VERATRUM VIRIDE
White American Hellebore
Paroxysms of auricular fibrillation. Induces fall of each systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Congestions, mainly to lungs, base of brain, with nausea and vomiting. Twitchings and convulsions. Especially tailored to full-blooded, plethoric persons. Great prostration. Rheumatism of heart. Bloated, furious face. Furious delirium. Effects of sunstroke. Å’sophagitis. (Farrington). Verat vir, will elevate the opsonic index in opposition to the diploccus pneumonia, 70 to 109 per cent. Congestive stage and early manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia. Zigzag temperature. Clinically, it is acknowledged that such ailments as Tiegel’s contracture, Thompson’s Disease, athetosis and pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis current a symptomatology pretty like that produced by way of Veratrum vir upon muscular tissue (A. E. Hinsdale, M. D).
Mind.–Quarrelsome and delirious.
Head.–Congestion intense, nearly apoplectic. Hot head, bloodshot eyes. Bloated, furious face. Hippocratic face. Head retracted, students dilated, double vision. Meningitis. Pain from nape of neck; can’t maintain head up. Sunstroke; head full, throbbing arteries (Bell; Glon; Usnea). Face flushed. Convulsive twitching of facial muscle mass (Agaricus). Vertigo with nausea.
Tongue.–White or yellow, with pink streak down the middle. Feels scalded. Increased saliva.
Stomach.–Thirsty. Nausea and vomiting. Smallest extent of meals or drink at once rejected. Constrictive pain; elevated through heat drinks. Hiccough; immoderate and painful, with spasms of oesophagus. Burning in belly and oesophagus.
Abdomen.–Pain above pelvis, with soreness.
Respiratory.–Congestion of lungs. Difficult breathing. Sensation of a heavy load on chest. Pneumonia, with faint feeling in belly and violent congestion. Croup. Menstrual colic earlier than the look of the discharge with strangury.
Urine.–Scanty with cloudy sediment.
Female.–Rigid os (Bell; Gels). Puerperal fever. Suppressed menstruation, with congestion to head (Bell). Menstrual colic earlier than the look of the discharge with strangury.
Heart.–Pulse slow, soft, weak, irregular, intermittent. Rapid pulse, low anxiety (Tabac; Dig). Constant, dull, burning ache in place of heart. Valvular diseases. Beating of pulses at some stage in body, specifically in proper thigh.
Extremities.–Aching ache in lower back of neck and shoulders. Severe ache in joints and muscles. Violent electric-like shocks in limbs. Convulsive twitchings. Acute rheumatism. Fever.
Skin.–Erysipelas, with cerebral symptoms. Erythema. Itching in more than a few parts. Hot sweating.
Fever.–Hyperthermy in the nighttime and hypothermy in the morning. Suppurative fevers with excellent variation of temperature.
Relationship.–Compare: Gels; Bapt; Bell; Acon; Ferr phos. Antidotes Strychnin-fluid extract, 20-40 drops.
Dose.–First to sixth potency.
