Synonym: Verat Alb

For Colic, Diarrhoea, Gastric Disorders, High Body Temperature, Vomiting

Clinical Indications of 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.

Patient Profile: Veratrum album LM potency medicine

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.

Pain in abdomen preceding stool. Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs.

Sensation as if hernia would protrude (Nux).

Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic indicates Veratrum Album.

Rectum

Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache.

Veratrum Album is useful in Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather.

Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat.

Veratrum Album also checks Diarrhœa, very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration.

Respiratory

Hoarse, weak voice, Rattling in chest is relieved by Veratrum Album.

Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up.

Veratrum Album is useful in Chronic bronchitis in the aged (Hippozanin).

Loud barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse, warm room. Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face.

Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing. Cough on entering warm room from cold air (Bryonia).

Female 

Veratrum Album is indicated in compliant where Menses too early; profuse and exhausting.

It is useful in Dysmenorrhœa, with coldness, purging, cold sweat. Faints from least exertion. Sexual mania precedes menses.

Extremities

Soreness and tenderness of joints is well relieved by Veratrum Album.

It also helps in Sciatica; pains like electric flashes, Cramps in calves.

Skin

Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death, Cold sweat indicates Veratrum Album.

Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

About LM potency homeopathy medicines

In the sixth edition of ‘Organon’ Dr. Hahnemann had introduced a new system of dilution and potentization and called it “renewed dynamisation” with a diluting ratio of 1:50,000. It was named as 50 millesimal potency or LM potency by Dr. Pierre Schmidt. In some parts of the world, it is also called as Q potency. It soon got professional acceptance. As on date, it is recognized by different homoeopathic pharmacopoeias including American and Indian.

What are they and how are they denoted?

These homoeopathic potencies are prepared in the diluting scale of 1:50,000 and denoted as 0/1, 0/2, 0/3…..etc. They are generally used up to 0/30.

Perceived advantages

• Highest development of power at each potency level.
• Mildest reaction – no medicinal aggravation.
• Frequent repetition is permitted; every hour or oftener in urgent cases.
• Quick cure in chronic cases where it can be given daily or oftener.
• 0/3 is more subtle than 30C or 200C and the 0/30 is sharper than CM as believed by many classical homoeopaths.

LM potency dosage: Generally LM potencies are administered as follows:

1. Take a 4oz (120ml) to 6oz (180ml) clean glass bottle. Fill it 3/4th with water. Take 1or 2 globules of the desired potency (often starting at LM 0/1) and place it into the bottle.
2. Succuss the bottle just prior to ingestion 1 to 12 times depending on the sensitivity of the patient. This slightly raises the potency and activates the remedy.
3. Take 1, or more teaspoons of the medicinal solution and place it into 8 to 10 tablespoons of water in a dilution glass and stir it. Most cases are started with 1 teaspoon and the amount is increased only if necessary. In children the amount should be 1/2 teaspoon. Infants may only need 1/4 of a teaspoon.

The dosage of the medicinal solution can be carefully adjusted to suit the sensitivity of the individual’s constitution

Note: We dispense SBL LM potency medicines in 1/2, 1 & 2 dram plastic containers, image for illustrative purpose only.