Veratrum Album verat.

Stupid from excess in alcoholic drinks.
Never speaks the truth; does not know herself what she is saying.
Thinks himself distinguished; squanders his money.
Delirium, heavy soporous sleep; restless, thirst, cramps in legs, cold sweat, tingling; irregular pulse. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Mania: with desire to cut and tear, especially clothes; with lewdness and lascivious talk.
Loquacity, he talks rapidly.
Talks much about religious things; praying.
Disposed to talk about faults of others, or to be silent; but if irritated, scolding, calling names.
Kissing everybody; before menses.
Impudent behavior in childbed.
Curses all night and complains of stupid feeling, with headache and ptyalism.
Dislike to talk except in delirium.
Cannot bear to be left alone.
Fearfulness; starts with running about and shouting.
Anxious, restless, easily frightened, whining, weeping, apathetic delirium, blue face. θ Typhoid.
Anxiety, as after committing an evil deed, worse evening and after dinner.
Despair about his position in society; feels very unlucky.
Despair of her salvation; with suppressed catamenia.
After fright; fear, anxiety; coldness; fainting; involuntary diarrhœa.
Consequences of injuried pride or honor.

Vertigo; with cold sweat on forehead; with loss of vision, sudden fainting; from opium eating; from abuse of tobacco or alcohol.
Heaviness of the head, things seem to whirl in a circle. θ Typhoid.
Faints from least exertion; from slight wounds; from violent pains; after loss of fluids; anxiety, nausea, convulsive twitchings.

Paroxysms in various parts of brain, partly as if bruised partly pressure.
Burning in brain.
Neuralgia of head with indigestion; feature sunken.
Head hot and covered with sweat; headache; children rub the head, cannot bear to be left alone; put hands to head. θ Typhoid.
Headache: nausea, vomiting, pale face; stiff neck, profuse micturition; as if brain was torn to pieces; chronic, coming on in afternoon, lasting through night; drawing in both arms; better towards morning; frequent micturition.
Violent pains driving him to despair; or great prostration with headache; fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst; nausea, vomiting and diarrhœa; or, obstinate constipation.

Head burning hot; limbs alternately hot and cold.
Scalp very sensitive, with headache.
Like a piece of ice on head; or sensation of warmth and coldness at the same time on scalp, the hair being sensitive.
Plica polonica.
Cold sweat on forehead, with many complaints.
Compelled to rub forehead, with a kind of insensibility. θ Typhoid.

Black motes or specks before eyes, with diplopia; photophobia; worse on rising from bed or chair.
Hemeralopia.
Eyes: turned upward, showing only whites; distorted, protruding; fixed, watery, sunken, lustreless; full of tears; lids livid, blue edges.
Pupils: contracted; dilated, with weak sight; fails to recognize those near, or does so but slowly.
Tearing pains in eyes, depriving one of sleep; worse in cold, damp weather. θ Rheumatic ophthalmia.
Excessive dryness of lids.
Lids: heavy, can scarcely lift them; trembling.
Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, with feeling of dryness and heat.

Deaf, as if ears were stopped, one or both.

Smell before the nose as from manure, or from smoke.
Nose: grows more pointed, seems longer; face cold; icy cold; mouth cold.
Epistaxis: right-sided, only at night in sleep; face deathly pale, body cold; pulse slow, intermittent.
Boring in the nose.
Nose inside feels too dry.

Restless, wild look; pale, distorted face.
Blue or green circles around eyes.
Face: collapsed, pale, bluish; nose more pointed; of leaden hue; red in bed, becomes pale on rising; alternately pale and red.
Neuralgia: drawing, tearing pains, with bluish, pale face, sunken eyes; prostration.
Tearing in cheeks, temples and eyes, with heat and redness, driving to madness; worse in damp weather; right side; especially in anæmic persons.
Spasms of muscles when masticating.
Lock-jaw.
Risus sardonicus.

Lips: bluish or hanging down; rubbing the mouth and nose; dry, black, parched.
Black around mouth and nostrils. θ Typhoid.

Violent toothache, throbbing; face swollen, cold sweat on forehead.
Toothache drives to madness, nervous, excitable persons.
Teeth heavy, as if filled with lead.
Grinding teeth.

