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Veratrum Viride

White American Hellebore
44 sectionsBoericke · 15Clarke · 29

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • Bloated, livid face
  • OEsophagitis
  • Verat vir
  • diploccus pneumonia

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

White American Hellebore

  • Paroxysms of auricular fibrillation.
  • Induces fall of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
  • Congestions, especially to lungs, base of brain, with nausea and vomiting.
  • Twitchings and convulsions.
  • Especially adapted to full-blooded, plethoric persons.
  • Great prostration.
  • Rheumatism of heart.
  • Bloated, livid face.
  • Furious delirium.
  • Effects of sunstroke.
  • OEsophagitis. (Farrington).
  • Verat vir, will raise the opsonic index against the diploccus pneumonia, 70 to 109 per cent.
  • Congestive stage and early manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia.
  • Zigzag temperature.
  • Clinically, it is known that such diseases as Tiegel's contracture, Thompson's Disease, athetosis and pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatology quite like that produced by Veratrum vir upon muscular tissue (A.
  • E.
  • Hinsdale, M.
  • D).
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Keynotes

Characteristics (part 1)
Clarke
  • Verat.
  • v.
  • is the American White Hellebore.
  • Growing side by side, Verat.
  • a.
  • and
  • Verat.
  • v.
  • are scarcely distinguishable when not in flower.
  • Millspaugh, however, says that though
  • much like Ver.
  • a/b.
  • in its minor points, Ver.
  • v.
  • is strikingly different in general appearance,

having a much more pointed leaf, panicles looser and more compound; the racemes of Ver. a.

being more compact and as a whole cylindrical, those of Ver. v. scattered, compound, and

  • scraggy.
  • Ver.
  • a.
  • flourishes in mountain meadows, Ver.
  • v.
  • grows in swamps, and wet meadows,
  • and along mountain creeks from Canada to the Carolinas.
  • Cooper has pointed out (H.
  • W.
  • , xxxvi.
  • 153) a confusion which exists through the Veratrums being also called Hellebores.
  • Ver.
  • v.
  • is

"American White Hellebore" and not "Green Hellebore" (which is Helleborus viridis). Through

  • this confusion an accidental proving of the latter (G.
  • C.
  • Edwards, No.
  • 11.
  • in Al/en) has been

included in the pathogenesis of Ver. v. The plants belong to different orders, though it must be

  • admitted there is a close resemblance in their effects.
  • The root of Ver.
  • v.
  • contains Veratrin, and
  • the other alkaloids found in the root of Ver.
  • a.
  • , but in different proportions.
  • Hale was chiefly

instrumental in introducing Ver. v. to homSopathy, using it in fevers and particularly in

pneumonia. Burt made a heroic proving of the liquid extract; and his infant daughter (twenty-one

months) very nearly died from taking a few drops of the tincture from a phial. In two minutes she

began vomiting. Coffee and Camphor were given as antidotes. In five minutes her jaws were

rigid; pupils widely dilated; face blue; hands and feet cold; no pulse at wrist. Abdomen and back

were rubbed with Camphor, when she went into spasms with violent shrieks. These spasms were

frequently repeated, a hot bath being most effective in relaxing the muscles. Vomiting ropy

mucus kept up for three hours. Pulseless; hands and feet shrivelled. After three and a half hours

she slept quietly and soundly and next morning was well but a little weak. Burt recalls his own

symptom, "constant aching pains in back of neck and shoulders," and concludes that Ver. v. acts

on the cervical portion of the spinal cord and base of brain. He also regards it as acting on the

  • vagus, and paralysing the circulatory apparatus.
  • The great keynote of Ver.
  • v.
  • is congestion, and it

is in resolving congestive states that its chief successes have been scored. The correspondence is

  • rough and the lower potencies have been mostly used.
  • D.
  • McLellan told me of a case of his.
  • He

was sent for in the middle of the night to see an old lady whom he found sitting up in bed

gasping for breath, and blue. Rapid congestion of the lungs had occurred. The attack had come

  • on suddenly.
  • Ver.
  • v.
  • quickly rescued the patient from a condition of imminent peril.
  • The

concomitance of congestive symptoms, and also of nausea and vomiting, form one of the leading

