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Veratrum Album

30CVeratrum Alb
White Hellebore · "The Cold Sweat Collapse Cholera Remedy"
verat.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 A powerful remedy for states of collapse, shock, and severe gastrointestinal distress characterized by coldness and profuse sweating.
📖 Boericke writes:
A perfect picture of collapse,with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse.Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints.Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. "Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk.
👤 Constitution
•Typically thin, pale, and cold individuals who are prone to sudden collapse, fainting, and extreme weakness.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
VERATRUM ALBUM White Hellebore A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug.
introduction
Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints.
introduction
Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities.
introduction
Sullen indifference.
mind
Delusions of impending misfortunes.
mind
Cold sweat on forehead.
head
Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex.
head
Icy coldness of tip of nose and face.
face
Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.
face
Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed.
stomach
Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion.
stomach
Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat.
rectum
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental states ranging from deep, indifferent depression to violent, destructive mania.
Melancholy, with stupor and mania.
Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing
Sullen indifference.
Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses.
Puerperal mania.
Aimless wandering from home.
Delusions of impending misfortunes.
Mania, with desire to cut and tear things (Tarant).
Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness.
Cursing, howling all night.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
1st to 30th
Other
🕒As directed
📝In diarrhea, not below the sixth.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Camphora →Electricitas →Arsenicum Album →Urinum →Narcissus Pseudonarcissus →Agaricus Phalloides →Agaricus Emeticus →Cuprum Metallicum →Cuprum Arsenicosum →
📚 Sources & References

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