Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Veratrum Viride.
A tincture is made of the fresh root.
General Action :- ►
It is a
powerful respiratory poison, producing asphyxia ; it paralyzes the
heart and vasomotor centres and causes a low temperature (cold sweat and
collapse). ► In large doses it produces convulsions. ► It
excites vomiting, but not purging unless given in toxic doses.
Allies :- ►
Bell.,
Hyos., Coccul., Ferr., Phos.
Generalities :- ►
Tremor. ►
Inability to control voluntary muscles. ►
Spasm, with shrieks, body bent backward, arm rigid and thrown
over head, face dark blue, breathing suspended spasm repeated. ►
Pains flying about in temple and left trochanter major ; in second
joint of right index, then in right angle of lower jaw, then in left heel,
then in middle of left neck, then in right heel and left knee ; in
left humerus just above elbow, soon changing to region of left nipple,
then to middle of left humerus, then to left shoulder-joint, amel. 9 P.M.
by eating ; in different parts between 5 and 6 P.M.,
in left chest, right shoulder over clavicle, in head of left tibia and
three or four inches above the same, in tendons of right popliteal space,
in outside of right arm and left ulna, right wrist, head of left radius,
back of first joint of left middle finger and second phalanx of left great
toe. ► Distress.►
Clothes would not fit me, seemed as if
they scratched me somewhere and I could not relieve myself, constant
twitching of different parts from trying to relieve the rubbing
sensation ; agg. sitting. ► Obliged to grasp the rails for
support when walking. ► Muscular action interrupted after walking or
jumping. ► Weakness ; at 1 P.M.,
with trembling ; with heavy pain in head ; sudden. ►
Faintness ; on rising suddenly from reclining, with pallor. ►
Stiffness of voluntary muscles, agg. temporal and extensors of head.
► Aggravation in morning on waking ; in afternoon and evening.
► Amelioration from hot, strong coffee.
Clinical :- ►
Inflammatory rheumatism. ► Effects of sunstroke. ► Most
violent convulsions ; epilepsy ; hysteria ;
hystero-epilepsy ; chorea, with violent congestion. ►
Threatening tetanus. ► Has been used for poisoning by opium.
Mind :- ►
►
Delirious ; and quarrelsome, striking
and kicking with right hand and foot (Hyosc.),
at times these movements appeared involuntary, the delirium became happy
and comical. ► Fear of death. ► Though it probable that I
should die, but was not alarmed. ► Depression and prostration.
► Stupor when not vomiting. ► Lethargy between the vomiting
spells, with slow and difficult respiration. ► Unconsciousness.
Clinical :- ►
Furious
delirium, with screaming, howling and striking. ► Delirium, with
incessant muttering, dilated pupils, red streak down the tongue, etc.
Head :- ►
Aching ; at 4 P.M. ;
with full, heavy feeling in eyes ; (with vomiting every ten or
fifteen minutes) ; which stopped at temples and took a diagonal
course across head ; (central congestive), agg. noise and
motion ; heavy, with occasional painful throbbing in temples ;
heavy, at 7 P.M., with weakness, agg. lower limbs.
► Confusion ; in afternoon and evening. ►
Fulness in morning, with heaviness ; (F. and congested
feeling, with pain in forehead and nausea). ► Queer feeling. ►
Vertigo ; in morning on rising (Phos.) ;
in morning, amel. closing eyes and resting head,
with photophobia (Bell.) ;
on rising from bed, with vomiting (Coccul.) ;
on rising from a seat or bed ; with nausea
(Coccul.) ; with
nausea, then heat of surface ; in attacks, with nausea and
pain in bowels.
