VERATRUM ALBUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- for children and old people; the extremes of life
- persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction
- young people of a nervous sanguine temperament
- adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse
- cold perspiration on the forehead with nearly all complaints
- cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk
- thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered
- mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clother
- mania with lewd, lascivious talk, amorous or religious
- attacks of fainting from least exertion
- excessive weakness
- sinking feeling during haemorrhage
- sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness
- sensation as of heat and cold at same time on scalp
- sensation as if brain were torn to pieces
- face: pale, blue, collapsed; features sunkden, hippocratic
- face: red while lying, becomes pale on rising up
- thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold
- craving for acids or refreshing things
- ice coldness: of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms, and many other parts
- cold feeling in abdomen
- violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea
- vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration
- vomiting: < by drinking
- vomiting: by least motion
- vomiting: great weakness after
- cutting pain in abdomen as from knives
- cholera: vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, watery, gushing, prostrating; after fright
- diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes
- diarrhoea: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright
- diarrhoea: < least movement
- diarrhoea: with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after
- constipation: no desire; stool large, hard
- constipation: in round, black balls
- constipation: from inactive rectum
- constipation: frequent desire felt in epigastrium
- constipation: painful, of infants and children
- dysmenorrhoea: with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat
- dysmenorrhoea: is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at each menstrual nisus
- bad effects of opium eating, tabacco chewing
- pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting worse from warmth of bed, better by continued walking
- in congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, face cold and collapsed; skin cold and clammy, great prostration; cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face
- < from least motion; after drinking; before and during menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright
- often removes bad effects of excessive use of alcohol and tabacco