Veratrum Album verat.

NERVES: ABDOMINAL. Heart. Blood-vessels. Vertex. Blood. Respiratory and digestive systems.

EXERTION. DRINKING. Cold drinks. Fright. During pain. Wet cold.

Hot drinks. Walking about. Covering. Lying.

VIOLENT EFFECTS; PROFOUND PROSTRATION, COLD SWEAT ON FOREHEAD, FAINTNESS OR COLLAPSE. SUDDEN, EXCESSIVE EVACUATIONS. Cramps; in chest, bowels, fingers, toes, etc.; with rigidity. Progressive weakness and emaciation; in acute diseases, eg., whooping cough, ague, etc.

Delirium; early; with violence, loquacity or lewdness; during pain. Prays, curses and howls in turn. Acute manias, insanities, etc. Remorse. Loss of ideation. Sits in silence. Melancholia. Overpowering headache. Hair bristles; painful. Face; deathly pale on rising; bluish, pinched or distorted; frowning; terrified look. Red l. cheek, as if burnt. Jaws cramp on chewing. Heaviness in teeth. Burning thirst. Craves ice water or sour drinks. Vomits or eructates froth. EXCESSIVE VOMITING, WITH PURGING; violent retching, cutting colic, cramps in limbs and rapid prostration. Cholera; morbus, infantum, etc. Painful epigastrium. Watery, green, odorless or colorless (rice water) stool, or in large masses. Nymphomania. The air seems too hot. Dyspnœa. Tickling down throat, into lungs. Continuous, violent cough; with retching; < cold drinks. Neglected pertussis, with complications. Aphonia. Heart; cuttings at; weak; visible palpitation. Fine burnings, in arms; r. to left. Cramps in calves; during stool (Ap. Sec-c.); between scapulæ, etc. > motion. Skin feels scorched. Awakes at night trembling. Thready pulse. GENERAL COLDNESS (icy); on vertex; of nose; in mouth; of waterbrash; limbs, sweat, etc. Blood seems to run cold or internal heat with cold (wrinkled) surface. Fevers showing external coldness only. Congestive chill.

Complementary: Carb-v. Related: Ars. Cam. Cup. Cyanides. Tab.

For children and old people; the extremes of life; persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; young people of a nervous sanguine temperament. Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse. Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab.); with nearly all complaints. Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk. Thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered. Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clother (Taran.); with lewd, lascivious talk, amorous or religious (Hyos., Stram.). Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carbo v., Sulph.); excessive weakness. Sinking feeling during haemorrhage (fainting, Trill.). Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness (Sep.); as of heat and cold at same time on scalp; as if brain were torn to pieces. Face: pale, blue, collapsed; features sunkden, hippocratic; red while lying, becomes pale on rising up (Acon.). Thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold. Craving for acids or refreshing things (Phos. ac.). Ice coldness: of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms, and many other parts. Cold feeling in abdomen (Colch., Tab.). Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea. Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration: < by drinking (Ars.); by least motion (Tab.); great weakness after. Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives. Cholera: vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, watery, gushing, prostrating; after fright (Acon.). Diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after (Ars., Tab.). Constipation: no desire; stool large, hard (Bry., Sulph.); in round, black balls (Chel., Op., Plb.); from inactive rectum; frequent desire felt in epigastrium (Ign. - in rectum, Nux); painful, of infants and children, after Lyc., and Nux. Dysmenorrhoea: with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat (Amm. c., Bov.); is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at each menstrual nisus (Alum., Carbo an., Coc.). Bad effects of opium eating, tabacco chewing. Pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting worse from warmth of bed, better by continued walking. In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, face cold and collapsed; skin cold and clammy, great prostration; cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face.

After: Ars., Arn., Cinch., Cup., Ipec. After Camph. in cholera and cholera morbus. After Amm. c., Carbo v. and Bov., in dysmenorrhoea with vomiting and purging.

From least motion; after drinking; before and during menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright. Often removes bad effects of excessive use of alcohol and tabacco.

We may think of this remedy where there is a marked debility or exhaustion from functional or physical disturbance--as e.g., in whooping cough, patient will cough until completely exhausted and then have a cold perspiration on the forehead, or there may be a great exhaustion obliging one to lie down after the passage of stool, even though it be soft, with cold sweat on the forehead.

Affections of the mind in general; tired of life, but fear to die; amativeness; haughtiness; delirium; madness; sensitiveness; memory weak, or entirely lost.

Respiration oppressed; voice hollow; weak.

Extreme hunger; longing for acids; craving for refreshing things, as juicy fruits, etc., and very cold; water tastes bitter; extreme nausea, causing one to retch and strain with great violence, sometimes with vomiting, sometimes not; vomiting of bile; of bitter substances; greenish.

Diarrhœa watery, particularly with exhaustion after every stool, worse from motion, cold sweat on the forehead, desire for very cold drinks; stool involuntary; complaints before stool, during, and after.

Female: Sexual desire too strong, particularly in childbed; worse at night; nymphomania; complaints during menstruation, as e.g., vomiting and diarrhœa which may occur at those times.

External coldness of the skin even when covered up warmly; chilliness and coldness in general; coldness of single parts. Perspiration in general; complaints concomitant with; pulse very weak or imperceptible.

Affections in general of the sexual organs, principally on right side; on crown of the head, especially for sensations felt there; appearing in the rear of the navel; small of the back.

Countenance is almost always changed, presenting an unnatural appearance. Dry mouth. Inguinal hernia. Flatus in general; flatulent colic. Urine very dark; blackness of outer parts; staggering when walking, from debility; drowsiness; dry exanthema.

After drinking; before and during menstruation; before and during stool (feel very weak and turn pale during stool); often after stool; during perspiration.

Acon., Bellad., Chamom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Camphor, best; Acon., China, Coffea.

Religious mania; praying, cursing and howling; loquacious. Attacks of pain with delirium, or driving to madness. Coldness on the vortex, as if ice were lying there. Cold perspiration on face, especially on forehead; particularly in colic and choleric conditions. Nose grows pointed, seems to be longer; face cold and sunken. Violent colic about the navel, as if intestines were twisted in a knot; better after stool. Dysmenorrhoea with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat. Neck so weak child can scarcely keep it erect, especially in whooping cough. Difficult walking, first right, then left hipjoint feels paralytic. Rheumatic pains in wet weather, getting worse in warmth of bed, better on walking up and down.

White Hellebore

A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. "Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk.

Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. Puerperal mania. Aimless wandering from home. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things (Tarant). Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night.

Contracted features. Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, pale face. Neck too weak to hold head up.

Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without luster. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy.

Features sunken. Icy coldness of tip of nose and face. Nose grows more pointed. Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes. Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.

Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint. Dry in center not relieved by water. Salty saliva. Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.

Voracious appetite. Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion. Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt. Anguish in pit of stomach. Great weakness after vomiting. Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food.

Sinking and empty feeling. Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen. Pain in abdomen preceding stool. Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if hernia would protrude (Nux). Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.

Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache. Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather. Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat. Diarrhœa, very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration. Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging.

Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. Coarse rales. Chronic bronchitis in the aged (Hippozanin). Loud barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse, warm room. Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face. Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing. Cough on entering warm room from cold air (Bryonia).

Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration. Pulse irregular, feeble. Tobacco heart from chewing. Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction. One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses (J. S. Mitchell).

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting. Dysmenorrhœa, with coldness, purging, cold sweat. Faints from least exertion. Sexual mania precedes menses.

Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica; pains like electric flashes. Cramps in calves. Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic.

Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death. Cold sweat. Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

Chill, with extreme coldness and thirst.

Worse, at night; wet, cold weather. Better, walking and warmth.

Compare: Veratrinum-alkaloid from seeds of Sabadilla.--(electric pains, electric shocks in muscles, fibrillary twitchings); Cholos terrepina (cramps in calves); Camph; Cupr; Ars; Cuprum ars (intermittent, cold, clammy sweat); Narcissus poeticus (gastro-enteritis with much griping and cutting pain in bowels. Fainting, trembling, cold limbs, small and irregular pulse); Trychosanthes--(diarrhœa, pain in liver, dizziness after every stool); Agaric emetic (vertigo; longing for ice-cold water; burning pains in stomach); Agaric phalloides (cholera, cramps in stomach, cold extremities, urine suppressed). Veratrine (Increased vascular tension. It relaxes it and stimulates the elimination of toxins by skin, kidneys, and liver).

