Condensed Materia Medica

Veratrum Viride verat-v.

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Mind

Stupefaction; congestion.
Mental confusion, loss of memory; vertigo; cerebral hyperæmia.
Insanity from cerebral congestion.
Puerperal mania; silent, suspicious; will not see her physician, he seems to terrify her; fears being poisoned; sleepless, can hardly be kept in her bedroom.
Depression of spirits.

Inner Head

Headache from nape of neck, with vertigo, dim vision, dilated pupils.
Congestion to head: from high living, abuse of stimulants; during dentition.
Fulness in head, throbbing arteries; increased sensitiveness to sounds; buzzing in the ears; double or partial vision. θ Sunstroke.
Meningitis, high fever intense congestion, later rolling of head; vomiting; or face haggard, cold, and pulse slow; breathing labored.

Outer Head

Severe frontal headache, with vomiting.

Eyes

Dimness of vision, with dilated pupils.
Green circles around the candle, which turn to red.
Traumatic erysipelas of eyelids.
Twitching, contortion of eyes, rolling of eyeballs; paralysis of lids.

Ears

Deafness from moving quickly, with faintness.
Roaring in ears; congestion; nausea, vomiting.
Ears cold and pale.

Nose

Profuse secretion of mucus from the nose.

Face

Cold, bluish, covered with cold sweat; nose pinched, cold, blue; paleness of the lips and around alæ nasi.
Convulsive twitchings of facial muscles.
Face flushed; cerebral congestion.

Lower Face

Mouth drawn down at one corner.
Lips dry; mouth dry, or thick mucus in mouth.

Teeth

Dentition; cerebral congestion, excited pulse; convulsions.

Tongue, etc

Tongue: yellow, with red streak down the middle; feels scalded.

Mouth

Copious secretion of saliva.

Throat

Dryness and heat in throat, with severe hiccough.
Burning in fauces and œsophagus, with constant inclination to swallow.
Spasm of œsophagus, with or without rising of frothy, bloody mucus.
Sensation as of a ball rising into œsophagus.

Nausea and Vomiting

Heart-burn with bitter, sour rising.
Vomiting: long-continuing; of glairy mucus after food; of blood; of bile.
Vomiting, with inflammatory or cerebral disease.
Smallest quantity of food or drink is immediately rejected.

Stomach

Sharp, flying pains in epigastrium and umbilical region passing to pubes.
Excruciating pain, covering a space the size of hand, in lower part of stomach.
Intense drawing, twisting pains in stomach, as if it was drawn tightly against spine, causing pain in dorsal region.
Pains culminate every five minutes in severe vomiting.

Abdomen

As if drawn in, following cramp in stomach.
Pains at right of umbilicus, passing down to groin.
Enteritis, with high fever, great vascular excitement; vomiting; dark, bloody stools.

Stool, etc

Stools: bloody; black, in typhoid; copious, light, mornings; mushy, preceded and followed by cutting in bowels.
Hemorrhoids red and dark blue; neuralgic pains in the rectum.

Urine

Increased, pale; deposits a reddish sediment.
Specific gravity of urine diminished.

Female Sexual Organs

Menstrual colic, preceded by great congestion, and troublesome strangury; plethoric women.
Suppressed menses, with cerebral congestion; plethora.

Pregnancy

Vomiting during pregnancy.
Puerperal convulsions, during labor, after blood-letting; furious delirium; arterial excitement; cold, clammy sweat.

Breathing

Labored, must sit up, cold sweat on the face; decreased from 40 to 16, pneumonia.
Oppression of the chest.

Cough

Short, dry, hacking; loose, rattling; worse going from warm to cold.

Lungs

Congestion of chest, with rapid respiration, nausea, vomiting; dull burning in region of heart.
Pneumonia, pulse hard, strong, quick or, engorgement of lungs, with faint feeling in stomach, nausea, slow or intermittent pulse.

Heart and Pulse

In cardiac region: burning; prickling; or dull aching.
Heart's beat: loud, strong, with arterial excitement; low and feeble; fluttering.
Faintness and blindness; when rising from lying; from sudden motions; better lying quietly.
Pulse: suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal; slow, soft, weak; irregular, intermittent.

Neck and Back

Aching in back of neck and shoulders.
Muscles of back contracted, drawing head backward.
Opisthotonos; arterial excitement; hands and feet cold; shocks in limbs; congestion of brain and spine, loss of consciousness.
Heat and redness down spine; back of head hot. θ Spotted fever.

Lower limbs

Pain in either great trochanter when lying on it.
Lancinating pain in right hip.
Right ankle feels as if dislocated, can scarcely walk; later left.

Limbs in General

Rheumatism, especially in left shoulder, hip and knee; high fever; scanty red urine.
Flying pains; pains in joints; shuddering; rheumatism.
Cramps in legs, fingers, toes.
Pain, especially about the condyles.

Position, etc

Moving: 6, 29. Walking: 33. Rising: 29. Must sit up: 26. Lying quietly: 3; on affected side: 33.

Nerves

Twitchings and contortions of body, unaffected by sleep; froth about lips; champing of teeth; difficult swallowing; head, jerking or continually nodding; sexual excitement; chorea.
Violent spasms, like galvanic shocks.
Convulsions after scarlet fever; great dilatation of pupils; inability to sleep.
Opisthotonic convulsions in anæmic subjects from exhausting diarrhœa.
Trembling, as if child was frightened and on verge of a spasm.
Convulsions with opisthotonos; anæmia from diarrhœa.
Paralysis; tingling in limbs; cerebral hyperæmia.

Sleep

Sleeplessness; cross, quarrelsome; also in acute fever.
Coma, blue face; spasms.
Restless sleep; dreams of drowning; of being on water.

Time

Morning: 20.

Temperature and Weather

Sunstroke: 3. Going from warm to cold: 27.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Coldness of whole body, cold sweat on face, hands, and feet.
Chilliness, with nausea.
Coldness, with pale skin, flabby muscles; quick, but weak pulse.
Typhoid fevers when pulse is full, hard, frequent; pain violent in back of head; delirium; black stools.
Irritative fever, with cerebral congestions, causing convulsions, children.

Tissues

Congestions, especially of base of brain, chest, spine, stomach.
Dropsy, with fever. θ After scarlatina.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Rubbing relieves pains and itching.

Skin

Itching of different parts, better from rubbing.
Tingling and pricking in skin.
Skin cold, clammy, bluish, insensible, shriveled.
Eruptions, with intense fever.
Measles, during febrile stage, especially if pulmonary congestion is impending; convulsions before eruption.
Scarlatina, with intense arterial excitement.
Rheumatism, carditis, dropsy, as sequelæ.
Small-pox, intense fever, restlessness, excessive pain.

Stages and States

Full-blooded, plethoric.

Relationship

Ver. vir. cured spasms from strychnine.