Veratrum Viride and Essential Hypertension

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Abstract
VERATRUM viride, the American false hellebore, has been used intermittently for over a hundred years in the treatment of fever, tachycardia and disturbances of the circulation. However, in modern times it has been generally discredited for clinical use, except by a rare pharmacologist1 and an occasional obstetrician who has continued to advocate it for the relief of acute toxemias of pregnancy.2 3 4 Recently, it has been tried clinically in cases of essential hypertension,5 6 7 with results favorable enough to stimulate physiologic studies of its hemodynamic effects in man8 , 9 and renewed pharmacologic attempts at isolation of its clinically active principles.10 , 11 This paper . . .