NAJA [Naja]:

– T. F. Allen.

Generalities
Like other serpent poisons, it produces swelling of the whole body or special parts and local inflammations. General torpor and listlessness, even insensibility. Sensation, as if internal organs distant from each other were drawn together.; for example, the ovary and heart.
Head
Neuralgic pains, preceded or followed by nausea and vomiting; a sense of dull, heavy constriction, often extending from the forehead to the occiput, with ringing in the ears, palpitation, etc.
Nose
Clinical. Symptoms of hay fever, with asthmatic breathing, especially with dryness in the larynx, suffocation; aggravation by lying down; must be held erect to breathe; aggravated by sleeping.
Throat
Dryness in the mouth and throat. Sense of constriction, with grasping at the throat; inability to swallow. Clinical. Diphtheritic inflammation; patient is cyanotic, gasps, wakes from sleep in distress, with palpitation, intermittent and thready pulse, threatening paralysis of the heart.
Sexual Organs
Constrictive pains in the left ovary, with palpitation. A feeling as if the ovary and heart were being drawn together.
Respiratory Organs
Constriction and suffocated feeling in the larynx. Dyspnoea () expectoration of mucus.
Heart
Pain in the region of the heart, a peculiar depressed feeling. Palpitation. Fluttering. Pulse becomes irregular and very feeble, with cyanosis; gasping for breath on waking from sleep. Pains in the heart extend to the shoulder and neck, with extreme anxiety. Clinical. Not infrequently indicated in rheumatic diseases of the heart, with irregular, feeble action, particularly with cough, asthmatic breathing, suffocative constriction of he chest; angina pectoris.

– Kent J. T.

The use of Naja has extended far beyond its proving. So many of the Ophidian family present symptoms in common with it, that much has been presumed—truly so. Many characteristics run through these remedies, each remedy having its own peculiar sphere. Taken together the family presents a wide range of curative action.

Mure, of Brazil, thought that the snake family presented curative powers for the healing of the nations.

In the mineral kingdom, man may find his remedy when sick, so in the vegetable and animal kingdom. It is possible that the product of the serpent may be everything needed for the healing of man. Extend this to the whole animal kingdom and it is probably so. There seems to be everything existing in one kingdom that exists in another. The lowest is the mineral, the next the vegetable, and last the animal kingdom. If we had a perfect knowledge of any one kingdom, we could probably cover the entire scope of curative possibilities. But we have only a knowledge of a few remedies in each kingdom.

Another idea has been advanced that in any particular region, the vegetable kingdom provides all that is necessary for curing in that region. If we were acquainted with all the vegetable growths, how much we would know in comparison with what we do know! It is highly probable that there is a throwing off from the sick human race of something that is absorbed by the plants. The evils that are thrown off by man may be absorbed by the vegetable kingdom. Plants will correspond to men in the region in which they grow, if there is anything in this. In two thousand years there might be a necessity for some kind of a check upon the growth of plants. The absorption of these evils may cause them to vary in species, and if they continue to grow and each to absorb the evils from the human race, they will continue to differ. This favors evolution and explains it in a sense.

It is important to compare the symptoms of Naja with those of the other snakes. The patient is disturbed by closeness of the collar, (