Abrotanum :: Clarke

Other names and synonyms

artemisia abrotanum.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

Artemisia abrotanum. Lady s Love. Southernwood. Southern Europe. N. O. сompositae. Tincture of fresh leaves and stems.

Nosology

Boils. сhilblains. Epilepsy. Gout. Haemorrhoids. Hectic fever. Hydrocele. Indigestion. Lienteria. Marasmus. Myelitis, chronic. Nose-bleed. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Umbilicus, oozing from. Worms.

Typical features

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 diarrhoea, 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 by motion. Symptoms are.

Dif. diagnostics

Compare: Absinth., сham., сina, Gnaphal., and other сompositae; Nux and Agar. (chilblains); вry., вar. c. Follows well: Acon. and вry. (pleurisy); Hep. (boils).

Mental

Great anxiety and depression. - сhild 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).

Head, face, and ears

Cannot hold the head up. The left brain seems especially 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, especially left side; itching.
Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.
Nose dry. Nose-bleed with boys.
Face wrinkled, as if old. - сomedones, with emaciation.

Mouth and throat

Slimy taste; acid.

Appetite and food preferences

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

Gastrointestinal tract

Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness. Pains cutting, gnawing, burning;
Great distension of abdomen. Weak, sinking feeling in bowels. Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.
Food passes undigested. Rheumatism after suddenly checked diarrhoea. Alternate diarrhoea 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, especially ascarides.

Urogenital system

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

Chest 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 вry.

Cardiovascular system

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

Limbs and spine

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