The virus of the Cobra (Naja tripudians) is triturated with sugar of milk. Allies. It is to be compared with the serpent poisons in general, and especially with Lachesis.
Generalities
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.
Shooting in upper part of chest, in ankles and lower third of thighs. Occasional crampy pains in thighs, shoulders and nape. Cutting shifting about. Pain descended from body down leg till it ceased at the spot where he was bitten. Malaise; at 8 P.M.; as before a fever, towards evening. Indefinable sensation (sorte d’enrahissement), with lightness in head (entreprise generale). Sensitiveness to draught of air about head and face. Sensation of wasting away. Restlessness in afternoon. Great desire for and power of walking. Weakness; in morning; with restlessness; with indifference; mental and physical, suddenly at 8.30 P.M. Inclination to lie in bed in morning. Inability to support himself in a sitting posture. Swooning fits. Torpor; and listlessness. Loss of sense of feeling. Stiffness and insensibility. All symptoms (>) walking in open air.
Clinical In a general way it is indicated when organs seem to be drawn together, especially ovary and heart.
Mind
Insanity, he suddenly split his own head in two with an axe. Excitable and playful. Quick tempered. Irritable and restless. Displeased with everything. Cried and seemed to suffer much pain. Weeping mood from slight emotion, pleasing or otherwise. Sadness; (>) evening; with irresolution; with distress about sexual organs; with headache and inability for any 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. Brooding over imaginary troubles. Affected easily by wine or alcoholic drinks.
Mental and physical weakness, anxiety to do many things, but not inclined to move about them, disposition to cuddle up near the fire and brood over one’s business. Absence of mind. Dullness in evening. Stupid and confused feeling. Memory confused. Forgetful. Consciousness almost or quite lost. Insensible; and speechless. Comatose.
Head
Aching; all day; in morning; in morning on waking; in evening; at 9 P.M., caused by eating a pear, with pain in abdomen; at night; at night, with much sleep; with melancholy, the 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 A. at 3 P.M.; like a scald, (<) over l. eye, after breakfast; oppressive, at 8.30 A.M. Confusion; in morning. Hollow feeling. Heaviness. Congestion at noon; C., with fluid discharge from nose. Vertigo, then “stounding” pain in r. side of head.
Forehead. Shooting; at night preventing sleep. Darting across F. Aching; above eyes; above r. eyelid and in r. temple; in l. protuberance; in lower part of brow; all day, with yawning and lassitude; in morning; in upper part in morning, with fulness; at night; (<) over temples, (>) going out, (<) motion or any exertion, (>) smoking mild tobacco, with weight over upper lids, tightness across vertex, soreness of scalp to touch, next day the same pain (>) 2 P.M. by pale brandy; A. waking in the night and in morning on waking, with occasional stitches in protuberances and with fluttering of heart; A., with weariness; in upper part, with fulness; with tightness of it and dryness of throat; with dragging and weariness in limbs; intermittent. Throbbing pain in afternoon; T. pain above eyes. Heavy aching; over eyes. Constriction across from one temple to the other; C. at night on going to bed, with heaviness of eyes; C. (>) breakfast; with anterior headache, not accustomed to this in afternoon; with dryness of mouth and cold feet. Fulness in F. and root of nose towards evening. Sensation as if brain were loose.
Stitches in l. temple; from one T. to the other after breakfast, (>) open air. Throbbing in temples, with fulness of head when lying. Aching in temples; in morning on waking, with heaviness in eyes; about noon over r. T. and gradually extending to forehead, (>) afternoon; in evening; in vertex; in vertex, with coldness of feet. Shooting up occiput. Feeling as of a blow from behind on head and nape. Scurf on scalp. Sensitiveness of scalp.
Eyes
Staring; and pupils large and sluggish. Constriction, (<) breakfast. Heaviness; in evening; with pain and suffusion. 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; r. swollen, (<) upper, and livid, the lividity extending to r. side of nose. Heaviness of lids; in forenoon, and edges of tarsal cartilages livid. Numbness of r. lid at night. Pricking in l. brow. Pain in brow. Vision weak; lost.
Ears
Whizzing in l., with insipid, almost nauseous taste in mouth. Noise as of a mill, waking him in morning.
Nose
Soreness of l. wing, with irritation; S. of r. nostril, with ulcerated feeling; S. of wing, with heat and tenderness, worse next day, with swelling and pain, secretion suffused, next day (>) an eruption on its edge; S., with heat and thin discharge. Stuffed, (<) evening by walking in a fog, (>) on returning home, by free discharge of watery mucus, next day nostrils clogged up. Coryza; at night, with headache over eyes, (<) r.
Clinical Hay fever, with asthmatic complications, after the stage of coryza and sneezing has mostly subsided, especially with a feeling of dryness in the larynx, suffocation, especially on lying down, has to be held erect in order to breathe; the suffocative spells occur after sleeping (Lachesis).
Face
Red on rising, (>) washing, and covered with knots like erysipelas; R. in evening, and burning; cheeks, (<) cheek-bones, patchy. Greenish-yellow. Livid. Pale and looked ill. Thin and haggard, dark around eyes. Anxious expression. Sticking deep in r. side. Jaws locked. Gnawing in l. upper jaw, waking soon after midnight, sometimes shooting to eye and temple. Bruised pain in l. condyle of jaw, (<) moving it. Drawing pain in r. jaw. Mouth wide open and tongue cold. Sore on under lip opposite l. canine tooth, and gum swollen and inflamed. Pimple on upper lip. Purple sordes on lips, gum and tongue. Lips feel hot and sore. Lips dry and cracked; and black pores; D., painful, excoriated.
Mouth
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 painful and swollen, next day teeth loose 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.
Ulcer on fraenum of tongue. Tongue coated white; coated yellow. Raw feeling on T. where the powder fell, as if it would rise to a blister. Dryness of T. in morning without thirst. Inarticulate speech. Foaming at mouth. Pain in a spot about centre of l. palate as if aconite were chewed. Rawness of palate; acid. Dryness; in morning on waking; at 8.30 A.M., with frequent expectoration as if from throat; and of throat, with disagreeable taste as if breath were offensive. Clammy in morning. Salivation. Breath hot and offensive, next day the heat and foul taste extended slowly to stomach. Taste sour; in evening, with nausea and roughness of tongue and palate; and raw; T. cuprous, metallic; bitter; “horrible.”
Throat
Pressure on upper part of r. sterno-mastoid muscle, extending over skin to angle of jaw. Hawking of mucus. Redness of l. side in morning, with pain on swallowing. Inflammation of l. tonsil at 8 A.M., with pain. Spasm. Starting about T. Sudden grasping, rousing him in morning when dozing, then sudden jerking of l. masseter. Shooting in l. tonsil. Pricking in l. side of pharynx; after fasting. Pain in morning with gagging and with sad thoughts; in afternoon; as if she had taken cold; P. in one tonsil. Burning pressure on a point at back of pharynx in afternoon. Soreness of l. side. Tenderness in T. and over sternum.
Scraping at night; towards night, with hoarseness, and more effort required to swallow, next day scraping and at top of throat tenacious mucus inducing frequent inclination to swallow, third day mucus easily detached and always swallowed. Rawness. Roughness from reading aloud a short time. Discomfort like indigestion, low down. Dryness on waking; D. of fauces. Constriction; and dryness; of pharynx; of oesophagus, so that nothing could be forced down. Power of swallowing gone.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.