{"id":16440,"remedy_name":"Veratrum Album","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the fresh root of Veratrum album, commonly known as White Hellebore or. False  Hellebore,  a  perennial  plant  in  the  Melanthiaceae  family,  prepared  for  homeopathic  use. through trituration and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material. toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for gastrointestinal, cardiovascular,. psychological,  and  constitutional  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  violent  vomiting,. diarrhea, collapse, and mania. It is noted for symptoms such as cold sweats, prostration, and. aggravation from cold, often worsened by cold, drinking, or motion, and ameliorated by warmth,. rest, or pressure. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  gastrointestinal  conditions (e.g.,  gastroenteritis,  cholera-like. diarrhea), cardiovascular conditions (e.g., hypotension, syncope), psychological conditions (e.g.,. bipolar disorder, delirium), and constitutional conditions (e.g., hypovolemic shock, chronic fatigue. syndrome). It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by  violent vomiting ,. profuse diarrhea ,  cold sweats ,  prostration, or  manic behavior , typically exacerbated by cold,. drinking, motion, or stress, and often seen in individuals with intense, depleted constitutions. The. remedy is particularly relevant for those with gastrointestinal or cardiovascular conditions, often. presenting  with  symptoms  like  collapse  or  mania,  commonly  observed  in  patients  with. gastroenteritis, hypotension, or bipolar disorder triggered by cold, dehydration, or emotional stress.","modalities":"Worse from: Cold  (weather,  drinks,  air),  drinking  (cold  fluids),  motion,  stress,  night,. exertion, standing, dehydration, confinement, fasting, emotional upset, morning.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Melancholy with stupor and mania. Head hangs down, sits brooding in silence, wants to be alone. Sits \nin a stupid manner, notices nothing. Sullen indifference. Amativeness. Haughtiness. \nRemorse. Busy restlessness. Deceitful, never speaks the truth. Despair abo ut position in society, feels very \nunlucky. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Malingering. Anguish, fear of death. \nImaginary diseases. Thinks herself preg nant. Nymphomania, embraces everybody even objects. Kisses \neverybody, before menses. Puerperal mania. \nReligious mania. Despairs of her salva tion. Imagines the world on fire. Prays, curses, shrieks in turn. Frenzy \nof excitement, shrieks, curses. Cursing, howling all night. Insanity. Violent mania alternates with silence and \nrefusal to talk. \nSings, whistles, laughs. Runs from place to place. Delirium with violence, driving to madness, loquacity or \nlewdness during pain. Mania with desire to cut and tear things (Tarent.). Aimless wandering from home. Talks \nabout the faults of others or scolds. \nSwallows his own excrement. Melancholy with stupor and mania. Head hangs down, sits brooding in silence, wants to be alone. Sits \nin a stupid manner, notices nothing. Sullen indifference. Amativeness. Haughtiness. \nRemorse. Busy restlessness. Deceitful, never speaks the truth. Despair abo ut position in society, feels very \nunlucky. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Malingering. Anguish, fear of death. \nImaginary diseases. Thinks herself preg nant. Nymphomania, embraces everybody even objects. Kisses \neverybody, before menses. Puerperal mania. \nReligious mania. Despairs of her salva tion. Imagines the world on fire. Prays, curses, shrieks in turn. Frenzy \nof excitement, shrieks, curses. Cursing, howling all night. Insanity. Violent mania alternates with silence and \nrefusal to talk. \nSings, whistles, laughs. Runs from place to place. Delirium with violence, driving to madness, loquacity or \nlewdness during pain. Mania with desire to cut and tear things (Tarent.). Aimless wandering from home. Talks \nabout the faults of others or scolds. \nSwallows his own excrement.