Abrotanum

Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.

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).

• ▸Cannot hold the head up.
• ▸—The |.
• ▸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.
• ▸|.
• ▸side; itching.

• ▸Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale.
• ▸Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.
• ▸Comedones, with emaciation.
• ▸Nosebleed.
• ▸Angioma of the face.

Slimy taste; acid.

10. Appetite-—Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk.—Ravenous appetite, and all the

while emaciating.—Gastralgia with loss of appetite.

• ▸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.

Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with

coldness.—Pains cutting, gnawing, burning; < at night.

• ▸Hard lumps in abdomen.
• ▸Distended.
• ▸Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.
• ▸Haemorrhoids; frequent urging; bloody stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate.
• ▸Ascarides.
• ▸Oozing from umbilicus.
• ▸Sensation as if bowels were sinking down.

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

different parts of abdomen.

Food passes undigested.—Rheumatism after suddenly checked

diarrhoea.—A Iternate 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, esp. ascarides.

Darting pain in left ovary.—Twitching in both ovarian regions,

seems to extend to back.—Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn.

• ▸Raw feeling.
• ▸Impeded respiration.
• ▸Dry cough following diarrhoea.
• ▸Pain across chest; severe in region of heart.

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.).

Pain across chest sharp and severe in region of heart;

rheumatism.—Metastasis of rheumatism to heart.—Pulse weak and small.

• ▸Neck so weak cannot hold head up.
• ▸Back lame, weak, and painful.
• ▸Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord.
• ▸Pain in sacrum, with haemorrhoids.

• ▸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).

• ▸Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish.
• ▸Skin flabby and loose.
• ▸Furuncles.
• ▸Falling out of hair.
• ▸Itching chilblains.

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

(marasmus).

• ▸Boils.
• ▸Chilblains.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸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 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 < 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.

• ▸Compare: Absinth.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Cina, Gnaphal.
• ▸, and other Composite; Nux and Agar.

• ▸(chilblains); Bry.
• ▸, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸Follows well: Acon.
• ▸and Bry.
• ▸(pleurisy); Hep.
• ▸(boils).

Compare: Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria; Benzoic acid, in gout. Iodine, Natr mur in marasmus.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Metastasis is a marked feature in Abrot. The changing of one socalled 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.

A suddenly checked diarrhoea 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 infamy \t cutfs bleeding from die

navel.

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.