VERATRUM VIRIDE

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Paroxysms of auricular fibrillation
  • Fall of systolic and diastolic blood pressure
  • Congestions especially to lungs, base of brain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Twitchings
  • Convulsions
  • Great prostration
  • Rheumatism of heart
  • Bloated, livid face
  • Furious delirium
  • Effects of sunstroke
  • Esophagitis
  • Congestive stage and early manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia
  • Zigzag temperature
  • Quarrelsome
  • Delirious
  • Congestion intense almost apoplectic
  • Hot head
  • Bloodshot eyes
  • Hippocratic face
  • Head retracted
  • Pupils dilated
  • Double vision
  • Meningitis
  • Pain from nape of neck
  • Cannot hold head up
  • Head full
  • Throbbing arteries
  • Face flushed
  • Convulsive twitching of facial muscles
  • Vertigo with nausea
  • White or yellow tongue with red streak down the middle
  • Tongue feels scalded
  • Increased saliva
  • Thirsty
  • Smallest quantity of food or drink immediately rejected
  • Constrictive pain in stomach
  • Increased by warm drinks
  • Hiccough excessive and painful with spasms of esophagus
  • Burning in stomach and esophagus
  • Pain above pelvis with soreness
  • Difficult breathing
  • Sensation of a heavy load on chest
  • Pneumonia with faint feeling in stomach and violent congestion
  • Croup
  • Menstrual colic before the appearance of the discharge with strangury
  • Scanty urine with cloudy sediment
  • Rigid os
  • Puerperal fever
  • Suppressed menstruation with congestion to head
  • Pulse slow, soft, weak, irregular, intermittent
  • Rapid pulse low tension
  • Constant, dull, burning pain in region of heart
  • Valvular diseases
  • Beating of pulses throughout body especially in right thigh
  • Aching pain in back of neck and shoulders
  • Severe pain in joints and muscles
  • Violent electric-like shocks in limbs
  • Acute rheumatism
  • Fever
  • Erysipelas with cerebral symptoms
  • Erythema
  • Itching in various parts
  • Hot sweating
  • Hyperthermy in the evening
  • Hypothermy in the morning
  • Suppurative fevers with great variation of temperature

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Amaurosis
  • Amenorrha
  • Apoplexy
  • Asthma
  • Bunions
  • Ccum, inflammation of
  • Chilblains
  • Chorea
  • Congestion
  • Convulsions
  • Diplopia
  • Diaphragmitis
  • Dysmenorrha
  • Erysipelas
  • Headache, nervous
  • Headache, sick
  • Heart, affections of
  • Hiccough
  • Hyperpyrexia
  • Influenza
  • Malarial fever
  • Measles
  • Meningitis
  • Menses, suppressed
  • Myalgia
  • sophagus, spasm of
  • Orchitis
  • Pneumonia
  • Proctalgia
  • Puerperal convulsions
  • Puerperal mania
  • Sleep, dreamful
  • Spine, congestion of
  • Spleen, congested
  • Sunstroke
  • Typhoid fever
  • Uterus, congestion of
  • Stupefaction
  • Mental confusion
  • Loss of memory
  • Temporary delirium
  • Quarrelsome delirium
  • Depression
  • Prostration
  • Great fear of death
  • Stupor
  • Puerperal mania: silent, suspicious
  • Fears being poisoned
  • Loquacity
  • Exaltation of ideas
  • Vertigo
  • Nausea
  • Sudden prostration
  • Photophobia
  • Dim vision
  • Dilated vessels
  • Head feels full
  • Head feels heavy
  • Throbbing
  • Aching
  • Buzzing in ears
  • Double vision
  • Partial vision
  • Constant dull frontal headache
  • Neuralgic pains in r. temple close to eye
  • Rush of blood to head
  • Pain in head as if tightly bound
  • Sick-headache
  • Eyes ache
  • Eyes burn
  • Pain in lower back
  • Digging in shoulders
  • Sensitiveness of nerves
  • Pain < behind eyelids
  • Unable to bear sounds
  • Giddy
  • Weak on knees
  • Falls down faint
  • Sickness
  • Pains all over head