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, especially when walking. \nVertigo with cold sweats on forehead with loss of vision, sudden fainting. Vertigo from opium, abuse of tobacco \nand alcohol. \nCOMMENTS - Copious discharges, stools, vomiting, urine, salivation and sweat. Discharges drain the tissues. \nExhausting discharges, causing vertigo, blackness be fore the sight, fainting and collapse. \u201cRapid sinking of \nforces, complete prostration, cold sweat and cold breath.\u201d Useful for collapse with icy cold sweat (Carb-v.). \nFainting from emotions, from the least exertion, from retching, or from stool. Sinking feeling during hemorrhage. \n\u201cSkin blue, purple, cold, wrinkled, remaining in folds when pinched.\u201d \u201cFace hippocratic, nose pointed.\u201d \n\u201cHands icy cold.\u201d \u201cFace and legs icy cold.\u201d \u201cColdness of the whole body.\u201d \u201cColdness running over whole body \nsoon after taking it.\u201d \u201cContinued rigor in back and over arms.\u201d \u201cCold feeling in abdomen.\u201d  \nColdness predominates in fever, but there is also \u201cheat and redness of face and hands.\u201d \u201cFeeling of internal \nchill ran through him from head to toes of both feet at once.\u201d Cold sweats, especially on the forehead.  \nCardiac debility, following acute diseases. Thread -like pulse. Low blood pressure. Blood loss, hypovolemic \nshock. Faints in morning, face red when lying down or sitting up, deadly pale, hands cold, clammy. J. S. Mitchell \nconsidered it one of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses. \nDryness and burning  felt in the nose, mouth, palate, and throat. Pneumonia. Tickling deep in trachea and \nbronchials. \u201cTickling in chest, as if it would provoke cough in middle of sternum.\u201d  \nSevere dehydration (Chin.), often as sociated with heatstroke or sunstroke. Sun headac hes or sunstroke. \nExtreme hunger, craving for cold food and refreshing things. Craves unripe fruit, ice cold drinks, ice cream \n(Phos.). Great thirst for ice-cold water, during both the chill and heat of fever. \nCopious stools. Cholera (Camph. and \nCupr.). R ice-water stools. Watery diarrhea in infants. Green vomit, stool, or urine. Characteristic diarrhea, \nfrequent, greenish, gushing, mixed with flakes. \nCutting colic with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over. Prostrating after fright, worse \nleast movement with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead dur ing stool followed by prostration. \u201cViolent vomiting \nwith profuse diarrhea.\u201d \nCharacteristic constipation without desire. Large, hard stools, in round black balls from inactive rectum. \nFrequent desire felt in epigastrium. Painful constipation in infants, children, and women after confinement.  \nCramps, convulsions, can be tetanic with lockjaw or epileptic. The eyes are particu larly convulsed or the lids \nparalyzed. There may be vanishing of sight, s parks before the sight, or night -blindness. Neuralgic pains, \ndysmenorrhea, or migraines, accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, cold sweat, fainting or prostration.  \nDelirium and prolonged sleep during fever. Violence in delirium. \u201cFury: tears his cloth ing, bites her shoes to \npieces and swallows the fragments, cursing, stamping, wants to run away, makes a great noise.\u201d  \n \n \nMental alienation. Insanity. Delusions of personal identity. Exalted, religious or sexual mania. Puerperal mania. \nNymphomania, mania for kissing everybody. Delusion that she is pregnant, and she gets physical symptoms \nfrom it (pseudocyesis). Destructive mania. Despair and hopelessness, \u201cbowed down with great grief.\u201d  \nHahnemann said that it has the power \u201cto promote a cure of almost one -third of the insane in lunatic asylums \n(at all events as a homeopathic intermediate remedy).\u201d \nOne of the symptoms taken by Hahnemann from Grading is \u201cHe swallows his own excrement.\u201d Goullon verified \nthis in a case of his in which a child had a craze for eating its o wn feces or dung lying in the street. Verat. 2c. \nthree times daily, cured in a month. \nE. F. Watts had the case of Mrs. C., who had severe nervous headaches for years. Any over -exertion, like \nriding or working on hot days, would excite them. They frequently \nbegan in occiput, settling sometimes in one eye, sometimes in the other. Spig. and Sil. gave no relief.  \nOne day. Watts noticed that the brow contracted and the eyelids nearly closed with the intensity of the pain. \nVerat. was given and relieved at once. \nGee cured, with one dose of Verat. 