Remedy
Abrotanum abrot.
Relationships
Relationship of Remedies
Abrotanum has no row of its own in this book.
Polar generals
Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915
Region
Nerves. Nutrition. Veins.
Worse
Cold air. Wet. Checked secretions. Night. Fogs.
Better
Loose stool (Nat-s. Zin.). Motion.
General
Numb, weak, tremulous and paretic. Can't hold up head. Exudations, into pleura, joints, from navel, etc. True metastases; receding gout, etc. Alternations; piles with rheumatism (Coll. Sabi.). Rheumatism, after diarrhœa. Emaciation; ascending; of legs.
Particulars
Cross, irritable children. Pale hollow eyed, old face. Distended veins; on forehead. Nosebleed; of youths. Vomits much offensive fluid. Stomach floats in water (Buf.). Bloated abdomen. Pains in left ovary. Nightly backache. Weak joints; can't hold up head. Face cold, dry and wrinkled. Cold, prickling, numb fingers and toes. Flabby skin. Protruding piles; burn on touch.
Related
Related: Chin. Led.
Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica
H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · 1898
Keynote
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lineteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic.). In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up. (Aeth.). Marasmus of lower extremities only. Ravenous hunger; loosing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.). Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic. Rheumatism; for the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea or other secretions; alternates with haemorrhoids, with dysentery. Gout; joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed. Very lame and sore all over. Itching chilblains (Agar.). Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand. Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).
Relations
After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.
Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · 1887
General
This remedy is displayed most prominently in the chylopoietic viscera. It is found peculiarly adapted to children with marasmus, worms, etc., though adults require its use often.
Mental
The child is cross and depressed--marasmus or worms.
Face
Face wrinkled, old, pale. Blue rings around dull looking eyes. Comedones with emaciation.
Gastric
Appetite very great, though emaciation progresses. Sensation as if the stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness. Cutting pains in stomach, gnawing, burning, sometimes contracting and stinging, mostly worse at night.
Little Boys
Epistaxis. Hydrocele. Emaciation.
Generalities
Blood and moisture oozing from the navel of new-born children. A peculiar symptom is marasmus of lower extremities only. Great weakness and prostration after influenza. Itching chilblains. Gout, wrists and ankle-joints. Inflammatory rheumatism before swelling begins. Darting or twitching in either or both ovaries.
Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Southernwood
General
A very useful remedy in marasmus, especially of lower extremities only, yet with good appetite. Metastasis. Rheumatism following checked diarrhœa. Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects. Tuberculous peritonitis. Exudative pleurisy and other exudative processes. After operation upon the chest for hydrothorax or empyæmia, a pressing sensation remains. Aggravation of hæmorrhoids when rheumatism improves. Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys.
Great weakness after influenza (Kali phos).
Mind
Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.
Face
Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale. Blue rings around dull-looking eyes. Comedones, with emaciation. Nosebleed. Angioma of the face.
Stomach
Slimy taste. Appetite good, but emaciation progresses. Food passes undigested. Pain in stomach; worse at night; cutting, gnawing pain. Stomach feels as if swimming in water; feels cold. Gnawing hunger and whining. Indigestion, with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid.
Abdomen
Hard lumps in abdomen. Distended. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Hæmorrhoids; frequent urging; bloody stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate. Ascarides. Oozing from umbilicus. Sensation as if bowels were sinking down.
Respiratory
Raw feeling. Impeded respiration. Dry cough following diarrhœa. Pain across chest; severe in region of heart.
Back
Neck so weak cannot hold head up. Back lame, weak, and painful. Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord. Pain in sacrum, with hæmorrhoids.
Extremities
Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists, and ankles. Pricking and coldness in fingers and feet. Legs greatly emaciated. Joints stiff and lame. Painful contraction of limbs (Amm mur).
Skin
Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish. Skin flabby and loose. Furuncles. Falling out of hair. Itching chilblains.
Modalities
Worse, cold air, checked secretions. Better, motion.
Relationship
Compare: Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria; Benzoic acid, in gout. Iodine, Natr mur in marasmus.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · 1899
Leaders
Marasmus most pronounced in lower extremities, from malnutrition; diarrhœa; diarrhœa alternating with rheumatism.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
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 > by 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).
