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Veratrum album, the false helleborine, white hellebore, European white hellebore, or white veratrum (syn. Veratrum lobelianum Bernh.) is a poisonous plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is native to Europe and parts of western Asia (western Siberia, Turkey, Caucasus).
Bad Effects Removed by Veratrum album According to Henry C. Allen’s Materia Medica Keynotes, Veratrum album is especially noted for its ability to remove the sequelæ of certain toxic habits: - Effects of opium eating - Effects of tobacco chewing
Bad Effects Removed by Veratrum album
According to Henry C. Allen’s Materia Medica Keynotes, Veratrum album is especially noted for its ability to remove the sequelæ of certain toxic habits:
– Effects of opium eating
– Effects of tobacco chewing
Symptoms of Veratrum album in Diarrhoea Physical Characteristics - Profuse, watery, gushing stools, often rice-water in appearance - Stools are greenish, odourless, acrid, sometimes mixed with flakes - Violent simultaneous vomiting and purging, with great prostration - Cutting, colicky pains in theRead more
Symptoms of Veratrum album in Diarrhoea
Physical Characteristics
– Profuse, watery, gushing stools, often rice-water in appearance
– Stools are greenish, odourless, acrid, sometimes mixed with flakes
– Violent simultaneous vomiting and purging, with great prostration
– Cutting, colicky pains in the abdomen as if “knives” twisting intestines
– Sensation of sinking and emptiness in the stomach after stool
– Extreme coldness of skin and extremities, with pale or bluish, sunken face
– Cold, clammy sweat on the forehead accompanying collapse
Modalities and Concomitant Features
– Cramps and tonic spasms beginning in hands and feet, spreading over body
– Intense, unquenchable thirst for large quantities of very cold water (often vomited immediately)
– Profound weakness and rapid sinking of vital forces after each stool
– Sensation of a lump of ice on the vertex or across the scalp
– Worse from cold, damp weather and slightest motion; better from warmth and firm pressure
– Mental collapse: anxiety, fear of death, possible delirium during bouts of diarrhoea
1. Useful in both cholera asiatica and morbus. 2. Vomiting and purging at the same time. 3. Colicky pains through the abdomen, with cramps. 4. cramps especially in calves of the legs. 5. Profuse watery stools, rice-water stools. 6. Great prostration and cold sweat on the forehead. 7. Coldness and blRead more
1. Useful in both cholera asiatica and morbus.
2. Vomiting and purging at the same time.
3. Colicky pains through the abdomen, with cramps.
4. cramps especially in calves of the legs.
5. Profuse watery stools, rice-water stools.
6. Great prostration and cold sweat on the forehead.
7. Coldness and blueness of the surface and symptoms of collapse.
8. Worse at night.
9. it is useless to give veratrum in Cholera affections, unless there is pain.
1. Convulsions of children, from fright, epileptiform, hysterical, puerperal, with tetanic rigidity. 2. Hysterical faintness, after fright, from pain, during menses, during labour, while fasting with cyanosis.
1. Convulsions of children, from fright, epileptiform, hysterical, puerperal, with tetanic rigidity.
2. Hysterical faintness, after fright, from pain, during menses, during labour, while fasting with cyanosis.
Violent, unquenchable thirst.
Violent, unquenchable thirst.
See less1. Constipation, sometimes obstinate, mostly from inactivity of the rectum, and often accompanied by heat and headache. 2. Stool hard, and of too large a size. 3. Unsuccessful urging to stool. 4. Constipation of nursing infants.─Violent and painful diarrhśa, often with the tension of the abdomen, prRead more
1. Constipation, sometimes obstinate, mostly from inactivity of the rectum, and often accompanied by heat and headache.
2. Stool hard, and of too large a size.
3. Unsuccessful urging to stool.
4. Constipation of nursing infants.─Violent and painful diarrhśa, often with the tension of the abdomen, preceded and followed by gripings.
5. Fainting during stool.
6. Burning sensation in the anus, during evacuation.
7. Pain, as from excoriation in the anus.
8. Pressure towards the anus, with blind hćmorrhoids.
9. Verminous symptoms.
1. Painful contraction of the abdomen, when vomiting. 2. Pain in stomach, with hunger and burning thirst. 3. Excessive sensibility in the region of the stomach and scrobiculate. 4. Pyloric end of stomach affected (Bayes). 5. Pains come some minutes after eating. 6. Severe gastralgia an hour or two aRead more
1. Painful contraction of the abdomen, when vomiting.
2. Pain in stomach, with hunger and burning thirst.
3. Excessive sensibility in the region of the stomach and scrobiculate.
4. Pyloric end of stomach affected (Bayes).
5. Pains come some minutes after eating.
6. Severe gastralgia an hour or two after meals, the pain extends from the middle of the sternum to below ribs, must hold stomach from the violence of the pain, but the pressure does not >, the pain then extends to above hip, is accompanied by distressing vomiting, brings up a quantity of stuff like vinegar; the pain = thirst, and lasts eight to ten hours; she trembles with it.
