Veratrum Nigrum
by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Dark-flowered Veratrum. N. O. Melanthaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves and succulent flower-stalks.
Clinical
Headache / Menstruation, protracted / Tinnitus aurium
Characteristics
Cooper has given me a few observations with Ver. nig., which I have arranged in Schema form. The plant, he says, has much the same botanical characters as Ver. alb., but the flowers are dark-coloured. It is native to Austria and Siberia.
2. Head
Constant headache when attempting to move or exert the brain (cured). Fierce headache threatening acute mania (cured).
4. Ears
Constant buzzing of l. ear for two weeks with tenderness of meatus and intense sensitiveness of the head to the motion of an omnibus with beclouding of the brain; can hardly tell which instrument to take up (in his work as a dentist), and pain in nape of neck (agg.).
16. Female Sexual Organs
Period continually returning; sometimes light-coloured and slight in quantity, and sometimes profuse; with weak feeling in back.