Veratrum

Cooper has given me a few observations with Ver. nig., which I have arranged

• ▸in Schema form.
• ▸The plant, he says, has much the same botanical characters as Ver.
• ▸alb.
• ▸, but the

flowers are dark-coloured. It is native to Austria and Siberia.

• ▸Fright.
• ▸Shock of injury.
• ▸Disappointed love.
• ▸Injured pride or honour.
• ▸Suppressed

• ▸exanthema.
• ▸Opium.
• ▸Tobacco.
• ▸Alcohol.

• ▸Melancholy, with stupor and mania.
• ▸Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference.
• ▸Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses.
• ▸Puerperal mania.
• ▸Aimless wandering from home.
• ▸Delusions of impending misfortunes.
• ▸Mania, with desire to cut and tear things (Tarant).
• ▸Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness.
• ▸Cursing, howling all night.

Affections of the mind in general; tired of life, but fear to die; amativeness;

haughtiness; delirium; madness; sensitiveness; memory weak, or entirely lost (H. N.

• ▸G.
• ▸).
• ▸—Melancholy dejection, sadness, and inclination to weep.
• ▸—Inconsolable affliction, with

howlings and cries on account of imaginary misfortunes.—Melancholy, head hangs down, sits

brooding in silence—Excessive anguish and inquietude, with apprehension and troubled

conscience, esp. at night, or in morning, often also when getting out of bed, or rising from a

seat.—Strong tendency to be frightened, and timidity—Deadly anguish.—Discouragement and

despair (hopelessness of life).—Busy restlessness, constant motion, with great inclination for

labour.—Disposition to be angry at the least thing, often followed by anxiety, and palpitation of

the heart—Woman, 66, after paralytic seizure became maniacal, extremely angry, constantly

accusing her nurses, pupils contracted, continual excitement, often incoherent: a dose of Ver. a.

• ▸increased these symptoms, and then a single dose of Ver.
• ▸v.
• ▸@ calmed all down (R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Loquaciousness, he talks rapidly.
• ▸—Swearing, inclination to run away, tearing things.
• ▸—Is

conscious only as in a dream.—Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to

talk —Strong disposition to silence, with abusive language on the slightest provocation; if he

talks he scolds, and the voice is weak and scarcely audible.—Disposition to converse about the

faults of others ——(He hunts up other people's weak sides and reproaches them.).—She is

continually accusing and scolding her husband when dying of phthisis.—Never speaks the truth;

does not know herself what she is saying.—Erroneous and haughty notions.—Thinks himself

distinguished; squanders his money, proud of his position.—Imagines he is a

hunter.—Immoderate gaiety and loquacity—Fury, with impulse to bite, to tear everything, and to

• ▸run away.
• ▸—Loss of memory.
• ▸—Absence of ideas.
• ▸—Loss of sense.
• ▸—Insanity, he wants to cut up

• ▸everything.
• ▸—Unusually joyous mood.
• ▸—Mild delirium, with trembling excitement.
• ▸—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).
• ▸—Persistent raging with great heat of body.
• ▸—Swallowing his own excrement.
• ▸—Paroxysms

of amorous or religious alienation.—Mental disorders, with lechery and obscene talk.—Kisses

everybody; before menses.—Puerperal mania and convulsions—Nymphomania with violence and

destructiveness.—Violent delirium (religious or exalted).—Suicidal tendency from religious

despair.

• ▸Contracted features.
• ▸Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex.
• ▸Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, pale face.
• ▸Neck too weak to hold head up.

Constant headache when attempting to move or exert the brain (cured).—Fierce

headache threatening acute mania (cured).

• ▸Surrounded by dark rings.
• ▸Staring; turned upwards, without luster.
• ▸Lachrymation with redness.
• ▸Lids dry heavy.

Pain in the eyes, as if the eyeballs were bruised.—The eyeballs are turned

• ▸upwards.
• ▸—Painful tearing or compression in eyes.
• ▸—Permanent burning in eyes.
• ▸—Redness of

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Painful inflammation in eyes, esp.
• ▸r.
• ▸, and sometimes with violent headache, and nocturnal

• ▸sleeplessness.
• ▸—Eyes dull, clouded, yellowish.
• ▸—Blueness of eyes.
• ▸—Eyes surrounded by blue or

black rings.—Eyes fixed, watery (sunken, with loss of lustre), and as if they were covered with

albumen.—Excessive dryness of eyelids.—Profuse lachrymation, often with burning, incisive

pains, and sensation of dryness in eyes (and lids, with redness).—A gglutination of the eyelids

• ▸during sleep.
• ▸—Trembling of upper eyelids.
• ▸—Neuralgia palpebralis.
• ▸—Paralysis of eyelids.
• ▸—Eyes

convulsed and prominent.—Pupils strongly contracted; or perceptibly dilated.—Loss of

• ▸sight.
• ▸—Diplopia.
• ▸—Nocturnal blindness.
• ▸—Sparks and black spots before eyes, esp.
• ▸when rising

from a seat, or getting out of bed.