  • indications of Ver.
  • v.
  • in a great variety of cases.
  • Sensations of fulness ("Head feels full and
Characteristics (part 2)
Clarke

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heavy;" "rush of blood to the head;" "face flushed;" "buzzing in the ears;" "chest constricted;" or

"oppressed as from a heavy load;" point to the congestive tendency. The localities most

  • congested by Ver.
  • v.
  • are: Base of brain; chest; spine; stomach.
  • Slowing of the heart's action is a

leading effect of the provings (from its action on the heart muscle and cardiac ganglia—Dig. on

the pneumogastric); and Ver. v. has been used to "knock down" fever in the same way as Acon.

  • Nash points out that there is some risk in this.
  • When Ver.
  • v.
  • was first introduced he used it

largely and successfully in a number of cases; but in one case which appeared to be going on

  • favourably, the patient died suddenly.
  • This he attributes to the Ver.
  • v.
  • In chorea Ver.
  • v.
  • has had

many successes: "twitchings during sleep" was a characteristic of some cases. "Constant jerking

or nodding of the head," "jerking and trembling, threatened with convulsions," are other leading

  • symptoms.
  • In puerperal convulsions Ver.
  • v.
  • has only succeeded when nauseating doses have

been given. In muscular and articular rheumatism it has been used locally as well as internally;

and in chorea an application to the spine of the tincture, diluted with spirit, has proved a

  • serviceable adjunct.
  • Among other indications for Ver.
  • v.
  • are: "Violent pains attending

inflammation." "Head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive to sound double or partial vision."

Suddenness: Sudden fainting; prostration nausea. A keynote symptom is: Red streak down the

  • centre of the tongue.
  • Ver.
  • v.
  • has a pronounced action on the Ssophagus; it causes a sort of

ruminating action or reversed peristalsis. Numbness is prominent among the effects of Ver. v.

With the 30th I cured a man, 56, of these symptoms: Dim sight as if scales over it; numbness;

pain in head as if a tight band were round it; rush of blood to head; sleeplessness. Peculiar

Sensations are: Confused feeling in head as if head would burst. As if boiling water poured over

  • parts.
  • Tongue as if scalded.
  • As if a ball rising into Ssophagus.
  • As if stomach tightly drawn
  • against spine.
  • As of a load on chest.
  • As if ankles distorted.
  • As of galvanic shocks in limbs.
  • As if
  • damp clothing on arms and legs.
  • Ver.
  • v.
  • is Suited to full-blooded, plethoric persons.
  • Dreaming

about water is a characteristic which I have confirmed. The symptoms are: > By rubbing. > By

  • pressure (pain in head).
  • Motion <.
  • Sudden motion = faintness and blindness.
  • Rising <.
  • Walking
  • <; = blindness.
  • Lying < (headache, breathing, &c.
  • ); > faintness and blindness.
  • Closing eyes and
  • resting head > vertigo.
  • < Going from warm to cold.
  • < After exposure.
  • The least food vomiting.
  • <

Morning on waking; also evening.

Mentals

Mind
Boericke

Quarrelsome and delirious.

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Stupefaction; congestion.—Mental confusion, loss of memory.—Temporary

delirium.—Quarrelsome and delirious, striking and kicking with r. hand and foot (at times these

movements seemed to be involuntary); changed to a happy and comical delirious

state.—Depression and prostration.—Great fear of death—When not vomiting lay in a

stupor.—Puerperal mania: silent, suspicious; fears being poisoned.—Loquacity with exaltation of

ideas.

Generals

Symptoms — Generalities
Clarke

Pallor with syncope.—Tremor.—Spasm with violent shrieks; opisthotonos;

face dark blue; breath suspended; lasting two minutes and recurring after few minutes!

