Artemisia Vulgaris

Wormioood. Composite.

A popular drug already known to the Greeks and Romans, in later times much given in epilepsy and spasms of children. The late Dr. Metcalf published in 1853, in the North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Val. Ill, p. 74, a very valuable collection of cases cured by the Old School, defending at the same time the use of drugs (pro tem.) before proving. It was also recommended and given in our School before provings had been made, by Frederick Miller, now in Montreal, and his cures were subsequently corroborated. Only the corroborated symptoms are marked I.

What Oak had collected and Allen translated, are observations of Allopathists, on the sick only, but as they are very useful, they have been added, and marked -.

Tincture of the fibrillar of the root has been used.

Mind

Complete unconsciousne^'s. θ Hydrocephalus.

Insensible for two hours. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Stupor following the convulsions, θ Child, ?et. 4.

▌ Mental powers become gradually extinct, θ Epilepsy.

Delirium, θ Hydrocephalus.

Hallucinations during the lucid intervals ; manifests fear and horror.

▌ Gets up every night and does her daily work as a house servant, with closed eyes, lies down again and cannot remember anything next morning. θ Somnambulism.

▌ Inclination to steal. θ Boy, with epilepsy.

Sudden whining, θ Before eclampsia.

▌ Piercing shriek, turns the eyes, with violent clonic spasms of all the limbs, θ Child with eclampsia.

││ Picking of bed covers, making a fold of the skin on the back of her mother's hand, saying that it will not come off, wants a knife to cut it off. θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Peevish and inclined to weep. θ Chorea.

Very much vexed, irritable, depressed during the day before an attack at night, θ Epilepsy.

▌ Moroseness. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Morose and tearful. θ Chorea.

Excitability all day before an attack at night, θ Epilepsy.

After a sudden fright, θ Epilepsy.

▌ Fright and other emotions are followed by epilepsy.

Weakminded with epileptic fits.

▌ Attacks brought on particularly by bodily exertion or by alluding to the disease. θ Catalepsy.

Sensorium p. 148

Great heaviness in the head on moving it.

Stupor ; after convulsions. θ Hydrocephalus. See 3.

Insensibility after the fit. θ Epilepsy.

Vertigo caused by colored window glass, but not by white light.

Epileptic vertigo.

Inner Head p. 148

Sharp, shooting pain through the head, θ Hydrocephalus.

Great heaviness and pressure, θ Hydrocephalus.

Great heaviness in the head, morning. θ Nocturnal epilepsy.

▌ Hydrocephalus acutus ; second stage.

Great congestion of cerebro-spinal vessels of the meninges.

Extreme hyperaemia of medulla oblongata, spine and meninges.

Outer Head p. 148

Heaviness of head, θ Hydrocephalus.

Cannot hold the head up after the spasms.

Head drawn backwards by spasmodic twitchings.

▌ Head bent backwards and sidewards. θ Hydrocephalic spasms.

Very copious sweat on the occiput during recovery. θ Hydrocephalus.

Sight and Eyes p. 148

Colored light, as light falling through stained glass windows, naakes head dizzy ; white light does not. ,

▌ Letters run together while studying or reading.

Sees double ; eyes fatigue from study, sight dims.

Staring at the ceiling. θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Staring straight forward with immovable eyes, θ Catalepsy.

Staring eyes with dilated pupils, θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Left pupil dilated more than the right. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Eyes turned upwards, half open. θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Turning up his eyes, only a trace of cornea to be seen ; before the spasms. ^ A child.

Turning the eyes ; iris out of sight. θ Eclampsia.

▌ Tears run from the eyes during the attack. θ Catalepsy.

▌ Eyes streamed water. θ Catalepsy.

^ Face. ▌Twitchings in the face, the only neuralgic movements. θ Catalepsy.

▌ Mouth drawn to the left side, θ Epilepsy.

Face pale, looks oldish. θ Hydrocephalus.

Lower Face p. 148

▌ Lower jaw pressed forwards. θ Hydrocephalus.

Mouth cannot be opened except with great difficulty. θ Hydrocephalus.

Chewing motion of gums ; grinding teeth. θ Hydrocephalus.

