Common Characteristics of Snake Remedies:

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