A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by this drug. Nervous tremors precede attacks. Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. Tremor. Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Commentaries
Commentary and literature analysis from various clinical authorities:
- ACCUMULATION OF FLATULENCE IN ABDOMEN WIND COLIC
- ACCUMULATION OF FLATULENCE WIND COLIC
- AFTER HEMICRANIA OTORRHOEA
- AUTUMNAL FEVER PAIN LIVER STOMACH DISEASES
- AUTUMNAL FEVER WITH SWOLLEN LIVER SPLEEN
- BALDNESS AND TINEA
- BITES HIS TONGUE IN EPILEPSY
- BLOATED AROUND THE WAIST AS AFTER AGUE
- BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD PRESENTED ON TRANSVERSE SECTION
- BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD PRESENTED UPON TRANSVERSE SECTION
- BREATHING STERTOROUS
- BRUISES AND CONSEQUENT INFLAMMATION
- BUSY FRUITLESSLY
- CEREBRAL IRRITATION HYSTERICAL
- CEREBRAL VERTIGO WITH MENTAL CONFUSION
- CEREBRO-SPINAL VESSELS OF THE MENINGES OF THE BRAIN
- COMA FOLLOWED BY DEATH
- CONFUSION AND PERPLEXITY
- CONGESTION OF CEREBRAL MEANING AND MEDULLA FIBRIN US EXUDATION UNDER DURA MATER
- CONGESTION OF CEREBRO SPINAL VESSELS MENINGES BRAIN
- CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN MEDULLA AND SPINE
- CONGESTION OF THE CEREBRO SPINAL VESSELS
- CONMVULSION HABIT OF DRINKING INDULGES IN EXCESS
- CONSTIPATION TWITCHING OF FACIAL MUSCLES
- CONSTITUTION YOUNGER AND ELDERLY PATIENTS CHLOROSIS
- CONTINUOUSLY RUBS NOSE
- CONVULSION APT TO OCCUR IN RAPID SCREAMING
- CONVULSION CRY WISHED TO DIE
- CONVULSION EMOTION BRINGING ON TEARFUL MOOD
- CONVULSION FOLLOWED BY PERIOD OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS
- CONVULSION PRECEDED BY TREMBLING
- CONVULSION STUPIDITY LACK OF SENSIBILITY AND LOSS MEMORY
- CONVULSION WITH CYANOTIC FACE IRREGULAR STERTOROUS RESPIRATION
- CONVULSION WITH TETANIC SPASMS LIKE ELECTRIC SHOCK
- CONVULSIONS TREMBLE MAKES GRIMACES
- CONVULSIVE OF CHILDHOOD GIRLS AT PUBERTY
- CONVULSIVE PHENOMENA EPILEPSY
- COUGH WITH LIVER COMPLAINT
- COUGH WITH SOME EXPECTORATION AND CREPITANT R�LES
- CRIED OUT AND WISHED TO DIE
- CRUEL AND INHUMAN IN HIS EMOTIONS
- CRUEL INHUMAN IN EMOTION DEVELOPS KLEPTOMANIA
- CRUELTY INHUMANITY
- CRYING WEEPING EPILEPTIC CONVULSIONS DURING
- CYANOSIS LUNGS
- CYANOTIC FACE AND STERTOROUS IRREGULAR BREATHING
- DELIRIUM MEDULLA OBLONGATA BRAIN SPINAL CORD BEING IN STATE OF CONGESTION
- DELIRIUM WITH HALLUCINATION
- DELIRIUM WITH TREMBLING OF THE HANDS AND FEET
- DELIRIUM WITH TREMBLING
- DELUSIONS HEARING
- DELUSIONS MURDERED
- DELUSIONS OF HEARING VOICES
- DELUSIONS PERSECUTED PURSUED
- DELUSIONS RATS CAT SEE
- DEMANDS DEVELOPMENT OF MAN TO KEEP UP WITH THE WORLD
- DEPENDENT UPON DISTURBANCE OF MOTILITY
- DISTURBANCE OF MOTILITY EPILEPSY
- DISTURBANCE OF MOTILITY
- DREAM BEAUTIFUL
- DROP ON TONGUE DURING EPILEPTIC ATTACK MODIFY THE CONVULSION
- DURING CONVALESCENCE TEARFUL MOOD AND WANTS TO DIE
