Abrotanum (southernwood)

* 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 empyaemia, a pressing sensation

remains.

* Aggravation of haemorrhoids when rheumatism improves.

* Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys.

Great weakness after influenza. [Kali phos.]

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.

- Haemorrhoids; 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 across chest; severe in region of heart.

Back

- Neck so weak cannot hold head up.

- Back lame, weak, and painful.

- Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord.

- Pain in sacrum, with haemorrhoids.

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. [Amm. mur.]

Skin

- Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish.

- Skin flabby and loose.

- Furuncles.

- Falling out of hair.

- Itching chilblains.

Modalities

- Worse, cold air, checked secretions.

- Better, motion.

Source book:

HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA

By William BOERICKE