Veratrum Album

1 . Thin , choleric, emotional subjects deficient in vital reaction ; extremes of life and young people of nervous, sanguine temperament.

2 . Violent manias, deliriums, with anger and rage ; habits dirty and destructive especially to clothes ; attacks often alt. sullen silence ; may be religious excitement.

3 . Sudden collapse with cold sweat especially on forehead ; hippocratic features, etc. ; coldness and blueness of body surface yet covering does not > but rather < .

4 . Acute, violent vomiting and purging ; stools gen. watery, greenish, flaky ; with cramps and cutting colic ; in choleraic diseases ; from cold ; from fruit, vegetables ; especially suddenly at night in summer. More chronic states have constipation with much straining.

5 . All discharges are copious (vomit, urine, motions, sweat, etc.).

6 . Intense thirst with desire for large quantities of cold drinks.

7 . Local frigidities ; icy coldness of vertex, etc., yet often sense of internal burning.

8 . Neuralgias, headaches and dysmenorrhoeas with prostration, even vomiting and cold sweat ; < heat ; pain compels patient to walk about yet no >. Dysmenorrhoea with violent emotional disturbances. Rheumatic pains < during wet weather ; < warmth of bed.

9 . Cardiac troubles after severe or prolonged illness ; pulse slow and weak, thready ; blood pressure low (cases where Crataegus so often valuable) ; frequent faintings ; red face turns pale on sitting up suddenly.

10 . Modalities ; < night ; < motion ; < drinking ; < before and during discharges ; < after fright.

Keynote : Violence.