- DYSMENORRHEA BEGINS PAIN UTERUS AND OVARIES
- EFFECT CENTRAL Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS SYSTEM EPILEPSY
- EFFECT CENTRAL Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS SYSTEM
- EFFECTS ESPECIALLY THE CENTRAL Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS
- ENLARGED LIVER CONSTIPATION
- EPILEPSY BITES TONGUE JAWS FIXED
- EPILEPSY BY Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS TREMBLING
- EPILEPSY CARE AND GRIEF FAINTING FIT
- EPILEPSY CEREBRAL SPINAL CONGESTION NAUSEA
- EPILEPSY FALL DOWN FOAM AT MOUTH BITE TONGUE
- EPILEPSY PRODUCED BY WINE ALCOHOL CYANOSIS
- EPILEPSY TWITCHING MUSCLES OF FACE
- EPILEPSY VERTIGO OR LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- EPILEPSY WITH DISTORTION MOUTH
- EPILEPTIC FORM CONVULSION FOAM AT MOUTH
- EPILEPTIC FORM INFANT
- EPILEPTIC FORM SEIZURE IS PRODUCED BY THIS DRUG
- EPILEPTIC HYSTERICAL AND OPISTHOTONOS
- EPILEPTIC VERTIGO SIGNS CEREBRAL SPINAL CONGESTION VOMIT
- EPILEPTIFORM CONVULSIONS FOAMS AT MOUTH BITE TONGUE
- EPILEPTIFORM SPASMS FOLLOWED BY DELIRIUM
- ERUCTATION STOMACH AND BOWELS DISTENDED
- EXHILARATION FOLLOWED BY HORRIBLE DELIRIUM
- EXHILARATION OF THE MIND FOLLOWED BY DAMAGING EPILEPTIC FORM SPASM
- EYES RED AND SUFFUSED WITH TEARS
- FALLING DOWN AS IN EPILEPSY WITH DISTORTION OF FEATURES BITE TONGUE
- FAMILY HISTORY OF ALCOHOLISM
- FATIGUING SPASMODIC COUGH
- FEAR OF CATS RATS GHOST
- FEAR OF CATS RATS GHOSTS
- FEAR PHOBIAS KILLING
- FLATULENT DISTENTION OF ABDOMEN HARD
- FOOD LIES HEAVY THINKS IT WOULD NOT ABSORB
- FORGETFUL EPILEPSY HAPPENED BEFORE OF WHAT
- FORGETFUL OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE EPILEPSY
- GIDDINESS AND EPILEPTIC FORM ATTACK
- GIDDY DELIRIUM HALLUCINATION LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- GRIMACES CONVULSION BEFORE
- GRINDS TEETH URINE PASSES INVOLUNTARILY
- HALLUCINATIONS FRIGHTFUL VISIONS KLEPTOMANIA
- HALLUCINATIONS OF VARIOUS KINDS NAKED WOMEN
- HALLUCINATIONS OF VISION HEARING HE IS PURSUED BY IMAGINARY ENEMIES
- HALLUCINATIONS OF VISION HEARING PURSUED BY IMAGINARY ENEMIES
- HALLUCINATIONS WITH ANXIETY RESTLESSNESS VERTIGO
- HALLUCINATIONS WITH FRIGHTFUL VISIONS BECOMES INSANE IDIOTIC
- HALLUCINATIONS WITH FRIGHTFUL VISIONS
- HARD HEARTED FIND PLEASURE AND SATISFACTION FROM SUBORDINATES TAKE CARE
- HE REMAINS NEGATIVE
- HYPERAEMIA OF MEDULLA OBLONGATA
- HYPERAEMIA OF THE MEDULLA OBLONGATA
- HYSTERICAL SPASM LIMBS RIGID MOTIONS IRREGULAR
- HYSTERICAL SPASMS GEDr. Calvin Brobst KnerrAL RIGIDITY OF THE LIMBS
- HYSTERICAL SPASMS IRREGULAR CONVULSIONS
- HYSTERICAL SPASMS RIGIDITY OF LIMBS
- HYSTERICAL SPASMS RIGIDITY OPPRESSION PUT HAND TO CHEST
- IDIOTIC MANDr. Calvin Brobst Knerr DO NOT CARE WHETHER SHE DIES OR NOT
- IDIOTIC MANDr. Calvin Brobst Knerr DON T CARE WHETHER SHE DIES OR NOT
- INFANTILE SPASMS
- INFLAMMATION LEFT HEMISPHERE BRAIN MENINGEAL HAEMORRHAGE
