Generalities
The action of cobra poison settles around the HEART; hypertrophy and valvular diseases. Affects medulla and cerebellum; respiration, throat, ovary. Left sided symptoms. Nervous, excited and tremulous, with heart affections; often reflex. Feeling of intoxication; loss of power over limbs; over sphincters; unable to speak. Swooning fits. Sensation of wasting away. Parts seem drawn together. Constrictions; in chest; throat etc. Burnings as of hot irons. Many pains. Screwed up sensation. Collapse. Sepsis. Ill effects of grief. Insensible right side. Affections of heart with paucity of symptoms.
Worse
Lying on left side. After sleep. After menses. Cold air; drafts. Pressure of clothes. Alcohol. Touch.
Better
Walking or riding in open carriage. Sneezing. Smoking.
Mind
Broods constantly over imaginary troubles; and makes himself wretched. Suicidal; brooding, insanity. Depressed, with distress about sexual organs; better in the evening. Aversion to talking. Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. As if everything were done wrong and could not be rectified.
Head
Pain in the left temple and in left orbital region extending to occiput with nausea and vomiting, better smoking. Entire head feels hollow. As of a blow on occiput. Vertex sensitive to cold. Headaches after cessation of menses. Pain in forehead and temples, with heart symptoms.
Eyes
Staring. Ptosis of both lids. Hot pains at back of eyeballs.
Ears
Noises in ears, with nauseous taste in mouth. Black discharge, smelling like herring brine.
Nose
Flow of water from nose; then intense sneezing which betters the breathing. Hay asthma.
Mouth
Wide open; flow of saliva. Tongue cold. Loss of speech.
Throat
As of a lump in throat. Suffocative choking, grasps the throat. Stricture of oesophagus, swallowing difficult or impossible.
Stomach
Craving for stimulants which worsens. Eructations tasting like barley water; or hot, foul.
Female
PAIN FROM LEFT OVARY TO HEART, worse one week before menses. Obscure pain in left groin; post-operative.
Respiratory
Puffing breathing. Cardiac asthma; or cough. Dry or empty feeling in left lung. Ribs feel broken. Oppressive weight on chest; as if a hot iron had been run in. Asthma preceded by coryza worse lying; better sitting up.
Heart
Weakness at. Violent pain, shooting to left scapula, shoulder or neck; holds hand over it, worse after riding in carriage. Visible palpitation; hypertrophy. Endo-carditis, septic. Damaged heart after infectious diseases. Pulse slow, (upto 45) irregular, weak, tremulous; changes force. Chronic nervous palpitation, worse after preaching. Choking. Tension low.
Extremities
Cramps in shoulders, nape or thighs. Numb left arm. Violent racking in marrow of thighs. Puffy or sweating hands and feet; with cough. Acute pain under the left thumb nail running up the arm. Loss of power.
Skin
Itching cicatrices.
Sleep
Deep comatose; with stertorous breathing.
Fever
Sweat on lumbar back and ankles.
Related
Cimic; Lach; Laur; Spigelia
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.