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Veratrum Viride

30CVeratrum Vir
American Hellebore · Green Hellebore · "The Full Bounding Pulse Apoplexy Remedy"
verat-v.PolychrestPlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts as a powerful circulatory depressant, specifically targeting intense congestion, high blood pressure, and inflammatory states.
📖 Boericke writes:
Paroxysms of auricular fibrillation. Induces fall of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Congestions, especially to lungs, base of brain, with nausea and vomiting. Twitchings and convulsions. Especially adapted to full-blooded, plethoric persons. Great prostration. Rheumatism of heart.Bloated, livid face. Furious delirium. Effects of sunstroke.oesophagitis. (Farrington). Verat vir, will raise the opsonic index against thediploccus pneumonia, 70 to 109 per cent. Congestive stage and early manifestations of hepatization in pneumonia. Zigzag temperature. Clinically, it is known that such diseases as Tiegel's contracture, Thompson's Disease, athetosis and pseudo-hypertrophic muscular paralysis present a symptomatology quite like that produced by Veratrum vir upon muscular tissue (A. E. Hinsdale, M. D).
👤 Constitution
•Typically adapted to full-blooded, plethoric individuals who are prone to intense congestion and inflammatory reactions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Bloated, livid face.
introduction
Verat vir, will raise the opsonic index against the diploccus pneumonia, 70 to 109 per cent.
introduction
Pain from nape of neck; cannot hold head up.
head
Face flushed.
head
White or yellow, with red streak down the middle.
tongue
Hiccough; excessive and painful, with spasms of oesophagus.
stomach
Beating of pulses throughout body, especially in right thigh.
heart
Acute rheumatism.
extremities
Fever.
extremities
Hot sweating.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of intense mental agitation, irritability, and delirium.
Quarrelsome and delirious.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
First to sixth potency
Decimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Belladonna →Aconitum Napellus →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Ferrum Phosphoricum →Baptisia Tinctoria →Ferrum Metallicum →
📚 Sources & References

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