The properties of veratrum album are assigned at. Homeopathic remedies for acute conditions. II. objective signs

Veratrum album / Veratrum album - hellebore white

Main dosage forms. Homeopathic granules D3, C3, C6 and above. Drops D3, C3, C6 and above.

Indications for use. Recognized as one of the best cardiac stimulants. The leading indication is collapse (decline in cardiac activity), accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, spasms with cold sweat.

It is used in the treatment of dyspepsia in children, cholera-like diseases with abdominal pain and cramps, especially calf muscles, postpartum psychosis, dysmenorrhea, toxicosis of pregnant women, manic-depressive psychosis.

Patients with moist cool skin, profuse sweating (on the forehead), are subject to various fears (phobias).

Worse - from cold and damp weather, at night, before and during menstruation, from fright. Better from warmth and motion.

The most striking feature of this remedy is the coldness that goes through all its symptoms. There is hardly any group of symptoms where this coldness is not present: cold discharge, cold body. This remedy is also characterized by great prostration, which accompanies different groups symptoms, complete relaxation, exhaustion, cold. Profuse sweat, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Profuse watery discharge. This condition can develop for no apparent reason. In cholera or similar conditions, it seems that all the liquid is leaving the body. The patient lies in bed completely relaxed, in prostration, cold to the tips of his fingers, with a concomitant bluish or purplish tinge of the skin; lips cold and cyanotic, face haggard, with sharpened features; great feeling of coldness, as if ice-cold water were running through the veins instead of blood; cold head; forehead covered with cold sweat; headache and exhaustion; separate cold spots all over the body; the limbs are cold, like those of a corpse. The remedy is full of spasms; the patient looks as if he is about to die. This condition develops during menstruation; with colic with nausea; in patients with paroxysmal insanity and severe delirium; during headache, in violent inflammatory conditions.

So it is not surprising that Hahnemann predicted the possibility of using Veratrum, Camphor, Cuprum in cholera - he saw the ability to heal in the very nature of these drugs. He just saw the likeness.

At the same time, for cases with a predominance of spasms, Cuprum has the greatest similarity. For cases with predominance of cold, blueness, scanty perspiration, vomiting and diarrhoea, Camphora is suitable. These cases are called "dry cholera", the patient fades away and then dies without profuse discharge. So in the presence of coldness, blueness and scanty discharge, Camphora is indicated. When the discharge is profuse, with blueness and coldness, Veratrum is necessary. Secale has some symptoms of cholera. Also, Podophyllum has wasting diarrhoea, and Arsenicum album has restlessness.

Mental symptoms characterized by violent flow and destructive character; the patient wants to break, tear; rips off his clothes. Strives to do something all the time, especially to do the usual work. One cooper, who suffered from a Veratrum type of insanity, kept putting chairs on top of each other. When asked why he was doing this, he replied that he was changing the boards at the barrel. When he was not busy with his chairs, he tore his clothes or prayed on his knees for hours, so loudly that he could be heard several blocks away.

Exaltation with religious delirium; considers himself the risen Christ; breaks into a scream, so that the face turns blue; at the same time there is an icy cold of the head, icy sweat; spreads his arms and calls for repentance.

He calls for repentance, preaches, screams heart-rendingly, sings obscene songs, exposes himself. Fears and consequences of fright; fear of death or damnation; the whole world seems to be on fire.

“Madness with a desire to cut and tear everything that comes to hand, especially clothes, with obscenities and vulgarities. Childbirth fever and convulsions, with violent cerebral congestion; bluish, swollen face; bulging eyes, wild screams, biting and tearing. Loquacity, speaks very quickly. Discouragement due to imagined failure; runs around the room, groaning and crying, or sits, sullenly thinking, howling and moaning. Alternating sullenness while sitting, with violent cries. Just a few drugs would keep mental hospitals half empty; they are especially effective in recently ill patients. Mental illnesses are treatable when the disease has not yet led to irreversible changes.

