• Abrotanum experiences Marasmus, especially in children.

• Abrotanum has a striking contrast: Voracious appetite with progressive emaciation.

• Abrotanum has a tendency toward metastasis, symptoms shifting locations.

• Abrotanum experiences profound weakness after acute illnesses.

• Abrotanum has a sensation of coldness, especially in extremities.

• Abrotanum has a general state of laxity and weakness, even after minor ailments.

• Abrotanum has marked irritability and peevishness, easily angered.

• The patient is sulky and malicious, especially in children, with cruelty.

• The patient experiences restlessness and unease; difficulty staying still or content.

• The patient has anxiety and apprehension, often without clear cause.

• The patient experiences aversion to mental exertion; dullness, difficulty concentrating.

• The patient has a tendency to dwell on unpleasant thoughts.

• The patient has a desire for things, only to reject them when offered.

• The patient is obstinate and defiant.

• The patient is in bad humor, morose.

• The patient is discontented.

• Abrotanum has Headache, associated with gastric disturbances or suppressed discharges.

• The headache feels as if the brain is loose and shaking.

• The headache is better in open air.

• The scalp feels tight.

• Inflammation, especially after measles.

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• Pain, worse from reading or using them.

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• Dim vision, floating spots.

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• Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.

• Photophobia.

• Humming or ringing (tinnitus).

• Obstruction, difficulty breathing.

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• Catarrh, thin, watery discharge.

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• Nose dry.

• Nose-bleed with boys.

• Enlarged tonsils after suppressed eruptions.

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• Difficulty swallowing, constriction feeling.

• It experiences offensive breath.

• The face is pale and sunken.

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• Sore throat.

• Dry, hacking, worse at night.

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• Shortness of breath, especially on exertion.

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• Palpitations, especially after eating or exertion.

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• Weakness, feeble pulse.

• The patient experiences pain in the chest, associated with rheumatism.

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• Voracious, despite emaciation.

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• Hunger soon after eating; insatiable.

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• Craving unusual or indigestible foods.

• Distension, bloating, and gas.

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• Nausea and vomiting, especially after eating.

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• Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with coldness.

• Pains cutting, gnawing, burning; < at night.

• Eructations, sour or bitter.

• Distended, especially in children.

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• Colicky pains, relieved by passing flatus.

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• Enlarged mesenteric glands.

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• Great distension of abdomen.

• Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.

• Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen.

• Diarrhea, alternating with constipation.

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• Diarrhea, undigested food.

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• Offensive, foul-smelling.

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• Hemorrhoids, burning and itching.

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• Prolapsus.

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• Abrotanum experiences frequent urination, especially at night.

• The urine is scanty, strong odor.

• It experiences Hydrocele.

• The patient experiences swelling of testicles.

• The patient experiences decreased sexual desire.

• In women, suppressed menstruation.

• Leucorrhea, thin, watery discharge.

• Abrotanum experiences Rheumatism after diarrhea or suppressed discharges.

• The patient experiences wandering pains in limbs, shifting joints.

• The patient experiences stiffness of joints, especially in morning.

• The patient experiences pain in the back, worse from motion.

• Cold, especially hands and feet.

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• Numbness and tingling.

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• Swelling of joints, redness, inflammation.

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• Contraction of tendons.

• The patient experiences gouty pains.

• Mottled, bluish or purplish discoloration.

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• Eruptions suppressed or disappear suddenly.

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• Itching, stinging, and burning sensations.

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• Cold sweat.

• Restless, frequent waking.

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• Vivid, anxious, disturbing dreams.

• Night sweats.

• Cold weather.

• Damp weather.

• Suppression of discharges.

• Motion.

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• From eating.

• Undressing.

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• At night, in cold air, checked diarrhea, morning (lameness and soreness), lying down.

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• Warmth.

• Open air (sometimes, for headache).

• Motion (sometimes, for rheumatism).

• Passing flatus (for abdominal pain).

• Iodium

• Natrum muriaticum

• Camphor

• Vinegar

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• Arsenicum album (marasmus, restlessness)

• Cina (irritability, worms)

• Iodium (voracious appetite, emaciation)

• Lycopodium (abdominal distension, cold extremities)

• Natrum muriaticum (irritability, emaciation)

• Suited to affections of newborn children, especially little boys.

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• Hydrocele.

• Epistaxis.

• Intense indigestion and morbid appetite.

• Burning, gnawing, constricting pains.

• Sometimes vomiting of offensive matters.

• Sensation as if the stomach were hanging or swimming in water.

• After a checked diarrhea, rheumatism may ensue.

• Sudden aching pain in back > by motion.

• Symptoms are < at night and in cold air.

• Face is wrinkled, pale, old-looking; feels cold; blue rings around eyes.

• Oozing of blood and moisture from navel of newborn.

• Weak, sickly feeling when excited, trembling.

• Lame and sore all over.

• Weak and prostrated after influenza.

• Inability to move.

• Numbness.

• Flabby skin; hangs loose.

• Furuncles; after Hepar sulphuris.

• Hectic fever.

• Great anxiety and depression.

• Child cross, depressed, very peevish.

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• Thinking difficult.

• Feels as if brain softening.

• Irritability and ill-humor.

• Restless sleep; frightful dreams.

• Excited, loquacious, like shouting, good-humoured, happy (secondary, after ceasing the drug).

• Desire for solitude.

• Aversion to company.

• Mental exhaustion from slight exertion.

• Forgetfulness.

• Cannot hold the head up.

• Left brain seems especially 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, especially left side; itching.

• Headache with nausea.

• Face wrinkled, as if old.

• Comedones, with emaciation.

• Slimy taste.

• Acid taste.

• Dryness of the mouth.

• In pleurisy when a pressing sensation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing (after Aconitum and Bryonia).

• Pain across chest sharp and severe in region of heart; rheumatism.

• Pulse weak and small.

• Dyspnea, short breath.

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• Gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk.

• Ravenous appetite, and all the while emaciating.

• Gastralgia with loss of appetite.

• Thirst for cold drinks.

• Food passes undigested.

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• Alternate diarrhea 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, especially ascarides.

• Hydrocele of children.

• Darting pain in left ovary.

• Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to back.

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• Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn.

• Pains in sacrum.

• Sudden aching pain in back > by motion.

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• 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.

• Cold hands and feet.

• Numbness of extremities.

• Heaviness of limbs.

• Weakness of limbs.

• Mottled skin.

• Chilblains.

• Skin feels cold.

• Dry skin.

• Itching skin.

• Restless sleep.

• Frightful dreams.

• Dreams of death.

• Insomnia.

• Compare: Absinthium, Chamomilla, Cina, Gnaphalium, and other Compositæ; Nux vomica and Agaricus (chilblains); Bryonia, Bar. carb.

• Follows well: Aconitum and Bryonia (pleurisy); Hepar sulphuris (boils).

• Antidotes: Camphor.