• Fear of rain
• Angina with pain in the nape of neck
• Bradycardia upto 45 beats per minutes

Source: Animal kingdom
Synonyms: Cobra virus
Class: Elapidae
Prover: Dr Rassel and Strokes including Gillow, Poppe and Drysdale
Duration of Action: Not definite

Introduction and History: The poison of the deadly cobra has been used from ancient times, in many nervous and blood diseases.

Habit and Habitat: Cobra snake is indigenous to India.

Preparation: Triturations are prepared from cobra venom with sugar of milk, from which higher potencies are prepared according to the homeopathic pharmacopoeia.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts on the heart, respiratory organs and centres, medulla, cerebellum, throat, left side, left ovary, left temple, left arm.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology): The action of Naja tripudians
settles around the heart producing hypertrophy and valvular diseases. It affects the medulla, cerebellum, respiration, throat and ovaries.

Ailments From: ill-effects of grief.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Wandering of mind. Broods constantly over imaginary troubles and makes himself wretched.
2. Depressed with distress about sexual organs, better in the evening. As if everything were done wrong and could not be rectified.
3. Stupid and confused feeling.
4. Suicidal insanity. Aversion to talking. Dreads to be alone.
5. Fear of rain.
6. Blurred speech. Melancholy.
7. Very forgetful, absentminded.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Asthma: It is useful for cardiac asthma with dyspnoea; unable to lie down; feels better by sitting up; beginning with coryza; with constriction of the throat.

Angina pectoris: Severe, stitching pain in the cardiac region which extends to the nape of the neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death; worse from exertion, carriage riding.

Heart diseases: It is an indicated homeopathic remedy for acute rheumatism; simple hypertrophy of the heart, valvular endocarditis; from bad effects of diphtheria, with a dry irritating cough worse by lying on the left side, exertion; inability to speak with choking. CARDIAC SYMPTOMS come with hysteria, neurasthenia and other diseases.

Pulse: Pulse is irregular in force but regular in rhythm, after acute infectious diseases.

Collapse of cholera: Comes with pulselessness and difficulty in breathing.

Left-sidedness: Predominantly, the left side is affected. Symptoms become worse when lying on the left side. Complaints go from LEFT TO RIGHT SIDE.

Hay fever: It comes with flow of water from the nose for a few minutes, then intense sneezing which ameliorates the breathing followed by dryness in lungs with difficulty breathing worse on lying down.

Diphtheria: A useful medicine for diphtheria with threatening paralysis or failure of heart.

Extremities: Head is hot but extremities are cold and blue. Worse in a warm room. COPIOUS SWEATING of hands and feet. Fullness and puffiness of hands and feet.

Profound sleep: Profound sleep with stertorous breathing. Sensation of a lump in the throat with choking.

Headache: Pain in the left temple or left orbital region extending to occiput with nausea and Vomiting.

Cravings: For stimulants. Stimulants aggravate the Suffering.

Thirst and appetite: Patient is thirsty with loss of appetite.

Important Characteristic Features

Heart diseases: It is a very useful medicine for heart disease from acute rheumatism and acute infectious diseases. Simple hypertrophy and weakness of the heart. Valvular endocarditis from bad effects of diphtheria. Dry, irritating cough worse when lying on the left side, from exertion; causes an inability to speak with choking. Pulse is irregular in force but regular in rhythm. Angina pectoris in which there are severe stitching pains in the cardiac region, which extend to the nape of the neck, left shoulder, left arm with anxiety and fear of death; worse from exertion, carriage riding. Also useful for cardiac asthma with dyspnoea and an inability to lie down, beginning with coryza and constriction of throat. Worse exertion, carriage riding. Amelioration by sitting up.

General Modalities

Aggravation: In damp wet weather, after sleep, by eating, stimulants, alcohol, lying on the left side, motion, exertion, carriage riding, touch, at 3 pm, at night.

Amelioration: Walking or riding in open air, lying on the right side.

Remedy Relationships

Antidoted by: Ammonia, stimulants (effects of bite), tobacco (to potencies).

Comparison

Suicidal tendency with depression: Aur, Naja.

Constantly dwelling on suicide: Aur, Naja.

Loss of speech: Dulc, Gels, Caust, Hyos, Naja, Laur.

Falling of lower jaw: Lach, Naja.

Diphtheria beginning on left side: Lac-c, Lach, Naja, Sabad.

Diphtheria, dark purple in appearance: Lach, Naja.

Rheumatic affections of the heart: Kalm, Led, Naja, Spig.

Heart affections: Acon, Ars, Cact, Kali-c, Kalm, Naja, Spig, Spong, Iber.

Amelioration on lying on the right side: Ant-t, Naja, Nat-m, Phos, Sulph, Tab.

Aggravation lying on the left side: Arg-n, Cact, Calad, Cocc, Iber, Kali-c, Lyc, Naja, Phos, Plat, Puls, Spig, Visc.

Dosage: 6c to 30c.

Repetition: Single dose, repeat when symptoms call for it.

Therapeutic Value: Angina pectoris, Asthma, Cardiac cough, Cholera, Diphtheria, Hay fever, Valvular heart diseases.