A person at the beginning of the development of insanity is full of despair and hopelessness. "Does not believe in recovery, attempts suicide." However, mental patients in whom the disease is just beginning are not at all hopeless, only after the final development of the disease do they become insane and consider everyone crazy except themselves. Those patients respond well to treatment whose psyche is broken by severe grief and despair, in whom a state of violent insanity may develop from this. Veratrum will bring them out of this state. "Melancholy, sits with bowed head in silence, immersed in his thoughts."

Young girls suffering from disabilities for years menstrual cycle, fall into despair before each menstruation; they stop laughing, everything seems dull, gloomy; this can turn into a state of severe mental disorder. Veratrum is the remedy that can help many women get out of the psychiatric hospital, especially those who have uterine troubles. Adolescent girls suffer from dysmenorrhea, hysterical mental disorder, diarrhea and vomiting. During menstruation, they become cold as death, their lips become very blue, their limbs become cold and bluish; terrible pains, feeling that everything inside is sinking; insanity with the desire to kiss everyone, hysteria with a feeling of cold during menstruation, profuse sweat, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.

Veratrum has excruciating neuralgic headaches, very violent, with feeling of coldness, vomiting of bile and blood, great emaciation, profuse sweat. Vomiting and urge to vomit even after complete emptying of the stomach; spasmodic urge to vomit and cramps in the stomach; whenever there is even a slight taste of bile in the mouth, there are attempts to vomit.

Violent congestion of blood to head, congestion of head with cold extremities. Head feels as though covered with ice, sensation as if ice were lying on vertex and occiput (Calcarea carbonica), tension in head, as if meninges were pulling the brain taut; pressing pains.

I remember a farmer who came to see me one day in the middle of summer. When he drank water, he had a strange feeling that the water was flowing outside and not entering the esophagus. This feeling was so obvious that he even asked his friends to see if it was actually flowing outside. He was cured by a dose of Veratrum 2M. No other remedy has this feeling, but I came to Veratrum by analogy.

Violent thirst with desire for cold water and ice. "All fruits cause painful distension of the stomach."

"Violent and profuse vomiting. Nausea with weakness; the patient is forced to lie down; hysterical spasms in the stomach; colicky spasms in the abdominal muscles. Catarrhal gastritis, great weakness, coldness, sudden faintness.

The remedy has many rheumatic and neuralgic pains in the limbs, which are aggravated by the warmth of the bed; they lift the patient out of bed at night and drive him to a cold room where he has to walk around to feel relief. You naturally assumed at first that this remedy was ameliorated by heat; this is true of the abdomen and other parts of the body where there is cold, but the pains are aggravated by heat (Mercurius).

"Painful paralytic weakness in the limbs."

Chill alternates with heat, now in one place, then in another, in separate parts of the body. While drinking, there is an internal sensation of chilliness, going from the head to the toes. Many complaints of Veratrum are aggravated by drinking.

Burning with cold sweat. Combined with chronic mental disorders, the skin is dark and dry, except for the forehead. But in acute complaints, when physical symptoms predominate, such as dysmenorrhea, acute insanity, etc., there is profuse sweating.

Gnawing hunger despite nausea and vomiting. Sensation of sagging, emptiness in abdomen after stool.

