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Medicine Of The Day

Latin Name:
Veratrum Album

Common Name:
white hellebore

Description:
Used for fainting or collapse when a person is pale, icy cold, sweaty or dehydrated. The fainting may have been due to violent vomiting, fright, or cramps, especially in pregnancy. Symptoms are better from lying down, and worse with movement (Lockie 148).

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