Constant buzzing of 1. ear for two weeks with tenderness of meatus and intense

sensitiveness of the head to the motion of an omnibus with beclouding of the brain; can hardly

tell which instrument to take up (in his work as a dentist), and pain in nape of neck (agg.).

Nose grows more pointed; seems longer.—Icy coldness of nose.—Inflammation and

pain, as from ulceration, in interior of nose.—Contractive or depressing pain in nasal

• ▸bone.
• ▸—Nose-bleed.
• ▸at night; during sleep; from one nostril only; before menses.
• ▸—Smell of

manure, or smoke, before nose.—Distressing sensation of dryness in nose.—Violent and frequent

sneezing.—Coryza.

• ▸Features sunken.
• ▸Icy coldness of tip of nose and face.
• ▸Nose grows more pointed.
• ▸Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes.
• ▸Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.

Face pale, cold, hippocratic, wan, with the nose pointed, and a blue (or green) circle

• ▸round eyes.
• ▸—Bluish colour of face.
• ▸—Y ellowish colour of face.
• ▸—Redness of one cheek, the other

is pale-—Alternate redness and paleness of face.—Redness of face when lying down, paleness

when getting up.—Burning heat, deep redness, and perspiration on face.—Cold perspiration on

face (esp. on forehead).—(Periodical neuralgia of face and head, with coldness of hands and

• ▸tendency to faint—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Drawing and tensive pains in face, on one side only, and extending

• ▸to, ear.
• ▸—Jerkings and pinchings in muscles of face (when masticating).
• ▸Lockjaw.
• ▸—Risus

• ▸sardonicus.
• ▸—Pustules in face, with pain, as from excoriation, when touched.
• ▸—Acne.
• ▸—Miliary

eruption on cheeks.—Bloatedness of face.—Lips: bluish or hanging down; dry, black, parched;

wrinkled, pale or black and cracked.—Froth from mouth.—Eruption on the commissures of the

• ▸lips.
• ▸—Acne round the mouth and chin.
• ▸—Cramp in the jaw.
• ▸—Pain and swelling of the

submaxillary glands.

• ▸Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint.
• ▸Dry in center not relieved by water.
• ▸Salty saliva.
• ▸Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.

Mouth dry and clammy.—Burning in mouth and throat.—Salivation, with nausea, or

with acrid or salt taste—Much flow of saliva from the mouth like water-brash.—Froth before

mouth.—Sensation of coldness, or burning in mouth and on tongue.—Inflammation of interior of

mouth.—Tongue, dry, blackish, cracked, or red and swollen.—Tongue loaded with a yellow

coating; or cold and withered.—Biting taste as from peppermint in the

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Stammering.
• ▸—Loss of speech.
• ▸—Sensation of torpor, and great dryness in palate (with

thirst).

Toothache with headache, and red, bloated face —Toothache (sometimes pulsative),

with swelled face, cold perspiration on forehead, nausea, and vomiting, painful weariness, and

coldness of whole body, prostration of strength, even to fainting, internal heat, and insatiable

thirst.—Aching, and sensation of extreme heaviness in teeth, with drawing pain during the

mastication even of soft food.—Grinding of teeth.—Looseness of teeth.

Sore throat, with constrictive pain of contraction (as by a pressing swelling) esp.

during deglutition—Contraction of gullet, as from a pressive swelling.—Swelling of the gullet,

with danger of suffocation.—Sensation of coldness, or burning in back of mouth and

gullet.—Dryness in throat, which cannot be mitigated by any drink.—Roughness, dryness, and

scraping in throat.—Exophthalmic goitre (Kirsch).

• ▸Voracious appetite.
• ▸Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed.
• ▸Averse to warm food.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion.
• ▸Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt.
• ▸Anguish in pit of stomach.
• ▸Great weakness after vomiting.
• ▸Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food.

Insipidity of the saliva in the mouth.—Bitter, bilious taste in mouth.—Water tastes

bitter.—Putrid taste in mouth, like manure, also herbaceous taste.—Cooling, or sharp taste in

mouth and throat, as from peppermint.—Insatiable thirst, with craving, principally for cold

drinks.—Craves ice.—Appetite and craving for food, also in intervals between vomiting and

evacuation.—Raging and voracious hunger.—Hunger and thirst with profuse flow of

• ▸urine.
• ▸—Bulimy.
• ▸—Ardent and continued desire for acid or cool things (fruits).
• ▸—Craves: fruits;

gherkins; citric acid; salted things; herrings; sardines.—Aversion to hot food.—After eating,

however little may be taken, immediate vomiting and diarrhcea.—Nausea, with hunger, and

pressure at the stomach, when eating.—After a meal hiccough, inclination to vomit, and

regurgitation of bitter serum (of bile; of bitter substances; greenish).—> From eating meat and

drinking milk.—< From potatoes and green vegetables.

