VERATRUM VIRIDE mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords Remarks: Verat-v. recalls at first glance a patient that might be mistaken for a Bell.-subject, who has great arterial excitement [e.g. throbbing of carotids, throbbing headache, feeling of pulsation in the whole body snex], dilated pupils, flushed, livid face, dry mouth, tongue and lips, the characteristic red streak down the center of the tongue [or yellow coating mrr5], full, hard, quick, strong pulse, throbbing headache [congestive, amel. by lying with head low! - DD Bell. better by lying with head high snex], dyspnea, breathing labored and slow, cerebral congestion, heartbeat loud and strong and often a sinking, faint feeling at pit of stomach, lungs engorged, cough expectoration usually bloody or clear, bloody mucus, [sudden, rapid rise mrr5] high fever, threatened cardiac paralysis from overexertion of heart, generally indicated, like Acon., before hepatization has taken place when it will quite frequently abort the whole trouble. [Absence of the anxiety and alarm of Acon. fr2] Is THE leading remedy for: Vomiting after cold water. Is ONE of the leading remedies for: Delirium; face bluish, or red; vomiting; coldness in general; cold sweat [on forehead mrr5]; rapid pulse, also irregular, and slow. Verat-v.: THERAPEUTIC HINTS - The red streak down the center of the tongue [but not mandatory hpp1]. Borland bl4 [Remedies for the first stage: Acon., Ferr-p., Ip., Verat-v., ] There is always marked excitement in these pneumonias. Very violent delirium may develop quite early, and the patients are liable to have all sorts of obsessions that they see faces and figures on the wall. [Delirium, with wild staring eyes and restless hands. Carphology. (C.M.Boger)] It is always something terrifying that they see, and with that state of intense excitement, in Verat-v. you will always find widely dilated pupils. Bell. has an intense flush and a burning dry skin; whereas Verat-v. is livid and covered with beads of sweat. In spite of the high temperature, and without any fall in temperature, there is always profuse perspiration in the Verat-v-patients. [Rapidly oscillating temperature. tl2] These Verat-v-patients are always intensely thirsty, and very often with their thirst there is a feeling of slight nausea. I have never come across it in any of the Materia Medicas, but clinically I have had it verified quite frequently and it is that the Verat-v-patients often complain of everything they take tasting abominably sweet. In Verat-v., also, there is an aggravation from sitting up [like Acon. snex], but it is different (to Bry.); the patients do not become giddy, but they complain that their vision becomes dim. I have verified that clinically on several occasions. You can tack on to that another Verat-v-symptom which is not uncommon: I think, in the drugs with widely dilated pupils and that is that you always find a certain amount of photophobia in the Verat-v-patients. The sputum in Verat-v. comes in about midway between the Phos. and the Bry. ones; it is not quite so bright as the Phos. and not quite so dusky as the Bry. It is a little difficult to expel, it is a little sticky, and there is always a certain amount of chest pain while coughing and trying to bring it up, but there is not the acute, stabbing pain of Bry., or the raw burning of Phos. [Copied from Chel.]: Aggravation - As far as Phos. and Verat-v. are concerned, there is no definite hour of maximum intensity, but both tend to become worse in the evening just before nightfall, when there is a period of increased excitement, increased nervousness, and increased apprehension. Nash nh6 "... A quickened circulation is salutary in all inflammatory diseases, and is evidence that the natural power to resist disease, is there and at work. The pulse will come to its normality when the cause of its disturbance is removed and should never be forced to do so until then. Here is a common fault of the old school, notwithstanding their cry of "Tolle causam". So I find fault with Guernsey's keynote, "Great activity of the arterial system; very quick pulse". Next to Dig., Verat-v. slows the pulse, as is abundantly shown in the provings. If quick pulse is ever the result of this remedy, it is a secondary or re-actionary effect, like the sleeplessness of Op. or the constipation of cathartics. So it seems to me that as an antiphlogistic (forgive me) it must go into the shade with the vaunted Dig." Lilienthal ll1 "Sputa containing large masses of blood, with faint feeling in stomach, ... constant burning distress in cardiac region; ... sinking, faint feeling in pit of stomach on attempting to sit up, nausea [and vomiting - as very characteristic symptoms in pneumonia - esp. in first stage, [DD - Ip. snex];" Hering hr1 Tongue feels as if scalded, violent nausea and vomiting every fifteen minutes, soft mushy stool, anxious oppression of chest, high fever. Dewey dw2 "... The pulse will indicate it being full and hard. (Regularly intermitting pulse ... rec1) Hard, quick and small indicates Acon." [The character of the pulse. If you find a full, hard, bounding pulse, that cannot be obliterated by the pressure of the finger, give Verat-v. The pulse need not be quick. It is the hardness of the pulse, and its fullness, that calls for this remedy. (Hale Edwin M.) mmppx] Van Denburg vax Sensation of heavy load on chest; great anxiety; pulse, hard, strong, quick; stomach faints, nauseated: or Pulse, slow, weak, intermittent, near collapse. Boger ... You don't have to give it in a low potency, either. You can give it in the [Ed. C] MM potency and get results. But don't repeat it. [The Homeopathic Recorder, 1929, p. 774-781] Winterburn mmppx In this first stage of the sthenic form of pneumonia, I think Verat-v. acts best in the lower potencies, but in the typhoid form, which is rarely met with, except in those who have been exhausted by excessive toil, want, dissipation, or previous depressing diseases, the higher potencies are certainly desirable. Here the invasion is usually gradual, the patient greatly prostrated, the pulse slow and full, and the temperature never very high. With this is often associated bloody dysentery. (Winterburn, 1888) Gatchell gccx "... Again, if it produces nausea, reduce the dose. Watch the action to avoid cardiac depression". McMichael mcx ... Constriction and oppression of chest. Congestion with nausea and vomiting, one of its most important keynotes. Difficult rapid breathing. ... Heartbeat loud, strong, at same times respiration difficult, slow, labored, threatening cardiac paralysis. ... Differentiating Characteristics Suited to full-blooded, plethoric persons. High temperature, full hard bounding pulse or secondary action slow weak, soft and intermitting. Tongue [Ed. see above] Mathur mtarx First stage - The other symptoms which may be present are twitching during sleep, constant nodding and jerking of the head, jerking and trembling, severe prostration with marked thirst though vomited. Agg. - Morning and evening. Amel. - Bending forward and lying down. MMPP Dangerous infections like pneumonia or puerperal peritonitis after indulging in alcoholic drinks or feasting. (Ed. - No source given) Stupid during pneumonia; they do not appear to comprehend the situation at all. (T.C. Duncan) The consciousness appeared little disturbed, no signs of anxiety or fear. (Berndt, ZKH, 1987) Occasionally useful in pleurisy. a1 Old pneumonic congestion with super-added acute pleurisy. c1 Capillary bronchitis is more under its control, especially when this occurs in adults, and in those of unusual vigor and life; that is in the sanguine temperament. In fact, it is decidedly the best remedy for the initiatory period. Later, it divides the field with Asc-t.; being entirely superseded by this latter remedy in children. (Winterburn George W.) Rehman rma1 Followed by - Arn. in Pleurisy. Bry. - Pneumonia, Pleurisy after the extremly high fever, the restlessness, etc. is gone. Sang. - Pneumonia [to compare in pneumonia with engorgement c1] Compare with: Acon. pfa3, Asc-t. mmppx, Bell. pfa3, Carb-v. nh6, Phos. bl4, Sang. rma1,fr2 Followed by: Arn. rma1, Bry. rma1, Sang. cda1,rma1