  • < on vertex
  • < behind ears
  • < in occiput
  • Can't bear to talk
  • Can't bear noise
  • Painful swelling of sides of neck
  • Head feels swollen
  • Suffocative feeling
  • Sneezing
  • Chills down back
  • < from fatigue
  • Indescribable sensation rising from forehead to crown
  • Grasp vertex and occiput
  • Dull occipital headache
  • Constant jerking of the head
  • Constant nodding of the head
  • Congestive apoplexy
  • Basilar meningitis
  • Cerebral irritation
  • Threatened hydrocephalus
  • Erysipelas of r. side of head and face
  • Swelling
  • Phlegmonous erysipelas of scalp
  • Full, pressing heavy feeling in eyes
  • Severe shooting pain in l. eye
  • Aching upper part of r. orbit
  • Aching directly over r. eye
  • Fulness about lids
  • Lids heavy
  • Lids sleepy
  • Profuse lachrymation
  • Vision: dim
  • Vision: unsteady
  • Vision: double
  • Vision: faintness on rising up
  • Green circles round gas-light
  • Immense green circles round candle
  • Blind in upper half of visual field
  • Cannot walk
  • Fullness and throbbing in ears (esp. l.)
  • Earache
  • Sleeplessness
  • Restlessness
  • Eyeballs ache
  • Back of head painful
  • Chills down back
  • Electric twitches in fingers
  • Affecting tongue
  • Temperature high
  • Pulse high
  • Deafness from moving quickly with faintness
  • Ringing
  • Humming
  • Sensitiveness to noise
  • Nose pinched and blue
  • Catarrh
  • Sneezing
  • Profuse secretion of mucus from nose
  • Itching of r. ala
  • Itching of l. ala
  • Face very pale
  • Face cadaverous look
  • Face blue
  • Face hippocratic
  • Face flushed
  • Stinging in r. malar bone
  • Pains in r. angle of lower jaw
  • Lock-jaw
  • Convulsive twitchings of facial muscles
  • Mouth drawn down at one corner
  • Lips dry
  • Mucus of mouth thick
  • Tongue white as if bleached (not coated)
  • Tongue white centre, red edges and tip
  • Tongue strawberry
  • Tongue red centre, edges yellow, feels scalded
  • Tongue red streak down centre
  • Tongue inclined to be dry
  • Acrid burning sensation in mouth
  • Faint odour of chloroform or ether in mouth
  • Great increase of saliva
  • Great increase of mucus from stomach
  • Great increase of mucus from nose
  • Taste flat
  • Taste like lime water
  • Taste bitterish
  • Taste peculiar, like odour of semen
  • Loss of speech
  • Dryness and heat in throat
  • Severe hiccough
  • Burning in fauces
  • Burning in sophagus
  • Constant inclination to swallow
  • Numbness of fauces
  • Spasms of sophagus constant, violent
  • Violent hiccough
  • Sense of ball moving into sophagus
  • Ravenous appetite
  • Very thirsty
  • Drinks little
  • Hiccough: constant
  • Hiccough: exceedingly painful
  • Hiccough: violent
  • Eructations: frequent of wind
  • Eructations: acrid risings
  • Eructations: sour risings
  • Nausea
  • Dizziness
  • Heat of surface
  • Sick feeling
  • Dread of food
  • Contents of stomach thrown off with a rumbling action without nausea
  • Sensation as if stomach slowly contracting on its contents
  • Producing sensation as of a ball rising up to top of sternum
  • Retching with agonising pain
  • The least quantity of food = violent vomiting
  • Vomiting: profuse
  • Vomiting: thick, glairy mucus
  • Vomiting: of food
  • Vomiting: of bile
  • Vomiting: with collapse
  • Vomiting: cold sweat
  • Twisting-tearing pain in stomach
  • As if waves rising from stomach to chest
  • Pains in stomach, sharp
  • Pains in stomach, flying
  • Great irritability of stomach
  • Dull, heavy aching in region of gall-bladder
  • Dull, heavy aching in umbilical region
  • Neuralgic pain r. side of navel to groin
  • In umbilical region: severe cutting aching pains
  • In umbilical region: rumbling
  • In umbilical region: dull aching
