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Saturday, May 28, 2011

ABROTANUM


N. O. ---Compositae.

Latin, Artemisia abrotanum, Abrotanum; English, Lady’s love, Old man, Southernwood; French, Aurone,des jardins; German, Eberrante.
Description:--
An evergreen under-shrub, with an upright stem, 3 to 4 feet high ; Leaves grayish- green, alternate, the lower bi-pinnate, the upper pinnate, capillary ; flowers yellow appearing from August to October, fertile ; the heads nodding in wand-like panicles. The involucer whitish, downy, hemispherical; the corolla naked.

Found in :-Southern Euroupe.

Introduced in homoeopathic
1869 by Dr. Gatchell, U.S. Med. Sur Jour, 1, V. 5, P. 291. (Allen’s Encyc. Mat. Med. I. 558).

Part Used:--
The fresh leaves and young shoots.

Preparation:--
(a)Tincture Q: =Drug Strength 1/10
Artemisia abrotanum, moist magma containing solids100gm.
Plant moisture 233 Cc.= 333
Strong alcohol794 Cc.
To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.

(b) Dilutions: 2x and higher with dispensing alcohol.

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