  • interval.
  • —_(Epileptic fits in a child, bad case.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Nervous attack with shaking trembling
  • and chilliness (agg.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Numbness.
  • —Clothes irritate as if they did not fit
  • well.
  • —Convulsions.
  • —Chorea, movements continuing in sleep.
  • —Often indicated in h¢morrhage
  • from various organs (R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —The pains of influenza; headaches, gastralgia, pains in calves of
  • legs (R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Congestion intense, almost apoplectic.
  • Hot head, bloodshot eyes.
  • Bloated, livid face.
  • Hippocratic face.
  • Head retracted, pupils dilated, double vision.
  • Meningitis.
  • Pain from nape of neck; cannot hold head up.
  • Sunstroke; head full, throbbing arteries (Bell; Glon; Usnea).
  • Face flushed.
  • Convulsive twitching of facial muscles (Agaricus).
  • Vertigo with nausea.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Vertigo: with nausea and sudden prostration; with vomiting as soon as he rises; with

photophobia, > closing eyes and resting head.—Sunstroke with prostration, febrile motion,

accelerated pulse.—Headache with vertigo, dim vision and dilated vessels.—Head feels full and

heavy.—Fulness in head, throbbing, aching, buzzing in ears, double or partial vision —Constant

dull frontal headache, with neuralgic pains in r. temple close to eye.—Rush of blood to

  • head.
  • —Pain in head as if tightly bound.
  • —A principal headache remedy" (Cooper).
  • —[Cooper gives

me the following cured cases: Sick-headache; eyes ache and burn, fearful headache and pain in

lower back on waking in morning, digging in shoulders.—Headache generally before menses,

and much sensitiveness of nerves, has to keep in a dark room; pain < behind eyelids; unable to

bear sounds.—Sick-headache dating from childhood, often at beginning or end of menses, with

great depression and lasting two days.—Headache in girl, 23, for two years, on getting up in

morning is very giddy and weak on her knees, falls down faint in the street, vertigo and sickness

and pains all over head, < on vertex, behind ears and in occiput, can't bear to talk or be in

noise.—Painful swelling of sides of neck, head also feels swollen with suffocative feeling and

  • sneezing and chills down back (Ver.
  • v.
  • cured after Apis failed).
  • —Sick-headache, vomiting, <

from fatigue.]—On waking after a short sleep indescribable sensation rising from forehead to

crown and seems to grasp vertex and occiput.—Dull occipital headache.—Constant jerking or

nodding of the head.—Congestive apoplexy.—Basilar meningitis —Cerebral irritation; threatened

  • hydrocephalus.
  • —Erysipelas of r.
  • side of head and face, with swelling.
  • —Phlegmonous erysipelas

of scalp.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Full, pressing heavy feeling in eyes—Severe shooting, suddenly stopping pain in 1.

  • eye.
  • —Aching: upper part of r.
  • orbit; directly over r.
  • eye —Fulness about lids as after crying.
  • —Lids

heavy and sleepy.—Profuse lachrymation.—Vision: dim (as if scales over eyes); unsteady;

double; dim with faintness on rising up.—Green circles round gas-light—Immense green circles

round candle, which as vertigo came on and I closed my eyes turned to red.—Suddenly blind in

upper half of visual field —Cannot walk; if attempts it very faint and completely blind; obliged to

  • keep horizontal position 2.
  • 20 p.
  • m.
  • —Photophobia and vertigo > closing eyes and resting head,

morning.

Ears

Symptoms — Ears
Clarke
  • Fulness and throbbing in ears (esp.
  • |.
  • ).
  • —Used locally relieves earache (R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Earache with sleeplessness and restlessness, sometimes leaving |.
  • ear and passing up to

vertex causing eyeballs to ache and back of head to be painful; chills down back and electric

twitches in fingers of both hands, and affecting tongue; temperature and pulse high (great

  • relief.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Deafness from moving quickly with faintness —Ringing; humming with

sensitiveness to noise.

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Nose pinched and blue.—Catarrh and sneezing.—Profuse secretion of mucus from

  • nose.
  • —Itching first of r.
  • then 1.
  • ala.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

Face: very pale; with cadaverous look; blue; hippocratic; flushed.—Stinging in r. malar

  • bone.
  • —Pains in r.
  • angle of lower jaw.
  • —Lock-jaw.
  • —Convulsive twitchings of facial

muscles.—Mouth drawn down atone corner.—Lips dry, and mucus of mouth

thick.—(Phlegmonous erysipelas of face and head.)

