Chamomilla

Matricaria Chamomilla. Compositoe,

Tincture prepared from the fresh plant when in flower; the flowers con- tain active principles which combine the properties of bitters and etheral oils. The plant is a native of Europe, but is occasionally cultivated in our gardens; the leaves and flowers are small, thus diS"ering from the Anthemis nobilis or Roman chamomile ; it must not be confounded with the An- themis cotula or wild chamomile, growing abundantly by the wayside and in waste places in this country. A decoction of the plant in the shape of tea is much used, and abused, as a domestic medicine, particularly in Ger- many.

Hahnemann classed Chamomilla with the polychrests. Two hun- dred and seventy-two symptoms observed by himself, and three by other authors, were published in his Fragmenta, and in Vol. Ill of his Materia Medica Para, second edition, these had increased to four hundred and sixty- one, besides containing thirty additional symptoms observed by Stapf. For later provings of the drug, see Allen's Encyclopedia, Vol.

III. Clinical observations are found scattered through our entire literature, there proba- bly not being a physician in our ranks who has not tested the virtue of Chamomilla in either high or low preparations. Among the contributors to Chamomilla, we refer to :

Hofi"man, H. H., Post Partum Hemorrhage, Trans. Horn. Soc. of Pa., 2, p. 433;

Van Cutsem, Mental Symptoms the result of Poisoning, Rev. Horn., p. 100, Eaue's Record, 1875, marked t; Norton, Geo. J., Pustular Ophthal- mia, Trans.

N. Y. S., 1874, 1, p. 419 ; Gross, W., Eclampia, Archives, p. 104, and Intermittent, Archives, 3, p. 52;

Schubert, Ad., Archives, 1, 3, p. 158 ; Rummel, Fr., Intermittent, Archives 8, 1, p. 34; Kaemerer, etc., see A. H.

Z , 83, p. 149 ; accidental proving from drinking Chamomile tea, reported by J. C. Burnett, Horn. Review, 21, p. 408, marked, tox.

^ Mind. I Child lies senseless, completely without consciousness; frequent changes in face, distortion of eyes, contraction of facial muscles, rattling in chest, with much cough; it yawns and stretches very much. Insensibility.

■ Absence of mind.

I When writing or speaking, he omits whole words.

■ Dullness.

I I A joyless dullness of senses, with sleepiness, without, how-

ever, being able to sleep.

I I Dullness of senses, diminished power of comprehension.

I I Confusion of head, with transient painful pressure on eyes, in afternoon.

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Imbecility.

B Imagines he hears voices of absent persons, at night, cannot compose himself to sleep.

Ecstacies and delirium.

Delirium with hallucinations; t.

Delirium with fearful cries; t.

Tries to get away from her friends if they seek to comfort her.

B B Child cries; quiet only when carried.

Her cries can be heard through the whole neighborhood; t.

B Utters sudden, startling and piercing cries on waking out of sleep, vows there is some dreadful beast under his bed or in the room and will not be appeased until the gas is lit and the room searched; a boy, aet. 4. ^Nightmare.

BB Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have what he wants.

B Moaning on account of a very trifling offence, which had happened a long time ago.

BB Whining restlessness; the child wants this and that, which, when offered, is refused or pushed away.

B Involuntary moaning, with heat of face.

BHe tosses about the bed, with febrile heat and redness of cheeks, and talks confusedly, with open eyes.

B Tosses anxiously about the bed at night, full of fancies.

Scratches at the walls with her hands; t.

B Child becomes stiff and bends itself backwards, kicks with its feet when carried, screams immoderately, and throws every- thing off.

BB Averse to talking, short and snappish.

B Disinclined to talk, is angry if anyone speaks to her.

B Introversion, she cannot be induced to say a word.

BB Cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted while speak- ing, especially after rising from sleep.

B B Child does not wish to be touched.

B B Patient can't bear anyone near him, and answers snappishly.

Cannot bear music.

Sadness.

Melancholia, with constant moaning and muttering to herself, walks all the time with downcast eyes.

Hopelessness.

BVery anxious; everything she undertakes is very unsatis- factory; she is irresolute, with flushes of heat in face, and cool sweat in palms.

B Attacks of anxiety.

BFuII of anxiety, with great uneasiness.

Great anxiety; feels excited in all the senses; t.

B Anxiety, with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in bladder.

B Thoughts of dying.

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Indifference.

1 1 Peevish disposition, nothing pleases.

1 1 Peevish about everything, with dyspnoea.

I Quarrelsome.

I I Peevishness; she seeks a cause for being peevish at every- thing; can't return a civil ansvi^er.

■ Fretful, and easily irritated.

I Fretful, out of humor and obstinate, even to quarrelling, on

appearance of menses. I Morose fretfulness; everything that another does is wrong;

no one does anything to please him.

I He frets internally about every trifle.

I I Very irritable and fretful; child must be carried.

■ Very irritable; moaning and groaning. 1 1 Irritable, impatient mood.

■ Great impatience, everything seems to go too slowly.

■ She is sleepless and cross.

■ Ill-humored and irritable, the whole day.

■ She is always out of humor, particular-ly at her menstrual

periods, when she is headstrong even unto quarrelling. Not applicable to persons patient under influence of pain.

■ The pains are very distressing, she feels that she can hardly

bear them ; she wishes to get away from herself. ^Labor.

■ In all her sufferings there is a vein of ill-humor; she can

hardly speak pleasantly ; feels like scolding about every- thing ; she often gives vent to her ill-humor in spite of all restraint.

■ She becomes almost furious about the pain; she cannot bear

her clothes to touch the part affected.

■ ■Easily chagrined or excited to anger. Insulting, cross and uncivil in temper.

Great tendency to quarrel, to speak in an obstreperous manner.

■ Obstinacy. Mistrust.

■ ■The child can only be quieted by carrying it on the arm.

■ Great restlessness and anxiety.

■ Restless and impatient, with fever.

Bi Excessive uneasiness, anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing pains in abdomen.

■ Great restlessness and inward chilliness.

■ SOversensitiveness to pain, which seems unbearable and

drives to despair.

■ All bad effects following anger. ^Convulsions. ^Ghill.

^Fever. ^Bilious complaints.

■ Jerking and twitching in its sleep, or the nurse may have had

a fit of anger which causes the convulsions in the child.

■ Bad effects of having feelings wounded.

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^ Sensorium. I Dullness of senses, with sleepiness, yet cannot

S Vertigo: with vanishing of thoughts; after eating; after

drinking coffee ; staggering, in morning on rising from bed ;

with fainting ; with dimness of sight, when sitting up in

bed ; in bed, with nausea ; when stooping ; on rising after

sitting ; while sitting erect ; when talking. ^ Inner Head. I Heaviness, dullness, pressure, constriction, or

burning in forehead.

■ Tearing headache in forehead, with sensation as if a lump

were falling forward, while sitting, or turning over in bed.

■ Recurrent, paroxysmal, tearing headache in forehead. iSticking-tearing headache in forehead, which extends into

I. Jerking headache in forehead, especially after eating. iPressive pain in both temples, like from strong pressure with

thumbs, forenoon.

■ Pressure, extending from vertex to forehead and temples ;

<< when thinking of it, from sudden stooping, or from men- tal exertion.

■ Pressing headache as from a stone in forehead, hot head,

< evenings.

■ Headache, especially in temples; a pressure as from firm

pressure with fingers.

■ Tearing pain in temples.

■ Tearing and stinging pain in 1. side, particularly in temple,

and in and around eye.

■ Stitches in temples.

■ Tearing headache, with heaviness of head, <; about noon,

after vexation, or an error in diet.

■ Violent stinging pains in 1. side of head, from occiput to up-

per jaw, after vexation.

■ Pressure increasing and decreasing, especially in r. half of

forehead and in r. temple, where are also felt very frequent dull stitches, which sometimes extend to occiput like electric sparks.

■ Pressing and burrowing headache, especially in forehead and

temples.

■ Tearing and sticking, extending outward to temples.

■ Wandering pains in temples, frequently recurring, and always

■< at beginning.

■ Pressure and pressing from vertex extending over forehead

and temples, •< as soon as attention was directed to it, and by sudden stooping, or by mental exertion, as when reflect- ing or even reading.

■ ■Throbbing headache.

■ Stitches through head, from hard palate to vertex.

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I Headache like needle-stitches, as if eyes would fall out of

I I Transient attacks of throbbing in one half of brain. H One-sided drawing headache.

I Sensation of compression of brain, or as from constriction of

meninges.

