The German Viper
- Viper poisoning causes a temporary increase in reflexes, paresis supervenes, a paraplegia of the lower extremities extending upwards.
- Resembles acute ascending paralysis of Landry (Wells).
- Has special action on kidneys and induces hematuria.
- Cardiac dropsy.
- Indicated in inflammation of veins with great swelling; bursting sensation.
- Enlargement of liver.
- Ailments of menopause.
- Edema of glottis.
- Poly-neuritis, polio-myelitis.
Face
- Excessively swollen.
- Lips and tongue swollen, livid, protruding.
- Tongue dry, brown, black.
- Speech difficult.
Liver
- Violent pain in enlarged liver, with jaundice and fever; extends to shoulder and hip.
Extremities
- Patient is obliged to keep the extremities elevated.
- When they are allowed to hang down, it seems as if they would burst, and the pain is unbearable (Diad).
- Varicose veins and acute phlebitis.
- Veins swollen, sensitive; bursting pain.
- Severe cramps in lower extremities.
Skin
- Livid.
- Skin peels in large plates.
- Lymphangioma, boils, carbuncles, with bursting sensation, relieved by elevating parts.
Relationship
- Pelius berus-Adder (Prostration and fainting, faltering pulse, skin yellow, pain about navel. Swelling of arm, tongue, right eye; giddiness, nervousness, faintness, sickness, compression of chest, could not breathe properly or take a deep breath; aching and stiffness of limbs, joints stiff, collapsed feeling, great thirst).
- Eel serum (heart and kidney diseases. Failure of compensation and impending asystole).
Dose
- Twelfth potency.
