(German Chamomile)
The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental
and emotional 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. A
disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish and constipated bowels
contraindicate Chamomilla. | ||
| Mind.
Whining restlessness. Child wants many things which he refuses
again. Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants. Child can only
be quieted when carried about and petted constantly. Impatient,
intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every
pain; always complaining. Spiteful, snappish. Complaints from
anger and vexation. Mental calmness contraindicates
Chamomilla. | ||
| Head. Throbbing
headache in half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot,
clammy sweat on forehead and scalp. | ||
| Ears. Ringing
in ears. Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat driving
patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped. | ||
| Eyes. Lids
smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids. | ||
| Nose. Sensitive
to all smells. Coryza, with inability to sleep. | ||
| Face. One
cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches in jaw extending
to inner ear and teeth. Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse,
coffee, at night. Drives to distraction. Jerking of tongue and facial
muscles. Distress of teething children. [Calc-p.] | ||
| Throat. Parotid
and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and pain as from a
plug. | ||
| Mouth.
Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee, during pregnancy.
Nightly salivation. | ||
| 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.] | ||
| Abdomen.
Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back. Flatulent
colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration. Hepatic
colic. Acute duodenitis. [Kali-bi.
(chronic).] | ||
| Stool. Hot,
green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic. Chopped white and
yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach. Soreness of anus. Diarrhea
during dentition. Hemorrhoids, with painful fissures. | ||
| Female. Uterine
hemorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like
pains. Labor pains spasmodic; press upward. [Gels.] Patient intolerant of pain. [Caul.; Caust.; Gels.; Puls.] Nipples inflamed;
tender to touch. Infants' breasts tender. Yellow, acrid leucorrhea. [Ars.; Sep.; Sulph.] | ||
| Respiratory.
Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx. Irritable, dry tickling
cough; suffocative tightness of chest, with bitter expectoration in
daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's chest. | ||
| Back.
Insupportable pain in loins and hips. Lumbago. Stiffness of neck
muscles. | ||
| Extremities.
Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk
about. Burning of soles at night. [Sulph.] Ankles
give way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet,
unable to step on them. | ||
| Sleep.
Drowsiness with 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. | ||
| Relationship.
Compare: Acon.; Puls.; Coff.; Bell.; Staph.; Ign. Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of
Opium. Antidote: Nux-v.; Puls. Complementary: Bell.; Mag-c. | ||
| Dose. Third to
thirtieth attenuation. |