Vergleich: Kind in Abrotanum und Aethusa
[M.J Tyler]
A valuable remedy of marasmic children.
It has many symptoms in common with Aethusa cynapium that sharply
differentiate the two drugs.
In both we find extreme weakness; inability to stand, or even to hold
the head erect.
But the Abrotanum child, instead of being unable to take milk, craves
bread in boiled milk, to satisfy its gnawing hunger.
Both drugs have, "Thinking difficult; loss of comprehension.
In Aethusa (= "Fools' Parsley"): confusion, inability to
think, almost idiocy.
Abrotanum has also incapacity for
thought; but may be extremely irritable, cross, illnatured: even violent and
inhuman: would like to do something cruel. No humanity.