Forehead :- ►
Aching ; over
eyes ; over right eye ; in morning on waking, amel. stool ;
at 6 P.M., with cold hands and feet, skin of head
hot and moist ; with contractive pain in skin of forehead ; with
vomiting and hiccough ; with cold hands and feet ; extending on
left side to occiput, all day after 1 P.M., agg.
lying, especially lying on occiput ; numb, constricted, pressing back
to ears, sensation as if membrane tympani would break ; drawing, at 2
P.M. ► Sharp drawing over left eye, with
contracted feeling in skin of forehead. ► Indescribable sensation
rising towards crown and grasping, as it were, vertex and occiput, at
night after a short sleep. ► Heaviness ; over left eye at 2 P.M.
on stooping.►
Neuralgic pains in temples ; in
right temple close to eye at 10 A.M.
► Pain in right temple and over right eye and in right malar-bone
just under eye ; and right mastoid process ; in left side of
head ; at junction of left parietal and temporal bones in
forenoon ; in left side extending backward ; in left side back
of temple ; in left side to temple in forenoon ; in occiput.
Clinical :- ►
Intense
congestive headache, with throbbing stupefaction, double vision,
numbness of the limbs, nausea, vomiting, etc. ► Cerebral apoplexy.
► Indicated in cerebral hyperæmia. ► Cerebro-spinal
meningitis.
Eyes :- ►
Glassy. ►
Shooting in left, stopping suddenly. ► Pain in right ; in left
when riding in an omnibus ; with cold feet. ►
Lachrymation ; with full feeling in lids as if he had cried much. ►
Pupils dilated (Bell.,
etc.). ► Heaviness of lids, with soreness and sleepiness. ►
Aching in upper part of right orbit ; over right eye gradually
extending to forehead. ► Dim vision ;
on becoming erect, with partial syncope ; agg. while
vomiting ; (with green circles around gaslight). ► Vision
impaired ; dazzling ; unsteady ; of a green circle around
candle (Phos.), which, as vertigo came
on and I closed eyes, turned to red. ►
Blindness if he attempted to walk, with faintness.
Ears :- ►
Fulness in left, with
audible beating in carotid. ► Ringing in right at 2 P.M.,
moving quickly makes me deaf. ► Humming,
with sensitiveness to noise, ears feel cold, with spells of
deafness. ► (Noise.).
Clinical :- ►
Acute
inflammation in the middle ear (Ferr.
phos.).
Nose :- ►
Pinched and blue at 2 P.M.
► Catarrh and sneezing. ► Profuse mucus at 2 P.M.,
next day at 1 P.M.
Face :- ►
►
Flushed (Bell.). ►
Pale ; with cadaverous look and gray. ► Blue ; and
hippocratic. ► Sunken. ► Stinging in right jugum malar at
night. ► Lips and mouth dry all day ;
lips dry, with thick mucus in mouth.
► Jaws rigid. ► Pain in right angle of lower jaw.
Mouth :- ►
►
Tongue feels scalded ; feels scalded, red
in centre, coated yellow at
base ; feels scalded, with red
streak in centre, coated yellow ; coated yellow along
centre in morning ; (coated yellow, agg. along base and
centre) ; red on edges, grayish from tip half way back, back part
gray, with red spots of the size of a pin’s head strawberry tongue ;
bleached ; bleached at centre, bright red at tip in morning, with red
edges ; white in centre, bright red at tip and edges. ► Speech
lost ; almost lost. ► Burning, and in throat ; acrid B.
► Salivation ; at 2 P.M., next day at 1 P.M.
► Taste flat in morning ; flat, bitter in morning ;
bitterish, reminding one of the odor of spermatic fluid ; (bitter to
food) ; like lime-water to water.
Clinical :- ►
The
dry, red spine through the centre of the tongue, especially when
associated with a bloated, livid face, seems quite characteristic.
Throat :- ►
Submaxillary glands
swollen, sore to touch. ► Burning ; and in œsophagus and
stomach. ► Dryness causing short, dry cough ; D. and heat in T.
and fauces, which finally reached stomach. ► Numbness of fauces.
► Symptoms of globus hystericus. ► Inability to swallow.
