ABROTANUM
Abrotanum Homeopathic Medicine.
Abrotanum Allen's Keynotes
Abrotanum Materia Medica
Abrotanum Keynotes
Common Name :- Southernwood
Family :- Compositae
Constitution
• 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.).
Mental Generals
• Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel.
Physical Generals
• Ravenous hunger; losing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat-m., Sanic., Tub.).
Head
• In marasmus, head weak, cannot hold it up (Aeth.).
Face
• Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Alternate constipation and diarrhea; lienteria.
Extremities
• Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic.
• Rheumatism: For the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly checked diarrhea or other secretions; alternates with hemorrhoids, with dysentery.
Gout: Joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle joints painful and inflammed.
• Very lame and sore all over.
• Marasmus of lower extremities only.
Fever
• Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand.
Skin
• Itching chilblains (Agar.).
Relation
• After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when a pressing
sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.
