Veratrum Album

▲   GENERAL

General

A perfect picture of Collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by Veratrum Album. 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, at night; wet, cold weather.

Better

BETTER, walking and warmth.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships

Compare: Veratrinum - alkaloid from seed of Sabadilla ^Sabadilla. - (electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary twitchings); Cholos terrapina (cramps in calves); Camphora ^Camph.; Cuprum Metallicum ^Cupr.; Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Cuprum Arsenicosum ^{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

Mind

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 ( Tarentula Hispanica ^Tarent.) Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness

Cursing, howling all night.

Behaviour

runs about (see escape)

shrieking

Dazed

Delirium

nonsense, with eyes open

raging, raving

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

haughty

rage, fury (see insanity, mania, delirium)

rudeness

insolent

excessively religious (see anxiety, despair, fear)

praying

unhappy; despair; religious (of salvation etc.)

during suppressed period

unhappy; despair; of social position

unhappy; inconsolable; over fancied misfortune

unhappy; lamenting, regretting

evening

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting)

Hysteria

Uncooperative; refuses to eat

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; absent-minded (see forgetful)

impaired thinking; imbecility

Insanity

erotic

mania, madness

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; about salvation

Memory; weakness of memory

Preoccupied

brooding (see anxiety, sadness)

brooding (see anxiety, sadness); evening

Talking, conversation; dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

With vomiting

▲   HEAD

Head

Contracted features

Cold sweat on forehead

sensation of a lump of ice on vertex

Neck too weak to hold head up.

Coldness; top of head (vertex)

Headache

Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale face

Pain, headache; top of head (vertex)

Scalp

Skin and scalp

perspiration; forehead

perspiration; forehead; cold

perspiration; forehead; during fever

perspiration; forehead; during stool

perspiration; forehead; after stool

▲   EYES

Eyes

Surrounded by dark rings

Staring: turned upwards, without lustre

Lachrymation with redness

Lids dry heavy.

Dryness

▲   FACE

Face

Features sunken

Icy coldness of tip of nose and face

Nose grows more pointed

Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes

Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.

Coldness

with chill

cholera

Expression; anxious

Appearance as if dead (see sunken)

Perspiration

cold

Skin

discoloration; bluish

discoloration; bluish; in cholera

discoloration; pale

during chill

drawn, pulled

Sunken

▲   NOSE

Nose

Coldness

Pointed

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Cold breath

Gums and teeth

Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.

Saliva

Dry in center not relieved by water

Salty saliva

Dryness

Salivation

Tongue

Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from Mentha Piperita ^Peppermint

Tongue; cold tongue

Palate

Dryness; palate (roof of mouth)

▲   THROAT

Throat

Dryness

Scraping

Voice

hollow

weak

▲   CHEST

Chest

Pulse irregular, feeble

Tobacco heart from chewing

Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction

One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses ( J)

S

Mitchell.)

Constriction, tension

Heart; palpitations

Oppressed feeling

Respiration

Heart; Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration

Hoarse, weak voice

Rattling in chest

Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up

Coarse rales

Chronic bronchitis in the aged ( Hippozanin.) Loud, barking, stomach cough, followed by eructations of gas; worse, warm room

Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face

Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing

Cough on entering warm room from cold air ( Bryonia ^Bryonia.)

Difficult (dyspnea)

Loud

▲   COUGH

Cough

Cough from deep down

evening

Hollow

Comes on suddenly

▲   SKIN

Skin

Cold sweat

Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

Coldness

icy

in spots

spots

Discoloration

bluish

pale

Goose bumps

Out-breaks on skin; dry

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Coldness

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Voracious appetite

Hiccough

Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt

Anguish in pit of stomach

Sinking and empty feeling

Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen

Pain in abdomen preceding stool

Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs

Sensation as if hernia would protrude ( Nux Vomica ^Nux.) Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.