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Tongue: white as if bleached (not coated); white centre, red edges and tip;

strawberry; red centre, edges yellow, feels scalded; red streak down centre; inclined to be

  • dry.
  • —Acrid burning sensation in mouth.
  • —Faint odour of chloroform or ether in mouth.
  • —Great

increase of saliva; and mucus from stomach and nose.—Taste: flat; like lime water; bitterish and

peculiar, like odour of semen.—Loss of speech.

Tongue
Boericke

White or yellow, with red streak down the middle. Feels scalded. Increased saliva.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Dryness and heat in throat, with severe hiccough.—Burning in fauces and Ssophagus,

with constant inclination to swallow.—Numbness of fauces.—Spasms of Ssophagus constant,

violent, with or without rising of bloody frothy mucus; with violent hiccough.—Sense of ball

moving into Ssophagus as far as top of sternum.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke
  • Thirsty.
  • Nausea and vomiting.
  • Smallest quantity of food or drink immediately rejected.
  • Constrictive pain; increased by warm drinks.
  • Hiccough; excessive and painful, with spasms of oesophagus.
  • Burning in stomach and oesophagus.
Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Ravenous appetite; on waking.—Very thirsty, drinks little, which > for a short

time.—Hiccough: constant; exceedingly painful and violent.—Eructations: frequent of wind:

acrid, sour risings.—Nausea and dizziness, followed by heat of surface.—(Continual nausea and

  • sick feeling with dread of food in a bronchitis patient.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Contents of stomach thrown

off with a rumbling action without nausea.—Sensation as if stomach slowly contracting on its

contents and forcing them into Ssophagus, producing sensation as of a ball rising up to top of

sternum.—Retching with agonising pain.—The least quantity of food = violent

vomiting.—Vomiting: profuse, of thick, glairy mucus; of food; of bile; with collapse and cold

sweat.—T wisting-tearing pain in stomach < by least motion.—As if waves rising from stomach to

  • chest, on waking.
  • —Pains in stomach, sharp; flying.
  • —Great irritability of stomach.
  • —(Choked
  • spleen.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • )

Abdomen

Abdomen
Boericke

Pain above pelvis, with soreness.

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Dull, heavy aching in region of gall-bladder; and umbilical region —Neuralgic

pain r. side of navel to groin.—In umbilical region: severe cutting aching pains, with rumbling;

  • dull aching; distress.
  • —Peritonitis when pulse is hard and firm (A.
  • C.
  • Clifton).
  • —Pain and soreness

across abdomen just above pelvis.—Pain in bowels ran into scrotum; pain in scrotum last to

disappear.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Crawling in anus.—Tenesmus and diarrhSa, copious and offensive stool,

with burning of anus and pale face; tenesmus and burning before and up to stool, not during and

after; > after stool.—Sudden excessive tenesmus.—Stools: copious, light, mornings; mushy, with

tenesmus and burning; bloody (black in typhoid); doughy, stringy, hard to expel; alternately soft

and hard every two hours.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Smarting in urethra on urinating. —Urine: scanty; very clear; turbid, with

reddish sediment, and scum.—Hémorrhage in fungus hcmatodes vesicé.

Urine
Boericke

Scanty with cloudy sediment.

Female

Female
Boericke
  • Rigid os (Bell; Gels).
  • Puerperal fever.
  • Suppressed menstruation, with congestion to head (Bell).
  • Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury.
Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

(Congestion of pelvic organs, tenderness of uterus; fever; heat;

restlessness; palpitation; local or general an¢ésthesia.—Menstrual colic or dysmenorrhsa; much

nausea and vomiting; plethora; cerebral congestion ——Membranous dysmenorrh§a, soreness as of

a boil in uterine region.—Suppressed menses with cerebral congestion; plethora——Amenorrhsa

from exposure; chill, complete suppression of discharge, heavy pressive aching in uterine region;

intense pain in head with heat and throbbing arteries; mind wandering, sobbing; tendency to

  • hysteric spasms.
  • —Vomiting during pregnancy.
  • —Rigid os.
  • —Puerperal convulsions with arterial

excitement; cold, clammy sweat.—Puerperal fever, sudden suppression of milk and lochia; quick,

weak, or hard, bounding pulse.—After abortion retained placenta.—Mastitis with great arterial

and nervous excitement.)