Taste: bitter; as from peppermint; flat or sweetish; putrid.
Tongue: cold, withered, swelled, dry, cracked and too red; white, with red tip and edges; coated yellowish-brown; back part black.
Speech lisping, stammering; or as if tongue was too heavy. θ Typhoid.

Froth at the mouth; spasms.
Mouth dry; saliva lessened.
Burning in mouth and throat.
Constant flow of saliva, like water-brash.

Dryness in throat, which cannot be removed by drinking.
Scraping or roughness in throat.
Sensation of dust in throat.
Sensation of constriction of throat.
Chronic catarrh of œsophagus.
Feeling of distention in pharynx.

Craves fruit, juicy food; or saltish things.
Appetite voracious; after typhoid: 40.
Hunger and appetite between paroxysms of vomiting.
Much thirst; drinks frequently, but only a little at a time.
Thirst for the coldest drinks; wants everything cold; often during pregnancy.
Aversion to warm thing.
Appetite diminished, mouth as if lined with mucus; flat or sweetish taste.

After dinner: 1. Eating: 19. Warm food: 18. Fruits: 20. Eating and drinking cold things: 27. Drinking: 13, 14, 16, 40. Alcoholic drinks: 1, 2. Opium eating; 2. Tobacco: 2.

Bitter eructations.
Hiccough, after hot drinks.
Nausea: with sensation of fainting, generally with violent thirst.
Vomiting: violent, with continuous nausea and great prostration; of thin, blackish or yellowish substances; of bile and blood, black; of food and drink, or drink only; of food, or acid, bitter, foamy; white or yellowish-green mucus; whenever he moves, or drinks; with vertigo, pale face, clean tongue, good appetite, hiccough, fainting.
Painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting.

Anguish in pit of stomach.
Pains coming gradually, first in epigastrium, then radiating upward and to both sides, reaching to back between lowest point of scapula: becomes agonizing, then gradually subsided; shakes with cold. θ Gastrodynia.
Gastric catarrh, great weakness, cold, sudden sinking.
Hæmatemesis, with slow pulse, coldness, fainting fits, cold sweat; nausea when moving or rising.
Chronic weakness of stomach; from dampness of climate and want of fresh air; from abuse of quinine.

Hyperæmia of liver, with gastric catarrh, putrid taste, disgust for warm food, great pressure in hepatic region, alternating with vomiting, and diarrhœa.
Spleen swollen. θ Intermittents.
Spasms of diaphragm during prevailing south winds, in persons with cold hands, great oppression and anxiety in chest.
Diaphragmitis, with peritonitis, vomiting, coldness.

Burning in abdomen as from hot coals.
Colic: after a cold, after abuse of quinine; from fruits and vegetables; abdomen swollen, sensitive; no flatus either way; cold sweat; with burning pain, twisting, cutting, with nausea and vomiting, worse from food; better after wind passes.
Peritonitis, with vomiting and diarrhœa, skin cold; features sunken; pulse small, weak; restless, anxious.
Great sinking and empty feeling.
Intussusception of bowels; great anguish; rushes about bent double, pressing the abdomen.
Cold feeling in abdomen.
Abdomen distended, very sensitive; colic.
Incarcerated hernia, not inflamed; anti-peristaltic action.
Cold sweat.
Protrusion of inguinal hernia during cough.
Cured a case of abdominal complaint going from left to right.

Intestinal catarrh, coming on suddenly at night in Summer; vomiting and purging.
Stools: watery, greenish, mixed with flakes, gushing, profuse, rice-water discharges, with tonic cramps, commencing in hands and feet, spreading all over; sunken, even hippocratic face; Cholera Asiatica; watery; inodorous; watery, gushing, flaky; thin, papescent, mucous; green, gushing, exhausting, after fright; involuntary.
Unconscious discharge of thin feces when passing flatus.
Cholera morbus, worse at night, cold sweat on forehead; vomiting and purging at the same time; after fruits.
Constipation: chronic stools; large and hard; or, first part large, latter part smaller, stools in round black balls; chronic, with children as from inactivity of rectum.
Hemorrhoids, with disease of lungs or pleura.
Painless discharge of masses of blood in clots, with sinking feeling.

Continuous urging to urinate.
Frequent micturition with violent thirst and hunger.
Urine: scanty, red-brown, or suppressed; greenish.
Involuntary urination; during cough, also during typhoid.