7. Excessive anguish in the pit of the stomach.
8. Intermittent neuralgia in a girl, 11, about 4 p.m. throws up the quantity of wind, about 5 p.m. agonizing pain sets in like knives cutting the bowels every few minutes, lasting one or two minutes; so intense that it took three or four men to hold her; attacks end by sighing (Kitching).
9. Painful distension of pit of the stomach.
10. Emptiness and uneasiness in the stomach.
11. Cramp in the stomach.
12. Pressure in scrobiculate, extending sometimes into sternum, hypochondria, and hypogastrium, esp. after a meal.
13. Acute pains in the stomach and epigastrium.
14. Burning sensation in the pit of the stomach.
15. Inflammation of the stomach.
16. Tensive pain in hypochondria as from flatulence.
17. Shaking in the spleen, while walking, after a meal. Spleen swollen.
18. Hyperćmia of the liver with cholera-like symptoms, or with asthma.
19. Diaphragmatic peritonitis, vomiting, and coldness.
20. Colic in umbilical region.
21. Excessively painful sensibility of the abdomen when touched.
22. Nocturnal pains in abdomen, with sleeplessness.
23. Swelling of the abdomen. While vomiting abdomen is painfully contracted.
24. Abdomen hard and inflated.
25. Tension in the hypochondria and umbilical region.
26. Cramps in the abdomen, and colic.
27. Colic: cutting; griping and twisting, esp. about the navel, > after stool; as if intestines were twisted in a knot; flatulent; cold sweat; < after eating.
28. Pressive, drawing pains in abdomen, when walking, in the evening.
29. Cuttings (in the abdomen) as by knives, accompanied by diarrhśa, and thirst, with the flow of urine.
30. Burning sensation throughout the abdomen, as from hot coals.
31. Cold feeling in abdomen.
32. Pain in entrails, as if they were bruised.
33. Inflammation of intestines.
34. Inguinal hernia. Incarcerated hernia.─Protrusion of a hernia during cough.
35. Flatulent colic, with noisy, gurgling borborygmi in the abdomen.
36. The longer the flatus is retained, the greater the difficulty with which it is expelled.
37. Violent expulsion of flatus upwards and downwardsFrequent and violent hiccough.
1. Affections of the mind in general; tired of life, but fear to die; amativeness; haughtiness; delirium; madness; sensitiveness; memory weak, or entirely lost. 2. Melancholy dejection, sadness, and inclination to weep. 3. Inconsolable affliction, with howlings and cries on account of imaginary misfRead more
1. Affections of the mind in general; tired of life, but fear to die; amativeness; haughtiness; delirium; madness; sensitiveness; memory weak, or entirely lost.
2. Melancholy dejection, sadness, and inclination to weep.
3. Inconsolable affliction, with howlings and cries on account of imaginary misfortunes.
4. Melancholy, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence.
5. Excessive anguish and inquietude, with apprehension and troubled conscience, esp. at night, or in the morning, often also when getting out of bed, or rising from a seat.
6. Strong tendency to be frightened, and timidity.
7. Deadly anguish.
8. Discouragement and despair (hopelessness of life).
9. Busy restlessness, constant motion, with the great inclination for labor.
10. Disposition to be angry at the least thing, often followed by anxiety, and palpitation of the heart.
11. Loquaciousness, he talks rapidly.
12. Swearing, inclination to run away, tearing things.
13. Is conscious only as in a dream.
14. Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk.
15. Strong disposition to silence, with abusive language on the slightest provocation; if he talks he scolds, and the voice is weak and scarcely audible.
16. Disposition to converse about the faults of others.
17. He hunts up other people’s weak sides and reproaches them.
18. She is continually accusing and scolding her husband when dying of phthisis.
19. Never speaks the truth; does not know herself what she is saying.
20. Erroneous and haughty notions.
21. Thinks himself distinguished; squanders his money, proud of his position.
22. Imagines he is a hunter.
23. Immoderate gaiety and loquacity.
24. Fury, with the impulse to bite, to tear everything, and to run away.
25. Loss of memory.
26. Absence of ideas.
27. Loss of sense.
28. Insanity, he wants to cut up everything.
29. Unusually joyous mood.
30. Mild delirium, with trembling excitement.
31. Mental alienation and insanity, with singing, whistling, laughing, inclination to run from place to place, extravagant and haughty ideas and actions, or else a disposition to ascribe to one’s self diseases which are altogether imaginary (thinks herself pregnant, or that she will be delivered soon).