Risings with taste of food.—Violent empty risings, also after a meal.—Bitter or

sour risings.—Frequent and violent hiccough.—Qualmishness and salivation with closure of the

jaws.—Violent nausea, which frequently almost induces syncope, and generally with excessive

thirst (and increased flow of urine).—Frequent or continued nausea, also in morning.—Extreme

nausea causing one to retch and strain with great violence, sometimes with vomiting, sometimes

• ▸not.
• ▸—Great nausea before vomiting.
• ▸—Waterbrash.
• ▸—Violent vomiting, with continued nausea,

great exhaustion, and want to lie down, preceded by coldness of hands, with shuddering over

whole body, accompanied by general heat, and followed by ebullition of blood and heat in

hands.—Vomiting of food.—Bitter, or sour vomiting —Vomiting of froth and of yellowish green

• ▸or white mucus; with cold sweat.
• ▸—Green vomit.
• ▸—Vomiting of green mucus.
• ▸—Vomiting of mucus

at night.—Vomiting of black bile and of blood.—Continued vomiting, with diarrhoea, and pressure

in the scrobiculus.—The least drop of liquid, and the slightest movement, excite

vomiting.—Painful contraction of abdomen, when vomiting.—Pain in stomach, with hunger and

burning thirst—Excessive sensibility in region of stomach and scrobiculus.—Pyloric end of

stomach affected (Bayes).—Pains come some minutes after eating.—(Severe gastralgia an hour or

two after meals, a pain extends from middle of 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.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Excessive anguish in pit of

• ▸stomach.
• ▸—Intermittent neuralgia in girl, 11, about 4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸throws up quantity of wind, about 5

p.m. agonising 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).—Painful distension of pit of stomach.—Emptiness and uneasiness in

stomach.—Cramp in stomach.—Pressure in scrobiculus, extending sometimes into sternum,

hypochondria, and hypogastrium, esp. after a meal.—Acute pains in stomach and

epigastrium.—Burning sensation in pit of stomach.—Inflammation of stomach.

• ▸Sinking and empty feeling.
• ▸Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen.
• ▸Pain in abdomen preceding stool.
• ▸Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs.
• ▸Sensation as if hernia would protrude (Nux).
• ▸Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.

Tensive pain in hypochondria as from flatulence.—Shaking in spleen, while

walking, after a meal—Spleen swollen —Hypereemia of liver with cholera-like symptoms, or

with asthma.—Diaphragmatis with peritonitis, vomiting, and coldness.—Colic in umbilical

region.—Excessively painful sensibility of the abdomen when touched.—Nocturnal pains in

abdomen, with sleeplessness.—Swelling of the abdomen.—While vomiting abdomen is painfully

contracted.—Abdomen hard and inflated. —Tension in the hypochondria and umbilical

• ▸region.
• ▸—Cramps in abdomen, and colic.
• ▸—Colic: cutting; griping and twisting, esp.
• ▸about navel, >

after stool; as if intestines were twisted in a knot; flatulent; cold sweat; < after eating.—Pressive,

drawing pains in abdomen, when walking, in evening.—Cuttings (in abdomen) as by knives,

accompanied by diarrheea, and thirst, with flow of urine—Burning sensation throughout

abdomen, as from hot coals.—Cold feeling in abdomen.—Pain in entrails, as if they were

• ▸bruised.
• ▸—Inflammation of intestines.
• ▸—Inguinal hernia.
• ▸—Incarcerated hernia.
• ▸—Protrusion of

hernia during cough.—Flatulent colic, with noisy, gurgling borborygmi in abdomen.—The longer

the flatus is retained, the greater the difficulty with which it is expelled —Violent expulsion of

flatus upwards and downwards.

• ▸Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache.
• ▸Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather.
• ▸Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat.
• ▸Diarrhoea, very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration.
• ▸Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging.

Constipation, sometimes obstinate, mostly from inactivity of rectum, and

often accompanied by heat and headache.—Feces hard, and of too large a size.-—Unsuccessful

urging to stool.—Constipation of nursing infants—Violent and painful diarrhoea, often with

tension of abdomen, preceded and followed by gripings.—Watery diarrhoea, < from motion;

desire for very cold drinks.—Complaints before stool, during, and after—Copious

evacuations.—Rice-water stools with tonic cramps.—Simultaneous purging and

vomiting.—Cholera, cramp, cold tongue and breath, feeble, hoarse voice, wrinkled fingers,

retention of urine.—Sudden vomiting and purging.—Diarrhcea of acrid matter, with burning

sensation in anus.—Nocturnal diarrhoea.—Loose blackish, greenish, brownish,

• ▸evacuations.
• ▸—Flaky, green stools, like spinach.
• ▸—Loose, sanguineous evacuations.
• ▸—Sudden

involuntary evacuation of liquid feeces; when expelling flatus —Diarrhcea of phthisis —During the

evacuation, great lassitude, shivering, with shuddering, paleness of face, cold perspiration on

forehead, and anxiety, with fear of apoplexy.—Fainting during stool.—Burning sensation in anus,

during evacuation.—Pain, as from excoriation in anus.—Pressure towards anus, with blind

heemorrhoids.—Verminous symptoms.