Coldness

external

Pain

from catching cold

lower part of abdomen

liver; colic, gall-stones

cutting; when coughing

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; lower part of abdomen

twisting

Sense of weakness; after stool

Bladder; retention of urine (see urination delayed); in chill; in cholera

Kidneys

pain; cutting; ureters (tubes between kidneys and bladder)

suppression of urine

Stomach

desires, cravings; cold drinks

desires, cravings; fruit

acid

desires, cravings; ice

desires, cravings; refreshing things

desires, cravings; salt things

desires, cravings; sour, acids, etc.

disordered

not relieved by eating

after eating

burping, belching; empty; after eating

inflammation

thirst; during chill

thirst; for large quantities

thirst; while perspiring

Eating

Averse to warm food

Gastric irritability with CHRONIC vomiting of food.

Pain

after eating (including certain foods)

after eating (including certain foods); after eating fruit

Flatus

Flatulence; obstructed

Nausea

Stomach; nausea; after sleep

Vomiting

Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed

Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion

Great weakness after vomiting

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception)

Stomach

hiccup; after vomiting

vomiting; during diarrhoea

vomiting; after drinking

vomiting; after eating

vomiting; forcible

vomiting; during vertigo, dizziness

vomiting; violent

vomiting; black

vomiting; frothy

vomiting; green

vomiting; sour

vomiting; water

vomiting; yellow

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache

Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather

Stools large, with much straining until copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration

Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging.

Cholera

with vomiting or diarrhoea

Diarrhoea

after certain foods or drinks; fruit

during chill

in women; during period

movement

Involuntary stool

on passing flatulence

Stool

Strong and sharp (acrid), corrosive, wearing away skin

Bilious

Black

Brown

Copious

Flaky

Forcible, sudden, gushing

Frequent

Green

Hard

Large

Mucous, slimy

Odourless

Thin, liquid

Watery

like rice water

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Colour

brown; during fever

dark

Genitals

Dysmenorrhoea, with coldness, purging, Cold sweat

faints from least exertion

Female

sexual intercourse; desire increased

Menses

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

Sexual mania precedes menses.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Soreness and tenderness of joints

Sciatica; pains like electric flashes

Cramps in calves

Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic.

Coldness

with diarrhoea

upper limbs

hands

during chill

icy

lower limbs; leg

lower limbs; foot; icy cold

lower limbs; foot; during chill

lower limbs; foot; during pregnancy

Cramps

fingers; with cholera

calf; in cholera

foot; in cholera

Pain

wet weather

lower limbs

warmth of bed

lower limbs; wet weather

knee

lower leg; damp weather

lower leg; walking

lower leg; warmth of bed

Perspiration

cold; during period

foot; cold

Shrivelled (shrunken); hand

fingers; while perspiring

Skin

discoloration; hand; blueness; during chill

discoloration; fingers; nails; blueness

Weakness

paralytic

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chill, With extreme coldness and thirst.

Morning

Morning

in bed

after rising

Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature); during stool

Cold travels downwards (see coldness of back)

Drinking

External

as in cholera

Internal; as if coldness in blood vessels

Periodic, recurring; every fourth day

Dangerously cold

With fever, but chill predominating

morning

At certain time of day or night; from 6 a.m.

In warmth; in warm room; not relieved in warm room, nor by a warm heater

With chilliness

Internal heat; with external chill

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; heat alternating with chill, then with sweat

▲   INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

Injuries and accidents

Shock from injury

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Comatose

Deep

Convulsions

Convulsions; children

Perspiration

Morning

Night; before period

Getting out of bed

Clammy

Cold

during period

During coldness

With diarrhoea

Before period

During period

On movement

Odour; sour

Profuse

During stool

After stool

Other symptoms worse while perspiring

Generalities

Blackness of external parts

Blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood)

Collapse; after diarrhoea

Eating and food; fruit

Faintness, fainting

Flabby feeling

Pain

cutting; internally

pressing; internally

as if scraped

sore, bruised; externally

twisting

In women; symptoms before period

Perspiration gives no relief

Pulse

abnormal

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid; and small

imperceptible

small

soft

Electric-like shocks

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

from diarrhoea

paralytic

rapid

after stool

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