VERATRUM VIRIDE

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Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Veratrum Viride and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….

      Green Veratrum.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Used to depress the heart in the first stages of acute inflammatory diseases, and where its excessive action is doing mechanical injury. Pneumonia, puerperal convulsions, cerebral congestion. Hypertrophied heart.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Very slow, feeble pulse, becoming rapid on slight exertion. Bilious vomiting. cold, clammy perspiration. Great muscular weakness. Prostration. Slow, shallow respiration.

DOSE.

      Extractum veratri viridis, fluidum, 2-5 m.

Tinctura veratri viridis, 2-5 m.

Should be used only in robust patients with over acting heart. The first decimal dilution of the tincture at fifteen- minute intervals will often be found most effective.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Pneumonia, at its inception only. High temperature and pulse rate.

Tonsillitis. Congestive stage.

Peritonitis. Full, tense pulse.

Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Full, hard pulse.

Puerperal convulsions. Very tense pulse. (Fifteen to twenty- five drops of Norwood’s tincture, hypodermically).

Convulsions of children from acute cerebral congestion.

Overaction of hypertrophied heart. (Three to five drops a day).

Aneurysm. (To assist mechanical methods of treatment).

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George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.