VERATRUM ALBUM.
GENERALITIES.
[810.]
► It brings on a new attack of gout, [1]. ►►
*Cholera, [15], [16], [26].
► *Trembling of the whole body,
[1]. ►
*Spasms, [45]. ► *Spasms, convulsions, [21], [23],
[26], [27], [32].
► Epileptic spasms, [22]. [General
spasms seem almost never to be produced by Veratrum album, except
shortly before death, and to be the result of the great antagonism of
nature. -Hahnemann.] ► *Chronic weakness,
[1]. ►
Sleepy weakness in the morning which prevents his rising from bed, [1]. ►
Attacks of weakness when walking, [33]. ►►
*Weakness, as from too great heat in the air, [1]. [820.] ► Weak a long time in the evening on
account of mental excitement (first day); weakness (second day); weak
and disinclined to work (fourth day); weak feeling as through he had not
slept enough, head stupid; on attempting to rise he sank back in bed,
overcome by sleep, a dreamy half sleep, with sweat and apprehensive mood
(fourth day); weak and heavy, with a dizzy head and inability to work
the whole forenoon, better after a glass of wine (seventh day); weakness
in the morning (eighth day), [34a].
► Great weakness in the afternoon,
and in the evening, so that he went to bed early, followed by fatiguing,
dreamy sleep (first day); weak in the evening; all work, especially
mental work, is irksome, with great uneasiness, heaviness of the head,
which is painful, followed by stupid sleep (second day); great weakness
(fourth day); weakness (seventh day), [34b].
► *Weak and chilly in the morning,
[34e]. ►►
*Extreme weakness, [1],
[Iron seems to relieve it. -Hahnemann.] [36],
[48], [49]. ► Great
weakness, with toothache and inflammation of the tonsils, [19]. ► *Excessive
weakness on going to stool, [19].
► *Extreme weakness, [9], [30],
[31]. [Smyth says,
“especially in the lower extremities.” -Hughes.] ► *While lying, his weakness does not disappear,
but all his other symptoms do, and they return only on rising; while
sitting they also disappear, and only the headache remains, [6]. ►
*Weariness, [47]. ► Desire to lie down, [1]. [830.] ► Weariness over the whole body, as if he
had walked too far (after two hours), [6].
► Movements slow, [1]. ► Muscles
relaxed, [1]. ► General loss of power in the body, as if
he had not slept enough, with an otherwise active mind, in the morning. [3]. ►►
*Paralytic sinking of the strength, [1]. ►►
*Rapid sinking of all the forces, which invites sleep, in the
forenoon, [1]. ►► *He sinks down exhausted, [1]. ►►
*Complete muscular prostration, [43]. ►►
*Prostration and weariness of the whole body, especially of
the arms and hands, so that it was impossible for him to hold freely in
front of him a book which was not at all heavy, [2]. ► *Faintness,
[1], [15], [23],
[43], [45]. [840.] ► Restless (first day), [34a]. ► Busy
restlessness, [1]. ► Activity and mobility on the diminution
of the pains and emotional disturbances, [1].
► Sensation in the bones as if they
had been beaten (after two hours), [1].
► *Pain, consisting of a pressure and
bruised sensation in the muscular parts of the body, [1]. ►
Sensation of itching in the bones, [1].
► Transient stitches, here and there;
in the body, [1]. ► He is affected by the open air, it
distresses him, as if he were convalescent from an acute illness, [1].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ►► *Whole
body and face pale, [43].
► Desquamation of the epidermis, [29]. [After slight vomiting and
purging. -Hughes.] [850.] ► Copper-red eruption on the face, about
the mouth and chin. [19]. ► Collection of painful pimples in various
places (tetter), [1]. ► Red spots on the nose, [19]. ►
Eruption like the itch, [1]. ► Nettlerash eruption, which itches
whenever she is warm, even during the day (only about the joints); after
scratching the spots burn and hives appear, as if caused by stinging
nettles, [1]. ► Thick rash on the cheeks, with pain in
the face, [1]. ► Red eruption about the mouth and on the
chin, [19]. ►
Eruption of pimples near the corner of the mouth, on the margin of the
red, which was painful when not touched, and even more when touched, [1]. ►
Red painless pimples on the backs of the fingers between the second and
third joints (after twenty hours), [1].
