Artemisia abrotanum.Lady’s Love. Southernwood. (Southern Europe.) *N. O. Compositae. Tincture of fresh leaves and stems.
Clinical
Boils. Chilblains. Epilepsy. Gout. Haemorrhoids. Hectic fever. Hydrocele. Indigestion. Lienteria. Marasmus. Myelitis, chronic. Nose-bleed. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Umbilicus, oozing from. Worms.
Characteristics
The most prominent symptom of *Abrotanum 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 in water. After a checked diarrhoea, rheumatism may ensue. Another great characteristic of *Abrotanum is metastasis, metastatic rheumatism. Metastasis of rheumatism from joints to heart, to spine.There is a sudden aching pain in back better by motion. Symptoms are worse 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., Chamomilla, Cina, Gnaph., and other Compositae, Nux-v. and Agaricus (chilblains), Bryonia, Barayta carbonica Follows well: Aconite and Bryonia (pleurisy), Hepar (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-humored, happy (secondary, after ceasing the drug).
Head
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.
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, worse 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 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 and Anus., hardly anything but blood being passed. Destroys worms, especially 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 *Aconite and *Bryonia).
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 *Hepar s.
Sleep
Restless, frightful dreams.
Fever
High fever (rheumatism). Hectic fever, with chilliness, very weakening, (marasmus).