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65. VERATRUM ALBUM (Veratrum album) Hellebore white. A tincture is obtained from the dried pureed root by infusion in 5 parts of 90% alcohol. It is a remedy which has the characteristic symptom "cold sweat of nalbu". It makes no difference whether it be cholera, cholera infantum, pneumonia, asthma, typhoid fever, constipation - but if the indicated symptom is very noticeable and the patient is in a state like fainting, collapse, or great prostration (general prostration), Veratrum Album is the first remedy, which comes to mind. It is one of the composition of Hahnemann's trio of anti-cholera drugs (Asiatic cholera), together with two others, Camphor and Cuprum meth. And the indications indicated by Hahnemann for the use of this remedy stand as firmly today as they did in his time. This suggests that they are based on a natural law of nature, which is unchanged "yesterday, today and tomorrow." Some brain symptoms are very characteristic of Veratrum Album: mania with the desire to beat and tear things, especially bed linen, shameless and lustful conversations, religious or love delirium. Here you sometimes have to make a choice between Veratrum and Stramonium. There is strong talkativeness here and there, a great religious mood here and there. With both, sometimes there is a violent mood; only the face of Stramonium is usually very red and flushed, while in Veratrum it is pale, sunken hippocratic, then in Veratrum there is a more significant general weakness. . Such childbirth often occurs after a missed period or in the postpartum state. It can proceed acutely and chronically, and Veratrum album can give a cure in both cases. If it were necessary to characterize the general condition, where Veratrum would be best remedy, if possible, in one word, then such will be the word "collapse". Let me give you the following symptoms: rapid prostration, complete prostration, cold sweat and cold breath, skin blue, purplish, cold, wrinkled, leaving wrinkles. A haggard, hippocratic face, a pointed nose. The whole body is cold as ice. Cold skin, cold face, cold back. Hands cold as ice. Feet and shins are cold (the surface of the body is cold, covered with cold sweat - Tabakum). Cramps in calves. These are all sure symptoms, which show to what extreme degree of collapse the case can go, and yet be cured. This condition may be found in short-lived, acute cases. Like cholera, with latent acute rash, bronchitis, pneumonia, typhoid or intermittent fever. But what kind of disease would it be if it causes collapse (general loss of strength) and especially if there is an important characteristic sign "cold sweat on the face and on the forehead" - we can be sure that Veratrum Album can be more exciting. In cholera-like diseases, Camphor is very close to Veratrum, and only in the latter the stools are plentiful and look like a decoction, while with Camphor they are scarce or almost completely absent. The pains of Veratrum are very severe, sometimes driving the patient to delirium. It is also a good remedy for rheumatism, which is worse in wet weather, forcing the patient to go to bed (Ferrum met.). Veratrum is a remedy with a wide range of action, since it covers such a condition that can be found in a host of different diseases. Divisions: 3, 6, 12, 200.

I. DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS

It is very easy to remember the predominant characteristics of Veratrum album. We will study in sequence:

- digestive disorders
- prostration
- cold sweats

1. DIGESTIVE DISORDERS

They consist of vomiting and diarrhea. Don't vomit or diarrhea, namely from vomiting and diarrhea, as they are always combined.

A. Vomiting

Very strong, very profuse, with constant nausea, cold sweats, which always appear in a well-demarcated area - on the forehead.

The vomiting is always worse from motion, from tobacco smoke (whether he smokes himself or only smells tobacco smoke), and likewise after drinking. However, the subject of Veratrum album has constant thirst. Although he is thirsty, he drinks little, but he drinks often, because his mouth is constantly dry, as is his tongue and palate. This dryness can only be compared with the dryness of all the mucous membranes in a Bryonia subject, which is characterized by extreme dryness of all the mucous membranes of the digestive tract. In the Bryonia type there is also dryness of the intestinal mucosa, and in Bryonia type constipation, the clods of stool are large, hard, black, as if seasoned on fire. When this subject drinks, he does not vomit, while the Veratrum patient vomits as soon as he drinks a little water.

The Arsenicum subject has diarrhoea, which also comes on at night between 1 and 3 o'clock. This is usually the subject who either ate sausage or crustaceans the day before. During the night he wakes up with a burning sensation in the stomach, with very burning eructations, vomiting and finally diarrhoea. And this diarrhea is peculiar and cannot be confused with the diarrhea of ​​the Veratrum album type. The diarrhea of ​​the Arsenicum type is represented by scanty stools, extremely offensive, difficult to pass, followed by a state of deep prostration, but less violent than that affecting the subject of the Veratrum type. In general, the prostration of the Veratrum album type is due to the fact that the stools here are very copious and very frequent. The stool in the Arsenicum type is always small, and the prostration is completely disproportionate to the volume of the stool. This is the characteristic of the diarrhea of ​​the Arsenicum album type, which is not like the other types of diarrhea.

