Homeopathic dilutions: V

Veratrum Album. 2d.

The main indication for this remedy is cold sweats on forehead. Great prostration, face pale and sunken, coldness of parts or, entire body, cold sweats, cold breath, skin pale or bluish red, wrinkled with loss of elasticity, skin hippocratic, in fact a picture of a condition where the vital forces are very low and there is a general collapse. Pains which may make patient delirious.

In cholera, with stools the nature of rice water and very profuse. In any disease or condition where we have the cold sweats on forehead.

For mental symptoms see under proper heading.


The Materia Medica and Clinical Therapeutics, 1905, was written by Fred J. Petersen, M.D.