Hemachatus haemachatus = Ringhalskobra/= Südafrikanische Speikobra Elapidae

Originaltext of proving Hemachatus haemachatus

[Lize De la Rouviaere/Jodi Cahill]

Vergiftung: rare, with fatalities unheard of. 25% of bites cause local swelling or bruising. General symptoms: drowsiness/nausea/vomiting/violent abdominal cramps/vertigo, as well as

mild pyrexia. Neurotoxic symptoms are rare, and only diplopia and dyspnoea reported;

Repertory:

Mind: Absentminded

Abusive - insulting

Desires - activity/amusement

Ailments - disappointed love/mortification

Anger - from contradiction/driving/easily/violent

Anticipation

Anxious (at night/from anticipation/about business/driving himself)/Fear [for accidents (all day, relieved after going to bed)/death during heart symptoms during/driving a car/something

(terrible) will happen]

Awkward (drops things)

Remains in bed; desires it

Carefree

Cheerful

Childish behaviour

Clarity of mind

Company - aversed to > alone/desires solitude/desires company of a friend

Concentration - active/difficult (cannot fix attention)/studying

Confidence - want of self-confidence (self-depreciation)

Conscientious about trifles

Content (with himself)

Intolerant of contradiction

Delusions - is not appreciated/way home were too long/laughed and mocked at/has light [= low weight] (walking)/love is impossible/is neglected/is persecuted/is trapped/looks through

someone else’s vision/is being watched

“As if observing”

Discontended

Disorder, sensitive to

Distances - inaccurate judged

“As if taken drugs”

Dullness with sleepiness

Efficient organized

Elated (# sadness)

Exhilaration (# sadness)

Fastidious

High spirited

Desires to go home

Hurries in occupation

Impatent (about own children/driving)

Inactivity

Indifferent (business affairs/duties/aversion to work/with sleepiness)

Industrious

Insecure

Intolerant

Introspection

Irresolute

Irritable (wishes to be alone/# cheerfulness/towards children/driving a car/easy/before menses/from noise/with people/when questioned/from trifles/when aroused by noise during sleep)

Jealousy

Joy

Laziness (with sleepiness)

Longing - sense of (for good opinion of others/for repose and tranquillity)

Romantic love - desire it

Weakness of memory for everyday things

Mental power increased

Mirth

Mistakes in speaking - misplacing words

Mocking - sarcasm

Mood changeable (quickly/sudden)

> Occupation

Offended

Order - desires it

Positiveness

Prostration (with sleepiness/on waking)

Reproaching - oneself/others

Responsibility - aversed to

Rest - desires it/cannot rest when things are not in the proper place

Restlessness - anxious

Quarrelsome

Quiet

Sadness - from disappointed love/about past events

Self-control increased

Sensitive [to emotions/to (slightest) noise/to rudeness]

Sentimental

Shrieking while anger

Smiling

Snappish

Spaced-out feeling

Sulky

Swimming desires it

Sympathetic

Thoughts - repeatingtition/persistent/of the past

Timidity

Tranquility

Untidy

Desire to be useful

Loss of will power

Yearning

Vertigo: + heaviness in head

> Closing eyes

> cold drinks

Driving < heat of sun

> loss of hearing

< Motion (sudden)

< after rising

“As if everything were turning in a circle”/”As if head is turning round”

< walking

Head: “As if cotton wool”/”As if expanded/”As if inflated”

Fullness in forehead

Itching of scalp (vertex)

Hair falling out in handfuls (combing the hair)

Heaviness (from headache)

“As if light”

Pain [evening (stitching)/+ numbness and tingling of nose/+ pain in abdomen/+ complaints of lower limbs/< bending forward/bursting pain/> coffee/> cold applications/> cold drinks/> closing the eyes/> darkness/dull pain/ext. eyes/ext. (canine) teeth/stitching/forehead (r.)/shooting (< (artificial/day) light/before menses/pressing/”As from a nail”/in occiput (ext. to (l.) eye/dull pain/occiput (ext. temples/> lying/pulsating/paroxysmal/piercing/> pressure/shooting/pulsating (< sniffing)/temples and forehead (shooting)/on waking (“As from a blow”/< warmth/> warm drinks)]

