Artemisia Abrotanum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
A. abrotanum, L.
Nat. order , Compositæ.
Common names , Southernwood, old man, etc.
Preparation , Tincture from the stems and leaves.
Authority.
Gatchell, U. S. Med. and Surg. Journ., 5, 291; two lady provers, tincture used.
MIND
- Excited, loquacious, like shouting, good-humored, happy (secondary, after ceasing the drug), 2.
- Gloomy, desponding, 2.
- Thinks her brain is softening, 2.
- Ill-natured, irritable, violent, 2.
- Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel; no humanity, 2.
- Feebleness and dulness of mind, 2.
- No capacity for thinking, as if all bodily and mental power were gone, 2.
HEAD
- Head weak, could not hold it up, 2.
- The left brain seems especially weak, easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort, 2. [10.]
- Taciturnity, 2.
- Sensation as of creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied by prickling sensation, 2.
- Scalp sore, especially left side, 1.
- Itching of scalp.
THROAT
- Scraping in throat, 2.
STOMACH
- Gnawing hunger; craves bread boiled in milk, 2.
- Burning in stomach like acidity (after ceasing the drug), 2.
ABDOMEN
STOOL AND ANUS
- Piles appeared, and became worse as the rheumatic pains abated, with frequent inclination to stool, hardly anything but blood being passed (second day), 1.
URINARY ORGANS. [20.]
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Darting pain in region of left ovary, 2.
- Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to the back, 2.
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
NECK AND BACK
- Back weak, with ovarian pains, 2.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- Arms very weak, 2. [30.]
- Fugitive pains in the shoulders all night, could not sleep for pain, 1.
- Aching from shoulder-joints to elbows.
- Numb sensation in fingers (quarter of an hour), 1.
- Dull aching in first finger of right hand, followed by similar pain in other fingers of the right and left hand (half an hour), 1.
GENERALITIES
- Remains very much relaxed and incapable, 2.
- Very weak, 2.
- Disposed to lie prone, 2.
- A weak sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited, 2.
SUPPLEMENT: ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM. Authority.
3 , A.M. Cushing, M.D., Trans. Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., 1866-70, vol. iii, p. 19, took 6 drops at 10.30 P.M. (first day); 8 drops at 10.35 P.M. (second day); 15 drops at 10.30 P.M. (third day); 15 drops at 10.30 P.M. (fourth day); 20 drops at 11 P.M. (fifth day); 25 drops at 9 P.M. (sixth day); 40 drops at 10 P.M. (seventh day); 25 drops at 12 P.M. (eleventh day); 50 drops at 10.30 P.M. (twelfth day); 100 drops at 9 P.M. (thirteenth day); 500 drops 1st dil. at 10 P.M. (sixteenth day); 1000 drops at 10 P.M. (seventeenth day).
MIND
- Very nervous (eighteenth day), 2.
HEAD
- In five minutes head felt as if squeezed on temporal regions (first day), 3.
- Pain and fulness of the head (seventh day), 3.
- Awoke in the morning with severe pain in the left temporal region, which continued all the forenoon (fourteenth day), 3.
- Headache (sixteenth day), 3.
EYE
- Eyes smart in the evening; pain in left eye, could not open it for several seconds (fifteenth day), 3.
EAR
- Soon after dose, heard a noise like the humming of a bee; walked around the room to find it. When in bed it sounded like persons talking in the distance; on listening intently it disappeared, but would return as he turned his mind from it (eleventh day), 3.
- Wind rushes out of right ear (seventeenth day), 3.
NOSE
- Watery discharge from nose (seventeenth day), 3.
MOUTH
- Mouth hot and dry, morning, on waking (fourteenth day), 3.
- Sore tongue and mouth all day (seventeenth day), 3.
- Mouth dry and sore (twentieth and twenty-first days), 3. [50.]
- Mouth quite sore, confined mostly to gums near left upper molars (twenty-second day), 3.
- Sore mouth, with increased saliva, more in the night (twenty-second day), 3.
- Soreness of mouth increased (twenty-third day), 3.
- Mouth better (twenty-fourth day), 3.
STOMACH
- Poor appetite (fifteenth, nineteenth, and twenty-second days), 3.
- Raises wind tasting of the plants (eighteenth day), 3.
- Evening, belching of large quantities of wind tasting of salt mackerel, through none has been eaten for months; cannot eat it (twenty-sixth day), 3.
- Nausea (thirteenth day), 3.
