Veratrum nigrum
Plant · Melanthiaceae
Remedy for headaches exacerbated by mental effort or excitement, with ear symptoms and tinnitus. Suited for those with menstrual irregularity and sensitivity to motion and noise.
Key symptoms
- Constant headache on attempting mental exertion
- Fierce headache threatening acute mania
- Constant buzzing of left ear
- Tenderness of ear meatus
- Protracted menstruation alternating between light and profuse
- Sensitiveness of head to motion
- Pain in nape of neck
- Weak feeling in back during menses
Worse (aggravation)
- By attempting to move or exert the brain
- By motion of vehicle
Veratrum nigrum. 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.).
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