Veratrum Viride verat-v.

Vaso-motors: MEDULLA. Occiput. CHEST. Stomach. Heart. Capillaries.

RAISING UP. Motion. Cold. Lying on back. Puerperal states.

Rubbing. Lying with head low. Eating.

SUDDEN VIOLENT CONGESTION; cerebellar or thoracic; with nausea and vomiting, weakness, staggering, etc. Markedly uneasy. Trembling here and there during sleep, as if on the verge of convulsions. Muscle prostration. General pulsation. Erratic motions. Spasms; with twitchings, shrieks or opisthotonos; before or after menses; as a prodrome. Eclampsia. Uræmia. Burnings; in places; tongue, pharynx, gullet; of skin, which is cold; with prickling. Lies with head low.

Loquacity. Mania; puerperal. Delirium, with wild staring eyes and restless hands. Carphology. Head, thrown back; nodding or rolling motions; throbs on raising up; aches on vertex and between eyes. Pains up occiput, with dim vision and dilated pupils. Vision, of red spots; purple, on closing eyes. Deafness, < quick motion. LIVID, TURGID FACE, BUT BECOMES FAINT ON SITTING UP. Apoplexy. Heat stroke. Tension across malar bones. Chewing motions. Red or dry streak down center of tongue. Foul breath. Nausea, with vomiting and purging. Vomiting; violent, without nausea. Hiccough. Œsophagitis. Stomach seems to press against spine. Gastritis. Abdomen aches; cutting at navel. Slow, heavy breathing; as of a weight on chest. Dyspnœa. Violent cough from very start. Pneumonia. Dull, burning ache at heart. Aching neck and shoulders. Vesicles on hands. Cramps in feet, dorsæ, soles, etc. Dreams of water. Full, large, soft pulse or slow, with strong or violent heart beat. Hyperpyrexia or rapidly oscillating temperature; with sweat. Sepsis. Burning in chest. Clothes feel damp. Cold, clammy sweat. Cerebro-spinal fever.

Related: Aco. Gel.

For full-blooded, plethoric persons. Congestion, especially to base of brain, chest, spine and stomach. Violent pains attending inflammation. Acute rheumatism, high fever, full, hard rapid pulse, sever pains in joints and muscles (Bry., Salic. ac.); scanty, red urine. Child trembles, jerks, threatened with convulsions; continual jerking or nodding of the head. Nervous or sick headache; congestion from suppressed menses; intense, almost apoplectic, with violent nausea and vomiting. Congestive apoplexy, hot head, bloodshot eyes, thick speech, slow full pulse, hard as iron. Convulsions: dim vision; basilar meningitis; head retracted; child on verge of spasms. Cerebro-spinal diseases; with spasms, dilated pupils, tetanic convulsions, opisthotonos; cold clammy perspiration. Sunstroke, head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive to sound, double or partial vision (Gels., Glon.). Tongue: white or yellow with red streak down the middle; dry, moist, white or yellow coating, or no coating on either side; feels scalded (Sang.). Pulse: suddenly increases and gradually deceases below normal; slow, soft, weak; irregular, intermittent (Dig., Tab.). Veratrum viride should not be given simply to "bring down the pulse," or"control the heart's action," but like any other remedy for the totalityof the symptoms.

The tongue feels as if it had been scalded. Menstrual disorders with intense cerebral congestion. Difficult, slow, laboured breathing; active congestion of the chest. Heart's beat loud, strong, with great arterial excitement; pulse incompressible; high temperature.

White American Hellebore

Paroxysms of auricular fibrillation. Induces fall of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Congestions, especially to lungs, base of brain, with nausea and vomiting. Twitchings and convulsions. Especially adapted to full-blooded, plethoric persons. Great prostration. Rheumatism of heart. Bloated, livid face. Furious delirium. Effects of sunstroke. Œsophagitis. (Farrington). Verat vir, will raise the opsonic index against the diploccus pneumonia, 70 to 109 per cent. Congestive stage and early manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia. Zigzag temperature. Clinically, it is known that such diseases as Tiegel's contracture, Thompson's Disease, athetosis and pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatology quite like that produced by Veratrum vir upon muscular tissue (A. E. Hinsdale, M. D).