► Sensation of a ball in œsophagus ; rising as far as top of
sternum, as from a gradual tonic contraction of stomach. ► Burning
pain along œsophagus, with inclination to swallow.
Clinical :- ►
Acute
inflammation of the œsophagus, with fiery burning pains.
Stomach :- ►
Ravenous appetite in
morning on waking ; at noon. ► Aversion to food, and after
eating a little supper dyspepsia, partially amel. a glass of whisky. ►
Thirst in morning after rising, with nausea ; T.
temporarily amel. drinking a little. ► Eructations of wind ;
acrid, sour E. ► Hiccough ; with
spasms of upper part of œsophagus at 2 P.M.,
next day at 1 P.M. ; with salivation and
discharge of mucus from stomach and nose. ►
Nausea ; amel. eating ; amel. empty
eructations ; with desire for stool ; with desire for stool,
some wind passed but not much fæces ; with drawing pain in lower
part of chest. ► Retching ; with pain ; ineffectual.►
►
Vomiting ; in morning on
rising ; with cold sweat (Verat.
alb.) ; with running from nose and eyes ; with
salivation and sweat ; with collapse, with pain and weakness ;
without effort or nausea ; without nausea, but with a sense of rising
or nausea ; with nausea, but with a sense of rising in œsophagus,
which might be compared to the rumination of animals, feeling as if
muscular fibres of stomach contracted gradually and steadily upon its
contents until they were expelled, the diaphragm and abdominal muscles
remaining inactive ; of bile ; of bile and then of mucus and
dark blood, then retching, moaning and fear of death, amel. ars ;
white, ropy mucus ; thick, glairy mucus and water ; dinner, then
thick, glairy mucus ; food, mucus, etc. ; food and contents of
stomach, then glairy mucus ; (food if ever so little is taken).►
Spasm, and in respiratory organs.
► Cramp as if muscles were contracting amel. bending forward, then
pain in abdomen as if retracted. ► Twisting
tearing, agg. motion. ► Neuralgic pains in cardiac
portion at 7 P.M. ► Excruciating pain in lower
part, with feeling as if the warm tea, etc., that I took to provoke
vomiting went under the pain increasing the constriction ; sharp P.
in epigastric and umbilical regions at 11 A.M.,
passing down to pubes ; sharp flying, in epigastric and umbilical
regions in evening. ► Pain in epigastrium ; at 9 P.M.
► Feeling in epigastrium as if a full dose of calomel were
operating. ► Distress ; in epigastrium, with sickness. ►
Tightness. ► Feeling as if slowly contracting and forcing contents
into œsophagus, causing sensation of a ball rising to top of sternum.
► Sensation of waves rising into chest at night on waking. ►
Uneasiness ; in epigastrium. ► Dyspepsia. ► Glow.
Abdomen :- ►
Flatulence. ►
Griping, with pain over epigastrium. ► Pain ; in morning ;
at 2 and 6 P.M. ; with
flatulence ; running down into scrotum ; in region of
gall-bladder at 8 P.M., next day at 8 A.M.
► Soreness across A.
Umbilical Region :- ►
Cutting at
10 A.M., with rumbling in bowels and soft stool, at
4 P.M. pain and rumbling, at 5 P.M.,
with neuralgic pain in left groin, at 8 P.M. pain in
umbilicus, next day by spells shooting at 8 A.M. and
noon, at 1 P.M. distress in U. region with desire
for stool, at 10 P.M. mushy stool, then aching in
rectum. ► Neuralgia in right side passing to groin in evening.
► Pain ; below naval ; at 10 A.M.,
with heavy pain in region of gall-bladder ; at 2 P.M. ;
drawing, at 11 A.M. and noon.
Hypogastrium :- ►
(Cutting.). ►
Pain ; just above pelvis
all day, with soreness.
Clinical :- ►
Acute
pelvic cellulitis and peritonitis.
