Abrotanum

 Generalities

 – It affects nerves, causing numbness, weakness, trembling, and paretic conditions.

 – It is the remedy, for marasmus in children, when nutrition is affected.

 – Inspite of good appetite, children emaciated, especially in lower extremities.

 – It causes true metastatic condition.

 – Rheumatism, occurs after checked diarrhoea.

 – Gout recedes and other troubles follow.

 – It has exudative tencency.

 – Exudation may occur, as a metastatic condition or otherwise, into pleura, joints etc.

 – It also causes alternating conditions, one diseased condition disappears and another appears, e.g.  piles alternating with rheumatism.

 – It is suitable, to newborn, or children especially boys, who suffer from hydrocele, epistaxis; it removes weakness, remaining after influenza.

 – Oozing of blood, and moisture in newborn, from navel.

 – Vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid.

 – Effects, remaining after operation on chest.

 Worse

 – Cold air; wet.

 – Checked secretions; esp. diarrhoea.

 – Night.

 – Fog.

 Better

 – Loose stools.

 – Motion.

 Mind

 – Great anxiety and depression.

 – Cross and irritable (children in marasmus).

 – Thinking difficult; loss of comprehension.

 – Inhuman; would like to do something evil, cruel.

 Head

 – Can not hold the head up, on account of weakness of neck.

 – Brain feels tired, after conversation or mental effort.

 – Veins distended on forehead.

 Eyes

 – Blue rings, around the eyes.

 – Hollow.

 Nose

 – Bleed in boys.

 Face

 – Dry, cold, wrinkled, as if old, in marasmus.

 – Acne, with emaciation.

 – Angioma of the face.

 – Pale, hollow eyed.

 Stomach

 – Emaciation progresses, with good appetite.

 – Food passes undigested.

 – Craving, for bread, boiled in milk.

 – Cutting gnawing, burning pains, in stomach, at night in gastralgia.

 – Feels, as if stomach is swimming in water; with coldness.

 Abdomen

 – Hard lumps are felt in different parts of abdomen.

 – It is bloated.

 – Tuberculous peritonitis.

 – Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.

 – Piles, protruding, with burning from touch.

 – Frequent desire to stools, but only a little blood passed.

 Male

 – Hydrocele of children.

 Female

 – Darting pain in left ovary.

 – Menses suppressed.

 Respiratory

 – Dry cough, following diarrhoea.

 – Pressing sensation remains, after Pleurisy, in the affected side, impeding free breathing.

 Back

 – Sudden aching pain in the back agg. night amel. motion.

 – Pain in sacrum, due to piles.

 – Back weak, with ovarian pain.

 Extremities

 – Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists and ankles.

 – Legs greatly emaciated.

 – Cold, prickling, numb, fingers and toes.

 – Inability to move the limbs, due to rheumatism.

 – Contraction of limbs, from cramps or following colic.

 Skin

 – Loose and flabby.

 – Skin becomes purplish, after suppression of eruptions.

 – Itching chilblains.

 Follows well

 – Aco and Bry in pleurisy.

 Related

 – Agar; Chin; Led; Nux-v.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica