• Absinthium: Common Wormwood. It acts primarily on the nervous system.

• Constitutionally, Absinthium is suited to highly sensitive and excitable individuals.

• Absinthium produces a perfect picture of epileptiform seizures.

• Absinthium is especially useful in nervous affections and convulsions, particularly violent ones.

• Absinthium produces a general sensation of nervous excitement and heightened sensitivity.

• Absinthium causes overstimulation of the sensorium.

• Absinthium produces great nervous irritability and restlessness.

• Absinthium creates a tendency to convulsive states and tremors.

• Absinthium is marked by a heightened sensorium and exaggerated reflexes.

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• Absinthium is marked by hallucinations, especially visual.

• The patient experiences frightful visions, often of animals or grotesque figures.

• The patient experiences delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness, often with convulsions.

• Kleptomania is present: Compulsive desire to steal.

• The patient experiences loss of memory, particularly of recent events.

• The patient forgets what has recently occurred; difficulty concentrating.

• The patient experiences nervous excitement and sleeplessness; insomnia with vivid dreams or nightmares.

• The patient experiences irritability and mood swings; easily angered or frustrated.

• The patient experiences apprehension and anxiety; fear of impending doom.

• The patient experiences confusion and disorientation.

• The patient exhibits a tendency to impulsive behavior.

• The patient experiences mental dullness following seizures.

• The patient experiences mania with erotic tendencies.

• The patient has violent outbursts.

• The patient is restless and uneasy.

• The patient has a fear of being alone.

• The patient has an aversion to company.

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• Primarily affects the nervous system, leading to convulsive disorders and mental disturbances.

• Useful in conditions stemming from excessive stimulation of the nervous system.

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• Sudden and severe giddiness is experienced; vertigo with a tendency to fall.

• The patient experiences a headache with pressure or fullness.

• The patient experiences cerebral irritation.

• The patient experiences congestion to the head.

• The patient experiences throbbing headaches after convulsions.

• Pupils are dilated.

• The patient experiences double vision.

• The patient experiences flickering before the eyes.

• The patient has sensitivity to light.

• The patient experiences dim vision.

• The patient has a staring expression.

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• Injected conjunctiva.

• Pain in the eyes.

• Itching of eyes.

• Lids heavy.

• Pupils dilated or contracted.

• Dim vision.

• Photophobia.

• Flickering before the eyes.

• Objects appear distorted.

• The patient experiences hearing disturbances.

• The patient experiences hyperacusis.

• The patient's sense of smell is acute or perverted.

• The patient experiences difficulty swallowing.

• The patient experiences a spasmodic cough.

• The patient experiences difficult breathing during convulsions.

• The patient has short, panting respiration.

• The patient has a suffocative feeling.

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• The patient experiences palpitations.

• The patient has a rapid pulse.

• The patient has irregular heart action.

• The patient experiences angina-like pains.

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• The patient experiences nausea and vomiting.

• The patient experiences abdominal pain.

• The patient experiences diarrhea or constipation.

• The patient experiences loss of appetite.

• The patient experiences a burning sensation in the stomach.

• The patient has intense thirst.

• The patient experiences vomiting of bile.

• The patient experiences rumbling in the bowels.

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• The patient experiences tenesmus.

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• The patient experiences increased urination.

• The patient experiences incontinence during convulsions.

• The patient experiences scanty urine.

• The patient has albuminuria.

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• The patient experiences increased sexual desire followed by exhaustion.

• The patient experiences satyriasis or nymphomania.

• The patient experiences menses suppressed.

• Nervous tremors precede attacks.

• The patient experiences chorea.

• The patient experiences tremor, especially of the hands and feet.

• The patient experiences twitching of muscles, especially facial muscles and limbs.

• The patient experiences weakness and heaviness of the limbs.

• The patient experiences jerking of the limbs during sleep.

• The patient experiences hysterical and infantile spasms.

• The patient experiences epileptic convulsions with frothing at the mouth and loss of consciousness.

• The patient experiences general muscular rigidity during seizures.

• The patient experiences cold extremities.

• The patient experiences numbness of limbs.

• The patient experiences cramps in calves.

• The patient's skin is cold and clammy.

• The patient experiences cyanosis during convulsions.

• The patient experiences itching eruptions.

• The patient experiences urticaria.

• The patient experiences insomnia with vivid dreams or nightmares.

• The patient has restless sleep.

• The patient experiences sleeplessness from nervous excitement.

• The patient experiences somnambulism.

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• Feet very cold.

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• At night; from alcohol; from coffee; from excitement; from noise; from light; during menstruation; from suppressed emotions; from heat; from touch.

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• On rising. During convulsions. From alcohol. From excitement. From mental exertion. From heat. During the night. From noise. From light.

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• Complementary remedies: Artemisia vulgaris, Belladonna, Cuprum metallicum, Hyoscyamus niger, Opium, Zincum metallicum.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Coffea cruda.

