Vipera berus
European adder, viper. · Animal · Viperidae
Vipera is best suited to people with a rather dizzy, even delirious, state of mind. It is also associated with slow-developing children, and people who age prematurely.
Key symptoms associated with Vipera include inflammation and swelling of the veins, typically accompanied by faintness and collapse. The remedy is commonly used for recurrent nosebleeds, varicose veins, or phlebitis (inflammation of a vein).
Key symptoms
- Bursting sensation in limbs when allowed to hang down
- Must keep extremities elevated to relieve intense pain
- Varicose veins and acute phlebitis with swollen, sensitive veins
- Severe cramps in lower extremities
- Enlargement of liver with violent pain extending to shoulder
- Excessively swollen face; lips and tongue swollen and livid
- Cardiac dropsy; hematuria from kidney involvement
- Skin peels in large plates; bursting sensation relieved by elevating parts
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
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. Œdema 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.
Vipera communis. Pelias berus. Common Viper [with other varieties, especially V. redi (Italian Viper) and V. torva (German Viper)]. N. O. Ophidia (Family, Viperidæ). Attenuations of the venom.
Clinical
Epistaxis. Goître. Hæmorrhages. Jaundice. Liver, enlargement of. Neurasthenia. Phlebitis. Senility, premature. Tongue, swelling of. Varicosis.
Characteristics
The effects of bites by the Common Viper and related species have been collected, and have furnished the data for Homœopathic prescribing. Vipera affects the blood and blood-vessels, conducing to hæmorrhage and inflammation of the vessels themselves. A keynote for Vip. in cases of phlebitis and varicosis is "< on letting the limb affected hang down"; as if it would burst with fulness. The region of the vessel affected is inflamed and sensitive. Allen (Handbook) relates this case: A goldbeater found the veins of his right arm become exceedingly swollen and painful, so that he could no longer work, or let his hand hang down. Vip. cured immediately. A …
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