Retention of urine.—Want to urinate, while bladder is empty, with pain as

if urethra were constricted behind the glans.—Urine diminished, yellow and turbid even during

emission.—Flow of urine, with raging hunger and thirst, headache, nausea, colic, hard feeces, and

• ▸coryza.
• ▸—Involuntary emission of urine; during cough, in typhoid.
• ▸—Acrid urine.
• ▸—Deep-coloured

or greenish urine.—Dark red urine, discharged frequently, but in small quantities —Pressive pain

in the bladder, and burning sensation when urinating.

• ▸Menses too early; profuse and exhausting.
• ▸Dysmenorrhoea, with coldness, purging, cold sweat.
• ▸Faints from least exertion.
• ▸Sexual mania precedes menses.

Period continually returning; sometimes light-coloured and slight

in quantity, and sometimes profuse; with weak feeling in back.

Excessive sensibility of the genital organs.—Excoriation of

prepuce.—Drawings in testes.

• ▸Hoarse, weak voice.
• ▸Rattling in chest.
• ▸Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up.
• ▸Coarse rales.
• ▸Chronic bronchitis in the aged (Hippozanin).
• ▸Loud barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse, warm room.
• ▸Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face.
• ▸Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing.
• ▸Cough on entering warm room from cold air (Bryonia).

Respiration oppressed; voice hollow; weak.—Chest loaded with

mucus, with roughness and scraping in the throat.—Spasmodic contraction of glottis with dilated

pupils.—Suffocative constriction in larynx.—Tickling very low down in trachea, provoking cough

without expectoration.—Cough, excited by a tickling, deeply seated in the bronchia, with easy

expectoration, or else dryness.—Cough, irritation referred to lowest part of sternum; pressure at

stomach-pit, or over abdomen = cough immediately (Bayes).—Dry, tickling cough, after walking

in sharp, cold air—Cough provoked by drinking, esp. cold water —Violent cough, with continued

risings, as if about to vomit.—Cough in the evening, with salivation—Dry, burning cough,

generally in evening and morning.—Cough, with pain in side, weakness and obstructed

respiration.—Hollow, deep cough, always in three or four shocks, as if proceeding from

abdomen, with incisive pains in abdomen.—Lancinations towards inguinal ring, when

coughing.—Cough, like whooping-cough, with vomiting.—Cough, with yellowish expectoration,

on entering a warm room, followed by pain, as from a bruise in chest—Cough, with copious

expectoration.

• ▸Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration.
• ▸Pulse irregular, feeble.
• ▸Tobacco heart from chewing.
• ▸Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction.
• ▸One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses (J.
• ▸S.
• ▸Mitchell).

Obstructed respiration, often to the verge of suffocation, generally produced by a

spasmodic constriction of throat and chest.—Shortness of breath on least movement.—Dyspnoea

and impeded respiration, also when seated.—Chest very much oppressed, with pain in side,

during an inspiration.—Pressure at chest, esp. in region of sternum, and principally after eating or

drinking. —Sensation of fulness in chest, which induces frequent eructations—Squeezing in chest,

esp. after drinking.—Cramp in chest, with painful constriction ——Spasmodic contraction of

muscles of chest.—Incisive pain in chest.—Tickling in chest, as if it would provoke cough, in

middle of sternum.—Shootings, by paroxysms, in chest, with obstructed respiration.—Slow, sharp

stitches near nipples, which at last itch.

Violent palpitation of heart, which pushes out the ribs, with choking, and severe fits

• ▸of anxietas preecordium.
• ▸—Pulse slow, almost lost.
• ▸—Great activity of arterial system.
• ▸—Angina

pectoris —The blood runs like cold water through the veins.

Dull pain in back.—Dull pain, afterwards burning, in lower part of spinal column,

followed by pain in bowels and prepuce, watery and mucous evacuation, accompanied with

jerking in lower extremities.—Drawing pain along spine.—Sensation of boiling water running

over back.

Rheumatic stiffness in nape, extending to sacrum; with vertigo,

moving.—Paralytic weakness of the muscles of neck (esp. in whooping-cough) which become

incapable of supporting head.—Muscles of nape paralysed.—Pain (back and small of back feel

sore and bruised) as of a fracture in loins and back, with drawing pressure, esp. when stooping

and rising.—Squeezing (tension like cramp) between shoulder-blades.—Pain in scapulz,

extending over whole back, with diuresis, thirst, and constipation.