Quarrelsome and delirious.

Congestion intense, almost apoplectic. Hot head, bloodshot eyes. Bloated, livid face. Hippocratic face. Head retracted, pupils dilated, double vision. Meningitis. Pain from nape of neck; cannot hold head up. Sunstroke; head full, throbbing arteries (Bell; Glon; Usnea). Face flushed. Convulsive twitching of facial muscles (Agaricus). Vertigo with nausea.

White or yellow, with red streak down the middle. Feels scalded. Increased saliva.

Thirsty. Nausea and vomiting. Smallest quantity of food or drink immediately rejected. Constrictive pain; increased by warm drinks. Hiccough; excessive and painful, with spasms of œsophagus. Burning in stomach and œsophagus.

Pain above pelvis, with soreness.

Congestion of lungs. Difficult breathing. Sensation of a heavy load on chest. Pneumonia, with faint feeling in stomach and violent congestion. Croup. Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury.

Scanty with cloudy sediment.

Rigid os (Bell; Gels). Puerperal fever. Suppressed menstruation, with congestion to head (Bell). Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury.

Pulse slow, soft, weak, irregular, intermittent. Rapid pulse, low tension (Tabac; Dig). Constant, dull, burning pain in region of heart. Valvular diseases. Beating of pulses throughout body, especially in right thigh.

Aching pain in back of neck and shoulders. Severe pain in joints and muscles. Violent electric-like shocks in limbs. Convulsive twitchings. Acute rheumatism. Fever.

Erysipelas, with cerebral symptoms. Erythema. Itching in various parts. Hot sweating.

Hyperthermy in the evening and hypothermy in the morning. Suppurative fevers with great variation of temperature.

Compare: Gels; Bapt; Bell; Acon; Ferr phos. Antidotes Strychnin-fluid extract, 20-40 drops.

First to sixth potency.

A narrow, well developed red streak right through the middle of the tongue.

Intense fever, with twitching and tendency to spasms.

Veratrum viride is another remedy which at one time had a great reputation in the first or congestive stage of inflammatory diseases, and especially in those organs coming under the control of the pneumogastric nerve, viz., pharynx, œsophagus, stomach and heart. For a time the journals fairly bristled with reported cures of pneumonia, and its curative power was attributed to the influence of the remedy to control the action of heart and pulse. It was claimed that if we could control the quickened circulation so as to decrease the amount of blood forced into the congested lung, that you thereby gave the lung a chance to free itself of the existing engorgement.

It looked plausible, and certainly in many cases remarkable cures were effected, and that in a short time. I was a young physician and thought I had found a prize in this remedy. But one day I left a patient, relieved by this remedy of an acute and violent attack of pneumonia, to go to a town five miles distant, and when I returned found my patient dead. Then I watched others treated with this remedy, and found every little while a patient with pneumonia dropping out suddenly when they were reported better.

Now we don't hear so much of Veratrum vir. as the greatest remedy for the first stage of this disease. What was the matter? 1st. It was (like other fads) used too indiscriminately. 2d. It is not desirable (it is wrong) to control or depress the pulse, regardless of all the other conditions. 3d. The patients, who had weak hearts, were killed by this powerful heart depressant. A quickened circulation is salutary, in all inflammatory diseases, and is evidence that the Natural power to resist disease is there, and at work. The pulse will come to its normality when the cause of its disturbance is removed and never should be forced to do so until then. Here is a common fault of the old school notwithstanding their cry of "Tolle causam." So I find fault with Guernsey's keynote, "Great activity of the arterial system; very quick pulse." Next to Digitalis, Veratrum viride slows the pulse, as is abundantly shown in the provings. If quick pulse is ever a result of this remedy, it is a secondary or reactionary effect, like the sleeplessness of Opium or constipation of cathartics. So it seems to me that as an antiphlogistic (forgive me) it must go into the shade with the once vaunted Digitalis.