First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhœa, not below the sixth.

Collapse, with general coldness and cold sweat, especially on forehead; hippocratic face.

Mania, with desire to cut and tear things, with lewdness, lascivious talk, religious or amorous.

Disposed to silence, but if irritated gets mad. Scolds, calls names and talks of faults of others.

Rice water stools, profuse, exhausting, cramps in calves, coldness, collapse.

Rheumatic affections < in damp weather; drives patient out of bed.

The pains are maddening, driving the patient to delirium.

Copiousness of discharges: stools, vomiting, urine, saliva, sweat; craving for acids or refreshing things.

Here is a remedy that has a characteristic "Cold sweat on the forehead ". It makes no difference whether it is cholera, cholera infantum, pneumonia, asthma, typhoid fever or constipation; if this symptom is prominently present, and the patient is in anything like a faint, collapse, or greatly prostrated condition, Veratrum album is the first remedy to think of. It is one of Hahnemann's trio of remedies for Asiatic cholera, Camphor and Cuprum metallicum being the other two; and today his indications for its use stand as true as when he first gave them to the profession. It abides the test because it is founded upon a natural law of cure, which is the same "yesterday, today, and forever."

Veratrum, alb. has some very strong mind symptoms. "Mania with desire to cut and tear things especially clothes, with lewdness and lascivious talk, religious or amorous."

Here the choice will sometimes have to be made between this remedy and Stramonium. They are both very loquacious, and both strongly religious. Also both at times very violent; but the face of Stramonium is generally very red and bloated, while that of Veratrum is likely to be pale, sunken or hippocratic; again, there is greater general weakness with Veratrum. Sometimes the violent form of mania alternates with a "disposition to silence," but if irritated gets mad, scolds, calls names and talks of the faults of others. These forms of mania are often consequent upon suppressed menses or the puerperal state. They may be acute or become chronic. In either case we may find the cure in Veratrum album.

If we were to describe in one word the general condition, as near as possible, for which this remedy was best, it would be collapse. Let me quote: "Rapid sinking of forces; complete prostration; cold sweat and cold breath." "Skill blue, purple, cold, wrinkled, remaining in folds when pinched". "Face hippocratic; nose pointed." "Whole body icy cold." "Cold skin, face cold, back cold." "Hands icy cold." "Feet and legs icy cold." (Icy coldness of surface, covered with cold sweat, Tabacum.) "Cramps in calves." All these are verified symptoms, and show to what an extreme degree of collapse a case may come and yet be cured. This condition may be found in rapidly progressing, acute cases like cholera, or it may be found in suppressed exanthemata; or, again, in the course of bronchitis, pneumonia, typhoid or intermittent fever. No matter where found, or in connection with whatever disease, if this collapse is present, and especially if the grand keynote, "cold sweat on face and forehead," is present, we may give this remedy with full confidence that it will do all that can be done and much more than the old school system of stimulation with alcoholics. In choleraic diseases Camphor comes nearest to Veratrum, but with Veratrum the stools are profuse and like rice-water, while they are scanty or entirely absent with Camphor. The pains of Veratrum are very severe sometimes, driving the patient to delirium. It is said to be a good remedy for rheumatism, which is worse in wet weather and which drives the patient out of bed (Ferrum met.). Veratrum is a remedy of wide range, because it covers a condition which may be found in so many different diseases.

Insanity, he wants to out up every thing. Melancholy, depressed, the head hangs down, he sits down thoughtlessly. Great despair and hopelessness of life. Mental anxiety and pangs of conscience, as if he had done something sinful. Restlessness, much occupied. Persevering refusal to talk ; if he does he scolds, and the voice is weak and scarcely audible. Loquaciousness, he talks rapidly. Attacks of rage, with swearing, inclination to run away, tearing things. Delirium, religious or exalted. Imaginary diseases ; thinks herself pregnant, or that she will be delivered soon. Mental disorders, with lechery and obscene talk.

Vertigo, with cold perspiration on the forehead. Coldness in and on the vertex, as if ice were lying on it, with icy-cold feet and nausea ; worse when rising from the bed ; better from external pressure, and when bending the head backwards. Sensation of soreness of the head, with nausea. Heaviness of the whole head. Headache, with stiffness of the neck and profuse micturition. Headache, with nausea and vomiting. Great sensitiveness of the hair. Cold perspiration of the forehead.

Eyes fixed, watery, sunken, with loss of lustre. The eyeballs are turned upwards. Pressing in the eyes. Heat in the eyes. Lachrymation, with dryness in the eyes and of the lids. The eyes look yellow or blue. Blindness at night. Trembling of the upper eyelids. Paralysis of the eyelids.

Hardness of bearing ; as if the ears were stopped up.

Icy coldness of the nose. Smell before the nose as from manure, or from smoke. Painful sensation of dryness in the nose. Frequent sneezing.

Face pale, bluish, cold, disfigured, death-like. Blue or green circles around the eyes. The face is red while lying in bed, but becomes pale as soon as he rises. Cold perspiration on the face, especially on the forehead. Spasms of muscles when masticating. Lock-jaw. Lips wrinkled, pale or black, and cracked. Grinding of the teeth.

Toothache, with pain in the head and red, swollen face. Burning in the mouth and throat. Dryness and stickiness in the mouth. Salivation, with nausea and sharp, salty taste. Tongue red and swollen ; or dry, black and cracked ; or coated yellow ; or cold and withered. Stuttering ; speechlessness. Froth before the mouth. The throat feels constricted, as by a pressing swelling. Sensation of coldness or burning in the throat. Dryness in the throat, not relieved by drinking.

Violent, unquenchable thirst, especially for cold water. Voracious appetite ; appetite hunger between the paroxysms of vomiting. Strong desire for acids and refreshing things. Aversion to warm food. Bitter taste in the mouth. Cool sensation in the mouth, as from peppermint. After the least food, vomiting and diarrhœa. Violent empty eructations ; sour or bitter eructations. Nausea, with sensation of fainting generally, with violent thirst. Violent vomiting with continuous nausea ; great prostration. Vomiting of food, of acid, bitter, foamy, white, or yellow-green mucus. Vomiting of black bile and blood. Vomiting, with diarrhœa and pressure in the pit of the stomach. While vomiting the abdomen is painfully contracted. Vomiting whenever he moves or drinks. Nausea with violent thirst, salivation and increased flow of urine. Great sensitiveness of the stomach and pit of the stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach. Great sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch. Cutting in the abdomen, as with knives. Burning in the abdomen, as from hot coals. Bloated, hard abdomen. Flatulent colic with loud rumbling in the abdomen. Inguinal hernia.

Constipation, as from inactivity of the rectum ; stool hard, of too large a size. Unsuccessful urging to stool. Watery, greenish diarrhœa, mixed with flakes. Blackish diarrhœa. Insensible discharge of thin stool (while passing flatulence). Fainting during stool. During stool, paleness of the face, cold sweat on the forehead, burning at the anus.

Suppressed urinary secretion. Continuous urging to urinate. Involuntary flow of urine. Dark-red urine, discharged frequently, but in small quantities. Green urine. Frequent micturition, with violent thirst and hunger, headache, nausea, colic, constipation and coryza.

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Suppressed menstruation. On the appearance of the menstruation, diarrhœa, nausea and chilliness. Before the menstruation, headache, vertigo, bleeding of the nose and night-sweat. During the menstruation, morning headaches, nausea, ringing in the ears, thirst and pain in all the limbs. At the end of the menstruation, grinding of the teeth and bluish face. Suppressed lochia (and secretion of milk), with delirium. Nymphomania of lying-in women.

Cold breath. Difficult respiration ; dyspnœa. Suffocative attacks, caused by a constriction in the larynx, or in the chest. Painful spasmodic constriction of the chest. Hoarseness. Dry cough, from tickling in lower bronchia. Deep, hollow cough, as from the abdomen, with cutting pain in the stomach ; expectoration yellow, tough, bitter or salt only during the day. Hooping-cough. Stitches in the sides of the chest, worse when coughing. Attacks of cough are worse in the morning, or in the evening till midnight ; when catering a warm room from the cold air ; in the warm room ; when getting warm in bed ; from eating and drinking, especially cold things (water) ; when the child cries ; in the spring (or fall). Violent, visible, anxious palpitation of the heart.