Teeth and Gums p. 148

▌ Grinding of teeth, froth at the mouth, the thumbs drawn into the fist, eyes half open, drawn upwards. θ Hydrocephalic spasms.

Taste and Tongue p. 149

Tongue bitten in the morning. θ Epilepsy.

Tongue dry. θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Bites the tongue in the spasms.

▌ Considerable laceration of the tongue. θ Epilepsy.

Speech unintelligible — can utter but single words, and these only with great exertion, θ Chorea.

Month p. 149

Froth at the mouth. θ Spasm. θ Chorea. θ Hydrocephalus.

Palate and Throat p. 149

Hunger, but cannot get the food down.

Swallowing difficult. θ Chorea. θ Cynanche cellularis.

▌ Swallowing difficult ; food escapes from the mouth. θ Chorea.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 149

Nausea and vomiting.

^^ stomach. Cramp in stomach.

Abdomen p. 149

Occasionally slight colicky pain. θ Chorea.

▌▌ Violent cramps in abdomen ; irregular, insufficient catamenia. θ Epilepsy.

Abdomen sunk in. θ Hydrocephalus.

Abdomen swollen, θ Hydrocephalus.

• Worms.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 149

Greenish diarrhoea. θ Hydrocephalus.

Passes feces and urine with the spasm,

Urinary Organs p. 149

tt On the morning after the second dose increased urination of yellow unsedimentary urine. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Urine increased, yellowish. θ Epilepsy.

Since midnight, several times, a thick, turbid urine ; dark red, yellow, θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Obstinate strangury of a child.

Male Sexual Organs p. 149

▌ Nightly pollutions. θ Youth, «t. 16.

Seminal ejaculations with the spasms.

Female Sexual Organs p. 149

tt Prolapsus uteri.

7T Violent contractions of the uterus ; labor pains.

TT Rupture of uterus.

71 Metrorrhagia.

: Spasmodic affection during catamenia.

• Suppressed menstruation,

▌ Irregular or deficient menstruation with epileptic convulsions.

Suppressed menses or amenorrhoea. θ Epilepsy,

▌ Nervous chlorosis with a very dry skin,

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 149

tt Miscarriage,

Violent contractions of the pregnant uterus,

▌ Retained afterbirth.

Spasms in childbed from fright,

71 Increase of lochial discharge,

j Lochial discharge interrupted,

▌ Eclampsia of sucklings,

Respiration p. 149

Rattling breathing with the spasms.

▌ Breathing checked ; suddenly a deep inhalation ends the attack. θ Catalepsy.

Cough p. 150

A half dry, painless cough, disturbing sleep. θ After recovery from hydrocephalus.

Lungs p. 150

Audible rattling in chest. θ Eclampsia.

Heart p. 150

Palpitation. θ Hysteria.

Small ecchymoses on endocardium and pericardium.

Upper Limbs p. 150

Trembling hands, spasmodically affected are lifted and put near the head, θ Hydrocephalus.

Hydrocephalic spasms.

Clenched thumbs.

Lower Limbs p. 150

Overfatigue and weakness of the feet after long walks, or after long illness.

Limbs in General p. 150

Spasms of hands and feet.

Tormenting stretching of the limbs.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 150

>Has to sit but cannot without support, or she would be thrown from the chair, θ Chorea.

Exertion : attacks ▌< ; overfatigue.

Motion : heaviness in head.

Nerves p. 150

tt Sensation of the nervous system.

▌ In a very nervous state; constantly picking with fingers. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Very much exhausted, obliged to sit down after the attack. θ Catalepsy.

Dogs for a while motionless, remain standing half unconscious, head and tail lowered.

▌ Paroxysms followed by a perfect though short soporous state.

71 Spasmodic twitchings, most in cervical muscles, drawing head upward and backward, later extending also to shoulders and back.

▌▌ Chorea. See 35.

▌▌ Spasms and convulsions.

▌ Spasms lasting ten minutes or longer, ending in perfect relaxation resembling paralysis, followed by a sound sleep of half an hour or more.

• Hysterical fits.