- Slight nausea, with eructation of large quantities of flatus, tasting strongly of the plant (first day), 3.
- Felt sick all the forenoon, better in the open air (fourteenth day), 3.
- Nausea and sour eructations (seventeenth day), 3. [60.]
- Nausea, burning, and soreness of the stomach, evening (seventeenth day), 3.
- Stomach very sour (eighteenth day), 3.
- Heat in stomach (eighteenth day), 3.
- Heat and pain at epigastrium, at night (twenty-second day), 3.
ABDOMEN
- Pain in region of liver and kidneys, of a sick, sore, faint, inexpressible nature, very peculiar, almost amounting to fainting. Unable to walk on the street (eighteenth day), 3.
- Pain in left hypochondriac region, with eructation of large quantities of flatus (twenty-fifth day), 3.
- At midnight got out of bed and walked around the room; bowels bloated so much it was difficult to walk or bend, and seeming as if the bowels could be kept from passing out at the anus only by keeping the legs close together (seventeenth day), 3.
- Bowels bloated and painful, at 10 P.M. (eighteenth day), 3.
- Pain in the bowels all night, with several stools (twenty-sixth day), 3.
- Pain and heat in the bowels (fifteen minutes after a dose, seventeenth day), 3.
STOOL. [70.]
- Bowels costive for the third time in his life, when well (sixth day), 3.
- Urgent desire for stool; loose stool; another at 7 A.M. twelfth day, 3.
- Bowels seemed costive, with loose stool (fourteenth day), 3.
- Bowels more, costive than for years (sixteenth day), 3.
- Natural stool, at 9.30 P.M. (sixteenth day), 3.
- Three loose stools in the forenoon, one in the evening (eighteenth day), 3.
- 7 A.M., soft stool; 9 A.M., stool, with much straining; sensation as if it was large and indurated, though quite the reverse (twentieth day), 3.
- Urgent call and loose stool, at 6.30 A.M. (twenty-first day), 3.
URINARY ORGANS
- At 2 P.M., hurried desire to urinate after stool (fourth day), 3. [80.]
- Desire to urinate (seventeenth day), 3.
- Urine profuse (twenty-fifth day), 3.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Pain in testicles and back (seventeenth day), 3.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- A sensation as of breathing hot air continued for two days (fifteenth day), 3.
- Difficult breathing (twenty-second day), 3.
CHEST
- Pain in left lung (thirteenth day), 3.
- Sore feeling in lower portion of left lung, morning, on waking (fourteenth day), 3.
- Pain in the base of both lungs through the day, with darting pain in limbs and ankles (sixteenth day), 3.
- Severe and sore pain in both lungs (twenty-fifth day), 3.
- Pricking pain in right side of chest (thirteenth day), 3. [90.]
- Burning through right side of chest (twenty-second day), 3.
- Pain just below the heart, followed by a crawling sensation and eructations (seventeenth day), 3.
PULSE
- Pulse quick (seventeenth day), 3.
NECK AND BACK
- On waking, very lame, worse in back; muscular soreness on motion, with severe pains in the back of the neck, shoulders, right side of the chest, and limbs; the right his was so lame as to cause limping for some time (fourteenth day), 3.
- Severe pain all day in the side and back of the neck and shoulders, limbs, back, and hips; arms and hands feel numb (fifteenth day), 3.
- Strange pulling sensation of the muscles of the right side of the neck beneath the angle of the jaw (half an hour after a dose, sixteenth day), 3.
- Back quite lame (eighteenth day), 3.
- Back lame and painful (twenty-first day), 3.
- Heavy pain in lumbar region, extending to both testicles, 5 P.M. (twenty-third day), 3.
- Pain in back and testicles (twenty-fourth day), 3. [100.]
- Pain in back, hips, and knees, afternoon (twenty-sixth day), 3.
EXTREMITIES
- Limbs very weak (twenty-second day), 3.
- Weak, numb feeling of arms and limbs (thirteenth day), 3.
- Sore feeling in all the limbs, mostly in the joints, morning, on waking (fourteenth day), 3.
- Pain all day in shoulders, arms, and hips (eighteenth day), 3.
- On waking, both arms, legs, and feet were very lame and painful, but relieved after motion. In half an hour right hand so lame as to be useless (twenty-third day), 3 . Joints all sore and lame (twenty-seventh day), 3.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Feel as if both arms were tied to the body (twenty-sixth day), 3.
- Right arm lame and weak (twenty-second day), 3.
