Naja Tripudians

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Naja Tripudians Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
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🧠 General & Mental Health
GENERAL
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  • C.
  • Majumdar noted that cobra poison had been used by Indian practitioners from ancient times in many nervous and blood diseases.
  • Naja, is not a hemorrhagic or septic medicine like Lach, and Crot-h.
  • Naja, produces a typical bulbar paralysis.
  • Causes no hemorrhage but only edema, hence the victims of this reptile frequently bear very little sign of external injury, the only indication is often a small scratch or puncture.
  • 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, hypertrophy 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 symp toms.
  • 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 dyspnea, 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.
  • Naja, has an affinity for the medulla oblongata and cerebellum.
  • Heart failure and distress.
  • Weak valves with regurgitations, stenosis, prolapse.
  • Acute and chronic endocarditis.
  • 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 palpitations.
  • 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, 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.
  • Neuralgic 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.
  • 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 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 with difficult breathing, worse lying down, better sitting up.
  • He cured many cases of hay fever and autumnal catarrh that had a flow of water 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 since her menses were established.
  • Dilatation, 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 prostration with discomfort, dry lips and tender, hot mouth.
  • Aching in loins.
  • Cutting, twist ing, griping pains.
  • Much flatulence 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 leucorrhea.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • Thirsty.
  • Craving for stimulants, which aggravate
MODALITIES ETC
  • Great relief of pain and breath ing by lying on right side.
  • Better from walking or riding in open air, sneezing, smoking.
  • Worse from stimulants, alcohol, cold air, drafts, riding in carriage, touch, pressure of clothes.
  • Worse lying on left side, after sleep, after menses.
  • Headache worse at 3 p.m
RELATIONSHIPS
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Ammonia, stimulants (effects of bite), tobacco (to po tencies)

