Abrotanum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Abrotanum
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Keynotes
Abrotanum
Southernwood. Compositce.
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lienteria.
Alarasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic.).
In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up. (^th.).
Marasmus of lower extremities only.
Ravenous hunger; losing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).
Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic.
Rheumatism : for the excessive pain before the swelling commences ; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea or other secretions ; alternates with haemorrhoids, with dysentery.
Gout; joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed.
Very lame and sore all over.
Itching chilblains (Agar.).
Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand.
Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel.
Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).
Relationship. — After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon, and Bry. in pleurisy, when a pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.
What the other books say about Abrotanum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Abrotanum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Abrotanum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Abrotanum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Abrotanum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Abrotanum — Keynotes, p. 7. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/abrotanum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.