limbs; greenish

discoloration; lower limbs; red

discoloration; lower limbs; yellow

in stripes

discoloration; hips; red

discoloration; thigh; blue; spots

discoloration; knee; leg, black

in spots

discoloration; knee; brown, bluish

discoloration; knee; yellow spots

discoloration; foot; blackness

discoloration; foot; blueness

discoloration; foot; red

discoloration; foot; yellow-greyish

discoloration; foot; back of; blue

skin infiltrated with bloody serum; buttocks

itching; like insects crawling on skin; upper limbs

itching; like insects crawling on skin; hand; palm

itching; like insects crawling on skin; foot; sole of foot

out-break on skin; blisters; containing fluid

out-break on skin; upper limbs

blisters

out-break on skin; shoulder; blisters

out-break on skin; hand; blisters

out-break on skin; thigh; blisters

out-break on skin; leg; blisters

out-break on skin; foot; blisters

suppurating (producing pus); foot

ulcers; leg

on shin

ulcers; foot

Stiffness

hand

knee

Swollen

annual, dark red at first, in hot weather

doughy

upper limbs

shoulder

upper arm

forearm

wrist

hand

dark

shining

fingers

thumb

thigh

leg

foot

hard

toes

Tension, tightness

upper limbs

knee; hollow of knee

ankle

Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness); toes

Weakness

lower limbs

leg

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Morning

Evening

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Deep; delirium

Sleepiness, tiredness

during headache

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Convulsions

Convulsions

epileptic

Perspiration

Clammy

Cold

Generalities

Blood vessels

veins and arteries swollen from inner pressure

varicose veins

Collapse

Faintness, fainting

Pain

bones; as if bones broken

pressing; internally

Swelling; in general

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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