• Comparisons: Artemisia species (Artemisia vulgaris, Artemisia abrotanum), Belladonna, Cicuta virosa, Cuprum metallicum, Hyoscyamus niger, Ignatia amara, Stramonium.

• Absinthium is useful in poisoning by mushrooms.

• Absinthium is useful in alcoholism and the resulting nervous disorders.

• Absinthium can be used in Epilepsy.

• Absinthium can be used in Hysteria.

• Absinthium can be used in Mania.

• Absinthium can be used in Choreic affections.

• Absinthium can be used in Worm infestations where nervous symptoms predominate.

• Useful in minor epilepsy, where consciousness is not entirely lost.

• Characteristic vertigo on rising, with a tendency to fall backward.

• Epileptoid vertigo with cerebral and spinal congestion; nausea and tendency to frequent vomiting, persistent tremors; epileptoid attacks of hysterical character and opisthotonos.

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• Sudden and severe giddiness, epileptiform seizures, delirium with hallucinations, and loss of consciousness.

• For some time after the attack, there is loss of memory.

• Liable to hysterical manifestations.

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• Patient is obliged to walk about in distress, seeing demons.

• Corresponds to nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.

• General sensation of heaviness and paralysis.

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• General weakness and exhaustion.

• Great prostration after convulsions.

• Attacks are often preceded by a sense of impending doom.

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• After recovery, has no recollection of taking the poison, nor of the cause.

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• Idiotic manner; doesn't care whether she dies or not.

• Wants nothing to do with anybody.

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• Insensible with the convulsions.

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• Anxiety and restlessness with a feeling of impending doom.

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• Loquacity and mania.

• Aversion to mental work.

• Delirium with incoherent speech.

• Mental confusion, difficulty concentrating.

• Suicidal tendencies.

• Feels detached from reality.

• A state of ecstasy followed by depression.

• Easily frightened.

• Restless and fidgety.

• Confusion in head.

• Wants to lie with the head low.

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• Head feels too large.

• Scalp sensitive to touch.

• Otorrhœa; especially after hemicrania.

• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

• Impaired hearing.

• Intolerance to noise.

• Increased sense of smell.

• Dryness of the nasal passages.

• Foolish look.

• Rush of blood to the face.

• Makes grimaces and foams at the mouth in epilepsy.

• Pale or flushed face.

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• Neuralgic pains in the face.

• Jaws firmly fixed.

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• Tongue thick, protruding; can scarcely talk.

• Tongue trembling; feels paralysed.

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• Dryness of the mouth.

• Difficulty in articulating words.

• Dryness and burning sensation in the throat.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Cough with liver complaint.

• Spasmodic cough.

• Difficulty breathing.

• Feeling of constriction in the chest.

• Shortness of breath.

• Wheezing.

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• Heart thumps; can be heard in scapular region.

• Palpitations, especially with anxiety.

• Irregular pulse.

• Rapid pulse.

• Feeling of weight or pressure on the chest.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Angina-like pains.

• Loss of appetite; loathing of food.

• Food lies heavy.

• Stomach feels cold and oppressed.

• Eructations; nausea; vomiting.

• Nausea, apparently in region of gall bladder.

• Uncomfortable, irritated feeling of stomach.

• Heartburn.

• Waterbrash.

• Liver feels swollen.

• Pain in spleen; it feels swollen.

• Bloated around waist and in abdomen, as after ague.

• Immense accumulation of flatulence in abdomen; wind colic.

• Abdominal cramps.

• Gurgling in the abdomen.

• Soreness of the abdomen to touch.

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• Constipation or diarrhea.

• Involuntary stools.

• Frequent urging to stool.

• Stools offensive.

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• Constant desire to urinate.

• Urine deep orange, of a strong smell, like horse's urine.

• Burning sensation during urination.

• Incontinence of urine.

• Scanty urine.

• Pains in uterus.

• Darting pain in right ovary.

• Chlorosis.

• Promotes menses.

• Menstrual irregularities.

• Leucorrhea.

• Suppressed menstruation.

• Metrorrhagia.

• Weakness in the back.

• Stiffness of the neck.

• Opisthotonos.

• Weakness and paralysis.

• Cramps in legs and feet.

• Heaviness of the limbs.

• Numbness and tingling in the extremities.

• Jerking of the limbs during sleep.

• Pain in the joints.

• Sensitive to touch.

• Pale or flushed.

• Cold and clammy.

• Formication.

• Eruptions.

• Restless sleep.

• Frequent waking.

• Nightmares.

• Vivid dreams.

• Dreams of death or danger.

• Grinding teeth during sleep.

• Arsenicum album, Belladonna, Calcarea carbonica, Hyoscyamus niger, Stramonium.

• Camphor, Coffea cruda.

• Artemisia vulgaris, Belladonna, Cicuta virosa, Cuprum metallicum, Hyoscyamus niger, Stramonium, Sulphur. Useful in conditions that resemble alcoholism, epilepsy, mania, and hysteria. Agaricus, Zincum metallicum, Silica.