Veratrum viride

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

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Keynotes

weakness, staggering, etc. Markedly uneasy. Trembling here and there during sleep, as if on the verge of convulsions. Muscle prostration. General pulsation. Erratic motions. Spasms; with twitchings, shrieks or opisthotonos; before or after menses; as a prodrome. Eclampsia. Uræmia. Burnings; in places; tongue, pharynx, gullet; of skin, which is cold; with prickling. Lies with head low. .................... Loquacity. Mania; puerperal. Delirium, with wild staring eyes and restless hands. Carphology. Head, thrown back; nodding or rolling motions; throbs on raising up; aches on vertex and between eyes. Pains up occiput, with dim vision and dilated pupils. Vision, of red spots; purple, on closing eyes. Deafness, < quick motion. LIVID, TURGID FACE, BUT BECOMES FAINT ON SITTING UP. Apoplexy. Heat stroke. Tension across malar bones. Chewing motions. Red or dry streak down center of tongue. Foul breath. Nausea, with vomiting and purging. Vomiting; violent, without nausea. Hiccough. Œsophagitis. Stomach seems to press against spine. Gastritis. Abdomen aches; cutting at navel. Slow, heavy breathing; as of a weight on chest. Dyspnœa. Violent cough from very start. Pneumonia. Dull, burning ache at heart. Aching neck and shoulders. Vesicles on hands. Cramps in feet, dorsæ, soles, etc. Dreams of water. Full, large, soft pulse or slow, with strong or violent heart beat. Hyperpyrexia or rapidly oscillating temperature; with sweat. Sepsis. Burning in chest. Clothes feel damp. Cold, clammy sweat. Cerebro-spinal fever.

Worse

RAISING UP. Motion. Cold. Lying on back. Puerperal states.

Better

Rubbing. Lying with head low. Eating. SUDDEN VIOLENT CONGESTION; cerebellar or thoracic; with nausea and vomiting,

Region

Vaso-motors: MEDULLA. Occiput. CHEST. Stomach. Heart. Capillaries.

Relationships

Related: Aco. Gel.

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Veratrum viride in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Veratrum viride — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/veratrum-viride. 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.