Veratrum Nigrum.
Veratrum nigrum. Dark-flowered Veratrum. N. O. Melanthaceć. Tincture of
fresh leaves and succulent flower-stalks.Clinical.─
Headache. Menstruation, protracted.
Tinnitus aurium.
Characteristics.─
Cooper has given me a few
observations with Ver. nig., which I have arranged in
Schema form. The plant, he says, has much the same botanical characters as Ver. alb., but the flowers are dark-coloured. It is native to
Austria and Siberia.
SYMPTOMS.
2. Head.─
Constant headache when attempting to
move or exert the brain (cured).─Fierce headache threatening acute mania
(cured).
4. Ears.─
Constant buzzing of l. ear for two weeks
with tenderness of meatus and intense sensitiveness of the head to the motion of an omnibus
with beclouding of the brain; can hardly tell which instrument to take up (in his work as a
dentist), and pain in nape of neck (agg.).
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Period continually
returning; sometimes light-coloured and slight in quantity, and sometimes profuse; with weak
feeling in back.® 2000
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