Paralytic weakness of the muscles of the neck, they will not support the head. Back and small of the back feel sore and bruised. Tension, like cramp, below the shoulder-blades.

Upper. Sensation of coldness and fulness, with heaviness in the arms. Tingling in the hands and fingers. The hands go to sleep and feel like dead. Icy coldness and blueness of the hands. Lower. Cramps in the calves. Painful heaviness in the knees and lower legs. Sudden swelling of the feet. Trembling of the feet, with coldness, as if of cold water running in them. Stitches in the (big) toes.

Sudden sinking of strength. Continuous weakness and trembling. Numbness and tingling in the extremities. Paralytic pains in the limbs. Rheumatic pains, worse from the heat of the bed ; better after rising, and entirely disappearing on walking about. Attacks of fainting from the least exertion. Inflammation of inner organs, especially those of digestion. Shocks in the limbs, as from electric sparks. Spasms, with convulsive motions of the limbs. Violent tonic spasms ; the palms of the hands and soles of the feet are spasmodically drawn inward. Tetanic stiffness of the body. Sporadic and Asiatic cholera.

Somnolency, with half consciousness (coma vigil). Long, uninterrupted, heavy sleep. Sleep with thirst and diuresis. Nightly anxiety and sleeplessness.

Pulse irregular, generally small, thread-like, weak, and slow ; often it cannot be felt at all. The blood runs like cold water through the veins. Chilliness and coldness, mostly externally, with internal heat and cold, clammy perspiration. Shaking chill with perspiration soon changing to general coldness. Chilliness and coldness predominate, and run from below upwards. Chill aggravated by drinking. Icy coldness of the whole body. Heat only internal, with thirst, but without desire to drink. Heat in the evening, with perspiration. Heat suddenly alternating with chilliness. Violent perspiration in the morning, in the evening, or all night, as well as during every stool. Cold, sour or putrid perspiration, sometimes coloring the linen yellow, always with deathly paleness of the face. Cold perspiration over the whole body, mostly on the forehead. Perspires easily during the day from slight exertion. Intermittent fever. External coldness, with dark urine and cold perspiration, desire for cold drinks, and chill with nausea ; afterwards heat with unquenchable thirst, delirium, redness of the face, constant slumber ; finally perspiration without thirst, and very pale countenance.

Color of the skin blue, purple color, and cold. The elasticity of the skin is lost, the folds remain in the state into which the skin has been pressed. Dry eruptions, like itch. Desquamation of indurated or thickened portions of the skin. Pyæmia.

The attacks of pain cause for a short time delirium and mania. The pains in the limbs are aggravated by the heat of the bed, by wet-cold weather, and are relieved by rising and walking about. After fright, involuntary stools with icy coldness of the body. Aggravation; after drinking ; during perspiration ; after sleep ; before and during stool ; from wrapping oneself up warmly. Amelioration; from uncovering the head ; after perspiration.

Veratrum album. White-flowered Veratrum. White Hellebore. N. O. Melanthaceæ (of the Liliaceæ). Tincture of the root-stocks collected (in the Alps and Pyrenees) early in June before flowering.

Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Anasarca. Angina pectoris. Apoplexy. Asthma. Bronchitis. Cholera asiatica. Cholerine. Colic . Collapse. Constipation . Coprophagia. Cramps. Debility . Diaphragm, affections of. Diarrhœa . Dysmenorrhœa. Emphysema. Epilepsy. Fainting. Gastric catarrh. General paralysis. Headache; sick; nervous. Hernia. Hydrocephaloid. Hysteria. Influenza. Intermittent fever . Intussusception. Labour, constipation after . Lips, cracked. Liver, hyperæmia of. Lock-jaw. Lungs, œdema of. Mania . Measles. Mendacity. Melancholia . Meningitis. Menstruation, nausea before; diarrhœa before . Neuralgia, palpebralis. Nyctalopia. Œsophagus, stricture of. Peritonitis. Pernicious fevers. Plica polonica. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, imaginary. Ptosis. Pyæmia. Rheumatism. Salivation. Scarlatina. Sleep, whining in . Spleen, swollen. Sternum. Throat . Toothache. Typhoid fever. Vertigo. Water-brash . Whooping-cough. Yellow fever.

In his Helleborism of the Ancients , Hahnemann showed that Verat. alb . was the principal agent used at Anticyra and other places in Greece to produce the evacuations which were regarded as an essential of the "cure." Spring was deemed the most favourable season and autumn the next. Among the diseases in which the treatment was employed were "mental derangements, epilepsy, spasms of the facial muscles, hydrophobia, ptyalism of the pancreas, diseases of the spleens, goître, hidden cancer," &c. (Hahnemann quoted by Teste). Hahnemann says ( M. M. P .) that doubtless many patients were cured, but not a few succumbed to the enormous doses given. These doses he showed were quite unnecessary, when the symptoms of the proving are taken as guides. The "evacuant" use of Ver . gives one of the keynotes for its homœopathic use — its discharges are copious ; copious stools, copious vomiting, copious urine, copious salivation, and copious sweat. The discharges drain the tissues like cholera, in which disease its pathogenetic effects render it one of the first remedies, ranking with Camp . and Cupr . in Hahnemann's trio. The discharges exhaust the vitality as well as the tissues and cause vertigo; blackness before the sight, fainting, collapse: "Rapid sinking of forces; complete prostration; cold sweat and cold breath." "Skin blue, purple, cold, wrinkled; remaining in folds when pinched." "Face hippocratic, nose pointed." "Hands icy cold." "Face and legs icy cold." This coldness is another of the keynotes of Ver . It is one aspect of the fever-producing power of the drug: "Coldness of the whole body." "Coldness running over whole body soon after taking it." "Feeling of internal chill ran through him from head to toes of both feet at once." "Continued rigor in back and over arms." Very characteristic are: Cold feeling in abdomen;" "coldness as of a piece of ice on vertex;" "cold nose;" "face cold and collapsed;" "cold tongue;" and most characteristic of all, "cold sweat on forehead." Along with the coldness is blueness of face and extremities. Ver . is like cholera in that coldness predominates in its fever, but it has also "heat and redness of face and hands." With the fever there is apt to be delirium and prolonged sleep. The delirium may develop great intensity and violence: "Fury: tears his clothing; bites her shoes to pieces and swallows the fragments; cursing; stamping; wants to run away; makes a great noise." These and kindred symptoms seem to indicate Ver . in acute affections attended with delirium; and also in cases of mental alienation, which was prominent among the affections treated with the drug by the ancients. Hahnemann says of Ver . that it has the power "to promote a cure of almost one-third of the insane in lunatic asylums (at all events as a homœopathic intermediate remedy)." One of the symptoms taken by Hahnemann from Grading is this: "He swallows his own excrement," which Goullon has verified ( Z. Berl. V. H. A ., xix. 156): a child had a craze for eating its own fæces, or dung lying in the street. Ver . 2., thrice daily, cured in a month. The mania of Ver . may be of the exalted kind, religious or sexual. Imagines she is pregnant and will soon be delivered; nymphomania; puerperal mania; mania for kissing everybody have been cured by Ver . Generally there will be collateral Ver . symptoms to confirm the choice: coldness, blueness, collapse, fainting, vomiting, or diarrhœa. Ver . is a great fainting remedy. There is fainting from emotions, from the least exertion, from retching, from stool. Sinking feeling during hæmorrhage. The gastric conditions are characterised by extreme hunger; craving for cold food and refreshing things; thirst for ice-cold water. This last is very characteristic, and appears in the chill and heat of fever. The copiousness of the stools distinguishes Ver . from Camph . The evacuations are apt to be green , vomit, stool, urine. The characteristic diarrhœa of Ver . is: frequent, greenish, gushing; mixed with flakes; cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during stool and prostration after. "Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhœa "is a keynote of Ver . The constipation of Ver . is no less characteristic: no desire; stools large, hard; in round black balls; from inactive rectum; frequent desire felt in epigastrium; painful of infants and children; of women after confinement. Ver . is a great pain producer, and the pains of its neuralgias (dysmenorrhœa, migraine) are often accompanied by diarrhœa, vomiting, cold sweat, fainting, or prostration. This case was reported in P. C. J. H . (vii. 150): Prosopalgia, right-sided, kept an anæmic woman awake and in misery for several days and nights from the crushing paroxysmal pain, causing sweating and prostration. Ver . cured at once. E. F. Watts ( A. H ., xxi., 317) had this case: Mrs. C. had severe nervous headaches for years. Any over-exertion, as riding or working on hot days, would excite them. They frequently began in occiput, settling sometimes in one eye sometimes in the other. Spi . and Sil . gave no relief. One day Watts noticed that the brow contracted and eyelids nearly closed with the intensity of the pain. Ver . was now given and relieved at once. Gee ( M. A ., xxv. 22) cured this case with one dose of Ver . 200: Mrs. L., widow, 43, had sciatica four years. Pain sharp, transient, darting upwards and downwards and from both sides to centre. Heat < ; "the cooler the better." Cold sweat with the attacks. Headache from both temples to base of brain < by heat. Vertex itches during attacks. Pain compels her to move about, but no > from motion. The cramps of Ver . are part of its general convulsant properties. The convulsions of Ver . may be tetanic, with lockjaw, or epileptic. The eyes are particularly convulsed or the lids paralysed. There may be vanishing of sight or sparks before the sight or night-blindness. Dryness and burning are leading sensations as in other parts. Dryness is felt in nose, mouth, palate, throat. Ver . has a sharp action on the respiratory organs and has cured many cases of pneumonia when the mental and other symptoms of Ver . have been present. A leading local symptom is tickling : Tickling deep in trachea and bronchi. "Tickling in chest, as if it would provoke cough, in middle of sternum." This symptom helped me to the remedy in the following case: Mrs. W. 30, had much pain inside throat. Painful ulcer in mouth. Throat sore and inclined to be ulcerated. Tickling all over inside of chest and throat ; outside tender. No pain on swallowing. Has had cold and cough some time, cough hurts chest. Stan . had no effect. Ver . 1m thrice daily gradually removed all symptoms. Ver . meets cardiac debility, following acute diseases; pulse thread-like; faints in morning; face red when lying down or sitting up, deadly pale; hands cold, clammy. Ver . is Suited to ( 1 ) the extremes of life — children and old people; ( 2 ) lean, choleric, or melancholy persons; ( 3 ) young people and women of a sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament (of mountaineers. — Teste); ( 4 ) people who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; ( 5 ) persons of gay disposition; ( 6 ) of fitful mood; ( 7 ) anæmic persons. Peculiar Sensations are: As if pregnant or in throes of child-birth. As if he had a bad conscience, or had committed a crime. As if in a dream. As if things whirled in a circle. As if a lump of ice on vertex. Burning in brain. As if head would burst. As if heat and cold at same time on scalp. Hair as if electrified. Eyelids as if rubbed sore. As if inner surface of lids too dry. As if hundreds of fine needle-points were thrust into eyelids. As if ears were stopped. As if alternate current of cold and warm air coming out of ear. As if nose dry. As if teeth were filled with lead. As if tongue too heavy. As of dust in throat. As if mouth lined with mucus. As if something alive running from stomach into throat. As from ravenous hunger, pain in stomach. Radiating pain from abdomen. Distress over heart and epigastrium. Sinking, empty feeling in abdomen. As of knives cutting bowels. As of hot coals in abdomen. Pinching as with pincers in abdomen. As if intestines twisted into a knot. As if cold water running through veins. Arms as if bruised or broken. As if bones of l. forearm were pressed. As if arms too full and swollen, feel cold when raising them. As if hands had been asleep. As if a heavy stone were tied to feet and knees. Limbs pain as if exhausted by excessive fatigue. As if she would have to fly away. Electric pains occur in various parts. The symptoms are: < By touch; pressure-shock of injury. Slight wounds = fainting. Rest > palpitation. Horizontal position > vomiting, cough, and general condition. Stooping < headache; = rush of blood to head. Motion < . Throwing back head > asthma. Walking > jerks in limbs; neuralgia of arms and legs; pain in feet and knees. Least exertion = fainting; cough; sweat. < Night; and morning on waking. Warmth < . Hot water < . Drinking < . Cold food and drink < cough. Drinking cold water on a hot day = diarrhœa. < Damp weather. < Change of weather. (Rheumatism < in wet weather which drives patient out of bed. — Nash.) < Sharp, cool air = dry tickling cough. < Before and during menses; before and during stool; after stool; during sweat. < from fright.