Then what is Veratrum viride good for? Well, I do not think that its sphere is yet fully defined, or can be without further provings and verification. The provings are already carried far enough to show that it must be a very powerful and useful remedy. That it inflames the œsophagus or stomach is well known, as is the fact that it congests the brain and lungs, but what are the characteristic symptoms that will enable us to prescribe this remedy in preference to the other remedies that do the same thing is not so well known. One peculiar symptom I believe to be characteristic, and which I have verified in a very severe case of erysipelas, which was accompanied by great delirium, is "a narrow, well-defined red streak right through the middle of the tongue." Again I believe Veratrum viride to be one of our best remedies for spasms, twitchings and convulsions, but do not know of any very reliable symptoms guiding us to its selection in the individual case. I once cured a man of a very severe and persistent attack of vomiting, which was aggravated on rising, with this remedy. He had suffered from several similar attacks before, but never any after this one, now several years ago.

Veratrum viride. American White Hellebore. Indian Poke. N. O. Melanthaceæ (of the Liliaceæ). Tincture of fresh root gathered in autumn. [Burt proved Squibb's liquid extract and says he found no other preparation satisfactory.]

Amaurosis. Amenorrhœa. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bunions. Cæcum, inflammation of. Chilblains. Chorea . Congestion. Convulsions. Diplopia. Diaphragmitis. Dysmenorrhœa. Erysipelas . Headache, nervous; sick. Heart, affections of. Hiccough. Hyperpyrexia . Influenza. Malarial fever. Measles. Meningitis. Menses, suppressed. Myalgia. Œsophagus, spasm of . Orchitis. Pneumonia. Proctalgia. Puerperal convulsions. Puerperal mania. Sleep, dreamful . Spine, congestion of. Spleen, congested. Sunstroke. Typhoid fever. Uterus, congestion of .

