Veratrum album

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

bowels, fingers, toes, etc.; with rigidity. Progressive weakness and emaciation; in acute diseases, eg., whooping cough, ague, etc. .................... Delirium; early; with violence, loquacity or lewdness; during pain. Prays, curses and howls in turn. Acute manias, insanities, etc. Remorse. Loss of ideation. Sits in silence. Melancholia. Overpowering headache. Hair bristles; painful. Face; deathly pale on rising; bluish, pinched or distorted; frowning; terrified look. Red l. cheek, as if burnt. Jaws cramp on chewing. Heaviness in teeth. Burning thirst. Craves ice water or sour drinks. Vomits or eructates froth. EXCESSIVE VOMITING, WITH PURGING; violent retching, cutting colic, cramps in limbs and rapid prostration. Cholera; morbus, infantum, etc. Painful epigastrium. Watery, green, odorless or colorless (rice water) stool, or in large masses. Nymphomania. The air seems too hot. Dyspnœa. Tickling down throat, into lungs. Continuous, violent cough; with retching; < cold drinks. Neglected pertussis, with complications. Aphonia. Heart; cuttings at; weak; visible palpitation. Fine burnings, in arms; r. to left. Cramps in calves; during stool (Ap. Sec-c.); between scapulæ, etc. > motion. Skin feels scorched. Awakes at night trembling. Thready pulse. GENERAL COLDNESS (icy); on vertex; of nose; in mouth; of waterbrash; limbs, sweat, etc. Blood seems to run cold or internal heat with cold (wrinkled) surface. Fevers showing external coldness only. Congestive chill.

Worse

EXERTION. DRINKING. Cold drinks. Fright. During pain. Wet cold.

Better

Hot drinks. Walking about. Covering. Lying. VIOLENT EFFECTS; PROFOUND PROSTRATION, COLD SWEAT ON FOREHEAD, FAINTNESS OR COLLAPSE. SUDDEN, EXCESSIVE EVACUATIONS. Cramps; in chest,

Region

NERVES: ABDOMINAL. Heart. Blood-vessels. Vertex. Blood. Respiratory and digestive systems.

Relationships

Complementary: Carb-v. Related: Ars. Cam. Cup. Cyanides. Tab.

What the other books say about Veratrum album

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

Veratrum album in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Veratrum album in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Veratrum album in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Veratrum album in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Veratrum album — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/veratrum-album. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.