VERATRUM ALBUM



Oppression between the scapulae, also when sitting; on turning the pain becomes decidedly tugging.

Rheumatic pain, left when moving, betwixt the scapulae and from the nape to the sacrum; it is particularly severe when going to stool.

Violent pressure on the scapulae, as if they were bruised and contused.

450. After (“after” should be “before.”) pains in the back pain in the umbilical region. [GREDING, l. c., p. 80.]

When stooping and raising himself up again aching pain in the back, and as if it were broken, in the morning. [Fz.]

The spine is painful when walking, and afterwards a drawing aching, as if bruised; this pain is removed by pressure (aft. 11 h.). [Fz.]

Pain in the loins. [GREDING, l.., p. 54.]

Pain in the loins and gouty tearing pains in the inferior extremities. [GREDING, l. c., p. 49.]

455. After rising from a seat when moving a paralytic and bruised pain in the joint of the sacrum and knee.

Pain in the sacrum when walking on a level, not when sitting (in the morning).

When stooping there occurred in the sacrum a stitch which lasted a long time.

When standing an aching pain in the sacrum.

When stooping, as well as when rising up, the sacrum on its left side is painful as if bruised. [Fz.]

460. Intermittent stitches on the coccyx when standing, more itching than shooting. [Fz.]

On the shoulder a cutting pain like a single cut.

Single stitches in the left shoulder-joint, even when at rest (aft. 4 h.). [Trn.]

In the right axilla a slight indescribable pain. [Stf.]

Gouty pain in the deltoid muscle of the upper arm and in the knee.

465. The arms are affected with paralytic pain, as if bruised; he can only raise them up and keep them up with pain and effort.

Twitchings in both arms. [GREDING, l. c., p. 71.]

Paralytic bruised pain of the left upper arm on stretching it out.

Feeling of coldness of the arms on raising them up.

Sensation in the arm as if it were too full and swollen.

470. In the middle of the left humorous a down-drawing pain, as if sore from lying on it (aft. ½ h.). [Fz.]

On flexing the elbow drawing pain in the bend of it; it feels to him to be swollen and as if he could not bend it perfectly in consequence; at the same time a paralysed feeling in the arm (aft. 15 h.). [Fz.]

Pain in the middle of the left forearm, as if the bone were pressed.

Trembling in the arm when grasping anything with the hand.

Twitching in the right wrist and further up towards the elbow.

475. (A dry tetter on the hand between the thumb and forefinger.)

An eroding itching on the inner side of the wrist (. 24 h.).

Formication in the hands and fingers.

Formication in the hand as if it had been asleep.

Formication in the fingers causing anxiety.

480. Dying away, going to sleep of the fingers (aft. 1 h.).

Th second row of the bone shafts of the fingers is painful on grasping anything (aft. 20 h.).

Red painless pimples on the backs of the fingers between the second and third joints (aft. 20 h.).

Tensive pain in the middle finger on moving it (aft. 20 h.).

Pain in the thumb-joint as if dislocated.

485. Burning itching pain in the first phalanx of the little finger, as if it were frost-bitten.

In the upper part of the glutei muscles a cramp-like drawing when standing. [Fz.]

Very great difficulty of walking, like paralysis, first of the right, then also of the left hip-joint.

The thighs and hips seem as if they would break down and are painful as if paralysed.

Weakness almost only on the thighs and knees.

490. Visible pulsating twitching of the large outer femoral muscle when sitting and standing; this muscle rose up in a painless pulsating manner, and sank down in a similar way, recurring immediately after walking (aft. 9 h.). [Fz.]

In the muscles of the thigh rheumatic drawing pain when standing (aft. 3 h.). [Fz.]

Cramp-like pressive pain in the thigh to in the calf when he supports himself less on that leg when standing (aft. 3.1/2 h.). [Fz.]

The thighs are painful when sitting, as of broken (aft. 8 h.). [Fz.]

Tension in the houghs when standing and walking as if they were too short.

495. When standing spasmodic drawing pain from the hough up into the right thigh (aft. 12 h.). [Fz.]

On the outer side of the knee-joint a cold, sore sensation. [Fz.]

Cracking in the knee.

A cutting pain as if with a knife on the knee, transient, a single cut.

(Shooting in the knee and ankle)(aft. 5 d.).

500. Drawing in the knees sometimes, when standing, walking, and sitting.

Bruised pain in the knees when going downstairs (aft. 4 h.).

Painful twitching in the right knee.