Perspiration on forehead

Eye: > closing eyes/desires to close them

Desires to cover eyes (> with hand/> darkness)

Red inner canthi

Lids - dry (margins on waking)/heavy/lower ”As if swollen”

Itching (l./r./< (artificial/day) light/> rubbing

Pain - burning /”As from sand”/raw

Photophobia [driving/during headache/< from (day/artificial) light]

Must squeeze the eyes

Tingling

“As if tired” (> closing the eyes/> washing)

Winking

Vision: Blurred (closing the eyes)

Ear: earwax

“As if full”

Itching (l. ear/> scratching/in eustachian tubes)

< Noise/Noises inward (during headache/ringing)

Pain - l./boring pain/tickling/< lying on ear

Hearing: acute

Lost - short duration/after masturbation

Nose: < Blowing the nose

Cold

Congested

Discharge bloody (l./r./morning < blowing the nose/blood-streaked/clear l./copious/lumpy/sticky)

Dry (< in open air)

“As if full” (in root of nose)

Numb in tip

Odors - imaginary and real (metallic/sweetish)

Pain - morning - burning (sinuses)

Sneezing (with itching/> rubbing/tingling in nose)

Face: Clenched jaw (l.)

> Cold applications

Complaints of face - maxillary sinuses

Cracked - corners of mouth (l.)

Red (flushes/with heat)

Dry (lips/maxillary sinuses)

Eruptions [acne/itching/pimples (blind/on chin)/rough/stinging, painful/on upper lip r.

Greasy

Hot with cold feet

Itching (cheeks)

Licks lips

Rough skin

Swollen (under eyes/”As if swollen”)

< Touch (lips)

Mouth: Tongue [cracked/fissured in centre/crawling on tongue/white/furry/indurated (knotty)/ulcers (l./on tip)/stinging/”As if burnt”]

Dry (> cold water/morning on/”As if sand in it”/during sleep/with thirst not > drinking)

Eruptions - vesicles (on tongue/on tip/burning)

Pain in hard palate

Salivation profuse (at night)

Taste - putrid (even water)/salty

Soft lips

Teeth: Grinding

Pain in canines

Throat: Clucking sound in oesophagus

Dry (+ dry mouth)

> Drinking in sips

“As if a thread hanging in throat”

Disposition to hawk

Pain [burning/l. sore (lump)/”As if raw”/”As from something sharp”]

Prickly only on empty swallowing

Swallowing [difficult (cold drinks)]

External throat: Eruptions - pimples

Indurated [glands (cervical)]

Inflamed cervical glands

Neck: > Motion

Stiff (painful)

Tension

Stomach: Axious

Appetite [capricious/easy satiety (after a few bites)/increased (+ rumbling in abdomen/# loss of appetite/eating small amounts all day)/wanting]

> bending double

Distension (in epigastrium)

< Emotions

Emptiness (> eating)

Eructations - bitter - burning/< during stool

Heavy

Indigestion (< after eating)

Nausea - after cough/< after eating/> after lying down/< motion/from odor of tobacco/in throat/< during stool

Pain [burning (morning/“As from hot coal “)/< bread/morning cramping (from hunger)/< fruit/> pressure (burning)

Tension in epigastrium

Thirst (morning/at night/for cold water)

Abdomen: “As if bubbles were moving about”

Distension (morning on waking/from flatulence/< motion/> stool/in region of umbilicus/> warm application

Emptiness (gnawing)