Male

Symptoms — Male Sexual Organs
Clarke

Pains in both testicles, < 1., morning; sometimes shoots up into

abdomen.—Severe pain in I. testicle all through the proving.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke
  • Congestion of lungs.
  • Difficult breathing.
  • Sensation of a heavy load on chest.
  • Pneumonia, with faint feeling in stomach and violent congestion.
  • Croup.
  • Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury.
Symptoms — Respiratory Organs
Clarke

In evening, tickling, spasmodic cough from just above

sternum.—Respiration: difficult; with nausea: slow between the vomiting spells; convulsive

almost to suffocation.—Oppressed breathing on attempting to walk, irregular bowels, sleepless;

fulness and heaviness in splenic region, history of ague in early life; profuse diarrhsa followed

  • Ver.
  • v.
  • with great relief (R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • )—(Membranous croup, after 4con.
  • ).
  • —Cough: short; dry;

hacking; loose, rattling; < going from warm to cold.

Chest

Heart
Boericke
  • Pulse slow, soft, weak, irregular, intermittent.
  • Rapid pulse, low tension (Tabac; Dig).
  • Constant, dull, burning pain in region of heart.
  • Valvular diseases.
  • Beating of pulses throughout body, especially in right thigh.
Symptoms — Chest
Clarke

Constriction of chest; when vomiting ceases.—Chest oppressed as from heavy

  • cold.
  • —_(Oppression of chest with phlegmmy sickness in woman, 83.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Feeling of
  • dislocation in chest when walking.
  • —Throbbing in r.
  • side of chest.
  • —Pains about I.

nipple—(Congestion of chest with rapid respiration, nausea, vomiting; dull burning in region of

heart—Pneumonia and pleurisy: pulse hard, strong, quick, or slow and intermitting; lungs

engorged; faint feeling in stomach; high fever, face flushed.)—(Old pneumonic congestion with

  • superadded acute pleurisy.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • )
Symptoms — Heart
Clarke

Pricking pains in region of heart with the headache.—Constant burning distress in

region of heart——Burning under sternum.—Dull, hot, aching pain in heart region 3

  • p.
  • m.
  • —Neuralgic pains in heart.
  • —Slow action of heart—Palpitation and dyspnsa.
  • —Violent
  • palpitation of heart and faint feeling (agg.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Faintness and biliousness; when rising

from lying; from sudden motion; lying quietly.—Pulse: slow, soft and weak; irregular,

intermittent; suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal.

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Aching in neck and shoulder, almost impossible to hold head up.—Muscles

  • of back contracted, drawing head back.
  • —Pain in r.
  • and 1.
  • sides of neck.
  • —Throbbing and crawling
  • in |.
  • back.
  • —Pain in r.
  • of sacrum where it joins pelvis.

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Aching: top of 1. shoulder above scapular ridge; in arms and

  • neck.
  • —Shuddering in |.
  • and r.
  • shoulders in succession.
  • —Pain: in outer condyle of r.
  • humerus; in r.

elbow; inr. and |. ulna; in fingers and thumb.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Total loss of locomotion for some hours.—Pains in either great trochanter

when lying on it—Much pain in hip-joints and about condyles ——Cramps in legs.—Sensation of

cramp in gastrocnemii with inability to exert them.—Drawing in r. calf while

  • walking.
  • —Lancinating pain in r.
  • hip.
  • —Joints swollen, very tender, high fever——(Knee tender,
  • swollen after a wrench.
  • ).
  • —R.
  • ankle feels dislocated, can scarcely walk; later, 1.

Extremities

Extremities
Boericke
  • Aching pain in back of neck and shoulders.
  • Severe pain in joints and muscles.
  • Violent electric-like shocks in limbs.
  • Convulsive twitchings.
  • Acute rheumatism. Fever.

Skin

Skin
Boericke
  • Erysipelas, with cerebral symptoms.
  • Erythema.
  • Itching in various parts.
  • Hot sweating.
Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Itching in many parts.—(Erythema.—Erysipelas —Congestive stage of

  • exanthema.
  • ).
  • —Used locally, relieves pain in erysipelas (R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —(Measles, with intense
  • conjunctivitis and high fever.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • )

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke
  • Very sleepy.
  • —Coma; blue face; spasms.
  • —Restless and sleepless.
  • —Dreams: frightful;

of being on the water; of people drowning; about water, fishing, &c.; lively in which he was

continually baffled and provoked.

