Absinthium

▲   GENERAL

General

A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by Absinthium. Nervous tremors precede attack. Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness. Nervous excitement and sleeplessness. Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of Absinthium. Poisoning by mushrooms. Chorea. Tremor. Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

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Compare: Alcohol; Artemisia Vulgaris ^Artemisia; Hydrocyanicum Acidum ^Hydr-ac.; Cina ^Cina; Cicuta Virosa ^Cicuta.

▲   MIND

Mind

Hallucinations

Frightful visions

Kleptomania

Loss of memory

Forgets what has recently happened

Wants nothing to do with anybody

Brutal.

Behaviour

cruelty (see moral feeling, malicious)

foolish behaviour

kleptomania

Dazed

alternating with violence

Delirium

after convulsions

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

creatures and animals

sees cats

creeping

grotesque

rats; of all colours

paranoia; thought was pursued

by enemies

by soldiers

visions (see visions or presence of phantoms, figures, people)

visions; horrible

Desires, wants; death; during convalescence

As if in a dream

Fantasies; of exaltation

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

indifference, apathy, etc.

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); during convulsions

Hysteria

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; confusion

impaired thinking; idiocy

Insanity

mania, madness

Insecure, uncertain, scared

fear

fear; of killing someone

fear; of being murdered

Memory; weakness of memory; for what has just done

Talking, conversation

speech; hesitating

speech; incoherent

Unconsciousness

alternating with dangerous violence

sudden

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward

On rising

▲   HEAD

Head

General confusion

Wants head low

Pupils dilated unequally

Face blue

Spasmatic facial twitching

Picricum Acidum ^Pic-ac.)

Congestion (see pulsation); top of head (vertex)

Headache

Dull occipital headache ( Gelsemium Sempervirens ^Gels)

Pain, headache

while lying down; lies with head low

▲   EYES

Eyes

Sparkling

Discoloration; redness

Heaviness; lids

Itching

Pain

Swellings; lids

Tears

Vision

Dim

▲   EARS

Ear

Discharges from ear

Pain; inside (in ear canal)

Hearing

Illusions of where sound comes from

▲   FACE

Face

Convulsions, spasms; beginning in face

Distortion

Expression; foolish

Motions of jaw; lockjaw

Skin; discoloration; pale

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Jaws fixed

Throat

Scalded sensation; as of a lump.

Froth, foam, from mouth

bloody

Tongue

Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding.

Biting self; tongue

Pain; aching; tongue

Paralysis; tongue

Tongue

movement of tongue; protruded

trembling

▲   THROAT

Throat

Choking, constricting

Discoloration; redness

Pain; burning

Voice; weak

▲   CHEST

Chest

Sensation of weight on chest

Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.

Movements in and of chest; trembling; heart (see fluttering)

Oppressed feeling

Respiration

Accelerated

Difficult (dyspnea)

while lying; lying on the left side

Irregular

Like deep snoring

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain; sacrum (base of spine)

Spasms; opisthotonos (body bent backward and stiffened)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Bloated around waist and Abdomen

Wind colic.

Stomach

appetite; lacking, no appetite

coldness

burping, belching

heaviness, weight, oppression (see fullness); after eating

pain; extending to other parts; back

Eating

loathing of food (see nausea)

Nausea

Nausea; retching; eructation

nausea

morning

Vomiting

vomiting

morning

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Constant desire

Very strong odor; deep yellow color ( Kali Phosphoricum ^Kali-p.)

Sexual organs.

Darting pain in right ovary

Spermatorrhea, with relaxed, enfeebled parts

Premature menopause.

Male

Male; thick emission from penis; without erections

Womb

Female

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain)

Genitals

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; ovaries

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain in limbs

Paralytic symptoms.

Coldness; lower limbs; foot

Movements and positions

convulsion

convulsion; convulsive movement

Stiffness

with tetanus

Swollen

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Convulsions

Convulsions

begin in the face

without consciousness

epileptic

hysterical

intermittent

with tetanus rigidity

Generalities

Morning

Numbness; externally

Paralysis

of organs

painless

Sensitive; excessive physical irritability

Trembling; externally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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