Heaviness in head : with dullness ; with pain in temples ; par- ticularly in occiput on waking in morning ; with drawing forward of head ; with bruised sensation.

Confusion of head : with disinclination for mental work ; with inclination to bend it backward ; with sticking and borinc, especially in r. temple, in morning ; with pressure in par- oxysms, during afternoon, particularly on waking.

■ B Congestion to head: following anger; with pressure while

lying down ; on vertex ; with heat in face and oppression of

from within, and feeling as if top of head were blown

vertigo ; after eating ; at night.

I I Megrim.

* Outer Head. iSwelling of temples, with painfulness to touch.

■ Rheumatic pain in head. ^Dysentery.

■ Inclined to bend head backward.

I Moves her head backwards and forwards.

I I Warm sweat on head, wetting hair.

■ Hot, sticky sweat covering forehead and hairy scalp.

■ Feeling as if hair stood on end, with shivering. ^Gastro-

■ Intense photophobia, least light unbearable. ^Ophthalmia

scrofulosa.

■ Flickering before eyes: she could not see where she was;

when lying down. Eyes dim and weak, in morning ; by candle-light it seemed as

if rays of light passed from eyes to flame. Obscuration of vision laterally, when fixing vision upon a

white object. Dimsightedness : with vertigo, when sitting up in bed ; with

■ Inflammation of eyes, lids agglutinated in morning; discharge

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of blood from eyes ; inflammation caused by exposure to cold, damp atmosphere, or -< by every cold change of weather. ! I Eyes swollen in morning; agglutinated with purulent mucus.

■ Yellow conjunctiva.

I Conjunctivitis, in infants.

■ Pustules on cornea, with considerable vascularity, profuse

lachrymation , not much photophobia, child thirsty and peevish. ^Dentition.

■ Keratitis pustulosa, with considerable photophobia, moist

eruption on face and head, child ver}^ cross.

■ Great dryness of edges of eyelids, or copious mucous secretion.

■ Profuse acrid discharge from eyes and nose. ^Ophthalmia

Lids agglutinated after sleep.

Great dryness in Meibomean glands on margin of lids. Great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids, first 1. then r.

so that child cannot open them. On pressing lids apart, conjunctiva appears swollen and

dark red. Inner surface of lids, as well as ball of eye, covered with much,

partly yellow purulent mucus, partly with bloody fluid. Least pressure causes pure blood and large quantity of muco-

pus to issue from between lids. At canthi and along border of lids dried muco-pus.

■ Swelling and bluish redness of skin, with running of pure

blood from eye.

■ Soreness of canthi.

■ Corners of eyes are filled with purulent matter, in morning.

■ Stitches in orbital region.

8 1 Violent pressure in orbital region; sensation in eyeball, as if it were tightly compressed from all sides, with momentary obstruction of vision.

■ Byes protrude and rotate constantly in their orbits. ^Tetanic

convulsions after measles.

■ Ophthalmia neonatorum ; diarrhoeic stools, chafing of genitals,

flabbiness of muscles, rash, restless sleep ; child wants to be carried.

■ Catarrhal and scrofulous ophthalmia in cross, peevish children

during dentition. Arthritic ophthalmia, first stage. ^ Hearing and Ears. ■ Great sensitiveness to noise, especially to music. ^Otalgia.

■ Illusions of hearing, at night, as though voices of absent per-

sons were heard.

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1 1 Roaring in ears, as from rushing water.

I Ringing in ears. ^Post partum hemorrhage. She cannot endure music.

I I Single large stitches in ear, especially when stooping, with ill-humor and peevishness about trifles.

Stitches extending into inner ear from lower jaw.

I Frequent stitches and sudden, transient spasmodic sensation in front of r. ear, in region of tragus ; this sensation some- times extended into auditory canal.

I Stitches in ear, especially when stooping.

I Occasional tearing in 1. ear. ^Hemicrania.

I I Pressing earache in spells, with tearing pain, extorting cries.

■ Otalgia: with hot perspiring forehead; lancinations or tensive

drawing pains extending to lobes of ears.

iMoist ear-wax, or scarcity of ear-wax, resulting in dryness.

I Acute inflammation of middle ear, when patient is prostrated by and intolerant of shooting, drawing pains; auricle usu- ally hot and red ; meatus red, but not swollen ; membrana tympani not much congested.

■ Right ear red and painful. ^Intermittent fever. Dull stitches in r. mastoid process.

i I Particularly sensitive to open air about ears.

■ Swelling of parotid gland.

^ Smell and Nose. ■Extremely sensitive to all odors.

■ Nosebleed, relieving confusion of head.

■ Bleeding, coagulated or dark blood. ^Epistaxis.

■ Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, dry heat and stopped up

sensation in nose ; feeling as if coryza would appear ; also with pressure in forehead.

■ Coryza: fluent, watery; viscid; acrid; with loss of smell ;

with dry hacking cough.

■ Catarrh, with dry, fatiguing cough, painful bruised feeling in

umbilical region, painfully sensitive to touch, and < at night. ^Dentition.

■ Stoppage of nose.

Dryness and sensation of fullness and heaviness in nose, fol- lowed by nosebleed.

■ Catarrhs, with ulcerated nostrils and chapped lips, one cheek

pale, the other red, with chills and thirst.

■ Crawling in nose until eye waters.

^ Upper Face. ■Convulsive movements and twitching of facial muscles and lips.

■ Neuralgia of face, pain causes hot sweat about head and ex-

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torts screams; stinging pain extending to upper jaw, from occiput, 1. side.

■ Burning in face.

I Hot face, with redness of cheeks.

I I Redness of one cheek, returning in paroxysms, without shiv- ering or internal heat. 6'Hemicrania.

I Forehead hot, but moist. ^Otalgia.

■ Wrinkled forehead.

I I Red face, or redness and heat of one (1.) cheek, the other being pale.

■ Face pale, sunken, distorted by pain.

■ Yellow or bloated face.

■ ■One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold.

■ Heat of face, while rest of body is cool. Pale face, with small rapid pulse ; t.

■ Paleness of face, with cold cheeks.

■ ■ Face sweats after eating or drinking. Puffiness of face and cheeks.

1 Fiery red rash on face. ^Ophthalmia scrofulosa.

■ Facial erysipelas after toothache. Skin of forehead wrinkled above nose.

Swelling, hardness and blueness of one cheek. ^Neuralgia.

■ One-sided swelling of cheek, generally the left.

■ Erysipelas, starting on 1. cheek, near nose, gradually spread-

ing over face and head.

■ Stitches in joint of r. jaw, extending into upper back teeth,

severe but transient. Exanthema on face. * Lower Face, ' Child draws mouth back and forth, or from side to side. ^Teething. ^Convulsions.

■ Single stitches in jaw, extending into inner ear.

■ Lips crack and peel ; rhagades in middle of lower lip.

At night, lips become dry and stick together, without thirst.

■ Swelling of submaxillary glands. ^'Toothache. ^Facial ery-

cramped, which pain also extended into teeth. Feeling of weakness in muscles of mastication, with inclination

to hold mouth open, and increased saliva. ^^ Teeth and Gums, ■ Toothache is so violent, she tosses about,

moans constantly and complains of digging, gnawing pain in

■ Violent toothache in an apparently sound tooth ; single stitches

through 1. upper jaw, with itching and crawling sensation in teeth. ^Amenorrhoea.

■ Toothache: stitching; digging; gnawing; from suppressed

perspiration; from taking cold; during or after eating; ■■if

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anything warm is taken into mouth, especially after coffee, ■< by talking; in open air; in room ; getting warm in bed; during menstruation and pregnancy ; most 1. side and lower teeth ; worse at night ; affecting principally women and children ; after abuse of mercury.

■ Drawing toothache (without being able to locate it in any

tooth) ; it disappears during eating, but especially rages at night, therewith teeth feel too long.

■ Drawing pain in teeth after eating and drinking.

I A slight burrowing and sensation of heaviness in alveoli of some of back teeth; "this sensation seems intolerable, and makes him very peevish." •

■ Sensation of fullness and heaviness in alveoli of first and

second back teeth of both sides of upper jaw, with a slight burrowing and boring in their roots, with a sensation as if alveoli were distended and formed a hard, tense swelling.

■ Throbbing toothache, insupportable at night, ■< by warmth

of bed, patient turns about and keeps moaning. Grumbling-drawing toothache in jaw.

■ Violent toothache in 1. upper jaw, always after eating warm

■ ■Toothache recommences when entering the warm room, or

drinking anything warm.

