Veratrum Album

► Stupid from excess in alcoholic drinks. ► Never speaks the truth ; does not know herself what she is saying. ► Thinks himself distinguished ; squanders his money. ► Delirium, heavy soporous sleep ; restless, thirst, cramps in legs, cold sweat, tingling ; irregular pulse. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis. ► Mania : with desire to cut and tear, especially clothes ; with lewdness and lascivious talk. ► Loquacity, he talks rapidly. ► Talks much about religious things ; praying. ► Disposed to talk about faults of others, or to be silent ; but if irritated, scolding, calling names. ► Kissing everybody ; before menses. ► Impudent behavior in childbed. ► Curses all night and complains of stupid feeling, with headache and ptyalism. ► Dislike to talk except in delirium. ► Cannot bear to be left alone. ► Fearfulness ; starts with running about and shouting. ► Anxious, restless, easily frightened, whining, weeping, apathetic delirium, blue face. θ Typhoid. ► Anxiety, as after committing an evil deed, worse evening and after dinner. ► Despair about his position in society ; feels very unlucky. ► Despair of her salvation ; with suppressed catamenia. ► After fright ; fear, anxiety ; coldness ; fainting ; involuntary diarrhoea. ► Consequences of injuried pride or honor.

► Vertigo ; with cold sweat on forehead ; with loss of vision, sudden fainting ; from opium eating ; from abuse of tobacco or alcohol. ► Heaviness of the head, things seem to whirl in a circle. θ Typhoid. ► Faints from least exertion ; from slight wounds ; from violent pains ; after loss of fluids ; anxiety, nausea, convulsive twitchings.

► Paroxysms in various parts of brain, partly as if bruised partly pressure. ► Burning in brain. ► Neuralgia of head with indigestion ; feature sunken. ► Head hot and covered with sweat ; headache ; children rub the head, cannot bear to be left alone ; put hands to head. θ Typhoid. ► Headache : nausea, vomiting, pale face ; stiff neck, profuse micturition ; as if brain was torn to pieces ; chronic, coming on in afternoon, lasting through night ; drawing in both arms ; better towards morning ; frequent micturition. ► Violent pains driving him to despair ; or great prostration with headache ; fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst ; nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea ; or, obstinate constipation.

► Head burning hot ; limbs alternately hot and cold. ► Scalp very sensitive, with headache. ► Like a piece of ice on head ; or sensation of warmth and coldness at the same time on scalp, the hair being sensitive. ► Plica polonica. ► Cold sweat on forehead, with many complaints. ► Compelled to rub forehead, with a kind of insensibility. θ Typhoid.

► Black motes or specks before eyes, with diplopia ; photophobia ; worse on rising from bed or chair. ► Hemeralopia. ► Eyes : turned upward, showing only whites ; distorted, protruding ; fixed, watery, sunken, lustreless ; full of tears ; lids livid, blue edges. ► Pupils : contracted ; dilated, with weak sight ; fails to recognize those near, or does so but slowly. ► Tearing pains in eyes, depriving one of sleep ; worse in cold, damp weather. θ Rheumatic ophthalmia. ► Excessive dryness of lids. ► Lids : heavy, can scarcely lift them ; trembling. ► Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, with feeling of dryness and heat.

► Deaf, as if ears were stopped, one or both.

► Smell before the nose as from manure, or from smoke. ► Nose : grows more pointed, seems longer ; face cold ; icy cold ; mouth cold. ► Epistaxis : right-sided, only at night in sleep ; face deathly pale, body cold ; pulse slow, intermittent. ► Boring in the nose. ► Nose inside feels too dry.

► Restless, wild look ; pale, distorted face. ► Blue or green circles around eyes. ► Face : collapsed, pale, bluish ; nose more pointed ; of leaden hue ; red in bed, becomes pale on rising ; alternately pale and red. ► Neuralgia : drawing, tearing pains, with bluish, pale face, sunken eyes ; prostration. ► Tearing in cheeks, temples and eyes, with heat and redness, driving to madness ; worse in damp weather ; right side ; especially in anaemic persons. ► Spasms of muscles when masticating. ► Lock-jaw. ► Risus sardonicus.