Verat. v . is the American White Hellebore. Growing side by side, Verat. a . and Verat. v . are scarcely distinguishable when not in flower. Millspaugh, however, says that though much like Ver. alb . in its minor points, Ver. v . is strikingly different in general appearance, having a much more pointed leaf, panicles looser and more compound; the racemes of Ver. a . being more compact and as a whole cylindrical, those of Ver. v . scattered, compound, and scraggy. Ver. a . flourishes in mountain meadows, Ver. v . grows in swamps, and wet meadows, and along mountain creeks from Canada to the Carolinas. Cooper has pointed out ( H. W ., xxxvi. 153) a confusion which exists through the Veratrums being also called Hellebores. Ver. v . is "American White Hellebore" and not "Green Hellebore" (which is Helleborus viridis ). Through this confusion an accidental proving of the latter (G. C. Edwards, No. 11. in Allen ) has been included in the pathogenesis of Ver. v . The plants belong to different orders, though it must be admitted there is a close resemblance in their effects. The root of Ver. v . contains Veratrin , and the other alkaloids found in the root of Ver. a ., but in different proportions. Hale was chiefly instrumental in introducing Ver. v . to homœopathy, using it in fevers and particularly in pneumonia. Burt made a heroic proving of the liquid extract; and his infant daughter (twenty-one months) very nearly died from taking a few drops of the tincture from a phial. In two minutes she began vomiting. Coffee and Camphor were given as antidotes. In five minutes her jaws were rigid; pupils widely dilated; face blue; hands and feet cold; no pulse at wrist. Abdomen and back were rubbed with Camphor , when she went into spasms with violent shrieks. These spasms were frequently repeated, a hot bath being most effective in relaxing the muscles. Vomiting ropy mucus kept up for three hours. Pulseless; hands and feet shrivelled. After three and a half hours she slept quietly and soundly and next morning was well but a little weak. Burt recalls his own symptom, "constant aching pains in back of neck and shoulders," and concludes that Ver. v . acts on the cervical portion of the spinal cord and base of brain. He also regards it as acting on the vagus, and paralysing the circulatory apparatus. The great keynote of Ver. v . is congestion , and it is in resolving congestive states that its chief successes have been scored. The correspondence is rough and the lower potencies have been mostly used. D. McLellan told me of a case of his. He was sent for in the middle of the night to see an old lady whom he found sitting up in bed gasping for breath, and blue. Rapid congestion of the lungs had occurred. The attack had come on suddenly. Ver. v . quickly rescued the patient from a condition of imminent peril. The concomitance of congestive symptoms, and also of nausea and vomiting, form one of the leading indications of Ver. v . in a great variety of cases. Sensations of fulness ("Head feels full and heavy;" "rush of blood to the head;" "face flushed;" "buzzing in the ears;" "chest constricted;" or "oppressed as from a heavy load;" point to the congestive tendency. The localities most congested by Ver. v . are: Base of brain; chest; spine; stomach. Slowing of the heart's action is a leading effect of the provings (from its action on the heart muscle and cardiac ganglia — Dig . on the pneumogastric); and Ver. v . has been used to "knock down" fever in the same way as Acon . Nash points out that there is some risk in this. When Ver. v . was first introduced he used it largely and successfully in a number of cases; but in one case which appeared to be going on favourably, the patient died suddenly . This he attributes to the Ver. v . In chorea Ver. v . has had many successes: "twitchings during sleep" was a characteristic of some cases. "Constant jerking or nodding of the head," "jerking and trembling, threatened with convulsions," are other leading symptoms. In puerperal convulsions Ver. v. has only succeeded when nauseating doses have been given. In muscular and articular rheumatism it has been used locally as well as internally; and in chorea an application to the spine of the tincture, diluted with spirit, has proved a serviceable adjunct. Among other indications for Ver. v . are: "Violent pains attending inflammation." "Head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive to sound double or partial vision." Suddenness: Sudden fainting; prostration nausea. A keynote symptom is: Red streak down the centre of the tongue. Ver. v . has a pronounced action on the œsophagus; it causes a sort of ruminating action or reversed peristalsis. Numbness is prominent among the effects of Ver. v . With the 30th I cured a man, 56, of these symptoms: Dim sight as if scales over it; numbness; pain in head as if a tight band were round it; rush of blood to head; sleeplessness. Peculiar Sensations are: Confused feeling in head as if head would burst. As if boiling water poured over parts. Tongue as if scalded. As if a ball rising into œsophagus. As if stomach tightly drawn against spine. As of a load on chest. As if ankles distorted. As of galvanic shocks in limbs. As if damp clothing on arms and legs. Ver. v . is Suited to full-blooded, plethoric persons. Dreaming about water is a characteristic which I have confirmed. The symptoms are: > By rubbing. > By pressure (pain in head). Motion < . Sudden motion = faintness and blindness. Rising < . Walking < ; = blindness. Lying < (headache, breathing, &c.); > faintness and blindness. Closing eyes and resting head > vertigo. < Going from warm to cold. < After exposure. The least food vomiting. < Morning on waking; also evening.

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Stupefaction ; congestion.
Mental confusion, loos of memory ; vertigo. θ Cerebral hyperemia.
From sudden cerebral congestion : quarrelsome delirium ; great mental depression and fear of death ; semi-stupor, sometimes complete coma ; puerperal convulsions ; insanity.
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.
Loquacity, with exaltation of ideas, or an exalted opinion of her own ideas and powers ; everything seems clear to her ; now clearly understands former mysterious things ; wants no medicine, as that will restore her to former condition ; at
times tlaks and laughs ; some days laughter is constant ; talks long about one thing ; persists in talking and will pay no attention to what is said to her ; will not answer questions ; knows all that is going on about house, does not want anything said that she
cannot hear ; lies in bed and does not want to get up long enought to get clothes changed ; says head feels bad ; eyes red, vision not affected ; appetite poor, or capricious ; bowels torpid ; limbs cold and moist ; pulse small and frequent. θ Insanity.

Sunstroke, with prostration, febrile motion, accelerated pulse.
Headache, with vertigo, dimness of vision and dilated vessels.
Head felt full and heavy.
Vertigo : with nausea ; with vomiting as soon as he rises.