■ One-sided toothache and tearing in head and jaw.

■ Toothache as from taking cold, if one exposes oneself to cold

air when sweating.

■ Toothache from draught of air, extending towards ear.

^Otalgia.

■ Toothache in attacks with ptyalism.

■ Paroxysms of violent pain from root of upper eye-tooth to

cheek, nose and temple.

■ Grrumbling and crawling in teeth of upper jaw.

■ Periodical violent toothache in molar, 1. lower jaw; tooth

is hollow; pain is drawing and jerking; <^ before mid- night, > after eating.

■ Rheumatic toothache: particularly one-sided, -< at night;

pains unendurable, red cheek, cannot designate which tooth is affected ; jerking, tearing pain often extending into ear ; often ■< after eating and drinking, often > by dipping finger into cold water and applying it to affected part ; very much <C. from drinking cold drinks ; warmth of bed un- bearable.

■ Teeth sensitive to touch, especially some hollow back teeth.

■ ■ Teeth feel too long.

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Looseness of teeth.

Teeth covered with mucus.

B iGums red and tender. ^Dentition.

I Burning in swollen gums.

■ Sensation as if gum were swelling about some of back teeth.

I Tearing toothache which extends to ear, with swelling of cheek and periosteal swelling.

B Painful swelling of 1. cheek, caused by a carious, badly plug- ged tooth ; pain lancinating, •< at night.

Bread tastes sour.

BB Bitter taste in mouth, in morning.

B Burning on tongue.

B Tongue red in middle, white at sides. ^Tertian intermittent.

I Tongue: coated, white; yellowish; or white at sides, red in middle ; red, cracked ; dry.

Severe biting on back of tongue and on roof of palate.

Tongue dry, with thirst for water, loss of appetite, flushes of heat, sweat of face and palpitation, followed by unnatural hunger.

B Tongue coated white, with islands on it ; t.

I I Blisters on and beneath tongue, with stinging pain.

Convulsive movements of tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. B a Heat in mouth, pharynx and oesophagus to stdmach.

B Dryness of mouth, in morning, followed by distension of ab- domen and imperfect evacuation.

B Extreme dryness in mouth, with lameness of limbs.

BB Collection of saliva, of metallic, sweetish taste.

Offensive taste in mouth, at night.

What he hawks up has an ofi'ensive taste.

Sourish odor from mouth.

IBFetid smell from mouth. 13 Throat, BPain in 1. side of fauces while swallowing ; velum was somewhat reddened, and external pressure just under angle of jaw caused pain in fauces.

Spasmodic drawing pain in palate, extending into fauces.

Pain in back part of throat, < by moving throat and swal- lowing.

BB Spasmodic constriction of pharynx.

Stitches in throat, near ear.

Throbbing in back part of throat.

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Stitching-burning pains in throat.

I Inflammation of throat, with sensation as though something

■was sticking in it, which ought to be removed by hawking ; heat in pharynx and thirst ; dark redness of affected parts.

■ Catarrhal inflammation of throat, of tonsils or pharynx, with

acute stinging-burning pain in larynx ; usually roughness of voice, some dyspnoea, tickling irritation to cough.

I I Sore throat, with swelling of parotid or submaxillary glands, or tonsils.

iDifficult swallowing of solid food, and when lying down.

1 1 Want of appetite.

When food is set before him, it makes him shudder, it is so re- pugnant.

1 1 Great thirst for cold water and desire for acid drinks.

Thirst, with febrile heat and redness of cheeks.

Unquenchable thirst, with dryness of tongue.

■ Increased thirst, with evening fever and painful diarrhoea.

1 1 Likes to hold cold water to mouth a long titoe, when drinking.

^Dentition. Desire for : acids ; sour-crout.

■ Aversion to: beer; coffee and warm drinks ; to broth.

^' Eating and Drinking. Fullness while eating, with nausea after eating.

■ ■After eating and drinkinof, heat and sweat of face.

■ After eating : vertigo; abdomen puffed up.

■ ■Thirsty and hot with the pains.

■ In morning, after drinking cofi"ee, heat all over and sweat,

with vomiting of bitter mucus, followed by bitter taste in mouth, weakness in head, and nausea. After drinking coffee : vertigo.

■ Cutting pain and debility after drinking.

^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. ■Hiccough.

■ Eructations: sour; constant, empty ; ■■aggravate the pain. •

■ Eructations of gas, smelling of bad eggs. I I Eructations and passage of flatus.

The existing pain is increased by eructations. Disgust, qualmishness, >■ by eating.

■ Nausea: with vertigo while lying in bed ; and inclination to

vomit ; and bitter vomiting ; after drinking coffee ; after breakfast ; with collection of saliva in mouth ; as if she would faint.

■ Nausea after morning coffee, with attacks of suffocation. •

■ Inclination to vomit: with diarrhoea and fever during night;

as if one would faint.

■ I Fruitless efforts to vomit.

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iVomituritio, with slight stinging pains in region of liver, after vexation.

B Vomiting: of bile ; of food; of what has been drunk ; slimy matter ; sour. .^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. I Severe painful pressure in epi- gastrium makes her toss about in despair. ^Intermittens tertiana.

iPressive pain in stomach and beneath short ribs, which im- pedes breathing, especially after drinking coffee.

■ Epigastrium painfully bloated, in morning, with sensation as

if contents were passing into chest ; belching of wind is painful.

■ Pressing and cutting in epigastrium, with anxiety.

■ Burning or stinging pain in pit of stomach.

BB Pressure in stomach, as from a stone pressing down.

■ Pressure in stomach after eating a little.

■ Burning across stomach into each hypochondrium.

■ Gastralgia: in highly irritable persons, or following vexation;

pressure as from stone in scrobiculum and under short ribs, 1. side, and short breathing, anxiety, fear, restlessness, toss- ing about, sometimes throbbing headache on vertex, driving patient out of bed ; ■< after a meal or at night.

■ E Constrictive gastralgia in coffee-drinkers. Gastralgia relieved by drinking coiTee.

^^Hypochondria. ■ Stitching pains in hypochondria.

■ Stitches in region of liver, with vomiturition and frequent

around brain.

■ Hepatitis after vexation or taking cold, with gastric troubles

■ Griping-tearing colic in region of navel and lower dovm on

both sides, with pain in small of back, as if it were broken. Pain in belly from side to side, just above navel, correspond- ing to transverse colon, from r. to left ; t.

■ Umbilical region sensitive.

■ Colicky cutting pains in abdomen, with hard chill; the pain

seems insufferable, she wants to jump out of bed.

■ Colic, rather cutting than sticking, with accumulation of • saliva in mouth.

Constant tearing colic in side of abdomen, as if parts were rolled up in a ball.

■ Tearing pain in abdomen.

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I Constricting pain in abdomen andback; she kicks, grates her

teeth, and screams.

I I Colic returns from time to time, flatulence accumulates in hypochondria, and stitches shoot through chest.

Grurgling in side extending into abdomen.

■ Abdominal cramps, particularly flatulent colic; flatus collects

in various places and strives to force a passage; distension of

hypochondria and epigastrium; patient sufi"ers from anxiety,

restlessness and clammy perspiration. • Sensation as if bowels were drawn up in a ball, and abdomen

were empty. 1 1 Wind colic, abdomen distended like a drum, wind passes in

small quantities without relief; > by applying warm cloths. iWind colic, with tympanitis and vomiturition.

■ Wind colic, wdth sensation as if a hernia would appear.

■ Hysteric colic.

1 Abdominal pain, with frequent emission of pale, colorless

■ Abdomen is distended, but soft; when pressed, patient com-

plains of increased oppression of chest and anxiety.

■ Distension of abdomen after a meal or in morning.

■ ■Abdomen tympanitic and sensitive to touch. (^Agalactia.

^Peritonitis.

■ Abdomen sensitive to touch, particularly in inguinal region. Sensation as if whole abdomen were hollow, with constant

■ Dragging toward abdominal rings, as if parts were too weak

and hernia would appear. Feeling of griping and coldness and chilliness in inside of ab- domen, passing downward into legs, as far as knees ; t.

■ Peritonitis.

^^ Stool and Rectum. Flatus: sour smelling; stinking; putrid. Stools: green, slimy, mucous; mixed green and white, mucous; chopped, white and yellow, mucous ; green or yellowish ; watery, frequent, preceded by cutting constricting bellyache, < in epigastric region ; mucous, with colic and vomituritio ; bilious, with burning in anus ; painful, thin, green, consist- ing of feces and mucus; ■■green, watery, corroding, Avith colic, thirst, bitter taste and bitter eructations; like chopped or stirred eggs, smelling sour; ■■hot, smelling like rotten

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eggs; changeable; containing undigested food ; mucous and bloody.

