What are the rheumatic pains of veratrum album?

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.