Veratrum Album

White Hellebore

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Pain in abdomen preceding stool. Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if hernia would protrude. [A’w.v.] Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.

William Boericke 1922

Sinking and empty feeling. Cold feeling in stomach and

Chest

William Boericke 1922

Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. Coarse rales. Loud, barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas ; worse, warm room. Hollow cough, tickling low dovvn, with blue

Compare

William Boericke 1922

yenitrinum — alkaloid from seeds of Sahadilla. — (electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary twitchings) ; Chains terrepina (cramps in calves) ; Cemp.; C upr.; Ars.: Cuprum ars. {intermittent, cold, clammy surai); Narcissus poetic us (gastro-enteritis with much griping and cutting pain in bowels. Fainting, trembling, cold limbs, small and irregular pulse) ; Trychosanthes ; Trychosanihes — Fatal — (diarrhoea, dizziness after every .stool); Agaric, emetic, (vertigo; longing for icc-cold water; burning pains in stomach); Agaric, phailoidcs (cholera, cramps in stomach, cold extremities, urine sujiprcsscd). Vcratrinc (Increased vascular tension. It relaxes it and stimulates the elimination of toxins by skin, kidneys, and

Dose

William Boericke 1922

First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhoea, not below the sixth.

Extremities

William Boericke 1922

The profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock.

William Boericke 1922

Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica; pains like electric flashes. Cramps in calves. Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paraTytic.

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.

William Boericke 1922

Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without lustre. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry, heavy.

Face

William Boericke 1922

Nose grows more pointed. Tearing in 768 \^RATRUM ALBUM cheeks, temples, and

William Boericke 1922

Neck too weak to hold head up.

William Boericke 1922

Features sunken. Icy coldness of tip of nose and

William Boericke 1922

Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water ; urine escapes when coughing. Cough on entering warm room from cold air. [Bryonia.]

Female

William Boericke 1922

Menses too early; profuse and exhaust- VERATRL'M ALRU M — VERATRL’M VIRIDE 769 ing. Dysmenorrhdca, unth coldness, purging, cold sweaty Faints from least exertion. Sexual mania precedes menses.

Fever

William Boericke 1922

Chill, zvith extreme cohbiess and thirst.

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Postoperative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble

Head

William Boericke 1922

Contracted features. Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale

Heart

William Boericke 1922

Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration. Pulse irregular, intermittent, feeble. Tobacco heart from chewing.

Mind

William Boericke 1922

Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing. Sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. Puerperal mania. Aimless wandering from home. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things. [Tarant.] Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing and howling all night.

Modalities

William Boericke 1922

Jl'orse, at night; wet. cold weather. Better, walking and warmth.

Mouth

William Boericke 1922

Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint. Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.

Pulse

William Boericke 1922

Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in

Rectum

William Boericke 1922

C'onstipation from inactivity of rcclum, with heat and headache. Constipation of babies, and when produced by veiy cold v\^cather. Slools large* zvith much straining until e.xhaustcd, ivith cold

Respiratory

William Boericke 1922

Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in

Skin

William Boericke 1922

Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic; cold as death. Cold

Stomach

William Boericke 1922

Great weakness after vomiting.

William Boericke 1922

Voracious appetite. Thtrst for cold imtcr, hut is vomited as soon as simllozved. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion. Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice. Anguish in pit of

Sweat

William Boericke 1922

Diarrhea, very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration. Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera.

William Boericke 1922

Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

References

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