VERATRUM ALBUM
Common
Name: White Hellebore
Mental:
MENTAL
OVER-STIMULATION.
Fixed Ideas.
Delusion that they are
Christ or the Saviour of the world.
Delusion that they are
clever, that they are the Protector.
Praying constantly to
God – but not in a humble way.
RESTLESSNESS
– quick mind with a twist.
Melancholy - broods in
silence, despair over his own situation < evening.
Never happy with social
position, feel they deserve better.
Mania with desire to
tear everything, especially clothes; lascivious or religious talk.
Erotic (arouse sexual
desire or excitement) Mania.
Physical:
COLDNESS in
general and in parts.
Physical RESTLESSNESS, which may go along with activity of mind.
Complete prostration and
Collapse - rapid sinking of Vital Forces.
Cold perspiration on
forehead.
SENSATION
OF COLDNESS, as if blood was ICED WATER.
GREAT
THIRST for COLD DRINKS.
Vomitting and Diarrhoea at the same time - violent vomiting (“like a rocket”) and profuse diarrhoea.
DISCHARGES
are COPIOUS.
Gastrointestinal and
Menstrual symptoms - severe neuralgic pains in the head,
extremities, joints. Full of Cramps.
Faints easily.
Modalities:
Agg: Least motion; After drinking; Before and during Menses; During and after
stool; After Perspiration; after fright.
Amel: Walking, Eating, Meat
and Milk.; pressure on vertex (headache).
Desires: SOUR; UNRIPE FRUIT, SALT, Highly seasoned food, ICY- COLD DRINKS, Cucumber, Herring, Sardines, Anchovies, Salt and Lemon.