Veratrum Album Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the principal that 'like cures like', in a tiny dilution - so the indications below are what a healthy person would feel if taking Veratrum Album. If your symptoms fit within the symptoms below, then Veratrum Album would be a good bet. The following are the strongest indications of Veratrum Album for its use in homeopathy. Entries on a white backgorund are from Boericke's Materia Medica, other entries are from a reversed Kent's repertory. Homeopathic remedies are not the same as herbal remedies. Please remember though, this homeopathy materia medica is provided for information only, with no guarantee of accuracy; it is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, nor as a claim for the effectiveness of Veratrum Album in treating any of the symptoms below. If symptoms persist, seek professional medical advice - minor symptoms can often be a sign of a more serious underlying condition. Homeopathic remedies are very dilute, and while the homeopathic remedy may be beneficial, the raw product may be harmful. To purchase Veratrum Album and other homeopathic remedies online, please click the button above. A perfect picture of Collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The Profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. "Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk. BETTER, walking and warmth. WORSE, at night; wet, cold weather. Relationships Compare: Veratrinum - alkaloid from seed of Sabadilla. - (electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary twitchings); Cholos terrapina (cramps in calves); Camph.; Cupr.; Ars.; Cuprum Ars ( Intermittent, cold, clammy sweat); narcissus poeticus (gastro-enteritis with much griping and cutting pain in bowels. Fainting, trembling, cold limbs, small and irregular pulse); Trichosanthes - (diarrhoea, pain in liver, dizziness after every stool); Agaric. Emetic ( Vertigo; longing for ice-cold water; burning pains in stomach); Agaric Phalloides (cholera, cramps in stomach, cold extremities, urine suppressed). Veratrine (Increased vascular tension. It relaxes it and stimulates the elimination of toxins by skin, kidneys, and liver). mind; preoccupied; brooding (see anxiety, sadness); evening; ; mind; uncooperative; refuses to eat; mind; hysteria; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; about salvation; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; sadness, mental depression; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; lamenting, regretting; evening; ; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; lamenting, regretting; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; inconsolable; over fancied misfortune; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful); mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; despair; of social position; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; imbecility; mind; talking, conversation; dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium); mind; preoccupied; brooding (see anxiety, sadness); mind; memory; weakness of memory; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; mind; insanity; mania, madness; mind; insanity; erotic; mind; insanity; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; despair; religious (of salvation etc.); during suppressed period; ; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; despair; religious (of salvation etc.); mind; behaviour; shrieking; Cursing, howling all night. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things ( Tarent.) Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness Delusions of impending misfortunes Aimless wandering from home Puerperal mania Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; excessively religious (see anxiety, despair, fear); mind; behaviour; runs about (see escape); mind; dazed; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; excessively religious (see anxiety, despair, fear); praying; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; rudeness; insolent; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; rudeness; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; haughty; mind; delirium; raging, raving; mind; delirium; nonsense, with eyes open; mind; delirium; Melancholy, with stupor and mania vertigo, dizziness; with vomiting; Cold sweat on forehead head; coldness; top of head (vertex); ; sensation of a lump of ice on vertex Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale face Neck too weak to hold head up. Contracted features head; skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; after stool; ; head; skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; during stool; ; head; skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; during fever; ; head; skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; cold; head; skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; ; head; pain, headache; top of head (vertex); ; Surrounded by dark rings eye; dryness; Staring: turned upwards, without lustre Lachrymation with redness Lids dry heavy. nose; pointed; nose; coldness; face; coldness; with chill; face; sunken; face; skin; drawn, pulled; face; skin; discoloration; pale; during chill; ; face; skin; discoloration; pale; face; skin; discoloration; bluish; in cholera; face; skin; discoloration; bluish; face; perspiration; face; expression; anxious; face; coldness; cholera; face; coldness; face; perspiration; cold; Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold. Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes face; appearance as if dead (see sunken); Nose grows more pointed Icy coldness of tip of nose and face Features sunken mouth; dryness; mouth; cold breath; mouth; dryness; palate (roof of mouth); ; mouth; salivation; mouth; tongue; cold tongue; Dry in center not relieved by water Salty saliva Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead. Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from Peppermint throat; voice; weak; throat; dryness; throat; scraping; throat; voice; hollow; abdomen; pain; liver; colic, gall-stones; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; violent; ; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; during vertigo, dizziness; ; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; forcible; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; after eating; ; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; after drinking; ; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; black; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; frothy; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; green; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; sour; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; water; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; yellow; abdomen; pain; from catching cold; ; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; during diarrhoea; ; abdomen; stomach; thirst; while perspiring; ; abdomen; kidneys; pain; cutting; ureters (tubes between kidneys and bladder); ; abdomen; bladder; retention of urine (see urination delayed); in chill; in cholera; abdomen; sense of weakness; after stool; ; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; refreshing things; abdomen; pain; twisting; abdomen; pain; sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; lower part of abdomen; ; abdomen; pain; cutting; when coughing; ; abdomen; pain; lower part of abdomen; ; abdomen; pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); abdomen; coldness; abdomen; pain; after eating (including certain foods); after eating fruit; ; abdomen; pain; after eating (including certain foods); ; abdomen; flatulence; obstructed; abdomen; kidneys; suppression of urine; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; cold drinks; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; fruit; abdomen; stomach; thirst; for large quantities; abdomen; stomach; thirst; during chill; ; abdomen; stomach; nausea; after sleep; ; abdomen; stomach; inflammation; abdomen; stomach; hiccup; after vomiting; ; abdomen; stomach; burping, belching; empty; after eating; ; abdomen; stomach; disordered; after eating; ; abdomen; stomach; disordered; not relieved by eating; ; abdomen; stomach; disordered; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; sour, acids, etc.; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; salt things; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; ice; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; fruit; acid; abdomen; coldness; external; Sensation as if hernia would protrude ( Nux.) Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic. Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt Anguish in pit of stomach Great weakness after vomiting Gastric irritability with CHRONIC vomiting of food. Sinking and empty feeling Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen Pain in abdomen preceding stool Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs Hiccough Stomach; Voracious appetite Averse to warm food Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed Stools large, with much straining until copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache rectum; involuntary stool; on passing flatulence; ; rectum; involuntary stool; rectum; diarrhoea; movement; rectum; diarrhoea; in women; during period; ; rectum; diarrhoea; during chill; ; rectum; diarrhoea; after certain foods or drinks; fruit; ; rectum; cholera; with vomiting or diarrhoea; ; rectum; cholera; Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging. stool; watery; stool; large; stool; hard; stool; green; stool; frequent; stool; flaky; stool; copious; stool; brown; stool; black; stool; bilious; stool; strong and sharp (acrid), corrosive, wearing away skin; stool; mucous, slimy; stool; odourless; stool; thin, liquid; stool; watery; like rice water; stool; forcible, sudden, gushing; urine; colour; brown; during fever; ; urine; colour; dark; Female; Menses too early; profuse and exhausting faints from least exertion Sexual mania precedes menses. genitals; female; sexual intercourse; desire increased; Dysmenorrhoea, with coldness, purging, Cold sweat respiration; loud; respiration; difficult (dyspnea); Chronic bronchitis in the aged ( Hippozanin.) Loud, barking, stomach cough, followed by eructations of gas; worse, warm room Hoarse, weak voice Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up Coarse rales Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face Cough on entering warm room from cold air ( Bryonia.) Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing Rattling in chest cough; cough from deep down; cough; cough from deep down; evening; ; cough; hollow; cough; comes on suddenly; Heart; Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration Pulse irregular, feeble Tobacco heart from chewing Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction S Mitchell.) chest; constriction, tension; chest; heart; palpitations; chest; oppressed feeling; One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses ( J back; coldness; extremities, limbs; pain; lower leg; walking; extremities, limbs; pain; knee; ; extremities, limbs; pain; lower limbs; wet weather; ; extremities, limbs; pain; lower limbs; warmth of bed; ; extremities, limbs; pain; wet weather; ; extremities, limbs; pain; extremities, limbs; cramps; foot; in cholera; ; extremities, limbs; pain; lower leg; damp weather; ; extremities, limbs; pain; lower leg; warmth of bed; ; extremities, limbs; weakness; paralytic; extremities, limbs; weakness; extremities, limbs; perspiration; cold; during period; ; extremities, limbs; perspiration; foot; cold; extremities, limbs; shrivelled (shrunken); hand; ; extremities, limbs; shrivelled (shrunken); fingers; while perspiring; ; extremities, limbs; skin; discoloration; hand; blueness; during chill; ; extremities, limbs; skin; discoloration; fingers; nails; blueness; extremities, limbs; cramps; calf; in cholera; extremities, limbs; cramps; fingers; with cholera; Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic. Cramps in calves Sciatica; pains like electric flashes Soreness and tenderness of joints extremities, limbs; coldness; extremities, limbs; coldness; with diarrhoea; extremities, limbs; coldness; upper limbs; hands; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; upper limbs; hands; during chill; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; upper limbs; hands; icy; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; leg; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; foot; icy cold; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; foot; during chill; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; foot; during pregnancy; ; sleep; comatose; sleep; deep; chill; external; as in cholera; chill; internal; as if coldness in blood vessels; chill; periodic, recurring; every fourth day; ; chill; external; ; chill; dangerously cold; chill; with fever, but chill predominating; chill; with fever, but chill predominating; morning; ; chill; at certain time of day or night; from 6 a.m.; ; chill; in warmth; in warm room; not relieved in warm room, nor by a warm heater; chill; drinking; chill; cold travels downwards (see coldness of back); ; chill; chill; morning; ; chill; morning; in bed; ; chill; morning; after rising; ; chill; chilliness (see also whole body; temperature); during stool; ; fever; stages of chill, heat and sweat; heat alternating with chill, then with sweat; fever; internal heat; with external chill; fever; with chilliness; fever; Chill, With extreme coldness and thirst. perspiration; with diarrhoea; perspiration; before period; ; perspiration; during period; ; perspiration; on movement; ; perspiration; odour; sour; perspiration; profuse; perspiration; during stool; ; perspiration; after stool; ; perspiration; other symptoms worse while perspiring; perspiration; during coldness; ; perspiration; cold; during period; ; perspiration; perspiration; morning; ; perspiration; night; before period; ; perspiration; getting out of bed; perspiration; clammy; perspiration; cold; skin; out-breaks on skin; dry; skin; goose bumps; skin; discoloration; pale; skin; discoloration; bluish; skin; coldness; spots; ; skin; coldness; icy; in spots; ; skin; coldness; Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic; Cold as death Cold sweat Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet. injuries and accidents; shock from injury; generalities; pulse; abnormal; generalities; pulse; frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid; and small; generalities; pulse; imperceptible; generalities; pulse; small; generalities; pulse; soft; generalities; electric-like shocks; generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); from diarrhoea; ; generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); paralytic; generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); rapid; generalities; weakness (see lethargic, weariness); after stool; ; generalities; perspiration gives no relief; generalities; in women; symptoms before period; ; generalities; pain; twisting; generalities; blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood); generalities; collapse; after diarrhoea; ; generalities; convulsions; children; ; generalities; eating and food; fruit; generalities; faintness, fainting; generalities; flabby feeling; generalities; pain; cutting; internally; generalities; pain; pressing; internally; ; generalities; pain; as if scraped; generalities; pain; sore, bruised; externally; ; generalities; blackness of external parts; Veratrum Album is available to buy through our online shop from WHP in USA, Boiron in USA, Boiron in Canada, Hylands in USA, Weleda in UK (not for export), Helios, Europe, by clicking the red 'View Purchase Options' button. 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