Veratrum Viride
T. F. Allen - A Primer of Materia Medica · Timothy Field Allen · 2,213 chars
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.