A subject of the Acidum phosphoricum type has diarrhea similar to that of the Veratrum album type. The diarrhea is very copious (like that of the Veratrum album type), but is odorless and painless. Instead of complete prostration, there is only some weakness after the diarrhea, and, in general, the patient does not appear to be affected by the serous enteritis with which he is actually affected.

The stools in the Podophyllum type are not at all as frequent as in the Veratrum album type, and moreover, they appear mainly in the morning and only rarely at night. Upon awakening, the subject is in the grip of severe colic: in the morning, he can repeat the chair 10-15 times. The emptying of the bowels is carried out with force, a stream, the stool is splashed, it is yellowish in color, clearly icteric. The subject suffers before and after a stool with very painful colic, and the only way to relieve it is to lie on his stomach. This is the typical posture of a Podophyllum individual. No other patient assumes such a posture except a Medorrhinum subject, but he does so to relieve an asthma attack.

What do we find in the clinical examination of the patient type Veratrum album? The abdomen is extremely painful - not only spontaneously (subject has severe painful cramps), but it is also very sensitive to pressure. The patient complains of a strange feeling of coldness in the abdomen.

Feeling of coldness in the abdomen we find again in the Tabacum and Colchicum types. A Tabacum subject has vomiting, pain, and an icy cold feeling in the abdomen. He always feels better when he opens up, exposing his belly to the air. On the contrary, the Veratrum album type requires heat: hot rubbing, hot wraps, heating pads with hot water All this brings him relief.

The Colchicum subject certainly has a feeling of coldness in the abdomen, but this feeling is especially pronounced in the stomach and is localized by the patient in the region of the epigastric fossa. The patient has nausea and vomiting, but the nausea is always aggravated by kitchen odors and the sight of food. The Colchicum subject is especially intolerant of the smell of fried fish.

In general, the Veratrum patient has cholera-like diarrhea with vomiting and collapse symptoms. But it must not be thought that the digestive disturbances of the Veratrum album type are composed solely of vomiting and diarrhoea. There may also be constipation, and this is chronic old constipation, which is very difficult to overcome. The patient experiences absolutely no urge. His stool can be compared with that of the Bryonia type, as it also consists of clods large and hard, but not having the appearance of being tempered in a fire. On the contrary, it sometimes consists of very hard clods, resembling in appearance an Opium or Plumbum stool. But in the constipation of the Veratrum type, there is no drowsiness which is characteristic of the Opium type, and there is never a tendency to congestion of the head; there is no retraction of the abdominal wall, characteristic of the Plumbum type.

A subject of the Veratrum album type has incredible difficulty in evacuating feces. He is forced to make several such attempts, repeating the effort. He does not attempt to do this in a standing position, like the Causticum type, he does not grasp the seat with his hands, as does the Alumina type, but still he is forced to make great efforts, so that at times he finds himself covered in a cold sweat, more pronounced on the forehead. And he is so exhausted that immediately after a chair he becomes ill. He has a tendency to syncope during or after stool. However, after defecation, he appears completely exhausted, a real prostration.

2. PROSTRATION

The prostration of the Veratrum type is intense, and is accompanied by a feeling of icy cold all over the body or in certain parts of it.

The patient first experiences a sensation of cold spreading throughout the body. He freezes completely. Not only does he feel cold, but his skin is cold and he cannot get warm. He gets relief only from hot applications or from being thoroughly covered with woolen blankets. The skin is very pale and cold.

