Abrotanum abrot.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

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

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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

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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

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Leaders

Marasmus most pronounced in lower extremities, from malnutrition; diarrhœa; diarrhœa alternating with rheumatism.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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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 · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

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.