Plant
Chamomilla
German Chamomile
Repertory abbreviation: Cham.
The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotion group. which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease. Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful indications. Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty. hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and nar- cotics. Pains unendurable, associated with numbness. Night-sweats.
Mind
Whining rcstlessuess. Child wants many things which he refuses again.1 Piteous moaning he- cause he cannot have what he wants. Child can only be qiiieted when carried about and petted constantly. Inpalicnt, intolerant of being svoken to or interrupted ; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complain- ing. Spiteful, snappish. Complaints from anger. Mlcn- tal calmncss cotraindicatcs Chamom.
Head
Throbbing headache in one-half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.
Eyes
Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.
Ears
Ringing in ears. Farachc, with soreness; sreclling and heat driving patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped.
Nose
Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inabil- ity to sleep.
Face
One cheek rrd and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches in jaw pxtending to inner ear and teeth. Teeth oche worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at night. Drives to distraction. Jerking of tongue and facial muscles. Distress of teething children. [Calc. phos.; Terebinth.]
Mouth
Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee, during pregnancy. Nightly salivation.
Throat
Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and pain as from a plug.
Stomach
Eructations, foul. Nausea after coffee. Sweats after eating or drinking. Aversion to warm drinks. Tongue yellow; taste bitter. Bilious vomiting. Acid rising; regurgitation of food. Bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone. [Bry.; Abies n.
Abdomen
Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with red checks and hot perspiration. Hepatic colic. Acute duodenitis. Kali bich. (chronic).
Stool
Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic. Chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach. Soreness of anus. Diarrhcea during den- tition. Haemorrhoids, with painful fissures.
Female
Uterine hamorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like pains. Labor pains spasmodic; press upward. [Gels.] Patient in- tolerant of pain. [Caul.: Caust.; Gels.; Hyos.; Puls.] Nipples inflamed; tender to touch. Infants' breasts tender. Yellow, acrid leucorrhcea. [Ars.; Sep.: Sulph.]
Respiratory
Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx. Irritable, dry, tickling cough; suffocative tight- ness of chest, with bitter expectoration in daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's chest.
Extremities
Violent rheutnatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles at night. [Sulph.] Ankles give way in the after- noon. Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet, un- able to step on them.
Sleep
Moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes.
Modalities
Worse, by heat, anger, open air, wind, night. Better, from being carried, warm wet weather.
Relationships
Compare: Coca; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls.; Coffea; Bcllad.; Staphis.; Ignat. Follows Belia- donna in diseases of children and abuse of opium. Antidotes: Camph.; Nux; Puls. Complementary : Bell.; Mag. c.
Dose
Third to thirtieth attenuation.