200c, the case of Mrs. L., a widow, 43. She had sciatica for four years. \nPain sharp, transient, darted upwards and downwards and from both sides to center. Heat, worse \u201cthe cooler \nthe better.\u201d \nCold sweat with the attacks. Headache from both temples to base of brain, worse by heat. Vertex itched during \nattacks. Pain compelled her to move about, but no better from motion.","Head":"Cold sweat on forehead in all complaints. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Violent pain driving \nto despair, better cold. Headaches with nausea, vomit ing, pale face, diarrhea, diuresis. Vertex itche s during \nheadache. Rubs forehead. Contracted features. Neck too weak to hold head up. As if cold wind blowing \nthrough head. Hair bristle, painful. Cold sweat on forehead in all complaints. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Violent pain driving \nto despair, better cold. Headaches with nausea, vomit ing, pale face, diarrhea, diuresis. Vertex itche s during \nheadache. Rubs forehead. Contracted features. Neck too weak to hold head up. As if cold wind blowing \nthrough head. Hair bristle, painful.","Eyes":"Surrounded by dark rings. Eyes dull, clouded, yellowish. Staring eyes, turned upwards without luster. \nThe eyeballs are turned upwards. Pain, as if the eyeballs were bruised. Lachrymation with redness. Dry, heavy \nlids.","Ears":"Shootings in ears. Pressure and constrictive sensations in ears. Alternat e sensation of coldness and \nheat in ears. Deafness, as from obstruction in ears. Humming with sensitiveness to noise. Roaring in ears, \nespecially when rising from a seat.","Face":"Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold. Features sunken. Deathly pale, on rising, bluish, pinched or \ndistorted, frowning cold, terrified look. Cheek red (left), as \nif burnt. Tearing in cheeks, temples and eyes. Jaws cramp on chewing. Lockjaw. Lips blue, hang down.","Mouth":"Dry in center not relieved by water. Salty saliva. Water tastes bitter, like peppermint. Toothache, teeth \nfeel heavy as if filled with lead. Grinding of the teeth. Tongue, cold, pale, cool sensation as from peppermint. \nSpeech lisping, stammering or as if tongue too heavy. \nNose - Icy coldness of tip of nose andface. Nose grows more pointed. Smell before nose. Nosebleed from \nright nostril, only at night in sleep.","Throat":"Hoarse, weak voice. Loss of voice. Dry, scraping or roughness. When drinking water, it seems to run \noutside, not \ngoing down the esophagus.","Chest":"Hypotension  or  faintness,  with  a  sensation  of  weakness  or  collapse,  resembling. syncope, worse with cold, exertion, dehydration, or standing, often with pale, cold. skin or vertigo. Cold sweats or clammy skin, with a tendency to profuse, icy perspiration, resembling. hypovolemic shock, aggravated by cold, motion, or stress, often with rapid, weak. pulse or pallor. Palpitations  or  irregular  heartbeat,  with  a  sensation  of  anxiety  or  oppression,. resembling vasovagal syncope, worse with cold, stress, or exertion, often with chest. tightness or trembling. Tendency  to  cardiovascular  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  cold  or  exerted. states. Psychological:. Manic  behavior  or  agitation,  with  a  sensation  of  restlessness  or  grandiosity,. resembling  bipolar  disorder  (manic  phase),  worse  with  cold,  stress,  night,  or. confinement, often with rapid speech or delusions. Delirium  or  confusion,  with  a  tendency  to  disorientation  or  hallucinations,. resembling acute delirium, aggravated by cold, fever, or stress, often with fearfulness. or aggression. Anxiety or despair, with a sensation of impending doom or hopelessness, resembling. adjustment  disorder,  worse  with  cold,  motion,  or  isolation,  often  with  suicidal. ideation or withdrawal. Tendency  to  psychological  hypersensitivity,  with  aggravation  in  cold  or  stressed. states. Veratrum album (White Hellebore) 2024. Constitutional:. Extreme  prostration  or  collapse,  with  a  sensation  of  exhaustion  or  sinking,. resembling hypovolemic shock, worse with cold, motion, stress, or morning, often. with weight loss or dehydration. Chronic fatigue or weakness, with a tendency to low vitality or burnout, resembling. chronic fatigue syndrome, aggravated by cold, exertion, or stress, often with chills or. flushing. General coldness or sensitivity, with a sensation of icy limbs or fragility, resembling. neurasthenia, worse with cold, drinking, or confinement, often with hypersensitivity. or irritability. Tendency to constitutional hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or depleted. states.