Rectum and Anus :- ►
Aching in R.
after stool. ► Tenesmus at 6.30 A.M., waking
him, soft stool, stringy and doughy, and at 7.30 stool of same consistence
but with less tenesmus ; sudden T. at 1 P.M.
when riding, doubling me up, then an offensive, forcible, watery stool in
one gush, then ineffectual desire and all the afternoon pain in abdomen.
► (Frequent desire preceded and followed by cutting in
rectum) ; ineffectual D., with weakness and faintness. ►
Crawling as of a worm in anus.
Stool :- ►
Diarrhœa copious,
offensive, with pale face, preceded by tenesmus and burning in anus ;
frequent D., with tenesmus, felt better after each stool ; frequent,
with tenesmus and burning, tenesmus amel. stool, next day constipation.
► Soft, frequent ; S., large, bright-colored, prompt and sooner
after rising than usual ; S. and stringy, but seemed to stick in
sphincter ; alternately S. and hard every two hours, the soft one was
doughy, stringy and large, the hard one was of medium size and followed by
pain. ► Copious, free, light-colored. ► Doughy and hard to
expel, twice in one day, tenesmus with the second one.
Urinary and Genital Organs :- ►
Smarting in urethra on urinating. ► Urine
very clear ; U. increased ; scanty ; turbid,
dark, with reddish sediment, covered with a scum. ► Painful
testicle ; left, in morning, agg. left ; in evening ; agg. left,
sometimes shooting up cord into abdomen.
Clinical :- ►
Rigid
os during labor, with full bounding pulse, congested head, etc. ►
Pelvic congestions, with tenderness, fever, etc. ► Puerperal
fever, puerperal convulsions. ► Suppressed menses of plethoric
women, with intense congestion of the head, sometimes with opisthotonos.
► Dysmenorrhœa, with most violent suffering, congested head or
convulsions.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Tickling
spasmodic cough in evening, coming from just above sternum. ►
Breathing difficult (Ferr.,
etc.) ; convulsive, almost to suffocation
(Verat. alb., Ferr., Phos.) ; B.
heavy, almost stertorous ; slow ; short. ► Asphyxiated
feeling when retching.
Clinical :- ►
Bronchitis, with great dyspnœa, livid face, sometimes with cold
extremities, irregular heart, cold sweat. ► Pneumonia ; pulse
full, hard, great difficulty of breathing, with throbbing headache,
livid face, dry tongue, etc. ► Intense pulmonary congestion, with
great arterial excitement, dyspnœa ; it is generally indicated
before hepatization has taken place. ► Occasionally useful in
pleurisy.
Chest :- ►
Feeling of dislocation
in left side in afternoon when walking (right, left.). ► Pain ;
below left nipple ; (in region of heart) ; about left nipple in
afternoon ; most severe over front, with occasional twitchings in
small intestines ; burning, under sternum, in region of heart, at 2,
3 and 6 P.M. ► Constriction after vomiting,
with anguish. ► Stricture. ► (Oppression.). ► Congestion
of blood in lungs. ► Throbbing in right side.
Heart :- ►
Neuralgic pain in
region and cardiac portion at 5 P.M. ►
Pricking in region at noon and at 3 P.M. ► Hot
pain in region at 3 P.M. ► Burning distress in
region at 1 P.M. ► Action slow ; (and
weak).
Clinical :- ►
Pericarditis and endocarditis. ► Hypertrophy. ► Valvular
insufficiency.
Pulse :- ►
Rapid on least
exertion ; R., full and strong ; and irregular ; and
feeble ; then slow. ► Slow ;
with sinking sensation about heart ; and full, intermitting every
sixth or seventh beat ; and small, creeping ; and weak ;
and weak, soft ; and weak, small, soft. ► (Throbbing in
carotids.). ► Soft ; and irregular. ► Scarcely
perceptible. ► Imperceptible.
