ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM.
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.
► Weak, sinking
feeling in the bowels, [2]. ►
Colic pains, [2].
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.] ► Bladder full, urging to urinate, [2]. ► Urine scanty, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Darting
pain in region of left ovary, [2]. ► Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to the
back, [2].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
►
Raw feeling in respiratory tract caused by cold air, [2].
► Sudden hoarseness, [2].
► Voice weak, [2].
NECK AND BACK.
► Back weak,
with ovarian pains, [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Joints stiff, with prickling sensation (one hour), [1].
► Prickling and burning in joints, [1].
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].
FEVER.
► Chilly in a very
warm room (twenty-third day), [3]. ► Feels too warm in a cool room (seventeenth day), [3].® 2000
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