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Is conscious only as in a dream.
Stupid from excess in alcoholic drinks.
Fancies herself pregnant, or that she will be delivered soon ; that she is in throes of childbirth. θ Hysterical mania.
Erroneous and haughty notions.
Never speaks the truth ; does not know herself what she is saying.
She is inconsolable over a fancied misfortune, runs about room howling and screaming ; or sits brooding, wailing and weeping ; < in evening ; sleeps only till 2 A. M.
Alternation of laughing and moaning.
Attempts a great many things, but accomplishes nothing.
Rage, with great heat of body ; eats his own feces.
Suicidal tendency from religious despair.
Thinks himself distinguished ; squanders his money ; proud of his position.
For six days no sleep ; sees people about her constantly, speaks to them ; cries out ; sings ; knows nobody, takes no notice of anything ; laughs frequently ; does not answer when talked to ; wants nothing ; passes urine and feces
unconsciously ; no heat of face ; pulse regular ; confined two weeks previously.
After a severe illness, aversion to husband and children ; desire to leave house ; hallucinations, room appeared full of people, crowding in where there was no longer room ; each apparition personating some one in particular, and keeping her company for hours ; she
would both see and converse with forms sitting beside her, nor could she always distinguish semblance from reality.
Attacks of pain with delirium, driving to madness.
Delirium : religious or exalted ; heavy, soporous sleep ; restless, thirsty, cramps in legs, cold sweat, tingling ; irregular pulse ; in cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Slight delirium ; coldness over whole body, open eyes, with cheerful, sometimes laughing expression ; prattles about religious subjects and about vows to be performed, prays, believes that he is not in his own house.
A tendency to violent outbreaks, desire to strike those about him.
Attacks of rage with swearing ; inclination to run away.
A woman, æt. 36, has lectrophilie, red burning face, anxiety, hopelessness, despair, continual moaning and screaming without a cause ; does not eat or drink, is sleepless ; brought on by sexual excitement.
Persistent raging, with great heat of body.
Mania : with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes ; with lewdness and lasciviou talk ; religious or amorous ; degrandeur.
Nymphomania, with violence and destructiveness ; had been disappointed in love ; melancholia ; at times loquacious ; great desire for sexual intercourse ; void of shame ; obscenity ; very troublesome, requiring close
confinement ; had been confined a year in an asylum.
Puerperal mania and convulsions, with violent cerebral congestion ; bluish and bloated face ; protruded eyes ; wild shrieks, with disposition to bite and tear.
Disposed to silence, or to talk about faults of others ; if irritated scolding and calling names.
A desire to wander about house. θ Hysteria.
Chases his family out of house ; declares the sun travels around the earth ; fear of death, restlessness, despair ; foolish actions.
Loquacity, he talks rapidly.
Talks much on religious subjects ; praying ; is overconscientious.
Sleeplessness ; face distorted ; cries ; prays, says it is a secret and a misfortune ; refuses to talk, only motions with hands ; turns hands around in a circle, saying she must strengthen herself, and then motions become more violent ; complains of
dust in throat ; imagines herself in heaven talking with God. θ Mania.
Constant talking, wild expression of eye, constant smiling, at times loud laughter ; distorts face and repulses any one approaching him ; will answer no question ; runs behind table and scolds ; refuses food.
Complete sleeplessness ; talks constantly ; on hearing any sound, as striking of clock, etc., becomes wild, dances about, must be held ; rapid speech.
He groans, is beside himself.
Cursing and howling all night.
Curses all night and complains of stupid feeling with headache and ptyalism.
Roaring and raving, five men could scarcely control her ; tears her clothes ; pale distorted features ; look threatening, wild ; hair dishevelled ; utters sounds more like a beast than a human being ; bites, strikes about her, spits ; body in
constant swaying motion ; murmurs and groans ; takes no notice of questions ; eats nothing ; quite sleepless.
Kisses everybody ; before menses.
Impudent behavior in childbed.
Taciturn ; disinclined to talk, except in delirium.
Cannot bear to be left alone.
Depression and despondency.
Fear and anxiety ; fear takes breath away.
Fearfulness : starts ; with running about and shouting.
Anxious, restless, easily frightened, whining, weeping, apathetic, delirium, blue face. θ Typhoid.
Cold sweat on forehead, with anguish and fear of death.
Unable to rise for eight hours, obliged to either sit or lie ; if he stands he is tormented by fearful anxiety, wherewith forehead becomes covered with cold sweat and he becomes sick to vomiting.
Anxiety as from a bad conscience, as if he had committed a crime.
Anxiety as after committing an evil deed, < evening and after dinner.
A crippled girl fell down suddenly in convulsions, was brought to bed and had a shaking chill ; sat up in semiconscious state, refusing assistance, food or drink ; anxiety with groaning and sighing all night long ; chides her father for
taking part in revolution ; thinks she hears drum which proclaims his execution ; this is followed by silent brooding and occasional starts ; menses checked, abdomen tense, face pale, arms cold, eyes fixed with contracted pupils ; pulse slow and almost imperceptible.
Melancholy, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence.
Religious melancholy or nymphomania, with desire to embrace everybody, even inanimate objects ; much thirst for very cold water ; constantly craving cool and refreshing things. θ Puerperal
mania.
Despair ; hopelessness, loss of courage.
Despair about his position in society, feels very unlucky.
Despair of her salvation ; with suppressed catamenia.
Despair of his recovery ; attempts suicide. θ Mania.
After fright : fear, anxiety ; coldness ; fainting ; involuntary diarrhœa.
Consequences of injured pride or honor. θ Insanity. θ Hysteria.

