Anthemis Nobilis

Roman Chamomile

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

This remedy is akin to the ordinary Chamomilla. Gastric disturbance with coldness. Sensitive to cold air and cold things.

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.

Abdomen

Aching in region of liver; griping and chilliness inside of abdomen and into legs. Itching of anus, with white putty-like stools.

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

Use the third potency.

Anthemis Nobilis across the other classic books

Anthemis Nobilis appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Nat. order , Compositæ. Common names , Roman Chamomile; Hunds-Kamile. Preparation , Tincture from the whole plant beginning to flower. Authority. Dr. Berridge (M. H. Rev., 13, 475). Provings with the tincture. Very low spirits; feeling as if something were about to happen; as if he would like to get alone, and…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Roman Chamomile. N. O. Compositæ. Infusion of flowers, or tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower. Ascarides / Colic / Dyspepsia / Headache / Liver, congestion of Anthem. nob. is the common chamomile used domestically in the form of a tea made of the flowers. It is not to be confounded with Matricaria…”

Anthemis Nobilis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Anthemis Nobilis in 42 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in COUGH (10), BLADDER (6), MIND (6), EXTREMITIES (4), MALE GENITALIA (3).

EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Leg - burning
THROAT - GANGRENE
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - Heart
STOMACH - HEAT,flushes
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - dressing,when
BLADDER - PAIN - distension,as from
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Leg - dressing,hen
MIND - FEAR - out of doors,to go
BLADDER - PAIN - extending to - spermatic cords
COUGH - DRY - afternoon - entering warm room
COUGH - DRY - warm room,on entering a
COUGH - TICKLING - larynx,in,from - afternoon
MIND - FEAR - approaching him, - of vehicles
MIND - FEAR - run over of being,on going out
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - night - 2 a.m.
MIND - GOING out,aversion to
BLADDER - PAIN - neck - urging to urinate,on
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - pressing - Spermatic cords
COUGH - DRY - afternoon
STOMACH - NAUSEA - air - in,open - amel.

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