Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeDescription
Veratrum nigrum. Dark-flowered Veratrum. N. O. Melanthaceae. Tincture of fresh leaves and succulent flower-stalks.
Nosology
Headache. Menstruation, protracted. Tinnitus aurium.
Typical features
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.
Head, face, and ears
Constant headache when attempting to move or exert the brain (cured). Fierce headache threatening acute mania (cured).
Constant buzzing of left 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.
Constant buzzing of left 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.
Urogenital system
Period continually returning; sometimes light-coloured and slight in quantity, and sometimes profuse; with weak feeling in back.
Analogs by action
- 18% — Aranea scinencia
- 14% 1.3-13.8€ Zincum picricum
- 14% — Indolum
- 14% — Torula cerevisiae
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