Frontal headache : severe ; with vomiting ; dull, with neuralgic pain in right temple, close to eye.
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 ears ; double or partial vision. θ Sunstroke.
Great pain, with fulness in head ; face much flushed ; burning in head ; spots`before eyes ; delirium or a kind of stupefaction.
Congestive headache from suppression of menses ; intense congestion, almost apoplectic, accompanied by violent nausea and vomiting.
Nervous or sick-headaches.
Intense cerebral congestion : feeling as if head would burst open ; with nausea and vomiting ; sudden spasms ; from plethora, vascular irritation, coup de soleil, alcoholic stimulants, teething in children, and from suppressed discharges ; weight or distension of
head ; giddiness ; intense headache ; fulness and throbbing of arteries ; stupefaction ; increased sensitiveness to sounds, with buzzing, roaring, etc., and double vision.
Constrictive pain in head, increased by warm drinks.
Congestive apoplexy ; intense headache ; stupid, ringing in ears, bloodshot eyes, thick speech, hot head ; slow, full pulse, hard as iron ; convulsions ; dimness of vision, nausea and vomiting.
Cerebro-spinal congestion.
Acute inflammatory meningitis.
Meningitis ; high fever, intense congestion, later rolling of head or vomiting ; face haggard, cold, pulse slow ; breathing labored ; trembling, as if child were frightened and on verge of spasms.
Cerebro-spinal disease ; pulse quick and wiry ; pupils dilated ; muscles of back and neck contracted, drawing head back on shoulders ; delirium ; spasmodic cough ; finally tetanic convulsions every five or ten minutes, for five days ;
opisthotonus ; cold, clammy sweat over body.
Cerebro-spinal disease in a child ; burning fever, frequent vomiting, cries out on attempt to move him, draws head backward, rolls up eyes, puts hand back of ears, rolls head from side to side, pulse wiry, rapid, 150 ; spinal column pungently hot and dry, with petechiæ.
A child, æt. 3 months, very much emaciated, head much enlarged and misshapen, drawn back, from contraction of spinal muscles is compelled to lie on side, eyes rolled upward, rolling of head, moaning and screaming, great heat in back of head and spine, respiration feeble and sighing,
pulse 160 and feeble, watery diarrhœa, urine scanty and high-colored.
Basilar meningitis.
Cerebral irritation : threatening hydrocephalus.

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For full-blooded plethoric persons (Acon.).

Congestions, especially to base of brain, chest, spine and stomach.

Violent pains attending inflammation.

Acute rheumatism, high fever, full, hard, rapid pulse, severe pains in joints and muscles (Bry., Salyc. ac.); scanty, red urine.

Child trembles, jerks, threatened with convulsions; continually jerking or nodding the head.

Nervous or sick headache; congestion from suppressed menses; intense, almost apoplectic, with violent nausea and vomiting.

Congestive apoplexy, hot head, bloodshot eyes, thick speech, slow full pulse, hard as iron.

Convulsions: dim vision; basilar meningitis; head retracted; child on verge of spasms.

Cerebro spinal diseases; with spasms, dilated pupils, tetanic convulsions, opisthotonos; cold, clammy perspiration.

Sunstroke, head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive to sound; double or partial vision (Gels., Glon.).

Veratrum viride should not be given simply to "bring down the pulse" or "control the heart's action," but like any other remedy for the totality of the symptoms.

Remittent; malarial; congestive; malignant; typhoid; continued; yellow. Periodicity not marked; onset sudden and course severe and rapid.

Coldness: of whole body; with nausea; with pale face and cold, clammy skin; aching in back of neck and shoulders.

Intense fever, with cerebral irritation and tendency to spasms; violent pain in back; sleepy during the day; nausea at stomach, or vomiting and black diarrhœa; face hot, flushed; great weakness of lower extremities and marked prostration.

Profuse, cold, clammy; vomiting, with a cold sweat on the pale face.

Yellow fever: fever intense, with pains in nape and occiput, vascular and nervous erethism, with spasms or threatened convulsions; continued gastric nausea; vomiting and cold sweat on face; sudden changes in pulse and violent throbbing in left chest.