Flatulence

Pain [> bending double/burning/cramping (+ pain in bladder)/drawing/dull/> eructations/pressing (< eating)/in iliac fossa (l./r.)/lower abdomen (burning)/> lying/< pressure/pressing (“As from flatulence”)/radiating/sharp/> sitting/wavelike/> warmth] 1 Rumbling

< Touch

Rectum: Coldness in anus

Constipation - ineffectual urging and straining

Flatus [evening/acidic/loud/noisy/offensive (sulphur odor)]

Inactiv

Involuntary stool < dur4ing urination

“As if anus open anus” (< after stool)

Stool: evening/at night/like balls (small)/(light) brown/clayish/copious/(dry and) hard/light colored/mucous/offensive/small quantity/soft

Bladder: “As if full”

Pain [aching/burning/cramping/ext. to kidney (stitching)

Tenesmus

Urination frequent/(dribbling) involuntary (if delayed/< during cough/< sneezing/< motion)

Urethra: Flatus

Urine: burning

Strong odor

Scanty/viscid

Male organs: Ejaculation - sticky/thick

Disposition to masturbation

Perspiration (“As if pungent”)

Sex desire increased (with incomplete erections)

Smegma increased

Female organs: Itching in vagina

Leukorrhea - bloody/brown (sandy)/muddy/ropy, stringy, tenacious

Menses - bright red/brown (muddy, sandy)/dark (clots)/absence of clots/too frequent/too late - 8 days/mucous/scanty (and too early)/thick/

Pain - decreased/boring/cramping/bearing down/during menses decreased/in ovaries (dull/l./r./> pressure/< during menses/pressing pain/uterus and region (bearing down/”As if everything

comes out)/uterus - ext. upward/> warm applications

Sexual desire increased with masturbation

Respration: Difficult

Cough: Evening/at night/dry/irritable/loose/tickling in throat/> warm applications

Chest: Abscess in axcillae

Congested in mammae

Constriction - “As from a band” (+ difficult respiration)

Eruptions - white pimples with red areola

Fullness - in mammae sensation of fullness/under sternum

Heat in mammae (l.)

Itching in sternum

Pain - burning/digging pain/pressing pain inward/in ribs/sore (+ impeded respiration)/in sternum (along l. side/left of sternum/in mammae [< breathing/bruised/crushed/ext. to scapula/

> mammae/< jar/> warm applications/l./< motion/in nipples (< touch of clothes)/pressing/< pressure/sore]

Palpitation of heart (with anxiety/< lying)

Perspiration in axillae

Swelling in axillae [glands (l.)/painful

Back: Eruptions - itching/red

Pain - cervical region > cold/ext. (to ear/occiput/shoulder)/lumbar region [r./< bending to l./burning/< leaning forward/< lifting/>/< motion/< rising (from sitting)/> sitting/stitching/sudden/

> lying/> after stool]

Pain - > stretching/> warm bathing

Stiff - > motion/lumbar region/cervical region

Extremities: Clucking

Coldness - l./with heat of hands, feet, and face/upper arms

Cracked skin (on feet/toes/fingers around nails)

Leg reddish spots “As from insect bites”/Forearm (blotches/red spots)

Dry

Eruptions - knees scaly/pimples/ankles/blisters on toes/upper limbs - blotches

Formication - l. upper limbs

Hot - feet (morning)

Heaviness [shoulders/legs/> lying/”As from lead”]

Hip; complaints of - Joints

Itching (> cold applications/> scratching/in forearms (> scratching)/on hips/on legs (evening/”As from insect bites”/lower limbs/complaints of growth of nails (rapid/hangnails)

Pain (<(<(< viele >)>)>)

Perspiration

Stiffness (ankles/fingers/> motion/shoulders/wrists/< after exertion)

Stretching > lower limbs (< after exertion)

Tingling - legs (l.)/shoulder l.