- INFLAMMATION OF LEFT HEMISPHERE BRAIN PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA
- INSANE IDIOTIC AND BRUTAL
- INSANITY BRUTAL
- INVOLUNTARY DEFECATION AND DISCHARGE OF SEMEN
- JAWS FIRMLY FIXED
- LIABLE TO HYSTERICAL MANIFESTATION
- LIVER ENLARGED OPPRESSION OF EPIGASTRIUM CHEST CONSTIPATION
- LOOKS FOOLISH
- LOOSES THE POSSIBILITY TO GET A RELATIONSHIP
- LOSS OF BRAIN POWER AND EVENTUAL IDIOCY EMACIATION
- LOSS OF MEMORY FORGETS WHAT HAS RECENTLY HAPPENED
- MALE FLACCIDITY GENITALIA RELAXED
- MENOPAUSE IS PREMATURE
- MENSES LATE
- MENTAL INCOHERENCE LOQUACITY
- MIND BECOMES DULL AND SLUGGISH INDIFFERENCE
- NAUSEA RETCHING ERUCTATION
- Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVE DEPRESSANT
- Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUSNESS EXCITEMENT AND SLEEPLESSNESS IN CHILDREN
- NEUROSES HYSTERICAL PARALYSIS
- OBSTINATE STRANGURY IN CHILD
- OCCIPITAL HEADACHE PUPILS DILATED UNEQUALLY VERTIGO
- OEDEMA OF LUNG DEPENDENT ON AL ALBUMINURIA
- OEDEMA OF THE LUNGS
- OPISTHOTONOS GRINDING TEETH FOLLOWED BY STUPOR
- OPPRESSION WEIGHT OBLIGING TO PUT HAND CHEST
- OTORRHOEA AFTER HEMICRANIA
- PAIN IN RIGHT OVARY
- PARALYSIS FACE AND TONGUE
- PARALYSIS OF INDr. Calvin Brobst Knerr ORGANS
- PARTAKEN ENFEEBLED THE VIRILE POWE
- PERFECT PICTURE OF EPILEPTIC FORM SEIZURE
- PETIT MAL EPILEPSY WITHOUT AURA
- PROBLEMS DURING THE MENOPAUSE
- PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA HEART FATTY FLABBY
- PURSUED BY SOLDIERS
- PUT HAND TO CHEST AS THOUGH HEAVY WEIGHT
- RAPID PROSTRATION
- REJECTS TO SUBMIT TO THE 'DIVINE ORDER
- REMAINS NEGATIVE AND REJECTING
- REPETITION OF THE SIN CALM AND CONTENTED WITH HIS LIFE
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS FAILURE GET ORGANIZED ON THE OTHERS
- SELFSUFFICIENT NEEDS NO HELP
- SENSITIVE TO ANY FORM OF ASYMMETRY CHAOS AND DISORDER
- SERIOUS ILLNESS EMOTIONS BRING TEARFUL MOOD
- SLEEPLESSNESS IN TYPHOID FEVER WHEN CONGESTION BRAIN
- SLEEPLESSNESS IN TYPHOID FEVERWHEN CONGESTION OF BRAIN
- SPASMODIC FACIAL TWITCHING
- SPASMS GRINDS TEETH URINE PASSES INVOLUNTARILY
- STABILITY ORDER AND RELIABILITY
- STERILE WITH FLACCID GENITALS
- STUPIDITY AND LOSS OF MEMORY AFTERWARD EPILEPSY
- SUFFERS FROM THE WORLD NOT BEING ARRANGED ACCORDING HIS
- SUPERFICIAL INFLAMMATION OF LEFT HEMISPHERE BRAIN PULMONARY HEART
- TENDENCY TO LIE WITH HEAD LOW
- TERRIFYING HALLUCINATIONS ANIMALS CATS AND RATS
- TERRIFYING HALLUCINATIONS OF PERSONS PURSUING HIM
- TONGUE PROTRUDE FEELS THICK CAN NOT TALK DISTINCTLY
- TREMBLING ALL BODY WITH EPILEPTIC SPASMS STUPOR
- TREMORS BLUE FACE
- TWITCHING OF THE FACIAL MUSCLES CONSTIPATION
- UNCOMFORTABLE IRRITATED FEELING OF STOMACH
- UNCONSCIOUSNESS ALTERNATING WITH DANGEROUS VIOLENCE
- UPSET THE Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS SYSTEM
- URINE STRONG SMELL LIKE HORSE S URINE
- VERTIGO ON RISING FALL BACKWARD