  • In umbilical region: distress
  • Peritonitis
  • Pain and soreness across abdomen just above pelvis
  • Pain in bowels ran into scrotum
  • Pain in scrotum
  • Crawling in anus
  • Tenesmus
  • Diarra
  • Copious and offensive stool
  • Burning of anus
  • Pale face
  • Sudden excessive tenesmus
  • Stools: copious, light, mornings
  • Stools: mushy, with tenesmus and burning
  • Stools: bloody (black in typhoid)
  • Stools: doughy, stringy, hard to expel
  • Stools: alternately soft and hard every two hours
  • Smarting in urethra on urinating
  • Urine: scanty
  • Urine: very clear
  • Urine: turbid, with reddish sediment
  • Urine: scum
  • Hmorrhage in fungus hmatodes vesic
  • Pains in both testicles, < l., morning
  • Pains shoots up into abdomen
  • Severe pain in l. testicle
  • Congestion of pelvic organs
  • Tenderness of uterus
  • Fever
  • Heat
  • Restlessness
  • Palpitation
  • Local ansthesia
  • General ansthesia
  • Menstrual colic
  • Dysmenorrha
  • Cerebral congestion
  • Membranous dysmenorrha
  • Soreness as of a boil in uterine region
  • Suppressed menses with cerebral congestion
  • Amenorrha from exposure
  • Chill
  • Complete suppression of discharge
  • Heavy pressive aching in uterine region
  • Intense pain in head with heat
  • Intense pain in head with throbbing arteries
  • Mind wandering
  • Sobbing
  • Tendency to hysteric spasms
  • Vomiting during pregnancy
  • Rigid os
  • Puerperal convulsions with arterial excitement
  • Puerperal convulsions with cold, clammy sweat
  • Puerperal fever
  • Sudden suppression of milk
  • Sudden suppression of lochia
  • Quick, weak, or hard, bounding pulse
  • After abortion retained placenta
  • Mastitis with great arterial and nervous excitement
  • In evening, tickling, spasmodic cough from just above sternum
  • Respiration: difficult
  • Respiration: nausea
  • Respiration: slow between the vomiting spells
  • Respiration: convulsive almost to suffocation
  • Oppressed breathing on attempting to walk
  • Irregular bowels
  • Sleepless
  • Fulness and heaviness in splenic region
  • History of ague in early life
  • Membranous croup
  • Cough: short
  • Cough: dry
  • Cough: hacking
  • Cough: loose, rattling
  • Cough < going from warm to cold
  • Constriction of chest
  • Chest oppressed as from heavy cold
  • Feeling of dislocation in chest when walking
  • Throbbing in r. side of chest
  • Pains about l. nipple
  • Congestion of chest with rapid respiration
  • Dull burning in region of heart
  • Pneumonia and pleurisy: pulse hard, strong, quick, or slow and intermitting
  • Pneumonia and pleurisy: lungs engorged
  • Pneumonia and pleurisy: faint feeling in stomach
  • Pneumonia and pleurisy: high fever, face flushed
  • Old pneumonic congestion with superadded acute pleurisy
  • Pricking pains in region of heart with the headache
  • Constant burning distress in region of heart
  • Burning under sternum
  • Dull, hot, aching pain in heart region
  • Neuralgic pains in heart
  • Slow action of heart
  • Palpitation
  • Dyspna
  • Violent palpitation of heart
  • Faint feeling
  • Faintness and biliousness
  • Faintness when rising from lying
  • Faintness from sudden motion
  • Pulse: slow, soft and weak
  • Pulse: irregular, intermittent
  • Pulse: suddenly increases and gradually decreases below normal
  • Aching in neck and shoulder
  • Impossible to hold head up
  • Muscles of back contracted, drawing head back
  • Pain in r. and l. sides of neck
  • Throbbing and crawling in l. back
  • Pain in r. of sacrum where it joins pelvis
  • Rheumatism esp. l. shoulder, hip, and knee
  • High fever
  • Scanty red urine
  • Clumsiness
  • Loss of power of gastrocnemii
  • Loss of power of Muscles of forearm
