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Veratrum Viride

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General

General action :

Asphyxia.

Paralysis of the heart and vaso-motor centres, with low temperature, cold sweat and collapse.

From large doses, convulsions, vomiting, but rarely purging.

Mind

Furious delirium, quarrelsome, striking and kicking and screaming ; or with incessant muttering.

Head

Fullness in the head, with heaviness.

Vertigo in the morning on rising, with photophobia, with vomiting.

Clinical

Intense congestive headache, with pulsating, double vision, numbness of the limbs, nausea and vomiting.

Eyes

Dim vision, with dilated pupils.

Loss of vision, with faintness on rising up suddenly.

Ears

Humming, with sensitiveness to noise.

Face

Flushed.

Lips and mouth dry.

Mouth

Tongue red in the centre ; feels scalded ; or coated at base.

Red, dry strip through the centre of the tongue, with bloated, livid face.

Throat

Burning and dryness in the throat, with inclination to swallow.

Stomach

Thirst, especially in the morning, with nausea.

Hiccough, with spasms of the upper part of the oesophagus.

Nausea somewhat > eating and empty eructations.

Vomiting, with cold sweat, in the morning on rising.

Twisting tearing pains in the stomach and abdomen.

Abdomen

Pain, particularly just above the pelvis, with soreness.

Clinical

Os uteri rigid during labor, with flushed face, full pulse, dry mouth.

Pelvic congestion or inflammation, with tenderness, fever, puerperal fever, even convulsions.

Suppressed menstruation, with congestion of the head.

Dysmenorrhoea.

Respiratory organs :

Difficult, convulsive breathing, amounting to suffocation.

A feeling of rush of blood to the lungs.

Clinical

Bronchitis.

Pulmonary congestion or inflammation, with livid face, dry tongue, full, hard or irregular pulse, cold sweat at times.

Inflammations about the heart, with the above symptoms.

Extremities

Flying pains in the joints (occasionally indicated in arthritic inflammations, with the peculiar symptoms of the drug).

Clinical

Erysipelas, particularly of the head and face, with delirium, dry tongue and mouth.

Fever

Coldness, with clammy sweat.

General feeling of congestion ; fever.

Cold sweat, with weakness.