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).
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.
Eyes
Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.
Nose
Nose dry. — Nose-bleed with boys.
Face
Face wrinkled, as if old. — Comedones, with emaciation.
Mouth
Slimy taste; acid.
Appetite
Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk. — Ravenous appetite, and all the while emaciating. — Gastralgia with loss of appetite.
Stomach
Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness. — Pains cutting, gnawing, burning; < at night.
Abdomen
Great distension of abdomen. — Weak, sinking feeling in bowels. — Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.
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.
Male Sexual Organs
Hydrocele of children.
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.
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 .).
Heart and Pulse
Pain across chest sharp and severe in region of heart; rheumatism. — Metastasis of rheumatism to heart. — Pulse weak and small.
Back
Pains in sacrum.
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.
Generalities
Weak, sickly feeling when excited, trembling. — Lame and sore all over. — Weak and prostrated after influenza. — Inability to move. — Numbness.
Skin
Flabby; hangs loose; marasmus. — Furunculus; after Hep. s .
Sleep
Restless; frightful dreams.
Fever
High fever (rheumatism). — Hectic fever, with chilliness, very weakening; (marasmus).
The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91
General
Southernwood. Compositæ .
Artimisia abrotanum, or southernwood , growing on sunny hills in Southern Europe, and cultivated in gardens. Celebrated as an old popular medicine. Introduced into our practice by Deventer. Proved by Gatchell on two women.
Mind
Feebleness and dulness of mind.
No capacity for thinking, as if all bodily and mental power were gone.
Thinks her brain is softening.
Excited, loquacious, feels like shouting.
Taciturnity.
Indolence, aversion to physical exercise.
Good humored, happy.
Gloomy, desponding.
Great anxiety and depression. θ Gastralgia.
The child is cross and depressed. θ Marasmus.
Ill-natured, irritable, violent.
Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel ; no humanity.
Easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort.
Inner head
The left brain seemed especially weak ; easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort.
Sensation as of creeping chills along convolutions of brain, accompanied by prickling.
Outer head
Head weak, could not hold it up.
Scalp sore, especially side.
Itching of scalp.
Sight and eyes
Blue rings around dull looking eyes. θ Chlorosis.
Inflamed eyes.
Smell and nose
Dryness of inner nose.
Nosebleed with boys.
Upper face
Face wrinkled, old, pale. θ Marasmus.
Comedones with emaciation.
Face feels cold.
Drawing pains in upper maxilla.
Teeth and gums
Drawing and tearing pains in carious teeth.
Taste, speech, tongue
Slimy taste. θ Gastralgia.
Acid taste.
Palate and throat
Scraping in throat.
Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions
Gnawing hunger ; craves bread boiled in milk.
Appetite great ; ravenous while emaciating ; marasmus.
Loss of appetite. θ Gastralgia.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Burning in stomach as from acidity.
Fulness and bloating in region of stomach.
Sensation as if stomach was hanging or swimming in water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness and a dulness to all irritants. θ Gastralgia.
Pains cutting, gnawing, burning, sometimes contracting and stinging, mostly < at night ; never entirely free from pain, even in intervals. θ Gastralgia.
Disturbed digestion. θ Chlorosis.
Abdomen and loins
Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.
Frequent colicky pain. θ Marasmus.
Distended abdomen. θ Chlorosis ; marasmus ; colic.
Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.
Stools and rectum
After sudden checking of diarrhœa, rheumatism.
Piles appear and become < as rheumatic pains abate ; frequent inclination to stool ; hardly anything but blood passes.
Constipation. θ Gastralgia.
(OBS :) Worms, especially ascarides. θ Marasmus.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation ; food passes undigested. θ Marasmus.
Protruding hemorrhoidal tumors, burning when touched and when pressing.
Urinary organs
Bladder full, urging to urinate.
Urine scanty.
Male sexual organs
Hydrocele of children.
Female sexual organs
Darting pain in region of left ovary.
Twitching in ovarian regions, seems to extend to back.
(OBS :) Ulcers on os tincæ.
Dysmenorrhœa ; suppressed catamenia.
Pregnancy. parturition. lactation
Difficult parturition.
Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn children.
Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia
Sudden hoarseness ; weak voice.
Respiration
Impeded breathing.
Cough
Troublesome cough. θ Rheumatism.
Inner chest and lungs
Raw feeling in respiratory tract from cold air.
In pleurisy (after Acon. and Bryon.), when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing.
Heart, pulse and circulation
Pain across chest, sharp and severe in region of heart. θ Rheumatism.
Pulse weak and small. θ Chlorosis.
Ebullitions, with general heat and distended veins on forehead and hands. θ Hemorrhoidal colic.
Outer chest
Drawing pains in chest-muscles, especially from motion.
Neck and back
Weak back, with ovarian pains.
Pains in sacrum. θ Hemorrhoidal colic.
Upper limbs
Fugitive pains in shoulders all night, preventing sleep.
Aching from shoulder joints to elbow.
Arms very weak.
Numb sensation in fingers.
Dull aching in first finger of right hand, followed by similar pain in other fingers of right and left hand.
Pricking and coldness of finger tips.
Lower limbs
Emaciation, mostly of legs. θ Marasmus.
Drawing sensation in ankle joint.
Deadness and coldness of feet.
Sticking, tearing and itching sensations in old foot-sores.
Limbs in general
Inability to move arms ; legs only with difficulty. θ Rheumatism.
Frost-bitten limbs.
Rest. position. motion
Lies prone ; cannot hold head up.
Motion : pains in muscles of chest ; averse to exercise ; rheumatic pains <.
Inability to move arms ; legs with difficulty.
Nerves
Remains very much relaxed and incapacitated.
Disposed to lie prone.
A weak, sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited.
Very lame and sore all over. θ Rheumatism.
Great weakness and prostration, and a kind of hectic fever with children, after influenza.
Head so weak, cannot hold it up.
Hysteria.
Sleep
Sleepless and restless. θ Hemorrhoidal colic.
Time
Night : cutting, gnawing, stinging in stomach < ; fugitive pains in shoulders.
Temperature and weather
Cold air produces raw feeling in chest.
Itching chilblains.
Fever
High fever. θ Rheumatism.
Hectic fever, very weakening. θ Marasmus.
Attacks, periodicity
Suddenly : hoarseness.
Piles < as rheumatism gets >.
Alternating : diarrhœa and constipation.
Locality and direction
Left : brain seems weak ; scalp sore ; darting in ovary ; sharp pains in region of heart.
Right to left : dull aching in fingers.
Right and left : twitching in ovarian region ; aching in fingers.
Sensations
As of creeping chills along convolutions of brain, with prickling ; as if stomach was hanging or swimming in water ; weak with internal trembling.
Aching : in shoulder joints and first finger of right hand.
Pain : across chest, sharp in region of heart ; in sacrum.
Darting : in left ovary.
Cutting : in stomach.
Sticking : in foot-sores.
Stinging : in stomach.
Pricking : in brain ; in stiff joints ; finger tips.
Tearing : in teeth ; in foot-sores.
Burning : in stomach and hemorrhoids.
Soreness : of scalp all over.
Aching : from shoulder joints to elbow ; in fingers.
Contracting : in stomach.
Gouty pains : in wrists and ankle joints.
Fugitive pains : in shoulders.
Gnawing : in stomach.
Drawing : in upper maxilla, carious teeth, chest muscles ; ankle joint.
Pressing : in pleurisy.
Scraping : in throat.
Rawness : in respiratory tract.
Twitching : in ovaries.
Numbness : in fingers.
Deadness : of feet.
Coldness : in face, stomach, finger tips ; feet.
Weak sinking feeling : in bowels.
Dryness : of inner nose.
Itching : of scalp, foot-sores, chilblains.
Tissues
Gout : painful and inflamed wrists and ankle joints.
Joints stiff, with pricking sensation.
Painful, inflammatory rheumatism before swelling.
Chlorosis.
(OBS :) In phagedenic diseases.
Rheumatism from suddenly checked diarrhœa, cannot move her head, arms or limbs, and suffers much pain, no swelling.
After suppressed gout. θ Gastralgia.
Marasmus of children.
Contractions of limbs from cramps or following colic.
