- P. C. Majumdar noted that cobra poison had been used by Indian practitioners from ancient times in many nervous and blood diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Naja, is not a hemorrhagic or septic medicine like Lach, and Crot-h.
- Naja, produces a typical bulbar paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body..
- Causes no hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. but only edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body., hence the victims of this reptile frequently bear very little sign of external injury, the only indication is often a small scratch or puncture🌿 PunctureMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- 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.
- The first symptom is an intense burning pain at the bite.
- There is an interval, usually an hour, before other symptoms develop, after which they develop rapidly.
- A feeling of intoxication is produced, followed by a loss of power over the limbs.
- Loss of speech, swallowing and the control over the movement of the lips.
- Saliva is ejected in large quantities.
- The respiration gradually becomes slower and slower and at length ceases.
- Victim remains conscious throughout.
- The action of Naja, settles around the heart, hypertrophyAbnormal enlargement of an organThe increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. and valvu lar diseases.
- Affects medulla and cerebellum, respiration, throat, ovary.
- Diseases primarily depending upon degeneration of motor cells.
- Sepsis.
- Nervous, excited and tremulous with heart disorders, ojien reflex.
- Marked surg ing of blood upwards.
- Heart is e nlarged.
- Affections of heart with paucity of symptoms.
- Organs seem to be drawn together.
- Constrictions in chest, throat.
- Concomitant with the heart symptoms are pain in forehead and temples.
- Collapse.
- Swooning fits.
- Feeling of intoxication.
- Loss of power over limbs and sphincters, unable to speak.
- Marked dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., inability to lie on left side.
- Insensible right side.
- Left sided symptoms.
- Very susceptible to cold.
- Sensation of wast ing away.
- Burnings as of hot irons.
- Screwed up sensation.
- COMMENTS-Naja, was introduced into homeopathy by Russell and Stokes, who made the first provings along with some forty other provers including Gillow, Pope and Drysdale.
- Provi ngs were made with low potencies.
- Majumdar had no success with Naja, until he obtained fresh venom from snake charmers and made potencies.
- Previously the Naja, used by Indian homeopaths had been re-imported into India from England in the form of potencies.
- Deane, in his experience in the plague epidemic of 1899-1900, found Naja, prepared from the fresh venom more efficacious than Lach.🌿 Lach.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Naja, has an affinity for the medulla oblongata and cerebellum.
- Heart failure🩺 Heart FailureClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and distress.
- Weak valves with regurgitations, stenosisAbnormal narrowing of a passageThe narrowing or constriction of a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure (e.g., spinal stenosis)., prolapse.
- Acute and chronic endocarditisInflammation of the inner heart liningAn infection or inflammation of the inner lining of the heart chambers and valves..
- Heart damage after infectious diseases.
- Low blood pressure.
- Fluttering palpitation sensations outside the chest.
- Depression and weakness about the heart.
- Inability to speak with choking, nervous chronic palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
- Pulse is slow, irregular.
- Severe pains in left temple, cardiac and ovarian region.
- Diphtheria with impending paralysis of heart.
- Sensation of weight, of a hot iron🌿 IronMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., on the chest.
- 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.
- NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pain in head, preceded or followed by nausea or vomiting.
- Severe throbbing in left orbital region drawing back to occiput, from over-eating, mental or physical exertion.
- Headache after cessa tion of menses.
- Dull, heavy constriction in forehead on waking.
- Characteristic grasping at the throat with choking sensations.
- Esophageal spasms.
- Worse at night, patient wakes gasping, surface blue.🌿 Blue.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Worse by lying on left side.
- Useful for snake bites (Lach.).
- According to Hering, nervous phenomena predominate in Naja, over other serpent poisons.
- It acts primarily upon the nervous system, especially on respiratory nerves, pneumogastric and glossopharyngeal.
- Majumdar related the case of a young woman suffering from a heart affection who had oppression of the chest amounting almost to suffocation, feeble, irregular, almost imperceptible pulse, anemic appearance, inability to speak.
- One dose of Naja, was given, followed four hours later 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.” Majumdar saved a number of apparently hopeless cases of cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with Naja, in the collapse stage with lack of pulse and difficulty of breathing.
- In a case cured by Russell there was dragging and anxiety in the précordia occurring in great grief.
- Andrew M. Neatby related a cure with Naja.
- 6c that had nervous palpitations and faintness, frequent sensation of swelling, of “choking” in the throat, with dyspnea and occasionally of anesthesia down the right side.
- Mahlon Preston cured himself with Naja.
- 30c of asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. with difficult breathing, worse lying down, better sitting up.
- He cured many cases of hay fever and autumnal catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. that had a flow of water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. from the nose for a few minutes, then intense sneezing, which relieved the breathing.
- After recurring for a few days, there is dryness in the lungs with great difficulty of breathing, worse on lying down.
- Bunn cured the case of Miss S., 22, who had dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. since her menses were established.
- DilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart)., galvanism., etc., had been tried in vain.
- She had shooting pain in the region of the left ovary and faintness.
- Hypogastrium revealed nothing abnormal except sensitiveness of the ovarian region.
- Extreme restlessness with the pain.
- Dur ing the menses the pains sudd enly became very severe.
- The flow stopped when the pain was at its worst and returned the next day with relief from pain.
- Naja.
- 30c was given and the next period passed absolutely free from discomfort.
- Temperature-Body cold and collapsed.
- Limbs very cold, icy coldness of feet.
- Very sensitive to cold.
- General sweat, cold, clammy.
- Free perspiration.
- Flushes of heat in face at different times of day, worse left side.
- Head hot and full of blood and much sweat in palms.
- Feels very uncomfortable, hot and feverish.
- Heat, but he refused wa ter, heat with prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. with discomfort, dry lips and tender, hot mouth.
- Aching in loins.
- Cutting, twist ing, griping pains.
- Much flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. with rumbling and colicky pains.
- Flatulence during day, at night with pain.
- Frequent cutting i n umbilical region and small of back in afternoon, then profuse and sudden leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
- Loss of appetite.
- Thirsty.
- Craving for stimulants, which aggravate