Paralytic pain, as of a fracture in arms, from shoulder-joint to wrist.—Jerking

in arms.—Coldness or sensation of fulness (heaviness) and of swelling in arms.—Constant

sensation of numbness in arms.—Pain in middle of 1. forearm as if bones were pressed

together.—Trembling of arms, on grasping an object.—Shocks in elbow, as from electricity —Dry

tetters on hands.—Tingling in hands and fingers —The hands go to sleep and feel like

• ▸dead.
• ▸—Numbness and paleness of fingers.
• ▸—Icy coldness and blueness of hands.
• ▸—Drawings and

cramps in fingers.—Nails blue.

• ▸Paralysis in hip-joint (first r.
• ▸then 1.
• ▸), with difficulty in walking.
• ▸—Paralytic

pain, as of a fracture in legs.—Arthritic tearing and drawing in legs and feet.—Constant sensation

of numbness in legs.—Tension in tendons of ham, as if they were too short.—Pain, as of a fracture

in knees, when going downstairs (or when stepping).—Shocks in knee, as from

electricity—Extreme and painful heaviness in knees, legs, and feet, with difficulty in

• ▸walking.
• ▸—Violent cramps in calves and feet.
• ▸—Rapid swelling of feet.
• ▸—Icy coldness of

feet—Trembling of feet, with coldness, as if cold water were circulating in the part—Shootings

(stitches) in (great) toes.—Stinging, in toes when standing. —Painful gout in feet—Lancinations,

and pain as from excoriation, in the corns of the feet.

24. Generalities—[We may think of this remedy where there is a marked debility or exhaustion

from functional or physical disturbance, as e.g., in whooping-cough, patient will cough until

completely exhausted, and then have a cold perspiration on the forehead; or there may be a great

exhaustion obliging one to lie down after the passage of a stool, even though it be soft, with cold

sweat on the forehead.—Affections in general of the sexual organs, principally on r. side; on

crown of head, esp. for sensations felt there; appearing in the rear of the navel; small of the

back.—Countenance is almost always changed presenting an unnatural appearance.—Dry

mouth.—Inguinal hernia.—Flatus in general; flatulent colic—Urine very dark; blackness of outer

parts, staggering when walking, from debility; drowsiness; dry exanthema.—< After drinking;

before and during menstruation; before and during stool (feeling very weak and turn pale during

• ▸stool); often after stool; during perspiration.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Paroxysms of pain, which always

occasion, for a short time, delirium and dementia.—Drawing pain in limbs, esp. during a long

walk.—Pressive pain, as of a fracture, in limbs, muscles, and bones.—Paralytic pain in limbs, as

after great fatigue or exhaustion.—Tearing in extensors, when seated.—Pains (rheumatic) in

limbs, which are rendered insupportable by the heat of bed, > on getting up, and which disappear

completely when walking, generally manifesting themselves towards 4 or 5 a.m.—Pains in limbs,

<n spring and autumn by bad weather, when it is cold and damp.—Pain < by hearing another

• ▸speak.
• ▸—Relaxation of muscles.
• ▸—Continuous weakness and trembling.
• ▸—Fits of cramp, and

convulsive movements of limbs.—Tetanic stiffness of the body.—Attack of spasm, with clenching

of jaws, loss of sense and movement, and convulsive jerking of eyes and eyelids; before the

• ▸attack, anguish, discouragement, and despair.
• ▸—(Epileptic fits.
• ▸).
• ▸—Tonic spasms, sometimes with

contraction of palms of hands, and soles of feet, which are spasmodically drawn

inward.—Several of the symptoms are renewed by rising up, and > by lying down.—Sudden,

general, and paralytic prostration of strength—Excessive chronic weakness, which does not

permit to be seated, nor to remain lying down, or else excited by the least movement.—Tottering

gait.—Syncope, sometimes also on the least movement (characteristic).—General

emaciation.—Tingling in whole body, as far as ends of fingers and toes —The patient is affected

• ▸by the open air.
• ▸—Inflammation of inner organs, esp.
• ▸those of digestion.
• ▸—Sporadic and Asiatic

cholera.

• ▸Soreness and tenderness of joints.
• ▸Sciatica; pains like electric flashes.
• ▸Cramps in calves.
• ▸Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic.

Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death. Cold sweat. Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

Miliary eruption, which itches in the heat, and burns after being scratched.—Measles,

tardy and pale; skin livid; hemorrhages but no relief; drowsy, weak, vomiting.—Scarlatina in hot

weather, eruption bluish, burning heat of limbs alternating with coldness.—Nettle-rash.—Dry

eruption, resembling scabies, with nocturnal itching.—Dry tetters—Desquamation of the

epidermis (of indurated or thickened portions of the skin).—Skin flabby and without elasticity

(the folds remain in the state into which the skin has been pressed).—Whitish colour of the

skin.—Skin anzemic or cyanotic.—Skin blue, purple, cold.