- VERTIGO ON RISING WITH A TENDENCY TO FALL BACKWARD
- VIOLENT ALTERNATING WITH STUPOR
- VIOLENT AND BATTER HIS FAMILY
- VIRILE POWER IS LOST IN THE MALE
- VIRILE POWER IS LOST
- VOICE TREMBLING AND HOARSE
- WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYBODY
- WHO SATISFIES HIS NEED FOR PRODUCING SOMETHING CREATIVE
- WILL BRING ON THE MENSES
- YOUNGER AND ELDERLY PATIENTS CHLOROSIS
- WELL BALANCED PERSON WHO GAINS INSPIRATION DOES NOT NEED HELP
- WHILE MENOPAUSE PREMATURE
Clinical Applications
Compare: Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy acid; Cina; Cicuta .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by this drug. Nervous tremors precede attacks. Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. Tremor. Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Mental & Emotional Symptoms
Hallucinations. Frightful visions. Kleptomania. Loss of memory. Forgets what has recently happened. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Brutal.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward . General confusion. Wants head low. Pupils dilated unequally. Face blue. Spasmodic facial twitching . Dull occipital headache ( Gelsem, Picric ac ).
Mouth
Jaws fixed. Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding.
Throat
Scalded sensation; as of a lump.
Stomach
Nausea; retching; eructation. Bloated around waist and abdomen . Wind colic.
Urine
Constant desire. Very strong odor; deep yellow color ( Kali phos ).
Sexual
Darting pain in right ovary. Spermatorrha, with relaxed, enfeebled parts. Premature menopause.
Chest
Sensation of weight on chest. Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.
Extremities
Pain in limbs. Paralytic symptoms.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
ABSINTHIUM
Mind
Hallucinations. Frightful visions. Kleptomania. Loss of memory. Forgets what has recently happened. Wants nothing to do with anybody. Brutal.
Head
Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward. General confusion. Wants head low. Pupils dilated unequally. Face blue. Spasmodic facial twitching. Dull occipital headache (Gelsem, Picric ac).
Mouth
Jaws fixed. Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding.
Throat
Scalded sensation; as of a lump.
Stomach
Nausea; retching; eructation. Bloated around waist and abdomen. Wind colic.
Urine
Constant desire. Very strong odor; deep yellow color (Kali phos).
Sexual
Darting pain in right ovary. Spermatorrhœa, with relaxed, enfeebled parts. Premature menopause.
Chest
Sensation of weight on chest. Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.
Extremities
Pain in limbs. Paralytic symptoms.
Relationship
Compare: Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy acid; Cina; Cicuta.
Dose
First to sixth potency.
Absinthium.
Clinical
Brain, congestion of. Chlorosis. Dyspepsia. Epilepsy. Nervousness. Otorrhœa. Restlessness. Sleeplessness. Spine, congestion of. Typhoid.
