NAJA- a snapshot

  • Effects of grief
  • Depressed, suicidal insanity, brooding over imaginary troubles (AURUM)
  • Nervous excited tumultuous with cardiac effects
  • Doesn’t want company
  • Very chilly, sensitive to cold
  • Sense of responsibility, knows what he needs to do but can’t bring self to do it
  • Fear of rain
  • Shooting pain in head as if a blow in occiput
  • Heart
    • Complaints after viral infections (? Myocarditis) or damaged by prolonged inflammation
    • Hypertrophy of heart, palpitations etc.
    • Pains in heart with choking of throat and inability to speak, the pain extends from shoulder to back of neck
    • Cough from chronic organic lesion of heart
    • Pulse irregular in force but regular in rhythm
    • Pains shooting from ovaries to heart
    • Palpitations after public speaking
  • Skin
    • Sweating of hands and feet
    • Sweating at ankles
    • Itching cicatrices
  • Grasps throat, chokes
  • Some modalities which are like Lachesis
    • Aggravation lying on left side
    • Aggravation after sleep
    • Can’t bear pressure of clothes
  • Aggravation after menses is opposite of Lachesis in NAJA
  • Profound log like sleep

(NAJA is to be thought of when you are thinking of LACHESIS. Dr Sarkar says that Naja is a chilly LACHESIS. However, NAJA has more of nervous troubles as compared to LACHESIS which is more haemorrhagic in nature. While burning characterise LACHESIS it is choking and constrictions that characterize NAJA. Much more aloof than LACHESIS (who is talkative) NAJA has a tussle with his conscience regarding his duties. He gets up at night, choking and grasping throat. An incomparable homoeopathic medicine in post viral myocarditis.)