- Source: Derived from the Southernwood plant ( Artemisia🌿 ArtemisiaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. abrotanum ), a perennial shrub in the Asteraceae family.
- Traditional Context: Historically used in homeopathy for conditions involving wasting.
- (marasmusSevere malnutrition causing wastingSevere undernourishment causing an infant's or child's weight to be significantly low for their age, leading to muscle wasting.), alternating symptoms (e.g., rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. followed by diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day.), and suppressed conditions shifting to other systems (e.g., joint pain resolving but leading to cardiac symptoms).
- Modern Context : Indicated for syndromes of progressive muscle wasting , post-inflammatory sequelae, and functional disorders with alternating clinical presentations.
- It addresses conditions where nutritional assimilation is impaired despite adequate intake, often linked to chronic inflammatory or autoimmune processes.
- Temperature-High fever, rheumatism.
- Hectic fever with chilliness, very weakening, and marasmus.
- COMMENTS-Characteristic metastasis and marasmus.
- “Metastasis” is an idea in homeopathy that's not limited to cancer.
- Metastasis means something disappeared and reappeared.
- Rh eumatic fever followed by sore throat is also known as metastasis.
- If the throat cleared up but was followed by joint problems, that's a case of metastasis.
- Keynote metastasis (Plat.), with a mental state alternating with a physical one.
- Me tastasis in hom eopathy is synonymous with “suppression” if there was outside interference.
- It's perceiving the alternation of states in the person.
- All the rubrics that say “alternation with...” are metastasis rubrics.
- Useful for suppression, can correct the .
- Suppress ion in some cases.
- Indicated when a disorder has moved from one area and then to another.
- Disorders often go to the intestines.
- Alternation of constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. and diarrhea.
- Crohn's disease, colitisInflammation of the colon (large intestine)Inflammation of the inner lining of the colon, causing abdominal pain, cramping, or bloody diarrhea., and irritable bowel syndrome🩺 Irritable Bowel SyndromeClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- A very powerful children’s rem edy for malnutrition, malassimilation, failure to thrive, marasmus (Aeth.), colitis and rheumatism.
- May have a big appetite and still lose weight.
- Can be emaciated with poor food assimilation (lod., Cina🌿 CinaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Especially useful when failure to thrive is accompanied with muscular weakness.
- Loss of muscular strength, of muscle tone.
- Flaccid.
- Difficulty holding up head, in older children.
- Metastasis of mumps with a large swol len parotid gland, often metastasizes to the testicles or the breasts (Puls., Carb-v.).
- Clarke cured with Abrot indigestion with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid (in a middle-aged woman).
- Weak, sinking feeling in bowels.
- Hard lumps are felt in different parts of abdomen.
- Bloated and distended.
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- Blood and moisture oozing from navel of newborn.
- Gnawing hunger and whining.
- Craving for bread boiled in milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- The appetite is great, ravenous while emaciating.
- Emaciation progresses with good appetite.
- Marasmus.
- Loss of ap petite.
- Food passes undigested
