VIPERA BERUS
The German Viper - (VIPERA)
The German Viper - (VIPERA)
Viper poisoning causes a temporary increase in reflexes, paresis
supervenes, a paraplegia of the lower extremities extending upwards. Resembles acute
ascending paralysis of Landry (Wells). Has special action on kidneys and induces hæmaturia.
Cardiac dropsy.
Indicated in inflammation of veins with great swelling; bursting sensation. Enlargement of liver. Ailments of
menopause. Edema of glottis. Poly-neuritis, polio-myelitis.
Face.--Excessively swollen. Lips and tongue swollen, livid,
protruding. Tongue dry, brown, black. Speech difficult.
Liver.--Violent pain in enlarged liver, with jaundice and
fever; extends to shoulder and hip.
Extremities.--Patient is obliged to keep the extremities
elevated. When they are allowed to hang down, it seems as if they
would burst, and the pain is unbearable (Diad).
Varicose veins and acute phlebitis. Veins swollen,
sensitive; bursting pain. Severe cramps in lower extremities.
Skin.--Livid. Skin peels in large plates. Lymphangioma, boils,
carbuncles, with bursting sensation, relieved by
elevating parts.
Relationship.--Pelius berus-Adder
(Prostration and fainting, faltering pulse, skin yellow, pain about
navel. Swelling of arm, tongue, right eye; giddiness, nervousness, faintness,
sickness, compression of chest, could not breathe properly or take a deep breath; aching and
stiffness of limbs, joints stiff, collapsed feeling, great thirst). Eel
serum (heart and kidney diseases. Failure of compensation and impending
asystole).
Dose.--Twelfth potency.
