Naja Tripudians

COMMON NAME:

      COBRA POISON.

Symptoms

      Often called for restoring a heart damaged by acute inflammation or for relief of sufferings or chronic hypertrophy and valvular lesions (A).

Body cold and collapsed (Camph., Carbo vegetabilis) (C).

Pain in the left ovary during cough (D).

Excited, tremendous action of the heart (B.)

Cardiac asthma (Arsenicum, Lachesis, Phosphorus) (B.).

Endo-carditis (Apis, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum) (B).

Simple hypertrophy of the heart (Arnica, Rhus toxicodendron) (A.)

Valvular diseases of the heart, with a dry, teasing cough (Digitalis, Lachesis, Phosphorus) (D.).

Threatened paralysis of the heart, post-diphtheritic (Lachesis) (A.).

UNABLE TO SPEAK FROM PALPITATION (k.).

PALPITATION OF THE HEART FROM EXTENSION, OR TALKING, OR WALKING (K).

SEVERE STITCHING PAIN IN THE REGION OF THE HEART (Apis., Bryonia, Causticum, Kalm., Lachesis, Mag-M., Petroleum, Psorinum, Spigelia, Spongia, Staphysagria, Sulphur) (A).

Nervous palpitation, especially after public speaking (A.).

Pulse irregular on force, but irregular in rhythm (A).

Inability to speak with choking (A.).

Weak and thready pulse (Carbo vegetabilis) (C).

Suffocative choking; grasps the throat (B).

Puffing breathing (Am-C., Ant-T., Arsenicum, Camph., China, Gloninum, Laur., Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Opium, Pulsatilla, Stramonium) (B).

Suicidal insanity (Arsenicum, Acid nitricum) (A).

Broods constantly over imaginary troubles (Aur). (A)

Aversion to talking (Ignatia, Sepia) (Br).

Anxiety and fear of death (Aconite,As., Kali carb.) (Br.).

Irritating, dry, sympathetic cough in the acute stage of rheumatic carditis, or chronic organic lesions (Spong) (A).

Violent pain in the heat, shooting to the left scapula of shoulder (B(>)(<)).

Cardiac cough, with sweat in the palms (N(.,

Dyspnoea and prostration from weak heart (Arsenicum, Kali-P., Phos) (N().

Suffocative spells after sleeping (Lachesis) (Br).

Pale, haggard countenance (C).

Rheumatic pains in the limbs (Bryonia, Cimic., Kali-M., Rhus toxicodendron) (C).

AGGRAVATION:

      By carriage riding; from lying on the left side;from exertion; from talking; from walking; after sleep; from alcohol; after menses; from pressure of clothes and from cold, draught of air.

AMELIORATION:

      From sneezing from riding in open air; and from lying on the right side.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare. Arsenicum, Bryonia, Cact., Crotalus horridus, Digitalis, Kali- P., Lachesis, Mygal., Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Spigelia, and Veratrum

ANTIDOTES: Alcohol and Salt.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)