VERATRUM ALBUM [Verat]

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Fright

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Dis­appointment in love

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Injured pride or honour

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Suppressed exanthema

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Opium, tobacco, alcohol

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Exertion
 

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Drinking
 

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Change of weather
 

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Cold drinks
 

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Before and during menses
 

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Fright
 

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Before, during, after stools
 

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Touch
 

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Pressure
 

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During pain
 

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Wet cold weather
 

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Opium eating
 

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Tobacco chewing
 

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Injured pride
 

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Milk
 

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Warmth
 

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Covering
 

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Walking
 

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Hot drinks
 

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Lying
 

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Eating meat

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Hyperactive, restless, disobedient, haughty, rude, critical
 

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Cannot bear to be left alone, yet persistently refuses to talk
 

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Thinks she is pregnant, soon will be relieved
 

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Delusions of impending misfortunes
 

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Delusions of religion and identity. Believes he is Christ, or a saviour, or a prophet, or that he is on a divine mission
 

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Religious affections. Excessive praying
 

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Precocity. Asks may questions
 

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Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes
 

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Mania with livid, lascivious talk, amorous, or religious
 

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Deceitful, never speaks truth
 

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Feigns sickness
 

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Nymphomania, kisses everybody before menses
 

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Embraces everyone, even objects
 

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Imagines that world is on fire
 

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Swallows his own excrement (cophrophagia)
 

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Melancholy. Brooding
 

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Wants to commit suicide by jumping from window

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For children and old people; extremes of life, persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction. Young people of nervous, sanguine temperament
 

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Adapted to patients with rapid sinking of vital forces, complete prostration and collapse
 

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Sudden and violent onset
 

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Profuseness of discharges
 

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Cold perspiration on forehead with nearly all complaints
 

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Attacks of fainting with least exertion, excessive weakness
 

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Icy coldness of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms and many other parts. Cold feeling in abdomen
 

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Thirst - intense unquenchable, wants everything cold
 

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Sinking feeling during haemorrhages
 

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Head

-Sensation

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Headache begins in occiput, settles over one of the eyes

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Chronic long standing nervous headache < overexertion < riding < working in hot days

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When Spigelia and Silicea failed

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Face - Cold, blue, pale features, sunken, hippocratic
 

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Red while lying, becomes pale on rising up
 

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Nose - Epistaxis comes on during sleep, at night only, from right nostril
 

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Dryness of nose, mouth, throat, sensation of burning in brain
 

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G.I.T. – Tongue: Cold, pale, cool sensation as from peppermint
 

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Taste - peppermint like
 

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Craving for acids, sour, sour fruit, lemon, salt, ice, fruit, sardines, juicy refreshing things
 

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In spite of nausea and vomiting, gnawing hunger, voracious appetite
 

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Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea, followed by tremendous weakness, `collapse'. Surgical shock
 

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Vomiting excessive with nausea and great prostration < drinking < least motion, great weakness after
 

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Dyspepsia from chewing tobacco
 

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Diarrhoea, frequent, greenish, watery, gushing, mixed with flakes, with cutting colic in abdomen with cramps commencing in hands and feet spreading all over, in calves
 

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Prostrating diarrhoea, after fright, eating fruits, impure water, with cold sweat on forehead
 

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For Asiatic cholera with rice-water stools. Retention of urine in Cholera
 

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Constipation - no desire, stool large hard in round black balls, from inactive rectum, frequent desire felt in epigastrium, in babies produced by very cold weather
 

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Female genitalia - Dys­menorrhoea with vomiting and purging, cholera-like symptoms at the beginning of menses
 

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So weak, can scarcely stand for 2 days at each menstrual nisus
 

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Night blindness preceding menses
 

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Respiratory system - Bronchitis of old people, with inability to expectorate, though large amount of mucus in chest
 

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Tickling deep in chest, as if it would produce cough
 

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Extremities - Rheumatic pains in limbs < wet weather < warmth of bed > continued motion
 

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Fever - In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness, thirst, great prostration, deathly pallor
 

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Cold stage predominates and overshadows heat stage

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A picture of collapse, coldness, weakness, blueness, is seen in the remedy
 

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COLDNESS runs throughout the remedy
 

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Blueness
 

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Violence and suddenness
 

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Fainting
 

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Profuseness

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Behavioural disorders, Cholera, Dys­menorrhoea, Gastroenteritis, Hyperactivity, Mania, Neuralgia, Pneumonia, Raynaud's disease, Schizophrenia, Seizures
 

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When Nux-v and Lyc fail for constipation in babies
 

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For epistaxis during sleep when Bry, Merc, Nit-ac, Nux-v fails
 

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When Spigelia and Silica fail in headache - Clarke
 

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When after fright, there is coldness of body