Boils. Chilblains. Epilepsy. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Hectic fever. Hydrocele. Indigestion. Lienteria. Marasmus. Myelitis, chronic. Nose-bleed. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Umbilicus, oozing from. Worms.

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 diarrhœa, 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.

Compare: Absinth., Cham., Cina, Gnaphal., and other Compositæ; Nux and Agar. (chilblains); Bry., Bar. c. Follows well: Acon. and Bry. (pleurisy); Hep. (boils).

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).

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.

Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.

Nose dry.─Nose-bleed with boys.

Face wrinkled, as if old.─Comedones, with emaciation.

Slimy taste; acid.

Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk.─Ravenous appetite, and all the while emaciating.─Gastralgia with loss of appetite.

Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness.─Pains cutting, gnawing, burning; < at night.

Great distension of abdomen.─Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.─Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.

Food passes undigested.─Rheumatism after suddenly checked diarrhœa.─Alternate diarrhœa 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.

Hydrocele of children.

Darting pain in left ovary.─Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to back.─Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn.

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.).

Pain across chest sharp and severe in region of heart; rheumatism.─Metastasis of rheumatism to heart.─Pulse weak and small.

Pains in sacrum.

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.

Weak, sickly feeling when excited, trembling.─Lame and sore all over.─Weak and prostrated after influenza.─Inability to move.─Numbness.

Flabby; hangs loose; marasmus.─Furunculus; after Hep. s.

Restless; frightful dreams.

High fever (rheumatism).─Hectic fever, with chilliness, very weakening; (marasmus).

Abrotanum

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

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

• In spite 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 tendency.

• 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.

• Cold air; wet.

• Checked secretions; esp. diarrhoea.

• Night.

• Fog.

• Loose stools.

• Motion.

• Great anxiety and depression.

• Cross and irritable (children in marasmus).

• Thinking difficult; loss of comprehension.

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

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

• Brain feels tired, after conversation or mental effort.

• Veins distended on forehead.

• Blue rings, around the eyes.

• Hollow.

• Bleed in boys.

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

• Acne, with emaciation.

• Angioma of the face.

• Pale, hollow eyed.

• 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.

• 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.

• Hydrocele of children.

• Darting pain in left ovary.

• Menses suppressed.

• Dry cough, following diarrhoea.

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

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

• Pain in sacrum, due to piles.

• Back weak, with ovarian pain.

• 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.

• Loose and flabby.

• Skin becomes purplish, after suppression of eruptions.

• Itching chilblains.

• Aconand Bry in pleurisy.

• Agar; Chin; Led; Nux-v.

Alternate diarrhoea and rheumatism (metastatic rheumatism).

Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs; the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds.

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lineteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic.). In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up. (Aeth.). Marasmus of lower extremities only. Ravenous hunger; loosing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.). Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic. Rheumatism; for the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea or other secretions; alternates with haemorrhoids, with dysentery. Gout; joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed. Very lame and sore all over. Itching chilblains (Agar.). Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand. Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).

: After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.

Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.). Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Great prostration; after injuries (Sulph. ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac. ac., salivation < at night, Mer. s.). Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough with inhalation (Spong.); last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am. c.). Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.

. It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well; after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy. It aggravates; the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Mer., especially the headache from Belladonna.