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Chamomilla
Matricaria chamomilla · CHAM
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Origin Plant · Compositae (Asteraceae) · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Sources 16 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth attenuation

By regionHering
Mind ► Omits words when writing or speaking. ► Confusion of the head, with transient, painful pressure on the eyes, in the afternoon. ► Dulness of senses, diminished power of comprehension. ► Imagines he hears the voice of absent persons, at night. ► Child cries, quiet only when carried. ► Whining restlessness ; the child wants this and that, which when offered are refused, or pushed away. ► Cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted while speaking, especially after rising from sleep. ► Irritable, impatient mood. ► Great impatience, everything seems to go slowly. ► Peevishness, nothing pleases.
Inner Head ► Pressive pain in both temples, as from strong pressure with the thumbs, forenoon. ► Tearing and stinging pain in left side, particularly in the temple, and in and around the eye. ► One sided drawing headache. ► Violent stinging pains in left side of head, from the occiput to upper jaw. ► Pressing headache, as from a stone in the forehead, hot head, worse evenings. ► Intense headache in vertex, like a pressure from within, feeling as if the top of her head were blown off. ► Throbbing headache. ► Transient attacks of throbbing in one-half of the brain. ► Pressure, extending from the vertex to the forehead and temples ; worse when thinking of it, from sudden stooping, or from mental exertion.
Eyes ► Flickering before the eyes when lying down. ► Eyes swollen, in the morning ; agglutinated with purulent mucus. ► Inflammation of the eyes, lids agglutinated in the morning ; discharge of blood from the eyes ; inflammation caused by exposure to cold, damp atmosphere, or it worse, by every cold change of weather. ► Yellow conjunctiva. ► Violent pressure in the orbital region ; sensation in the eyeball as if it were tightly compressed from all sides, with momentary obstruction of vision.
Stomach ► Pressive pain in stomach and beneath the short ribs, which impedes breathing, especially after drinking coffee. ► Pressing and cutting in the epigastrium, with anxiety. ► Severe painful pressure in the epigastrium makes her toss about in despair. ► Stinging pain in pit of stomach.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses : too early ; too profuse ; offensive. ► Drawing from small of back forwards, griping and pinching in uterus, followed by discharge of large clots of blood. ► Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with severe labor-like pain in the uterus ; tearing pains in the legs. ► Membranous dysmenorrhoea. ► Yellow, smarting leucorrhoea. ► Burning in the vagina, as if excoriated.
Lungs ► Constriction in the upper part of chest. ► Chest painful when coughing. ► Stitches shoot from the abdomen into the middle of the chest, as from flatulence. ► Sudden stitches and darts through the chest, extorting screams ; dyspnoea taking away the voice and threatening suffocation.
Neck And Back ► Drawing pain in the back. ► Pain in the small of the back, especially at night. ► Bruised sensation in the muscles of the loins and back. ► Small of back feels bruised.
Limbs In General ► Pain in the periosteum, with paralytic weakness. ► Drawing and tearing pains in the limbs, worse at night. ► Joints sore, as if bruised and tired out ; no power in the hands and feet. ► Cracking in the joints, especially of the lower limbs, with pains therein, as if bruised. ► Aching in all the limbs, with lassitude. ► Limbs feel heavy.
Sleep ► Yawning and stretching. ► Sleep, with half open eyes ; sleepy, but cannot sleep. ► Sleepless and restless at night. ► Scarcely sleeps, and on falling asleep is tormented by anxious, frightening dreams. ► During sleep : moaning ; weeping and wailing ; starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Coldness with thirst. ► Chill and shivering, generally of single parts only, with heat of others. ► Chill and coldness of the whole body, with burning heat of the face and hot breath. ► Chill of posterior part with heat of anterior of body, or vice versa. ► Slight shiverings, alternating with heat, creep over the back and abdomen. ► Shivering when uncovering and from cold air. ► Heat and shivering intermingled mostly with one red and one pale cheek. ► Burning heat in lightly covered parts, though when not covered almost cold. ► Anxious heat, with sweat of the face and scalp. ► Long-lasting heat, with violent thirst and frequent startings in sleep. ► Sweat during sleep, most on the head, usually of sour odor, and with smarting sensation in skin. ► Revulsion of, and therefrom entire want of sweat.
Skin ► Unhealthy, every injury suppurates. ► Exanthema difficult to heal. ► Red rash on the cheeks. ► Skin inclined to inflammation. ► Burning and smarting pain in the ulcer, at night, with crawling and painful oversensitiveness to touch. ► Itching pimples covered with scurfs, and ulcerating around the ulcer. ► Severe itching of the sweating parts. ► Skin yellow, jaundiced.

Books*
Antidoted by Pulsatilla Pratensis 5, Aconitum Napellus 4, Coffea Cruda 4 +28
Complementary Belladonna, Magnesium Carbonicum, Magnolia Grandiflora
Follows well —
Compare Belladonna, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Borax Veneta +40

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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