Weakness (in legs/in shoulders)

Sleep: Deep

Disturbed (by heat)

Falling asleep - difficult/easy/during heat

Light (hears every sound)

Prolonged

Restless

Aversion to rise

Semi-conscious (hears everything)

Sleepy (in daytime/overpowering/with weariness)

Sleepless - before midnight until 2 h./during heat/from warmth

Unrefreshed in morning

Waking after midnight - 5 h

Waking - too early/frequent

Dreams: Accidents/accusations/amorous (coition with 2 women)/Animals (killing/is protecting)/attacked/ballons/battles/bicycle riding/body deformed/big buildings/car/cats/Children

(precocious and arrogant/newborn)/colleagues [old work (finding them asleep)]/cutting/danger (friends in danger/protecting/escaping from a danger)/deceit/disappointment (driving a car)/

Embarrassment/enlarged objects/escaping/disfigured face/fights/flies/flying/friends (old)/frustration/guilt/hiding/home/homosexuality/house (dirty)/journeys (water)/money (lacks to pay a

bill)/Neck is slit/being obese/places well-known but changed/pursued (by murderers/animals/bear/police)/being poisoned/prostitutes/protecting/quarrels/rape/goes back to old school/seeing

again an old schoolmate/sexual/ship/snakes/spaceship/spiders/stool/stuck/suffocation/tunnel/being unprepaired/unremembered/vivid/war

Chill: Chilliness “As if hair standing on end”

Night

Shaking - night

Perspiration: Cold at night

On covered parts

Odorless

Profuse at night < during sleep

Skin: Bitten “As from an insect”

Cicatrices - become red/sensitive

Dry (rough)

Eruptions - acne/blotches/dry/eczema (< warm applications)/elevated/pimples/red (like insect stings)/rough/scaly/< warmth

Goose flesh

Itching (after insect bite/> cold/> scratching/< warm bathing)

Rough

Sensitive

Feels soft

Generals: l./morning (on waking)/17 h./evening (18 h.)

Physical activity

> (sea)bathing

< covers

Driving

Sensation of static electricity

Aversion to physical exertion

Desires physical exertion

Food and drinks: Desires: alcoholic drinks (wine)/chocolate/coffee/meat/oil/salt/seafood/sugared water/yoghurt; <: alcoholic drinks/vegetables;

Flushes of heat (at night/in open air/preventing sleep/sensation of heat # sensation of coldness)

Heaviness

Desires to lie down

< Light (sunlight)

“As if taken tranquilizers”

Riding in a car

> (short) sleep

> Stretching (> out limbs)

Exposure to the sun

< smoke of tobacco/aversion to tobacco/sensitive to smell of tobacco

On waking

Weakness

Weariness

< cold wet weather

> thunderstorm

5.6 MIASMATIC ANALYSIS Hemachatus haemachatus produced symptoms which are characteristic of the sycotic miasm in homeopathy. In the mind, it produced feelings of inadequacy, embarrassment , humiliation, feelings of being stuck, avoidance of company and the withdrawal to a quiet, private space, repetitive thoughts, feelings of inadequacy and not being able to cope, avoidance of responsibility, depression and lethargy. These themes are echoed in the dreams, and there were also dreams of deceit, of mistakes, of embarrassment, and of being unprepared. Furthermore, there were dreams of intense sexuality, and inappropriate sexuality, with knowledge that there would be disapproval of these tendencies and a tendency to conceal them. There were also symptoms consistent with the malarial miasm as proposed by Sankaran (2002): intense irritability, especially with inefficiency, resentment to being controlled, feelings of being harassed and persecuted, of being trapped with a need to get out, longing for past relationships, changeability. There were dreams of intense frustration, of harassment, attack, rape, of being stuck in a situation, of protecting others and others being nasty or mean to one. There were dreams of being pursued. Pain was experienced as annoying, irritating. Vesicular skin eruptions were produced. Sankaran describes the malarial miasm as a combination of the sycotic and the acute miasms. It is thus proposed that Hemachatus haemachatus belongs to the malarial miasm.

