BATCH-2021
BHMS-3 proff'
SEMINAR
TOPIC - OPHIDIA GROUP
Directed by- Dr. AK Das sir (HOD) Presented by-
Dr.seema gupta sahu ma'am shristi yadav Shiwani yadav
Dr. Soni Gupta ma'am sonali Kumari ummey salma
Dr. Piyush Gupta sir kajal maurya nidhi maurya
Dr.Rahul verma sir shweta chaudhary
INTRODUCTION
DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
TYPES OF VENOM
CHARACTERICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
MENTAL SYMPTOM
PHYSICAL SYMPTOM
MODALITIES
CLINICAL INDICATION
COMPARISON OF MEDICINES
LACHESIS
CROTALUS
NAJA
INTRODUCTION
MEDICINES OF OPHIDIA GROUP
1-1) LACHESIS TRIGONOCEPHALUS[ SURUKUKU SNAKE POISON,- PROVED BY HERING]
2) CROTALUS HORRIDUS [BUSHMASTER, RATTLE SNAKE-PROVED BY HERING]
3) CROTALUS CASCAVELLA [PITVIPER, BRAZILLIAN SNAKE-PROVED BY MURE]
4) NAJA TRIPUDIANS [NAJA; COBRA]
5) ELAPS CORALLINUS [CORAL SNAKE]
6) BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS [YELLOW VIPER]
7) VIPERA BERUS (GERMAN VIPER)
8) CENCHRIS CONTORTRIX [COPPER HEAD SNAKE]
9)HYDROPHIS CYANOCINCTUS (SEA SNAKE)
10) TOXICOPHIS (MOCCASIAN SNAKE)
11) CLOTHO ARICTANS
12) OPHIOTOXINUM
13) VIPERA TORVA
14) VIPERA COMMUNIS(COMMON VIPER)
15) VIPERA JEDI
DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
1- The snake is extremely
sensitive to heat,
so it lives in deep burrows
where it is cooler;
the patient of ophidia group
is worse from warmth,
by hot drinks,
in sun and in summer.
2-THE SNAKE IS MORE
FEROCIOUS AND POISONOUS
WHEN HUNGRY; THE PATIENT
OF OPHIDIA GROUP IS
AGGRAVATED BY FASTING
AND AMELIORATED AFTER
EATING.
3- SNAKES ARE POISONOUS.
WHEN WE SAY THE MIND IS
POISONED, IT MEANS THAT
THERE IS JEALOUSY AND
SUSPICION; SUSPICION AND
JEALOUSY ARE THE
CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS
OF THE PATIENTS.
4- THE SNAKE COILS ITSELF
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT;
SYMPTOMS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
PROCEED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
(EXCEPT CROTALUS AND
ELAPS AS THEY ARE RIGHT
SIDED)
5-IMMEDIATELY AFTER A
SNAKEBITE, THE BLOOD IS LET
OUT FROM THAT SITE AS A
THERAPEUTIC MEASURE TO
LIMIT THE EXTENT OF
DAMAGE; GENERAL RELIEF
FROM BLEEDING AND ANY
OTHER DISCHARGES.
6- THE SNAKE IS VERY
SENSITIVE TO TOUCH AND
VIBRATIONS; PATIENT IS
AGGRAVATED BY TOUCH AND
SLIGHT SOUND.
7-THE SNAKES CAN SWALLOW
RELATIVELY LARGE
CREATURES EASILY. DUE TO
PRESSURE CREATED BY SOLIDS
IN THE THROAT IT CAN
EASILY SWALLOW THE
SOLIDS; PATIENTS CAN
SWALLOW SOLIDS EASILY.
8- THE STOOLS OF THE
SNAKES ARE BLACK AND
OFFENSIVE; THE DISCHARGES
IN OPHIDIA GROUP ARE DARK
AND OFFENSIVE.
TYPES OF VENOM
1- Haemotoxic 3- Neurotoxin
2- Cytotoxin
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"constitution"
1-Hemorrhagic constitution,
2-skin shows purple or
mottled appearance
3-They are very much restless people
4- Face is sickly, pale, anxious bloated, or bluish
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
•Miasm:
Syphilitic and Tubercular background.
•Temperament:
Melancholic (sad)
•Diathesis:
Hemorrhagic
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
•Thermal relation:
All ophidians are hot patients
(except Elaps and Naja which are chilly)
•Sphere of action:
Nerves especially pneumogastric and spinal accessory,
cellular tissues, skin, circulation, CVS, brain, liver,
glands, throat and muscles etc.
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
•Aliment from :
•Fright • jealousy • alcoholism • onanism
• loss of vital fluids • suppress menses
• physical trauma • Bad effects of poisons
• long lasting grief • disappointed love
• vexation •Summer and spring.
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"Mental symptoms "
1- Solitude
2- Obsecene gesture
3- Double standard
4-Always playing dirty tricks
5-Fear of diesase and death
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"Mental symptoms "
6- Loquacity
7-Competitiveness
8-Attractiveness
9- Misanthropy
10-Secretivness
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"Mental symptoms "
11- Anxiety
12- Irritable & Quarrelsome
13- Greedy
14- Jealous
15- Delirium ( muttering like
when drunk)
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"Mental symptoms "
16- Hallucination
17-Delusion
18- Religious insanity
19- Hydrophobia & rage at
site of water
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
1- Haemorrhagic diathesis
Blood oozes profusely from every orifice of the
body.
