Common Characteristics of Snake Remedies:
Bothrops Lanceolatus
Cenchris Contortrix
Cench
Copperhead Snake
Crotalidae
Animal/Reptile
• Right sided symptoms.
• Fear of rape, fear of being bitten
by a snake.
• Constriction around throat.
• Pulsating, bursting sensation,
esp. in heart region.
• Intolerant of tight clothing
• Horrible vivid dreams.
• Dyspnea.
• Mental and physical
restlessness.
• Thirst for small quantities of
water.
• Suspicious, anger, jealousy,
censorious, malicious.
• Increased sexual desire.
Crotalus Horridus
Crot-h
Rattlesnake
Crotalidae
Animal/Reptile
• Right sided symptoms.
• Fear of rain
• Spasms.
• Hemorrhagic diathesis.
• Blood oozes from ears.
• Bloody sweat.
• Intolerance to clothing around
stomach.
• Dreams of dead persons.
• Sleeps into his symptoms.
• Epistaxis - black stringy blood.
• Palpitation, esp during menses.
• Heart’s actions feeble.
• Intense flushing and drenching
perspiration.
• Profound anemia.
• Bursting sensations
• Yellow skin color esp face.
• Unable to swallow any solid
substances.
• Quieter milder Lachesis; finishes
a Lach. Case
• Makes mistakes in speaking and
writing, weakness of memory
for names and places
• Strong personalities, anger,
delirium
• Malignant conditions, sepsis
< lying on right side, falling asleep
>Motion, light
Naja Tripudians Elaps Corallinus Vipera berus Lachesis Muta
(Fer de Lance)
Naja Elaps Vip Lach
Both-l
Cobra Coral Snake Common viper (adder) Bushmaster snake
Yellow Viper
Elapidae Elapidae Viperidae Crotalidae
Crotalidae
Animal/Reptile Animal/Reptile Animal/Reptile Animal/Reptile
Animal/Reptile
• Left sided symptoms.
• Right sided symptoms. • Left sided symptoms. • Right sided symptoms. • Left sided symptoms.
• Fear of rain.
• Fear of rain • Hatred & revenge, rage & fury, • Marked diagonal course of • Intense/ruthless/witty
• Dreads to be left alone.
• Fear of being alone, as if jealousy, temptation of adultery symptoms, pains are crosswise • Complaints, mental &
• Blurred speech, aver to talking
something horrible might • Delusion being persecuted by • Coagulation physical, < after sleep
• Grasping throat with sense of
happen Satan • Forgetfulness • Sensitive to touch – clothing
choking, gasping for breath.
• Constriction of pharynx. • Irritability & restlessness during • Stroke like symptoms, paralysis, on throat & neck agg.
• Asthmatic constriction in PM
• Intense, haughty, suspicious, headache speech difficult • Loquacious
• Frontal and temporal headache
malicious • Drug addiction esp by injection • Hemorrhages, dark blood, does • Suspicious/jealous
with the cardiac symptoms.
• Craves greens, salads • Boils & carbuncles with bursting not coagulate • Ailments from long lasting
• No hemorrhage; only oedema.
• Cough w/expectoration of black sensation relieved by elevation • Constriction in throat with grief/never well since
• Suffocative spells after sleeping.
blood • Discharge brings relief difficulty in swallowing liquids • Fear of snakes/being
• Sense of duality and being split
• Black menstrual bleeding • Tears his clothes open due to • Hemorrhages from all orifices pursued/being poisoned
in two
• Imagines he hears someone violent congestion in chest • Bloody stools • Hemorrhages, hot flushes,
• Dilemma, alternating moods
talking • Cardiac anguish with violent, hot perspiration
• Lacking self-confidence,
• Icy coldness internally, esp. chest pains • Rheumatic heart diseases
depressed, brooding over
after eating • Persistent epistaxis • Epistaxis, bleeding gums
imaginary troubles, melancholy
• Lancinating pains • Skin peels off in large plaques • Relief by menstrual flow
• Delusions that neglected his
duty, feels himself a failure, has • Hemorrhagic, black blood • Speech is difficult
done wrong and cannot be • Fear of crashing from high • Fever pains extend to shoulder
rectified places, fear of losing their high and hip
• Swallowing difficult from position • Climacteric ailments
constriction or paralysis of • Dreams of dead persons • Speech is difficult
throat
• Affections of the heart - < rain and cold weather, night, touch
Valvular and cardiac symptoms,
angina pectoris
• Chilly, body cold and collapsed
<lying on left side, sleep, tight
collars, damp weather
> open air
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Snake Themes:
• Forsaken feeling (with snakes, there is no relationship between mother and her young)
• Sensation of constriction
• Worse from clothing (snakes must continually shed their skin)
• Worse by swallowing – lump in throat (Prey is swallowed whole)
• Loquacity
• One sided symptom
• Worse after sleep (snakes are nocturnal)
• Sense of persecution
• Demand attention
• Must be attractive, love for colors, music
• Clairvoyance
• Strong fear and dreams of snakes
• Marked Pre-menstrual Syndrome
• Strong fear of water, of drowning
• Dreams about dead people
• Hemorrhages

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