Vipera Berus

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Vipera Berus Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • The effects of bites by the common viper and related species have been collected and have furnished the data for homeopathic prescribing.
  • The venom of common German Vipera torva affects the blood and blood vessels, leading to hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. and inflammation of the vessels.
  • Allen related the case of a gold beater who 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 case quoted from M ed.
  • Adv of varicose veins of the popliteal space with the sensation as though the leg would burst and a nervous, fidgety condition of the feet which kept them in constant motion, was cured with Vip.
  • 30c.
  • The bursting feeling appears to be at the root of this characteristic.
  • A keynote for Vip in cases of phlebitis and varicose veins is “Worse on letting the limb affected hang down,” as if it would burst with fullness.
  • The region of the vessel affected is inflamed and sensitive.
  • Swan said Vip was a remedy for all forms of nosebleed.
  • Vip affects veins, causing inflammation and ahemorrhagic tendency.
  • Inflammation of veins with great swelling.
  • Cardiac dropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues..
  • Bursting sensation, enlargement of liver.
  • Special action on kidneys and induces hematuriaPresence of blood in the urineA condition where red blood cells are present in the urine, making it look pink, red, or smoky..
  • EdemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. of glottis.
  • Goiter.
  • Ailments of menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
  • ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., ascending, paraplegiaParalysis of the lower half of the bodyParalysis that affects all or part of the trunk, legs, and pelvic organs, usually due to spinal cord injury. of foot.
  • Multiple neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
  • Poliomyelitis.
  • Temporary increase in reflexes, paresis supervenes, a paraplegia of the lower limbs extending upwards.
  • Resembles acute ascending paralysis of Landry.
  • Vip has a chronic and periodic action, the symptoms return annually for years
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from letting limbs hang down.
  • Worse by pressure.
  • Worse change of weather, from cold touch.
  • Worse yearly
RELATIONSHIPS
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  • 1 Hemorrhage of fluid blood, Sanguis
  • 2 Worse hanging down limbs, Calc., Alumn., Am-c., Sabin., Thuj
  • 3 Pelius berus. Adder Prostration and fainting, faltering pulse, skin yellow, pain about navel. Swelling of arm. tongue, right eye with giddiness, nervousness, faintness, and sickness. Compression of chest, could not breathe properly or take a deep breath, aching and stiffness of limbs, joints stiff, collapsed feeling, great thirst.
  • 4 Ser -ang heart and kidney diseases. Failure of compensation and impending asystole.
EYES
  • Eyes are dark yellow, red, inflamed and watery, staring, sunken.
  • Pupils are dilated or left dilated, right contracted.
  • Paralysis of lids, dropped over eyes.
  • Vision is dim in left eye, lost in right
FACE
  • Excessively swollen.
  • Lips and the tongue swollen, livid, protruding.
  • Tongue dry, brown, blac k.
  • Speech difficult
MOUTH
  • Scorbutic line on gums.
  • Tongue swollen, brownish -black, protruding.
  • Lips, blue, swollen.
  • Speech difficult.
  • Nose - Nosebleed with vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., while nursing the child
THROAT
  • Swelling like goiter.
  • Edema of glottis.
  • Closure of throat so that she could swallow only water and milk.
  • COMMENTS - Vip patients resist the cold badly.
  • The parts may be paralyzed and ulcers and gangreneDeath of body tissue from lack of blood flowLocalized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection. follow.
  • Worse from letting limb o r part hang down.
  • Sensation as if something ran up the thigh occurred in the bitten limb in one case.
  • In one case there was sweat over the whole body except the bitten limb.
  • Leonard gave Vip to a woman suffering from menopausal hemorrhage, flow red with d ark clots, excessive to prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. and faintness.
  • She had a small uterine fibroid.
  • A few doses relieved and the excessive hemorrhage did not return.
  • He also noted the case of a woman nursing a child a year old who was much prostrated by hemorrhage lasting several weeks, not profuse, but continuous: Nosebleed nearly every day, weaning brought no relief.
  • Chin.
  • 200c did no good.
  • Vip.
  • 100,000c cured in three doses
CHEST
  • Oppression with anxiety with violent efforts to breathe and swallow.
  • Veins of chest and abdomen thick and hard.
  • Swelling of chest as far as umbilicus after bite on face
ABDOMEN
  • Digestion slow.
  • Pain in epigas trium, wor se pressure.
  • Nausea with shud dering with attack of faintness.
  • Retching with suffocative sensation.
  • Vomiting after milk of all food and drink.
  • Excruciating pain in the epi gastrium, worse pressure.
  • Violent pain in enlarged liver extends to shoulder and hip, jaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. with fever.
  • Appetite lost.
  • Thirst with moist tongue, for cold drinks
GENITALS ETC
  • Menopausal hemorrhage, flow red with dark clots, not profuse but continu ous with prostration and faintness from nursing the child.
  • Kidneys - StrangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge..
  • Involuntary urina tion.
  • Urine is increased, suppressed, dark yellow, as in jaundice.
  • Hematuria.
  • Ineffectual desire
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Patient is obliged to keep the limbs elevated.
  • When limbs are allowed to hang down, it seems as if they would burst and the pain is unbearable.
  • Shuffling gait caused by paralysis of foot.
  • Varicose veins and acute phlebitis.
  • Veins swollen, sensitive, bursting pain.
  • Blue lower limbs.
  • Severe cramps in lower limbs.
  • Liver - Violent pain in enlarged liver with jaundice and fever, extends to shoulder and hip
BACK AND NECK
  • Sticking in kidneys.
  • Pain in loins
SKIN
  • Livid.
  • Boils, carbuncles with bursting sensation, relieved by elevating parts.
  • Ulcers.
  • Gangrene.
  • Skin peels in large plates.
  • Lymphangioma
SLEEP
  • Disposed to yawn.
  • Sleepiness and heaviness with inability to sleep and also almost constant necessity to change the position.
  • Sleeplessness from pain.
  • Restless at night.
  • Temperature is diminished, resists cold badly.
  • Chilliness with cold sweat, with rigidity and clammy sweat, then fever of irregular type intermittent fever.
  • Sweat after vomiting

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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