- Severe aching pain in both axillæ, as if a sore were forming (tenth and eleventh days), 3. [110.]
- Pain in shoulders (eighteenth day), 3.
- On waking early, sharp pain in left shoulder (twenty-fifth day), 3.
- Both shoulders lame and sore, on waking, in the morning (twenty-sixth day), 3.
- Seized when riding with lameness and aching of left arm above the elbow, on outer and under side; arm lame all day (twelfth day), 3.
- 1 A.M., while riding, severe pain in the left arm above the elbow (fourteenth day), 3.
- Pain above right elbow, afternoon (twenty-second day), 3.
- Severe sore pain just above the left elbow, at 11 P.M. (twenty-second day), 3.
- The pain is all in arms just above the elbow (twenty-sixth day), 3.
- Pain in right elbow all the forenoon (twenty-fifth day), 3.
- Pain in left elbow and right hand (twenty-fifth day), 3. [120.]
- Right hand lame, so as scarcely to be used (nineteenth day), 3.
- Left hand so lame he could not sit still, 10 A.M. (twenty-third day), 3.
- Hands painful and sore all day; handles everything with difficulty (twenty-fourth day), 3.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Pain in both hips, severe in right hip and thigh (sixteenth day), 3.
- Aching pain all day across the hips (seventeenth day), 3.
- Both hips and legs so lame that it is difficult to walk (twenty-second day), 3.
- Both legs lame and painful, from hips to knees; they feel very sore, but are not sore to the touch (twenty-second day), 3.
- Lame, aching pain on the inside of the right knee, then on the outside of the left knee (sixth day), 3.
- Right knee and ankle very weak (eighteenth day), 3.
- Right knee lame and painful in the morning (twentieth day), 3. [130.]
- Sore pain in knees, first the right then the left, in the evening (twenty-second day), 3.
- Both knees lame, 11 A.M. (twenty-third day), 3.
- Pain in both knees (twenty-fourth day), 3.
- In the evening, sore lameness of head of left fibula, so severe as to cause lameness when walking, at three different times (twenty-first day), 3.
- Legs and feet lame and painful (seventeenth day), 3.
- Very sudden pain in legs (eighteenth day), 3.
- Evening, both legs weak, both hands painful, and so lame as hardly to be used (twenty-third day), 3.
- Ankles and legs so painful he could not sit still while examining a patient, 11.30 A.M. (twenty-third day), 3.
- Soon after taking dose pain in the left, then the right leg, at the middle of the tibia (seventh day), 3.
- Aching pain in the ankles and feet, worse on the outside of the left ankle (seventh day), 3. [140.]
- Pain in ankles and knees; the feet are lame and painful (eighth to eleventh day), 3.
GENERALITIES
- During proving lay very straight in bed (usually lie with feet drawn up), 3.
- Trembling all over (five minutes after dose, seventeenth day), 3.
- While proving remedy, often unconsciously dropped reins when driving (nineteenth day), 3.
- Weak and lame in the forenoon (eighteenth day), 3.
- In the afternoon severe pains; obliged to lie down; very sleepy, could not sleep; not able to attend to patients (fourteenth day), 3.
- Itching, then darting pains in different parts of the body, most in lower lobes of both lungs, and in the legs below the knees (eleventh day), 3.
- Darting pains in various parts of the body, most severe in right arm, above and near elbow-joint, in the forenoon (twenty-second day), 3.
- Darting pain in various parts of the body and limbs (twenty-fifth day), 3.
SKIN
- The old eruption feels sore, with violent pricking itching, extending to the head and arms (seventh day), 3. [150.]
- A small scratch made a very large sore. After proving the old eruption returned, but was not so severe as before, and was easily cured by Rhus tox. 200th, and has not returned, 3.
- Slight itching of the limbs, but no eruption (twenty-second day), 3.
- Intolerable itching of a corn on the second toe of the left foot (sixteenth day), 3.
- Very severe itching of corn on left foot (seventeenth day), 3.
SLEEP
- Yawning and eructation all day (twenty-second day), 3.
- Sleepy all day (eighteenth day), 3.
- Restless sleep, with springing up, and constant jumping and thrashing of the arms (seventeenth day), 3.
- Restless sleep (twentieth day), 3.
- Very restless night, with heat and pain at epigastrium (twenty-first night), 3.
- Unrefreshing sleep (twenty-second night), 3. [160.]
- Had frightful dreams; awoke frightened and trembling (fifth day), 3.
- Frightful dreams of mad dogs, etc. (fourteenth day), 3.