# Vipera Torva

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Proved in 1970 by Boffa and Dupin on 14 subjects, 7 men, and 7 women. The heart, blood 
and blood vessels were chiefly affected. Sleepiness during daytime. Chilly. Worse left side. 
Nerves. Throbbing pains. Throbbing headache. Heavy sensation in eyes. Dazzling when raising eyes. Dryness 
of mouth, with pasty tongue, on waking in morning. Dry mouth before menses. Menses with small, very dark 
clots or with big red clots.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better during menses. Bet ter gentle motion. Worse warm, damp weather, warm room, heat. 
Worse left side, pressure. Worse evening. Worse before menses.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Pessimism.
- Nervousness.
- Irritability.
- Disposition to contradict.
- Impatience.
- Anxiety.
- Dreams of death..
- Pessimism.
- Nervousness.
- Irritability.
- Disposition to contradict.
- Impatience.
- Anxiety.
- Dreams of death..

### Chest
- Palpitations of heart at night, worse lying on left side.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Intense thirst for cold drinks.

### Extremities
- Spontaneous ecchymoses on arms.
- Painful heaviness in legs, worse walk ing, better raising legs.
- Veins of thighs distended.
- Marbled, mottled 
appearance of thighs.