► (Dry tetter upon the hand between
the thumb and index finger), [1]. [860.] ►
Painful pimple on the lower jaw, which when touched causes a
constricting pain, but which afterwards develops into a pustule with an
inflamed areola, [3]. ► Vesicles close together on the nose, [19]. [The day after S. 852 in same
subject. -Hughes.] ► Vesicular
eruption in the left corner of the mouth, [19].
► Burning blisters like anthrax on
the left thigh, elevated pustules with depressed tips, with dark-red
swollen areola, with tensive pain, when walking, burning (second day);
in the blisters on the thigh a burning-sticking pain, while walking,
though less swollen (fourth day), [34b].
► Subjective. ► Sensitiveness of the skin, every part
upon which he lies is painful (eighth day), [34b]. ►
Burning sensation, [20]. [From
external application. -Hughes.] ►
Crawling (creeping) itching on various parts of the face, rather biting
than stinging, followed by the appearance of small red pimples, with
hard red, elevated margins, and followed by brown tips, filled with
yellow pus, which at first were painless, but when fully developed were
painfully sore to touch, [3]. ► Crawling on the hands and fingers, [1]. ►
A fine stinging, as from burning nettles, about the throat and on the
chest, relieved by stroking with the hand (with redness and elevations
of the skin like urticaria, which is noticed only on touch of the hand),
[1]. ►
(Itching here and there) (fifth day), [34b].
[870.] ►
Corroding itching of the skin (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Itching
here and there on the face and behind the ears, as if pimples would
appear (without redness), with sensation of soreness behind the ears
(after twenty-three hours), [5]. ► Biting itching and crawling beneath the
lobule of the right ear, [3]. ► (Itching on the face) (third day), [34b]. ►
(Itching on the face, more than usual) (first day), [34b]. ►
Itching on the arms and feet, as if an eruption would appear, without
redness (after two hours), [5]. ► Itching and burning, with shivering on
the shoulders, back, face, arms, and fingers (seventh day), [34b]. ►
Corroding itching on the inner side of the wrist (after twenty-four
hours), [1]. ►
Itching and biting on the left middle finger, on the palmar surface, and
on the ball of the thumb, with stinging as from nettles (first day), [34b]. ►
Burning-itching pain in the first phalanx of the little finger, as if it
had been frozen, [1]. [880.] ►
Violent itching on the legs, on rubbing small painful pimples appear in
the skin (fifth day), [34]. ► Itching in the hollows of the knees
(fourth day), [34b]. ► An almost burning itching under the left
heel, deep internally (after two hours), [1].
► Itching on the great toe (first
day), [34b].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepiness. ► Yawning,
[1]; (fifth day), [34b]. ►
Frequent yawning (first and eighth days), [34b].
► Much yawning in the morning (third
day), [34], [34c]. ►
Frequent yawning and lachrymation (third day), [34b]. ► Much
yawning and stretching, and weary with sleep in the evening, [34e]. ►
Unusual yawning for more than an hour, in the evening, [34e]. [890.]
► Yawning and stretching after the
midday nap, [5]. ► Yawning, frequently so violent that it
causes roaring in the ears, [22]. ► Repeated yawning and stretching, with
weakness and bruised feeling in the joints, as if he had not slept
enough, in the morning, [3]. ► Sleepiness, especially in the afternoon
(ninth day), [34b]. ► Sleepy and weak after breakfast (eighth
day), [34a]. ►
Sleepiness, with frightful starting up, which prevents sleep, followed
by a febrile attack, [1]. ► *Unusual sleepiness, so great that
the head nods; even while making an effort to talk, the lids close and
the thoughts vanish, at noon (seventh day), [34a]. ►
Falling asleep while reading, in the afternoon (eighth day), [34a]. ►
He falls asleep, with partial consciousness, while sitting in a chair, [5]. ►
Stupefying sleep, a waking coma, [1].
