Description
Causes & Symptoms for Lords Veratrum Album
- Veratrum Album has marked action on gastric and abdominal disorders with violent diarrhoea and vomiting.
- Violence in anything is a striking peculiarity of this remedy.
- There is cold feeling in the stomach with cutting pain as if from knives.
- There is also sinking feeling in stomach. There is nausea and vomiting just after eating and drinking. There is a great thirst for huge quantity of icy cold water.
- Veratrum Album also helps in diarrhoea from fright, eating, drinking and taking fruits. Colic with cutting pain in abdomen.
- Stool is profuse, watery, gushing and mixed with flakes.
- During stools there is colic with cramps commencing in hands and feet spreading all over the body, with cold sweat on forehead. There is great prostration after stools.
- It also checks Diarrhoea also before and during periods.
- Veratrum Album is also indicated in intermittent fever. High body temperature is congestive and pernicious type with extreme coldness of the body.
- There is great thirst, face cold and collapsed, skin cold and clammy, great prostration, cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face.
Mind and Head
- Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference.
- Aimless wandering from home, Delusions of impending misfortunes.
- Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night.
- Veratrum Album relieves Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, pale face. Neck too weak to hold head up.
Eyes
- Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without luster.
- It is useful in Lachrymation with redness, Lids dry heavy.
Face
- Features sunken, Icy coldness of tip of nose and face.
- Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes. Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold indicates Veratrum Album.
Mouth
- Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint.
- Dry in center not relieved by water, Salty saliva.
- Veratrum Album relieves Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.
Stomach
- Voracious appetite, Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed indicates Veratrum Album.
- 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, also useful in Great weakness after vomiting.
- Veratrum Album is indicated in Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food.
Abdomen
- 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 indicates Veratrum Album.
Rectum
- Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache.
- Veratrum Album is useful in Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather.
- Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat.
- Veratrum Album also checks Diarrhœa, very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration.
Respiratory
- Hoarse, weak voice, Rattling in chest is relieved by Veratrum Album.
- Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up.
- Veratrum Album is useful in 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).
Female
- Veratrum Album is indicated in compliant where Menses too early; profuse and exhausting.
- It is useful in Dysmenorrhœa, with coldness, purging, cold sweat. Faints from least exertion.
Extremities
- Soreness and tenderness of joints is well relieved by Veratrum Album.
- It also helps in Sciatica; pains like electric flashes, Cramps in calves.
Skin
- Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death, Cold sweat indicates Veratrum Album.
- Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

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