ABSINTHIUM


Symptoms of the homeopathic medicine ABSINTHIUM from A Text Book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics by A.C. Cowperthwaite. Find all the symptoms of ABSINTHIUM ……


      Synonyms-Artemisia absinthium. Absinthium vulgare. Natural order.-Compositae. Common name.-Wormwood. Habitat.-A shrub growing wild in europe; naturalized in the United States. Preparations.-tincture from the fresh young leaves.

GENERAL ANALYSES.

Absinthium exercises a specific influence upon the nervous system, inducing symptoms of an epileptiform character, muscular tremors, tonic and and clonic spasms, foaming at the mouth, involuntary defecation and discharge of seem. together with hallucinations, and delirium, the brain and spinal cord being in a state of congestion, especially in the region of the medulla oblongata. It also, secondarily, affects the degenerative sphere, producing at first increased appetite, promoting digestion, accelerating the circulation, and to some extent augmenting the secretions, this condition after a time giving way to one of an opposite character-impaired digestion, with its usual train of symptoms. Its action is similar to that of alcohol, its chronic effects being much more serious in their character.

CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS.

Mind. Forgets what has recently happened. Insane; idiotic; brutal. Dread of assassination. Frightful visions ()Opium) and terrifying hallucinations (Anacardium, Cannabis indica, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium). Stupor alternating with dangerous violence. Insensible with convulsions (Cic).

Head. Vertigo on rising, or with tendency to fall backward. confusion with headache. Congestion of the brain and spinal cord.

Eyes. Conjunctiva injected., Sclerotic yellow. eyes brilliant. Pain and itching in. the eyes. eyelids feel heavy Causticum, Conium mac., Natr. c.). Pupils unequally dilated.

Ears. Running from the ears; after headache.

Face-Foolish look. Rush to blood to the face (Aconite, Bell,.). Makes grimaces, and foams at the mouth in epilepsy.

Mouth. Jaws family fixed (Cicuta, Ignatia, Hyoscyamus, Nux v). Bites his tongue in epilepsy; tongue thick, protruding; can scarcely talk; tongue trembling;l seems paralyzed.

Stomach. Loss of appetite;loathing of food. Food lies heavy as if it would not be digested (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Cistus, Colchicum, Nux v., Pulsatilla). Stomach feels cold and oppressed. Eructations; nausea;vomiting of bitter mucous. Nausea, apparently in region of gall bladder. Uncomfortable, irritated feeling of stomach.

Abdomen. Liver and spleen feel as if swollen. bloated aroused waist and in abdomen. Immense accumulation of flatulence in abdomen (Carb. v., Cinchona, Lycopodium, Sulphur).

Urinary Organs. Constant desire to urinate. Urine deep orange, of a strong smell (Benz. ac.) like horse urine (Natr. a., Nitr. ac.) albuminous.

Female Organs. Darting pain in right ovary (apis.) Chlorosis (Ferrum, Helonias).

Heart. Tremor of the heat felt toward the back. Heart thumps can be beard in scapular region.

Generalities. Feet very cold. Falling down, as in epilepsy, unconsciousness with distortion of the features spasms of the limbs,, bloody foam at mouth, and biting of the tongue (Cic); very weak afterward. Epileptic attacks occurring in rapid succession. Excited opisthotonos; grinding teeth; followed by stupor (Nux v., Opium), paralysis of inner organs. Sciatica.

Conditions. Young people.

Compare. Artem. vulg., Abrotanum, Alcohol, Belladonna, Chamomilla, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium

THERAPEUTICS.

Congestion of the brain, medulla, and spine; delirium ebriosorum; sleeplessness in typhoid fever when there is congestion of the brain (Farrington); catarrhal conjunctivitis; enlarged liver or spleen; wind colic; prolonged spasms of children; epileptiform convulsions dyspepsia; chlorosis; sciatica.

A.C. Cowperthwaite
A.C. (Allen Corson) Cowperthwaite 1848-1926.
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).