Abrotanum
abrotA 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 (Ka
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Abrotanum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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. .................... 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.
Abrotanum — mind · H.C. Allen
Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel.
Abrotanum — general · James Tyler Kent
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.
Abrotanum — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Great weakness and prostration with a kind of hectic fever : with children, after influenza. Itching chilblains (<compare Nux, Agaricus). Painful, inflammatory rheumatism before the swelling commences. Gout. Painful and inflamed wrists and ankle joints.
Abrotanum — peculiar · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Sensation of creeping chills along convolutions of brain. Appetite very great ; ravenous, while emaciating. (Or, loss of appetite.) Sensation as if stomach were hanging, or swimming in water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness and dullness to all irritants. After sudden checking of diarrhoea, rheumatism. Piles appeared and became worse as rheumatic pains abated. Frequent desire for stool, but little but blood passed. Destroys worms, especially ascarides. Twitching, ovarian regions ; pains extend to back. Suppressed menses. In pleurisy (after Aeon, and Bry.) when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing. Hectic fever, very weakening (marasmus). Contraction of the limbs from cramps, or following colic. In marasmus, the skin is flabby and hangs loose. * * * Nash mentions Abrotanum six times in his Leaders. Its chief uses, for him, are summed up as : Marasmus, most pronounced in lower extremities, from malnutrition. Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea alternating with rheumatism. We will quote these passages because they give very definite indications as regards the uses of the remedy, and what is so j important, his useful comparisons with other remedies of like conditions or symptoms. In regard to marasmus, he points out that, whereas Sanicula, Natrum mur. and Lycopodium emaciate from above downwards, Abrotanum emaciates from below, upwards. Of Nat. mur. he says, No remedy is more hungry, yet he loses flesh while eating well (Acet. a., Abrotanum, Iodine, Sanicula and T uberculinum). In Nat. mur. emaciation is most noticeable in the neck : Abrotanum in the legs. . . . In the marasmus of children we have to choose among remedies such as Bar. curb.. Silica, Abrotanum, Nat. m., Sulphur, Calc, and Iod. Under all these remedies we may find emaciation of the rest of the body, while the abdomen is greatly enlarged.
Abrotanum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(,Southernwood) Artemesia Abrotanum : Old Man Tree : Boy's Love : Lad's Love In Abrotanum we have a valuable remedy of marasmic children. It has many symptoms in common with Aethusa cynapium, and many others that sharply differentiate the two drugs. In both we find extreme weakness; inability to stand, or even to hold the head erect. But the Abrotanum child, instead of being unable to take milk, craves bread boiled in milk, to satisfy its gnawing hunger. Both drugs have, “ Thinking difficult ; loss of comprehension. But the mental symptoms of Aethusa and Abrotanum help to distinguish between them. In Aethusa, “ Fools' 'Parsley", there is confusion, inability to think, almost idiocy. Abrotanum has also incapacity for thought ; but may be extremely irritable, cross, ill-natured : even violent and inhuman : would like to do something cruel. No humanity. Our idea of Abrotanum, “ Lad’s Love ”, is a greyish-green shrubby plant, growing just inside the garden gate of country cottages. In passing in or out one instinctively crushes what Culpepper describes as “ its numerous leaves divided into many fine bristly segments, of a fine pale green colour ", in order to retain on one's fingers its charming scent. This, no doubt, gained it the name of Lad’s Love : for in all the centuries it must have been plucked by our lads for shy presentation to the maidens of their choice ; doubtless to be pressed and sacredly preserved in many an ancient Bible, after the manner of our country-folk, to rekindle, throughout life, its sweet memories of youth and courtship. Abrotanum is one of our old English herbal remedies.
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