# Abrotanum (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
The name Abrotanum brings to one’s mind the subject of transfer of a
disease from one organ to another.  In English, this process is known
as metastasis.  It means that the disease shifts from one part of the
body to another.  For instance, in  the case of mumps, the parotid
glands (situated below the ear) swell, and when the disease becomes
suppressed at this place, it transfers itself to the reproductive organs.
There are many reasons for it being suppressed, for example it could
be due to the use of antibiotics, or through local application of
poultices.  Sometimes it could be du e to sudden exposure to cold in
high fever.  Among all medicines us ed in the migrating type of
ailments, Abrotanum is one of the most salient ones.

Sometimes, by the suppression of diarrhoea, the patient experiences
sudden severe pain in the joints an d at other times, the heart may be
affected.  Similarly, sudden cessation of menstruation may result in
mental or other ailments.

We shall continue talking about th e migration of a disease from one
place to another in the c ontext of different remedies so that one may
be able to understand well, the i ndication and usage of remedies for
shifting the illness back to where it started.

If a patient suffers from gout or rheumatism, yet at the same time
experiences restlessness as if the blood through the heart seems to be
scraping the heart, and also he has Epistaxis or blood in the urine, then
he is very likely to get cured by the use of Abrotanum.

The basic nature of the Abrotanum patient is that loose frequent stools
(diarrhoea) give him relief by excreting the harmful products that
would have otherwise involved the joints.  In su ch a patient,
Abrotanum will also gradually cure diarrhoea as well as joint pains.
If the joint pains are suppressed by  using some remedies, or by local
heat application and the patient contracts pleurisy instead of diarrhoea,
then it becomes imperative for the Homoeopath to retrace the course
of sickness back to its origin.  If the joint pains had preceded the
development of pleurisy (inflammation of the outer lining of the lung
which causes pain on deep breathing and much more so on coughing),
then surely the remedy in this case would be Abrotanum. Abrotanum

will cure the pleurisy but may initially cause the recurrence of joint
pains, which will eventually be cured by continued use of Abrotanum,
Insha Allah.

Abrotanum is also very useful in the generalised wasting disease of
the children (marasmus) when its basic features are also present.  For
the treatment of marasmus in children, Aethusa, Natrum Mur and
Calcaria Carb are also well known re medies.  In Calcaria Carb, the
wasting affects the legs, while in Abrotanum it starts at the legs but
extends to the upper body.  This symptom alone is sufficient to
suggest that Abrotanum is the remedy to be given in potency 30, three
times a day.  This could bring complete cure, by the Grace of God.

If the joint pains get better but the heart becomes affected, one should
not ignore Abrotanum in addition to the other remedies for the heart.

Sometimes on the sudden cessation of diarrhoea, joint pains and
bleeding piles  develop, Abrotanum would st ill be the right choice.
Such a patient feels excessive cold.  His symptoms aggravate in cold
and humid weather.  He often complains of backache worsening at
night.  The backache of Abrotanum always worsens at night
irrespective of any specific time, but the backache of Kali Carb is
specific for late night or very ear ly morning hours around 3-4 am.  In
such a patient, if we find the core  symptom of ‘amelioration by onset
of diarrhoea’, then the back pain  will also be cured by Abrotanum.
The general improvement of symptoms  with the onset of diarrhoea is
also present in Natrum Sulph and Zinc, but to make proper diagnosis,
their salient features should also be present in a patient.

Abrotanum pains are sometimes of cu tting or piercing nature, which
can involve the ovaries, in addition  to the joints. A patient having
pains at the ovaries and the joints and backache, aggravated at night,
the symptoms subsiding with the onset of diarrhoea, will also
immensely benefit from Abrotanum as the cure for her infertility.

Potency: 30

## Symptoms by System