► Lips : bluish or hanging down ; rubbing the mouth and nose ; dry, black, parched. ► Black around mouth and nostrils. θ Typhoid.

► Violent toothache, throbbing ; face swollen, cold sweat on forehead. ► Toothache drives to madness, nervous, excitable persons. ► Teeth heavy, as if filled with lead. ► Grinding teeth.

► Taste : bitter ; as from peppermint ; flat or sweetish ; putrid. ► Tongue : cold, withered, swelled, dry, cracked and too red ; white, with red tip and edges ; coated yellowish-brown ; back part black. ► Speech lisping, stammering ; or as if tongue was too heavy. θ Typhoid.

► Froth at the mouth ; spasms. ► Mouth dry ; saliva lessened. ► Burning in mouth and throat. ► Constant flow of saliva, like water-brash.

► Dryness in throat, which cannot be removed by drinking. ► Scraping or roughness in throat. ► Sensation of dust in throat. ► Sensation of constriction of throat. ► Chronic catarrh of oesophagus. ► Feeling of distention in pharynx.

► Craves fruit, juicy food ; or saltish things. ► Appetite voracious ; after typhoid : 40. ► Hunger and appetite between paroxysms of vomiting. ► Much thirst ; drinks frequently, but only a little at a time. ► Thirst for the coldest drinks ; wants everything cold ; often during pregnancy. ► Aversion to warm thing. ► Appetite diminished, mouth as if lined with mucus ; flat or sweetish taste.

► Bitter eructations. ► Hiccough, after hot drinks. ► Nausea : with sensation of fainting, generally with violent thirst. ► Vomiting : violent, with continuous nausea and great prostration ; of thin, blackish or yellowish substances ; of bile and blood, black ; of food and drink, or drink only ; of food, or acid, bitter, foamy ; white or yellowish-green mucus ; whenever he moves, or drinks ; with vertigo, pale face, clean tongue, good appetite, hiccough, fainting. ► Painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting.

► Anguish in pit of stomach. ► Pains coming gradually, first in epigastrium, then radiating upward and to both sides, reaching to back between lowest point of scapula : becomes agonizing, then gradually subsided ; shakes with cold. θ Gastrodynia. ► Gastric catarrh, great weakness, cold, sudden sinking. ► Haematemesis, with slow pulse, coldness, fainting fits, cold sweat ; nausea when moving or rising. ► Chronic weakness of stomach ; from dampness of climate and want of fresh air ; from abuse of quinine.

► Hyperaemia of liver, with gastric catarrh, putrid taste, disgust for warm food, great pressure in hepatic region, alternating with vomiting, and diarrhoea. ► Spleen swollen. θ Intermittents. ► Spasms of diaphragm during prevailing south winds, in persons with cold hands, great oppression and anxiety in chest. ► Diaphragmitis, with peritonitis, vomiting, coldness.

► Burning in abdomen as from hot coals. ► Colic : after a cold, after abuse of quinine ; from fruits and vegetables ; abdomen swollen, sensitive ; no flatus either way ; cold sweat ; with burning pain, twisting, cutting, with nausea and vomiting, worse from food ; better after wind passes. ► Peritonitis, with vomiting and diarrhoea, skin cold ; features sunken ; pulse small, weak ; restless, anxious. ► Great sinking and empty feeling. ► Intussusception of bowels ; great anguish ; rushes about bent double, pressing the abdomen. ► Cold feeling in abdomen. ► Abdomen distended, very sensitive ; colic. ► Incarcerated hernia, not inflamed ; anti-peristaltic action. ► Cold sweat. ► Protrusion of inguinal hernia during cough. ► Cured a case of abdominal complaint going from left to right.

► Intestinal catarrh, coming on suddenly at night in Summer ; vomiting and purging. ► Stools : watery, greenish, mixed with flakes, gushing, profuse, rice-water discharges, with tonic cramps, commencing in hands and feet, spreading all over ; sunken, even hippocratic face ; Cholera Asiatica ; watery ; inodorous ; watery, gushing, flaky ; thin, papescent, mucous ; green, gushing, exhausting, after fright ; involuntary. ► Unconscious discharge of thin feces when passing flatus. ► Cholera morbus, worse at night, cold sweat on forehead ; vomiting and purging at the same time ; after fruits. ► Constipation : chronic stools ; large and hard ; or, first part large, latter part smaller, stools in round black balls ; chronic, with children as from inactivity of rectum. ► Hemorrhoids, with disease of lungs or pleura. ► Painless discharge of masses of blood in clots, with sinking feeling.

