– THOMPSON M,

Homoeopathic links 2/91
Jürgen Becker p. 9 Homoeopathic Links 2/91: In the meantime we have had ten constitutional cases of Vipera, where the main themes and symptoms are: wild sexual excitement, the temptation of adultery, everything that is prohibited in this way becomes a temptation. Simulating death (like the viper in winter), coldness (differentiation to other snakes), hatred and revenge, rage and fury, jealousy, drug addiction especially by injections, that Satan would be after you. It seems as if Vipera would be the specifically European and Christian way of “beating dead” the sexual instincts as well as the chaotic female power, which is threatening our cultural order.
Following on from Jürgen Becker’s comments on Vipera then it occurs to me that fear of injections and fear of snakes may go together. This is more so in rattlesnakes and vipers who have movable, retractable fangs rather than cobras and mambas who have shorter fixed fangs. Snake’s fangs are like hypodermic needles – hollow and replaceable!

The following additions for Vipera berus are from Jürgen Becker p. 9 Homeopathic Links 2/91.
MIND
Adulterous
Delusion he is pursued by Satan
Drug addiction especially by injections
Excitement, sexual
Hatred and revenge
Jealousy
Rage, fury
GENERALITIES
Heat, lack of vital
Vermeulen’s concordat
SIGNS
Vipera berus. Common adder.
No snake in Europe has been persecuted and exterminated so ruthlessly as the adder, a fate that he shares with the North American rattlesnake. The animal is associated with negative human characteristics. In general it means a thoroughly unreliable, untrustworthy person: rearing a viper in one’s bosom; a generation of vipers. Or it implies a situation which suddenly takes a very unpleasant turn: there’s a snake in the grass.
Adders almost always have a zigzag dark stripe along the middle of their back. The body is short and quite fat, while the iris is copper-coloured and the pupil vertical. Adders are found all over Europe and Asia, and have even made their way above the Arctic circle. It is the only adder that occurs in Great Britain and the Netherlands. Though no water snake, it favours moist and swampy places. It mainly hunts in the evening and at night for lizards and small mammals.
The adder hibernates for almost the entire winter and appears again in the spring to bask in the spring sunshine. In regions with extremely low temperature adders spend most of their time in the sun in early spring. After a few weeks they change their skin and become a bit more active. When the mating season arrives in April and May the males travel around looking for females. The size of the body, which determines their success in fights with other males, increases their chance of mating. The fights are free-style wrestling matches where the object of the exercise is to push the opponent away. The winner may then mate with a female.
When pregnant, the females spend a lot of time lying in the sun because the embryos develop faster in high temperatures. The female does not eat while pregnant and is quite emaciated when giving birth. Many females die, and those that survive cannot build up enough reserves in the autumn to reproduce the following year. Depending on the supply of food and the length of the warm season, adders reproduce only once every two or three years.
This adder allows people to approach and quietly observe it. It expands itself threateningly but does not attack. The slightest touch is enough for it to raise its head at lightning speed. It is not known how old adders become, since they refuse food when in captivity and only in very exceptional circumstances do they stay alive for longer than a year when captured.
Adders owe their scientific name Vipera to the fact that they give birth to living young (vivus paro). Newborn adders can already fend for themselves, but stay for some time around the mother. In keeping with their preference for northern regions, they cannot tolerate hot sun, and in the summer they retreat into the shade during the hottest part of the day. Adders are not without their natural enemies, and they are preyed upon by foxes and badgers, and an insect-eater such as the hedgehog.
Adders bite their prey and then release them immediately. After some time, they start tracking the wounded prey using their tongue, which is an important organ of scent.
Adders do not occur in the New World, and their place is occupied there and in large parts of Asia by pit vipers (Bothrops, Cenchris, Crotalus, Lachesis).
COMPARE
Lachesis. Arsenicum. Phosphorus. Mercurius. Crotalus horridus. Secale.

