VERATRUM ALBUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Veratrum Album from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces.

Cold sweat on forehead, with nearly all complaints.

Mania, with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes.

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

Attacks of fainting from least exertion.

Sensation of lump of ice on vertex.

Face: pale, blue, collapsed; features sunken; red while in bed, becomes pale on getting up.

Constipation: stools large, hard; from inactivity of rectum; in children when Nux vomica, though indicated, fails to relieve.

Cholera; vomiting and purging; stool profuse, watery, gushing, prostrating, after fright.

Dysmenorrhoea, with vomiting and purging.

Bad effect of opium eating or tobacco chewing.

Headache, with nausea and vomiting.

Cold perspiration on the forehead.

Violent, unquenchable thirst, especially for cold water.

Wants everything cold; desire for fruits; for acids.

Contracted pupils.

Vomiting aggravated by drinking, or by the least motion.

Great weakness after motion.

Vomiting and purging at the same time.

Excessive weakness; sudden sinking or strength; fainting.

Violent cramps of the extremities.

Wrinkling of the skin of the hands and fingers.

Skin cold, blue, remaining in folds when pinched.

During stool, paleness of the face, pinching colic, nausea, vomiting, cold sweat on the forehead and great weakness.

After stool: great sinking and empty feeling in the abdomen.

Menses: too early and too profuse; suppressed, with despair of salvation.

Before menses: mania for kissing people; headache, vertigo.

During menses: morning headache; buzzing or roaring in the ears; violent thirst for ice-cold water; vomiting, or diarrhoea, or both; great exhaustion.

After menses: unbearable backache; colic with diarrhoea.

Severe chill, with coldness and thirst.

Internal chilliness running from the head to the toes of both feet, with thirst.

Predominant external coldness.

Sweat always with deathly pale face.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.