ARTEMISIA VULGARIS

ARTEMISIA VULGARIS [Art-v]
Convulsions in children or at puberty, without aura.
COMMON NAME	:	Wormwood
SOURCE	:	Tincture of fresh root.
FAMILY	:	Compositae.
A/F	:	-Fright, grief bad news. -Violent emotions, anger. -After masturbation, sexual excitement. -Blow on the head. -Physical exertion.
MODALITIES	:	< Physical exertion < Photic stimulation Chorea: < during day time > at night.
MIND	:	-Irritability and excitability before attack of epilepsy or convulsion. -Somnanbulism - gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning. -Walks in the street, suddenly stops, stares into space, often mumbles a few words, becomes normal and remembers nothing.
GUIDING INDICATIONS	:	-Convulsive attacks accompanied by profuse offensive sweat garlic like odour, and seminal emission. -Chorea during daytime > night. -Convulsions worse on becoming cool after exertion, worse from photic stimulation. -Typical ABSENCE episodes. -Convulsion of right side, paralysis, in newborns and girls at puberty. -Tonic-clonic convulsions with biting of the tongue and grinding of teeth. -Petit mal -attacks frequently repeated, then followed by a long interval of rest. -After the attack, falling asleep, weakness, feeling of lethargy. -Chorea- swallowing difficult, hungry but cannot get food down. -Colored light produces dizziness.
KEYNOTES	:	- Epilepsy without Aura. - Profuse offensive garlic odour of sweat, during or after convulsion. - Convulsion of right side, left side paralysed. - Excitability before convulsions, sleepiness after the convulsion. - Petit mal - gets up in the night and works, remembers nothing in the morning.
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY	:	- Marked action of central nervous system \| Convulsive diseases. - Right side of the body is convulsed, left side is paralysed. - Produces Petit mal type of convulsion -frequent attacks followed by period of rest. - Epilepsy without aura.
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS	:	-Absence of aura in epilepsy. -Petit mal epilepsy. -Profuse offensive garlic like odour of sweat is a characteristic concomittant. -Right side convulsed, left side paralysed.
CLINICAL	:	-Seizure disorder, Chorea, Petit Mal epilepsy, Grand Mal epilepsy.
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS	:	-Compare-Absin, Caust, Cic, Cina, Cupr, Bufo, Oenan. Please click here for more information about us For proof/evidence that Homeopathy is effective, please click here: Efficacy studies.

Specializations

Diseases & Conditions

Remedies A-Z