Nymphomania of lying-in women; also before menses.
Metritis, with fits of vomiting, delirium, anxiety; vomiting and diarrhœa; body hot, limbs cold.
Menses: too early, too profuse; suppressed, with despair of salvation, or with blood-spitting.
Amenorrhœa, with nervous headache, leaden face, nausea, vomiting and diarrhœa.
Dysmenorrhœa, with prolapsus; vomiting, diarrhœa, exhaustion.
Strangulated prolapsed vagina, with cold sweat, exhausting vomiting and diarrhœa.

Abortion threatened; pains with cold sweat, nausea, vomiting.
During pregnancy: wants to wander about the house; taciturn; haughty; thirst; vomiting.
Labor-pains exhaust her; fainting on least motion.
Lochia suppressed, with nymphomania.
Eclampsia parturientium; pallor; collapse, anæmia, or violent cerebral congestion, with bluish bloated face, wild shrieks, tearing the clothing.
Puerperal mania, to kiss every one.

Spasms glottidis.
Paroxysms of constriction of larynx, suffocative fits, with protruded eyes.
Debility great, catarrhal symptoms slight; influenza during cholera seasons.
Hollow, hoarse voice.

Dyspnœa.
Oppression.
Contractive spasm of chest.
Asthma in damp, cold weather; in early morning; better throwing head back; inclination for motion; cold sweat of upper part of body; worse from cold drinks.

Dry, tickling, after walking in sharp, cold air; dry, spasmodic, rattling, but nothing loosens; deep, hollow, ringing, whooping, excited by tickling in lowest branches of bronchi, expectoration of yellow, tough, tenacious mucus of bitter, saltish, sour, or putrid taste; spasmodic; cyanosis; cold sweat; blood spitting; after great exertion; loud barking, in hysteria; worse morning and late evening until 12 P.M.; going into warm room; getting warm in bed; change of weather; eating and drinking cold things, especially water; crying (children); vexation.
Convulsive stage of whooping-cough.
Epidemic whoop-cough, worse Spring or Autumn.

Constant rattling of mucus, but cannot expectorate; sticky sweat about head; weak; frequent, irregular pulse; bronchitis of the aged.
Capillary bronchitis.
Acute bronchial catarrh, in the emphysematous.
Rattling in lungs, fear of suffocation; frothy, serous sputa; blue face; œdema of lungs.
Stitches in sides of chest.

Strong palpitation of heart, with chorea.
Violent visible, anxious palpitation, with fainting.
Tumultuous, irregular contractions of heart, forerunners of paralysis.
Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons, with some obstruction to hepatic circulation.
Palpitation in the anæmic; agony of death, legs cold; difficult breathing, better at rest or lying down.
Pulse: frequent, small, hard; slow, soft, intermittent; sometimes slower than heart-beat.

Neck so weak, child can scarcely keep it erect, especially in whooping-cough.
Tingling in fingers, causing anxiety and painful jerks of limbs.
During exercise, rheumatic pain between scapulæ from nape to small of back; worse going to stool.
Bruised feeling in sacral region.

Neuralgia in brachial plexus, as if beaten or bruised.
Arms: feel cold when raising them; feel as if too full and swollen.
Paralytic and bruising pain in arms.
Arm trembles, when anything is grasped.
Tingling in hands and fingers, causing anxiety.
Hands icy-cold, blue.

Difficult walking; first right, then left hip-joint feels paralytic.
Shocks in right hip.
Electric jerks in limbs; worse in bed, must sit up and let legs hang out of bed; must walk about. θ Rheumatism.
Pains in feet, especially the knees, as if heavy stones were tied to the parts; must move about for relief.
Limbs: stiff in forenoon and while standing; rheumatism; alternately hot and cold, head hot; cold.
Cramps in the calves.
Sudden swelling of the feet.
Feet icy-cold.

Painful paralytic weakness in upper and lower limbs.
Limbs go to sleep, also when lying down.
Pains in limbs resembling a bruise, worse during wet, cold weather; worse in warmth of bed; better when walking up and down.

Children are easier when carried about quickly.
Must walk about during pains: 33, 34. Walking: 27, 33, 34. Rushes about bent double: 19. Wanders about house: 24. Motion: 16, 17, 24, 26. Exertion: 2, 27. Grasping anything: 32. Raising arms: 32. Standing: 33. Must sit up: 33. Sitting: 37. Rising: 5, 8, 17, 36. At rest: 29. Lying down: 29, 34. Must lie down: 36. Arms stretched above head: 37.

