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ABROTANUM

 

(Southern wood)

General.
A very useful remedy in MARASMUS, especially of lower extremities only, yet with good appetite. METASTASIS. Rheumatism following checked diarrhoea. 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 empyema, a pressing sensation remains. Aggravation of hemorrhoids when rheumatism improves. Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys.
Great weakness after influenza (Kali-p.)

Mind.
Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.

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 diarrhoea and constipation. Hemorrhoids; 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 diarrhoea. Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord. Pain in sacrum, with hemorrhoids.

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. (Am-m.)

Skin.
Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish. Skin flabby and loose. Furuncles. Falling out of hair. Itching chilblains.

Aggravation.
WORSE, cold air, checked secretions.

Amelioration.
BETTER, motion.

Relationship.
Compare: Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria; Benzoic acid, in gout. Iodine, Nat-m. in marasmus.

MM is by Boericke unless otherwise stated