CHAMOMILLA
German Chamomile
The chief guiding signs belong to the intellectual and emotion group, which lead to this treatment in many types of disease. Especially of general employment in ailments of children, the place peevishness, restlessness, and colic provide the requisite indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; slow and constipated bowels contra-indicate chamomilla.
Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of espresso and narcotics. Pains unendurable, related with numbness. Night-sweats.
Mind.–Whining restlessness. Child needs many matters which he refuses again. Piteous moaning due to the fact he can’t have what he wants. Child can solely be quieted when carried about and petted constantly. Impatient, illiberal of being spoken to or interrupted; extraordinarily touchy to each pain; constantly 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 brow and scalp.
Ears.–Ringing in ears. Earache, with soreness; swelling and warmth riding affected person frantic. Stitching pain. Ears experience stopped.
Eyes.–Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.
Nose.–Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with incapability to sleep.
Face.–One cheek pink and hot; the different faded and cold. Stitches in jaw extending to internal ear and teeth. Teeth suffering worse after heat drink; worse, coffee, at night. Drives to distraction. Jerking of tongue and facial muscles. Distress of teething young people (Calc phos; Terebinth).
Throat.–Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and ache as from a plug.
Mouth.–Toothache, if some thing heat is taken, from coffee, for the duration of pregnancy. Nightly salivation.
Stomach.–Eructations, foul. Nausea after coffee. Sweats after consuming or drinking. Aversion to heat drinks. Tongue yellow; style bitter. Bilious vomiting. Acid rising; regurgitation of food. Bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone (Bry; Abies n).
Abdomen.–Distended. Griping in location of navel, and ache in small of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with crimson cheeks and warm 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. Diarrhoea for the duration of dentition. Haemorrhoids, with painful fissures.
Female.–Uterine haemorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted, darkish blood, with labor-like pains. Labor pains spasmodic; press upward (Gels). Patient illiberal of ache (Caul; Caust; Gels; Hyos; Puls). Nipples inflamed; soft 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 kid’s chest.
Back.–Insupportable ache in loins and hips. Lumbago. Stiffness of neck muscles.
Extremities.–Violent rheumatic pains power him out of mattress at night; compelled to stroll about. Burning of soles at night time (Sulph). Ankles provide way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss of strength in the feet, unable to step on them.
Sleep.–Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing in the course of sleep; anxious, fearful dreams, with half-open eyes.
Modalities.–Worse, by means of heat, anger, open air, wind, night. Better, from being carried, heat moist weather.
Relationship.–Compare: Cypriped; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls; Coffea; Bellad; Staphis; Ignat. Follows Belladonna in illnesses of adolescents and abuse of opium. Rubus villosus-Blackberry–(diarrhoea of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).
Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls.
Complementary: Bell; Mag c.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth attenuation.
