Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Sleepless before midnight. Cramps in hands and feet prevent sleep. Vivid dreams. Symptomsaggravated on walking.VERATRUM ALBUM [verat] [Kent’s]You will be astonished at the wonderful coldness running through this remedy. Hardly a groupof symptoms will arise without this accompanying coldness. Coldness of discharges, coldness of thebody. You would also wonder at the remarkable prostration attending the various groups of symptoms,complete relaxation and exhaustion, coldness. Profuse sweat, vomiting and diarrhoea.Profuse watery discharges. These conditions occur without apparent provocation. In cholera orcholera morbus, it seems that the fluids run out of the body. Lies in bed, relaxed prostrated, cold to thefinger-tips, with corresponding blueness, fairly purple; lips cold and blue, countenance pinched andshrunken; great sensation of coldness as if the blood were ice- water; scalp cold; forehead covered withcold sweat; headache and exhaustion; coldness in spots over the body; extremities cold as death. Full ofcramps; looks as if he would die. This state comes out during the menses, during colic with nausea,with mania and violent delirium, with headache, with violent inflammations.Is it any wonder that Hahnemann predicted that Veratrum, , and wouldbecome remedies in the cure of cholera; he saw in their nature the ability to cure. He saw thesimilitude.In cases of this sort which are characterized by superabundance of cramps, is thesimillimum. For those with coldness and blueness and scanty sweat, vomiting, and purging, is the remedy. These are called "dry cholera"; they sink down and die without exhaustivedischarges. In proportion as there are coldness, blueness and scanty discharges, isindicated. In proportion as copiousness, blueness, and coldness are present, Veratrum is indicated. has something of cholera in it., has exhaustive stools: anxious restlessness.The mental symptoms are marked by violence and destructiveness; he wants to destroy, to tearsomething; he tears the clothes from the body. Always wants to be busy, to carry on his daily work. Acooper who was suffering from the Veratrum insanity would pile up chairs on top of one another.When asked what he was doing, he replied that he was piling up staves. When not occupied with thishe was tearing his clothes, or praying for hours on his knees, and so loud that he could be heard blocksaway.Exalted state of religious frenzy, believes he is the risen Christ; screams and screeches until heis blue in the face; head cold as ice, cold sweat, reaches out and exhorts to repentance.Exhorts to repent, preaches, howls, sings obscene songs, exposes the persons. Fear and theeffects of fear; fear of death and of being damned; imagines the world is on fire."Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially the clothes, with lewdness andlascivious talk. Puerperal mania and convulsions, with violent cerebral congestion; bluish and bloatedface; protruding eyes; wild shrieks, with disposition to bite and tear. Loquacity, he talks rapidly. She isinconsolable over a fancied misfortune; runs around the room howling and screaming or sits brooding,wailing and weeping". Alternate states of brooding, screaming, and screeching. A few such remedieswould empty our insane asylums, especially of recent cases. insanity is curable if there are no incurableresults of disease.Full of despair and hopelessness with approaching insanity."Despair of his recovery, attempts suicide". Insane people are not hopeless, those approachinginsanity are, but after they become insane, they think that everybody is crazy except themselves. Thosebowed down by great grief and despair are likely to go into a state of violent mania. Veratrum carriesthem through the state of despair. "Melancholia, head hangs down, sits brooding in silence".Young girls go on for years with menstrual difficulties, and preceding each menstrual nisus is astate of despair; never smiles, the world seems blue, everything is dark; these are preparing for amarked state of insanity Veratrum is a remedy that would keep many women out of the insane asylum,especially those with uterine troubles. Girls at puberty suffer with dysmenorrhoea, hysterical mentalstates, diarrhoea, and vomiting.During the menses they become cold as death, lips blue, extremities cold and blue, dreadfulpains, sensation of sinking, mania to kiss everybody, hysteria with coldness at the menstrual period,copious sweat, vomiting, and diarrhoea, etc.Veratrum has troublesome headaches, neuralgic, of great violence, accompanied with coldness,vomiting of bile and blood, great exhaustion, profuse sweat. Vomiting and retching after the stomach isempty; spasmodic retching and cramping of the stomach; you can see the effort to empty the stomachand every little while a mouthful of bile comes up.