Artemisia Abrotanum


Artemisia Abrotanum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Common names: Southern wood, old man, etc.

Introduction

A. abrotanum, L.

Natural order: Compositae.

Preparation, Tincture from the stems and leaves.

Mind.

Excited, loquacious, like shouting, good-humored, happy (secondary, after ceasing the drug).

Gloomy, desponding.

Thinks her brain is softening.

Ill-natured, irritable, violent.

Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel; no humanity.

Feebleness and dulness of mind.

No capacity for thinking, as if all bodily and mental power were gone.

Head.

Head weak, could not hold it up.

The left brain seems especially weak, easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort.

Taciturnity.

Sensation as of creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied by prickling sensation.

Scalp sore, especially left side.

Itching of scalp.

Throat.

Scraping in throat.

Stomach.

Gnawing hunger; craves bread boiled in milk.

Burning in stomach like acidity (after ceasing the drug).

Abdomen.

Weak, sinking feeling in the bowels.

Colic pains.

Stool and Anus.

Piles appeared, and became worse as the rheumatic pains abated, with frequent inclination to stool, hardly anything but blood being passed (second day).

Urinary Organs.

Bladder full, urging to urinate.

Urine scanty.

Sexual Organs.

Darting pain in region of left ovary.

Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to the back.

Respiratory Apparatus.

Raw feeling in respiratory tract caused by cold air.

Sudden hoarseness.

Voice weak.

Neck and Back.

Back weak, with ovarian pains.

Extremities in General.

Joints stiff, with prickling sensation (one hours).

Prickling and burning in joints.

Upper Extremities.

Arms very weak.

Fugitive pains in the shoulders all night, could not sleep for pain.

Aching from shoulder-joints to elbows.

Numb sensation in fingers (quarter of an hour).

Dull aching in first finger of right hand, followed by similar pain in other fingers of the right and left hand (half an hour).

Generalities.

Remains very much relaxed and incapable.

Very weak.

Disposed to lie prone.

A weak sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.