Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica
Absinthium
Common name: common wormwood
General analysis:
- This drug used in epileptiform seizures
- Nervous tremors lead the attack
- Severe and sudden delirium, giddiness with loss of consciousness and hallucination
- Poisoning by mushrooms
- Excitement, nervousness and sleeplessness in children
- Cerebral irritation due to congestion of brain and spine
- Hysterical and infantile spasms come within the range of this drug
Mind:
- Frightful vision
- Kleptomania
- Hallucination
- Loss of memory
- Forget what happen recently
- Wants nothing to do anybody
Head:
- General confusion
- Wants head low
- Dull occipital headache
- Vertigo with a fall backwards
- Unequally dilated pupils
Face:
- Blue cyanosed face
- Spasmodic facial twitching
Mouth:
- Fixed jaw
- Feels as if the swollen and large protruding tongue
- Bite tongue trembles seizure
Throat:
- Sensation as of a pump
- Feeling like scalded
Stomach:
- Eructation
- Nausea, retching
- Bloated around the abdomen and waist
- Flatulent colic
Urinary:
- Constant desire
- Deep yellow colour
- Very strong odour
Male:
- Spermatorrhea with relaxed enfeebled parts
Female:
- Premature menopause
- Darting pain in right ovary
Heart:
- Tumultuous, irregular action of the heart
- Heart action can be heard in the scapular region
- The sensation of weight on the chest
Extremities:
- Paralytic symptoms
- Limb pain
Relationship:
- Compare: Cina, Hydr-ac
Dose:
- First to sixth potency