Skin
Furuncles, if Hepar sulph. is insufficient.
The skin is flabby and hangs loose. θ Marasmus.
Itching chilblains.
Stage of life, constitution
Children : emaciation, especially of legs. θ Marasmus.
Boys : epistaxis ; hydrocele.
Relations
After Acon . and Bryon ., in pleurisy ; after Hepar sulph ., in furuncle.
Itching chilblains ; compare Nux vom . and Amanita .
Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · 1905
Introduction
This a very valuable remedy should be more frequently used. It is indicated in such conditions as are cured by Bryonia and Rhus tox., but its symptoms mark out its own individual cases.
Rheumatic conditions with heart irritation; epistaxis; bloody urine; anxiety and trembling, when there has been a history of diarrhoea. A suddenly checked diarrhoea will be followed by violent cardiac symptoms; it is much like Ledum, Aurum and Kalmia.
Marasmus
In marasmus of children it is a very useful remedy and not unfrequently indicated. The emaciation begins in the lower limbs and gradually spreads upward, so that the face is the last affected; that is the opposite of Lycopodium, Natrum mur. and Psorinum.
Chest
It has cured pleurisy after Bryonia, which seemed indicated, had failed. A woman lying in bed with dyspnoea, anxiety, cold sweat and pain in the heart was surrounded by friends to see her die.
It was learned that she had suffered for many months with a rheumatism in one knee, that she had used crutches to get about the house, and that she had recently been speedily cured (?) by a strong liniment only a few days before this attack. Abrot. restored her to health promptly.
It has caused and cured burning ulcerative pains in the stomach with suspicious vomiting.
Metastasis
Metastasis is a marked feature in Abrot. The changing of one so called disease into another always calls attention to Abrotanum. Inflammation of the parotid (mumps) changing to tests or mammae is generally cured by Carbo v. or Pulsatilla, but Abrot, has cured when these remedies have failed.
Suppression
A suddenly checked diarrhea followed by piles and acute rheumatism, with bleedings, as mentioned above, is further argument in favor of this idea.
The Abrot. patient is sensitive to cold air and cold damp weather. He suffers much from backaches, and his symptoms are worse during the night.
In boys it cures hydrocele.
In infants it cures bleeding from the navel.
Condensed Materia Medica
Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877
Mind
Feeble, dull.
Indolence, aversion to bodily motion.
Good-humored or gloomy.
Anxious, depressed. θ Gastralgia.
Child cross, depressed, very peevish. θ Marasmus.
Inner Head
Left brain feels weaker.
As if squeezed on the temporal regions.
Outer Head
Could not hold head up.
Scalp sore; itching.
Distended veins on forehead. See 29.
Eyes
Blue rings around the eyes; eyes looking dull. θ Chlorosis.
Inflamed eyes.
Ears
Humming as of bees; wind rushes out of right ear.
Nose
Inner nose dry.
Nosebleed with boys.
Face
Face wrinkled as if old. θ Marasmus.
Comedones with emaciation.
Face feels cold.
Teeth
Drawing, tearing in carious teeth.
Tongue, etc
Acid taste.
Slimy taste. θ Gastralgia.
Mouth
Dry and sore; saliva increased.
Desires and Aversions
Gnawing hunger; ravenous appetite, all the while emaciating.
Craves bread boiled in milk.
Stomach
Burning as from acidity.
As if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness. θ Gastralgia.
Pains cutting, gnawing, burning, worse at night. θ Gastralgia.
Abdomen
Weak sinking in bowels.
Distended abdomen. θ Hemorrhoidal colic. θ Chlorosis. θ Marasmus.
Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.θ Marasmus.
Stool, etc
Food passes undigested. θ Marasmus.
After suddenly checked diarrhœa. θ Marasmus.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. θ Marasmus.
Constipation. θ Gastralgia.
Protruding piles, with burning, from touch or when passing.
Piles worse when rheumatism abated.
With inclination to stool, only blood passes.
Urine
Bladder full, urging; scanty urine.
Male Sexual Organs
Hydrocele of children.
Female Sexual Organs
Darting in left ovary; twitching in both ovaries.
Dysmenorrhœa or suppressed menses.
Pregnancy
Blood and moisture oozing from navel of the newborn.