Convulsions, preventing falling asleep, more r. side. θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ Right side convulsed, left paralyzed, θ Hydrocephalus.

Urine and feces pass involuntarily during the spasms.

Tetanus in periodical attacks with pain in the whole chest and increased trismus.

Falling to the ground with trismus, tonic spasms of one side of body, followed by clonic spasms.

▌ Remaining in the same position, she stares straight before her with fixed eyes, θ Catalepsy.

Catalepsy since a great fright with anxiety and fear, in a man, get. 25 ; the attacks return after each vexation.

▌ All the limbs in a violent clonic spasm lasting about ten minutes, leaving a paralytic relaxation. θ Eclampsia.

Exhaustion and sleep after eclampsia.

Clonic spasms of hands and feet. θ Eclampsia.

▌▌ Eclampsia of sucklings or teething children.

▌ Epileptic spasms of children.

t: Increase of epileptic paroxysms.

▌ Epilepsy; often repeated attacks; the day before the attacks excitable, irritable ; deep sleep after it ; later, offensive sweat. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Suddenly seized with an electric shock, making him insensible for two hours ; foaming at the mouth, which was drawn to

. the left side ; has considerable laceration of the tongue after the fit, and left side numb for two days. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Epileptic convulsions mostly in the morning, at intervals of 2 or 4 months. Child set. 4 years.

▌ Nocturnal epilepsy with a man, get. 42.

▌ Frequent nocturnal epileptic paroxysms after suffering great grief.

▌ Epileptic attacks in childbed after a fright.

▌▌ Epileptic spasms after cooling off while overheated from dancing.

Epileptic attacks consequent upon a drunken tumble into the water.

▌▌ Epilepsy with menstrual disturbances.

▌ Convulsions in the day time, consequent upon fever and diarrhoea.

▌▌ Epileptic attacks, several every day.

││ Epileptic attacks follow each other so soon that the sick do not come to a full and clear consciousness.

: Epilepsy with imbecility.

Epileptic vertigo.

: Epilepsy with congestion to the head.

▌ Convulsions every 10 or 15 minutes, bending head backwards and sidewards. θ Hydrocephalus.

Nocturnal epilepsy with violent trismus, injuring teeth.

During epileptic attacks violent sweat of an offensive odor.

Sleep p. 151

Long and deep sleep after the attack. θ Epilepsy. θ Eclampsia.

▌ Sopor. θ Hydrocephalus.

Dreams of snow and strange people in the room, θ Hydrocephalus.

▌ No muscular motions at night. θ Chorea.

Somnambulism, gets up at night and resumes her daily work. See 1.

Time p. 151

Morning : heaviness in head ; tongue bitter ; increased urination ; epilepsy.

Towards noon : epilepsy recurs.

During day : irritable ; excitable ; convulsions.

Towards evening : fainting fit. ♦

Night : pollutions ; epilepsy ; walks in sleep.

After midnight : turbid urine.

Temperature and Weather p. 152

After a fall in the water, while drunk, θ Epilepsy.

Fever p. 152

Chilly ; generally unwell and drawing in the limbs before an attack, θ Convulsions.

Body cold. θ Hydrocephalus.

Warm sweat all over, most on occiput; after the remedy.

││ Febris nervosa stupid. θ Hydrocephalus.

Sweat is a sign of relief, θ Epilepsy.

71 Strong sweat, with a specific bad odor, cadaverous or garlicky, θ Ague.

"Attacks. I Fits every five weeks, menses regular. θ Epilepsy.

▌▌ Often repeated attacks. θ Epilepsy.

▌ Attacks of three to five minutes duration, twice within half an hour, θ Catalepsy.

Attacks recur : at night ; every five weeks.

Locality and Direction p. 152

▌ Right side convulsed, left paralyzed, θ Hydrocephalus.

Right side somewhat lame since birth, still convulsions on both sides with a boy, set. 18 months.

Left : pupil dilated ; mouth drawn ; side numb.

Forwards : lower jaw protrudes.

Upwards : eyes turn.

Backward and sideways : head bends.

Sensations p. 152

Shooting : through head.

Drawing : in limbs.

Electric shock : in epilepsy.

