Marasmus



Baryta carbonica. [Bar-c]

      Corresponds to dwarfish sluggish children who are weak in memory, whose cervical glands are swollen, who are lazy, pot- bellied, and who suffer from great physical and mental debility. The child wants to eat all the time, does not like sweet things or fruit and a little food satisfies.

**Artemesia abrotanum is also a remedy for marasmus. It has enormous appetite, child constantly cries for food, pain in the stomach and abdomen, bloating and large frequent stools; food passes undigested. Skin flabby, hangs loosely.

W.A. Dewey
Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.