Larynx
Sudden hoarseness or weak voice.
Breathing
Breathing impeded, difficult.
Cough
Troublesome cough. θ Rheumatism.
Lungs
Cold air causes raw feeling.
Pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing. θ Pleurisy.
Heart and Pulse
Pain across chest, sharp and severe in region of heart. θ Rheumatism.
Pulse weak and small. θ Chlorosis.
Ebullitions with general heat, and distended veins on forehead and hands. θ Hemorrhoidal colic.
Outer Chest
Drawing in muscles, worse from motion.
Back
Back weak with ovarian pains.
Pains in sacrum. θ Hemorrhoidal colic.
Sudden spinal inflammation; sudden aching pains in the back, better by motion, see 36.
Upper Limbs
Aching from shoulder-joints to elbows.
Aching in fingers, first right then left side.
Pricking and coldness finger tips.
Numbs sensation in fingers.
Distended veins, see 29.
Legs emaciated. θ Marasmus.
Lower limbs
Stitching, tearing, itching in old footsores.
Drawing in ankle-joint.
Dead cold feet.
Limbs in General
Inability to move. θ Rheumatism.
Back and limbs sore and lame, worse mornings on awaking.
Position, etc
Lies prone.
Motion: 28, 30, 31.
Nerves
Weak, sickly feeling, when excited trembling.
Lame and sore. θ Rheumatism.
Weak and prostrated after influenza, see 4.
Numbness, partial paralysis; spine affected.
Sleep
Sleepless, restless. θ Hemorrhoidal colic.
Frightful dreams and trembling on awaking.
Time
Night: 17. Morning: 31.
Temperature and Weather
Cold air: 28.
Chilblains itch; frostbitten limbs.
Chill, Fever and Sweat
Creeping chill in brain with prickling.
High fever. θ Rheumatism.
Hectic fever with chilliness after influenza, very weakening. θ Marasmus.
Attacks
Sudden hoarseness: 25.
Sides
Left: 3, 23.
Right to left: 32.
Sensations
Aching; coldness; deadness; pricking; stinging; itching; gnawing; drawing; darting; tearing; cutting; sticking; scraping; pressing; soreness; rawness; dryness; burning; hanging or swimming.
Tissues
Gout in wrists and ankles.
After suppressed gastralgia.
Joints stiff with pricking -sore, lame, joints, agg. awaking.
Contraction of limbs from cramps or colic.
Inflammatory rheumatism before swelling.
Chlorosis.
Marasmus of children.
Emaciations, see 8, 14.
Contact, Injuries, etc
Worse from touch, 20.
Skin
Skin flabby, hangs loose. θ Marasmus.
Furunculus; after Hepar sulph.
Stages and States
Children: emaciation.
Boys: θ Nosebleed. θ Hydrocele.
Newborn, 34.
Relationship
After Acon. and Bryon., pleurisy, see 28.
After Hepar, see 46.
Concordances: Nux vom., Agar.
Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889
General
The Southern wood (Artemisia Abrotanum, L.) is still cultivated in old gardens; a low shrub about three feet in height, with finely divided leaves of an intensely bitter taste. A tincture is prepared from the chopped and bruised leaves.
General Action
The indications of a central disturbance (hyperæmia) of the nervous system, producing anæsthesia arid paralysis, are very marked; this is accompanied by neuralgic pains, which cause restlessness and are relieved by motion.
Group for Study
Absinth., Rhus tox., Con., Gels., Caust., Argent. n., Phos., Cimicif., Zinc.
Generalities
Trembling all over. (Argent. n., Cimicif., Gels.). ▶ Often unconsciously dropped the reins while driving. (Compare Con.). ▶ Pains in afternoon, with necessity to lie down, great sleepiness, but inability to sleep. ▶ P. in back, hips and knees, in afternoon. ▶ P. all day in side and back of neck and shoulders, limbs, back and hips, with numbness of arms and hands.
Darting pain in various parts of body and limbs; in various parts, in forenoon, most severe above and near right elbow. ▶ Itching, then darting pains in different parts, most in lower lobes of lungs and below knees. ▶ Lameness, morning on waking, especially in back, muscular soreness on motion, with pain in back of neck, shoulders, right side of chest and limbs, with lameness of right hip, so as to cause limping.
