Abrotanum.

Artemisia abrotanum. Lady's Love. Southernwood. (Southern Europe.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of fresh leaves and stems.

Clinical

Boils / Chilblains / Epilepsy / Gout / Hæmorrhoids / Hectic fever / Hydrocele / Indigestion / Lienteria / Marasmus / Myelitis, chronic / Nose-bleed / Paralysis / Rheumatism / Umbilicus, oozing from / Worms

Characteristics

The most prominent symptom of Abrot. is the wasting it causes, most marked in lower extremities. It has also an intense indigestion and morbid appetite. There are burning, gnawing, constricting pains, and sometimes vomiting of offensive matters. A peculiar sensation is as if the stomach were hanging or swimming its water. After a checked diarrhœa, rheumatism may ensue. Another great characteristic of Abrot. is metastasis; metastatic rheumatism. Metastasis of rheumatism from joints to heart; to spine. There is a sudden aching pain in back > motion. Symptoms are < at night and in cold air. The face is wrinkled, pale, old-looking; feels cold; blue rings round eyes. It is suited to affections of newborn children, and especially little boys; hydrocele; epistaxis; emaciation. Oozing of blood and moisture from navel of newborn. I have cured with it indigestion with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid in a middle-aged woman.

Relations

Compare: Absinth., Cham., Cina, Gnaphal., and other Compositæ; Nux and Agar. (chilblains); Bry., Bar. c. Follows well: Acon. and Bry. (pleurisy); Hep. (boils).

1. Mind

Great anxiety and depression. Child cross, depressed, very peevish. Feels she would like to do something cruel; no humanity. Thinking difficult. Feels as if brain softening. Excited, loquacious, like shouting, good-humoured, happy (secondary, after ceasing the drug).

2. Head

Cannot hold the head up. The l. brain seems esp. weak, easily tired by conversation or mental effort. Sensation as of creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied by prickling sensation. Scalp sore, esp. l. side; itching.

3. Eyes

Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.

5. Nose

Nose dry. Nose-bleed with boys.

6. Face

Face wrinkled, as if old. Comedones, with emaciation.

8. Mouth

Slimy taste; acid.

10. Appetite

Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk. Ravenous appetite, and all the while emaciating. Gastralgia with loss of appetite.

11. Stomach

Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness. Pains cutting, gnawing, burning; < at night.

12. Abdomen

Great distension of abdomen. Weak, sinking feeling in bowels. Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.

13. Stool and Anus

Food passes undigested. Rheumatism after suddenly checked diarrhœa. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Protruding piles, with burning, from touch or when pressing. Piles appeared, and became worse as rheumatic pains abated, with frequent inclination to stool, hardly anything but blood being passed. Destroys worms, esp. ascarides.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Hydrocele of children.

16. Female Sexual Organs

Darting pain in left ovary. Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to back. Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn.

17. Respiratory Organs

Cold air causes a raw feeling in respiratory tract. In pleurisy when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing (after Acon. and Bry.).

19. Heart and Pulse

Pain across chest sharp and severe in region of heart; rheumatism. Metastasis of rheumatism to heart. Pulse weak and small.

20. Back

Pains in sacrum.

21. Limbs

Inability to move. Marasmus of lower extremities only. Soreness and lameness; worse mornings. Chilblains itch; frost-bitten limbs. Gout in wrists and ankles. Inflammatory rheumatism before swelling begins.

24. Generalities

Weak, sickly feeling when excited, trembling. Lame and sore all over. Weak and prostrated after influenza. Inability to move. Numbness.

25. Skin

Flabby; hangs loose; marasmus. Furunculus; after Hep. s.

26. Sleep

Restless; frightful dreams.

27. Fever

High fever (rheumatism). Hectic fever, with chilliness, very weakening; (marasmus).