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You will be astonished at the wonderful coldness running through this remedy.

Hardly a group of symptoms will arise without this accompanying coldness. Coldness of discharges, coldness of the body. You would also wonder at the remarkable prostration attending the various groups of symptoms, complete relaxation and exhaustion, coldness. Profuse sweat, vomiting and diarrhea.

Profuse watery discharges. These conditions occur without apparent provocation. In cholera or cholera morbus, it seems that the fluids run out of the body.

Lies in bed, relaxed prostrated, cold to the finger-tips, with corresponding blueness, fairly purple; lips cold and blue, countenance pinched and shrunken; great sensation of cold ness as if the blood were ice-water; scalp cold; forehead covered with cold sweat; headache and exhaustion; coldness in spots over the body; extremities cold as death. Full of cramps; looks as if he would die.

This state comes out during the menses, during colic with nausea, with mania and violent delirium, with headache, with violent inflammations. Is it any wonder that Hahnemann predicted that Veratrum, Camphor, and Cuprum would become remedies in the cure of cholera; he saw in their nature the ability to cure.

He saw the similitude. In cases of this sort which are characterized by superabundance of cramps, Cuprum is the simillimum. For those with coldness and blueness and scanty sweat, vomiting, and purging, Camphor is the remedy. These are called "dry cholera;" they sink down and die without exhaustive discharges. In proportion as there are coldness, blueness and scanty discharges, Camphor is indicated. In proportion as copiousness, blueness, and coldness are present, Veratrum is indicated. Secale has something of cholera in it. Podo. has exhaustive stools. Ars. anxious restlessness.

The mental symptoms are marked by violence and destructiveness he wants to destroy, to tear something; he tears the clothes from the body.

Always wants to be busy, to carry on his daily work. A cooper who was suffering from the Veratrum insanity would pile up chairs on top of one another. When asked what he was doing, he replied that he was piling up staves. When not occupied with this he was tearing his clothes, or praying for hours on his knees, and so loud that he could be heard blocks away.

Exalted state of religious frenzy, believes he is the risen Christ screams and screeches until he is blue in the face; head cold as ice, cold sweat, reaches out and exhorts to repentance. Exhorts to repent, preaches, howls, sings obscene songs, exposes the person. Fear and the effects of fear; fear of death and of being damned; imagines the world is on fire.

"Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially the clothes, with lewdness and lascivious talk.

Puerperal mania and convulsions, with violent cerebral congestion; bluish and bloated face; protruding eyes; wild shrieks, with disposition to bite and tear.

Loquacity, he talks rapidly.

She is inconsolable over a fancied misfortune; runs around the room howling and screaming or sits brooding, wailing and weeping."

Alternate states of brooding, screaming, and screeching. A few such remedies would empty our insane asylums, especially of recent cases.

Insanity is curable if there are no incurable results of disease. Full of despair and hopelessness with approaching insanity.

"Despair of his recovery, attempts suicide."

Insane people are not hopeless, those approaching insanity are but after they become insane, they think that everybody is crazy except themselves. Those bowed down by great grief and despair are likely to go into a state of violent mania. Veratrum carries them through the state of despair.

"Melancholia, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence."

Young girls go on for years with menstrual difficulties, and preceding each menstrual nisus is a state of despair; never smiles, the world seems blue, everything is dark; these are preparing for a marked state of insanity.

Veratrum is a remedy that would keep many women out of the insane asylum, especially those with uterine troubles. Girls at puberty suffer with dysmenorrhoea, hysterical mental states, diarrhea, and vomiting. During the menses they become cold as death, lips blue, extremities cold and blue, dreadful pains, sensation of sinking, mania to kiss everybody, hysteria with coldness at the menstrual period, copious sweat, vomiting, and diarrhoea, etc.

Veratrum has troublesome headaches, neuralgic, of great violence, accompanied with coldness, vomiting of bile and blood, great exhaustion, profuse sweat.

Vomiting and retching after the stomach is empty; spasmodic retching and cramping of the stomach; you can see the effort to empty the stomach and every little while a mouthful of bile comes up.

Violent rush of blood to the head, congestion of the head with coldness of the extremities. Head feels as if packed with ice, feels as if ice lay on the vertex and occiput (Calc.). Tension in the head as if the membranes were drawn tighter about the brain; compressive pains.

I remember a farmer who consulted me in the Summer. He had strange sensation when he drank water, as if it ran down the outside and did not go down the oesophagus. It was so marked that he I requested his friends to see if it did not run down the outside. Veratrum 2 M. cured him. No remedy has produced that sensation, but I figured it out by analogy.

Violent thirst for cold water and for ice.

"All fruits cause painful distension of the stomach."

"Vomiting forcible and excessive.

Nausea with weakness; is obliged to lie down; hysterical cramps in the stomach; cramps in the muscles of the abdomen like colic.

Gastric catarrh, great weakness, cold, sudden sinking."

Full of rheumatic and neuralgic pains in the extremities; worse from the warmth of the bed; they drive him out of bed at night into the cold room and be must walk the floor for relief.

You would naturally, suppose that heat would be comforting; so it is at times to the abdomen and other parts when there is coldness, but it aggravates the pains ( Merc.).

"Painful paralytic weakness in the limbs."

"Chill and heat alternating, now here, now there, on single parts.

Internal sensation of chilliness running from head to toes coming on when drinking."

Many of the complaints of Veratrum are aggravated when drinking.

Burning while in cold sweat. In the chronic mental troubles, the skin is dusky and dry with the exception of that on the forehead. But in acute complaints where physical symptoms predominate, as in dysmenorrhoea, acute insanity, etc., there is profuse sweat.

Gnawing hunger in spite of nausea and vomiting. Empty, all-gone feeling in the abdomen after stool.

Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces ; complete prostration ; collapse.

Cold perspiration on the forehead (over the entire body,

Tab.), with nearly all complaints.

Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk.

Thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered.

Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes (Tar.); with lewd, lascivious talk, amorous or religious

(Hyos., Mel., Stram.).

Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carbo v., Sulph.); excessive weakness.

Sinking feeling during hemorrhage (fainting, Trill.).

Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness (Sep.,

Val.); as of heat and cold at same time on scalp; as if brain were torn to pieces.

Face: pale, blue, collapsed ; features sunken, hippocratic; red while lying, becomes pale on rising (Acon.).

Thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold.

Craving for acids or refreshing things (Phos. ac.).

Icy coldness; of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms, and many other parts.

Cold feeling in abdomen (Colch., Tab.).

Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhœa.

Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration; < by drinking (Ars.); < by least motion (Tab.); great weakness after.

Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives.

Cholera: vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, watery, gushing, prostrating; after fright (Acon., Op.).

Constipation: no desire; stool large, hard (Bry., Sulph.); in round, black balls (Chel., Op., Plb.); from inactive rectum; frequent desire felt in epigastrium (Ign.—in rectum, Nux); painful, of infants and children, after Lyc. and Nux.

