Chamomilla

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. 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. Pains unendurable , associated with numbness. Night-sweats.

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 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 of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks 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. Diarrhœa during dentition. Hæmorrhoids, with painful fissures.

Female

Uterine hæmorrhages. 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 leucorrhœa ( 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--(diarrhœa of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).

Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls .

Complementary: Bell; Mag c .

Dose

Third to thirtieth attenuation.