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Abrotanum

30C / 200CAbrot
Southernwood · Lad's Love · Artemisia Abrotanum · "The Metastasis Remedy"
abrot.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for wasting conditions, especially in children, and for the ill effects of suppressed secretions or conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
A very useful remedy in , especially of lower extremities only, yet with good appetite. Metastasis. Rheumatism following checked . Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in subjects. Tuberculous . Exudative and other exudative processes. After operation upon the chest for or empyaemia, a pressing sensation remains. Aggravation of when rheumatism improves. Nosebleed and in boys.
Great weakness after influenza (Kali phos).
👤 Constitution
Typically affects children with emaciated lower extremities, or subjects suffering from suppressed conditions.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Tuberculous .
introduction
Angioma of the face.
face
Stomach feels as if swimming in water; feels cold.
stomach
Distended.
abdomen
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for patients experiencing irritability and anxiety.
Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Bryonia AlbaBenzoicum AcidumScrophulariaStellariaIodiumNatrium Muriaticum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Abrotanum is listed in 84 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 18 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System24Abdomen11Generalities10Stomach8Face6Respiratory System6Nervous System4Skin4Mind3Nose2Fever2Modalities2Head1Male Sexual System1

See all 84 rubrics for Abrotanum