Single, visible, high raising up of the knee when sitting (in the afternoon), once every quarter and half hour, without pains; he started every time it occurred; it ceased on lying down in the evening.

Sensation like electric shocks, followed by bruised pain in the knee and elbow.

505. Pains in the legs, especially the knees, as from extreme weariness, as if large stones were fastened to them; in order to get relief he must lay them first in one place then in another (aft. 48 h.).

Pain on treading immediately under the knee in the bone, as if it had been broken and was not yet quite firm.

A downward tearing pain in the tibia.

His tibia burn in the evening as though they emerged from great cold (aft. 14 h.). [Fz.]

Heavy pain of the legs as from fatigue.

510. A formication in the legs up to the knee, a painful swarming in them.

Heavy pain of the legs, as if paralysis impended, in the morning.

Cramp in the calves.

In the calf smarting itching and formicating sensation when standing (aft. 4 h.). [Fz.]

Pain in the calves and tibia, as if they would break down.

515. Pressure on the ankle, as if the bone were actually touched and pressed, momentarily (aft. 8 d.).

Painful drawing transversely through the joints of the foot when sitting (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Fz.]

A burning in the ankle.

The ankle joints are painful when walking as if sprained, after having, while sitting, stretched the feet so far behind him that they came to rest on the backs of the toes, in the evening (aft. 15 h.). [Fz.]

The feet swell quickly and after a few hours again become thin.

520. Twitchings in quick succession in the weak foot when standing but nit when walking (aft. 3 d.).

Coldness in the feet, as if cold water were running about in them, with trembling.

When walking a tensive pain in the extensor tendons of the toes.

Short shooting pains on the toes of the right foot…..

Shooting pains in the big toe (aft. 5 h.).

525. Brings on a return of the podagra.

Almost burning itching deep in the lower part of the left heel (after 2 h.).

When sitting a violent prick in a corn on the left foot (aft. 14 h.). [Fz.]

Sore pain in the corn when he raises himself up so that he comes to stand only on his toes, in the evening (aft. 15 h.). [Fz.]

Tottering gait.

530. When walking he feels a clumsiness and heaviness in the feet and knees. [Stf.]

His arms and legs always feel as if gone to sleep, even when lying (aft. 8 h.). [Trn.]

Painful paralysis, as from over-exertion in the upper and lower extremities, only when moving; he can scarcely drag himself along.

Heat and formication in the whole body to the tips of fingers and toes. [GREDING, l. c., p. 83.]

An itching on the arms and legs, as though an eruption would break out, but without redness (aft. 2 h.). [Stf.]

535. Eroding itching on the skin (aft. 12 h.).

An itching apparently in the bones.

Desquamation of the skin. [EMETIUS, (Observation, – after but slight vomiting and purging.) Misc. Medorrhinum, p. 265.]

Cutaneous eruption like the itch.

In several places (spots) agglomerated painful papules.

540. Miliary rash, which when he becomes warm, even during the day, itches (only in the region of the joints?); after scratching the places burn, and wheals arise, as from stinging-nettles.

Burning sensation. (With S. 33.) [KALM, l. c.]

Pain in the muscular parts of the body, compounded of aching and bruised feeling.

Sensation in the bones as if they were bruised (aft. 2 h.).

Flying stitches here and there on the body.

545. Drawing pain in the limbs.

When walking quickly drawing pain in the limbs, which goes off on walking farther.

When sitting tearing pain in the extensor muscles.

(Pain in the limbs on which he lies, as if the bed were as hard as stone.)

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

550. The limbs go to sleep.

Pain of all the limbs, as though they were exhausted by excessive fatigue.

Extension (tension) of the limbs. (With S. 33.) [LEDELIUS, l. c.]

In the limbs spasmodic drawing up ver the joints when moving (aft. 10, 12 h.). [Fz.]

Twitchings in the limbs and profuse perspiration; then headache, vertigo, and great drinking. [GREDING, l. c., p. 71.]

555. Spasm, convulsions. [MURALTO, – WINTER, – RODDER, – LEDELIUS, – LORRY, l. c.]

Epileptic spasms. (General spasms seem hardly ever to caused by veratrum, except just before death, and seem to be an antagonism of nature indicative of its powerlessness. )

Trembling of the whole body.

Trembling in all the limbs, horrible cardiac anxiety, and tendency to syncope. [ALBERTI, l. c.]

Desire to lie down.

560. The open air affects him greatly, just as the open air affects and oppresses a person recovering from an acute disease.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.