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Painful, burning at pit of stomach. Hiccough after hot drinks. Cold water brash. Copious vomiting \nwith nausea, aggravated by drinking and least motion. Vomits or belches froth. Violent retching. Nausea \nwhile eating, cannot get food down without retching. Cold feeling in stomach. Gastric irritability with chronic \nvomiting of food. Vomiting, worse drinking and least motion. Great weakness after vomiting. \nTemperature - Chill with extreme coldness and thirst. General coldness, icy, on vertex, nose tongue, mouth, \nlimbs, sweat. Internal heat with cold surface, when drinking. Fevers showing external coldness only. Sinking and empty feeling. Cold feeling  in abdomen. Epigastrium painful. Pain in abdomen \npreceding stool. Painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting. Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with \nterrible colic. Cutting colic as if bowels were twisted in knots with cramps in limbs and rapid pr ostration. \nPeritonitis. Intussusception. Reversed peristaltic action. Sensation as if hernia would protrude (Nux -v.). As if \nhot coals in abdomen. Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallo wed. Craves ice water, wants everything \ncold or sour, drinks, juicy fruits and salt. Voracious appetite, gnawing hunger in spite of nausea and vomiting. \nAverse to warm food. All fruits disagree, causing painful distention. Potatoes and green vegetables di sagree. \nBetter eating meat and drinking milk.","Urinary & Genital":"Menses too early, too profuse, suppressed. Dysmenorrhea with cold ness, purging, cold sweat. \nFaints from least exertion.  Menorrhagia with nau sea, vomiting, diarrhea. Nymphomania, before menses, \nfrom disappointed love, unsatisfied passion in lying-in women. Eclampsia. Puerperal mania.","Extremities":"Brachial neuralgia, paralytic and bruising pain in arms. Fine burning in arms, right to left. Arms feel \nfull and swollen. Tingling in hands and fingers. Feet icy cold. Cramps in calves during stools. Sciatica, pains \nlike electric flashes in legs, must sit up and let legs hang down out of bed. Soreness and tenderness of joints. \nDifficulty in walking, like paralysis from debility. Pains in feet or knees as if heavy stones were tied to parts, \nmust \nmove about.","Neck & Back":"Neck so weak, child can scarcely keep it erect, worse whooping cough. Pain crampy between scapulae \nbetter motion. Bruised feeling in sacral region. \nCausations - Post-operative shock. Shock of injury. Ill effects of fright, disappointed love, injured pride or \nhonor. Suppressed rashes. Opium, tobacco, alcohol.","Skin":"Blue, cold, clammy, cold as death. Skin flabby and without elasticity. Wrin kling of skin of hands and \nfeet. Cold sweat. Skin feels scorched. Dry tetters. Measles, tardy and pale. Nettle rash. Scarlatina in hot \nweather.","Sleep":"Wakes at night trembling. Starts as if frightened. Yawning. Nocturnal sleeplessness with great anguish. \nSleep, long, uninterrupted, heavy, too profound. Sleeps with the arms passed over the head. Dreams with \nfrightened waking and a fixed idea that the dream is true, of quarrels. Dr eams are anxious, of being bitten by \na dog and cannot escape, of being hunted of robbers.","Generalities":"As if he had a bad conscience or had committed a crime. As if she would have to fly away. As if \nin a dream. As if head would burst. As if heat and cold at same time on scalp. Hair as if electrified. Distress \nover heart and epigastrium. As if something alive running from stomach into throat. As from ravenous hunger, \npain in stomach. As of knives cutting bowels. As of hot coals in abdomen. Sinking, empty feeling in abdomen. \nAs if pregnant or in throes of childbirth. As of knives cutting bowels. Electric pains occur in various parts."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}