Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
4-5__.__.12
Cenchris contortrix
Name: agkistrodon contortrix
Zoology
Cenchris contortrix is a snake living in wet swamps, greenwoods, littoral steppes, near springs and rivers, arid desert gorges and thorny steppes of North America.
His coloring is mostly in earthy colors, has brownish patter in a hourglass shape which can come from light grey, light brown, copperish brown to dark brown colouring. This provides him with a perfect camouflage and fusion with the environment the snake lives in. He can grow from 26 to 35 centimeter.
Can make himself almost invisible while silently waiting for his prey or while protecting himself from a possible endangerment.
The female gives birth to live offspring, while giving birth to male nestlings two times more than the female ones. The little snakes’ tail is colored in yellow, sometimes green to draw the prey in.
One of this snakes’ characteristics is living in groups. Female snakes with the nestlings are sociable. Before the winter starts they return to the same place as before and have no problem coexisting with other types of snakes. On the other hand male snakes and infertile or unfertilized females prefer and seek lonely places.
Typical and very common image of Cenchris are large groups of tangled snakes basking in the sun together. The usually bask near caves, places of mating or in places where they usually hunt.
Cenchris con. is not one of the aggressive types of snakes and his attacks are rare. He hides under rocks or fallen leafs awaiting his prey silently, ready to attack at any time. He doesn’t normally attack humans, only when they step into the territory he is hiding in or when they step on him directly. The venom is not very strong, that’s why he has to be slightly more aggressive than the other snakes.
The venom is haematotoxic – causes intensive pain, damages the tissue in the bitten area, can be accompanied by nausea. For a man is a bite from this snake fatal only in rare cases.
His typical response to the impending danger is quickly moving away or falling silent, which makes him absolutely invisible to his surroundings.
Sometimes when attacking, he uses the form of the so-called dry bites, which is sort of a warning bite to his opponent, with the intention to scare him off, it’s used without the intention of killing him, excluding only a tiny amount of poison.
This snake also protects himself with an unpleasant, smelly musk, that he excretes from cloaca in case of imminent danger.
Literature.
Rajan SANKARAN & Meghna SHAH, „ Reptilien in der Homoopathie, Überleben – Das Tierreich“, Narayana Verlag GmbH, 1. deutsche Auflage 2015, 919 str.
ISBN 978-3-943309-71-3.
Peter FRASER, „ Schlangen in der Homoopathie, Die Macht der Unterwelt“, Narayana Verlag GmbH, 1. Deutsche Auflage 2012, 113 str.
ISBN 978-3-943309-63-8.
http://www.homeopathycenter.org/remedy/cenchris-contortrix.
http://hpathy.com/e-books/lesser-writings-clinical-cases-new-remedies-aphorisms-and-precepts-by-j-t-kent/cenchris-contortrix-proving-cench/.
http://www.homeoresearch.com/cenchris-contortrix.
http://www.homeoinf.org/books/boericmm/c/cench.htm.