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Artemisia vulgaris (Art‑v.)

Artemisia vulgaris (Art‑v.) appears in 76 rubrics in the Repertorium. Of these, 7 are single rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 4 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis is on Gestures, Irritability, Unconsciousness, Shrieking and Kleptomania. It is striking that almost all specific rubrics revolve around one theme: the epileptic seizure and its precursors.

The seizure and its forefield

The single rubrics form a closed group. They name mental exhaustion in epilepsy, fear of catalepsy, anger from catalepsy, moaning before eclampsia and sadness before a seizure, day and night. The small rubrics follow: excitement before the epileptic seizure, irritability of children before convulsions, sadness before the seizure and weeping in chorea. The mind appears here as an announcement of the readiness to convulse, depressed, irritable or excited, even before the body follows.

Involuntary activity

Fitting this is the Gestures rubric, which records in a single rubric the involuntary picking at the bedclothes in hydrocephalus. Among the peculiarities is also a kleptomania in a boy with epilepsy.

Summary

The remedy appears in the Repertorium as one of the seizure disorders, whose mind before the convulsion is marked by sadness, excitement and irritability. The number of rubrics remains small, so that the picture is narrowly drawn.

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