Dysmenorrhœa; with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhœa with cold sweat (Amm without subsequent heat, with great weakness of thighs and limbs (every other day). Internal chilliness running from the head to the toes of both feet, with thirst. Shaking chill, with sweat, at first warm, but soon passes off into general coldness. Coldness of the whole body, increased by drinking (Ars., Caps., Eup., Nux); lessened by getting out of bed (increased by even putting hands from under bedclothes, Bar., Canth.). Coldness at times; heat, with profuse sweat at others. Chill and heat alternating on single parts, now here, then there (Puls.). Great coldness over the back and through shoulders into arms. Face cold, collapsed. Extremities cold. Coldness in limbs, shoulders and arms, as if cold air were streaming through the bones. Skin cold and clammy. Vomiting and diarrhœa (nausea, vomiting and purging, Elat.). Prominent external coldness. Coldness of the feet, as if cold water were running into them.

With thirst, mostly internal; with no desire to drink, or continued thirst for cold drinks, the beverages are never cold enough. Heat ascends from extremities to head (chill descends). Heat streaming up the back into the occiput (chill running in successive waves from sacrum to occiput, Gels.). Head hot, dull, confused; first warm, then persistent cold sweat on the forehead. Redness and heat of the face; burning and redness in the cheeks, with contracted pupils and cold feet (Op.—with dilated pupils, Bell.) Blood runs cold through the veins (Rhus—runs hot, Ars.).

Without thirst, which is profuse, cold and clammy (profuse sweat, with thirst, Ars., Cinch.). Sweat always with deathly pale face; offensive, bitter smelling, staining yellow. Easily perspires on every motion (Bry., Hep.). Cold sweat on forehead; after every stool; after vomiting of mucus. Sweat often begins before the chill and continues through paroxysm until next chill.

Coated white or yellowish-brown; cold, red tip and edges; swollen. Voracious appetite. Craves cold fruits, ice water, juicy food, wants everything cold. Aversion to warm things. Hunger and appetite between paroxysms of vomiting.

Small, weak, slow, and growing continually weaker, often imperceptible. Blood runs like cold water through the vessels.

There is great general exhaustion and rapid sinking of strength; oppression of the chest; deep sighing; face pale and cold, with cold sweat on forehead. The heart's impulse very weak in the intermission, as well as during the paroxysm; fainting; there are cramps in the stomach, abdomen and limbs; great thirst if much vomiting and diarrhœa, and vice versa; extremities persistently cold. Skin bluish, cold, inelastic, with deficient reaction.

We may require to compare Elaterium with Veratrum which it resembles in the suddenness of its onset, the profuseness of its evacuations, and its great prostration. But the characteristic predominance of the cold stage will serve to distinguish between them.

Like Camphor, the cold stage is so well marked that it overshadows all the others; the hot stage is light or often wanting altogether. When the hot stage is present the temperature is rarely elevated, and is often diminished during heat. There is such a general lack of vital heat, and slow, defective reaction, that the patient scarcely recovers from one paroxysm ere another begins. The temperature is generally subnormal.

The above makes one of our best pictures of the "sinking," "congestive," or "pernicious" forms of intermittent fever. The patient thinks he will die; and the physician shares his fears. The allopath now resorts to stimulants for the present; and Quinine to prevent the return of future paroxysm. Shall we, on that threadbare plea of pseudo-homeopaths, that "there is no time for homeopathic remedies to act," follow his example? Those are not lacking "in faith," but in knowledge, who "desert their colors under fire." The homeopath who knows his Materia Medica will cure such cases without resorting to "rational" (?) uncertainty. If he does not know his Materia Medica, he is justified in resorting to anything to try to save his patient; but the treatment should go by its right name, and the failure to cure should be properly credited. Every homeopath is responsible for not knowing what he professes to practice.

"Among the great number of intermittent fevers there is a formidable pyrexia called pernicious, because it may carry off the patient in the second or third paroxysm; he dies probably from the excess of poisoning. This extremely violent pyrexia forms no exception to the rule; and, like all other pyrexiæ, finds its most prompt and certain remedy in the drug which is most homeopathic to it. But here a delicate question arises which should be solved at once: What shall we do in the presence of a pernicious fever in which we have reason to fear sudden death, in the second or third paroxysm? Find the homeopathic remedy. Without doubt, principles are inflexible, and I know no means more powerful to combat the radicalism of the false than to oppose to it the radicalism of the true.

"We have a law of cure which has always shown itself triumphant when rigorously applied. Why should we be unfaithful to it? I see no reason. The violence of the disease? But the more urgent the haste, the more highly ought we to value the shortest road. Now the most prompt and certain means of curing any disease whatever, however pernicious we may suppose it, consists in opposing to it the homeopathic remedy. Then, instead of renouncing in this emergency the application of our law, it is best to conform to its requirements. The greater the danger, the greater this obligation."—CHARGE.

"When we have to do with an art whose end is the saving of human life, any neglect to make ourselves thoroughly masters of it becomes a crime."—HAHNEMANN.

Stupid from excess in alcoholic drinks.
Never speaks the truth; does not know herself what she is saying.
Thinks himself distinguished; squanders his money.
Delirium, heavy soporous sleep; restless, thirst, cramps in legs, cold sweat, tingling; irregular pulse. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Mania: with desire to cut and tear, especially clothes; with lewdness and lascivious talk.
Loquacity, he talks rapidly.
Talks much about religious things; praying.
Disposed to talk about faults of others, or to be silent; but if irritated, scolding, calling names.
Kissing everybody; before menses.
Impudent behavior in childbed.
Curses all night and complains of stupid feeling, with headache and ptyalism.
Dislike to talk except in delirium.
Cannot bear to be left alone.
Fearfulness; starts with running about and shouting.
Anxious, restless, easily frightened, whining, weeping, apathetic delirium, blue face. θ Typhoid.
Anxiety, as after committing an evil deed, worse evening and after dinner.
Despair about his position in society; feels very unlucky.
Despair of her salvation; with suppressed catamenia.
After fright; fear, anxiety; coldness; fainting; involuntary diarrhœa.
Consequences of injuried pride or honor.

Vertigo; with cold sweat on forehead; with loss of vision, sudden fainting; from opium eating; from abuse of tobacco or alcohol.
Heaviness of the head, things seem to whirl in a circle. θ Typhoid.
Faints from least exertion; from slight wounds; from violent pains; after loss of fluids; anxiety, nausea, convulsive twitchings.

Paroxysms in various parts of brain, partly as if bruised partly pressure.
Burning in brain.
Neuralgia of head with indigestion; feature sunken.
Head hot and covered with sweat; headache; children rub the head, cannot bear to be left alone; put hands to head. θ Typhoid.
Headache: nausea, vomiting, pale face; stiff neck, profuse micturition; as if brain was torn to pieces; chronic, coming on in afternoon, lasting through night; drawing in both arms; better towards morning; frequent micturition.
Violent pains driving him to despair; or great prostration with headache; fainting, with cold sweat and great thirst; nausea, vomiting and diarrhœa; or, obstinate constipation.

Head burning hot; limbs alternately hot and cold.
Scalp very sensitive, with headache.
Like a piece of ice on head; or sensation of warmth and coldness at the same time on scalp, the hair being sensitive.
Plica polonica.
Cold sweat on forehead, with many complaints.
Compelled to rub forehead, with a kind of insensibility. θ Typhoid.

Black motes or specks before eyes, with diplopia; photophobia; worse on rising from bed or chair.
Hemeralopia.
Eyes: turned upward, showing only whites; distorted, protruding; fixed, watery, sunken, lustreless; full of tears; lids livid, blue edges.
Pupils: contracted; dilated, with weak sight; fails to recognize those near, or does so but slowly.
Tearing pains in eyes, depriving one of sleep; worse in cold, damp weather. θ Rheumatic ophthalmia.
Excessive dryness of lids.
Lids: heavy, can scarcely lift them; trembling.
Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, with feeling of dryness and heat.

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A tincture is made of the dried root.

It produces profound prostration, weak heart, cold skin, with cold sweat and collapse. ▶ Most violent vomiting and purging, with terrible colic and at times cramps. ▶ Muscular spasms, rigid contraction of muscles, even tetanic.

Colchicum, Iris v., Secale c., Acon., Ars., Cupr., Zinc., Rhus t.