■ Violent bilious diarrhoea, with intense colic and burning in

anus, after vexation. In diarrhoea, especially of watery, mucous character, stools

preceded by violent cutting pain below umbilicus ; >> after

I Diarrhoea, with violent colic, forcing screams. I Daily four or five bloody, slimy stools, preceded by bellyache

and tenesmus ; a child, a year old.

■ Several mucous passages, with colic and vomituritio. ^Sup-

pressed measles from taking cold.

■ Nightly diarrhoea, with colic, so that she was obliged to bend

double.

■ Diarrhoea after taking cold or anger; very painful cutting

jerks from r. shoulder towards head, with thirst and de- bility.

■ Watery diarrhoea; six to eight passages daily, preceded by

cutting, constricting bellyache, < in epigastric region.

■ Mucous diarrhoea. ^Scarlet rash.

■ Painless, green, watery diarrhoea, a mixture of feces and

mucus.

■ Diarrhoea, green and watery, and slimy, or like chopped eggs

and spinach.

■ Green, fetid stool, watery discharge.

■ Passages at first greenish, later like rice-water. ^Diarrhoea.

■ Yellowish-brown stool, sour, fetid; bites everything, plays

with tongue and gums; sour vomiting; sleepless. ^Dentition.

Diarrhoeic complaints aggravated : during dentition ; after taking cold ; after anger or chagrin ; at night ; after to- bacco ; in childbed ; from downward motion ; after sup- pression of perspiration.

■ Torpid stool.

■ Constipation; discharges yellow and solid, crumbling from ex-

cessive dryness. ^Dentition.

■ B Constipation from inactivity of anus. Sticking pain in rectum after every stool.

■ Hemorrhoids: blind; painful, bleeding, burning, inflamed. Stitches in rectum after stool.

■ Soreness of anus, particularly after stool.

■ Itching pain in anus.

1 8 Ulcerating fissures at anus.

■ Chafing about anus.

^^ Urinary Organs. ■Dragging towards ureters like labor-pains, with very frequent urging to urinate.

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I Sticking pain in neck of bladder when not urinating.

■ Burning in neck of bladder when urinating.

I Ineffectual urging, with anguish; sensation of smarting, or burning pain in urethra, during micturition.

■ Desire to pass water frequently, it being profuse and pale.

■ Involuntary urination at night.

■ Urine : hot ; yellow, with flaky sediment ; scanty ; turbid,

clay- colored soon after passing ; turbid, gets thick when standing, sediment yellow ; abundant and light colored ; red as blood. ^^Male Sexual Organs. ■Violent. erections, and excited sexual desire ; also nightly emissions. Itching, stinging pain in margin of prepuce.

■ Swelling of prepuce and soreness of border. ^Sycosis. ^* Female Sexual Organs. Congestion to uterus.

■ Drawing tearing in uterus, painful to touch; she feels as

though she could not possibly bear the least touch. ^In- duration of uterus.

■ Menses: too early; too profuse; blood offensive smelling ;

pain as if heart would be pressed down, with swollen abdomen,

labor-like pains and anasarca.

■ Excessive menstruation, blood dark, nearly black, clotted,

with .pain through from back to front, attacks of syncope, coldness of limbs, much thirst.

■ Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with severe labor-like pains

in uterus ; tearing pains in legs.

■ Cutting colic and drawing in thighs before menses.

■ Labor-like pains before or during menstruation.

■ During menses: swollen breasts, sore nipples, diarrhoea with

colic, fainting, short, dry cough, labor-like pains.

■ Discharge of blood before proper period.

■ Passage of blood between menses. Metrorrhagia, even in old women.

■ Metrorrhagia of dark, coagulated blood, flowing more in par-

oxysms ; much thirst ; coldness of limbs,

■ Metrorrhagia, with passage of foetid blood in lumps.

■ Pressing towards genital organs; passing of large quantities

of colorless urine.

■ Drawing from small of back forwards, griping and pinching in

uterus, followed by discharge of large clots of blood.

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II Menstrual colic, following anger.

1 1 Membranous dysmenorrhoea.

I Acrid, biting, watery discharge from vagina, particularly after

pregnancy, pains render her frenzied. Bloody discharge with labor-like pains during pregnancy.

■ Threatened abortion, with discharge of dark blood ; frequent

urination, urine profuse and pale ; great restlessness and agony ; irritability ; heaviness of whole abdomen ; frequent yawning, chills and shuddering.

I Uterine hemorrhage after abortion, in spells; contracting, out-

ward pressing pains in abdomen proceeding from back ; <; when lying on back ; ringing in ears ; frontal headache.

II Labor- pains press upward; she is hot and thirsty, cross and inclined to scold.

B Labor-pains spasmodic and distressing; tearing pains down legs ; she is oversensitive to the pain, wishes to get away from herself; is irritable and snappish, desires fresh air; says she must and will get up.

■ Spasmodic distressing labor-pains during pregnancy, prevent-

ing sleep ; irritability. I Violent labor-pains and tearing in veins of legs, with discharge of dark, coagulated blood.

I Labor-pains, with more or less discharge of dark blood and

frequent urination, urine being profuse and pale.

I I Hour- glass contraction; irritable; thirsty; desire for fresh air ; restless.

I i Rigidity of os ; scarcely able to endure the pains.

I I After-pains very acute and distressing.

■ Constant violent after-pains on second day after delivery of

fourth child; become unbearable when child nurses, so that she screams out.

■ Too long continued after-pains.

■ Post partum hemorrhage: the uterus outside the abdomen is

felt to be contracted into little knots or bunches about the size of a walnut; redness of one cheek, paleness of the other.

■ Milk-fever, after anger.

■ Metritis, after violent anger, especially after parturition, and

lochia generally increased.

■ Puerperal fever, with great restlessness, excitement, sore

breasts, absence of milk ; mucous, greenish, watery, milky diarrhoea, profuse lochia, with labor-like pains, going through from back to front.

■ ■Puerperal convulsions, after anger; or has one red cheek, the

other being pale.

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Rash of lying-in women and nursing infants, caused by lieat or errors in diet, with watery, greenish, chopped-egg diarrhoea, corroding anus.

■ Lochia too profuse and bloody.

■ Suppression of lochia, followed by irritability, diarrhoea, colic

and toothache. I Dark lochia! discharge.

■ Excessive sweating after confinement.

■ Milk runs out in nursing women.

■ Milk is cheesy, or mixed with blood or pus.

■ Suppression of milk from a fit of anger.

■ Distress after nursing.

■ iMammcB hard and tender to touch, with drawing pains; is

fretful, sleepless and cross.

■ Induration in mammary glands, very tender to touch; draw-

ing lacerating pains. ^Scirrhus.

■ Breasts are very tender, nipples inflamed and swollen.

■ Erysipelas of breasts, nipples excessively sore.

■ Infants: screaming day and night, often without cause ; in-

cipient hydrocephalus ; stoppage of nose, or watery moisture runnitjg from nose ; inflammation of intestines, when stools are thin, watery, accompanied by much pain, < at night ; the little sleep at night disturbed by frequent starting ; in- cipient marasmus, frequent diarrhoeic stools, occasionally swelling of glands, abdomen tense and ^ard ; hernia ; scream with colic ; frequent diarrhoeic stool corroding anus ; screaming "with great restlessness, tossing about, colic, drawing up of legs ; troublesome, dry cough ; pneu- monia; catarrhal irritation, loose cough, rattling breath- ing; cardiac anguish; induration of mammary glands, tender to touch ; erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of breasts ; convulsive twitching of limbs, when falling asleep ; incipient spasms ; epileptic attacks ; feverish condition with irritated nerves, anxiety and restlessness, easily startled; abrasions and chafing ; rash.

■ ■ Children have spasms in consequence of nursing milk vitiated

by a fit of anger.

" Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. ■Burning in

■ ■Sensation of rawness and scraping in larynx.

■ Sensation of rawness in upper part of air-passages.

■ Sensation of slight pressure on air-passages, with some irrita-

tion to cough.

■ ■Tickling in pit of throat causing scraping, dry cough. Voice hoarse.

■ Catarrhal hoarseness, with dryness of eyelids, burning or

stinging sensation in larynx, painful soreness in one spot, only relieved by long coughing and raising a little phlegm.