Characteristics
Absinthium has been proved, but a number of the symptoms are taken from observations made on absinthe drinkers. The convulsions of Absinth. are preceded by trembling; the patient makes grimaces; bites tongue; foams. Halbert regards Absinth. as of especial service in cases of minor epilepsy, where consciousness is not entirely lost. The characteristic is "a peculiar vertigo on rising, with a tendency to fall backward." In a case of epileptoid vertigo, signs of constant cerebral and spinal congestion; nausea and tendency to frequent vomiting, persistent tremors; epileptoid attacks of hysterical character and opisthotonos, Absinth. first in Ø, and later in 3, completely cured. Tremor is a marked feature of the remedy: tremor of tongue; of heart. Magnan, who has studied absinthism, says the characteristic symptoms of absinthe are: Sudden and severe giddiness, epileptiform seizures, delirium with hallucinations, and loss of consciousness. For some time after the attack there is loss of memory. The giddiness and epileptiform attacks are the most important of the symptoms. He adds that those who take absinthe are liable to hysterical manifestations. There is exhilaration followed by horrible delirium (Bell.); patient obliged to walk about (Artem., Cham., Cin. have > moving about). Patient walks about in distress, seeing all sorts of demons. Sleeplessness; typhoid with congestion of base of brain. It corresponds to nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Relations
Compare: Artem. vulg., Abrot., Cicut., Hyosc., Bell., Stram. Strong urine, Benz. ac., Nit. ac.
1. Mind
After recovery has no recollection of taking the poison, nor of the cause of his doing so.─Forgets what has recently happened.─Insane; idiotic; brutal.─Idiotic manner, doesn't care whether she dies or not.─Wants nothing to do with anybody.─Frightful visions and terrifying hallucinations.─Stupor alternating with dangerous violence.─Insensible with the convulsions.
2. Head
Vertigo; when she rises up; tendency to fall backward.─Confusion in head.─Headache.─Wants to lie with the head low.─Congestion of the brain and spinal cord.
3. Eyes
Injected conjunctiva.─Pain in the eyes.─Itching.─Lids heavy.
4. Ears
Otorrhœa; esp. after hemicrania.
6. Face
Foolish look.─Rush of blood to the face.─Makes grimaces, and foams at the mouth in epilepsy.
8. Mouth
Jaws firmly fixed.─Bites his tongue in epilepsy.─Tongue thick, protruding; can scarcely talk.─Tongue trembling; feels paralysed.
9. Throat
Scalded feeling in the throat.
11. Stomach
Loss of appetite; loathing of food.─Food lies heavy.─Stomach feels cold and oppressed.─Eructations; nausea; vomiting.─Nausea, apparently in region of gall bladder.─Uncomfortable, irritated feeling of stomach.
12. Abdomen
Liver feels swollen.─Pain in spleen; it feels swollen.─Bloated around waist and in abdomen, as after ague.─Immense accumulation of flatulence in abdomen; wind colic.
14. Urinary Organs
Constant desire to urinate.─Urine deep orange, of a strong smell, like horse's urine.
16. Female Sexual Organs
Pains in uterus.─Darting pain in right ovary.─Chlorosis.─Promotes menses.
17. Respiratory Organs
Cough with liver complaint.
19. Heart
Tremor of the heart felt toward the back.─Heart thumps; can be heard in scapular region.
24. Generalities
Feet very cold.─Falling down, as in epilepsy, unconscious, with distortion of the features, followed by spasms of the body and limbs, bloody foam at mouth, and biting of the tongue; stupidity and loss of memory afterward.─Opisthotonos; grinding teeth; followed by stupor.─Paralysis of inner organs.─(Horses kick with hind legs towards the belly.─Ascarides.)
Absinthium
Absinthium
Generalities
• It causes convulsions, preceded by trembling.
• The patient, bites tongue, foams at mouth and makes grimaces.
• Tremor is a marked feature, tremor of tongue, heart.
• Sudden and severe, giddiness; epileptiform seizures, delirium, with hallucinations and loss of consciousness.
• Attacks occur in rapid succession.
• It is a useful remedy, for nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness, in children.
• Chorea.
• Opisthotonus.
Mind
• Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward.
• Forgets, what has recently happened, after and before convulsion.
• Wants nothing to do with anybody.
• Brutal insanity.
• Kleptomania.
Ear
• Discharge from; after headache.
Face
• Spasmodic facial twitching.
• Foolish look.
Urine
• Very strong urine, of deep yellow colour.
Heart
• Tumultuous action, beats can be heard in back.
Female
• Menopause, premature.
Related
• Artem-v; Cic; Cina; Hydro-ac.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name N/A
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
First to sixth potency.
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