VERATRUM VIRIDIUM

REMEDY OF THE DAY: VERATRUM VIRIDE The American plant of Veratrum Album in Europe. Clarke A.G., Decachords, 1. Plethoric subjects 2. Furious delieiums, screaming and howling, 3. Sudden, intense, local congestions especially to base of brain, spine, chest, stomach, also of pelvis, dysmenorrhea, coup-de-soleil. 4.Acute febrile diseases with great arterial excitement, convulsions often precede eruptions, acute rheumatism. 5. Tongue white or yellow coated with red STREAK DOWN centre 6. Slow pulse is primary and more characterictic action, arterial excitement is secondary effect. 7. Convulsive twitchings and tremblings, even paralysis with tingling. 8. Cerebro-spinal diseases with cold, clammy perspiration, opisthotonos, basilar meningitis, apoplexy with slow, full, hard-as-iron pulse. 9. PEUMONIAS early congestive stage with, laboured breathing and livid face. 10. Agg. on rising, waking, evening, motion. Blackwood A.L. Diseases of the heart, writes for Pericarditis heart's action violent, hard pulse, full bounding lung congestion, brain, and cerebro-spinal system. The patient is plethoric, of large muscular development and of rigid fibre. ENDOCARDITIS: pletoric, violent pains, high fever, white or yellow tongue with a red streak down the centre. Aneurysm of the aorta this remedy has the power of reducing the pulse rate when given in five-drop doses of the tincture every three hours. Think of this remedy when in cases in which fever is present and the arterial excitement is prominent but do not give it simply to bring down the pulse or control the heart's action but like any other remedy for the TOTALITY OF THE SYMPTOMS. By Beatriz H Hill, Medicina Homeopática behhill.!