Yawning.—Drowsy insensibility, or coma vigil, with incomplete consciousness, starts

with fright, and eyes half open, or shut only on one side.—(Drowsy in evening, yet cannot sleep

• ▸at night—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Nocturnal sleeplessness, with great anguish.
• ▸—Sleep, long, uninterrupted,

heavy, too profound.—Sleep, with the arms passed over the head.—Dreams anxious, of being

bitten by a dog and cannot escape; of being hunted of robbers, with frightened awakening and a

fixed idea that the dream is true; of quarrels; frightful, followed by vomiting of a very tenacious,

green mucus.—Moaning or whining during sleep.—Sleep with thirst and diuresis.

Chill, with extreme coldness and thirst.

General coldness of whole body, and cold, clammy perspiration, esp. on

forehead.—Coldness of the skin even when covered up warmly.—Coldness of single

parts.—Shuddering, and shivering, with thirst for cold water—Coldness over the back.—Shivering

with sensation of coldness in the limbs, esp. shoulders and arms, as if ice-cold water streaming

through the bones, in a warm room.—Coldness of the feet as if ice-water running into them, with

trembling —Shuddering, and cutis anserina, after drinking.—Chill < by drinking.—Fever, with

external coldness.—Violent shivering and shaking (followed by heat and slight thirst), then

perspiration, which soon changes to coldness.—Chilliness and coldness predominate, and run

from below upwards.—Shiverings, at first with much thirst, followed by shivering alternately

with heat, then permanent heat, with thirst.—Fever, with internal heat only, and deep-coloured

urine, or with vomiting and diarrhoea, or with constipation; during the shivering, vertigo, nausea,

and pains in loins and back.—During the heat, continual coma, or delirium, with redness of

face.—Heat only internal, with thirst, but without desire to drink.—Heat in the evening, with

perspiration.—Heat suddenly alternating with chilliness.—Fever before midnight, and in morning

quotidian, tertian, or quartan.—Creeping running from head to toes.—Pulse slow, and almost

extinct, or small, quick, and intermittent —The blood runs like cold water through the

veins.—Perspiration in general; complaints concomitant with.—Perspiration easily excited during

day, by least movement.—Violent perspiration in morning, in the evening, or all night, as well as

during every stool.—Cold, sour, or putrid perspiration, sometimes colouring linen yellow, always

with deathly paleness of face. —Intermittent fever: external coldness, with dark urine and cold

perspiration, desire for cold drinks, and chill with nausea; afterwards heat with unquenchable

thirst, delirium, redness of face, constant slumber; finally perspiration without thirst, and very

pale countenance.—Sweat only on hands.

Veratrum Nigrum.

• ▸Veratrum nigrum.
• ▸Dark-flowered Veratrum.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Melanthaceé.
• ▸Tincture of fresh leaves

and succulent flower-stalks.

Antidoted by: (Poisonous doses) Strong Coffee; Camph. (pressive pain in head with

• ▸coldness of body and unconsciousness after.
• ▸—Hahn.
• ▸); Acon.
• ▸(anxious, distracted state with

coldness of body or burning in brain —Hahn.); Chi. (other chronic affections from abuse of

• ▸Ver.
• ▸—e.
• ▸g.
• ▸, daily forenoon fever—Hahn.
• ▸); Staph.
• ▸(most cases.
• ▸—Teste).
• ▸Antidote to: Ars.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸,

• ▸Cup.
• ▸(colic), Op.
• ▸, Tab.
• ▸; removes the bad effects of Opium and Tobacco.
• ▸Follows well: Ars.
• ▸,

• ▸Arn.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Ip.
• ▸; Camph.
• ▸(Cholera); Am.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Bov.
• ▸(in dysmenorrhcea with vomiting

• ▸and purging).
• ▸Lyc.
• ▸and Nux in painful constipation of infants.
• ▸Followed well by: Puls.
• ▸, Aco.
• ▸,

• ▸Bell.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Rhus, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Compare: Electric sensations; tickling, prickly sensations,

• ▸Veratrin.
• ▸Cold sweat on forehead (Tab.
• ▸over entire body).
• ▸Mania with desire to cut clothes, Trn.

• ▸Lascivious talk, amorous or religious, Hyo.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸Fainting from least exertion, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Sul.

Sinking during hemorrhages (Trill., fainting). Sensation of lumps of ice on vertex with

• ▸chilliness, Sep.
• ▸Facies hippocratica, Aco.
• ▸Craves acids or refreshing things, Ph.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Cold feeling

• ▸in abdomen, Colch.
• ▸, Tab, Vomiting < by drinking.
• ▸Ars.
• ▸Vomiting < by least motion, Tab.