Activity on diminution of pains and emotional disturbances, with mobility. ▶ Movements slow. ▶ Muscles relaxed. ▶ Trembling. ▶ Convulsive movements of face and limbs. ▶ Spasms; epileptic. ▶ Cholera. ▶ New attack of gout. ▶ Stitches here and there; S. in right cheek and right chest, with salivation; in part S. here and there, in part sticking colic; with peppery biting in throat. ▶ Pain in sides, breasts and thighs. ▶ Bruised pain in bones; in muscular parts, with pressure. ▶ Drawing pain in head and sacrum. ▶ Itching sensation in bones. ▶ Distress from open air, as after acute illness. ▶ Restlessness; undertakes several things, but is soon weary and accomplishes nothing. ▶ Desire to lie down.

▶ Weakness; in morning; in morning, with shivering; in morning, with sleepiness, preventing rising; after breakfast, with sleepiness; in forenoon, amel. a glass of wine, with dizziness and inability to work; in afternoon and evening, then fatiguing, dreamy sleep; in evening, on account of mental excitement; in evening, all work, especially mental, is irksome, with uneasiness, heaviness of head, which is painful, then stupid sleep; on going to stool; after a short walk, with indisposition; agg. breakfast, with heaviness of limbs; with sinking down; with disinclination to work; then twisting in abdomen and back, amel. stool; as from too great heat in the air; paralytic; rapid, inviting sleep in forenoon; in attacks when walking; as if he had walked too far; as if he had not slept enough, head stupid, on attempting to rise he sank back in bed in a dreamy half sleep, with sweat and apprehension (Acon.).

▶ Faintness; at noon for three days, with pallor, twitching in cheeks and sparks before left eye, then vomiting of white froth. ▶ All symptoms except weakness amel. lying, they return on rising; all except headache amel. sitting.

Rheumatic pains, like electric jerks, agg. heat of the bed, amel. walking about. ▶ Attacks of sudden faintness. ▶ Violent tonic spasms, palms and soles drawn inward. ▶ General tetanic rigidity of muscles, face drawn and pinched, tendency to cramp, especially in the calves, etc. ▶ Tendency to collapse, with cold sweat.

▶ Raging, with heat of body. ▶ Delirium, with general coldness, open eyes, with cheerful, at times laughing expression, he prattles about religious subjects, about vows to be performed, prays, believes that he is not in his own house. ▶ Beside himself, groans and does not know how to calm himself. ▶ Cursing and howling all night, and complaining of being stupid, with headache and salivation.

▶ Inconsolable over a fancied misfortune, runs about the room howling and screaming, looking upon the ground, or sits brooding in the corner, wailing and weeping in an inconsolable manner, agg. evening, sleeps only till 2 o'clock. ▶ Despair. ▶ Despondency and discouragement, with weeping and inclination to hang the head. ▶ Melancholia, with chilliness as if dashed with cold water, with frequent nausea. ▶ Fear; (ending with eructations). ▶ Anxiety; in morning; all night; in evening and after dinner; (in evening in bed till almost midnight, with waking sopor, drawing movement in abdomen, which causes roaring in head); if he stands, with cold sweat on forehead and vomiting; during stool, with fear of apoplexy; caused by crawling in fingers; taking away the breath; as if he had committed a crime. ▶ Anguish.

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Weak heart, with profound prostration; cold skin, cold sweat, collapse.
Vomiting and purging, with terrible colic and cramps.
Rigid contractions of muscles, tetanic.

Rapid sinking of strength, as from too great heat in the air; as if paralyzed.
Faintness, with trembling.
Numbness and crawling of the extremities.
Tonic cramps, especially of the palms and soles, which seem to be hollowed in; tetanic rigidity of the whole body.
The pains are < warmth of the bed as well as in cold wet weather, usually > walking about.

Raging delirium, even with coldness, cold sweat on the forehead and vomiting.
He howls and curses all night; is inconsolable, howls and screams or sits brooding in a corner, wailing and weeping.
Complete despair.
Anxiety.
Anguish.

Violent pain on the vertex, with heaviness of the whole head.
The brain feels bruised or torn.
Pain on the vertex, which becomes a throbbing like a rush of blood to the head, even nausea and vomiting.
Headache, with stiffness of the neck and profuse urine.
Sensation of the bristling of the hair, which seems to be sensitive to the touch.
General relief from pressure on the vertex.

Eyes staring, protruding or sunken and lustreless.
Eyes turned upward.
Trembling and paralysis of the upper lids.
Heat and lachrymation, with a feeling of dryness.
Contracted pupils (hemeralopia).

Icy cold.
Dryness.
Bleeding.

Sunken, with an anxious expression.
Generally pale, with drawn features.
When lying down the face may be red, but pale on rising up.
Cold sweat on the face, especially on the forehead.
Cramps and contractions of the muscles.
Lips blue or black.

Generally dry and sticky, though at times there is profuse saliva.
Tongue cold, withered.

Enormous appetite and thirst, especially for cold water.
Nausea, with violent and profuse vomiting, usually associated with diarrhœa.
Vomiting of food, of green mucus, with cold sweat.
Painful distention in the region of the stomach, extending to the sternum.

Distended, with anxiety.
Cutting colic as from knives or as if the intestines were twisted.
Painful griping, with vomiting and diarrhœa.
Great sensitiveness to touch.

Profuse evacuations, watery, greenish or even black, with faintness and vomiting.
Constipation; feces hard and large.

Urine suppressed.
Involuntary, or scanty and dark red.

Menstruation early and profuse, preceded by headache.

Clinical:
Dysmenorrhœa, with vomiting, colic, diarrhœa, cold sweat.
Metritis, with distended abdomen, extremely sensitive over the uterus, terrible colic.

Larynx feels constricted, with spasmodic suffocation.
Tickling in the larynx provokes cough.
Voice lost or weak and husky.
Cough hollow, deep, in shocks.
Respiration suffocative, with oppression of the chest.
Suffocative attacks, caused by spasmodic constriction of the larynx or chest.
(Whooping cough, with vomiting; great prostration.)

Palpitation, with anxiety, loud breathing and suffocation; face becomes pale on rising up.
Pulse rapid; generally small and irregular or imperceptible.

Muscles of the neck seem paralyzed.
Paralytic stiffness extends from the back up to the neck.

Paralytic weakness and falling asleep, as if exhausted by excessive fatigue.
Pains in the limbs generally < wet, cold, and also warmth; > walking up and down.
Nails blue with the cold.
Cramps in the calves.

Skin cold and blue, sometimes violet-colored.
Loss of elasticity; it remains in folds after being pinched.

Predominating chilliness and coldness.
Chills creep under the skin from the head to the feet, with thirst.
Cold skin, even of the vertex; it is cold and drawn.
Back and limbs, especially hands and feet, cold, with cold sweat, particularly on the forehead.
Heat of the head and face especially.
Cold sweat all over the body, mostly on the forehead.
(Intermittent paroxysms of external coldness, associated with internal heat and excessive thirst.)

Ver. a. / (1st V.) / Vera.

Veratrum album,-cold and blue-
With cold sweat on thy forehead;
A cholera freak, thy favorite cue,
And mental frenzy horrid;
With utterance of startling cries-
Utterance of blasphemy or prayer;
Dark circles blue, are round thy eyes,
With features of despair.
Thy pains intolerable in bed,
In state of mind delirious;
With vomiting and purging, dread,
Or retching, straining serious.
While sinking as at door of death,
With clammy perspiration;
And stifled lungs, and panting breath,
Weak heart, and palpitation.
Cough thine, as from the abdomen,
That sets the urine flowing;
Excited most especially when
From cold to warm room going.
Desiring drink and victuals cold,
Which needs must seem surprising;
Since coldness all thy ails unfold
From whate'er cause arising.

Vera,-Has cold sweat upon the forehead.

Vera Tab is an Arab.

This Vera,- Who is subject to vomiting with purging,- Is with Aunt Iris Podo, the Imp of the wine cup.

Cold Sweat Upon the Forehead: Ver. a., Tab., Ars.

Vomiting with Purging - Cholera Morbus: Ver. a., Ant. c., Iris v., Pod., Ipe., Ars., Nux v., Cup.

Indicated in conditions tending to collapse, as in choleric states; this tendency, less marked, is present also in other conditions, as in cough (bronchitis, croup, whooping cough), dysmenorrhoea, cardiac weakness, etc., so exhausting the patient that the body becomes cold and the forehead is covered with cold sweat. The same coldness and exhaustion occur in the fever group and render it a valuable remedy in cases of congestive and pernicious fevers.