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I Hoarseness, on account of tough mucus in larynx, which can only be removed by strong hawking.

■ Hoarseness, with violent persistent cough, a high degree of

heat every evening, with fretfulness on awaking ; and child frets and scolds, asks for one thing and then for another.

I Hoarseness after taking cold.

I Inflammation of throat, with stinging, ulcerative pain at epi- glottis, which excites cough and interferes with swallowing.

■ Whistling, wheezing and rattling in trachea, when breathing.

■ Sensation of cord around trachea, with constant desire to

■ Croup of children ; spasm of chest, with suifocative attacks

after anger ; child wants to be carried.

■ Nervous bronchial asthma.

^® Respiration. Anxious breathing.

■ Oppressed breathing, as if chest were not wide enough.

■ Dyspnoea, constricted feeling at supra- sternal fossa, with con-

stant irritation to cough.

1 I Dyspnoea, as from suffocative catarrh (larynx feels con- stricted) in region of pit of throat, a constant irritation to cough.

Suff'ocative dyspnoea, with sensation of being strangled by cord around trachea ; constant desire to cough.

■ ■Suffocative attacks from repercussion of measles eruption, by

taking cold. Suffocative attacks.

Rapid, deep breathing, with great heaving of chest. Short, panting breath.

■ Short breath, with rattling. Short, croaking breathing.

Draws short, deep breaths, with great elevation of thorax.

■ Rattling breathing, with cough.

■ Rattling breathing, slow inspiration and rapid expiration.

■ Sour smelling or fetid breath.

■ Loud, rattling, sighing or unequal respiration.

Snoring inspirations daring sleep, which are shorter than the expirations, with open mouth and hot, clammy sweat on fore- head.

■ ■ Asthma after a fit of anger.

■ Asthmatic attack, seemingly produced by an accumulation of

flatus, > from bending head back, in cold air, and from drinking cold water; ■< in dry weather and from warm diet.

■ Asthma from vapors of sulphur, after Pulsat.

^^ Cough. iThe child becomes angry and then coughs.

■ (Jough and hoarseness with rattling mucus in trachea, especi-

ally during winter.

■ Constant irritation to cough, beneath upper part of sternum.

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I Constant desire to cough, -with sensation of cord around

trachea. I Cough caused by irritation low down in air-passages, during

seems to rise in throat, as if she would suffocate. I Cough particularly at night, with tough, slimy expectoration,

supra-sternal fossa, •< at night.

I Dry cough, continuing during sleep.

■ Cough dry and hacking; child is very fretful.

I I Scraping, dry cough, caused by tickling in pit of throat, < at night, even in sleep, especially with children after tak- ing cold in winter.

■ Rough, dry cough. ^Sequel to measles.

I Cough, with flushes of heat in face, at same time chilliness of

■ Expectoration bloody, dark and coagulated. Cough, with rattling in chest.

Expectoration : acrid, blood coagulated ; dark ; mucous ; vis- cous ; watery. Taste of expectoration : bitter, putrid, or sour.

■ Catarrhal stage of whooping-cough, with constant, irritating,

dry cough. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■Burning pain under sternum, and from beneath sternum to mouth. Burning in chest, with dullness in head, as if he did not know where he was, with anxiety.

■ Constriction in upper part of chest, which hurts on coughing. Tensive pain across chest, when breathing.

■ Sudden stitches and darts through chest, extorting screams;

dyspnoea taking away voice and threatening suffocation. ^Rheumatism. I I Single severe stitches in chest at times.

■ Stitches into chest from abdomen after each start, as in a

fright, when waking or sleeping.

■ Chest painful, when coughing.

■ Stitches in sides of chest.

■ Stitches shoot from abdomen into middle of chest, as from

Stitches in side of chest beneath ribs and shoulder-blades, when

in upper part of abdomen. I Heavy feeling in chest.

Pressive pain beneath sternum, Avhich impedes breathing. Drawing pain, or sensation as if r. side of chest were repeatedly

drawn inward, i Oppression of chest, short, moaning breathing, with pain in

chest, sometimes stitches, on taking a deep breath.

■ Rattling of mucus in chest.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation, i Palpitation and faintness. I Uneasiness about heart, faints frequently; twitching of limbs ;

heart, feet suddenly feel paralyzed, with heaviness of all

limbs, as if they were worn out.

■ Shooting stitches in precordial region, thence to various parts

of body.

I I Rapid stitches about heart, on motion, interfering with breathing.

I Pulse small, but tense and accelerated. 6'Neuralgia.

Pulse frequently very unequal, and for a time weak.

I Pulse first full, then again weak and contracted.

I Pulse small and uneven.

Pulse small and rapid ; t. ^^ Outer Chest. Tearing pain in region of clavicle and throat.

I Whole thorax feels as if beaten. ^Rheumatism.

A hard node beneath nipple, painful to touch, with drawing- tearing pain.

Scirrhous hardness of mammary glands. ^^ Neck and Back. Tensive stiffness of cervical muscles.

Glands swollen and often very sensitive ; painful, when turn- ing neck.

Drawing pain in scapulae.

■ Drawing or stinging or tearing pain in back.

■ Great pain in back, sometimes extending through abdomen to

front, and into genitals. ^Threatened miscarriage.

■ Bruised sensation in muscles of loins and back.

■ Small of back feels bruised. Contractive sensation in spine.

■ Pain in small of back, especially at night.

Fullness, anxiety, and tearing pain in back, after eating; after- wards extends to abdomen.

■ Backache, < when stooping and walking, and from coffee.

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Unendurable pain in loins and hip-joint at night, if he lies upon opposite side.

Stiff pain in loins, after sittinfi;.

iBackache. ^Tertian intermittent. ^^ Upper Limbs. Uninterrupted fine sensitive pressure in arti- cular ligaments and periosteum of arm from shoulder to fingers, a drawing tearing, < after midnight, when lying on back, > when lying upon painful arm.

Jerking stitches like electric sparks in left shoulder and ex- tending into cervical muscles.

Stitches extending through right arm to shoulder.

I Pain in arms, cannot bear slightest motion.

Tearing pain in muscles of arms, particularly in flexors of fore- arm, in morning soon after waking, << in cool evening air.

I Stiffness of arm, as if it would go to sleep, when one grasps

anything with hand. Crawling tearing in bones of arm, extending into fingers, as if

arm were numb. Pricking numb sensation in right arm, waking from sleep at

night.

I I Arms immediately go to sleep, if she grasps anything firmly; she is obliged to let them sink down.

Paralytic-like pressive sensation along nerves of arm, extend- ing to tips of fingers.

Drawing and paralytic pain in elbows and hands.

Drawing pain in inner portion of arm, from elbow to tips of fingers, late in evening.

Pains in elbows as after carrying a heavy weight with arms bent, aggravated by extending arms, worse on right side.

Drawing pain and stitches in wrist.

Left arm went to sleep without having been lying on it.

I Convulsions of arms, with clenching of thumbs.

■ Convulsive twitchings of fingers.

Severe stitches in arms along bones, especially in forearms and in metacarpal bones.

Stitches in hands and finger-joints.

Burning pain in hand, in afternoon.

iFingers become cold and are inclined to "go to sleep," while sitting.

Fingers '"go to sleep," in morning.

I Cold hands, with cold perspiration in palms of hands. ^Rheu- matism.

Pain in thumb and index-finger, as from a sprain or a strain, or from too great exertion, or as if it were broken ; felt when moving it.

I Finger-joints red and swollen. ^^ Lower Limbs. Pain in hip-joint, as if sprained, on walking, after sitting, in evening.

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A kind of fierce labor- pain, extending from sacrum into thigh, a drawing paralytic pain.

■ Violent drawing tearing pains from 1. ischium to os calcis and

sole of foot, with cramp-like tension of muscles. ^'Sciatica. Stitches in nates and thighs.

Pain on posterior surface of right thigh when walking. Bruised pain in thighs.

■ Tearing pains down legs.

I I Short attacks of exhaustion, especially of lower extremities. An indescribable pain in thigh on rising after sitting, and

■ Heaviness and lassitude in legs. ^Post partum hemorrhage.

■ Restlessness of legs and feet, at night.

He was obliged to stretch out legs from time to time in order to get rested.

■ Trembling of lower leg, when going to sleep. Tearing pain in upper and lower legs.

■ Stitches jumping about from place to place, especially in knees

and ankles, disappearing on motion. Tension in knees.

■ Cracking of knee during motion.

She had to draw up her feet on account of pain in calves and knees, when she stretches they "go to sleep."

