Chamomilla

1 . Adapted to nervous, excitable temperaments, especially in women and children ; children during dentition ; rheumatic diathesis.

2 . Every degree of ill-temper ; fits of spiteful irritability ; uncivil even to best friends (no underlying ill nature like Nux Vom .) ; confesses the fault but repeats it ; affirms "cannot help it, I feel so". Children peevish, nothing pleases ; quiet only when carried and petted.

3 . Oversensitiveness to all unpleasant stimuli especially pain which seems intolerable , at night causing patient to jump out of bed and walk about, pain accompanied by arternance with numbness.

4 . Great sense of debility out of all proportions to the seriousness of the disease.

5 . All discharges hot (sweat, stools, etc.).

6 . Local heat ; of hands and feet ; one cheek flushed and hot, the other pale and cold.

7 . Dentition diarrhoeas ; hot, acrid, green stools ; odour of rotten eggs.

8 . Menstrual and puerperal disorders with char. pains and irritability ; menses excessive with dark clots.

9 . Ailments from anger and violent excitement ; also from abuse of stimulants.

10 . Patient < heat and hot applications yet not > by cold ; sensitive to damp, cold weather and to high winds especially about the ears ; < evening and night.

Note : A swift-acting but not very searching remedy.

Keynote : Over sensitiveness.