Kent`s cases 3 Abrotanum

Case 3
Abrotanum: With Clinical Cases
Irritable, weak-minded, worse from mental exertion.
The head topples over because the neck is emaciated; the face is wrinkled
and has a sickly look; the temples are marked by distended veins.
The face looks old, the infant looks like a little old person. (Also, Bar-c.,
Iodine, Natr-m., Op., Sulph.) (If from syphilis, Aur-mur.)
The whole body is emaciated and wrinkled; the emaciation spreads from
the lower limbs upward (which is the reverse of Lyc and Natr-m.)
Enlarged glands, especially in the emaciated abdomen.
Diseases change from place to place (metastasis).
Mumps go to the mammae or to the testes.
Rheumatism leaves the joints and endocarditis appears with profuse sweat;
cannot lie down for the dyspnoea; sinking as if dying, pulse feeble.
Rheumatism comes on when a diarrhoea has ceased too suddenly.
Piles which get worse as the rheumatism abates.
Bleeding from the piles in amenorrhoea. (Graph.).
Hydrocele in boys.
Distended abdomen. (Ars., Bar-c., Calc., Iodine, Lyc., Puls., Sulph.)
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Piercing pains in the heart.
Piercing in the ovaries, mostly the left.
Wakes in a fright and trembles, is covered with cold sweat.
The extremities are numb and tingle as if thawing, after having been
frozen.
High fever after the rheumatism has gone to the heart.
The wasting child has hectic fever with a ravenous appetite.
Lives well yet emaciates. (Also Iodine, Natr-m.)
Abrotanum attacks the white fibrous tissues, the joints, pleura, peritoneum,
etc.
Gouty nodosities in the wrist and fingers.
Rheumatism goes to the heart, compare with Cactus, Dig., Kalm., Lach.,
Naja., Spig., Spong.
The grand features of this remedy are metastasis; marasmus spreading
upward.
Case 1.
Mrs. P. suffered from gouty deposits about the finger joints, which were
very painful during cold, stormy weather.
The joints and nodes were sore and hot at such times.
The nodes ceased to be painful and sudden hoarseness came; ulcers in the
larynx followed; great dryness in the nose and painful dry throat; sticking
in the cardiac region.
She lost flesh but the appetite kept good.
Calc-phos. had been prescribed by her former attendant.
After duly considering the case, Abrot. 45m. was given.
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She suffered for many days after this dose with a most copious discharge
from her nose and bronchial tubes; expectoration was copious, thick,
yellow.
Hoarseness ceased at once.
In a month she ceased coughing; the finger joints became painful and
swollen considerably.
In three months she had no pain and the nodes were scarcely perceptible.
She is now perfectly well and has been so one year.
She had only one dose of the remedy, as the case was doing well enough, i.
e., as the symptoms were taking the right course to recovery in the proper
way.
She suffered much pain on the road to recovery but I know of only one way
to cure these cases, and that is to let the remedy alone when the symptoms
are taking the proper course.
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