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| COMMON NAME |
: | Wormwood |
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| SOURCE |
: | Tincture of fresh root. |
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| FAMILY |
: | Compositae. |
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| A/F |
: | -Fright, grief bad news. -Violent emotions, anger. -After masturbation, sexual excitement. -Blow on the head. -Physical exertion. |
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| MODALITIES |
: | < Physical exertion < Photic stimulation Chorea: < during day time, > at night. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Seizure disorder, Chorea, Petit Mal epilepsy,
Grand Mal epilepsy. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | Follows Well: Aur, Puls, Stram Compare: Abrot, Absin, Cham, Cina Similar: Apis, Bry, Bufo, Cic, Cina, Hell |
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