► Continuous urging to urinate. ► Frequent micturition with violent thirst and hunger. ► Urine : scanty, red-brown, or suppressed ; greenish. ► Involuntary urination ; during cough, also during typhoid.

► Nymphomania of lying-in women ; also before menses. ► Metritis, with fits of vomiting, delirium, anxiety ; vomiting and diarrhoea ; body hot, limbs cold. ► Menses : too early, too profuse ; suppressed, with despair of salvation, or with blood-spitting. ► Amenorrhoea, with nervous headache, leaden face, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. ► Dysmenorrhoea, with prolapsus ; vomiting, diarrhoea, exhaustion. ► Strangulated prolapsed vagina, with cold sweat, exhausting vomiting and diarrhoea.

► Abortion threatened ; pains with cold sweat, nausea, vomiting. ► During pregnancy : wants to wander about the house ; taciturn ; haughty ; thirst ; vomiting. ► Labor-pains exhaust her ; fainting on least motion. ► Lochia suppressed, with nymphomania. ► Eclampsia parturientium ; pallor ; collapse, anaemia, or violent cerebral congestion, with bluish bloated face, wild shrieks, tearing the clothing. ► Puerperal mania, to kiss every one.

► Spasms glottidis. ► Paroxysms of constriction of larynx, suffocative fits, with protruded eyes. ► Debility great, catarrhal symptoms slight ; influenza during cholera seasons. ► Hollow, hoarse voice.

► Dyspnoea. ► Oppression. ► Contractive spasm of chest. ► Asthma in damp, cold weather ; in early morning ; better throwing head back ; inclination for motion ; cold sweat of upper part of body ; worse from cold drinks.

► Dry, tickling, after walking in sharp, cold air ; dry, spasmodic, rattling, but nothing loosens ; deep, hollow, ringing, whooping, excited by tickling in lowest branches of bronchi, expectoration of yellow, tough, tenacious mucus of bitter, saltish, sour, or putrid taste ; spasmodic ; cyanosis ; cold sweat ; blood spitting ; after great exertion ; loud barking, in hysteria ; worse morning and late evening until 12 P.M. ; going into warm room ; getting warm in bed ; change of weather ; eating and drinking cold things, especially water ; crying (children) ; vexation. ► Convulsive stage of whooping-cough. ► Epidemic whoop-cough, worse Spring or Autumn.

► Constant rattling of mucus, but cannot expectorate ; sticky sweat about head ; weak ; frequent, irregular pulse ; bronchitis of the aged. ► Capillary bronchitis. ► Acute bronchial catarrh, in the emphysematous. ► Rattling in lungs, fear of suffocation ; frothy, serous sputa ; blue face ; oedema of lungs. ► Stitches in sides of chest.

► Strong palpitation of heart, with chorea. ► Violent visible, anxious palpitation, with fainting. ► Tumultuous, irregular contractions of heart, forerunners of paralysis. ► Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons, with some obstruction to hepatic circulation. ► Palpitation in the anaemic ; agony of death, legs cold ; difficult breathing, better at rest or lying down. ► Pulse : frequent, small, hard ; slow, soft, intermittent ; sometimes slower than heart-beat.

► Neck so weak, child can scarcely keep it erect, especially in whooping-cough. ► Tingling in fingers, causing anxiety and painful jerks of limbs. ► During exercise, rheumatic pain between scapulae from nape to small of back ; worse going to stool. ► Bruised feeling in sacral region.

► Neuralgia in brachial plexus, as if beaten or bruised. ► Arms : feel cold when raising them ; feel as if too full and swollen. ► Paralytic and bruising pain in arms. ► Arm trembles, when anything is grasped. ► Tingling in hands and fingers, causing anxiety. ► Hands icy-cold, blue.

