Abrotanum
as Ernest Albert Farrington recorded it in Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1908
Abrotanum
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Lecture
Lecture XXII — Compositae — Arnica montana, Artemisia vulgaris, Absinthium, Millefolium, Taraxacum, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Artemisia abrotanum
Artemisia Abrotanum.
Artemisia abrotanum, or Southernwood, has an intensely bitter taste, is suited to cases of suddenly appearing spinal inflammation and to chronic myelitis. There are sudden aching pains in the back which are relieved by motion ; numbness and paralysis. It is especially called for in rheumatic patients with lameness and stiffness of the joints. It is useful in patients of the class who are suffering from the effects of suppressed conditions. There is a strong tendency to metastasis. Thus rheumatism, either spontaneously or from meddlesome local treatment, leaves the extremities and goes to the heart. After the extirpation of haemorrhoids or the checking of diarrhoea, gastric symptoms supervene.
Abrotanum is one of the remedies which is applicable in the metastasis of mumps to the testicle or mammary gland, and should be studied along with Pulsatilla, Carbo vegetabilis and perhaps Arsenicum. We also find it indicated in marasmus occurring in weak children who are emaciated, wrinkled, pale, with blue rings around the eyes, gnawing hunger and bloated abdomen. You may distinguish it from other drugs that have like symptoms, especially by the fact that the emaciation is first noticed in the lower extremities.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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. Ernest Albert Farrington. Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Abrotanum — Lecture, pp. 244–245. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/farrington/abrotanum. Published 1908: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1885). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.