Veratrum viride
van H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
In eruptive fevers with much congestion, where cardiac symptoms develop of pericarditis and endocarditis, and in acute inflammatory rheumatic conditions, especially of the lower limbs, with the concomitant symptoms. Veratrum viride may be called for.
HEART
Pericarditis and endocarditis.
Sensation of a heavy load on chest.
Heart’s action violent and tumultuous.
NECK AND BACK
ACHING IN BACK OF NECK AND SHOULDERS.
Contraction of muscles of neck drawing head backward.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Rheumatic pains in left shoulder.
Acute rheumatic pains in wrists and fingers, much swollen and excessively painful.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Great trochanter painful lying on it.
Lancinating pains in right hip.
INFLAMMATORY CONDITION AFFECTING KNEES, ANKLES AND HIPS.
JOINTS SWOLLEN, RED, VERY PAINFUL AND SENSITIVE.
Right ankle feels as if dislocated; can scarcely walk going to left.
FLYING PAINS IN JOINTS CAUSING SHUDDERING.
Pains especially associated at the condyles.
AGGRAVATIONS
After exanthematous fevers.
Much sweat without relief.
CONCOMITANTS
HIGH FEVER.
RAPID PULSE.
Tongue coated on edges with a central red stripe.
MARKED CONGESTION OF THE PART.
PULSE SUDDENLY INCREASES AND THEN GRADUALLY DECREASES BELOW NORMAL.