Abrotanum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Abrotanum
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Mind
Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.
General
A 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 (Kali phos).
Modalities
Worse, cold air, checked secretions. Better, motion.
Face
Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale. Blue rings around dull-looking eyes. Comedones, with emaciation. Nosebleed. Angioma of the face.
Stomach
Slimy taste. Appetite good, but emaciation progresses. Food passes undigested. Pain in stomach; worse at night; cutting, gnawing pain. Stomach feels as if swimming in water; feels cold. Gnawing hunger and whining. Indigestion, with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid.
Abdomen
Hard lumps in abdomen. Distended. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Hæmorrhoids; frequent urging; bloody stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate. Ascarides. Oozing from umbilicus. Sensation as if bowels were sinking down.
Respiratory
Raw feeling. Impeded respiration. Dry cough following diarrhœa. Pain across chest; severe in region of heart.
Back
Neck so weak cannot hold head up. Back lame, weak, and painful. Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord. Pain in sacrum, with hæmorrhoids.
Extremities
Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists, and ankles. Pricking and coldness in fingers and feet. Legs greatly emaciated. Joints stiff and lame. Painful contraction of limbs (Amm mur).
Skin
Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish. Skin flabby and loose. Furuncles. Falling out of hair. Itching chilblains.
Relationships
Compare: Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria; Benzoic acid, in gout. Iodine, Natr mur in marasmus.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Abrotanum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/abrotanum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.