Fever

Fever
Boericke

Hyperthermy in the evening and hypothermy in the morning. Suppurative fevers with great variation of temperature.

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Chilly; body cold but moist skin.—Cold shivers, head and feet cold and numbed,

crept up arms and legs as if enveloped in damp clothing —Heat followed dizziness and nausea;

icy coldness followed the heat.—Feverishness; depressed in mind and body, weak, pains in

shoulder and over body as from influenza, with prickling irritating rash on forehead, face, and

  • chest (agg.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • ).
  • —Profuse diaphoresis and sense of utter prostration.
  • —Bathed in cold

sweat.—Cold, clammy sweat on forehead.—(Irritative fever with cerebral

congestion.—Streptococcus fever; rapid and violent alternations of temperature.—Ephemeral

  • fevers with nausea and retching.
  • —Cerebro-spinal fever.
  • —Typhoid.
  • —Y ellow fever.
  • ).
  • —(Typhoid

fever, fourth week, beef-steak tongue; sickness, unable to retain any food, great prostration and

  • sinking at epigastrium.
  • —R.
  • T.
  • C.
  • )

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Amaurosis.
  • Amenorrhsa.
  • Apoplexy.
  • Asthma.
  • Bunions.
  • Cécum, inflammation of.
  • Chilblains.
  • Chorea.
  • Congestion.
  • Convulsions.
  • Diplopia.
  • Diaphragmitis.
  • DysmenorrhSa.
  • Erysipelas.
  • Headache, nervous; sick.
  • Heart, affections of.
  • Hiccough.
  • Hyperpyrexia.
  • Influenza.
  • Malarial fever.
  • Measles.
  • Meningitis.
  • Menses, suppressed.
  • Myalgia.
  • Ssophagus, spasm of.
  • Orchitis.
  • Pneumonia.
  • Proctalgia.
  • Puerperal convulsions.
  • Puerperal mania.
  • Sleep, dreamful.
  • Spine,
  • congestion of.
  • Spleen, congested.
  • Sunstroke.
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Uterus, congestion of.

Relations

Relations
Clarke

Antidoted by: Hot Coffee. Antidote to Strychnine. Compare: Puerperal convulsions,

  • Gels.
  • (Gels.
  • has dull, drowsy state of mind); Ver.
  • v.
  • , apoplectic condition between the fits, face
  • red, eyes congested, violent convulsive twitches).
  • Congestions, Fer.
  • ph.
  • , Bell.
  • Plethora, Aco.
  • Chorea, Hyo.
  • Pneumonia with engorgement, Sang.
  • (Ver v.
  • more marked arterial tension).
  • Scalded tongue, Sang.
  • Tetanus, Nux, Hyperic.
  • Rheumatic fever, Bry.
  • , Sal.
  • ac.
  • Sunstroke; double
  • or partial vision, Glon.
  • , Gels.
  • Slow, irregular intermittent pulse, Dig.
  • , Tab.
  • Aching in gall-
  • bladder, Bap.
  • Heat in heart, Lachn.
  • , Rhod.
  • , Kalm.
  • Clumsiness, Bov.
  • As if damp clothing on legs,
  • Calc.
  • (Ver.
  • v.
  • and arms).
  • Nodding of head, Lyc.
  • , Stram.
  • Neck muscles weak, Ant.
  • t.
  • , Ver.
  • a.
Relationship
Boericke

Compare: Gels; Bapt; Bell; Acon; Ferr phos. Antidotes Strychnin-fluid extract, 20-40 drops.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

First to sixth potency.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.

Additional notes

Symptoms — Limbs
Clarke

Rheumatism esp. |. shoulder, hip, and knee; high fever, scanty red

  • urine.
  • —Clumsiness.
  • —Loss of power of gastrocnemii and Muscles of forearm.
  • —Slight drawing in
  • r.
  • elbow and calves.
  • —Throbbing in 1.
  • radius and r.
  • femur.
  • —Sensation as of galvanic shocks in

limbs.

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