Chamomilla

General

CHAMOMILLA. [Chamom.] Chamomile. Hahnemann. Compositae.

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.

Sensorium

► Dulness of senses, with sleepiness, yet cannot sleep. ► Vertigo : after eating ; staggering, in the morning on rising from bed ; with fainting ; with dimness of sight when sitting up in bed.

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.

Outer Head

► Head sweats during sleep.

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.

Ears

► Roaring in the ears, as from rushing water. ► Stitches in the ear, especially when stooping. ► Occasional tearing in the left ear. ► Pressing earache in spells, with tearing pain, extorting cries.

Nose

► Extremely sensitive to all odors. ► Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, dry heat and stopped up sensation ; feeling as if coryza would appear. ► Coryza : fluent, watery ; viscid. ► Nosebleed, relieving the confusion of the head.

Face

► Red ; or redness and heat of one (left) cheek, other pale ; pale, sunken, distorted by pain ; yellow, bloated. ► Burning in face. ► Left cheek swollen. ► Neuralgia of the face, the pain causes hot sweat about the head and extorts screams. ► Gives great relief in ordinary inflammatory and rheumatic faceache.

Lower Face

► Lips crack and peel. ► Rhagades in the middle of lower lip.

Teeth

► Toothache : stitching ; digging ; gnawing ; as from taking cold ; during or after eating ; if anything warm is taken into the mouth, especially after coffee ; in open air ; in the room ; getting warm in bed ; during menstruation ; most left side and lower teeth, worse at night. ► Teeth feel too long. ► Gums red and tender, during dentition.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter ; sour ; like rancid fat ; putrid. ► Tongue : coated, white ; yellowish ; or white at the sides, red in the middle ; red, cracked ; coated white, with islands on it. ► Burning on the tongue.

Mouth

► Fetid smell from the mouth after dinner. ► Heat in the mouth, pharynx and oesophagus to stomach. ► Collection of saliva, of metallic, sweetish taste.

Throat

► Spasmodic constriction of the pharynx. ► Sore throat, with swelling of the parotid gland.

Desires And Aversions

► Thirst for cold water and desire for acid drinks. ► Likes to hold the cold water to the mouth, a long time ; when drinking. ► Aversion to : beer ; coffee and warm drinks. ► Want of appetite.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating and drinking, heat and sweat of the face ; after eating, abdomen puffed up.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations ; sour ; constant, empty. ► Fruitless efforts to vomit. ► Nausea and inclination to vomit, and bitter vomiting. ► Inclination to vomit, with diarrhoea and fever during the night. ► Vomiting : of bile ; of what has been drunk ; slimy matter ; sour. ► Severe vomiting with griping.

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.

Hypochondria

► Stitching pains in the hypochondria. ► Stitches in region of liver, with frequent chilliness, after vexation.

Abdomen

► Griping, tearing colic in region of navel and lower down on both sides, with pain in small of back as if it were broken. ► Feeling of griping and chilliness inside of abdomen, passing downwards into legs as far as the knees. ► Colic returns from time to time, flatulence accumulates in the hypochondria, and stitches shoot through the chest. ► Wind colic, abdomen distended like a drum, wind passes in small quantities without relief ; relieved by applying warm cloths. ► Abdomen tympanitic and sensitive to touch. ► Constricting pain in the abdomen and back ; she kicks, grates her teeth and screams. ► Dragging toward the abdominal rings, as if the parts were too weak, and hernia would appear. ► Pain in the belly from side to side, just above the navel, corresponding to the transverse colon, commencing in the right and going over to left.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : watery, frequent, preceded by cutting, constricting bellyache, worse in epigastric region ; mucous, with colic and vomiturition ; bilious with burning in anus ; painful, thin green, consisting of feces and mucus ; green, watery, corroding, with colic, thirst, bitter taste and bitter eructations ; like chopped eggs, smelling sour ; hot, smelling like rotten eggs. ► Griping with great ineffectual desire for stool. ► Bowels relaxed after "colic" ; stools first white then putty-like. ► Hemorrhoids : blind ; painful, bleeding, burning. ► Ulcerating fissures at the anus.

Urine

► Dragging down the ureters like labor-pains, with very frequent urging to urinate. ► Burning in the neck of bladder when urinating. ► Urine : yellow, with flaky sediment ; burning in urethra while passing ; scanty, turbid, clay-colored soon after passing ; turbid, gets thick when standing, sediment yellow.

Male Sexual Organs

► Violent erections.

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.