The feeling of coldness is also observed in limited areas. The feet and hands are completely frozen and sometimes become insensible. There is even some degree of cyanosis. Finally, the patient suffers from the sensation of coldness in the abdomen, which we have already studied. He also has a cold tongue. Such a feeling of a cold tongue is also present in a subject of the Carbo vegetabilis type, who is completely frozen. But if a subject of the Carbo vegetabilis type has a completely cold body, his head is hot. In addition, he has cold breath with a bad smell. The Conium subject also has cold breath, and (which is an essential characteristic) when the stool passes through the anus, there is a sensation of passing a piece of ice. The cold stools of the Conium type may be contrasted with the burning stools of the Sulfur and Arsenicum types.

Finally, the Veratrum patient has a sensation of a block of ice on the head. The usual remedy for this sensation is Calcarea carbonica; in this type, in addition, there is a sensation of cold and wet stockings. Let us recall that the Tuberculinum patient feels as if he is wearing a wet and cold shirt on his body (especially on his back).

3. COLD SEATS

Sweats may be general, but especially pronounced in the forehead, and appear with vomiting, diarrhoea, menstruation, and accompany all manifestations of Veratrum album.

II. OBJECTIVE SIGNS

1. Sweats localized in the frontal region - we are talking of an individual who coughs or suffers from diarrhea and vomiting with cold sweats coming out of the forehead; one might think of the Veratrum album type here. It will be recalled that in the Pulsatilla subject only one-sided sweats are more pronounced on the affected side, and that in the Kali carb. subject perspiration appears on the lips when eating. All these localizations of sweating are a kind of signal flags that allow the doctor to orient the thought towards a reasonable choice of medicine.

2. Face very pale and cold—we often find the face haggard, restless, as in the Arsenicum type. It may be more or less cyanotic. Head never held upright - the patient is unable to keep his head upright because of a state of fatigue and prostration. We find the same sign both in demineralized subjects of the Natrum muriaticum type and in hypotrophic subjects of the Abrotanum type.

III. CLINICAL STUDY

1. CHOLERA

The major characteristics of Veratrum album are vomiting and diarrhoea, convulsive pains and a feeling of general coldness. We find all this in cholera, the three chief remedies for which are Camphora, Cuprum, and Veratrum album.

They were used by Dr. Chargé during a cholera epidemic in Marseilles. Charger has compiled a very interesting study, showing the characteristic indications for each of those homeopathic remedies that can be used in cholera.

Camphora - dominated by coldness of the body. The individual freezes completely. Skin is cold as ice. The subject experiences a feeling of aches all over the body, as if he is completely broken. He may have cramps in the limbs, but the main characteristic remains the coldness of the body. And it is curious that this completely cold subject does not tolerate being covered. A Camphora subject will never tolerate a blanket, will not allow a heating pad - any warm application will aggravate him.

Cuprum - in the first place convulsions. In a subject of this type he does not have that state of complete collapse, which is characteristic of the Camphor type, but extremely painful spasms predominate, not only in the intestines and in general in the abdomen, but also in the limbs - both lower and upper. Spasms are very violent, intermittent and accompanied by nausea. The nausea is relieved or relieved when the subject swallows some cold water - just as in the Phosphorus type, in which the nausea is relieved when the subject drinks cold water. Instead of being cold, which is characteristic of the Camphor type, the Cuprum type is feverish, his stomach is tense, hot and sensitive (which is not noted in the Veratrum album when the patient complains of a feeling of coldness in the abdomen). The cramping colic of the Cuprum type resolves as soon as the subject passes stool.

Another feature of the behavior of the subject of the Veratrum type: the patient does not speak at all or talks to himself. Suddenly he falls into some kind of delusional excitement: he screams, groans, tears his clothes, then falls into a manic state, and mania can manifest itself in two main forms: sexual mania and religious mania.

