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Veratrum Album
Veratrum album · VERAT
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Origin Plant · Melanthaceae (Melanthiaceae) · Simple
Habitat of the Liliaceae
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the root-stocks collected (in the Alps and Pyrenees) early in June before flowering.
Sources 19 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …

Dose
1X–30X
First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhoea, not below the sixth.

Reason for useBoericke

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 to talk.


▲ Worse at night; wet, cold weather
▼ Better walking and warmth

By regionBoericke
Mind Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. …
Head Contracted features. Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale face. …
Eyes Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without luster. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy.
Stomach Voracious appetite. Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. …
Respiratory Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. Coarse rales. …
Female Menses too early; profuse and exhausting. Dysmenorrhoea, with coldness, purging, cold sweat. Faints from least exertion. Sexual mania precedes menses.
Extremities Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica; pains like electric flashes. Cramps in calves. …
Skin Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death. Cold sweat. Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.
Fever Chill, with extreme coldness and thirst.

Books*
Antidoted by Aconitum Napellus 3, Camphora 3, Cinchona Officinalis 3 +7
Complementary —
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Ammonium Carbonicum, Arnica Montana +14
Compare Arsenicum Album, Camphora, Cholesterinum +26

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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