Weakness, in forenoon, with lameness; weak, sickly feeling, with internal trembling when excited. ▶ Disposed to lie prone.
Mind
Nervous, excited, loquacious, felt like shouting, good humored, happy. ▶ Taciturn, irritable, violent. ▶ Peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel. ▶ Desponding. ▶ Thinks her brain is softening. ▶ No capacity for thinking. ▶ Feebleness and dullness.
Head
Aching; and fulness. ▶ Creeping chills along convolutions of brain, with prickling. ▶ Left brain seems especially weak, easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort. ▶ Head weak, could not hold it up. ▶ Squeezed feeling in temporal region. ▶ Pain in left temple, morning on waking, continuing all forenoon. ▶ Scalp sore, agg. left side. ▶ Itching of scalp.
Eyes
Smarting in evening, with pain in left and inability to open it.
Ears
Mind rushes out of right. ▶ Humming like a bee, but when in bed a sound like distant talking, amel. listening intently, but returning as he turned has mind from it.
Nose
Watery discharge.
Mouth
Tongue sore. ▶ Mouth hot and dry, morning on waking. ▶ Mouth dry and sore; sore, agg. night, with salivation; soreness mostly confined to gums near left, upper molars.
Throat
Scraping.
Stomach
Appetite poor. ▶ Gnawing hunger. ▶ Eructations of air tasting of the plant; of air tasting of salt mackerel in evening. ▶ Nausea; with sour eructations; in evening, with burning and soreness of stomach; felt sick all forenoon, amel. open air. ▶ Stomach sour. ▶ Burning like acidity. ▶ Heat; in epigastrium at night, with pain.
Abdomen
Bloated and painful at 10 P.M.; bloated at midnight, so that it was difficult to walk or bend, and feeling as if bowels could be kept from passing out at anus only by keeping legs close together. ▶ Pain; all night, with several stools. ▶ P. and heat. ▶ Weak, sinking feeling (Gels., Phos.). ▶ P. in left hypochondriac region, with empty eructations. ▶ P. in region of liver and kidneys, sick, sore, faint, almost amounting to faintness, with inability to walk in the street.
Anus and Stool
Piles, becoming worse as the rheumatic pains abated, with frequent inclination to stool hardly anything but blood being passed. ▶ Urgent desire for stool; with loose stools at 6 and 7 A.M. ▶ Frequent loose stools. ▶ Stool, with straining, and feeling as if large and indurated, though quite the reverse. ▶ Constipation.
Urinary Organs
Bladder full, urging to urinate.
Sexual Organs
Pain in testicles and back. ▶ Twitching in ovarian regions, extending to back. ▶ Darting pain in region of left ovary.
Respiratory Organs
Sudden hoarseness (Gels., Seneg.). ▶ Voice weak (Caust., Gels.). ▶ Raw, feeling caused by cold air. ▶ Sensation as if breathing hot air. ▶ Breathing difficult.
Chest
Pricking pain in right. ▶ Pain just below heart, then crawling and eructations. ▶ P. in left lung. ▶ P. in base of both lungs through the day, with darting pains in limbs and ankles. ▶ Sore P. in lungs; in lower part of left lung, morning on waking. ▶ Burning through right chest.
Pulse
Quick.
Neck and Back
Pulling in muscles of neck beneath right angle of jaw. ▶ Back lame, and painful. ▶ Heavy pain in lumbar region at 5 P.M.; extending to testicles. ▶ Weakness of back, with ovarian pains.
Extremities
Pain all day in shoulders, arms and hips; in arms, legs and feet on waking, amel. after motion; with lameness (Rhus t.). ▶ Sore feeling in all, morning on waking, mostly in joints. ▶ Joints sore and lame (Rhus t.). ▶ Joints stiff, with prickling (Rhus t.). ▶ Prickling and burning in joints. ▶ Weakness of extremities; of arms and limbs, with numb feeling (Rhus t.); of legs, in evening, and painfulness and lameness of hands.