Neck :- ►
Pain in middle of left
side ; in N. and arms ; nape and arms, almost impossible to hold
head up at 1 P.M. ; at 2 P.M.,
agg. motion ; at 4 P.M., and in arms ; in
right sterno-mastoid near process in evening ; in right side about
middle of sterno-mastoid, then itching in corresponding place on left
side. ► Feeling as if cords of nape were loose.
Back :- ►
Pain. ► Weakness.
► Thrilling quivering about an inch to left of dorsal vertebræ,
four inches below scapula in evening, on rising from reclining it changed
into aching, later crawling with the thrilling. ► Pain in right side
of seventh vertebra ; on right side of dorsal spine ; in left
scapula ; in right scapula in afternoon and evening ; in bone of
right scapula, with darting from right clavicle to scapula ; in right
side of sacrum where it unites with pelvis.
Extremities :- ►
Hands and feet
shrivelled, as if they had been long in water. ► Cramplike sensation
in gastrocnemii, with inability to exert them, repeated next day in G. and
muscles of forearm, later sometimes calf, sometimes forearm and sometimes
extensors of knees were affected.►
Pain in condyles of legs and arms ;
middle of right tibia and right shoulder ; left instep and top of
left shoulder above clavicle and in left heel ; knees and elbow,
generally about condyles ; back part of second joint of right middle
finger and in second phalanx of right great toe ; left elbow, lower
third of left tibia, agg. inner malleolus ; knees, left tibia above
inner malleolus, about left elbow and left trochanter major ; right
trochanter major, external condyle of left humerus, left radius and ulna,
middle of right tibia, left ankle internally and externally ; outside
of middle of left leg, in left radius below elbow, in middle of left
femur, in outside muscles, and in left trochanter ; joints, agg. left
outer ankle ; in forenoon in left inner malleolus, left great
trochanter, left shoulder and inner condyle of left tibia ; middle of
right tibia, then in muscles of left thigh and in muscles above ridge of
left scapula ; above left elbow, rose to middle of humerus, then to
shoulder-joint, then went to left instep and outside of left ankle, then
to right ankle ; right knee, about inner condyle of femur, soon
extended to inner middle of thigh, wandered to front of thigh and above
knee, then aching in inner condyle of left femur, also inner condyle of
left humerus and left instep, then settles in outside of right
ankle ; radial condyle of left humerus and outer side of left ankle,
with shudderings ; joints in morning on waking, till he fell asleep
again, with shuddering, without chilliness, next morning woke with the
shuddering and with throbbing aching in right knee on which he was lying.►
Thrilling aching in left radius below
elbow, then in inner condyle of right femur, then in outer condyle of left
femur. ► Drawing pains in calves and right elbow in evening. ►
Feeling of clumsiness. ► Weakness ; and stiffness ; of
gastrocnemii, then of all muscles of forearm.
Upper Extremities :- ►
Left
shoulder painful ; in forenoon ; towards back before going to
bed ; in upper part at night after going to bed ; on top, in
muscles above scapular ridge at night. ► Thrilling or shuddering in
region of left shoulder. ► Pain in arms at 11 A.M. ;
arms on holding something in hand ; inner condyle of left
humerus ; outer condyle of left humerus in forenoon ; outer
condyle of left humerus at night ; humerus above elbow at
night ; at end of right elbow ; right elbow going to scapula,
when riding in an omnibus ; carpal end of right ulna ; middle of
ulna in morning ; right ulna, two inches above wrist, and in third
phalanx of right index, in forenoon ; right pisiform bone in
morning ; second phalanx of right thumb in afternoon and
evening ; sudden, in first joint of right ring finger at night before
going to bed ; pulsating, at first joint of right middle finger.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Loss of
locomotion. ► Sudden lancing pain in right hip where gluteals are
lost in thigh, on going to bed. ► Pain in left great
trochanter ; inner condyle of left femur ; inner side of left
thigh just above condyle ; above left knee ; great trochanter in
forenoon ; above left knee in evening, and in right knee ; great
trochanter when lying on it at night, right, then left ; left hip on
waking, then agg. right ; left hip when sitting on it ; suddenly
in right trochanter.