[900.] ►
Quiet sleep, with thirst and diuresis, [19].
► (Sleep too sound), [1]. ► Long,
uninterrupted sleep, [19]. ► Long sleep for three days, even during
the epileptic spasms, [19]. [In an
epileptic patient. -Hahnemann.] ►
While asleep he lies with the arm over the head (first hours), [1]. ►
Sleeplessness. ►
Sleeplessness, [49]. ► Sleeplessness for several nights, [48]. ►
Late falling asleep on account of unusually cold feet (first night), [34]. ►
He falls asleep late, [5]. ► He is unable to fall asleep before
midnight, on account of excessive activity of mind, two nights in
succession; together with an intolerable sensation of heat in the bed
(he desires to uncover), with restless tossing to and fro, [5]. [910.]
► Frequent waking from short naps,
with pressing pain in the forehead and temples, and heavy head (second
night), [34b]. ► (Walking at night, with much chilly
trembling of the right arm), [1]. ► Restlessness at night (ninth day), [34b], [34d].
► Restless, dreamy sleep (seventh
day), [34b]. ►
Sleep restless, from 12 to 3 o’clock, then pain in the shoulder (sixth
night), [34]. ► Sleep interrupted by anxiety and
emotional disturbances, with complaints that the blood burns in all the
veins, especially of the head, and of a spasm rising from the chest to
the throat, with special heat of the head and hands; the heat and
anxiety disappeared in the open air, and was followed by frequent
yawning, [19]. ► Constant change of position at night, no
sleep, though the feet were warm; after awhile the knees began to be
cold; about 10 o’clock a drawing in the legs began, followed by cold
creeping as from snow-water, from the knees down to the feet, with great
restlessness till 3 o’clock; in the morning only two hours of restless
sleep (fifth day), [34]. ► Whining during sleep, [1]. ► Dreams.
► Sleep full of dreams (second day), [34]; (first, fifth, sixth, and seventh
nights), [34a]. ► Sleep heavy, dreamy, [34]. [920.] ► Confused dreams at night, [34c]. ►
Dreams at night of hunting (fourth day), [34b].
► Sleep with heavy dreams, with great
effort and great anxiety, with perspiration at night (third day), [34b]. ►
Vivid anxious dream of robbers; he awoke with fright, and then believed
that his dream was a reality, [1].
► Fatiguing dreams at night, followed
by weakness on waking in the morning, with heaviness of the head and
limbs (second day), [34b]. ► Quarrelsome dreams at night, [6]. ►
Dream that he was violently pursued, [1].
► Frightful anxious dreams at night,
for example, that a dog was biting him, and he could not get away, [2]. ►
Frightful dreams, followed by vomiting of a very tenacious green mucus, [19]. ►
Indistinct dreams; he wakes unusually early in the morning, [3].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. [930.] ►► *Chilliness in the whole body,
[27]. ►
Chilliness and shivering, in the morning, [19].
► Chilliness and shivering the whole
day, with drawing pain in the throat and back, [19]. ►►
*Chill and shivering with the frequent stools, [19]. ►
Chilliness and heat alternately from time to time, with vertigo,
constant anxiety, and qualmishness, [19].
► Febrile chill, in the morning,
immediately after rising, while dressing, [2].
►► *Febrile chill, with coldness
and thirst, in the morning for half an hour, without
subsequent heat, with weakness of the limbs, especially of the thighs
(after twenty-four hours), [2]. ►► *An internal sensation of chilliness
running from the head to the toes of both feet, at the same time with
thirst (immediately), [2].
►► *Chilliness (fourth
day); the whole afternoon (fifth day); all day, with smarting pain in
the skin (seventh day); with shivering over the back, shoulders, and
arms all day, even in a warm room (eighth day); shivering and chilliness
continued (ninth day), [34b]. ► Chilliness in the evening, [34b]. [940.]
