ABROTANUM

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Marasmus of lower extremities with good appetite
  • Metastasis
  • Rheumatism following checked diarrhea
  • Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects
  • Tuberculous peritonitis
  • Exudative pleurisy
  • Exudative processes
  • Pressing sensation after chest operation for hydrothorax or empyema
  • Aggravation of hemorrhoids when rheumatism improves
  • Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys
  • Great weakness after influenza
  • Cross
  • Irritable
  • Anxious
  • Depressed
  • Wrinkled face
  • Cold face
  • Dry face
  • Pale face
  • Blue rings around dull-looking eyes
  • Comedones with emaciation
  • Angioma of the face
  • Slimy taste
  • Appetite good but emaciation progresses
  • Food passes undigested
  • Pain in stomach worse at night
  • Cutting pain in stomach
  • Gnawing pain in stomach
  • Stomach feels as if swimming in water
  • Stomach feels cold
  • Gnawing hunger
  • Whining
  • Indigestion with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid
  • Hard lumps in abdomen
  • Distended abdomen
  • Alternate diarrhea and constipation
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Frequent urging
  • Bloody stools
  • Worse hemorrhoids as rheumatic pains abate
  • Ascarides
  • Oozing from umbilicus
  • Sensation as if bowels were sinking down
  • Raw feeling in respiratory system
  • Impeded respiration
  • Dry cough following diarrhea
  • Pain across chest severe in region of heart
  • Weak neck cannot hold head up
  • Back lame weak and painful
  • Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord
  • Pain in sacrum with hemorrhoids
  • Pain in shoulders
  • Pain in arms
  • Pain in wrists
  • Pain in ankles
  • Pricking in fingers and feet
  • Coldness in fingers and feet
  • Legs greatly emaciated
  • Joints stiff and lame
  • Painful contraction of limbs
  • Eruptions on face are suppressed and skin becomes purplish
  • Skin flabby and loose
  • Furuncles
  • Falling out of hair
  • Itching chilblains