Knee :- ►
Sprained pain at inner
condyle of left femur when walking, with pain in second phalanx of left
great toe. ► Pain in tendons about popliteal space, then in left
instep and in middle of right tibia ; in right knee, left inner
malleolus, etc., in morning ; in right K. and ankle in morning on
waking ; sometimes simultaneous, sometimes alternate, at night.
► Throbbing aching on going to bed ; in right, on which he was
lying, in morning on waking, amel. turning on left side and rubbing, it
then appeared in left knee, then in right, amel. dressing, then returned,
pains are apt to come when the limb is in a constrained position.
Leg :- ►
Cramps ; in calves
in morning, waking him ; tendency to C. on touch or motion. ►
Spasmodic contraction of muscles. ► Pain in head of left
fibula ; and inner condyle of left tibia ; P. about middle of
left tibia ; lower third of left tibia ; top of lower third of
left tibia, then in lower part of left calf ; right tibia and ankle
in afternoon ; about middle of left tibia when sitting ; back of
right leg, two or three inches above ankle, agg. moving great toe. ►
Drawing in right calf when walking. ► Paralyzed sensation in
extensors of feet.►
Dislocated feeling in left ankle on
walking. ► Sharp pain about middle of left instep towards inside.
► Aching inside in bends of left foot at 9 P.M.
when eating ; right side of left sole at night when lying on right
side ; in left instep on stretching foot ; second phalanx of
left great toe.
Skin :- ►
Mortification of arm
(after compound fracture of humerus). ► Peculiar sensation. ►
Itching below right corner of mouth ; in malar prominence ; line
between right ala nasi and face, first joint of left thumb, left ala nasi,
left cartilage of nose, lip under left ala nasi, in left ear ; right
mastoid processes and middle of inside of left thigh ; left malar
prominence in morning ; middle of left brow on going to bed ;
left malar prominence, with crawling. ► Itching at night in right
malar region ; about middle of left sterno-mastoid ; on back of
first joint of left index and in corresponding joint of next finger.
► Itching at night in bed, right brow, right ala nasi and left malar
prominence ; about line of ala nasi and cheek ; left malar
prominence, orifice of left ear and left groin ; right, then left ala
nasi ; right ala nasi, then stinging in right jugum of malar, amel.
rubbing, then I. in left ala nasi ; right ala nasi when lying on
right side, changing to left ala when he turned to left side.
Clinical :- ►
Erysipelas ; sometimes in the first stage of phlegmonous E. ►
Erysipelas of the head and face, with the peculiar tongue, delirium,
etc.
Sleep :- ►
Sleepiness. ►
Little sleep ; with restlessness. ► Restless, with frightful
dreams of people drowning. ► Dreaming much ; D.
of water ; of water, fishing, etc. ; frightful, of
being on the water ; odd, in which the Atlantic figured
largely ; in which he was continually provoked and baffled.
Fever :- ►
Chilliness ; in
morning after rising ; with sweat ; with cold sweat on limbs.
► Agues. ► Shuddering ; towards morning ; and hands
and feet cold and benumbed, a cold numb feeling crept up arms and legs,
finally the whole body felt as if enveloped in cold damp clothing and I
became prostrate ; on waking S. in right, then left shoulder, then in
chest extending into abdomen. ► Cold skin ; with clammy sweat.
► Cold limbs ; as far as knees and elbows ; hands and
feet ; covered with clammy sweat.►
Heat of body, with cold sweat on
forehead ; H. of skin, then dizziness, nausea and coldness ;
(burning in head, with flushed face). ►
Sweat ; with weakness ; cold ; cold, on hands
and face ; cold, clammy, on brow.
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