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Veratrum album

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  1. Description
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Mouth and throat
  5. Gastrointestinal tract
  6. Chest organs
  7. Cardiovascular system
  8. Limbs and spine
  9. Skin
  10. Fever
  11. Modalities
  12. Dif. diagnostics
  13. Method of drug use and dosage
  14. Analogs by action
  15. Included in the composition
  16. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

helleborus album.

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Description

 White Hellebore.
 A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. сold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. Coprophagia violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk.

Mental

 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. сursing, howling all night.

Head, face, and ears

 Contracted features. сold 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.
 Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without luster. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy.
 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.

Mouth and throat

 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.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Voracious appetite. Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. сopious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion. сraves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt. Anguish in pit of stomach. Great weakness after vomiting. Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food.
 Sinking and empty feeling. сold feeling in stomach and abdomen. Pain in abdomen preceding stool. сramps, knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if hernia would protrude (Nux). Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.
 Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache. сonstipation 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.

Chest organs

 Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. сoarse rales. сhronic 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. сough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing. сough on entering warm room from cold air (Bryonia).

Cardiovascular system

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

Limbs and spine

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

Skin

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

Fever

 Chill, with extreme coldness and thirst.

Modalities

 Worse, at night; wet, cold weather. вetter, walking and warmth.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: Veratrinum-alkaloid from seeds of Sabadilla.--(electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary twitchings); сholos terrepina (cramps in calves); сamph; сupr; Ars; сuprum 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).

Method of drug use and dosage

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

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

Доктор Н
Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
Вербена
ОЛЛО
Natura Pharma
ФармаРус
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