Chamomilla

Chamomilla
Anthemis nobilis (german chamomile)
* 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 ofchildren, where peevishness, restlessness,
and colic give the needful indications.
* A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish and constipated bowels contra-indicate
chamomilla.
Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb.
Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics.
Night-sweats.
* This remedy is akin to the ordinary Chamomilla.
* Gastric disturbance with coldness.
* Sensitive to cold air and cold things.
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 andpetted 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 Chamom.
Head
- Throbbing headache in one-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. phos; Terebinth.]
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.; Abies n.]
Abdomen
- Distended.
- Griping in region of navel, and pain in small ofback.
- Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration.
- Hepatic colic.
- Acute duodenitis. [Kali bich. /chronic/.]
- Aching in region of liver; griping and chilliness inside of abdomen and into legs.
- Itching of anus, with white putty-like stools.
Stool
- Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic.
- Chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggsand spinach.
- Soreness of anus.
- Diarrhoea during dentition.
- Haemorrhoids, with painful fissures.
Female
- Uterine haemorrhages.
- Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like pains.
- Labor pains spasmodic; press upward. [Gels.]
- Patient intolerant of pain. [Caul.; Caust.; Gels.; Hyos.; Puls.]
- Nipples inflamed; tender to touch.
- Infant's breasts tender.
- Yellow, acrid leucorrhoea. [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 : Cypriped; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls.; Coffea; Bellad.; Staphis.; Ignat.
- Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of opium.
- Rubus villosus - Blackberry - (diarrhoea of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).
- Antidotes : Camph.; Nux; Puls.
- Complementary : Bell.; Mag.c.
Respiration
- Coryza with much lachrymation, sneezing, and discharge of clear water from the nose.
- Symptoms worse indoors.
- Constriction and rawness of throat.
- Cough, tickling; worse in warm room.
Urinary
- Bladder feels distended.
- Pain along spermatic cord, which feels full, as if varicosed.
- Frequent urination.
Skin
- Itching of the soles, as if from chilblains.
- Gooseflesh.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth attenuation.
- Use the third potency.