Let us first study sexual mania. The subject of Veratrum album is not naked like the Hyoscyamus type, but makes obscene and lascivious speeches, tries to hug everyone, and constantly talks about sexual things. Sometimes his ideas are fixed on any one point. If we are talking about a woman, for example, she can imagine herself pregnant.

religious mania. The patient remains motionless for hours, leaning forward, with her head between her hands, without uttering a word. We find this behavior in the Nux moschata type. If such a patient is sure that she hears voices, and begins to speak quickly in response, this is an indication for the appointment of Lachesis. During the onset of the "second youth", a Lachesis patient demonstrates mental manifestations inherent in a true menopause associated with endocrine disorders. Lachesis is especially indicated if the religious mania is deep and if the patient imagines that she is in contact with the saints of paradise. Especially note that an important characteristic of the Veratrum mania is obstinate silence. To a lesser extent, this is noted in the Nux moshata patient, whose mood is very variable.

White hellebore. - The tincture is prepared from the fresh root collected at the beginning of June. It is not recommended to prepare rubbing from fresh root powder.

The pathogenesis of veratrum album is found in Hahnemann's Pure Medicine.

The picture of acute poisoning with veratrum album is exactly like cholera: general cooling with a breakdown, reaching loss of consciousness; severe vomiting and diarrhea; sharp spasmodic pains.

The nerves are paralyzed, the blood vessels overflow with blood, which contributes to the release of serous fluid; loss of strength, cooling and a painful feeling of weakness. Then, it attacks the brain, resulting in a delirium similar to that of belladonna and stramonium. In less strong doses, veratrum album causes great weakness with a tendency to sweat and paralysis of the rectum, resulting in constipation.

The action on the striated muscles is pronounced; after a cramp, the muscle very slowly returns to its normal state; hence the sluggishness of movement.

Coldness of the surface of the body, feeling of coldness in the stomach and abdomen, sensation of a piece of ice on the crown of the head.

Cold sweat on forehead. "Veratrum album is the first remedy if this symptom is severe, whether it be cholera, pneumonia, asthma, typhoid, and if the patient has weakness, collapse, or great prostration."

Loss of strength, reaching the point of loss of consciousness.

Abundance of discharge: stool, vomit, urine, saliva.

Profuse vomiting and nausea, aggravated by drinking and the slightest movement.

Thirst for cold water, but she vomits immediately after drinking.

Pain. In the first period, an increase in sensitivity, then a loss of it and pain. Goosebumps in the limbs. The pains are often relieved by motion and change of position.

Chair. Diarrhea. Discomfort and prostration precede stool; it is quite liquid, extremely frequent, with great tenesmus, heat in the anus, cold sweat.

Veratrum album is primarily a remedy for collapse and cholera.

COLLAPSE: veratrum album is an important remedy for any disease, if there is on the face its main characteristic is cold sweat on the forehead. Collapse veratrum album may be described as follows: rapid collapse, loss of consciousness, sweat and cold breath, blue sunken face, whole body cold, convulsions in sparks. This condition can be seen in a great many diseases, but chiefly in cholera.

CHOLERA. - In this disease, veratrum, together with camphor and cuprum, forms a trio of remedies indicated by Hahnemann: profuse vomiting and diarrhea, rice-like stools; colic in the abdomen with cramps, mainly in the calves, great prostration with coldness and cold sweat, especially on the forehead. (In cholera-like diseases, it is useless to give veratrum if there is no pain. In these cases, podophyllum is indicated, in which there is no pain).

Veratrum album can be shown even in the following cases.

MANIA, with desire to cut and tear clothes; and anger; voluptuous talk, religious or erotic mania. In these cases it is often necessary to distinguish between veratrum albumum and stramonium (with the latter the face is red, with veratrum very pale with cyanosis and more or less severe weakness). Often the violent form of mania is replaced by silence; but if he is irritable, becomes violent, scolds, insults, threatens, accuses those present of all kinds of crimes.

NYMPHOMANIA, attacks appear mainly before each menstruation.

RHEUMATISM, worse in damp weather, compelling to lie in bed (ferrum metallicum). The pains of veratrum album are often very strong and bring the patient to delirium.

HEART WEAKNESS, a consequence of acute diseases. Thready pulse. The patient loses consciousness at the slightest movement. When lying down, the face is red, if it sits down, becomes covered with deathly pallor; hands are often cold and clammy.