  • Slight drawing in r. elbow and calves
  • Throbbing in l. radius and r. femur
  • Sensation as of galvanic shocks in limbs
  • Aching top of l. shoulder above scapular ridge
  • Aching in arms and neck
  • Shuddering in l. and r. shoulders in succession
  • Pain in outer condyle of r. humerus
  • Pain in r. elbow
  • Pain in r. and l. ulna
  • Pain in fingers
  • Pain in thumb
  • Total loss of locomotion for some hours
  • Pains in either great trochanter when lying on it
  • Much pain in hip-joints
  • Much pain about condyles
  • Cramps in legs
  • Sensation of cramp in gastrocnemii
  • Inability to exert gastrocnemii
  • Drawing in r. calf while walking
  • Lancinating pain in r. hip
  • Joints swollen
  • Joints tender
  • Knee tender, swollen
  • R. ankle feels dislocated
  • L. ankle feels dislocated
  • Pallor with syncope
  • Tremor
  • Spasm with violent shrieks
  • Opisthotonos
  • Face dark blue
  • Breath suspended
  • Epileptic fits
  • Nervous attack with shaking trembling
  • Nervous attack with chilliness
  • Numbness
  • Clothes irritate
  • Convulsions
  • Chorea, movements continuing in sleep
  • Hmorrhage from various organs
  • The pains of influenza
  • Headaches
  • Gastralgia
  • Pains in calves of legs
  • Itching in many parts
  • Erythema
  • Erysipelas
  • Congestive stage of exanthema
  • Measles, with intense conjunctivitis
  • Measles, with high fever
  • Very sleepy
  • Coma
  • Restless
  • Sleepless
  • Dreams: frightful
  • Dreams: of being on the water
  • Dreams: of people drowning
  • Dreams: about water
  • Dreams: fishing
  • Dreams: lively
  • Chilly
  • Body cold but moist skin
  • Cold shivers
  • Head and feet cold
  • Head and feet numbed
  • Crept up arms and legs as if enveloped in damp clothing
  • Heat followed dizziness and nausea
  • Icy coldness followed the heat
  • Feverishness
  • Depressed in mind and body
  • Weak
  • Pains in shoulder
  • Pains over body as from influenza
  • Prickling irritating rash on forehead, face, and chest
  • Profuse diaphoresis
  • Sense of utter prostration
  • Bathed in cold sweat
  • Cold, clammy sweat on forehead
  • Irritative fever with cerebral congestion
  • Streptococcus fever
  • Rapid and violent alternations of temperature
  • Ephemeral fevers with nausea and retching
  • Cerebro-spinal fever
  • Typhoid fever
  • Yellow fever
  • Typhoid fever, fourth week, beef-steak tongue
  • Typhoid fever, sickness, unable to retain any food
  • Typhoid fever, great prostration and sinking at epigastrium

Allen's Keynotes

  • for full-blooded, plethoric persons
  • congestion, especially to base of brain, chest, spine and stomach
  • violent pains attending inflammation
  • acute rheumatism, high fever, full, hard rapid pulse, sever pains in joints and muscles
  • scanty, red urine
  • child trembles, jerks, threatened with convulsions; continual jerking or nodding of the head
  • nervous or sick headache; congestion from suppressed menses; intense, almost apoplectic, with violent nausea and vomiting
  • congestive apoplexy, hot head, bloodshot eyes, thick speech, slow full pulse, hard as iron
  • convulsions: dim vision; basilar meningitis; head retracted; child on verge of spasms
  • cerebro-spinal diseases; with spasms, dilated pupils, tetanic convulsions, opisthotonos; cold clammy perspiration
  • sunstroke, head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive to sound, double or partial vision
  • tongue: white or yellow with red streak down the middle
  • tongue: dry, moist, white or yellow coating, or no coating on either side
  • tongue: feels scalded
  • pulse: suddenly increases and gradually deceases below normal
  • pulse: slow, soft, weak; irregular, intermittent

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