Veratrum Nigrum

Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, 1900, Vol. II, p. 1520

Veratrum nigrum. Dark-flowered Veratrum N. O. Mdanthaceae. Tincture of fresh leaves and succulent flower-stalks. "*"** — Headache. Menstruation, protracted. Tinnitus aurium.

Characteristics

Cooper has given me a few observations with Ver. nig.f which I have arranged in Schema form. The plant, he says, has much the same botanical characters as Ver, alb,j but the flowers are dark-coloured. It is native to Austria and Siberia.

Head

Constant headache when attempting to move or exert the brain (cured). — Fierce headache threatening acute mania (cured).

Ears

Constant buzzing of L ear for two weeks with tenderness of meatus and intense sensitiveness of the head to the motion of an omnilMis with beclouding of the brain ; cam hardly tell which instrument to take up (m his work as a dentist), and pain in nape of neck (agg.).

Female Sexual Organs

Period continually returning ; sometimes light-coloured and slight in quantity, and sometimes profuse ; with weak feeling in back.

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