►► *Coldness of the whole body,
[1], [31]. ►►
*Coldness and sensation of coldness over whole body (after
eleven minutes), [2]. ►► *Creeping coldness through the whole body
(soon), [2]. ► *Coldness at times, heat with unusual
perspiration at other times (sixth hour), [46]. ► *Rigidity
and coldness of the whole body, [35]. ► *Shivering
and gooseflesh after drinking, [3].
► Shivering, crawling in the skin,
for example, of the face (after two hours), [1]. ► *Shivering
over the whole body, always before vomiting, [1]. ►
Unusually sensitive to the air, every draft causing not only shivering
but a painful drawing through the back, shoulders, and arms, like a cold
wind, [34c]. ►
Shivering, with a sensation of coldness in the limbs, especially in the
shoulders and arms, as if ice-cold air were streaming through the bones,
in a warm room, [34d]. [950.] ►►
*Cold skin, [42], [47]. ►
Coldness of the head, [33]. ►► *Feeling of coldness in the head,
followed by heat, [33].
► *Very frequent creeping coolness over
the head, especially over the vertex,
[33]. ►
Peculiar feeling of coolness in the head, especially in the forehead, [33]. ►
Chilliness on the crown and at the same time in the feet (after one
hour), [1]. ►► *Face cold, collapsed, [1]. ►
*Alternations of coldness and heat in the back, [33]. ►►
*Coldness over the back, [33];
(fifth day), [34b]. ► Coldness in the back, followed by violent
heat in the back, [33]. [960.] ►
*Coldness extending from the back through the shoulders into the arms,
several times, [33]. ► *Constant shivering in the back and through the
arms, [3]. ►► *Extremities cold, [43]. ►
Chilliness in the limbs and drawing pain in them, [19]. ► Cold
hands and feet after breakfast (second day); in the evening (sixth day),
[34]. ►
Coldness of the hands and feet preventing sleep until 3 A.M., [34d]. ►
Constant painful coldness of the upper extremities (ninth day), [34b]. ►
Shivering in the arms and back, with warmth of the lower extremities and
feet (second day), [34b]. ► Sensation of coldness in the arms on
raising them, [1]. ►► *Great coldness of the hands, [33], [34b].
[970.] ►
Woke from sleep (after sleeping quietly for four hours) with cold feet,
shivering, and drawing up the legs (first night), [34]. ► Night
greatly disturbed by very painful cold feet, frequent waking and
changing of the position (fourth day), [34].
► (In the afternoon took a walk in
the melting snow; sensation of coldness and moisture of the feet; in the
evening cramplike pain in the feet while walking), (twelfth day), [34b]. ►
*Coldness of the feet, as if cold water were running into them, with
trembling, [1]. ► Painful coldness of the soles of both
feet, intolerable in the bed, obliging him to rise and walk about, in
the evening, [34e]. ► Heat. ►
Febrile symptoms, [1]. ► Fever daily before midnight, [1]. ►
Fever recurring for several days, sometimes lasting a long time, [1]. [I have noticed it sometimes in the
evening, sometimes in the morning. -Hahnemann.] ►
Heat and crawling over the whole body, extending into the tips of the
fingers and toes, [19]. ► Heat over the whole body and general
perspiration, without thirst, with pale face (after two hours), [6]. [980.]
► Internal heat, and yet he refuses
drink, [18]. ►
Heat and perspiration, in the evening, in bed, though more heat, [1]. ►
[Burning in the skin beneath the perspiration], [24]. [Bracket. -Hughes.] ►
Burning heat of the body (after three hours), followed by a copious
perspiration, which lasted five hours (after three hours and a half);
the room seemed quite obscure, he could no longer tolerate the daylight,
and could not hold up his head, but was obliged to press it against the
chest (after six hours), [46]. ► Sensation of warmth and cold at the same
time on the head, with sensitiveness of the hair, [1]. ► *Heat of
the head, [33], [47]. ►
Head hot, dull, [33]. ► Head hot, confused, and intoxicated, [33]. ►
Heat in the forehead and sinciput, which changes at first to warm, then
to persistent cold perspiration on the forehead, [1]. ► Heat
streaming up the back into the occiput, [33].
