Veratrum viride

as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899

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Keynotes

Veratrum viride

Green Hellebore. Melanthaceae.

For full-blooded, plethoric persons.

Congestion, especially to base of brain, chest, spine and stomach.

Violent pains attending inflammation.

Acute rheumatism, high fever, full, hard, rapid pulse, severe pains in joints and musdes (Bry., Salyc. ac. ) ; scanty, red urine.

Child trembles, jerks, threatened with convulsions; continual jerking or nodding of the head.

Nervous or sick headache; congestion from suppressed menses; intense, almost apoplectic, with violent nausea and vomiting.

Congestive apoplexy, hot head, bloodshot eyes, thick speech, slow fidl pulse, hard as iron.

Convulsions : dim vision ; basilar meningitis ; head retracted; child on verge of spasms.

Cerebro spinal diseases ; with spasms, dilated pupils, tetanic convulsions, opisthotonos ; cold clammy perspiration.

Sunstroke, head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive to sound; double or partial vision (Gels., Glon.).

Tongue: white or yellow with red streak down the middle; dry, moist, white or yellow coating, or no coating on either side; feels scalded (Sang.).

Pulse : suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal; slow, soft, weak; irregular, intermittent (Dig., Tab.).

Veratrum viride should not be given simply to “bring down the pulse,” or “control the heart’s action,” but like any other remedy for the totality of the symptoms.

What the other books say about Veratrum viride

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Veratrum viride in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Veratrum viride in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Veratrum viride in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Veratrum viride — Keynotes, pp. 302–303. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/veratrum-viride. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.