🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Absinthium. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
🌸Bach Flower Remedy:
This remedy is one of the 38 natural remedies discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. It works primarily on balancing emotional and mental states, fears, despair, and psychological imbalances, rather than physical symptoms.
▲GENERAL
Absinthium has been proved, but a number of the symptoms were taken from observations
made on absinthe drinkers.
It causes hyperemia of brain, medulla and spine, more intense when combined
with alcohol.
Those who take absinthe are liable to hysterical manifestations.
This drug produces a perfect picture of epileptiform seizure.
Convulsions are preceded by trembling, the
patient makes grimaces, bites tongue, foams.
Marked tremors of nerves, tongue and heart.
The giddiness and epileptiform attacks are the most important of the symptoms.
Sudden and severe,
giddiness, epileptiform seizures.
Delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness.
“A peculiar vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement.
on rising with a tendency to fall backward.”
Attacks occur in rapid succession.
Useful remedy for nervousness, rest lessness, excitement and sleeplessness in children.
Cerebral irritation,
hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy.
This remedy has been used for mushroom poisonings.
Opisthotonos.
Intoxication.
Chorea.
ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of
inner organs
Forgets what has recently happened after and before convulsion.
Wants nothing to
do with anybody.
Foolish look on face.
Hallucinations.
Frightful visions.
Kleptomania.
Insa nity.
Patient walks
about in distress, seeing all sorts of demons.
There is exhilaration followed by horrible deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. (Bell.), patient
obliged to walk about (Art-v., Cham, and Cina are better moving about).
Insa nity.
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Vertigo on rising, with the tendency to fall backward.
COMMENTS - Clarke wrote about a case of epileptic vertigo with signs of constant cereb ral and spinal
congestion, nausea and tendency to frequent vomiting, persistent tremors, epileptic attacks of hysterical
character and opisthotonos.
Absinth, first in the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. and later in 3c, completely cured.
Halbert regarded Absin as of special se rvice in cases of epilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions. where conscious ness is not entirely lost.
The characteristic symptoms include a sudden and severe giddiness, epileptiform seizures, delirium with
delusions and loss of consciousness.
For some time after the attack there is a los s of memory
OtorrheaDischarge of fluid from the earAny drainage or discharge of fluid, pus, or blood exiting the ear canal., especially after hemicrania
▲FACE
Foolish look.
Rush of blood to the face.
Spasmodic facial twitching.
Makes grimaces and foams at
the mouth in epilepsy.
Face blue
▲MOUTH
Jaws firmly fixed.
Bites his tongue in epilepsy.
Tongue trembles, feels as if swollen and too large.
Tongue thick, protruding, can scarcely talk.
Tongue trembling, feels paralyzed.
Nerves - Falling down, as in epilepsy.
Unconsciousness with distortion of the features, followed by spasms of
the body and limbs.
Bloody foam at mouth and biting of the tongue.
Stupidity and the loss of memory
afterwards.
Opisthotonos, with grinding teeth, followed by stupor.
Paralysis of inner organs
▲THROAT
Scalded feeling in the thrpat.
Sensation as if a lump
▲CHEST
Sensation of weight on chest.
Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.
Constitutions - Younger and elderly patients.
Chlorosis.
Tumultuous action, heartbeats can be heard in back.
Tremors of the heart felt toward the back.
Kidneys - Constant desire to urinate.
Very strong odor, like horse's urine, deep yellow orange color (Kali -p.).
Cough with liver complaints
▲ABDOMEN
Uncomfortable, irritated feeling of stomach.
Food lies heavy.
Stomach feels cold and o ppressed.
Nausea, retching, eructationBelching or burpingThe act of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth..
Nausea, apparently in region of gallbladder.
Bloated around waist and in abdomen, as after ague.
Immense accumulation of flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. in abdomen, wind colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
Liver feels swollen.
Pain in spleen, it feels swollen.
Loss of appetite, loathing of food
▲GENITALS ETC
SpermatorrheaInvoluntary seminal dischargeAn abnormal, involuntary discharge of semen without orgasm or sexual stimulation, often due to nervous weakness. with relaxed, enfeebled parts.
Impotency.
Darting pain in right ovary.
Premature menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
Pains in uterus.
Chlorosis.
Promotes menses
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Spasms of the body and limbs.
Pain in limbs.
Paralytic symptoms.
Feet very cold
▲SLEEP
Sleeplessness, typhoid with conges tion of base of brain.
Nervous excitement and sleeplessness in
children
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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