• ▸Cholera after fright, Aco.
• ▸Prostration after vomiting, Ars.
• ▸, Tab.
• ▸Large hard stools, Sul.
• ▸, Bry.

• ▸Round black balls, Chel.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Pb.
• ▸Frequent desire for stool felt in epigastrium, Ign.
• ▸(Nux, in

• ▸rectum).
• ▸Weakness at menses, Alm.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸, Coccul.
• ▸Collapse, cholera, coldness, < by heat,

• ▸Camph.
• ▸(Camph.
• ▸has scanty, Ver.
• ▸copious stools).
• ▸Rheumatism < in wet weather, which drives

• ▸patient out of bed, Cham.
• ▸Delirium, Bell.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸(these have not the cold surface and cold sweat

• ▸of Ver.
• ▸).
• ▸Fright = Diarrhoea, Gels.
• ▸Cholera, jat.
• ▸c.
• ▸(vomits ropy, albuminous matter with

• ▸purging); Pod.
• ▸(painless); Ir.
• ▸v.
• ▸(better for summer complaints; excoriated, raw feeling at anus);

• ▸Crot.
• ▸t.
• ▸(single gush; every attempt to eat or drink = stool); Elat.
• ▸(olive-green stools).
• ▸Suppressed

• ▸scarlatina, Zn.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸has succeeded when Zn.
• ▸has failed to = reaction).
• ▸Emaciation about neck,

• ▸Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸especially in whooping-cough).
• ▸Weak from talking, Stan.
• ▸, Coccul.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Calc.

• ▸Collapse, diarrhoea, vomiting, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸(Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸, more drowsiness; Ver.
• ▸, more cold sweat).
• ▸Neck

• ▸muscles too weak to hold head up, Ant.
• ▸t.
• ▸Craves cold drinks, Ars.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸is between Ars.
• ▸and

• ▸Nux.
• ▸—Teste.
• ▸) Purging and collapse, Hell.
• ▸(Hell.
• ▸, apathetic).
• ▸Pressure in vertex with pain in

• ▸stomach > pressure < motion, Puls.
• ▸Abdominal pains, Coloc.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸must walk about).
• ▸Pain =

• ▸fainting, Cham.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸Convulsion after sudden emotions, Ign.
• ▸Convulsions with spasm of

• ▸glottis, Nux (Ver.
• ▸secondary to exhausting diseases).
• ▸Intermittent fever, Lach.
• ▸Cough followed

• ▸by belching, Amb.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Alarmed about soul's salvation, Sul.
• ▸Windy colic and spasms of

• ▸women, Castor.
• ▸(with yawning), Diosc.
• ▸(> moving about).
• ▸Desire to ramble hither and thither,

• ▸Bell.
• ▸As if in a dream, Amb.
• ▸, Anac.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸i.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Med.
• ▸, Rhe.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, Ziz.
• ▸Umbilical

• ▸hernia with absence of urging, Bry.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸; (with urging, Nux, Coccul.
• ▸).
• ▸Faintness connected

• ▸with evacuations, Ap.
• ▸, Nux m.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸(with scanty stools, Crot.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Dulc.
• ▸, Ox.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Pet.
• ▸, Sars.
• ▸,

• ▸Sul.
• ▸).
• ▸> Uncovering, Aco.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Sec.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Griping, cutting,

• ▸tearing, and spasmodic pains in body, Col.
• ▸, Dulc.
• ▸Laughing and weeping by turns, Aur.
• ▸, Pal.
• ▸,

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Alm.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Loquacity, Cup.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸Gossiping,

• ▸babbling, Hyo.
• ▸(Ver.
• ▸on religious subjects).
• ▸Kisses everybody, Agar.
• ▸Averse to hot food, Pho.

• ▸Cold drink < cough (> Caust.
• ▸).
• ▸Night-blindness, Nux, Bell.
• ▸Smell of manure or smoke before

nose, Anac. "Evacuant" action, Lobel.

Compare: Veratrinum-alkaloid from seeds of Sabadilla.--(electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary twitchings); Cholos terrepina (cramps in calves); Camph; Cupr; Ars; Cuprum ars (intermittent, cold, clammy sweat); Narcissus poeticus (gastro-enteritis with much griping and cutting pain in bowels. Fainting, trembling, cold limbs, small and irregular pulse); Trychosanthes--(diarrhoea, pain in liver, dizziness after every stool); Agaric emetic (vertigo; longing for ice-cold water; burning pains in stomach); Agaric phalloides (cholera, cramps in stomach, cold extremities, urine suppressed). Veratrine (Increased vascular tension. It relaxes it and stimulates the elimination of toxins by skin, kidneys, and liver).

First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhoea, not below the sixth.

Is it any wonder that Hahnemann predicted that Veratrum, Camphor^ and Cuprum would become remedies in the cure of cholera : he

saw in their nature the ability to cure. He saw the similitude.