CONSEQUENCE OF FEAR, causing severe coldness of the body with diarrhea (with gelsemine there is diarrhea, but without vomiting).

Cold sweat, watery profuse diarrhea with pain, vomiting, loss of strength and collapse - this is veratrum album. Note that cold sweat on the forehead is the most constant characteristic.

Veratrum album

Veratrum album (Veratrum album)

White hellebore.

Physiological action

The picture of acute poisoning with veratrum album is exactly like cholera: general cooling with a breakdown, reaching loss of consciousness, severe vomiting and diarrhea, sharp spasmodic pains.

The nerves are paralyzed, the blood vessels overflow with blood, which contributes to the release of serous fluid, loss of strength, cooling and an agonizing feeling of weakness. It then attacks the brain, resulting in a delirium similar to that of belladonna and stramonium. In less strong doses, veratrum album causes great weakness with a tendency to sweat and paralysis of the rectum, resulting in constipation.

The action on the striated muscles is pronounced, after a spasm the muscle very slowly returns to its normal state. Hence the slowness of movement.

Characteristic

1. Coldness of the surface of the body, feeling of coldness in the stomach and abdomen, sensation of a piece of ice on the crown of the head.
2. Cold sweat on forehead. "Veratrum album is the first remedy if this symptom is severe, whether it be cholera, pneumonia, asthma, typhoid, and if the patient has weakness, collapse, or great prostration."
3. Loss of strength, reaching the point of loss of consciousness.
4. Abundance of discharge: stool, vomit, urine, saliva.
5. Profuse vomiting and nausea, aggravated by drinking and the slightest movement.
6. Thirst for cold water, but vomits immediately after drinking.

Pain: in the first period, increased sensitivity, then loss of it and pain. Goosebumps in the limbs. The pains are often relieved by motion and change of position.

Stool: diarrhea. Discomfort and prostration precede stool. It is quite liquid, extremely frequent, with great tenesmus, heat in the anus, cold sweat.

Main indications

Veratrum album is primarily a remedy for collapse and cholera.

Collapse. Veratrum album is an important remedy for any disease, if its main characteristic is present - cold sweat on the forehead. The collapse of the veratrum album may be described as follows: rapid prostration, loss of consciousness, sweat and cold breath, blue sunken face, whole body cold, cramps in the calves. This condition can be seen in a great many diseases, but chiefly in cholera.

Cholera. In this disease, veratrum, together with camphor and cuprum, form the trio of remedies indicated by Hahnemann: profuse vomiting and diarrhea, rice-like stools, colic in the abdomen with cramps, mainly in the calves, great prostration with coldness and cold sweat, especially on the forehead. (In cholera-like diseases, it is useless to give veratrum if there is no pain. In these cases, podophyllum is indicated, in which there is no pain).

Veratrum album can be shown even in the following cases.

Mania, with desire to cut and tear clothes, anger, voluptuous talk, religious and erotic mania. In these cases it is often necessary to distinguish between veratrum albumum and stramonium (with stramonium the face is red, with veratrum it is very pale with cyanosis and more or less severe weakness.). Often the violent form of mania is replaced by silence. But if the patient is irritable, becomes violent, scolds, insults, threatens, accuses those present of all kinds of crimes.

Nymphomania. Attacks appear mainly before each menstruation.

Rheumatism worse in damp weather, compelling to lie in bed (ferrum metallicum). The pains of veratrum album are often very strong and bring the patient to delirium.

Cardiac weakness, a consequence of acute diseases. Thready pulse. The patient loses consciousness at the slightest movement. In a lying position, the face turns red, if it sits down, it becomes covered with deathly pallor. Hands are often cold and clammy.

Consequence of fear, causing great coldness of the body with diarrhea (with gelsemine there is diarrhea, but without vomiting).

Summary. Cold sweat, watery profuse diarrhea with pain, vomiting, loss of strength and collapse - this is veratrum album. Note that cold sweat on the forehead is the most constant characteristic.