32. Persistent raging with great heat of the body.
33. Swallowing his own excrement.
34. Paroxysms of amorous or religious alienation.
35. Mental disorders, with lechery and obscene talk.
36. Kisses everybody; before menses.
37. Puerperal mania and convulsions.
38. Nymphomania with violence and destructiveness.
39. Violent delirium (religious or exalted).
40. Suicidal tendency from religious despair.
1. General coldness of whole body, and cold, clammy perspiration, esp. on the forehead. 2. Coldness of the skin even when covered up warmly. 3. Coldness of single parts. 4. Shuddering, and shivering, with a thirst for cold water. 5. Coldness over the back. 6. Shivering with the sensation of coldnessRead more
1. General coldness of whole body, and cold, clammy perspiration, esp. on the forehead.
2. Coldness of the skin even when covered up warmly.
3. Coldness of single parts.
4. Shuddering, and shivering, with a thirst for cold water.
5. Coldness over the back.
6. Shivering with the sensation of coldness in the limbs, esp. shoulders and arms, as if ice-cold water streaming through the bones, in a warm room.
7. Coldness of the feet as if ice-water running into them, with trembling.
8. Shuddering, and cutis anserina, after drinking.
9. Chill < by drinking.
10. Fever, with external coldness.
11. Violent shivering and shaking (followed by heat and slight thirst), then perspiration, which soon changes to coldness.
12. Chilliness and coldness predominate and run from below upwards.
13. Shiverings, at first with much thirst, followed by shivering alternately with heat, then permanent heat, with thirst.
14. Fever, with internal heat only, and deep-colored urine, or with vomiting and diarrhśa, or with constipation; during the shivering, vertigo, nausea, and pains in loins and back.
15. During the heat, continual coma, or delirium, with redness of the face.
16. Heat only internally, with thirst, but without a desire to drink.
17. Heat in the evening, with perspiration.
18. Heat suddenly alternating with chilliness.
19. Fever before midnight, and in morning quotidian, tertian, or quartan.
20. Creeping running from head to toes.
21. Pulse slow, and almost extinct, or small, quick, and intermittent.
22. The blood runs like cold water through the veins.
23. Perspiration in general; complaints concomitant with.
24. Perspiration easily excited during the day, by least movement.
25. Violent perspiration in the morning, in the evening, or all night, as well as during every stool.
26. Cold, sour, or putrid perspiration, sometimes coloring linen yellow, always with deathly paleness of face.
27. Intermittent fever: external coldness, with dark urine and cold perspiration, desire for cold drinks, and chill with nausea; afterward heat with an unquenchable thirst, delirium, redness of the face, constant slumber; finally perspiration without thirst, and very pale countenance.
28. Sweat only on hands.
Rheumatic Pains of Veratrum album Characteristic Sensations - Bruised, paralytic aching, as if limbs or back are broken or crushed - Tearing, cutting or drawing pains (“knife-like” twists) in muscles and joints - Shooting, lancinating pains alternating with tingling or formication Principal LocationRead more
Rheumatic Pains of Veratrum album
Characteristic Sensations
– Bruised, paralytic aching, as if limbs or back are broken or crushed
– Tearing, cutting or drawing pains (“knife-like” twists) in muscles and joints
– Shooting, lancinating pains alternating with tingling or formication
Principal Locations
– Back & Sacrum
– Rheumatic drawing between scapulae, from nape to sacrum on stooping or rising
– Pressive, bruised pain in coccyx and sacro-iliac region when standing
– Thighs & Hips
– Cramp-like, spasmodic drawing in thigh muscles on bearing weight unevenly
– Sensation of heaviness and “about to give way” in hips when walking
– Knees
– Bruised, weariness-like ache on descending stairs
– Single, knife-like cuts and tearing in joint, often on movement
– Calves & Legs
– Intense cramping in calves, with tearing up the tibia
– Heavy, paralytic fatigue-pain as if stones were bound to legs
– Ankles & Feet
– Burning, tensive aches in ankle joints aggravated by pressure
– Shooting pains in toes and corns, forcing patient to walk for relief
Modalities
– Worse
– Motion: standing, walking, stooping, rising, especially after rest
– Warmth of bed or room; damp, cold weather
– Night, when lying down
– Better
– Firm pressure or cold applications on the affected part
– Continuing gentle motion (walking), which “drives out” the pain
In acute rheumatic states of Veratrum album, these pains compel the patient to abandon warmth and pace the floor for relief, often with marked coldness of skin and cold perspiration accompanying the aches.
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