•Dark red blood & changes rapidly to purplish colour
Dr. FA farrington say Haemorrhage seen in all
ophidians
Less in Vipera & least in Naja
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
2- Side affinity -
All ophidions are left
sided except - Crotalous
& Elaps
3- Pain -
left to right
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
4- Constrictiveness -
ophidian have chocking sensation
due to irritation of pneumogastric
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
5- Hypersensitiveness -
marked feature of all ophidians
especially-noise or touch, to motion
They cannot tolerate tight clothes around
neck and waist
Due to the peripheral nerve irritates.
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
6- Haematuria -
more often seen in ophdians
7- Inflammation & fever -
Low destructive types
eg. gangrene , cellulitis, ulcer
septicaemia
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
8 - Debility & Prostration -
It often leads to collapse condition
afterward
9- Paralysis -
All ophidian have characteristics
action on nerve
10- Discharge -black and offensive
CHARACTERISTICS OF OPHIDIA GROUP
"PHYSICAL GENERALS "
11- Heart affection
12- Desire-
oyster , cold drink , alcohol and
pork meat
GENERAL MODALITIES
Aggravation -
sleep , heat, spring , summer , suppressed
discharge
touch & noise
Amelioration-
When awake , discharge and exposure to cold
CLINICAL INDICATION
1- Gangrene 4- Septicaemia 8-Vertigo
2 - Haemorrhage 5- Varicose veins 9- Carbuncle
6-Alocholism 10- Boils
3- Paralysis
7- Ulcer
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
1- Bleeding ( Haemorrhage)
Lachesis Crotulus Bothrops Vipera Elaps
•Profuse •slow
• gushing •Rapid •sudden •epitaxisis
•oozing
•Dark •Severe •severe •lung
• inflammation
• Due to hormonal with clots •with Haemorrhage
•redness
imbalance •due to trauma •bleeding due to sepsis fever •black ink
and or injury •chills •pain in apex
infection/
uterine issues •weakness right lungs
inflammation
•Typhoid fever
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
2- Pharynx
Crotulus Lachesis Vipera Naja
• Congestion in
•spasm of pharynx •constriction of throat chest • Grapsing
•unable to swallow ,larynx , abdomen throat with
any solid • Sudden severe sense of
• Intolerance to least pain in pharynx,
substances chocking
touch & pressure with sensation of
•Intolarance of
especially neck knife or hot iron
clothing • Asthmatic
Around the neck • Dysphagia for liquid • Can not bear constriction in
clothes evening
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
2- Pharynx
Bothrops Elaps
• Constriction in throat
• Difficulty in swallowing • Constriction of pharynx
• Especially towards liquid • Food & drink are suddenly arrested
• Sensation of lumps or obstruction • Fall heavily in stomach
• Dysphagia for liquid
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
3- Paralysis
LACHESIS CROTALUS BOTHROPS VIPERA
• Left sided
• Sudden severe • Paralysis with
• Paralysis with
paralysis with • Paralysis with sudden, severe
-numbness
loss of motor -inflammation painful
-tingling
power -swelling numbness,
-tremors
• Often -pain accompained by
• Worse at night &
accompained by -fever sepsis or
during menopause
hemorrhage or - infection infection
sepsis collapse
• Hot flashes
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
4-Fever
Lachesis Crotalus Bothrops Vipera
• Fever with • Fever with
• Fever with intense • Fever with
inflammation, sudden severe
heat -hemorrhage swelling, pain
onset intense
• Restlessness , -sepsis • Accompained by
pain
agitation, hot -severe infection delirium, confusion
, restlessness • Accompained
flashes, menopausal by chills, rigor ,
• Sudden , severe
symptoms • High fever with collapse
onset intense pain,
• Worse at night , chills, rigor collapse • Skin peels of
during menopause • Profuse sweating •Gangrene in large flaques
lymphatic swollen
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
5 - CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Lachesis Naja Vipera Crotalus
•indicated in • Heart rhythm is •palpitation specially
rheumatic heart regular • Cardiac dropsy during menses
disease • but force of • sudden , severe •Heart actions are
contraction is indicated
• palpitation with in remote effect of
cardiac symptoms feeble
fainting spells advanced valular •collapse • severe hypertension
especially during the lesions •syncope •hemorrhages
• well marked frontal & •cardiac failure
climateric period •associated with
temporal headache
•cynosis intense pain •associated with
With cardiac symptoms
sepsis or severe
•worse during •patient always gasping anxiety
for breath infection
menopause
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
6- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Ophidia medicine
•affect vagus
• causes choking
nerve •Affect spinal
constrictive
sensation
-weak heart, accessory nerve
cold feet & so we get
due to
trembling symptoms of
pneumogastric
larynx, respiration
nerve irritation
& heart
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
7- Menopausal syndrome
Crotalus Lachesis
• prolonged metorrhgia • Hemorrhage
•dark offensive fluid •Haemorrhoids
•Faintness •hot flushes
•intense flushing •hot perspiration
•drenching perspiration •burning in vertex
•prfound anemia •headache at and
after menopause
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
8- PERIODICITY
LACHESIS VIPERA
• Complain especially
• Symptoms returns
intermittent fever,
annually for years
Returning every spring
COMPARISON OF SOME OPHIDIA REMEDIES
9 - LIVER
CROTALUS LACHESIS VIPERA
• Liver region • Violent pain
• Haemolytic sensitive
jaundice • Enlarged liver with
jaundice & fever
• Can't tolerates
• Yellow clothing around • Pain extend to
conjunctival & skin waist shoulder & hip
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