Abrotanum

Southernwood. Compositce.

Artemisia abrotanum, or southernwood, growing on sunny hills in South- ern Europe, and cultivated in gardens. Celebrated as an old popular medicine- Introduced into our practice by Deventer. Proved by Gat- chell on two women.

^ Mind. Feebleness and dullness of mind.

No capacity for thinking, as if all bodily and mental power were gone.

Thinks her brain is softening.

Excited, loquacious, feels like shouting.

Taciturnity.

Indolence, aversion to physical exercise.

Good humored, happy.

Gloomy, desponding.

I Great anxiety and depression. ^ Gastralgia.

I The child is cross and depressed. ^Marasmus.

Ill-natured, irritable, violent.

Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel; no humanity.

Easily fatigued by conversation or mental eifort. ^ Inner Head. The left brain seemed especially weak ; easily fatigued by conversation or mental eifort.

Sensation as of creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied by prickling sensation. * Outer Head. Head weak, could not hold it up.

Scalp sore, especially left side.

Itching of the scalp. ' Eyes. I Blue rings around dull looking eyes, d Chlorosis.

Inflamed eyes. ^ Nose. Dryness of the inner nose.

■ Nosebleed with boys. ^ Face. I Face wrinkled, old, pale. ^Marasmus.

I Comedones with emaciation.

Face feels cold.

Drawing pains in the upper maxilla. "^ Teeth. Drawing and tearing pains in the carious teeth. '^ Taste. ■ Slimy taste, d Gastralgia.

Acid taste. '^ Throat. Scraping in the throat. '^ Appetite. Gnawing hunger ; craves bread, boiled in milk.

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■ Appetite very great; sometimes ravenous while emaciating.

I Marasmus. I Loss of appetite. ^ Gastralgia. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Burning in the stomach as from acidity. Fullness and bloating in region of stomach.

■ Sensation as if the stomach were hanging or swimming in

water, with a peculiar feeling of coldness and a dullness to all irritants. 6 Gastralgia. I Pains cutting, gnawing, burning, sometimes contracting and stinging, mostly worse at night, d Gastralgia.

■ Never entirely free from pain, even in the intervals of the

spasms, d Gastralgia.

■ Disturbed digestion. ^Chlorosis.

^^ Abdomen. Weak, sinking feeling in the bowels.

■ Frequent colicky pain. ^Marasmus.

■ Distended abdomen. ^Chlorosis; marasmus; hemorrhoidal

colic. I Hard lumps may be felt in different parts of the abdomen. 6 Marasmus. ^"^ Rectum and Stool. After sudden checking of diarrhoea, rheu- matism. Piles appeared and became worse as the rheumatic pains abated, with frequent inclination to stool, hardly anything but blood being passed.

■ Constipation ^Gastralgia.

• Destroys worms, especially ascarides. 6 Marasmus.

■ Alternate diarrhoea and constipation. ^Marasmus.

■ The food passed undigested. 6 Marasmus.

■ Protruding hemorrhoidal tumors, with a burning pain when

touched and when pressing. ^^ Urinary Organs. Bladder full, urging to urinate.

Urine scanty. "^ Male Sexual Organs. ■Hydrocele of children. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Darting pain in region of left ovary.

Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to the back.

\ Ulcers on the os tincse.

I Dysmenorrhoea.

I Suppressed catamenia. 24 Pregnancy and Parturition, i Difficult parturition.

■ Blood and moisture oozing from the navel of newborn children. " Voice and Larynx. Sudden hoarseness.

Weak voice. ^® Respiration. ■Impeded breathing. ''' Cough. ■ Troublesome cough. 6 Rheumatism. ^^ Inner Chest. Raw feeling in respiratory tract, caused by cold air.

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lln pleurisy (after Aeon, and Bryon.), when a pressing sensa- tion remains in the affected side, impeding free breathing. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. iPain across the chest, sharp and severe in the region of the heart, d Rheumatism. iPulse weak and small. ^Chlorosis.

I Ebullitions, with general heat and distended veins on fore- head and hands, d Hemorrhoidal colic. ^" Outer Chest. Drawing pains in the chest muscles, especially

from motion. ^^ Back. Weak back, with ovarian pains.

iPains in the sacrum. ^Hemorrhoidal colic. ^^ Upper Limbs. Fugitive pains in the shoulders all night, pre- venting sleep. Aching from shoulder-joints to elbow. Arms very weak. Numb sensation in fingers. Dull aching in first finger of right hand, followed by similar

pain in other fingers of right and left hand. Pricking and coldness of the finger tips. ^^ Lower Limbs. lEmaciation, mostly of legs. ^Marasmus. Drawing sensation in ankle-joint. Deadness and coldness of the feet.

Sticking, tearing and itching sensations in old foot-sores. ^^ Limbs in General. Inability to move arms ; legs only with difficulty. 6 Rheumatism. Frost-bitten limbs. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Lies prone. Motion causes pains in muscles of chest. Inability to move arras ; legs with difficulty. ^^ Nerves. Remains very much relaxed and incapacitated. Disposed to lie prone.

A weak, sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited.

I Very lame and sore all over, d Rheumatism.

I I Great weakness and prostration, and a kind of hectic fever with children, after the influenza.

Head so weak, cannot hold it up.

I Hysteria. ^^ Sleep. I Sleepless and restless. ^Hemorrhoidal colic. ^'^ Time. Night : cutting, gnawing, stinging in stomach worse ;

fugitive pains in shoulders. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Cold air produces raw feeling in chest.

Hitching chilblains. ^" Fever. ■ High fever. 6 Rheumatism.

I Hectic fever, very weakening. ^Marasmus. ^' Attacks. Suddenly : hoarseness.

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^^ Locality and Direction. Left : brain seems weak ; scalp sore ; darting in ovary ; sharp pains in region of heart.

Right to left : dull aching in fingers.

Right and left : twitching in ovarian region. ^^ Sensations. Aching in shoulder-joints and first finger of right hand.

Coldness : in face, stomach, finger tips and feet ; numbness : in fingers ; creeping chills : over convolutions of brain ; dead- ness : of feet ; pricking : in brain, stiff joints and finger tips ; stinging : in stomach ; itching : of scalp, foot-sores and chil- blains ; gnawing : in stomach ; drawing : in upper maxilla, carious teeth, chest, muscles and ankle-joint ; darting : in left ovary ; tearing : in teeth and foot-sores ; cutting : in stom- ach ; sticking : in foot-sores ; scraping : in throat ; pressing : in pleurisy ; soreness : of scalp ; rawness : in respiratory tract; dryness: of inner nose; twitching : in ovaries ; burn- ing : in stomach and hemorrhoids ; as if hanging and swim- ming in water : stomach. "** Tissues. 1 1 Gout; painful and inflamed wrists and ankle-joints.

Joints stijff, with pricking sensation.

I I Painful, inflammatory rheumatism before the swelling com- mences.

I Chlorosis.

\ In phagedenic diseases.

■ Rheumatism from suddenly checked diarrhoea, cannot move her head, arms or limbs, and sufiers much pain, no swelling. After suppressed gout. 6 Gastralgia.

I I I Marasmus of children.

Contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic. '^^ Skin. I Furuncles, li Separ sulph. is insufficient.

BThe skin is flabby and hangs loose. 6 Marasmus.

Hitching chilblains. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Children : emaciation, especi- ally of legs. 6 Marasmus.

Boys, d Epistaxis. 6 Hydrocele. ^^ Relationship. After Aeon, and Bryon., in pleurisy ; after Hepar sulph., in furuncle.

Itching chilblains. Compare Nux vom. and Agar.