Homeopathy LibraryOrigin 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 Boericke
1X–30X
First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhoea, not below the sixth
By regionHering
Mind ► Stupid from excess in alcoholic drinks. ► Never speaks the truth ; does not know herself what she is saying. ► Thinks himself distinguished ; squanders his money. ► Delirium, heavy soporous sleep ; restless, thirst, cramps in legs, cold sweat, tingling ; irregular pulse. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis. ► Mania : with desire to cut and tear, especially clothes ; with lewdness and lascivious talk. ► Loquacity, he talks rapidly. ► Talks much about religious things ; praying. ► Disposed to talk about faults of others, or to be silent ; but if irritated, scolding, calling names. ► Kissing everybody ; before menses. ► Impudent behavior in childbed. ► Curses all night and complains of stupid feeling, with headache and ptyalism. ► Dislike to talk except in delirium. ► Cannot bear to be left alone. ► Fearfulness ; starts with running about and shouting. ► Anxious, restless, easily frightened, whining, weeping, apathetic delirium, blue face. θ Typhoid. ► Anxiety, as after committing an evil deed, worse evening and after dinner. ► Despair about his position in society ; feels very unlucky. ► Despair of her salvation ; with suppressed catamenia. ► After fright ; fear, anxiety ; coldness ; fainting ; involuntary diarrhoea. ► Consequences of injuried pride or honor.
Inner Head ► Paroxysms in various parts of brain, partly as if bruised partly pressure. ► Burning in brain. ► Neuralgia of head with indigestion ; feature sunken. ► Head hot and covered with sweat ; headache ; children rub the head, cannot bear to be left alone ; put hands to head. θ Typhoid. ► Headache : nausea, vomiting, pale face ; stiff neck, profuse micturition ; as if brain was torn to pieces ; chronic, coming on in afternoon, lasting through night ; drawing in both arms ; better towards morning ; frequent micturition. ► Violent pains driving him to despair ; or great prostration with headache ; fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst ; nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea ; or, obstinate constipation.
Eyes ► Black motes or specks before eyes, with diplopia ; photophobia ; worse on rising from bed or chair. ► Hemeralopia. ► Eyes : turned upward, showing only whites ; distorted, protruding ; fixed, watery, sunken, lustreless ; full of tears ; lids livid, blue edges. ► Pupils : contracted ; dilated, with weak sight ; fails to recognize those near, or does so but slowly. ► Tearing pains in eyes, depriving one of sleep ; worse in cold, damp weather. θ Rheumatic ophthalmia. ► Excessive dryness of lids. ► Lids : heavy, can scarcely lift them ; trembling. ► Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, with feeling of dryness and heat.
Stomach ► Anguish in pit of stomach. ► Pains coming gradually, first in epigastrium, then radiating upward and to both sides, reaching to back between lowest point of scapula : becomes agonizing, then gradually subsided ; shakes with cold. θ Gastrodynia. ► Gastric catarrh, great weakness, cold, sudden sinking. ► Haematemesis, with slow pulse, coldness, fainting fits, cold sweat ; nausea when moving or rising. ► Chronic weakness of stomach ; from dampness of climate and want of fresh air ; from abuse of quinine.
Female Sexual Organs ► Nymphomania of lying-in women ; also before menses. ► Metritis, with fits of vomiting, delirium, anxiety ; vomiting and diarrhoea ; body hot, limbs cold. ► Menses : too early, too profuse ; suppressed, with despair of salvation, or with blood-spitting. ► Amenorrhoea, with nervous headache, leaden face, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. ► Dysmenorrhoea, with prolapsus ; vomiting, diarrhoea, exhaustion. ► Strangulated prolapsed vagina, with cold sweat, exhausting vomiting and diarrhoea.
Lungs ► Constant rattling of mucus, but cannot expectorate ; sticky sweat about head ; weak ; frequent, irregular pulse ; bronchitis of the aged. ► Capillary bronchitis. ► Acute bronchial catarrh, in the emphysematous. ► Rattling in lungs, fear of suffocation ; frothy, serous sputa ; blue face ; oedema of lungs. ► Stitches in sides of chest.
Neck And Back ► Neck so weak, child can scarcely keep it erect, especially in whooping-cough. ► Tingling in fingers, causing anxiety and painful jerks of limbs. ► During exercise, rheumatic pain between scapulae from nape to small of back ; worse going to stool. ► Bruised feeling in sacral region.
Limbs In General ► Painful paralytic weakness in upper and lower limbs. ► Limbs go to sleep, also when lying down. ► Pains in limbs resembling a bruise, worse during wet, cold weather ; worse in warmth of bed ; better when walking up and down.
Sleep ► Sleepiness. ► Uninterrupted sleep for three days. θ Typhoid. ► Drowsy, starts as if frightened, preventing sleep ; fever follows. ► Arms stretched above head, moaning, during sleep. ► Nightly anxiety and sleeplessness. ► Dreams : of being drowned ; of being bitten by a dog and cannot escape ; of being hunted ; of robbers, with frightened awakening and a fixed idea that the dream is true.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill and coldness : mostly external, with internal heat, and cold, clammy sweat ; running downward ; shaking chill with sweat, which soon passes off into general coldness. ► Chill increased by drinking ; lessened after getting out of bed. ► Whole body icy-cold. ► Chill of nursing children. ► Chill and heat alternating, now here, again there, on single parts. ► Heat : mostly internal, with thirst but no desire to drink ; in the evening, with sweat ; ascends. ► Profuse sweat, morning, evening, or all night ; also with every stool. ► Sweat cold, clammy ; offensive ; bitter-smelling ; or staining yellow ; but always with deathly pale face. ► General cold sweat, worse on forehead. ► Intermittent types, often pernicious during cholera ; also after abuse of quinine. ► Rheumatic fever, with profuse sweat, great weakness and diarrhoea. ► Typhoid forms of fever, especially in cholera seasons ; also when vital forces suddenly sink.
Skin ► Wrinkled skin ; skin remains in folds after pressure. ► Skin blue, purple, cold. ► Rash over body, or on face and hands. ► Dry eruptions like itch. ► Desquamation of indurated or thickened portion of skin. ► Erysipelas. ► Measles tardy and pale ; skin often livid ; hemorrhages, but no relief ; drowsy ; weak ; cold ; thready pulse ; also for spasmodic cough and vomiturition. ► Scarlatina in hot, summer weather ; eruption bluish ; pulse feeble ; burning heat of limbs alternating with coldness.
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.
homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/veratrum-album
homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/veratrum-album