- Source: Derived from the fresh root of Veratrum album, commonly known as White🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Hellebore or False🌿 FalseMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. Hellebore, a perennial plant in the Melanthiaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. 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,.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., collapse, and mania.
- It is noted for symptoms such as cold sweats, prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. 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🩺 GastroenteritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.-like diarrhea), cardiovascular conditions (e.g., hypotension, syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain.), psychological conditions (e.g.,.
- Bipolar disorder🩺 Bipolar DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations.), 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.
- COMMENTS-Copious discharges, stools, vomiting, urine, salivation and sweat.
- Discharges drain the tissues.
- Exhausting discharges, causing vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., blackness be fore the sight, fainting and collapse.
- “Rapid sinking of forces, complete prostration, cold sweat and cold breath.” Useful for collapse with icy cold sweat (Carb-v.).
- Fainting from emotions, from the least exertion, from retching, or from stool.
- Sinking feeling during hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
- “Skin blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., purple, cold, wrinkled, remaining in folds when pinched.” “Face hippocratic, nose pointed.” “Hands icy cold.” “Face and legs icy cold.” “Coldness of the whole body.” “Coldness running over whole body soon after taking it.” “Continued rigor in back and over arms.” “Cold feeling in abdomen.” Coldness predominates in fever, but there is also “heat and redness of face and hands.” “Feeling of internal chill ran through him from head to toes of both feet at once.” Cold sweats, especially on the forehead.
- Cardiac debility, following acute diseases.
- Thread-like pulse.
- Low blood pressure.
- Blood loss, hypovolemic shock.
- Faints in morning, face red when lying down or sitting up, deadly pale, hands cold, clammy.
- J. S. Mitchell considered it one of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses.
- Dryness and burning felt in the nose, mouth, palate, and throat.
- Pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Tickling deep in trachea and bronchials.
- “Tickling in chest, as if it would provoke cough in middle of sternum.” Severe dehydration (Chin.🌿 Chin.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), often as sociated with heatstroke or sunstroke.
- Sun headac hes or sunstroke.
- Extreme hunger, craving for cold food and refreshing things.
- Craves unripe fruit, ice cold drinks, ice cream (Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Great thirst for ice-cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., during both the chill and heat of fever.
- Copious stools.
- Cholera (Camph and Cupr.🌿 Cupr.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- R ice-water stools.
- Watery diarrhea in infants.
- Green🌿 GreenMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. vomit, stool, or urine.
- Characteristic diarrhea, frequent, greenish, gushing, mixed with flakes.
- Cutting colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over.
- Prostrating after fright, worse least movement with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead dur ing stool followed by prostration.
- “Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhea.” Characteristic constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. without desire.
- Large, hard stools, in round black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. balls from inactive rectum.
- Frequent desire felt in epigastrium.
- Painful constipation in infants, children, and women after confinement.
- Cramps, convulsions, can be tetanic with lockjaw or epileptic.
- The eyes are particu larly convulsed or the lids paralyzed.
- There may be vanishing of sight, s parks before the sight, or night-blindness.
- NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains, dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., or migraines, accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, cold sweat, fainting or prostration.
- Delirium and prolonged sleep during fever.
- Violence in delirium.
- “Fury: tears his cloth ing, bites her shoes to pieces and swallows the fragments, cursing, stamping, wants to run away, makes a great noise.” Mental alienation.
- Insanity.
- Delusions of personal identity.
- Exalted, religious or sexual mania.
- Puerperal mania.
- Nymphomania, mania for kissing everybody.
- Delusion that she is pregnant, and she gets physical symptoms from it (pseudocyesis).
- Destructive mania.
- Despair and hopelessness, “bowed down with great grief.” Hahnemann said that it has the power “to promote a cure of almost one-third of the insane in lunatic asylums (at all events as a homeopathic intermediate remedy).” One of the symptoms taken by Hahnemann from Grading is “He swallows his own excrement.” Goullon verified this 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. three times daily, cured in a month.
- E. F. Watts had the case of Mrs. C., who had severe nervous headaches for years.
- Any over-exertion, like riding or working on hot days, would excite them.
- They frequently began in occiput, settling sometimes in one eye, sometimes in the other.
- Spig and Sil gave no relief.
- One day.
- Watts noticed that the brow contracted and the eyelids nearly closed with the intensity of the pain.
- Verat was given and relieved at once.
- Gee cured, with one dose of Verat. 200c, the case of Mrs. L., a widow, 43.
- She had sciatica🩺 SciaticaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. for four years.
- Pain sharp, transient, darted upwards and downwards and from both sides to center.
- Heat, worse “the cooler the better.” Cold sweat with the attacks.
- Headache from both temples to base of brain, worse by heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Vertex itched during attacks.
- Pain compelled her to move about, but no better from motion.
- Temperature-Chill with extreme coldness and thirst.
- General coldness, icy, on vertex, nose tongue, mouth, limbs, 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 preceding stool.
- Painful retraction of abdomen during vomiting.
- Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.
- Cutting colic as if bowels were twisted in knots with cramps in limbs and rapid pr ostration.
- Peritonitis🩺 PeritonitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Intussusception🩺 IntussusceptionClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Reversed peristaltic action.
- Sensation as if hernia would protrude (Nux-v.🌿 Nux-V.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- As if hot coals in abdomen.
- Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallo wed.
- Craves ice water, wants everything cold or sour, drinks, juicy fruits and salt.
- Voracious appetite, gnawing hunger in spite of nausea and vomiting.
- Averse to warm food.
- All fruits disagree, causing painful distention.
- Potatoes and green vegetables di sagree.
- Better eating meat and drinking milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