[990.] ►
*Redness and heat of the face, with slight febrile shivering,
[1]. ►
Heat and redness of the face (and shivering over the body), in the
evening, also in the morning in bed heat in the face, [1]. ► Heat and
redness of the face, and heat of the hands, with indifferent
mood, caring only for the things just about him, with fearfulness (after
one hour), [1]. ► [Bright heat and redness of the face,
with constant laughing], [19].
[Bracket. -Hughes.] ► *Heat and burning
in the cheeks, with redness, with contracted pupils and cold feet
(after ten hours), [3]. ► Sensation of heat, extending from the
upper abdomen over the chest to the throat, [49]. ► Heat
in the back, as if sweat would break out, in the evening, while walking
slowly in the open air, [5]. ► Sweat. ►
Perspiration all over, in the evening, when he wiskes to fall asleep, [1]. ►
Very profuse perspiration over the whole body, towards morning, [4]. ►
Excessive perspiration, with great thirst and good appetite, [19]. [1000.]
► Persistent profuse perspiration
during long sleep, [19]. ► Easy perspiration on every motion, [1]. ►
Sour perspiration, [19]. ► Profuse sour perspiration, [19]. ►►
*Cold sweat, [1], [43], [45].
►► *Cold sweats and vomiting of
mucus, [44]. ► *Cold perspiration, [26], [27].
[Reimann says “on the forehead.” -Hughes.] ►► *Cold perspiration over the whole body,
[31]. ►
*Cold perspiration breaks out over the whole head and chest, [9]. [Revised by -Hughes.] ► Perspiration of a bitter odor, towards
morning, [4]. [1010.] ►
Long-continued nightsweat, [19]. ►► *Cold sweat on the forehead, [1]. ►►
*Profuse cold perspiration on the forehead, with the evacuation,
[7]. ►
*Cold perspiration on the forehead, immediately on rising from a seat,
[6]. ►
(Perspiration on the face and in the axillæ, when walking), [1]. ►
Some perspiration, especially on the face, in the morning; the face is
inclined to perspire even during the day, [1].
► Perspiration only on the hands, [19].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Anxiety; vertigo; during menses,
tearing headache; after waking, pressure in crown of head; when smoking,
hiccough; in bed, colic; dry cough; oppression of chest; stiffness of
nape of neck; on rising, pain in back; on rising from a seat, pain in
small of back; pain in legs; chilliness; heat and redness of face. ► (Forenoon),
Stiffness of limbs. ► (Afternoon), Thirst. ►
(Evening), Anxiety; thirst; while
walking, drawing colic; dry cough; heat and redness of face. ► (Night),
Anxiety; colic; before midnight, fever. ►
(Open air), Sticking and burning in
eyes; distress. ► (Bending forwards), Headache from temples to
vertex. ► (Coughing),
Sticking in right shoulder; oppression of chest. ►
(After dinner), Anxiety. ► (After drinking),
Pain in region of sternum. ► (Eating), Soreness of muscles of lower jaw. ► (After eating),
Pain in region of sternum. ► (Expiration), Pain beneath ribs. ► (Hawking),
Sticking in right shoulder. ► (Inspiration), Stitch beneath last right ribs.
► (Before
menses), Nosebleed. ► (Motion), Tension and sticking in nape of
neck, shoulders, and occiput; lameness in extremities; drawing in limbs.
► (On rising
from a seat), Vertigo. ► (On rising), Most symptoms. ► (Sitting erect),
Pressure in vertex. ► (Standing), Pressure in temples; pain in small
of back; stitches in coccyx; stiffness of limbs; pain above hips and in
loins; drawing in gluteal muscles; jerking in weak foot. ► (Stooping),
Rush of blood to head; pain in back; pain in small of back. ► (Walking),
Vertigo; pain in spine; pain in small of back. ►
(Rainy weather), Pain in shoulders
and arms. ► Amelioration. ► (Bending
backward), Headache from temples to vertex. ► (Pressure with
hand), Pain in shoulder. ►
(Stooping), Pressure in temples and
vertex. ► (While
sitting and lying), Most symptoms.® 2000
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