Botanical Index No. 1099

White Hellebore

veratrum album l.

Medicinal Actions

Analeptic, Analgesic, Diaphoretic, Diuretic, Emetic, Expectorant, Hypotensive, Irritant, Laxative, Respiradepressant, Scabicide, Sedative, Tonic, Toxic, Colic

Primary Conditions Treated

Errhine Nervine Sternutator Vermifuge Angina Arrhythmia Arthrosis Bradycardia Callus Cancer face spleen Cardiopathy Cholera Cold Constipation Cramp Cystosis Dermatosis Diarrhea Duodenosis Dysmenorrhea Enterosis Epilepsy Felon Fever Gout Graves Disease Headache High Blood Pressure Induration Insanity Insomnia Itch Myalgia Myasthenia gravis Nervousness Neuropathy Ophthalmia Pain Phymata Pityriasis Pneumonia Polyp Rheumatism Scabies Sore Splenosis Typhus Ulcer Vertigo Vomiting Wart Water Retention Whitlow Worm

General Dosage

Do not take it; initial internal dose 20–100 mg powdered herb, or 20–60 drops tincture; externally, 5 g drug in 10 g lanolin and 20 g fat as topical; 5 drops herb tincture 3 ×/day.

Safety & Contraindications

Severely toxic, lethal dose 10–20 mg alkaloids = 1–2 g herb. Alkaloids are transdermally absorbed.

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