What Is The Efficiency In The Treatment Of Cases With Deeper Pathology Or Metabolic Disorders?
One of the group of remedies used very effectively by homoeopaths is the ophidia group, prepared from snake venom. One of these is Naja, prepared from the venom of the Indian cobra. On studying toxicological cases of cobra bite victims, what is observed is a coldness of the body with gradually increasing drowsiness. The victims eject saliva periodically. The swallowing reflex gets diminished, they lose control of their sphincters due to which they pass urine or faecal matter involuntarily and finally die unless there is timely help in the form of an anti-snake venom. A 3-year-old child with convulsions, mental retardation, and with a rare metabolic disorder called Citrullinemia was referred to me at the college outpatients department. He presented with just the above picture, but of course without a history of snakebite. In this illness, there is excess ammonia, which proves to be highly toxic to the nervous system. As protein foods produce further ammonia in the body, the child had be
