REMEDY OF THE DAY: VERATRUM ALBUM

or White hellebore from the liliaceae family, tincture of the bulb root-stocks collected in June before flowering Hahnemann showed that Veratrum was the principal egent used at antcyra and other places in Greece to produce evacuations which were regarded as an essential of the Cure

Murphy R. Homeopathic Remedy Guide:

Veratrum profoundly affects the mind, nerves, abdominal, heart, blood, -vessels, respiration, vertex and digestive system. Collape with extreme coldness, blueness and weakness with sweat in forehead is key to the remedy, Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, feeble pulse, cold perspiration on the forehead with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging and cramps in limbs. The profuse violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock, excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. Violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk. Icy coldness of feet and hand not bettered by external warm. effects are violent and sudden. it is a great fainting remedy. faints from emotions, least exertion, slight injury with hemorrhage after stools, vomiting.

COLD PERSPIRATION ON THE FOREHEAD WITH ALL COMPLAINTS.

Cold as ice, breath tongue. Convulsions caused by religious mania or excitement, also for children. Use in Post-operative shock, shock of injury, ill effects of fright, disappointed love injured pride or honor. Suppressed rashes, opium tobacco, alcohol, in the extremes of life children and old people, lean, choleric or melancholy persons young people and women or a sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament(of mountaineers) People who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction persons of gay disposition, of fitful mood, anaemic persons Children feel better when carriend, better if covered, hot drinks, lying, eating meat, milk, worse from cold drinks, drinking, exerting, fright during pain, worse wet, cold weather. Worse at night, before and during menses, after stools. worse from touch, pressure, worse injured pride or honor opium eating, tobacco chewing. THEY LIKE TO LIE, and delusions of impending misfortune. mania with desire to cut and tear things, never speaks the truth, kisses everybody, before menses, the like to scold fear of death, despairs of their salvation, imagines the world on fire. Female, menses too early too profuse, suppressed, menorrhagia with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea with coldness, purging, cold sweat, faints from least exertion. Nymphomania, before menses from disappointed love, unsatisfied passion in lying-in women, Eclampsia, puerperal mania.