NAJA TRIPUDIANS

NAJA TRIPUDIANS

(Virus of the Cobra)

Naja.

Naja causes bulbar paralysis (L. J. Boyd). It doesn’t cause hemorrhage but edema, so victims often show minimal external injury, just a small scratch or puncture where the fangs struck. Beneath the wound, tissue is dark purple, and a large amount of viscid blood-like fluid gathers. The first symptom is intense burning pain at the bite. In humans, there’s a delay before further symptoms appear, averaging about an hour. Once symptoms start, they progress rapidly. Intoxication, followed by limb paralysis, loss of speech, swallowing difficulties, and loss of lip movement control occur. Saliva is ejected in large amounts, respiration slows and eventually stops, while consciousness remains. It is not hemorrhagic or septic like Lach or Crot-h. Its action targets the heart, causing valvular problems, blood surging upwards, dyspnea, and inability to lie on the left side. Symptoms include hypertrophy, valvular lesions, organs feeling drawn together, and high cold susceptibility. Heart symptoms are accompanied by forehead and temple pain, and diseases primarily related to motor cell degeneration lead to loss of sphincter control.

Mind: Constant brooding over imaginary problems, suicidal thoughts, depression, aversion to talking, blurred speech, melancholy, fear of being alone, and fear of rain.

Head: Pain in the left temple and orbit, extending to the occiput, with nausea and vomiting (migraine). Hay fever with a dry larynx, and suffocative spells after sleeping.

Eyes: Staring and ptosis of both lids.

Ears: Hearing illusions, ear pain, chronic otorrhea with black discharges smelling like herring brine.

Female: Neuralgia in the left ovary, effective for obscure pains in the left groin, especially post-operative, often seeming drawn to the heart.

Respiratory: Grasping at the throat with a choking sensation, irritating dry cough due to cardiac lesions, sticky mucus and saliva, asthmatic constriction in the evening, and asthma starting with coryza.

Heart: Dragging and anxiety in the precordia, sensation of weight on the heart, angina pains extending to the nape of the neck, left shoulder, and arm with anxiety and fear of death, pain in the forehead and temples with heart symptoms, irregular pulse, threatened heart paralysis, cold body, slow, weak, irregular, and tremulous pulse, acute and chronic endocarditis, palpitations, stitching pain in the heart region, damaged heart after infectious diseases, and marked low tension symptoms.

Sleep: Profound, like a log with stertorous breathing, typical of reptilian state.

Modalities: Worse from stimulants; better from walking or riding in open air.

Relationship: Compare with other serpent poisons like Bungarus fasciatus (Banded krait), which produces conditions similar to acute polioencephalitis and myelitis, both symptomatically and histologically, and Lachesis, Crotalus horridus, Spigelia, and Spongia.

Dose: Sixth to thirtieth potency.