VERATRUM ALBUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Collapse
- extreme coldness
- blueness
- weakness
- post-operative shock
- cold sweat on forehead
- pale face
- rapid feeble pulse
- vomiting
- purging
- cramps in extremities
- profuse violent retching
- surgical shock
- excessive dryness of mucous surfaces
- Coprophagia
- violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk
- Melancholy
- stupor
- 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
- Attacks of pain with delirium driving to madness
- Cursing howling all night
- Contracted features
- Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex
- Headache with nausea vomiting diarrhea pale face
- Neck too weak to hold head up
- Eyes surrounded by dark rings
- Staring
- eyes 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
- Tongue pale cold
- cool sensation as from peppermint in mouth
- Dry mouth in center not relieved by water
- Salty saliva
- Toothache teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead
- 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
- Sinking and empty feeling in abdomen
- Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen
- Pain in abdomen preceding stool
- Cramps knotting abdomen and legs
- Sensation as if hernia would protrude
- Abdomen sensitive to pressure
- abdomen swollen with terrible colic
- 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
- Diarrhea very painful watery copious and forcibly evacuated followed by great prostration
- Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging
- Hoarse weak voice
- Rattling in chest
- Much mucus in bronchial tubes that cannot be coughed up
- Coarse rales
- Chronic bronchitis in the aged
- 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
- 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
- Menses too early profuse and exhausting
- Dysmenorrhea with coldness purging cold sweat
- Faints from least exertion
- Sexual mania precedes menses
- Soreness and tenderness of joints
- Sciatica pains like electric flashes
- Cramps in calves
- Neuralgia in brachial plexus arms feel swollen cold paralytic
- Skin blue cold clammy inelastic cold as death
- Cold sweat
- Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet
- Chill with extreme coldness and thirst