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. Diarrhśa during dentition. Hćmorrhoids,
with painful fissures.
Female.–
Uterine hćmorrhages. 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 leucorrhśa (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–(diarrhśa
of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls.
Complementary: Bell; Mag c.
Dose.–
Third to thirtieth attenuation.
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