Common name	:	White Hellebore, Weisse Niesswurz(Fr)
Synonyms	:	Helleborus Albus
Natural order	:	Melanthaceae (Liliaceae)
Habitat	:	A perennial herbaccous
Found	:	Plant growing in the mountainous portions of middle Europe, and as far east as Asiatic Russia
Preparation	:	Tincture of the root-stocks collected before flowering
History & Authority	:	It was introduced in Homoeopathy by Hahnemann, Mat.Med pura,Vol (iii) of original, Vol(ii) of translation contains 315 symptoms from self, 154 from 5 fellow-observes and 247 from authors. The active principle of Veratrum Album is an alkaloid called proto-veratrine (C32 H51 NO11)
Sphere of action	:	Through the cerebro-spinal system, it especially effects the Pneumogastric nerves of intestine canal. The powerful influence it has upon the pneumogastric nerves, to produce such violent nausea & vomiting, shows that the nervous centers at the base of brain & medulla oblongata are especially affected
General Analysis	:	Veratrum acts especially upon the system of nutrition, affecting profounding the entire vegetative sphere, through the cerebro- spinal nervous system. The blood becomes disorganized & separated into its constituent elements, the circulation is embarrassed & as a result general torpor of the vegetative system occurs, giving rise to a true choleraic condition
Temperament	:	Nervous & Sanguine temperament
Hot & cold relation	:	Chilly patient
Miasm	:	Psora in the background