Veratrum Album

Veratrum Album

Chilly + Thirsty extreme thirsty for cold water (agg vomit) + Left sided + Sleep on back with arms over the head.+ Aversion warm things.

Chilly: diqqat thand se badh jati hai ,thand to bardasht nahi hot a.

Thirsty: ghante ghante me ek ek litre pee jata hu

• Children and old age { zyda tar chot e baccho ya buddho me soch sakte hai }

• Icy coldness { camph (less discharge ) dd verat }

• Profuse discharge { Diarrhea, vomiting, sputum, perspiration etc }

Eg : Old age + Cough balgam bahut nikalta + ice coldness on touch : verat alb

{Note : unconscious patient me Observation par dekh sakte hai Head hot  extremity cold : opium ; Veratrum album , Camph }

• Cold perspiration on forehead

Eg : forehead cold perspiration + any disease: verat alb

Eg : Pregnancy + Morning sickness + icy cold perspiration on forehead: verat Album

• Sensation as cold water running in veins

{ Aisa lagta khun thanda ho gaya hai ,nas me khoon nahi thanda Pani beh Raha hai }>

• Profound prostration with cold blue collapsing { cyanosis }

• Tobacco heart { tobacco chewer+ heart dz + cough++ bulgam bahut nikalta hai+ cigrette Smoker : verat alb  }

• Nail biting

{ Bleeding + old lady + nail biting + cold perspiration on forehead + weakness : verat alb}

{Diarrhea +  sleep on back with arm above head : verat alb }

Appetite

• Voracious appetite in spite of nausea and vomiting

{ Ulti hot i hai fir bhi usko bhook lagti hai }

• Desire everything cold sour drinks juicy fruits : strawberry {puls}  and salt { nat m}

• Disagree all fruits causing distention Potatoes and vegetable agg constipation

Eg. : Sheep dung like stool+ potatoes disagree +  chilly: verat

• Aversion warm things (soup 🍲)

• Burning thirst craved large quantities cold water or ice which vomited as soon as swallowed.

Eg :

Child + Restless+ dentition + diarrhea + fridge me jo baraf jam jata hai woh nikal kar khata  hai : verat alb

Ailments from

• Opium eating { now a days rare , morphine based drug Addiction}

Old age + h/o opium addiction +  constipation +  sheep dung like stool + salt desire: verat alb

• Tobacco chewing  : koi bhi diqqat tobacco ke baad

• Overuse of alcohol

• Disappointed love { chilly verat vs hot  nat m }

• Injured pride or honor

• Fright shock  { bad news , mental or physical or emotional shock}

• Injury

General

• Chronic constipation with faintness and cold sweat

• Stool large with much straining until exhausted with cold sweat ..

• Cramps in calves during stool

• Cutting colic in abdomen as if bowels were twisted in knots with cramps in limbs and rapid prostration

• Painful retraction of abdomen while vomiting

• Aggravation during and after stool

Constipation +  large stool + exhaust with strain + cold sweat on forehead  + chilly : verat alb

• Insanity after fright with great coldness of body and diarrhea

• Menses too early profuse

• Puerperal complains { delivary}

• Nymphomania

Keynote

• Aggravation before and during menses

• Paralysis after cholera from debilitating vital drains

• Sciatica pain like electric shock + chilly+ constipation + salt desire: verat alb

• Rheumatism worse wet weather which drives him out of bed { rhus tox }

Old age + OA + rheumatic pain+ thirsty: verat alb

• Stool frequent copious gushing involuntary rice water with violent vomiting aggravation by motion cholera like

Old age + rice watery diarrhea+ chilly+ thirsty : verat alb

• Violent reaction to pain and mania

Thoda sa dard bardasht nahi hot a..

Mind

Foolish behavior + Destructiveness + children + Memory weak

Restlessness violent physical as well as mental emotional effect

Despair of social position

Never speaks truth prays sings everything is for upholding his social position

Wants to show off

Loquacity

Jesting

lascivious talk { double meaning wali baat}

Delusion he is great person

Child has craze for eating own stool { hyos }

Hopelessness { old age + Rheumatic pain }

Brooding when alone silent brooding { continue brooding in old age }

Violent mania alternates with silence and refuse to talk

Delusion she is pregnant { UPT negative, sonography negative}

Delusion he is talking with god religious mania

Forsaken feeling

Mania with desire to cut everything especially cloths

Dreams of dog hunting ,anxiety ,frightful, anger

Case Receiving me information kaise milti hai ?.

Patient jo bolta hai ,uske behavior, woh kaisa dikhta hai , relative se , investigation reports .

Old age /child age + chilly+ thirsty+ left side complaint.

Cough+ sputum++ +salt fruit desire+ double meaning talk + old age : verat .

Old age + hopeless+ dreams of dog + chilly+ sour juicy fruit desire+ constipation+ leg cramps due to straining in constipation+ tobacco chewer : verat alb

Verat Album ki murti :-

Chilly+ thirsty for cold water { phos} + icy coldness + profuse discharge  + left sided.

Baccha + dentition diarrhea + icy coldness +

Old age : tobacco/opium/alcohol consumers + constipation+ leg cramps

*Q : Kab Anti Miasmatic Drugs Prescribe Karna hai ?*

A : one sided ds / paucity of symptoms/ gross pathological changes ya jaha PQRS nahi mil rahe hai ..

Nosodes ke indication bahut zyada hot a hai isliye iske 2-3 indication mil hi Jate hai uske base par Prescribe Kiya jata hai.