ABROTANUM

General Action.
Acts chiefly to produce emaciation and “consumption,” especially of the lower extremities; marked gastrointestinal irritation with intense hunger and inability to assimilate food; rheumatic metastasis from joints to heart and spine; sudden sore pains in back relieved by motion; skin lax and prone to boils; exudation of blood and moisture from the umbilicus of the newborn.

Mind.
Great anxiety and depression; irritability, moroseness; violent fits of anger in children; impulses to cruelty; difficulty of thought; sensation of softening in the brain; occasionally secondary loquacity and exhilaration after cessation of the remedy.

Head.
Cannot hold the head up; left cerebral hemisphere easily fatigued by mental exertion; chills along cerebral convolutions with shooting pains; scalp sore, especially on the left, with itching.

Eyes.
Dark circles under eyes; vision dulled; spots before the eyes.

Ears.
(No prominent clinical symptoms recorded.)

Nose.
Dryness; epistaxis in boys.

Face.
Wrinkled, pale, aged appearance; comedones with emaciation; hollow cheeks.

Mouth.
Viscid, acid taste.

Throat.
(No distinct symptoms beyond those of the mouth.)

Appetite.
Intense gnawing hunger; craving for boiled bread in milk; voracious appetite despite marked emaciation; loss of appetite with gastralgia.

Stomach.
Sensation as if the stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness; burning, gnawing, constrictive pains in the stomach, worse at night.

Abdomen.
Marked distension; weak, sinking sensation in the intestines; hard nodules movable beneath the abdominal walls.

Stool and Anus.
Food passes undigested; alternation of diarrhoea and constipation; rheumatism after suppressed diarrhoea; protruding, burning haemorrhoids tender to touch or pressure, appearing or aggravating as rheumatic pains lessen, with frequent ineffectual desire and only bloody discharge; expulsive of roundworms, especially Ascarides.

Urinary Organs.
(No prominent clinical symptoms recorded.)

Male Sexual Organs.
Hydrocele in children.

Female Sexual Organs.
Stitching ovarian pains, chiefly left; twisting pains in both ovarian regions, extending to the back; blood and moisture exuding from the newborn’s umbilicus.

Respiratory Organs.
Raw, sore sensation of the respiratory tract in cold air; in pleurisy with residual pressure on one side, impeding free respiration (after Acon. and Bry.).

Chest.
(No additional symptoms beyond those under respiratory organs.)

Heart and Pulse.
Sharp, severe chest pain in heart region from rheumatism; rheumatic metastasis to the heart; weak, small pulse.

Back.
Sudden, sore pain in the sacrum, better for motion.

Extremities.
Lower limbs emaciated (marasmus) and weak; inability to move them; bruised soreness and weakness worse in the morning; chilblains, itching, frost-bite of fingers and toes; gouty pains of wrists and ankles; early inflammatory rheumatism before oedema.

Generals.
Debility and aching all over; inability to move; trembling on slightest exertion; prostration after influenza; numbness of parts; tendency to boils following Hepar sulph.; profound emaciation.

Skin.
Flaccid; hangs loosely; boils; impaired healing; chilblains; superficial ulcers after suppressed eruptions.

Sleep.
Restless; frightful dreams.

Fever.
High fever in rheumatism; hectic fever with chill, profound weakness (marasmus).

Modalities.
Worse at night; worse in cold air; better for motion.

Relations.
Compare : Artemisia absinthium, Chamomilla, Cina, Gnaphalium and other Compositae; Nux vomica, Agaricus; Bryonia and Barosma for chilblains.
Follows well : Aconitum and Bryonia in pleurisy; Hepar sulphur in chilblains.

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