Typhoid: temperature, 103–106; pulse, 120–140; violent occi- pital headache; boring head into pillow, jerking head backward and forward; twitching of facial muscles; dropping of lower jaw; picking of bedclothes; stool and urine involuntary.

White or yellow with red streak down the mid- dle; dry, moist, white or yellow coating, or no coating on either side; feels scalded (Sang.).

Suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal; slow, soft, weak; irregular, intermittent (Dig).

In congestive, pernicious intermittent or yellow fever, with extreme coldness, thirst; face cold and collapsed; skin cold and clammy, great prostration; cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face.

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.

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.

Severe frontal headache, with vomiting.

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.

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

Profuse secretion of mucus from the nose.

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.

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

Dentition; cerebral congestion, excited pulse; convulsions.

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

Copious secretion of saliva.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Morning: 20.

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

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.

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

Rubbing relieves pains and itching.

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.

Full-blooded, plethoric.

Ver. vir. cured spasms from strychnine.

A tincture is made of the fresh root.

It is a powerful respiratory poison, producing asphyxia; it paralyzes the heart and vasomotor centres and causes a low temperature (cold sweat and collapse). ▶ In large doses it produces convulsions. ▶ It excites vomiting, but not purging unless given in toxic doses.

Bell., Hyos., Coccul., Ferr., Phos.

Tremor. ▶ Inability to control voluntary muscles. ▶ Spasm, with shrieks, body bent backward, arm rigid and thrown over head, face dark blue, breathing suspended spasm repeated. ▶ Pains flying about in temple and left trochanter major; in second joint of right index, then in right angle of lower jaw, then in left heel, then in middle of left neck, then in right heel and left knee; in left humerus just above elbow, soon changing to region of left nipple, then to middle of left humerus, then to left shoulder-joint, amel. 9 P.M. by eating; in different parts between 5 and 6 P.M., in left chest, right shoulder over clavicle, in head of left tibia and three or four inches above the same, in tendons of right popliteal space, in outside of right arm and left ulna, right wrist, head of left radius, back of first joint of left middle finger and second phalanx of left great toe. ▶ Distress.

Clothes would not fit me, seemed as if they scratched me somewhere and I could not relieve myself, constant twitching of different parts from trying to relieve the rubbing sensation; agg. sitting. ▶ Obliged to grasp the rails for support when walking. ▶ Muscular action interrupted after walking or jumping. ▶ Weakness; at 1 P.M., with trembling; with heavy pain in head; sudden. ▶ Faintness; on rising suddenly from reclining, with pallor. ▶ Stiffness of voluntary muscles, agg. temporal and extensors of head. ▶ Aggravation in morning on waking; in afternoon and evening. ▶ Amelioration from hot, strong coffee.

Inflammatory rheumatism. ▶ Effects of sunstroke. ▶ Most violent convulsions; epilepsy; hysteria; hystero-epilepsy; chorea, with violent congestion. ▶ Threatening tetanus. ▶ Has been used for poisoning by opium.

Furious delirium, with screaming, howling and striking. ▶ Delirium, with incessant muttering, dilated pupils, red streak down the tongue, etc.

▶ Delirious; and quarrelsome, striking and kicking with right hand and foot (Hyosc.), at times these movements appeared involuntary, the delirium became happy and comical. ▶ Fear of death. ▶ Though it probable that I should die, but was not alarmed. ▶ Depression and prostration. ▶ Stupor when not vomiting. ▶ Lethargy between the vomiting spells, with slow and difficult respiration. ▶ Unconsciousness.

Aching; at 4 P.M.; with full, heavy feeling in eyes; (with vomiting every ten or fifteen minutes); which stopped at temples and took a diagonal course across head; (central congestive), agg. noise and motion; heavy, with occasional painful throbbing in temples; heavy, at 7 P.M., with weakness, agg. lower limbs. ▶ Confusion; in afternoon and evening. ▶ Fulness in morning, with heaviness; (F. and congested feeling, with pain in forehead and nausea). ▶ Queer feeling. ▶ Vertigo; in morning on rising (Phos.); in morning, amel. closing eyes and resting head, with photophobia (Bell.); on rising from bed, with vomiting (Coccul.); on rising from a seat or bed; with nausea (Coccul.); with nausea, then heat of surface; in attacks, with nausea and pain in bowels.

