SNAKE Remedies

        Any part of the body can be affected by snake venom although we tend to associate the susceptibility to the throat, tongue, heart, blood, nervous system, eyes.

        Snake people tend to be lively, articulate, loquacious, often highly sexual, like attention, love bright colors and music (snake charmers). They can be driven to jealousy, suspicion, competitiveness. They can tell lies and be manipulative. On the other hand Naja for example can be like a Pulsatilla, appear quiet and gentle - a snake lying in waiting?

        There are warm snakes and cold snakes:-
        Cold = Naja, Elaps, Vipera, Bothrops
        Warm = Lachesis, Hydrophis, Crot. H.

        Snakes shed their skins so expect Sx of peeling flaking skin, hair loss, skin discoloration, delusions about their body - only half alive, irritation with clothing.

        Snakes are held by the neck so expect Sx pathology around the neck and throat and sensitivity to touch etc in these areas.

        Snakes hypnotize their prey so you can get people who stare or don't blink very much. They captivate you whilst telling their story.

        Snake organs lie on one side only:-
        Left = Lachesis, Hydrophis, Vipera
        Right = Bothrops, Elaps, Cenchris, Naja, Crot. h, Crot. c,

        Snakes move in wavelike movements so expect pulsating Sx Baby snakes are not nursed - so expect Sx of being forsaken or abandoned.

        Snakes have poor sensory perception of distant stimuli but are quick to respond to short range stimuli - so you have confusion, absent mindedness, weak memories, excitement, hysteria Snakes are killed and persecuted either for their skins or because they are feared = fear of being persecuted.

        Naja

        Nerves and respiratory - nervous, excitable, tremulous, irresolute, constantly brooding over imaginary troubles, can become suicidal, fear of being alone, fear of the rain. Very dutiful, they will even help someone who has harmed them. Dream of feeling important. Excitement alternates with restraint. Delusion being starved. Delusion head is injured, contradiction of will, fear of failure. desire to be near fire. Constriction and pressure in the throat, sensation of choking, dyspnoea, fluttering heart with stitching pain and numbness. Dry teasing coughs. Valvular heart disease. Sensation of a hot iron running through and a feeling of a great weight on them. swollen glands and gangrenous states. Loss of power in the limbs and in the voice. Suicide with an axe. serious, earnest, everything seems wrong.

        Crotalus horridus

        Sociable snake, may resemble Phos. Sympathetic, fear of thunder and lightning, not aggressive. Easily moved to tears but can be angry at the slightest thing - so rapid mood swings. Both compliant and dictatorial. Can be timid, fearful, anxious and melancholy. Don't need company. Suspicious and at odds with their own family. Snappy and irritable - may seem like Nux. Vom. Loquacious but with rambling speech. Constant fear of death. Delusion pursued by enemies. dreams they are half alive. Apathy and indifference, forgetful. Malignancy and haemorrhages, no clots. Blood oozes. Prostration. Dysentery, septic conditions with blueness. S.A.I. will burst inside. Sudden pains. Drowsiness. More tendency to weep than Lachesis and more mental confusion. Likes alcohol and pork. Yellow sclera. Feel disconnected, weep while reading, dullness alternating with excitement, ectasy.

        Elaps Loner snakes

        Want to be in the country and love to travel. Averse to company, will avoid all contact with people. But they also have an absolute fear of being alone = fear that something will happen to them. Hears voices - people talking to them which. Fear of impending disease. Fear of rain, snakes. Loss of memory and absent minded. Sensation as if in a dream - spaced out, notice nothing, don't want to be interfered with. Delusion of being beaten - an urge to strike out, hit and shriek especially if they feel threatened. Septic conditions without high fever, black blood, black ear wax. All discharges are black. S.A.I. uterus would burst. dream of dead people. Bites hand during sleep.

        Crotalus cascavellus

        Persecution from spirits, ghosts and monsters. Feel they have been cursed and will never get better - very hypochondriacal. Hear voices, clairvoyant, trance like states. Pre-occupied with death. dream of corpses. wants to be busy and with people. Jealousy. S.A.I. only partially in their own bodies. Fear that someone is behind them. fear of suffocation and of being thrown from a height. Many delusions:- eyes falling out, hears groans and footsteps, black skeletons. Alternating sx. Rage leads to fainting.

        Cenchris contortrix

        Hibernates in the hot summer and is active in the spring. Absent minded and forgetful. Lose themselves. Suddenness of symptoms. Dreamy. Forgets where they are going. strong anxiety. Feel they will die suddenly. Stares into space, doesn't listen. Rapid mood changes. strong sexual desire. Dreams of rape and sex. Dream of drunken and naked people, robbers and indecent conduct, dead people. anxiety felt in the heart. Suspicious of everyone. restless, will walk the floor unable to sleep. Time passes slowly, dragging. envious, hardness, easily slighted. anger in the evening and suspicious in the afternoon/evening 3-8.

        Bothrops lanceolatus

        Blindness through the day, vision agg. by daylight. Confusions, forgets words while speaking. Cannot articulate. One side paralysis. Dull, exhausted and depressed. Fear that heart will stop. Bleeding, blood will not coagulate, active haemorrhage, dark blood. Skin falls off in bits. Limbs swell, blue blotches, putrid odour. Diagonal pains. Vertigo with falling. Cold sweats. Heart pain exertion, talking, walking.

        Vipera Nocturnal

        Kills with lightning speed. Irritability, shrieking, delirium alternating with vomiting. The energy is not channelled. Desire everything which is prohibited and are prone to drug taking; esp. intravenous = phlebitis. Delusion persecuted by satan. Fear of being poisoned. desire death. Bursting sensation. Sits with feet high. enlarged puffy parts. Lips blue and swollen. Continued haemorrhage at climacteric - continuous not profuse. Varicose veins and phlebitis. S.A.I.limbs made of wood and teeth are too large and that skin on the head is dead and peels off like a glove. Frightful thoughts on waking at night.

        Hydrophis cyanocinictus

        Seems as if walking on air. night and after nightmares. Depressed, heavy, clouded mental state, poor memory and concentration. Wakes with thoracic oppression. Mood swings consolation. Lack initiative. anxious, clairvoyant. Loathing of life. Sadness. Neuromuscular diseases prominent. Left vision lost, heavy eyelids cannot keep them open. Dry throat with hoarseness. Thirst for cold drinks. warmth in general. Bursting H/A. Nightmares 2.30 to 4.30 Toxicophis Oedema prominent. Periodicity - recur annually at exactly the same time for a period of years with decreasing intensity each year.

        Thanks for reading.
        Joy Lucas RSHom joy.lucas@ntlworld.com