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Veratrum Album

30CVeratrum Alb
White Hellebore · "The Cold Sweat Collapse Cholera Remedy"
verat.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 A powerful remedy for states of , shock, and severe gastrointestinal distress characterized by coldness and profuse sweating.
📖 Boericke writes:
A perfect picture of , 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. , purging, and cramps in extremities. The profuse, violent and is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. "Coprophagia" violent alternates with silence and refusal to talk.
👤 Constitution
•Typically thin, pale, and cold individuals who are prone to sudden , , and extreme weakness.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
VERATRUM ALBUM White Hellebore A perfect picture of , with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug.
introduction
Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints.
introduction
, purging, and cramps in extremities.
introduction
Sullen indifference.
mind
of impending misfortunes.
mind
Cold sweat on forehead.
head
Sensation of a lump of ice on .
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 and ; 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 .
, with and .
Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing
Sullen indifference.
Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses.
.
Aimless wandering from home.
of impending misfortunes.
, with desire to cut and tear things (Tarant).
Attacks of pain, with driving to madness.
Cursing, howling all night.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

1st to 30th
Other
📝In diarrhea, not below the sixth.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Camphora →ElectricitasArsenicum Album →UrinumNarcissus Pseudonarcissus →Agaricus Phalloides →Cuprum Metallicum →Cuprum Arsenicosum →Agaricus Emeticus →

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Veratrum Album is listed in 409 rubrics across 21 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 143 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen77Mind56Stomach35Fever33Respiratory System30Nervous System28Locomotor System26Head20Female Sexual System20Generalities17Circulatory System16Face15Modalities15Skin6Mouth5Nose2Tongue2Eyes2Urinary System2Throat1Male Sexual System1

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