Extreme weakness; too weak to hold the head up.

Extreme coldness of the body.

Cold sweat on the forehead.

Hippocratic face, pinched nose, and other symptoms of approaching collapse.

Face flushed when lying down; upon rising, it turns deathly pale, with great weakness of the pulse, cold sweat, etc. (cardiac disease).

Violent, profuse vomiting and purging at the same time.

Diarrhoea; watery, gushing, profuse, worse at night, with weakness and emptiness in the bowels; flaky; followed by great prostration.

Cutting pain in the abdomen, as from knives. Abdomen sensitive, swollen.

Frightful colic, beginning in the stomach, involving the entire abdomen and radiating into the shoulder, with retching, vomiting, coldness and collapse.

Dysuria; urine green; suppression of urine.

Dysmenorrhoea with vomiting, diarrhoea, cold sweat, collapse.

Worse from wet, cold weather.

Mental confusion Deliria of insanities, mostly mute, religious or with pride: With lasciviousness and obscene talk, with laughing, whistling and spinning. Madness and raving mania, with shamelessness, impiety and profanity. Howling and lamenting in a hoarse voice. Extraordinary mental anxiety. Melancholy with anxious nightly inconsolable lamenting. Nightly anguish and despair. Fear of death. Hypochondriacal mood. Reticence Angriness followed by anxiety and palpitation. Transient attacks of unconsciousness, alternating with insanity Transitory loss of memory. Peevishness.

With reeling, as from intoxication, when sitting erect or standing, better lying on back and stooping.

Pressive ache in skull. Heaviness of entire head. Bruised or torn sensation in brain. Headache: With stiffness of nape and profuse flow of urine, throbbing, with qualmishness and vomiting. Great sensitiveness of scalp and hair. Bruised soreness of Coldness in and upon vertex as though' ice lay there, with co - existent icy coldness of feet and nausea. Worse: Rising from bed, motion. Better: External pressure, bending head backward, at rest.

Staring, watery, distorted, sunken and lusterless. Balls are turned upward. Pressure in. Trembling of upper lid. Paralysis of lids. Heat in. Tears, with a sense of dryness therein. Night blindness.

Roaring and humming in. Deaf.

Icy coldness of. Odor, of dung, before.

Swelled. Red, while in bed, on rising it instantly becomes pale. Yellowish. Blue or greenish circles about eyes. Bluish. Livid. Cold, disfigured, cadaverous, hippocratic f. Spasm of masseter muscles. Look - jaw. Shrivelled, bluish or blackish lips.

Burning in, fauces. Dry and sticky. Profuse salivation. Taste less saliva in. Feeling of distension in pharynx. Constriction of throat. Sensation, as of dust in throat. Tongue, Cold, shrivelled, blackish. Cold breath. Hollow, hoarse voice.

Great sensitiveness of pit, as though' ulcerated internally. Burning in.

Appetite: Ravenous hunger. Gluttony. Craving for sour or cooling things. Violent unquenchable thirst, especially for cold water.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth. Cool, as from peppermint in mouth.

Eructations: Forcible, empty. Bitter

Qualmishness, etc. - In stomach. With violent thirst, profuse flow saliva and urine. Violent retching. Vomiting: OF ingesta, of bile, of blood, or foamy sour mucus, nightly, copious, excited by slightest movement or least thing ingested, especially drinks.

Distension, with pressing pains and anxiety. Diarrhoea with cutting as from knives in. painful contraction when vomiting. Very sensitive to touch. Burning and cutting in. Sticking in groins. Protrusion of hernia.

Flatulence: Flatulent colic in abdomen with loud rumbling and grumbling.

Chronic constipation as from inactivity of rectum. Ineffectual urging. Fainting during. Painful lienteria. Diarrhoea: Greenish, watery, mixed with flocks, blackish. Fright followed by involuntary c., and icy coldness of body.

Suppressed Greenish. Dark red, passed frequently but in small quantities. Constant urging to urinate. Involuntary micturition.

Stitches in spermatic cord.

Menses: Too early and too profuse. Suppressed. Headache before.

Laborious inspiration. Oppression of chest (with many complaints). Suffocative attacks from spasmodic constriction of larynx or chest.

Deep, hollow ringing c., from tickling in lowest bronchia, seemingly coming from abdomen. Deep, dry c., with cutting bellyache. In evening with salivation. In spring and autumn. With pain in sides, and respiratory symptoms. With yellow expectoration, immediately on entering a warm room from sold air, followed by bruised feeling in chest. Whooping cough with vomiting. Dry at night, in daytime expectoration of yellow tenacious mucus of a bitter, salty or sometimes a sour or putrid taste, worse eating and drinking cold things, especially cold water.

Fullness in. Bruised feeling in. Stitches in sides of. Violent, visible, anxious palpitation with obstructed breathing.

Paralytic stiffness extending from back up into nape. Squeezing between scapulae. Bruised sensation in, and in lumbar region.

Thrusts in (r.) hip.

Sudden sinking of strength, even to fainting. Continued great weakness and trembling. Extraordinary weariness and debility. Paralytic, bruised feeling in limbs and bones. Numbness and crawling in extremities. Violent tonic spasms whereby the palms and soles are drawn into hollows. Tetanic rigidity of body. Fainting with stiffness of body but flexibility of limbs. Attacks of pain which in a short time always excite delirium or mania. Pains in limbs are worse from warmth of bed and cold wet weather, and better rising and walking about.

Cold and bluish or violent color of, Loss of elasticity of, it remains in the position into which it has been drawn. Thickened, desquamating spots on. Dry, m itch - like eruptions.

Coma vigil with partial consciousness. Stupefying somnolency. Nightly anxiety and sleeplessness.

Pulse: Irregular, most frequently small, thready, weak and show, often almost extinct and entirely imperceptible. Seldom hard and quick. The blood runs like cold water through' the veins. Chill: And coldness mostly external, with internal heat and cold, clammy sweat Shaking chill with sweat, which together pass into coldness. Predominating c., and coldness, running from above c., and coldness, running from above downward. Increased by drinking. Icy coldness of entire body. Heat, Almost entirely internal, with thirst, but without desire to drink. In evening, with sweat. Alternately, now chill, now heat, here and there on single spots. Internal only, with dark urine. Sweat: Profuse, in morning, evening or through' entire night as well as during every stool. Cold, clammy, sour or offensive sometimes smelling bitter, or staining yellow. Always with a deathly pale face. Cold. Over entire body, most on forehead, worse least motion and vomiting, better rising and going about. Easy during day from every movement. Strong smelling. Intermittent fever with coldness externally only, with internal heat and violent thirst for cold water.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Alum., Arn., Ars., Bry., Calc-c., Cam., Carb-v., CHIN., Cic., Cina., Coff., CUPR., Dros., Ferr., Hyos., Ip., Merc., phos., Phos-ac., Pod., Sec-c. Sep., Spig., Stram., Tabac., VERAT-V.

Complementary: Ars, CARB-V.

Sudden sinking of strength.

Continued great debility and trembling.

Numbness and tingling in the extremities.

Violent tonic spasms - the soles of the feet and palms of the hand are contracted.

Stiffness of the limbs, especially in the forenoon and after walking.

Attacks of pain which produce delirium and mania for a short time.

Rheumatism aggravated by the heat of the bed and cold, damp weather - relieved from rising and walking.

The symptoms of debility are especially aggravated by motion.

Generalized weakness and sudden loss of power.

Sporadic and Asiatic cholera (the vibrio of the disease unknown when these notes were written).

In the first stages of the disease camphor is undoubtedly the remedy of choice and the same is to be used as Hahnemann first suggested (in material doses and frequently repeated).

Cold bluish skin.

Dry itch.

The pulse is thread-like and scarcely perceptible.

Cold sweat, principally on the forehead.

Intermittent fever with external coldness and much thirst.

Taste in the mouth is like peppermint.

Some symptoms are accompanied by hunger, thirst, flow of urine, delirium, salivation and oppression of the chest.

Constipation.

Dangerous diarrhoea.

Chronic diarrhoea.

Catamenia too early and too profuse or suppressed.

Cough with vomiting.

Anxiety, fear of death, and rage - mania with desire to tear or cut everything.