Homeopathy LibraryVeratrum Viride
Reason for use
In eruptive fevers with much congestion, where cardiac symptoms develop of pericarditis and endocarditis, and in acute inflammatory rheumatic conditions, especially of the lower limbs, with the concomitant symptoms. Veratrum viride may be called for.
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Heart
(Veratrum viride)
Pericarditis and endocarditis.
Sensation of a heavy load on chest.
Heart's action violent and tumultuous.
NECK AND BACK .— (Veratrum viride)
ACHING IN BACK OF NECK AND SHOULDERS.
Contraction of muscles of neck drawing head backward.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES .— (Veratrum viride)
Rheumatic pains in left shoulder.
Acute rheumatic pains in wrists and fingers, much swollen and excessively painful.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES .— (Veratrum viride)
Great trochanter painful lying on it.
Lancinating pains in right hip.
INFLAMMATORY CONDITION AFFECTING KNEES, ANKLES AND HIPS.
JOINTS SWOLLEN, RED, VERY PAINFUL AND SENSITIVE.
Right ankle feels as if dislocated ; can scarcely walk going to left.
FLYING PAINS IN JOINTS CAUSING SHUDDERING.
Pains especially associated at the condyles.
AGGRAVATIONS .— (Veratrum viride)
After exanthematous fevers.
Much sweat without relief.
CONCOMITANTS .— (Veratrum viride)
HIGH FEVER.
RAPID PULSE.
Tongue coated on edges with a central red stripe.
MARKED CONGESTION OF THE PART.
PULSE SUDDENLY INCREASES AND THEN GRADUALLY DECREASES BELOW NORMAL.
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