In cases of this sort wdiich are characterized by superabundance of

cramps, Cuprum is the simillimum. For those with coldness and blueness and scanty sweat, \omiting. and purging, Camphor is the remedy.

These are called “dry cholera they sink down and die without exhaustive discharges. In proportion as there are coldness, blueness and

scanty discharges, Caynphor is indicated. In proportion as copiousness, blueness, and coldness are present, Veratrum is indicated. Sccah

has something of cholera in it. Podo. has exhaustive stools: Ars,

anxious restlessness.

The mental symptoms are marked by violence and desti uctiveness ;

he wants to destroy, to tear something ; he tears the clothes from the

body. Always wants to be busy, to carry on his daily work. A cooper

who was suffering from the Veratrum insanity would pile up chairs

on top of one another. When asked what he was doing, he replied

that he was piling up staves. When not occupied wdth this he was

tearing his clothes, or praying for hours on his knees, and so loud that

he could be heard blocks away.

Exalted state of religious frenzy, believes he is the risen Christ ;

screams and screeches until he is blue in the face ; head cold as ice,

cold sweat, reaches out and exhorts to repentance.

Exhorts to repent, preaches, howls, sings obscene songs, exposes the

person. Fear and the effects of fear ; fear of death and of being

damned ; imagines the world is on fire.

“Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially the clothes,

with lewdness and lascivous talk. Puerperal mania and convulsions,

with violent cerebral congestion ; bluish and bloated face ; protruding

eyes ; wild shrieks, with disposition to bite and tear. Loquacity, he

talks rapidly. She is inconsolable over a fancied misfortune ; runs

around the room howling and screaming or sits brooding, wailing and

weeping.*’ Alternate states of brooding, screaming, and screeching,

A few such remedies would empty our insane asylums, especially of

recent cases. Insanity is curable if there are no incurable results of

disease.

Full of despair and hopelessness with approaching insanity. ‘'Despair of his recovery, attempts suicide.’' Insane people are not hopeless, those approaching insanity are, but after they become insane, they

thiiik that everybody i^ crazy except themselves. Those bowed down

by great grief and despair are likely to go into a state of violent

• ▸mania.
• ▸Veratrum carries them through the state of despair.
• ▸“Melancholia, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence.
• ▸”

Young girls go on for years with menstrual difficulties, and preceding each menstrual nisus is a state of despair ; never smiles, the world

seems blue, everything is dark ; these are preparing for a marked state

of insanity. Veratrum is a remedy that would keep many women out

of the insane asylum, especially those with uterine troubles. Girls at

puberty suffer with dysmenorrhoea, hysterical mental states, diarrhoea,

and vomiting. During the menses they become cold as death, lips blue,

extremities cold and blue, dreadful pains, sensation of sinking, mania

to kiss everybody, hysteria with coldness at the menstrual period, copious sweat, vomiting, and diarrhoea, etc.

Veratrum has troublesome headaches, neuralgic, of great violence,

accompanied with coldness, vomiting of bile and blood, great exhaustion, profuse sweat. Vomiting and retching after the stomach is

empty ; spasmodic retching and cramping of the stomach ; you can see

the effort to empty the stomach and every little while a mouthful of

bile comes up.

Violent rush of blood to the head, congestion of the head with coldness of the extremities. Head feels; as if packed with ice, feels as if ice

lay on the vertex and occiput tension in the head as if the

membranes were drawn tighter about the brain ; compressive pains.

I remember a farmer who consulted me in the Summer, He had a

strange sensation when he drank water, as if it ran down the outside

• ▸and did not go down the oesophagus.
• ▸It was so marked that he requested his friends to see if it did not run down the outside.
• ▸Veratrum 2m.
• ▸cured him.
• ▸No remedy has produced that sensation, but I

figured it out by analogy.

Violent thirst for cold water and for ice. “All fruits cause painful

distension of the stomach.”

“Vomiting forcible and excessive. Nausea with weakness ; is

obliged to lie down ; hysterical cramps in the stomach ; cramps in the

muscles of the abdomen like colic. Gastric catarrh, great weakness,

cold, sudden sinking,”

Full of rheumatic and neuralgic pains in the extremities ; worse

from the warmth of the bed ; they drive him out of bed at night into

the cold room and he must walk the floor for relief. You would naturally suppose that heat would be comforting ; so it is at times to the

abdomen and other parts when there is coldness, but it aggravates the

u6

Painful paralytic weakness in all limbs.—Numbness, tingling, or falling asleep of the

• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Stiffness of limbs, < morning and after a walk.
• ▸—Trembling of limbs.
• ▸—Shooting in limbs

as from electric sparks.—Pain as from fatigue—Nails blue from coldness.—Pains in limbs

resembling a bruise, < during wet, cold weather; < in warmth of bed; > walking up and

down.—Icy coldness of limbs; of hands and feet.