Veratrum album

Characteristic symptoms

Ailments from fear and fright or from anger and chagrin ; attacks of pain occasioning for a short time delirium and rage ; pains in the muscular parts of the body, composed of pressure and a bruised feeling ; paralytic pain in the limbs as after excessive fatigue ; pain in the limbs, which do not bear the warmth of the bed, cease entirely on walking about and generally appear early in the morning ; the pains in the limbs are worse in the fall and spring, also in bed, damp and chilly weather ; the pains are aggravated by the talking of other people ; tremor of the limbs, excessive weakness, fainting fit ; concussions like electric shocks, with profuse sweat ; spasms and convulsions, with contractions of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet ; catalepsy, with lock-jaw ; general emaciation ; laming prostration and disposition to faint, from the least exercise ; flaccid skin; coma vigil; long uninterrupted sleep; coldness of the whole body with cold clammy sweats ; hot face, with redness and shuddering ; slow and almost extinct pulse; great inequality in the division of animal heat ; sweats easily in the daytime after the least exercise ; anguish as from an evil conscience, or as if some evil were impending ; fearfulness, running about from anxiety, with anguish and screaming ; furious delirium ; mania, religious or amorous, with foolish demeanor ; mania, with desire to cut and tear things, especially clothing ; stupid condition, with low muttering or moaning ; vomiting and increase of headache on rising, with proportionate well feeling in a reclining position, the least motion producing nausea or vomiting ; dyspeptic or sick headaches, with shooting pains ; paroxysms of pains, which drive the patient almost to distraction ; chilliness on the top of the head ; sensation as of a piece of ice on the head ; cold sweat on the forehead ; palsy of the eyelids, as if they were too heavy ; hemeralopia, commencing at twilight ; vanishing of sight ; diplopia ; red spots on the nose ; cold, disfigured face, as of a dead person, with pointed nose and sunken cheeks ; blue margins around the eyes ; bluish or yellowish face ; copper-red eruption on the face, around the mouth and the chin ; dry, black and parched lips ; lock-jaw ; discharge of mucus from the mouth, and froth at the mouth ; tongue red and swollen or dry, blackish and cracked ; scraping and roughness in the throat ; desire for fruit and acid things ; pappy, putrid taste ; voracious and canine hunger ; unquenchable thirst, particularly for cold drinks ; water brash ; black vomit ; vomiting, with diarrhœa and pressure in the pit of the stomach ; Asiatic cholera, with rice-water discharges and violent vomiting ; extreme thirst for large quantities of cold water, cramps in the calves of the legs, fingers and toes ; hoarse voice ; coldness of mouth and tongue ; excessive sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach and the region of the stomach, with anguish in the pit of the stomach ; flatulent colic, affecting the whole bowels ; cutting in the bowels, as with knives, or burning pains, or burning as if from hot coals ; chronic constipation, as if from want of action from the bowels; green, watery stools, mixed with flocks, or brownish or blackish stools ; unnoticed evacuations with escape of wind ; diarrhœa, with extreme prostration ; nocturnal diarrhœa ; frequent, but scanty emission of dark-red urine ; suppression of the lochia, with delirium and diarrhœa ; nymphomania of lying-in women; thin, watery, dark-appearing and offensive diarrhœa during puerperal fever ; dysmenorrhea, with vomiting and purging, or with exhausting diarrhœa and cold sweats ; paroxysms of constriction of the larynx, suffocative fits with protruded eyes ; violent cough, with constant eructations ; cough, with profuse expectoration, blue face and involuntary emission of urine ; palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and hurried audible breathing ; tingling in the hand, as if it had gone to sleep ; paralytic feeling in the hip-joints ; violent cramps in the calves ; icy-coldness of the feet.