Trembling, jerking.
Puerperal convulsions: 24.
Convulsions caused by religious excitement; also of children; anxiety, pale face, cold sweat of forehead; cough before or after spasm; sometimes syncope after spasm.
Tonic spasms, with contraction or spasms of hands and soles of feet.
Cramps, with profuse alvine discharges: 48.
Excessive weakness; also after abuse of Cinchona.
Child feeble, with a sort of hectic; whooping-cough.
Paralysis: after cholera; from debilitating losses.
Must lie down; anguish, cold sweat on forehead when he rises.
Sudden sinking of strength.

Sleepiness.
Uninterrupted sleep for three days. θ Typhoid.
Drowsy, starts as if frightened, preventing sleep; fever follows.
Arms stretched above head, moaning, during sleep.
Nightly anxiety and sleeplessness.
Dreams: of being drowned; 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.

Morning: 3, 26, 27, 40. Forenoon: 33. Afternoon: 3. 4-5 P.M.: 19. Evening: 1, 27, 40. Night: 1, 3, 5, 7, 20, 40. Before midnight: 27.

Hot summer weather: 20, 46. South winds: 18. Warmth of bed: 27, 33, 34. Warm room: 27. Spring and Autumn: 27. Fresh air: 17. Every draught of air aggravates. Change of weather: 27. Cold, sharp air: 27. Cold, damp weather: 5, 8, 17, 26, 34. Aversion to being covered.

Chill and coldness: mostly external, with internal heat, and cold, clammy sweat; running downward; shaking chill with sweat, which soon passes off into general coldness.
Chill increased by drinking; lessened after getting out of bed.
Whole body icy-cold.
Chill of nursing children.
Chill and heat alternating, now here, again there, on single parts.
Heat: mostly internal, with thirst but no desire to drink; in the evening, with sweat; ascends.
Profuse sweat, morning, evening, or all night; also with every stool.
Sweat cold, clammy; offensive; bitter-smelling; or staining yellow; but always with deathly pale face.
General cold sweat, worse on forehead.
Intermittent types, often pernicious during cholera; also after abuse of quinine.
Rheumatic fever, with profuse sweat, great weakness and diarrhœa.
Typhoid forms of fever, especially in cholera seasons; also when vital forces suddenly sink.

Coming and increasing gradually: 17. Suddenly in Summer: 20. Spring and Autumn: 2. Lasts for three days: 37.

Right: 7, 8, 18, 33. Left: 18, 19, 29. Right to left: 33. Left to right: 8. Above downward: 40. Below upward: 40.

Skin and muscles lax.
Anæmia of the skin.
Pyæmia.
Anasarca: vomiting, purging, great prostration.

Rubbing: 3, 4, 9. Pressure: 19, 46. Slight wounds: 2.

Wrinkled skin; skin remains in folds after pressure.
Skin blue, purple, cold.
Rash over body, or on face and hands.
Dry eruptions like itch.
Desquamation of indurated or thickened portion of skin.
Erysipelas.
Measles tardy and pale; skin often livid; hemorrhages, but no relief; drowsy; weak; cold; thready pulse; also for spasmodic cough and vomiturition.
Scarlatina in hot, summer weather; eruption bluish; pulse feeble; burning heat of limbs alternating with coldness.

Children.
Anæmia.
Lean, choleric or melancholy persons.

Veratr. is frequently indicated after Arsen., Cinchon., Cuprum, Ipec., Phosp. a c.
After Veratr. are frequently indicated: Arsen., Arnic., Cinchon., Cuprum, Ipec.
Similar to: Cuprum (but latter has cough, better drinking, cramps, with scanty discharges); Bryon. (constipation); Jatr. curc. (vomit of albuminous matter; spurting, watery diarrhœa; abdomen and calves flattened by cramp); Ric. Comm. (cholera-collapse, vomiting and purging still continuing).
Veratrum may be indicated: in stupefaction from alcohol; after abuse of Cinchon., in colic from copper; bad effects from opium eating; or, from tobacco.
Veratr. antidotes; Arsen., Cinchon., Ferrum.
Antidotes to Veratr.: Acon., Camphor., Cinchon., Coffea.