SBL Veratrum Album

Common Name: White Hellebore

Causes & Symptoms for SBL Veratrum Album

• Veratrum Album has marked action on gastric and abdominal disorders with violent diarrhoea and vomiting. 
• Violence in anything is a striking peculiarity of this remedy. 
• There is cold feeling in the stomach with cutting pain as if from knives. 
• There is also sinking feeling in stomach. There is nausea and vomiting just after eating and drinking. There is a great thirst for huge quantity of icy cold water. 
• Veratrum Album also helps in diarrhoea from fright, eating, drinking and taking fruits. Colic with cutting pain in abdomen. 
• Stool is profuse, watery, gushing and mixed with flakes. 
• During stools there is colic with cramps commencing in hands and feet spreading all over the body, with cold sweat on forehead. There is great prostration after stools. 
• It also checks Diarrhoea also before and during menses.
• Veratrum Album is also indicated in intermittent fever. High body temperature is congestive and pernicious type with extreme coldness of the body. 
• There is great thirst, face cold and collapsed, skin cold and clammy, great prostration, cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face.

Mind and Head

• Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference. 
• Aimless wandering from home, Delusions of impending misfortunes. 
• Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night.
• Veratrum Album relieves Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, pale face. Neck too weak to hold head up.

Eyes

• Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without luster. 
• It is useful in Lachrymation with redness, Lids dry heavy.

Face

• Features sunken, Icy coldness of tip of nose and face. 
• Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes. Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold indicates Veratrum Album.

Mouth

• Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint. 
• Dry in center not relieved by water, Salty saliva. 
• Veratrum Album relieves Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.

Stomach

• Voracious appetite, Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed indicates Veratrum Album. 
• Averse to warm food, Hiccough. Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion. 
• Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt. 
• Anguish in pit of stomach, also useful in Great weakness after vomiting. 
• Veratrum Album is indicated in Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food.

Abdomen

• Sinking and empty feeling, Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen.