Vipera Berus

Delirium; and raving; with vomiting; alternating with sopor

Coma, with thirst for water

Loss of mental functions with drawn features.

Vertigo: with falling forward, with nose-bleed and anxiety; with nausea and vomiting, so that he fainted; with loss of vision

Ecchymoses in membranes of brain, effusion of bloody serum into ventricles

Tearing at every change of weather, with sticking

Headache: with coated tongue and bad appetite; with inclination to sigh.

Eyes: dark yellow; red, inflamed, and watery; staring; sunken

Pupils: dilated; l. dilated, r. contracted

Paralysis of lids; dropped over eyes

Vision: dim; dim in l. eye, lost in r.; lost.

Face: swollen (and neck), with pressing out of eyes; tense and blackish, with closure of throat; convulsed; red; pale and hippocratic, with cold sweat on forehead; covered with drops of sweat

Lips: blue; lips and tongue swollen, covered with saliva and pale; livid and protruding

Acid burning in lips, mouth, and throat.

Scorbutic line on gums

Sensation of swelling in the teeth (H.

W., xxviii. 25)

Swelling of salivary glands; of mouth; of mouth and throat, with dryness, so that swallowing was impossible

Tongue: swollen; and brownish-black, protruding; so that he could not speak; with closed jaws and difficult speech

Tongue: black; fuliginous and breath fetid; yellow, tip red; white, tremulous; white in middle, moist on edges, with thirst

Speech: inarticulate; and thick; lost on account of weakness.

Swelling like a goître

Closure of throat so that she could swallow only water and milk, afterwards biting in fauces, the swelling of which became blackish

Viscid mucus adheres to pharynx.

Nausea: with shuddering; with attack of faintness

Retching; with suffocative sensation

Vomiting: after milk; of all food and drink; with weakness; faintness; shivering, and thirst; coldness of body; with colic; with colic and thirst; bilious diarrhoea of bitter yellow fluid; green substances; green liquid; viscid greenish fluid

Pain: in epigastrium;

< pressure; in epigastric or umbilical region

Uneasiness in epigastrium

Digestion slow.

Hypochondria tense; sore

Abdomen tense, pressure causes distension of facial muscles

Swelling with raging pains and spasms even to faintness, and after drinking milk vomiting of a mass of round worms, then freedom from worm troubles which he had before

Sudden flatulent distension, with colic, pain in back, and vomiting

Rumbling

Pain in abdomen; in umbilical region, < pressure.

Diarrhoea: frequent; bilious

Fetid; and black

Bloody stools; in masses of dark, offensive blood (apparently from the tongue, which had been scarified)

Stools: copious; numerous, with shivering, urging, and thirst; involuntary; and frequent, mixed with blood and mucus; and involuntary micturition

Discharge of black, coagulated blood; of blood just before death

Pain and tenesmus

Urging to pass stool and urine; desire for stool, with coldness to touch.—(After diarrhoea, greenish and bloody, most violent pain in the enlarged liver, with jaundice and fever, pain extending from liver to shoulder and down to hip;

Vipera immediately removed the pain and reduced the liver to its normal size.)

Ineffectual desire

Strangury

Involuntary micturition

Urine: increased; suppressed; dark yellow, as in jaundice.

Suffocation

Dyspnoea; with sticking in heart

Anxious breathing, as in croup, threatening asphyxia

Breathing ceased suddenly, heart stopped, face became livid, &c., tracheotomy was performed, blood drawn from arm flowed scantily, was dark, mixed with bright streaks.

Veins of chest and abdomen thick and hard

Swelling of chest as far as umbilicus after bite on face

Oedema of lungs before death

Pain: in l. side; over four or five r. ribs on pressure

Oppression, with anxiety; with violent efforts to breathe and swallow.

Sticking in heart; with cold sweat and faintness

Pain in heart with faintness

Dragging pain so that he tears his clothes, becomes faint

Anxiety at same time for four years, with soreness of the bitten foot and paralysis of r. arm

Heart's action: slow; feeble; and no pulsation in radial or carotid arteries, but that in crural was very strong

Pulse: rapid; interrupted; slow, febrile; irregular; weak.—(Vip. is a very valuable remedy for varicose veins and for acute phlebitis, the vein is swollen, bordered by an area of inflammation, which is very sensitive to touch, but particularly with the sensation, on letting the leg hang down, as if it would burst from the fulness of the veins

Phlebitis of r. arm, < hanging arms down.)

Limbs swollen and red

Livid spots on the bitten limb every year at the time of the bite

Yellowish, livid, mottled spots

Trembling

Pain in limbs: < touch; alternating with pains in abdomen

Limbs: benumbed: relaxed.—(Burning feeling in limbs in three cases—neurasthenia, an old sprain, and varicose veins.)

Pain: in shoulders; in arm, extending to chest

Arm swollen; livid red; red, covered with spots; painful

Paralysis of r. arm recurring for years after, a bite on foot

Swelling: of the hand not bitten; of hand, not pitting on pressure, with pain as if it would burst, with pain on touch; and stiffness

Hands violet-coloured, covered with phlyctenules

Skin of hand dead and detached in large plates, subjacent tissues livid

Stitches in finger-tips after bite on arm.

Shuffling gait caused by paralysis

Convulsive movements

Cramps

Weakness

Feeling as if something moved up along thigh (after bite on ankle)

Tension in knees and ankles

Knees stiff

Leg swollen, cold, and insensible

Paralysis of foot with shuffling gait

Paralysis, then ulcers.

Skin: pale; yellowish; jaundiced on face and trunk, with red patches on limbs; livid; in spots; black petechial spots over whole body, which was cold to touch

Herpetic eruption, with itching about the wound

Roseola-like eruption on inside of arm and down side of body

Ulcers

Blisters about the bite, bursting and leaving ulceration, muscles were laid bare, were dark red, dry, looked like smoked meat, insensible to touch, the sore was offensive

Gangrene

Crawling in soles, then also in palms.

Disposed to yawn

Sleepiness; and heaviness; with inability to sleep, and also almost constant necessity to change the position

Sleeplessness; from pain

Night restless.

Chilliness: with sweat; with cold sweat; with rigidity and clammy sweat; then fever

Temperature diminished, resists cold badly

Heat: in morning, with thirst, restlessness, and moderate pains; towards evening; at night, with delirium; then shivering

Fever of irregular type; intermittent fever

Burning: running up arm; rising from heel to tongue; on chest and abdomen, with longing for cold applications though skin was cold to touch; of fingers (from rubbing a stick with which a snake had been bruised), with swelling

Sweat: after vomiting; after chamomile tea, copious sweat from abdomen to toes except over the bitten limb; cold; cold, clammy

Skin dry.