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
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
Published by Gentle Pills under CC0 1.0 — original wording, dedicated to the public domain. Not a substitute for the primary texts.
Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.