Pregnancy

► Threatened abortion, with discharge of dark blood. ► Labor-pains spasmodic and distressing ; tearing pains down into legs. ► Rigidity of the os ; scarcely able to endure the pains. ► Hour-glass contraction ; irritable ; thirsty ; desire for fresh air, restless. ► Puerperal convulsions, after anger ; or has one red cheek, the other pale. ► After-pains very distressing. ► Suppression of the lochia, followed by diarrhoea, colic and toothache. ► Excessive heat, anxiety, tendency to syncope, red face, especially redness of one cheek ; formation of pus ; puerperal peritonitis. ► Mammae hard and tender to touch ; with drawing, rheumatic pains ; worse in open air and at night. ► Nipples inflamed and very tender ; infants breasts tender to the touch.

Larynx

► Sensation of rawness and scraping in the larynx. ► Hoarseness, on account of tough mucus in the larynx, which can only be removed by strong hawking. ► Catarrhal hoarseness of trachea, with dryness of eyelids.

Breathing

► Oppressed, as if chest were not wide enough. ► Short, with rattling. ► Threatened suffocation, from repercussion of measle eruption. ► Dyspnoea, constricted feeling at the supra-sternal fossa, with constant irritation to cough. ► Asthmatic attack, seemingly produced by an accumulation of flatus, better from bending the head backwards ; in cold air, and from drinking cold water ; worse in dry weather and from warm diet.

Cough

► Hoarseness and rattling cough from mucus in the trachea, especially during winter. ► Cough caused by irritation low down in the air passages, during the night. ► Paroxysms of coughing about midnight, with which something seems to rise in throat as if she would suffocate. ► Constant irritation to cough beneath the upper part of the sternum. ► Cough particularly at night with tough, slimy expectoration, tasting bitter. ► Cough, with expectoration during day, without at night. ► Expectoration bloody dark, coagulated.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation and faintness. ► Pulse small, but tense and accelerated, frequently very unequal, and then for a time weak.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Pain in the arms, cannot bear the slightest motion. ► Stiffness of the arm, tendency to formication when grasping with the hand. ► Finger-joints red and swollen.

Lower Limbs

► Violent drawing, tearing pains, from the left ischium to the os calcis and sole of the foot, with cramp-like tension of the muscles. ► Tearing pains from abdomen down into legs. See 23, 24. ► Cramp in the calves. ► Tearing pain in the feet after a severe chill ; must lie down and keep quiet ; pain in ankle, worse from every motion. ► Redness and swelling around the malleoli. ► Heaviness and lassitude in the legs. ► Burning of the soles at night ; puts the feet out of bed.

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.

Position, Etc

► Inclination to lie down. ► Motion : 32, 33. Rising from sleep : 1 ; from bed : 2. Sitting up in bed : 2. Lying down : 5. Stooping : 3, 6. Must lie down and keep quiet : 33. Tosses about, starts up : 37, 40. Bending head back : 26. Bends backward : 36.

Nerves

► Child makes itself and bends backwards, kicks with the feet when carried, screams immoderately, and throws everything off. ► Convulsions of children : legs moved up and down, grasping and reaching with the hands, mouth drawn from side to side, eyes staring. ► Twitching in the eyelids, eyeballs, lips and facial muscles. ► Pain in limbs, with weakness and slow, dragging gait. ► General prostration, faintness.

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.

Time

► Morning : 2, 5. Forenoon : 3. Afternoon : 1, 12. Evening : 3. Night : 1, 10, 16, 24, 27, 31, 33, 34, 37, 46. Midnight : 27. Day : 27.

Temperature And Weather

► Warmth : 19 ; of bed : 10. Dry weather : 2, 6. Cold air : 26, 40 ; damp : 5. Open air : 10, 24. Cold change of weather : 5. Winter : 27. Wants fresh air : 24. Uncovering : 40. Room : 10. ► Heat aggravates the pains.

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.

Sides

► Right : 18. Left : 3, 6, 8, 10, 18, 33. Above downwards : 24, 33. Below upwards : 28. Behind forwards : 23. ► Symptoms in provings go from right to left ; therefore cures from left to right.

Sensations

► The paralytic sensations are always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and the drawing or tearing pains rarely occur without the paralytic or numb sensation in the part.

Tissues

► Muscular or articular rheumatism, with great nervous excitability ; also when pains are erratic, worse knees and ankles ; numbness afterwards. They drive him out of bed and compel him to walk about.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 19, 24, 46. Wants to be carried : 1. ► Wounds which suppurate (topically and internally).

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.

Stages And States

► Children. Light or brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament. ► Adults ; even persons with arthritic or rheumatic diathesis.

Relationship

► Antidotes to Chamom. : Acon ; Alum, Borax, Camphor., Coccul., Coffea, Coloc., Ignat., Nux vom., and especially Pulsat. ► Similar to Tarax. See 11 ; Hepar, Calend. (suppuration). ► Chamom. antidotes : Coffea, Opium. ► Complementary to Magnes.