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MIND
  • Absent-mindedness.
  • Very forgetful.
  • Stupid and confused feeling.
  • Irresolution, mdecision.
  • Wandering of the mind.
  • Brood-ng, over imaginary troubles and disease.
  • Blurred speech.
  • Insensible and speechless.
  • Aphasia.
  • Aversion to talking.
  • Affected easily by wine or alcoholic drinks.
  • Nervous, excited and tremulous.
  • Wantof self confidence.
  • Anxiety from pain in heart region.
  • Forebodings.
  • Hypochondria.
  • Fear of death, disease, being incurable, rain, accidents, misfortune.
  • Dreads to be left alone.
  • Feels anguish for others.
  • Anguish from pain in abdomen.
  • Melancholy.
  • Sorrow felt in the heart.
  • Depressed, as if everything were done wrong and could not be rectified.
  • Depressed with distress about sexual organs, better in evening.
  • Despair with the pains.
  • Loathing of life.
  • Suicidal disposition (Aur.).
  • Ailments from grief.
  • Insanity.
  • Antagonism with self.
  • Confu sion as to his identity.
  • Sensation of duality.
  • Delirium during fevers, with meningitis, typhus, typhoid fever.
  • Sees images, phantoms.
  • Delusion that he is a failure, that he has neglected his duty, that he is being injured.
  • Consciousness almost lost.
  • Comatose.
  • Aphasia.
  • Insanity.
  • Comatose
SLEEP
  • Yawning, great sleepiness.
  • Dozing and moaning.
  • Sleepiness in evening and weakness.
  • Deep, profound, comatose with stertorous breathing.
  • Restless, disturbed sleep.
  • Long and vivid dreams, little recol-lection of the subjects, affairs of the day recalled with additions and new plans for the morrow.
  • Dreams of murders, suicides, fires, etc
GENERALITIES
  • Screwed-up sensations and crampy pains.
  • As if head screwed together.
  • As if heart and ovary were drawn up together.
  • Pains in temple and ovarian regions.
  • Pain from heart to scapula.
  • Sensation as if a hair in larynx.
  • Pain as from needles in tonsil.
  • The left side is predominantly affected
👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo, lasting a short time, followed by astounding pain in right side of head
HEAD
  • Pain in forehead and temples with heart symptoms.
  • Pain in left temple and in left orbital region, extending to occiput with nausea and vomiting.
  • Severe throb bing and aching in temples.
  • Constriction across forehead.
  • Severe headache with intense depression.
  • Headache superven ing on cessation of menses.
  • Neuralgic headache extending backwards from orbital region.
  • Shooting up occiput.
  • Vertex sensitive to cold.
  • Aching in vertex with cold feet.
  • Feeling as of a blow from behind on head and neck.
  • Sensation as if brain was loose.
  • Entire head feels hollow.
  • Confusion and dullness in head in morning.
  • Sensitiveness of scalp.
  • Hair falls off the vertex Pain in forehead and temples with heart symptoms.
  • Hair falls off the vertex
EYES
  • Fixed and staring, wide open and insensible to light.
  • Pupils dilated.
  • Loss of vision.
  • Hot pains at back of eyeballs.
  • Ptosis of both lids.
  • Heaviness in eyelids.
  • Lids swollen in morning
EARS
  • Burning heat of ear.
  • Otalgia.
  • Chronic otorrhea, black discharges, smells like herring brine.
  • Noises in ears.
  • Whizzing in left ear with insipid, almost nauseous taste in mouth.
  • Noise as of a mill, waking him in morning.
  • Illusions of hearing
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
MOUTH
  • Great dryness of the mouth.
  • Wide open, flow of saliva.
  • Foaming at mouth.
  • Taste insipid, bitter, sour, metallic.
  • Tongue cold, coated thick yellow, white, dry, no thirst.
  • Ulcers on frenum.
  • Loss of speech.
  • Nose-Hay fever with dry larynx.
  • Hay asth ma.
  • Flow of water from nose, then intense sneezing which betters the breathing
THROAT
  • Roughness and scraping in throat.
  • Soreness and pricking in left side of throat.
  • Dryness and constriction of throat and fauces.
  • Dark red color of the fauces.
  • Redness of left side in morning w ith pain on swallowing.
  • Irritation and tickling in larynx and trachea.
  • Stricture of esophagus, swallowing difficult or impossible.
  • Grasping at throat with sense of choking.
  • As a lump in throat.
  • Much mucus in throat.
  • Shooting in left tonsil
CHEST
  • Constriction in chest, in evening.
  • Oppressive weight on chest, as if a hot iron had been run i n.
  • Uneasiness and dull, heavy pain in chest.
  • Sharp pains, worse on deep inspiration.
  • Ribs feel broken.
  • Heavy pain over lower half of right chest with stabbing on deep inspiration, cannot cough for the stabbing, worse lying left side, better lying on affected side.
  • Tenderness over sternum and in throat.
  • Cough-Irritating, dry cough from sticky mucus and saliva.
  • Cough with tight ness and fullness in larynx.
  • Cardiac cough.
  • Dry, hacking cough with blood-spitting.
  • Hoarseness, short, hoarse cough.
  • Acute and chronic septic endocar ditis .
  • Damaged heart after infectious dis eases.
  • Hypertrophy, weakness.
  • Valvular heart disorders.
  • Heart lesions (Spong., Laur.
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  • Low bloodpressure (Elaps., Vip.).
  • Visible palpitations prevent speech because of choking.
  • Chronic nervous palpitations, worse after preaching.
  • Threatened paralysis of heart, body cold.
  • Sharp pain in region of heart.
  • Angina pains extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death.
  • Heart symptoms with pain in forehead and temples.
  • Dragging and anxiety in précordia.
  • Feeling of weight on hear t.
  • Irregular in force.
  • Pulse slow, irregular, weak, tremulous.
  • Breasts-Milk decreased, next day returned freely, afterwards scanty.
  • Occasional pain at top of both breasts.
  • Causations-Ailments from anticipation, grief, sorrow
🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
ABDOMEN
  • Uneasy, disagreeable feeling in stomach, as from indigestion, pressure as from stones after a meal.
  • Acidity in stomach.
  • Heartburn, belchings tasting like barley water or hot and foul.
  • Nausea with faint feeling, vomiting
GENITALS ETC
  • Kidneys-Uneasiness and pressure in bladder.
  • Urine of deep straw color.
  • Urine deposits red sediment, mixed with mucus, loaded with gravel and mucus.
  • Labored and difficult breathing.
  • Gasping for breath.
  • Puffing breathing very slow, shallow and scarcely perceptible.
  • Suffocative spells after sleeping.
  • (Lach.).
  • Dry or empty feeling in left lung.
  • Asthmatic constriction of chest, cannot expand lungs, followed by mucus expectoration.
  • Asthma preceded by coryza, worse lying, better sitting up.
  • Cardiac asthma.
  • Expectoration of whit ish viscid mucus in morning on waking.
  • Spitting of blood, which had no tendency to coagulate.
  • Stinging, somewhat burning pain along right side of penis, immediately under skin, at night in bed and in morn ing after rising.
  • Increased sexual desire on going to bed with frequent wa king, vivid imaginations.
  • Nocturnal emissions.
  • Involuntary emissions, then prostration and distress.
  • Peculiar distress, great desire, but no physical power, with depression.
  • Pain in left groin, especially in post-operative cases, seems to be drawn to heart.
  • Neuralgia of left ovary.
  • Crampy pains in left ovary.
  • Aching in left ovary with pains in heart, come on a week before menses, grow worse until menses appear, then easier until next month
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Sudden loss of strength in limbs.
  • R heumatic pains in limbs.
  • Drawing, lacer ating, worse motion.
  • Cramps in shoulders, nape or thighs.
  • Aching in ankles, lower part of thighs, wrists and shoulder joints, on waking.
  • Violent racking in marrow of thighs.
  • Numb left arm.
  • Puffy or sweating hands and feet with cough.
  • Acute pain under the left thumb nail running up the arm
BACK AND NECK
  • Rheumatic pains in neck and back.
  • Cutting, aching in nape.
  • Tired feeling in thoracic vertebra all day with burning and exhaustion.
  • Shooting from inner and upper angle of left scapula to front of chest.
  • Pain between the shoulders as if in spine afterwards involving scapula in morning on waking, worse moving arms.
  • Dragging sensation in spine between shoulders.
  • Acute pain in small of back, gnawing pain
SKIN
  • Itching scars.
  • Creeping, itching and tingling sensation in skin swollen, mottled and of dark purple, livid color.
  • Gangrene.
  • Small, white itching blisters on inflamed base, on neck, nose and body in afternoon.
  • Large pimples on inflamed base.
  • Pimple on upper lip, on left ala nasi, on tip of nose, sore in consequence, painful on brow.
  • Boil-like swelling on back of middle phalanx of right little finger.
  • Painful chilblains on feet

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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