Upper Extremities
Pain in axillæ as if a sore were forming. ▶ Shoulders pain. ▶ P. from joint to elbows; sharp pain in left on waking; fugitive P. all night, preventing sleep; lameness and soreness, morning an waking.
Arms
Pain above elbows; above right elbow in afternoon; above left elbow at 1 A.M. when rising. ▶ Sore pain above left elbow at 11 P.M. ▶ Arms feel as if tied to body. ▶ Lameness and aching, on outer and under side, above left elbow, when riding; then lameness of arm all day. ▶ Lameness and weakness of right arm. ▶ Weakness.
Pain in left elbow and right hand; in right elbow all forenoon. ▶ Hands sore and painful all day, with difficulty in handling everything. ▶ Lameness of right hand; left hand at 10 A.M., so that he could not sit still. ▶ Aching in first right finger, then in other fingers of right and left hand. ▶ Numb sensation in fingers (Con., Phos., Sec. corn.).
Lower Extremities
Aching pain all day across hips. ▶ P. in hips, severe in right hip and thigh. ▶ Lameness of hips and legs. ▶ Thighs lame and painful, with sore feeling, but they are not sore to touch.
Knees
Pain; left ; sore P. in evening, right then left. ▶ Lameness and painfulness of right knee in morning. ▶ Lame, aching P. on inside of right knee, then on outside of left. ▶ Lameness of knees at 11 A.M. ▶ Weakness of right knee and ankle.
Legs
Sudden pain. ▶ P. in middle of left ; then right tibia. ▶ Legs and feet lame and painful. ▶ Sore lameness in head of left fibula in evening. ▶ Ankles and legs so painful that he could not sit still at 11.30 A.M. (Rhus t.). ▶ Pain in ankles and knees, with lame and painful feet. ▶ Aching P. in ankles and feet, especially outside of left ankle.
Skin
A large sore forms from a small scratch. ▶ The old eruption feels sore, with violent pricking itching extending to head and arms. ▶ Itching of limbs; of a corn on second left toe.
Sleep
Yawning and eructations all day. ▶ Sleepiness all day. ▶ Sleep unrefreshing. ▶ Sleep restless; with springing up and constant jumping and thrashing of arms. ▶ Night restless, with heat and pain at epigastrium. ▶ Dreams frightful, and waking frightened and trembling.
Fever
Chilliness.
A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy
Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892
General
This drug, closely allied to Absinth, produces anæsthesia and paralysis, as well as severe neuralgic pains, which cause great restlessness and are relieved by motion.
Generalities
Tremblings.
Numbness of the arms and hands.
Darting pains in different places.
Weakness and, when disturbed, trembling.
General malnutrition.
Mind
Peevish or despondent, alternates with an excited mood.
Cannot control the mind nor apply it.
Head
Weak, cannot hold it up.
Ears
Noises, rushing wind, humming as of a bee, or sound of distant talking.
Stomach
Gnawing hunger or total loss of appetite.
Acidity with burning.
Abdomen
Bloated.
Sinking, weak feeling.
Stool
Loose, copious, even with straining.
Piles protrude and bleed.
Extremities
Pains, ameliorated by motion.
Lameness.
Sore feelings, especially in the joints.
Weak, paralytic feelings.
Numbness of digital extremities (fingers).
Sleep
Restless, with frightful dreams and trembling on waking.
Sleepy all day.
The Mnemonic Similiad
Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904
Mnemonic names
Abro. / Abbot.
Verse
Abrotanum is wrinkled, thin,
From constant drain, his bowels are in.
His stools in undigested plight,
Alternately play loose and tight.
Keen cramping pains his joints beset,
Whereby his limbs contracted get.
His disposition, when a child,
By cruelly, was much defiled.
Mnemonic sentences
The Abbot. has Marasmus.
The Abbot, San-jo Sarsa, is a coward in the dark, he owns up to it.
This Abbot, who is inclined to be cruel, is in Arabia, with his lackey man Hyos.
Indications
Marasmus - Atrophy: Abrot., Sanicula, Iod., Sars., Cal, c., Ars., Nit. a., Alu., Nat. m., Sil., Phos. (Scrawny neck, Nat. m., Sanic.).
Inhumanity- Cruelty: Abrot., Ars., Lach., Mer., Nux. v., Hyos.