Abrotanum
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lineteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic.). In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up. (Aeth.). Marasmus of lower extremities only.
Ravenous hunger; loosing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.).
Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic.
Rheumatism; for the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea or other secretions; alternates with haemorrhoids, with dysentery.
Gout; joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed. Very lame and sore all over.
Itching chilblains (Agar.).
Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand.
Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).
Relationship: After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.
About Dr. HC Allen
(1836-1909, US)
Dr. Henry C. Allen was born [on February 10, 1836] in the village of Nilestown, near London, Ontario, and was the son of Hugh and Martha Billings Allen. On his paternal side, he was a descendant of that distinguished family of Vermonters of the same name, Gen. Ira Allen and Ethan Allen, both famous in the revolution. On his maternal side, the Billings' were well known among the Colonial families of Massachussetts Bay, and one of them, the great-grand-father of Dr. Allen, owned the farm lands on which the present city of Salem is built. After selling this property, the family moved to Deerfield, in the Connecticut Valley and were there at the time the Indians pillaged and ravaged that part of the country.
In 1875 he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and in 1880, being appointed Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Michigan, he moved to Ann Arbor, where he has since resided. In 1892 he founded the Hering Medical College and Hospital, of which he was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica until his death, January 22nd, 1909.
Dr. Allen was an honorable senior of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; a number of the International Hahnemannian Association ; of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association ; of the Englewood Homeopathic Medical Society ; of the Regular Homeopathic Medical Society of Chicago ; Honorary Vice-President of the Cooper Club of London, England ; and Honorary Member of the Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio State Medical Societies and Honorary Member of the Homeopathic Society of Calcutta, India.
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Abrotanum for flabby skin
Abrotanum may be used for flabby skin around neck especially in malnourished kids.