Cenchris contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix (copperhead venom) · Copperhead snake,Agkistrodon contortrix · Animal
Cenchris is particularly suitable for people who experience great mental restlessness, jealousy, suspicion, and abandonment. They have a general tendency to be rather absentminded, moody, and dreamy, often experiencing vivid, horrible dreams that continue in their thoughts once they are awake. Their anxieties may include a fear of rape, pins and pointed objects, going to sleep, and sudden death.
The classic symptom picture for Cenchris is of breathlessness, mental and physical restlessness, and a desire to drink small quantities of water. Another classic symptom is a need to loosen the clothing, triggered by congestion in the blood vessels.Complaints are usually right-sided. There may be a susceptibility to allergies, especially in the spring.
Key symptoms
- Marked alternation of moods; vivid lascivious dreams
- Dyspnea with mental and physical restlessness
- Right ovarian region painful
- Heart feels distended as if filling whole chest
- Sharp stitches fluttering under left scapula
- Thirst for small quantities of water
- Worse from pressure, lying down, afternoon and night
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Copperhead Snake (ANCISTRODON)
Like the other snake poisons, it affects the system profoundly. Like arsenic, it has dyspnœa, mental and physical restlessness, thirst for small quantities of water, necessity for having clothing loose, like Laches. Marked alternation of moods; vivid dreams. Is a wonderful restorative and deep acting remedy. Increased sexual desire in both sexes. Ineffectual attempts to recline. Right ovarian region painful.
Head
Forgetful, absent-minded, alternating moods. Aching pain in left frontal eminence and left side of teeth. Swelling around eyes, aching and itching in eyes.
Heart
Feels distended, fills whole chest, as if it fell down in abdomen; sharp stitches, fluttering under left scapula.
Sleep
Dreams horrible and vivid; lascivious.
Modalities
Worse, pressure; lying down; afternoon and night.
Relationship
Compare: *Ars; Laches. Clotho Arictans--*Puff Adder.--Should have a great sphere of usefulness in many conditions where excessive swelling is a leading feature (John H. Clarke, M. D).
Dose
Sixth potency.
Ancistrodon contortrix. Copperhead snake of North America. N. O. Ophidians. Solution of venom.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Catarrh. Diarrhœa. Eyes, swelling over. Headache. Heart, affections of. Leucorrhœa. Menorrhagia. Nightmare. Ovary, pain in. Throat, affections of. Vulva, throbbing in; eruption on.
Characteristics
Cenchris has the main features of all the serpent poisons: Coma; semi-consciousness; insensibility of cornea; swelling of upper lip; general swelling; paralysis; cold, clammy sweat. Distinctive symptoms are: a marked alternation of moods; and dreamy absent-mindedness. The dreams of Cenchris are very vivid and horrible, cannot be shaken off during waking hours; often lascivious. Swelling above eyes, below brow, like an over-hanging bag of waters. Diarrhœa has been cured having the following characters: "Pain before stool; stool papescent cold but not chilly." Yellow Leucorrhœa; pain in right ovary herpetic eruption on labia. Hard, dry tickling cough, < 3 p.m. Restlessness and sense of suffocation; …
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