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Asphyxia.
Paralysis of the heart and vaso-motor centres, with low temperature, cold sweat and collapse.
From large doses, convulsions, vomiting, but rarely purging.

Furious delirium, quarrelsome, striking and kicking and screaming; or with incessant muttering.

Fullness in the head, with heaviness.
Vertigo in the morning on rising, with photophobia, with vomiting.

Clinical:
Intense congestive headache, with pulsating, double vision, numbness of the limbs, nausea and vomiting.

Dim vision, with dilated pupils.
Loss of vision, with faintness on rising up suddenly.

Humming, with sensitiveness to noise.

Flushed.
Lips and mouth dry.

Tongue red in the centre; feels scalded; or coated at base.
Red, dry strip through the centre of the tongue, with bloated, livid face.

Burning and dryness in the throat, with inclination to swallow.

Thirst, especially in the morning, with nausea.
Hiccough, with spasms of the upper part of the œsophagus.
Nausea somewhat > eating and empty eructations.
Vomiting, with cold sweat, in the morning on rising.
Twisting tearing pains in the stomach and abdomen.

Pain, particularly just above the pelvis, with soreness.

Clinical:
Os uteri rigid during labor, with flushed face, full pulse, dry mouth.
Pelvic congestion or inflammation, with tenderness, fever, puerperal fever, even convulsions.
Suppressed menstruation, with congestion of the head.
Dysmenorrhœa.

Difficult, convulsive breathing, amounting to suffocation.
A feeling of rush of blood to the lungs.

Clinical:
Bronchitis.
Pulmonary congestion or inflammation, with livid face, dry tongue, full, hard or irregular pulse, cold sweat at times.
Inflammations about the heart, with the above symptoms.

Flying pains in the joints (occasionally indicated in arthritic inflammations, with the peculiar symptoms of the drug).

Clinical:
Erysipelas, particularly of the head and face, with delirium, dry tongue and mouth.

Coldness, with clammy sweat.
General feeling of congestion; fever.
Cold sweat, with weakness.

Ver. v. / (2d V.) / Vesta.

Veratrum viride,-We find
Thy fevers are of a varied kind.
And every itis of thy fleet,
Attended with excessive heat,
And rapid pulse, with breathing slow,
And spasms of promiscuous show,
And mania that may obtain
From blood compression on the brain.
Pneumonia thou cutteth short,
Any bleeding of pulmonic sort.
With all thy enteric ails,
A tympanitic state prevails.
Thy tongue is yellow, with a shine
Of red along the central line.
Thy ailments worse on waking are,
From motion, sitting up and jar.

Vesta,-Has excessive heat.

Vesta Pyro, the belle of Carbola, is with her brother, Jo Moss, at Antifeb's.

This Vesta,- Who is subject to rapid pulse,-Is up at Jo Tartar's, with the negro, Job.

Excessive Heat - Hyper-pyrexia: Verat. v., Pyrogen., Bell., Carbol. a., Brom., Iod., Mos. (Antifeb. 10grs.)

Rapid Pulse: Verat. v., Pod., Iod., Tart. e., Hell., Aco., Bell. (Trembling pulse, Hell., Tart. e.)

Indicated in violent congestion with venous delirium, intense headache, full and hard pulse, high temperature and livid face; in pelvic and other forms of congestion, with the same high arterial pressure and temperature; in inflammation involving the brain and other organs (oesophagus, peritonium, heart, respiratory organs), with the same type of accompanying symptoms. It is well adapted to plethoric persons.

Great arterial excitement, with very high temperature.

Violent cerebral congestion with threatening convulsions.

Pulse full, slow, hard as iron; or rapid, feeble, thready.

Face bloated, livid.

Jerking and twitching (head), as though on the verge of convulsions.

Tickling, spasmodic cough; convulsive, suffocating difficulty of breathing.