Heaviness : in the head.

Tissues p. 152

Extreme hypersemia of medulla oblongata.

▌ Congestion of brain and spine. See Convulsions.

Small ecchymoses found on the pericardium and endocardium.

Injuries p. 152

Epilepsy from a blow on the head, commencing three years after.

Skin p. 152

TT Large scrofulous blotch after the recovery of hydrocephalic spasms.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 152

Strong, full-blooded, well-fed children, during dentition. θ Eclampsia.

Boy, get. 14 weeks, 15 attacks in 24 hours. θ Eclampsia.

A child, set. 6 months; after the mother had suffered much from grief during pregnancy ; from 4 to 6 paroxysms a day for 2 months. θ Eclampsia.

▌▌ Boy, set. 18 months ; skull injured during birth ; frightened by bite of a dog. θ Croup and convulsions.

▌ A weakly, miserable boy, set. 2, emaciated after typhus with diarrhoea, loss of consciousness and constant boring with occiput in the cushions, θ Hydrocephalic spasms.

Girl, set. 10, delicate, irritable. θ Chorea. (9 Scrofula.

Boy, set. 12, after ascarides had been removed, θ Chorea.

A stout, active, healthy boy, aet. 13, suffering for three years from epilepsy, after a box on the ear, having for six months from 6 to 18 paroxysms a day, besides 3 to 5 at night.

Robust girl, set. 10, has not menstruated ; suffered since 18 months with somnambulism.

Girl, aged 16 ; attacked during her development ; occur every 48 hours ; cured by a single dose, θ Epilepsy.

Girl, set. 16, 3 or 4 epileptic attacks within a week, with irregular catamenia or after the menses.

Girl, set. 17, for 4 months 3 to 4 fits every day. θ Epilepsy.

A girl, set. 17, since 5 years affected with epileptic attacks.

Girl, set. 18, strong, well developed, plethoric. θ Epilepsy.

Man, set. 20, since 2 years. θ Epilepsy.

Man, set. 20, after fright an epileptic paroxysm, later from taking cold, recurring every 3, 4 weeks, towards noon, finally every other day, between 9 and 10 a.m.

Girl, set. 27, fits since 12 years without an aura; menses regular, θ Epilepsy.

Weakly, hysteric women, θ Menorrhagia.

Woman, set. 28, slender, weakly constitution, dry skin, after hearing frightful news, had two attacks of from 3 to 5 minutes duration in half an hour. θ Catalepsy.

Man, set. 29, periodically epileptic for four years.

Man, £et. 32, strong, powerful, fresh appearance and choleric temperament, epileptic attacks when he got angry.

A somewhat imbecile man, set. 36, attacked from childhood twice a week, sometimes oftener ; first reduced to one a month, and by a stronger dose entirely removed. θ Epilepsy.

Woman, set. 41, after changing an active for a sedentary life, attended by grief and menstrual irregularities, first hysterical difficulties, succeeded by convulsions passing into true epilepsy.

Man, set. 42, for a year and a half nocturnal epilepsy, recurring at intervals from 2 to 3 months.

Man, get. 45, lank, choleric, frequent attacks of catalepsy, six or more a day, aggravated by passion.

A healthy man, set. 60, suffering for years great care and grief, was attacked by fainting fit generally towards evening and finally decided epilepsy since 18 months.

Relations p. 153

Acts better given with wine than with water.

Nearest relation: Absinth., Ahrot.

More distant : Cina, Tanac, Chamom., Amic, 31millef.

Compare with : Caustic, Pulsat., Ruta, Secale, Stramon.

In alternation : Stramon., Pulsat , Aurum.

After Acon., Bellad., Bryon., Helleh., Cina ; on the 5th day. θ Hydrocephalus acutus.

After lodiitm, acting well. θ Epilepsy.

Caustic, in epilepsy after Artemisia.

Similar to: Absinth, (family relation) ; Oiciit. (staring, jerking head, etc.) ; Cina{eyes); ^J)^'s (hydrocephalus) ; Melleh. (hydrocephalus) ; Bufo (irritable before epileptic attack) ; Caustic. Chamom.