- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Matricaria Chambilla. (Compositae) Persons, especially children, with light brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament; oversensitive from use or abuse of coffee or narcotics. Children, new-born and during period of dentition . Peevish , irritable, oversensitive to pain, driven to despair (Coff.); snappish, cannot…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Matricaria chamomilla, L. Nat. order , Compositæ. Common name , Chamomile. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant when in flower. Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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 of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. ANGER, IRRITABILITY FRETFULNESS, BAD TEMPER, ETC. (COMP. EMOTIONS) ASSOCIATED effects. BALL. CALF CHANGE of position, Amel. COLD TAKING COMPANY, crowds, etc. Agg., Craves solitude, etc. COUGH. COUGH, excited from Throat or Larynx COUGH, incessant CRAMP, colic, etc. DISCHARGES, eruption…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MIND. NERVES. EMOTIONS. Mucous membranes: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Liver. Women and CHILDREN. Left side. ANGER. NIGHT. DENTITION. Cold: Air. Damp. Wind. Taking cold. COFFEE. Narcotics. Alcohol. BEING CARRIED. Mild weather. Heat. Sweating. Cold applications. Bad temper. Frantic irritability, snappish and intolerant of pain…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Matricaria chamomilla. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Acidity / Anger / Asthma (from anger) / Blepharospasm / Catarrh / Coffee, effects of / Colic / Convulsions / Cough / Cramp / Croup / Dentition / Diarrhœa / Dysmenorrhœa / Dyspepsia / Earache / Eyes: blepharitis / ophthalmia / Eructations /…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“THE name of this medicinal plant is derived from matrix, because of the specific action supposed by the ancients to be exerted by it on the uterus. It was used by the ancients, by whom likewise and for similar reason the name Parthenion was given to it. Culpeper says of it: “Venus commands this herb, and has commended…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“The Chamomilla of the homoeopathic materia medica is the German variety, the Chamomilla matricaria. The drug acts best apparently upon patients with a morbidly sensitive nervous system. It is like Coffea, Ignatia and Belladonna then, in so far as it lessens nervous excitability. Slight impressions produce distress and…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“There is in Chamomilla a little thread of symptoms, which may nearly always be found running through it,--viz. a spiteful, sudden, or uncivil irritability. In labor cases, though it may not be brought out by questions, we will often find the patient in an irritable mood, feels as if she "can't be civil," "can't give a…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Camomile) (The juice of the whole plant, Matricaria chamomilla, freshly expressed, and mixed with equal parts of alcohol.) It will be seen from the following symptoms of chamomile, though they are far from being exhaustive, that this plant must evidently be reckoned among the medicines of many uses (polychrests)…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Matricaria Chamomilla. Compositæ. Tincture prepared from the fresh plant when in flower ; the flowers contain active principles which combine the properties of bitters and ethereal oils. The plant is a native of Europe, but is occasionally cultivated in our gardens ; the leaves and flowers are small, thus differing…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“CHAMOMILLA . Matricaria Chamomilla, L. Wild chamomile. Nat. Ord., Compositæ. I. Provings.-I . HAHNEMANN, Fragmenta de Viribus. Contains 272 symptoms from self and 3 from authors. 2. IBID. , Mat. Med. Pura, vol. iii of original, vol. i of translation . Contains 461 symptoms from self, and 30 from Stapf (See ii, 1 ) …”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The general constitutional state of Chamomilla is great sensitiveness ; sensitive to every impression; sensitive to surroundings; sensitive to persons; and, above all, sensitive to pain . The constitutional irritability is so great that a little pain brings forth manifestations as if the patient were in very, great…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anger, with rage, violence and heat. Great anguish and restlessness. Crying and howling. Weeping uneasiness; the child wants different things, and repels them when given to him. The child cries and wants to be carried on the arm. Seeks a cause for quarrel. Peevishness and ill humor; taciturn absence of mind. Vertigo…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: common chamomille. Exceedingly irritable, fretful (Nux-V.) (A.). " Too ugly to live " (A.). Can not bear to be spoken to (Ars., Con., Hyos., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Sep.) (A.). Aversion to talking (Aur., Carb-An., Cocc., Glon., Phos-Ac., Plat., Sulph.) (A.). Can not endure any one near him (Anac., Ign., Nat-M…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Very irritable mood; snaps and snarls; will not speak or answer civilly; mad. Exceedingly sensitive to pain, which makes her mad; numbness alternates with, or attends, the pains; sweats with the pains. Excessive uneasiness; anxiety; agonized, tossing about; will only be quieted by carrying the child about. High fever…”
