Materia Medica

Veratrum Viride

White American Hellebore

Congestions, especially to lungs, base of brain. Twitch- ings and convulsions. Especially adapted to full-blooded, plethoric persons. Rheumatism of heart. Bloated, livid far. Furious delirium. Effects of sunstroke. Verat. vir, will raise the opsonic index against the diplococcus pncuinonia, 70 to 109 per cent. Congestive stage and early 1 manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia. Clinically, it is known that such diseases as Tiegel's contracture, Thompson's Disease, athetosis and pseudo- hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatol- ogy quite like that produced by Veratrum vir. upo

Mind

Quarrelsomc and delirious.

Head

Congestion intense, almost apoplectic. Hot head, bloodshot eyes. Head retracted, pupils dilated, double vision. Meningitis. Pain from nape of neck; cannot hold head up. Sunstroke; head full, throbbing arteries. [Bcll.; Glon.; Usnca.] Are flushed. Con- vulsive twitching of facial muscles. [Agaricus.] Tongue.-- White or yellow, with red streak down the middle. Feels scalded. [Sang.]

Stomach

Thirsty. Nausea and vomiting. Small- est quantity of food or drink immediately rejected. Con- strictive pain; increased by warm drinks. Huccough; excessive and painful, with spasms of cesophagus.

Abdomen

Pain above peJvis, with soreness.

Female

Rigid os. [Bell.; Gels.l Puerperal fever, Suppressed menstruation, with congestion to head. [Bell.] Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with stranguiry.

Respiratory

Congestion of lungs. Difficult breathing. Sensation of a heavy load on chest. Pneu- monia, with faint feeling in stomach and violent con- gestion Croup. Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury. Urine. —- Scanty with cloudy sediment.

Heart

Pulse slow, soft, weak, irregular, intermit- tent. [Tubac.; Dig.] Constant, dull. burning pain in 771 region of heart. Valvular disrases. I Bcatmg of pulses throughout body, especially in right thigh.

Extremities

Aching pain in back of neck and shoulders. Severe pain in jomts and muscles. Violent electric-like shocks in limbs.( Convulsive twitchings. Acute rheumatism. Fever.

Skin

Frysipelas, with cerebral symptoms. Ery- them. Itching in varruus parts. Hot secating.

Fever

Hyperthcrmy in the evening and hypo- thermy in the morning. Suppurative fevers with great variation of temperature.

Relationships

Compare : Gicls.: Bapt.; Brll.: . 1t on.; Fcrr. phos. Antidotes Strychnm — fluid extract. 20- 40 drops.

Dose

First to sixth potency.