VERATRUM ALBUM 30

Action of Medicine:

• A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness.
• For children and old people; the extremes of life; persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; young people of a nervous sanguine temperament.
• Cold sweat on forehead with nearly all complaints. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex.
• Thirst. intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold. Craving for acids or refreshing things.
• Face: Pale, blue, collapsed; features sunken, hippocratic; red while lying, becomes pale on rising up.
• Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea. Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration; aggravation by drinking; great weakness after.
• Dysmenorrhoea: with vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat, is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at each menstrual nisus.
• Aggravation from least motion; after drinking; before and during menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright.

Reference: Boericke’s New Manual of homeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica with Bowel Nosodes by H.C. Allen.