Drawing pain, extending from knee through lower leg, late in evening.

Drawing, tearing pain, extending from knee to ankle.

■ Violent drawing up of knees towards chest so soon as he falls

asleep, dreams he is falling into the depths. Stitches below head of fibula.

■ ■Cramp in legs and calves,

■ Crawling and heaviness of calves. Sensation in legs as if they would fall asleep.

■ Redness and swelling around malleoli. ^Rheumatism. Constrictive sensation in ankles.

Tearing pain in feet, he cannot allow them to be covered in bed.

■ Tearing pain in feet after a severe chill ; must lie down and

keep quiet, pain in ankle, ■< from every motion. Feet seem paralyzed, and pithy in soles on stepping on them,

while sitting, especially great toe. Spasmodic contraction of toes, with tearing pain in limbs.

■ Tearing pain in feet following a severe chill ; she has to lie

487 CHAMOMILLA.

down and keep quiet, every motion brings on pain in joint

weakness.

■ Drawing and tearing pains in limbs, •< at night,

I Tearing (neuralgic) pain in all limbs; only >> by constant

be frozen.

I Joints sore, as if bruised and tired out; no power in hands

and feet. Pains in all joints on motion, as if they were stiff and would break.

■ Cracking in joints, especially of lower limbs, with pains

therein, as if bruised.

II Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, and compel him to walk about.

Lying: down, flickering before eyes ; difficult swallowing; in bed, nausea with vertigo ; on back, pressing pain in ab- domen, proceeding from back ; pressing in articular liga- ments; indescribable pain in thighs, when stretched out ; must lie down, tearing pain in feet ; < neuralgic pain ; wakeful.

Lying upon opposite side: pain in loins and hip joint.

Sitting : erect in bed, vertigo ; tearing headache ; in bed, dim- sightedness ; fingers become cold ; toes bend up ; drowsy ; causes stiff pain in loins.

Sits stiffly on a chair, like a statue, and does not seem to notice anything.

Rising: from bed, vertigo; after sitting, vertigo; after sitting, pain in thigh ; aggravates ulcers.

Stooping : pressure from vertex to forehead ; dull pressure as from a blow in inner ear ; stitches in ear ; backache.

Bending head backwards, asthmatic attack.

CHAMOMILLA. 488

stretch legs to get rested; "gone to sleep" feeling in calves

and knees. Child stretches itself.

Moving : eyes, pressive pain beneath upper lid ; head back- wards and forwards, throat pains. Motion : slightest, pain in arms ; stitches in limbs, jumping

from place to place; cracking of knee ; tearing pain in feet ;

pain in all joints ; aggravates ulcers ; rapid, stitches about

^^ Nerves. I Excessive impressionability and irritability of nervous

system. I lOversensitiveness after abuse of coffee or opium.

I Irritability, especially following anger, progressing even to

most violent spasms of chest and throat.

■ Intense restlessness, and spasmodic twitching of limbs.

^Threatened miscarriage.

I I Child suddenly stiffens body and bends backwards, kicks when carried, screams immoderately and throws everything off. ^Dentition.

Tremulous starting up ; twitches of limbs and eyelids. Single twitches of limbs and of head during morning nap.

■ Convulsions of children: child becomes stiff, rolls its eyes,

distorts face, twitches, throws its limbs about, clenches thumbs, bends body backwards or sideways, has rattling breathing, with foam at mouth; moves legs up and down alternately, grasps and reaches with hands, mouth drawn from side to side, eyes staring, or eyes and face distorted ; stupor. ^Dentition.

■ Convulsive condition of little children, with distended ab-

domen, greenish, whitish, chopped, frequent stools; vomit- ing of sour smelling fluid.

■ Tetanic convulsions following measles.

■ Twitching in eyelids, eyeballs, lips and facial muscles.

■ Pain in limbs, with weakness, and slow, dragging gait.

■ General prostration, faintness.

■ Great prostrating debility as soon as pain begins. ^Neu-

ralgia.

■ Lassitude in morning on awaking. Syncope, particularly hysterical.

489 CHAMOMILLA.

Sensation of numbness.

■ Neuralgia : patient wild and unruly, wants relief at once ;

■ Frequent yawning. ^Threatened miscarriage.

■ Yawning and stretching.

■ Sleepiness, with dullness of senses.

■ Sleep, with half-open eyes.

■ Snoring breathing when asleep.

■ ■Sleepy, but cannot sleep.

■ Drowsiness, with short breathing, groaning, starts.

■ If he sits down during day he wishes to sleep, but if he lies

down he is unable to sleep, and remains awake.

■ Could not sleep till 2 a.m., partly from painful weakness in

limbs, partly from sensation of heat and restlessness, which makes him toss about in bed.

■ ■Sleepless and restless at night.

■ Nightly sleeplessness from anxiety and visions.

■ Restless sleep, with weeping, howling, groaning and tossing

about.

■ Sleeplessness, with fever and dyspnoea.

■ Starting and jerking while asleep.

■ Scarcely sleeps, and on falling asleep is tormented by vivid,

fanciful, anxious and frightening dreams. Horrid nightmare ; child awakes three or four times nightly with fearful fright, uttering sudden startling and piercing cries, and vows there is some dreadful beast under the bed or in his room ; nervous, peevish, and fretful.

■ During sleep : moaning ; weeping and wailing ; snoring in-

spirations with open mouth; starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking ; headache and other pain is felt ; hot, sticky sweat on forehead ; twitching of muscles.

■ Coma vigil, or rather an inability to open eyes ; slumbering

without sleep, quick expiration, and tearing headache in fore- head, with nausea. Lies with knees apart while sleeping.

■ Aggravation of complaints on falling asleep and awaking. Dreams : anxious ; she sees horrible apparitions and starts ;

CHAMOMILLA. 490

putrid, offensive ; inclination to vomit ; gastralgia < ; diar- rhoea; involuntary urination; inflammation of intestines ■< ; cough without expectoration ; pain in small of back ; unen- durable pain in loins ; legs restless ; feet seem paralyzed ; burning in soles ; drawing-tearing pains in limbs ; violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed ; neuralgia ■< ; sleep- less ; rheumatism ; burning-smarting or darting-lacerating pains in ulcer ; itching of rash.

Midnight : paroxysms of coughing.

After midnight : pain in arm.

2 A.M. : could not sleep.

Morning: vertigo, on rising; sticking and boring in r. temple; headache ; eyes dim and weak ; inflammation of eyes ; eyes swollen ; corners of eyes filled with purulent matter ; bitter taste ; after drinking coffee, heat, sweat, vomiting ; epigas- trium painfully bloated; colic at sunrise; heaviness; fingers "go to sleep; " single twitches in limbs.

Early in morning in bed : eyes half open and directed down- wards, somewhat enlarged pupils, sopor.

Afternoon : pressure in head ; burning pain in hand ; fever

paroxysms. Evening : pressive headache ; burning cheeks ; flying shivers ;

unnatural hunger ; hoarseness, with violent cough ; drawing

pain in inner portion of arms ; pain in hip-joint ; drawing

Cold water : << toothache ; rheumatic toothache.

Draft of air : toothache.

Open air: desire for; ulcers aggravated.

1 1 Oversensitive to open air, aversion to wind, particularly sen- sitive about ears.

Cold air: very sensitive to ; chilly.

Cold change of weather : ■< inflammation of eyes.

Sensitiveness to moist air.

Damp cold weather : << inflammation of eyes.

I Great dread of wind.

491 CHAMOMILLA.

one-sided chill with or without thirst. 1 1 Chill and coldness of whole body, with burning heat of face

and hot breath. I Cold limbs, with burning heat of face, burning heat in eyes,

of others. I Chill, followed by heat, with biting, sour smelling sweat.

■ Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air ; she has to keep well

covered at night.

■ Shivering when uncovering and from cold air.

■ Slight shiverings, alternating with heat, creep over back and

,

■ Shivering on posterior portion of body, of arms, of thighs, and

of back, which returns in paroxysms, without external cold- ness, but rather with internal and external heat, especially of forehead and face.

■ Shivering from draught.

■ Constant alternation of heat and coldness of various parts;

at one time hands were cold, at another warm ; at one time lower leg, at another thigh was cold, at another warm ; at one time forehead was cold and cheeks hot, etc.

■ Alternation of cold and heat in different parts of body, especi-

ally face.

■ ■Heat and shivering intermingled, mostly with one red and

one pale cheek.

■ Febrile excitement and oversensitiveness to twitchings and

spasms.

