Artemisia Abrotanum

A. abrotanum, L. Nat. order, Compositse. Common names, Southernwood, old man, etc. Preparation, Tincture from the stems and leaves.

Authority. Mitchell, 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), I

Gloomy, desponding

Thinks her brain is softening

Ill-natured, irritable, violent

Exceedingly peevish, feels as if she would like to do something cruel ; no humanity

Feebleness and dulness of mind

No capacity for thinking, as if all bodily and mental power Averse gone

Head

Head weak, could not hold it up,'l

The left brain seems especially weak, easily fatigued by conversation or mental effort

Taciturnity

Sensation as of creeping chills along the convolutions of the brain, accompanied by prickling sensation, I

Scalp sore, especially left side

Itching of scalp

Throat

Scraping in throat

Stomach

Gnawing hunger ; craves bread boiled in milk, I

Burning in stomach like acidity (after ceasing the drug), I

Abdomen

Weak, sinking feeling in the bowels,l

Colic pains

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)

Urinary Organs

Bladder full, urging to urinate

Urine scanty

Sexual Organs

Darting pain in region of left ovary

Twitching in both ovarian regions, seems to extend to the back

Respiratory Organs

Raw feeling in respiratory tract caused by cold air,l

Sudden hoarseness

Voice weak,l

Neck and Back

Back weak, with ovarian pains,l

Extremities in General

Joints stiff, with prickling sensation (one hour)

Prickling and burning in joints

Upper Extremities

Arms very weak,l

Fugitive pains in the shoulders all night, could not sleep for pain

Aching from shoulderjoints to elbows.

Numb sensation in fingers (quarter of an hour)

Dull aching in first finger of right hand, followed by similar pain in other fingers of the right and left hand (half an hour)

Generalities

Remains very much relaxed and incapable

Very weak

Disposed to lie prone,l

A weak sickly feeling continued many days, with internal trembling when excited,'-