Absinthium

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Wormwood. сomposita.
 A bitter herb, a native of Europe, and cultivated in gardens, much used in France for a liqueur, the effects of which are very injurious.
 Most symptoms toxicological from French authorities. The only provings, Gybtchell, in Medical Investigator.

 After recovering from epileptic spasms no recollection of taking the poison, nor the cause of his doing so.
 Brutality, mental dulness, insanity.
 The mania from the liqueur is worse than that from alcohol.
 Soothed, as if going into a beautiful dream.
 Great terror ; terrifying hallucinations.
 Stupefaction, alternately with dangerous violence.
 Drunkenness.
 Vertigo, dizzy on rising.
 Insensibility (with convulsions).

 Causes congestion of head, medulla and spine.
 Headache.
 Wants to lie with the head low.
 ** вaldness and chronic tinea.
 Dim-sightedness.
 Pain in eyes.
 Eyelids swollen ; eyes red and suffused with tears.
 Eyes itch.
 Lids heavy.
 Otorrhoea. θ Especially after hemicrania.
 Foolish look.
 Makes facial grimaces. θ Epileptiform convulsions.
 Ebullitions of blood in face.
 Jaws firmly fixed.

 Bites his tongue. θ Epileptiform convulsions.
 Tongue thick, protruding, can scarcely talk.
 Trembling of tongue.
 Complains that tongue is paralysed.
 Foams at mouth. θ Epileptiform convulsions.
 Scalded feeling in throat.
 Throat inflamed.
 Eructations.
 Nausea and vomiting in morning.
 Nausea, apparently in region of gall-bladder.

 Food lies heavy ; stomach feels cold and oppressed ; thinks it would not absorb much.
 Liver feels swollen. θ Autumnal fever.
 ** Liver and stomach diseases.
 Pain in spleen ; it feels swollen. θ Autumnal fever.
 Bloated : around waist and in abdomen, as after ague ; with flatus.
 Constipation.
 Destroys worms.
 Hemorrhoids.

 Constant desire to urinate.
 Urine deep orange, having a strong, horse-like smell.
 Spermatorrhoea with relaxed parts.
 Pains in uterus.
 Darting pain in right ovary.
 Promotes menses.

 Cough with liver complaint.

 Tremor of heart, felt toward back.
 Heart thumps ; can be heard in scapular region.

 Pain in sacrum.
 Pain in shoulders.
 Trembling of hands.
 Horses kick with hind legs toward belly. θ Ascarides.
 Throws about limbs. θ Epileptiform convulsions.
 Pains in limbs.
 Limbs swell.
 Rising : causes vertigo.
 Wants to lie with head low.
 Bends backwards : in spasms.
 Injuries.
 Bruises and consequent inflammation.

 Trembling precedes epileptic attack.
 Epileptiform convulsions : loses consciousness, falls, bites his tongue, foams at mouth, features distorted ; throws his limbs about ; weak afterwards.
 Excited, opisthotonos, grinding teeth ; followed by stupor.

 Restless at night, with disturbing dreams.
 Morning : nausea and vomiting.
 Night : restlessness, with disturbing dreams.

 Chill, heat, then sweat ; thirst in all stages ; sleeps during heat.
 Obstinate autumnal fevers, with swollen liver and spleen.
 Attacks antepone.
 Alternate : stupefaction and violence.
 Right : darting pain in ovary.

 Nausea apparently in region of gall-bladder ; tremor of heart.
 Pain : in eyes ; in spleen ; in uterus ; in sacrum ; in shoulders ; in limbs.
 Darting : in right ovary.
 Scalded feeling : in throat.
 Swollen feeling : in liver ; in spleen.
 Heaviness : of lids.
 Oppression : in stomach.
 Itching : of eyes.
 Cold feeling : in stomach.
 Causes hyperemia of brain, medulla and spine, more intense when combined with alcohol.
 Occasionally stomach, more frequently endocardium and pericardium show small ecchymoses.
 Paralysis of inner organs.

 Jaundiced skin.

 Especially younger patients. θ сhlorosis.

 Collateral relations : Art. vulg., Abrot.
 Similar to : Alcohol, вellad. сhamom., Hyosc., Stramon.
 Is said to cure poisoning by mushrooms.
 Secondary effects of absinthe are much worse than those from abuse of alcohol, opium or tobacco.
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