Veratrum Viride

General

VERATRUM VIRIDE. [Ver. vir.] Green Hellebore. Burt. Melanthaceae.

Mind

► Stupefaction ; congestion. ► Mental confusion, loss of memory ; vertigo ; cerebral hyperaemia. ► Insanity from cerebral congestion. ► Puerperal mania ; silent, suspicious ; will not see her physician, he seems to terrify her ; fears being poisoned ; sleepless, can hardly be kept in her bedroom. ► Depression of spirits.

Inner Head

► Headache from nape of neck, with vertigo, dim vision, dilated pupils. ► Congestion to head : from high living, abuse of stimulants ; during dentition. ► Fulness in head, throbbing arteries ; increased sensitiveness to sounds ; buzzing in the ears ; double or partial vision. θ Sunstroke. ► Meningitis, high fever intense congestion, later rolling of head ; vomiting ; or face haggard, cold, and pulse slow ; breathing labored.

Outer Head

► Severe frontal headache, with vomiting.

Eyes

► Dimness of vision, with dilated pupils. ► Green circles around the candle, which turn to red. ► Traumatic erysipelas of eyelids. ► Twitching, contortion of eyes, rolling of eyeballs ; paralysis of lids.

Ears

► Deafness from moving quickly, with faintness. ► Roaring in ears ; congestion ; nausea, vomiting. ► Ears cold and pale.

Nose

► Profuse secretion of mucus from the nose.

Face

► Cold, bluish, covered with cold sweat ; nose pinched, cold, blue ; paleness of the lips and around alae nasi. ► Convulsive twitchings of facial muscles. ► Face flushed ; cerebral congestion.

Lower Face

► Mouth drawn down at one corner. ► Lips dry ; mouth dry, or thick mucus in mouth.

Teeth

► Dentition ; cerebral congestion, excited pulse ; convulsions.

Tongue, Etc

► Tongue : yellow, with red streak down the middle ; feels scalded.

Mouth

► Copious secretion of saliva.

Throat

► Dryness and heat in throat, with severe hiccough. ► Burning in fauces and oesophagus, with constant inclination to swallow. ► Spasm of oesophagus, with or without rising of frothy, bloody mucus. ► Sensation as of a ball rising into oesophagus.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Heart-burn with bitter, sour rising. ► Vomiting : long-continuing ; of glairy mucus after food ; of blood ; of bile. ► Vomiting, with inflammatory or cerebral disease. ► Smallest quantity of food or drink is immediately rejected.

Stomach

► Sharp, flying pains in epigastrium and umbilical region passing to pubes. ► Excruciating pain, covering a space the size of hand, in lower part of stomach. ► Intense drawing, twisting pains in stomach, as if it was drawn tightly against spine, causing pain in dorsal region. ► Pains culminate every five minutes in severe vomiting.

Abdomen

► As if drawn in, following cramp in stomach. ► Pains at right of umbilicus, passing down to groin. ► Enteritis, with high fever, great vascular excitement ; vomiting ; dark, bloody stools.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : bloody ; black, in typhoid ; copious, light, mornings ; mushy, preceded and followed by cutting in bowels. ► Hemorrhoids red and dark blue ; neuralgic pains in the rectum.

Urine

► Increased, pale ; deposits a reddish sediment. ► Specific gravity of urine diminished.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menstrual colic, preceded by great congestion, and troublesome strangury ; plethoric women. ► Suppressed menses, with cerebral congestion ; plethora.

Pregnancy

► Vomiting during pregnancy. ► Puerperal convulsions, during labor, after blood-letting ; furious delirium ; arterial excitement ; cold, clammy sweat.

Breathing

► Labored, must sit up, cold sweat on the face ; decreased from 40 to 16, pneumonia. ► Oppression of the chest.

Cough

► Short, dry, hacking ; loose, rattling ; worse going from warm to cold.

Lungs

► Congestion of chest, with rapid respiration, nausea, vomiting ; dull burning in region of heart. ► Pneumonia, pulse hard, strong, quick or, engorgement of lungs, with faint feeling in stomach, nausea, slow or intermittent pulse.

Heart And Pulse

► In cardiac region : burning ; prickling ; or dull aching. ► Heart's beat : loud, strong, with arterial excitement ; low and feeble ; fluttering. ► Faintness and blindness ; when rising from lying ; from sudden motions ; better lying quietly. ► Pulse : suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal ; slow, soft, weak ; irregular, intermittent.

Neck And Back

► Aching in back of neck and shoulders. ► Muscles of back contracted, drawing head backward. ► Opisthotonos ; arterial excitement ; hands and feet cold ; shocks in limbs ; congestion of brain and spine, loss of consciousness. ► Heat and redness down spine ; back of head hot. θ Spotted fever.

Lower Limbs

► Pain in either great trochanter when lying on it. ► Lancinating pain in right hip. ► Right ankle feels as if dislocated, can scarcely walk ; later left.

Limbs In General

► Rheumatism, especially in left shoulder, hip and knee ; high fever ; scanty red urine. ► Flying pains ; pains in joints ; shuddering ; rheumatism. ► Cramps in legs, fingers, toes. ► Pain, especially about the condyles.

Position, Etc

► Moving : 6, 29. Walking : 33. Rising : 29. Must sit up : 26. Lying quietly : 3 ; on affected side : 33.

Nerves

► Twitchings and contortions of body, unaffected by sleep ; froth about lips ; champing of teeth ; difficult swallowing ; head, jerking or continually nodding ; sexual excitement ; chorea. ► Violent spasms, like galvanic shocks. ► Convulsions after scarlet fever ; great dilatation of pupils ; inability to sleep. ► Opisthotonic convulsions in anaemic subjects from exhausting diarrhoea. ► Trembling, as if child was frightened and on verge of a spasm. ► Convulsions with opisthotonos ; anaemia from diarrhoea. ► Paralysis ; tingling in limbs ; cerebral hyperaemia.

Sleep

► Sleeplessness ; cross, quarrelsome ; also in acute fever. ► Coma, blue face ; spasms. ► Restless sleep ; dreams of drowning ; of being on water.

Time

► Morning : 20.

Temperature And Weather

► Sunstroke : 3. Going from warm to cold : 27.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Coldness of whole body, cold sweat on face, hands, and feet. ► Chilliness, with nausea. ► Coldness, with pale skin, flabby muscles ; quick, but weak pulse. ► Typhoid fevers when pulse is full, hard, frequent ; pain violent in back of head ; delirium ; black stools. ► Irritative fever, with cerebral congestions, causing convulsions, children.

Tissues

► Congestions, especially of base of brain, chest, spine, stomach. ► Dropsy, with fever. θ After scarlatina.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Rubbing relieves pains and itching.

Skin

► Itching of different parts, better from rubbing. ► Tingling and pricking in skin. ► Skin cold, clammy, bluish, insensible, shriveled. ► Eruptions, with intense fever. ► Measles, during febrile stage, especially if pulmonary congestion is impending ; convulsions before eruption. ► Scarlatina, with intense arterial excitement. ► Rheumatism, carditis, dropsy, as sequelae. ► Small-pox, intense fever, restlessness, excessive pain.

Stages And States

► Full-blooded, plethoric.

Relationship

► Ver. vir. cured spasms from strychnine.