Sankaran: General characteristics of snake remedies characteristics of remedies obtained from reptilian, which includes Ophidian, sources:

Themes of superiority and inferiority

Manipulative,

Calculative

Jealousy,

Suspicion

Split in the mind or antagonism with himself

Vulnerability

Clairvoyance

Sexuality

Hiding, deceit, concealment, never seen, disguise

Closed and no way ahead

Fear of attack (from behind/from a concealed position)

Feeling of being pursued and a desire to hide

Sudden movement

Ross: sees the essential feature of snake remedies as that of polarity within the individual. Polarity between the conscious, rational, logical, overt, active, structured, visible qualities; and the emotional, intuitive, creative, esoteric, passive, illogical side.

The challenge presented to the individual requiring a remedy made from snake venom is the successful integration of these opposing polarities. Ross uses this insight to explain many of the well-known modalities of snake remedies:

< on going to sleep/during sleep/on waking (transition period between the conscious and unconscious);

< in spring and autumn (transition between seasons);

< from alcohol which brings out the unconscious and > from coffee which emphasises the rational thought processes; < during pregnancy/menopause (transition periods in a woman‟s life).

Sadhana Thakkar: mentions the following: powerful intensity of emotions:

Religious or spirituality,

Anxiety of conscience and conscientiousness;

Suspicion;

Quarrelsomeness;

Aggression;

Impulsivity;

Confrontation and territoriality.

In the author‟s note to her book, Thakkar (2007) says that she has found through clinical experience that people requiring snake remedies are „extremely conscientious, thoughtful, focused, bright and sensitive‟, and adds that they seem to have „remarkable control‟ over their negative emotions.

Some common physical characteristics of ophidian remedies are:

Skin dry, lustreless.

Tendency to suppuration, boils, acne, psoriasis

Cutaneous hyperesthesia

Sense of constriction and aversion to tight clothing around neck and chest

Dryness of eyes,

Vision blurry

Acute sense of smell, or anosmia

Vertigo

Warm-bloodedness, with sensitivity to extremes of temperature

Increased appetite with a tendency to over-eat.

Inability to tolerate hunger

Sluggish digestion, tendency to acid dyspepsia and heartburn

Respiratory tract complaints, with a tendency to tonsillitis,

Asthma, bronchitis

Heart pathology: tachycardia, irregular beats, cardiomyopathy

Premenstrual breast tenderness, premenstrual syndrome

Increased sexual desire and a tendency to masturbation

A comparative extraction was done using the RADAR repertory program (ARCHIBEL SA, 2006), in which the rubrics common to Lach., Naja. Elaps. and Bitis arietans arietans (= Cloth.) were extracted.

Following symptoms in common

Mind: absentmindeded, anxious, desires for company, indifference, irritable and sadness.

Vertigo Heaviness of the head, and pain in the forehead

Nose: Epistaxis,

Internal throat: “As if a lump in the throat” and difficulty swallowing.

Stomaqch: Increased thirst

Abdomen: flatulence and rumbling, and a tendency to constipation

Female Organs: Painful menses

Chest: Sense of constriction and oppression in the chest, and heart palpitations

Back: Pain in the cervical region.

Extremities: rheumatic pain/coldness of the hands and feet

Sleep: Deep sleep, sleepiness

Generals: Weakness

These symptoms are the common symptoms to the snake remedies used in the comparison in this study inclusive Hemachatus haemachatus (except epistaxis).

Vergleich:

Comparison Hemachatus haemachatus + Lachesis

Comparison Hemachatus haemachatus + Naja mossambica

Comparison Hemachatus haemachatus + Naja tripudians

Comparison Hemachatus haemachatus + Elaps corallinus

Comparison Hemachatus haemachatus + Bitis Arietans (= Clotho)

Siehe: Schlangen + Cobras general.

can spit its venom. xxyy

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