► Difficult walking ; first right, then left hip-joint feels paralytic. ► Shocks in right hip. ► Electric jerks in limbs ; worse in bed, must sit up and let legs hang out of bed ; must walk about. θ Rheumatism. ► Pains in feet, especially the knees, as if heavy stones were tied to the parts ; must move about for relief. ► Limbs : stiff in forenoon and while standing ; rheumatism ; alternately hot and cold, head hot ; cold. ► Cramps in the calves. ► Sudden swelling of the feet. ► Feet icy-cold.

► Painful paralytic weakness in upper and lower limbs. ► Limbs go to sleep, also when lying down. ► Pains in limbs resembling a bruise, worse during wet, cold weather ; worse in warmth of bed ; better when walking up and down.

► Trembling, jerking. ► Puerperal convulsions : 24. ► Convulsions caused by religious excitement ; also of children ; anxiety, pale face, cold sweat of forehead ; cough before or after spasm ; sometimes syncope after spasm. ► Tonic spasms, with contraction or spasms of hands and soles of feet. ► Cramps, with profuse alvine discharges : 48. ► Excessive weakness ; also after abuse of Cinchona. ► Child feeble, with a sort of hectic ; whooping-cough. ► Paralysis : after cholera ; from debilitating losses. ► Must lie down ; anguish, cold sweat on forehead when he rises. ► Sudden sinking of strength.

► Sleepiness. ► Uninterrupted sleep for three days. θ Typhoid. ► Drowsy, starts as if frightened, preventing sleep ; fever follows. ► Arms stretched above head, moaning, during sleep. ► Nightly anxiety and sleeplessness. ► Dreams : of being drowned ; of being bitten by a dog and cannot escape ; of being hunted ; of robbers, with frightened awakening and a fixed idea that the dream is true.

► Chill and coldness : mostly external, with internal heat, and cold, clammy sweat ; running downward ; shaking chill with sweat, which soon passes off into general coldness. ► Chill increased by drinking ; lessened after getting out of bed. ► Whole body icy-cold. ► Chill of nursing children. ► Chill and heat alternating, now here, again there, on single parts. ► Heat : mostly internal, with thirst but no desire to drink ; in the evening, with sweat ; ascends. ► Profuse sweat, morning, evening, or all night ; also with every stool. ► Sweat cold, clammy ; offensive ; bitter-smelling ; or staining yellow ; but always with deathly pale face. ► General cold sweat, worse on forehead. ► Intermittent types, often pernicious during cholera ; also after abuse of quinine. ► Rheumatic fever, with profuse sweat, great weakness and diarrhoea. ► Typhoid forms of fever, especially in cholera seasons ; also when vital forces suddenly sink.

► Skin and muscles lax. ► Anaemia of the skin. ► Pyaemia. ► Anasarca : vomiting, purging, great prostration.

► Wrinkled skin ; skin remains in folds after pressure. ► Skin blue, purple, cold. ► Rash over body, or on face and hands. ► Dry eruptions like itch. ► Desquamation of indurated or thickened portion of skin. ► Erysipelas. ► Measles tardy and pale ; skin often livid ; hemorrhages, but no relief ; drowsy ; weak ; cold ; thready pulse ; also for spasmodic cough and vomiturition. ► Scarlatina in hot, summer weather ; eruption bluish ; pulse feeble ; burning heat of limbs alternating with coldness.

► Children. ► Anaemia. ► Lean, choleric or melancholy persons.

► Veratr. is frequently indicated after Arsen., Cinchon., Cuprum, Ipec., Phosp. ac. ► After Veratr. are frequently indicated : Arsen., Arnic., Cinchon., Cuprum, Ipec. ► Similar to : Cuprum (but latter has cough, better drinking, cramps, with scanty discharges) ; Bryon. (constipation) ; Jatr. curc.

(vomit of albuminous matter ; spurting, watery diarrhoea ; abdomen and calves flattened by cramp) ; Ric. Comm. (cholera-collapse, vomiting and purging still continuing). ► Veratrum may be indicated : in stupefaction from alcohol ; after abuse of Cinchon., in colic from copper ; bad effects from opium eating ; or, from tobacco. ► Veratr. antidotes ;

Arsen., Cinchon., Ferrum. ► Antidotes to Veratr. : Acon., Camphor., Cinchon., Coffea.