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Veratrum Viride
Veratrum viride · VERAT V
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Origin Plant · Melanthaceae (Melanthiaceae) · Simple
Habitat of the Liliaceae
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh root gathered in autumn.
Sources 16 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Allen, Nash …

Dose Boericke
1X–6X
First to sixth potency

By regionHering
Mind ► Stupefaction ; congestion. ► Mental confusion, loss of memory ; vertigo ; cerebral hyperaemia. ► Insanity from cerebral congestion. ► Puerperal mania ; silent, suspicious ; will not see her physician, he seems to terrify her ; fears being poisoned ; sleepless, can hardly be kept in her bedroom. ► Depression of spirits.
Inner Head ► Headache from nape of neck, with vertigo, dim vision, dilated pupils. ► Congestion to head : from high living, abuse of stimulants ; during dentition. ► Fulness in head, throbbing arteries ; increased sensitiveness to sounds ; buzzing in the ears ; double or partial vision. θ Sunstroke. ► Meningitis, high fever intense congestion, later rolling of head ; vomiting ; or face haggard, cold, and pulse slow ; breathing labored.
Eyes ► Dimness of vision, with dilated pupils. ► Green circles around the candle, which turn to red. ► Traumatic erysipelas of eyelids. ► Twitching, contortion of eyes, rolling of eyeballs ; paralysis of lids.
Stomach ► Sharp, flying pains in epigastrium and umbilical region passing to pubes. ► Excruciating pain, covering a space the size of hand, in lower part of stomach. ► Intense drawing, twisting pains in stomach, as if it was drawn tightly against spine, causing pain in dorsal region. ► Pains culminate every five minutes in severe vomiting.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menstrual colic, preceded by great congestion, and troublesome strangury ; plethoric women. ► Suppressed menses, with cerebral congestion ; plethora.
Lungs ► Congestion of chest, with rapid respiration, nausea, vomiting ; dull burning in region of heart. ► Pneumonia, pulse hard, strong, quick or, engorgement of lungs, with faint feeling in stomach, nausea, slow or intermittent pulse.
Neck And Back ► Aching in back of neck and shoulders. ► Muscles of back contracted, drawing head backward. ► Opisthotonos ; arterial excitement ; hands and feet cold ; shocks in limbs ; congestion of brain and spine, loss of consciousness. ► Heat and redness down spine ; back of head hot. θ Spotted fever.
Limbs In General ► Rheumatism, especially in left shoulder, hip and knee ; high fever ; scanty red urine. ► Flying pains ; pains in joints ; shuddering ; rheumatism. ► Cramps in legs, fingers, toes. ► Pain, especially about the condyles.
Sleep ► Sleeplessness ; cross, quarrelsome ; also in acute fever. ► Coma, blue face ; spasms. ► Restless sleep ; dreams of drowning ; of being on water.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Coldness of whole body, cold sweat on face, hands, and feet. ► Chilliness, with nausea. ► Coldness, with pale skin, flabby muscles ; quick, but weak pulse. ► Typhoid fevers when pulse is full, hard, frequent ; pain violent in back of head ; delirium ; black stools. ► Irritative fever, with cerebral congestions, causing convulsions, children.
Skin ► Itching of different parts, better from rubbing. ► Tingling and pricking in skin. ► Skin cold, clammy, bluish, insensible, shriveled. ► Eruptions, with intense fever. ► Measles, during febrile stage, especially if pulmonary congestion is impending ; convulsions before eruption. ► Scarlatina, with intense arterial excitement. ► Rheumatism, carditis, dropsy, as sequelae. ► Small-pox, intense fever, restlessness, excessive pain.

Books*
Antidoted by Pulsatilla Pratensis 2, Camphora, Coffea Cruda +1
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Aconitum Napellus, Baptisia Tinctoria, Belladonna +25

* 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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