■ Internal heat, with shivering.

■ Heat, with anxiety and sweat on face and scalp.

■ Burning heat in lightly covered parts, though when not cov-

ered almost cold.

■ Burning in cheeks, with Hying shiverings, in evening.

■ Heat creeping over head and face continued a long time.

■ Heat and sweat of face, after eatin^ and drinkinor. Biting heat.

■ ■Long lasting heat, with violent thirst and frequent startings

in sleep.

■ Heat, flushed face, great thirst, headache, colic, abdomen sen-

sitive to touch and tympanitic; milk disappeared.

CHAMOMILLA. 492

I Fever, with redness of one cheek and paleness of other. General heat 9 to 12 a.m., then violent sweat.

■ Evening fever, with diarrhoea.

I I Great heat and sleeplessness at night.

I Child is very feverish and cross. ^Dentition. IB Hot and thirsty with the pains.

I I Profuse sweat of covered parts.

I Hot sweat, from pain. ^Neuralgia.

I I Sweat during sleep, most on head, usually sour smelling. Sweat, with smarting sensation in skin.

■ Profuse night-sweat, with sleeplessness.

■ Relief of pain after sweat, not during.

■ Revulsion of, and therefrom entire want of sweat.

■ SujBTering on account of checked perspiration, or on account of

a fit of anger.

■ Cold perspiration.

■ While sweating, severe itching of sweating parts.

■ Paroxysm in afternoon, usually anticipating two hours.

■ Intermittent fever, not produced by swamp miasm, but in

Spring in nervous persons, and where large cities extend.

■ Intermittent fever, chill accompanied by external and inter-

nal heat.

■ Instead of usual fever paroxysm, violent biliary colic, with

vomiting and diarrhoea, in consequence of vexation.

■ Gastric or bilious fever: particularly after violent outbreak of

anger; hot face; unquenchable thirst ; bilious taste ; vomit- uritio ; anxiety ; restlessness, etc.

■ Worm fever, with spasms.

■ Gastro-rheumatic fever after taking cold, followed by gastric

complaints, vomituritio, bitter taste, etc., or first gastric, then rheumatic troubles, such as tearing pain in limbs, colic, chilliness, heat, sour sweat, restlessness and sleeplessness at night.

■ Puerperal fever, with great restlessness and irritability ; lack

of milk in breasts. Prodroma of pituitary fever.

■ Nervous fever.

Typhoid fever, in consequence of anger, care, grief, and taking cold ; spasmodic symptoms, diarrhoeic stools, with fermenta- tion in abdomen ; attacks of fainting, twitching, sleepless- ness, with fear, vivid fancies ; body cold and face burn- ing hot. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. ■ 'Pains recur in evening and are worse before midnight.

Paroxysms : redness of one cheek ; of toothache, with ptyalism ; of pain in head ; of neuralgia ; of fever, which usually anti- cipates two hours.

Intermittent attacks of toothache.

493 ' CHAMOMILLA.

From time to time colic from flatulence.

Winter : rough, scraping cough. ^^ Locality and Direction. Left : side of head, tearing and stinging pain ; great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids; occasional tearing in ear ; neuralgia in face ; cheek red and hot ; cheek swollen ; erysipelas in cheek ; violent stitches in upper jaw ; toothache in lower jaw ; violent toothache in upper jaw; periodical toothache in lower jaw; painful swell- ing in cheek ; pain and swelling in fauces ; gastralgia ; pain in hip ; arm went to sleep ; ischium, violent drawing -tear- ing pains; scalp and face, neuralgia.

Right: side of head, pressure increasing and decreasing; great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids ; ear, as if hot water were running over it ; ear, frequent stitches ; ear, red and painful; stitches in jaw-joint; pain in elbow ; cutting jerks in shoulder; when lying on side, pain in 1. hip; temple, sticking, boring ; side of chest, drawing sensation.

Right to left: pain in abdomen.

One-sided chill.

Side to side: child draws mouth from.

Back to front : pain in female sexual organs.

Backwards : inclined to bend head backwards ; moves head backwards and forwards; and forwards, child draws mouth; labor-pains press. *^ Sensations. < lOversensitiveness of senses, especially if produced by coffee or narcotics.

As if a lump were falling forward in head ; as from firm press- ure with fingers on forehead; as if eyes would fall out of head ; as if head would burst ; as if top of head were blown off; as if hair stood on end; as if eyeball were drawn tightly backward ; as if orbital region were tightly com- pressed from all sides ; as if ears were stopped ; as if hot water were running over r. ear ; dull pressure as from a blow in inner ear, on stooping ; as if gums were swollen about lower back teeth ; as though something was sticking in throat; as if contents of stomach were passing into chest; as if small of back were broken ; as it" abdomen were rolled up in a ball ; as if a hernia would appear ; as if heart would be pressed down ; as of a cord around trachea ; as if she would suffocate ; as from flatulence, oppression of chest ; as if limbs were torn out; thorax, as if beaten; as if arms were numb ; as if thumb were broken ; as if sprained on walking, limbs ; as if legs would "go to sleep ;" as if bruised and tired out, joints.

Lancinations : in ears; in teeth, at night; in ulcers.

Cutting : pain and debility after drinking ; in epigastrium ; pains in abdomen ; pain below umbilicus ; jerks from r. shoulder toward heart ; colic before menses.

CHAMOMILLA. 494

Shooting : in middle ear ; in precordial region.

Stitches: in temples; extending to occiput like electric sparks; from palate to vertex ; in head and chest ; in eyes ; in r. meatus, on stooping ; in r. mastoid process ; in r. joint of jaw, extending into ear ; through 1. upper jaw ; in throat, near ear ; in hypochondria ; in region of liver ; shoot through chest ; and darts, through chest from abdomen ; in sides of chest ; in precordial region ; in arms along bones ; in wrist; in hands and finger-joints; in thighs; jumping about, from knees to ankles.

Stinging : pain in temple ; in face ; pain beneath tongue ; burning pains in larynx ; pain in region of liver ; pain in pit of stomach ; in margin of prepuce ; in larynx; in skin.

Sticking : tearing headache ; pain in rectum after stool ; pain in neck of bladder.

Tearing : headache ; pains in temples ; in 1. ear ; in head and jaws ; toothache ; colic in abdomen ; in uterus ; pains in veins of legs ; pain in region of clavicle ; beneath nipple ; in back after eating ; in muscles of arms from shoulder to fingers ; from 1. ischium to os calcis ; down legs ; pain in. upper and lower legs ; pain in feet.

1 1 Paralytic sensations are always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and drawing or tearing pains rarely occur with- out paralytic or numb sensation in the part.

Jerking : headache in forehead ; toothache ; of long bones of limbs.

Boring : in roots of teeth.

Burrowing : headache in forehead and temples ; in head ; in alveoli of lower back teeth.

Pinching : in uterus.

Digging: teeth and gums.

Gnawing : hollow teeth.

Grumbling : toothache.

Griping : tearing colic in region of navel ; inside of abdomen ; in uterus.

Dragging : towards abdominal rings.

Drawing: headache; in ears; toothache; in uterus; in thighs; from small of back ; pain in r. side of chest ; pain beneath nipple ; pain in scapulae ; from shoulder to fingers ; in el- bows and hands; in wrists; violent, from 1. ischium to os calcis ; pains through lower legs and ankles.

Biting : on back of tongue ; in urethra ; in eruption on nape of neck.

Smarting: in vagina; in skin.

Burning: in forehead; in eyes ; in face; in swollen gums ; on tongue ; stitching pain in throat ; in stomach ; in anus ; in neck of bladder ; in urethra ; in vagina ; in larynx ; pain

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under sternum ; in chest ; in palms of hand ; soles ; face ; heat in lightly covered parts; in skin.

Aching : in all limbs.

Scraping : in larynx.

Rawness : in larynx.

Pressive pain : in both temples ; beneath upper eyelid ; in stomach ; beneath sacrum.

Pressing : headache ; from vertex over forehead ; earache ; in epigastrium ; towards genitals.

Pressure ; inner head ; extending from vertex to forehead ; from vertex over forehead, when lying down ; in head from within out ; in orbital region ; in forehead ; in epigastrium, severe ; in stomach, after eating a little ; as from a stone, in scrobiculum ; in hypochondria ; on air-passage ; in articular ligaments of arms.

Soreness : in rectum, after stool ; in larynx ; chest, internally.

Bruised : sensation in head ; feeling in umbilical region ; pain in muscles of lower abdomen ; sensation in muscles ; pain in thighs ; feeling in limbs ; in skin.