Comparisons
•• Acute phlebitis or phlegmonous inflammation.
• Lachesis: Discolouration darker, violet; pulsating pain; worse heat and esp. touch.
• Crotalus horridus: Purple or violet discolouration; burning pain; worse cold less pronounced.
• Bothrops: More pronounced swelling, oedema and tendency to thrombosis.
• Anthracinum: Violent burning; marked induration.
• Hepar sulphuris: Pain worse touch and coldness; tendency to suppurations, but not to thrombosis or gangrene.
Characteristics.
REGION
VEINS. Blood.
LEADING SYMPTOMS
M “Wild sexual excitement; temptation of adultery; everything that is prohibited in this way becomes a temptation.”
“Hatred and revenge, rage and fury, jealousy.” (Becker)
“Delusion being persecuted by Satan. It seems as if Vipera would be the specifically European and Christian way of ‘beating dead’ the sexual instinct as well as the chaotic female power, which is threatening our cultural order.” (Becker)
M Irritability and restlessness during headache.
M Drug addiction, esp. by injection.
G Abscesses; suppurations.
G Distension of bloodvessels.
Full feeling.
Worse: Letting limbs hang down (= bursting pain).
Bluish or purplish discolouration.
Thrombosis.
G VARICOSE VEINS; ACUTE PHLEBITIS.
Veins swollen, bordered by an area of inflammation; very sensitive to touch.
Bursting pain.
Worse: Letting limb hang down.
Worse: Touch; pressure.
Worse: Cold air.
Better: Resting limb on table or other elevation.
“Vipera is indicated many times in varicosities and phlebitis during pregnancy and the menopause.”
G Reopening of old wounds.
Annual (or monthly) recurrence of bluish discolouration, pain or swelling.
Esp. during warm weather.
G Coldness, with clammy sweat.
Yet worse first warm weather (spring); = weakness and recurrence of complaints.
G Worse: Change of weather.
Sensitive to every change of weather.
Recurrence of complaints at first hot weather.
G Most snakes { spring.
Vipera most affected by wet weather. (Mangialavori)
G Great thirst for cold drinks.
G } Discharges (vomiting; sweating).
G Faintness from pain; from sitting up.
Better: Cold drinks.
G Intolerance of clothing.
P Protrusion of eyes.
and Heat in eyes and profuse lachrymation.
and Swelling of face.
“The eyes look as if he were raving mad, with staggering and stumbling forward.” (Jahr)
P Hepatitis (hemolytic); liver enlarged.
Pain extends from liver to shoulder and hip.
Worse: Touch; coldness.
and Greenish and bloody diarrhoea.
and Coldness of body.
and Burning thirst.
and Distended abdomen.
“Distortion of features when pressing on the distended abdomen.” (Jahr)
RUBRICS
MIND: Delirium from sepsis (2). Delusion of being away from home (1). Irrational talk (1). Talks to himself (1).
HEAD: Pain in temporal veins (1); stitching pain on change of weather (1; Merc).
NOSE: Recurrent epistaxis (1; Carc.); epistaxis and vertigo (1).
FACE: Red discolouration, glowing, burning (2). Swelling of lips (2).
MOUTH: Motion of tongue like a snake (2). Pain as if burnt in tip of tongue (1). Tongue protruded and swollen (1/1). Twitching of tongue (1).
TEETH: Sensation as if teeth were large and swollen (1).
THROAT: Caseous deposits on tonsils (1). Chronic inflammation, throat feels as if closed (1/1).
ABDOMEN: Discolouration, red spots (1). Pain in abdomen pain in limbs (1; Phyt.); annual pain in abdomen, at first hot weather (1/1).
FEMALE: Menses, clotted, coagulated, partly fluid (1; Sabin.); worse nursing (1).
LARYNX: Oedema of glottis (2).
RESPIRATION: Difficult respiration during pain in heart (1). Impeded respiration from sticking pain in heart (1).
CHEST: Discolouration, black, mottled spots (1/1). Distended veins (1/1).
EXTREMITIES: Awkwardness of lower limbs, knocks against things (1). Discolouration, ecchymose (2; Sul-ac.). Formication on palms of hands (1). Fullness of veins of hands (3); of veins of legs (2). Chronic inflammation of veins (1). Reflexes increased (1). Dark swelling of hand (2; Lach.). Walking, walks shuffling (1). Wooden sensation in lower limbs (1).
SLEEP: Sleep disturbed by pains (1); by vomiting (1). Sleepiness at first hot weather (1/1).
SKIN: Discolouration, blackish, spots (2); bluish, spots (3). Vesicular eruptions, cracked, breaking (2). Moist gangrene from burns or gangrenous sores (3). Recurrent ulcers (2).
GENERALITIES: Weakness worse warm weather (1).
FOOD
Desire: Milk (2); cold drinks (1).

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