Veratrum viride

Characteristic symptoms

It allays pain and hyperesthesia; chorea; puerperal convulsions; cerebro spinal meningitis; convulsions, with tendency to opisthoto nos ; sound sleep, with frightful dreams ; restless night, with frightful dreams of being drowned ; chilliness, with nausea ; coldness of the whole body, with cold perspiration, especially upon the hands, feet and face ; feeble, irregular, scarcely perceptible pulse ; headache, with afternoon fever, vertigo ; headache, proceeding from the nape of the neck ; cerebral congestions, arising from plethora, vascular irritation, coup de soleil, alcoholic stimulants, teething ; intense headache, with fullness and throbbing of the arteries, sometimes with stupefaction ; increased sensitiveness of the senses ; cold bluish face, covered with cold perspiration, convulsive twitching of the facial muscles, mouth drawn down at one corner ; dimness of sight ; walking brings on blindness and faintness ; tongue feels as if it had been scalded ; flat bitter taste ; copious secretion of saliva; burning and spasm of the oesophagus, with rising of frothy, bloody mucus in the mouth ; excessive gastric irritability ; cardialgia and gastralgia ; waterbrash ; the stomach seems to press against the spine, when lying upon the back ; hiccough before and after vomiting ; vomiting of bile and blood ; cutting, aching pains in the umbilical region, with rumbling in the bowels and desire for stool ; soft, mushy stool, preceded by cutting pains in the bowels ; increased secretion of pale urine ; orchitis ; puerperal metritis ; violent menstrual colic previous to the occurrence of the discharge ; sensation as of a heavy load on the chest ; oppression of the chest ; pneumonia ; pleurisy ; constant burning distress in the cardiac region ; faintness after rising from the recumbent position ; fluttering sensation in the heart; palpitation, with dyspnoea; lumbago.