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Clarke - Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · John Henry Clarke · 4,101 chars
General
Abrotanum.
Artemisia abrotanum. Lady's Love. Southernwood. (Southern Europe.) N. O. Compositae. Tincture of fresh leaves and stems.
Clinical
Boils. Chilblains. Epilepsy. Gout. Haemorrhoids. Hectic fever. Hydrocele. Indigestion. Lienteria. Marasmus. Myelitis, chronic. Nose-bleed. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Umbilicus, oozing from. Worms.
Characteristics
The most prominent symptom of Abrot. is the wasting it causes, most marked in lower extremities. It has also an intense indigestion and morbid appetite. There are burning, gnawing, constricting pains, and sometimes vomiting of offensive matters. A peculiar sensation is as if the stomach were hanging or swimming its water.
After a checked diarrhoea, rheumatism may ensue. Another great characteristic of Abrot. is metastasis; metastatic rheumatism. Metastasis of rheumatism from joints to heart; to spine. There is a sudden aching pain in back > by motion.
Symptoms are < at night and in cold air. The face is wrinkled, pale, old-looking; feels cold; blue rings round eyes. It is suited to affections of newborn children, and especially little boys; hydrocele; epistaxis; emaciation. Oozing of blood and moisture from navel of newborn.
I have cured with it indigestion with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid in a middle-aged woman.
Relations
Compare: Absinth., Cham., Cina, Gnaphal., and other Compositae; Nux and Agar. (chilblains); Bry., Bar. c. Follows well: Acon. and Bry. (pleurisy); Hep. (boils).
Mind
Great anxiety and depression
Child cross, depressed, very peevish
Feels she would like to do something cruel; no humanity
Thinking difficult
Feels as if brain softening
Excited, loquacious, like shouting, good-humoured, happy (secondary, after ceasing the drug).
Head
Cannot hold the head up
The l. brain seems esp. weak, easily tired by conversation or mental effort
Sensation as of creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied by prickling sensation
Scalp sore, esp. l. side; itching.
Eyes
Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.
Nose
Nose dry.—Nose-bleed with boys.
Face
Face wrinkled, as if old.—Comedones, with emaciation.
Mouth
Slimy taste; acid.
Appetite
Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk
Ravenous appetite, and all the while emaciating
Gastralgia with loss of appetite.
Stomach
Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness
Pains cutting, gnawing, burning;
< at night.
Abdomen
Great distension of abdomen
Weak, sinking feeling in bowels
Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.
Stool And Anus
Food passes undigested
Rheumatism after suddenly checked diarrhoea
Alternate diarrhoea and constipation
Protruding piles, with burning, from touch or when pressing
Piles appeared, and became worse as rheumatic pains abated, with frequent inclination to stool, hardly anything but blood being passed
Destroys worms, esp. ascarides.
Male Sexual Organs
Hydrocele of children.
Female Sexual Organs
Darting pain in left ovary
Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to back
Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn.
Respiratory Organs
Cold air causes a raw feeling in respiratory tract.—In pleurisy when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing (after Acon. and Bry.).
Heart And Pulse
Pain across chest sharp and severe in region of heart; rheumatism
Metastasis of rheumatism to heart
Pulse weak and small.
Back
Pains in sacrum.
Limbs
Inability to move
Marasmus of lower extremities only
Soreness and lameness; worse mornings
Chilblains itch; frost-bitten limbs
Gout in wrists and ankles
Inflammatory rheumatism before swelling begins.
Generalities
Weak, sickly feeling when excited, trembling.—Lame and sore all over.—Weak and prostrated after influenza.—Inability to move.—Numbness.
Skin
Flabby; hangs loose; marasmus.—Furunculus; after Hep. s.
Sleep
Restless; frightful dreams.
Fever
High fever (rheumatism)
Hectic fever, with chilliness, very weakening;
(marasmus).