Veratrum Album

Questions

What is Veratrum album.?

The White Hellebore, and the tincture is made from the root; alkaloid, Veratrin.

What is the general action of Veratrum alb.?

Acts profoundly on the general vegetative sphere, producing a perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness and weakness.

What are four general characteristics of Veratrum?

1. Everything is copious, vomit, sweat and diarrhoea. 2. The cold sweat. 3. Burning internally. 4. The coldness and blueness of the surface of the body.

What are the mental symptoms ?

Delirium; restlessness; desire to cut and tear clothing; loquacity; strikes those about him; springs out of bed; lewd in talk; religious melancholy, despair of salvation; sullen indifference.

What are the three characteristics of the stool of Veratrum ?

1 . Pain in abdomen preceding stool. 2. Profuseness of stool and forcible evacuation. 3. Great prostration following stool.

What are the symptoms indicating Veratrum in Cholera?

Profuse, watery, greenish like spinach, or bloody stools, with cramps and cutting pains in the abdomen and limbs, with great weakness and fainting; little vomiting, cold sweat on the forehead and rice-water stools, attended with prostration and collapse; aggravation at night; pale face, sunken eyes, and prostration.

How does this differ from Camphora?

Camphora has coldness without sweat; the tongue is cold; the discharges are scanty; the upper lip is retracted, showing the teeth; the voice is high pitched and the entire body is cold.

When should one give Cuprum?

When the cramps are verj' severe and extend to the chest; vomiting and purging, but not the cold sweat, of Veratrmn.

What is the Constipation of Veratrum ?

Large, hard black stools with faintness; patient strains until covered with cold sweat and then gives it up, and feces accumulate in large masses in the rectum.

What abdominal symptom has Veratrum in common with Nux vom. ?

Sensation in the abdominal rings as if a hernia would protrude.