Rheumatic : pain in head ; toothache ; pains in limbs drive him out of bed.

Sprained: pain in thumb and index-finger; in hip-joint.

Ulcerative : pain at epiglottis.

Indescribable: pain in thigh.

Pain : in temples ; in teeth, shoots back and forth in parox- ysms; in belly from side to side; in abdomen, prevents urina- tion; labor-like, in uterus; in chest, with every deep breath; in heart ; in ^mall of back ; unendurable, in loins ; in arms ; in thumb ; in hip-joint ; in calves ; in periosteum of limbs.

Throbbing : headache ; in one half of brain ; toothache ; in back part of throat.

Heaviness : inner head ; in whole abdomen ; in chest ; as if heart were weighed down ; of limbs ; of eyelids ; in nose ; in lower jaw ; in alveoli of some of back teeth ; of legs ; of calves.

Stopped up feeling : nose.

Fullness : in head ; in nose ; and distension in hypochondria ; after eating ; in alveoli of first and second back teeth ; of both sides of upper jaw.

Empty : abdomen.

Hollow : as if whole abdomen were.

Uneasiness : about heart.

Too long : teeth feel.

Distended : alveoli.

Tensive : drawing in ears ; pain in hypochondria ; around brain ; stiffness in cervical muscles ; knees ; feet and calves.

Constriction : in forehead ; of meninges ; of pharynx ; pain in

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abdomen and back; at supra-sternal fossa; in upper part of

chest ; in ankles. Constricting : bellyache.

feet ; painful, from sacrum into thigh ; of stiffness in thigh ;

cheek ; of face ; in mouth ; in pharynx ; and restlessness ;

forehead and face ; and coldness of various parts at one ' time ; different parts of body ; and shivering ; and anxiety;

■ Muscular or articular rheumatism, with great nervous exci-

tability.

Neuralgia in paroxysms of most violent character.

I Rheumatism ; drawing, tearing pains, accompanied by sensa- tion of lameness or numbness ; pain more in tendons, liga- ments and bones (not in muscles), without swelling of parts ; pains < at night ; they do not change location.

■ Phlegmasia alba dolens. Ebullitions and hemorrhages.

■ Incipient gout; gouty ophthalmia.

Inflammation, swelling, induration, and atrophy of glands.

Indurations in mammary gland.

Serous non-suppurative inflammations, or suppuration of cel- lular tissue, or pus scanty, thin and corroding.

Female genitals : leucorrhoea ; menstrual troubles ; dysmenor- rhoea; menorrhagia, etc.

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Increases the secretions of the respiratory mucous membrane.

Bilious vomiting ; subacute hepatitis ; mucous diarrhoea.

E-heumatism, in ligaments and periosteum.

Fever arising from physical irritation, such as dentition, or in- digestible foreign bodies in intestines ; nervous system highly excited, yet sensorium not much perverted.

All catarrhal affections, with or without fever, especially after taking cold, occurring most frequently in children and women of nervous excitable temperament.

■ Catarrhal aifections of eyes, ears, gastro- intestinal, urino-

genital and respiratory mucous membranes.

Intestinal catarrh, with affections of liver and bladder.

1 1 Digestive canal: increased and altered secretions, accumula- tion of flatus during the period of dentition.

I iLooseness of bowels, with colic, following anger, or in children. On the skin it produces miliary eruption, isolated papules and

pustules, and an unhealthy disposition, so that wounds do

outer head ; umbilical region ; abdomen sensitive ; teeth ;

groaning ; pain burning and as if torn ; pale, cold, moist

skin, or general perspiration ; forehead and limbs cold ;

> from hot applications.

I I Children obtain relief by being carried. *® Skin. Yellow skin.

1 1 Skin moist and burning hot.

Stinging pain leaving soreness after scratching.

Burning in skin.

Smarting in skin.

Skin creepy and sensitive to touch.

Bruising pain and smarting in skin.

I Skin unhealthy, every injury suppurates.

■ Exanthema difficult of healing. * Miliary exanthema.

Miliary eruption on the cheeks.

■ Red rash on cheeks and forehead. Erysipelas in the face.

■ Erysipelas, accompanying toothache.

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Hives in peevish, fretful children.

An eruption, only slightly elevated, on nape of neck, which causes a biting sensation, compelling her to scratch.

Small red blotches on skin, which are covered with nettle-like rash.

Rash of infants and lying-in women. Small red spots on skin covered with pimples.

Red rash, consisting of thick pimples, which are crowded into a red spot in skin, on lumbar vertebrae and on side of ab- domen ; they itch especially at night, with some biting, shuddering is felt all about the spot from time to time.

■ Repercussion of measles after taking cold, nothing but bluish

■ Excoriation of children and infants between thighs.

■ Burning and smarting or darting lacerating pain in ulcer, at

night, with crawling and painful oversensitiveness to touch and air, particularly to wind.

Redness and swelling of ulcers.

Lancinating and darting in ulcers.

"Proud flesh" in sensitive ulcers, with inflamed edges.

Ulcers are aggravated : at night ; in open air ; during men- struation ; from motion of aff"ected part ; by wet poultices ; by pressure on side of limb opposite to ulcer ; on rising from seat or bed ; from drinking cofl"ee ; from heat of bed, and in windy weather.

Ulcers are improved by cold.

Pustulous pimples on face. ■■ I Itching pimples covered with scurfs, and ulcerating around ulcer.

■ Severe itching of sweating parts. Rhagades of skin.

■ Pimples appear with itching around an ulcer, which is covered

with a crust and suppurates, margin around base of ulcer very red.

■ Inflammatory swelling of glands.

Skin symptoms are aggravated: in evening and night; when the child is kept too warm ; after taking cold ; after scarlet

* fever; during menstrual flow; during pregnancy; during perspiration, and after suppressed perspiration. *• Stages of Life, Constitution.

■ ■Light or brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament.

■ ■Children, new-born and during period of dentition.

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■ Diseases of children, especially such as affect abdominal organs or are dependent on them.

1 1 Adults; even aged persons with arthritic or rheumatic dia- thesis.

A child, set. 6 weeks. ^Ophthalmia.

A male infant, of eight weeks, constipated since birth. ^Den- tition.

A child, set. 9 months. ^Eclampsia.

A child, a year old. ^Diarrhoea.

A boy, set. 1 year. ^Dysentery.

A boy, set. 4, light complexioned, blue eyed, sandy haired. ^Nightmare of two years duration.

A girl, set. 5. ^Otalgia.

A boy, set. 13. ^Measles.

A small, robust girl, set. 17, has not menstruated. ^Toothache.

A young servant girl, suffering since four weeks. ^Intermittens tertiana.

A servant girl, after vexation. ^Bilious vomiting, diarrhoea and colic.

A girl, S3t. 20, robust build, short in stature, quiet even tem- perament. ^Rheumatism.

A woman, set. 25. ^Tetanic convulsions after measles.

A woman, set. 25, delicate constitution, has been nursing three months. /^Agalactia.

A woman, iet. 26. ^Threatened abortion.

A woman, set. 26, robust build, in third pregnancy. ^Threat- ened miscarriage.

A woman, set. 28, sensitive disposition. ^Diarrhoea, with colic.

A woman, set. 30, of vigorous constitution. ^Toothache.

A widow, set. 30. ^Dysmenorrhoea.

A woman, set. 34, after vexation. ^Hemicrania.

A woman, set. 34. ^Post partum hemorrhage.

A robust woman, set. 34. ^111 effects of anger.

A high-tempered, thin, young woman. ^Bilious fever.

A woman, set. 40, exhausted suffering look. ^Neuralgic tooth- ache.

A man, set. 40, robust and well nourishe'd. ^Sciatica.

A woman, set. 50, diarrhoea after taking cold. ^Gastric de- rangement.

A man, set. nearly 60, addicted to the use of opium. ^Mus- cular twitching.

A man suffering from painful swelling of left cheek caused by a carious and badly plugged tooth.

A farmer, after intermittent fever, vexation. ^Bilious colic.

A woman, set. 83. ^Diarrhoea.

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^^ Relations. Antidoted by: \ Aeon., Alum., Borax, Camphor., tCoccuL, \ Ooffea, Coloc, Conium, \Ignat., \Nux vom., llPulsat.

Compatible : Merc. sol. and Sulphur in diarrhoea ; Pulsat.

Bellad. in diseases of children. {Qhamom. acts more on nerves of abdomen, Bellad. more on the cranial nerves.)

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