Veratrum album
vera-albWhite Hellebore 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 t
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Veratrum album — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Veratrum album — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms are marked by violence and destructiveness he wants to destroy, to tear something; he tears the clothes from the body. Always wants to be busy, to carry on his daily work. A cooper who was suffering from the Veratrum insanity would pile up chairs on top of one another. When asked what he was doing, he replied that he was piling up staves. When not occupied with this he was tearing his clothes, or praying for hours on his knees, and so loud that he could be heard blocks away. Exalted state of religious frenzy, believes he is the risen Christ screams and screeches until he is blue in the face; head cold as ice, cold sweat, reaches out and exhorts to repentance. Exhorts to repent, preaches, howls, sings obscene songs, exposes the person. Fear and the effects of fear; fear of death and of being damned; imagines the world is on fire. "Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially the clothes, with lewdness and lascivious talk. Puerperal mania and convulsions, with violent cerebral congestion; bluish and bloated face; protruding eyes; wild shrieks, with disposition to bite and tear. Loquacity, he talks rapidly. She is inconsolable over a fancied misfortune; runs around the room howling and screaming or sits brooding, wailing and weeping." Alternate states of brooding, screaming, and screeching. A few such remedies would empty our insane asylums, especially of recent cases. Insanity is curable if there are no incurable results of disease. Full of despair and hopelessness with approaching insanity. "Despair of his recovery, attempts suicide." Insane people are not hopeless, those approaching insanity are but after they become insane, they think that everybody is crazy except themselves. Those bowed down by great grief and despair are likely to go into a state of violent mania.
Veratrum album — general · James Tyler Kent
You will be astonished at the wonderful coldness running through this remedy. Coldness: Hardly a group of symptoms will arise without this accompanying coldness. Coldness of discharges, coldness of the body. You would also wonder at the remarkable prostration attending the various groups of symptoms, complete relaxation and exhaustion, coldness. Profuse sweat, vomiting and diarrhea. Profuse watery discharges. These conditions occur without apparent provocation. In cholera or cholera morbus, it seems that the fluids run out of the body. Lies in bed, relaxed prostrated, cold to the finger-tips, with corresponding blueness, fairly purple; lips cold and blue, countenance pinched and shrunken; great sensation of cold ness as if the blood were ice-water; scalp cold; forehead covered with cold sweat; headache and exhaustion; coldness in spots over the body; extremities cold as death. Full of cramps; looks as if he would die. This state comes out during the menses, during colic with nausea, with mania and violent delirium, with headache, with violent inflammations. Is it any wonder that Hahnemann predicted that Veratrum, Camphor, and Cuprum would become remedies in the cure of cholera; he saw in their nature the ability to cure. He saw the similitude. In cases of this sort which are characterized by superabundance of cramps, Cuprum is the simillimum. For those with coldness and blueness and scanty sweat, vomiting, and purging, Camphor is the remedy. These are called "dry cholera;" they sink down and die without exhaustive discharges. In proportion as there are coldness, blueness and scanty discharges, Camphor is indicated.
Veratrum album — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
and Hering). Persistent raging. Inconsolable over a fancied misfortune, runs about the room hauling and screaming, looking upon the ground ; or sits brooding in a corner, wailing and weeping in an inconsolable manner. Taciturnity. Crossness, when cause given. Attacks of pain with delirium, driving to madness. Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes ; with lewdness and lascivious talk : religious or amorous. Delusions of grandeur. Cold sweat on forehead with anguish and fear of death. Despair of salvation with suppressed catamenia. His consciousness is as if in a dream. Flat-pressing headache, vertex : which became throbbing when moving. Sensation of a lump of ice in vertex. Cold sweat on forehead. Pale face : sunken : with anxious expression. He became pale in the face with frequent stools. He cannot speak. Saliva runs incessantly out of mouth like water brash. Tasteless saliva want of taste in mouth. Taste and coolness in mouth, as from peppermint. Pungent peppermint taste in throat : sensation of heat rises into the mouth. Thirst for coldest drinks. Craves ice : fruit. Violent hunger.
Veratrum album — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
rheumatoid arthritis, where Drosera might have helped, have been left uncured. Again in regard to Verairum alb. Hughes, from his lofty assump tion of critic is pleased to say that “ the marked symptoms of insanity which stand at the head of Hahnemann’s list ” (of mental symptoms) " were observed upon insane patients taking the drug, and are worse than useless Imagine that ! worse than useless ! —in Dr. Hughes’s opinion. And in Allen’s Encyclopedia, where one of the “ contributors’’ was Dr. Richard Hughes, a footnote is to the following effect : " All symptoms of the mind and disposition occurring in the first two classes, and all the spasmodic phenomena manifested by the third, have been bracketed, as the doses administered were too small to induce them.”— Hughes. Again, Opinion versus Fact ! One cannot help wondering how much of Hahnemann has been deleted or slurred by Hughes ! One only discovers these things gradually. Hering’s Guiding Symptoms has no hint of such follies; and Kent, a far greater teacher and prescriber than Hughes—or so one gathers—realizes the great importance of Verairum alb. in insanity ; as we shall see. Meanwhile, hear Hahnemann on the subject : . . . It is quite false that patients affected with emotional and mental diseases require and bear enormous doses of medicine, as physi cians still imagine. . . . In such cases ”, he says, ” health is often but little affected and the patients are often very robust . . . the malady has settled in the fine invisible organs of the mental and emotional spheres undiscoverable by anatomy . .” and, in his experience, ” patients suffering from mental and emotional diseases soon regained a healthy state of their mental and emotional organs, i.e.
Veratrum album — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: From least motion; after drinking; before and during menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright.
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