Chamomilla

"There is in Chamomilla a little thread of symptoms, and nearly always found

running through it. This is a spiteful, sudden, or uncivil irritability" (Guernsey). Teste puts

• ▸Cham.
• ▸at the head of one of his groups, which includes Grat.
• ▸, Viol.
• ▸t.
• ▸, Hell.
• ▸n.
• ▸The common

feature of this group is: "A particular derangement of the cerebral functions and even of the

whole nervous system; a painful increase of the sentient action, followed by a considerable

depression of the vital forces, and a certain disorder of the mental faculties." In spite of its

• ▸obvious analogies with Puls.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Acon.
• ▸, and Coni.
• ▸, it has marked and exclusive characteristics

of its own. "It increases the general nervous sensibility, and stimulates the cerebral functions: a

property that seems to give rise secondarily to the various organic alterations that Cham. is

capable of producing, and for which it has so often been given with success." "It appears," says

Hahnemann, quoted by Teste, "to diminish" [7.e., curatively] "in a great degree, the excessive

sensitiveness to pain and the violent derangements which pain occasions in the moral condition

of the patient. This is the reason why it appeases a multitude of sufferings to which coffee-

drinkers, and persons who have been treated with narcotic palliatives are subject. And this is

likewise the reason why it ought not to be given to those who bear pain patiently and with

resignation. I mention this rule here, for it is of very great importance." Teste remarks an this that

Cham. antidotes not only Coffea, but also Causticum, and most of the members of the Causticum

group. Over-sensitiveness, with great irritability and crossness, is the leading note of the

Chamomilla effects. The pains are unbearable and drive to despair; the patient insists that the

doctor shall cure them at once. Prostrating debility as soon as the pains begin. The senses are too

acute. Bad temper (Nux is malicious). Peevishness; ill-humour; anger, with rage, violence and

• ▸heat.
• ▸Cannot bear to be looked at.
• ▸Cannot be civil to doctor.
• ▸Impatience.
• ▸Cham.
• ▸also corresponds

to the effects of anger: colic, diarrhoea, jaundice, twitchings, and convulsions. Child cries, and

must be carried about to be quieted. There is hot sweat on head. Stopped up colds, with dripping

• ▸of hot water from nose.
• ▸One cheek red, the other pale.
• ▸Face sweats after eating or drinking.
• ▸The

• ▸patient is hot and thirsty with the pains.
• ▸Cham.
• ▸is almost typical of the dentition state.
• ▸The

toothache of Cham. comes on when entering a warm room or from drinking anything warm.

There is fetor of breath, and of discharges in general. Biliousness preceded by anger. Gastralgia,

food eaten lies like a load on stomach, hypochondria distended. Tongue yellowish white. Bitter

• ▸taste.
• ▸Colic > by drinking coffee.
• ▸The diarrhoea of Cham.
• ▸is: stool hot, yellowish green; like

chopped egg; offensive; excoriation round anus. Intertrigo of children. Wind colic; belching of

wind < the condition (this is characteristic). Menorrhagia dark clots; fetid; temper always <

before and during flow (Nux also, but Nux is conscious of it, Cham. is not). Threatened abortion

caused by anger. The pain of labour or at menses is centred in the womb, bearing down, painful

contractions, unbearable; they extend down thighs and are felt in the back. Leucorrheea is acrid,

watery, corrosive, smarting. Cham. has inflammation of the parotid glands, nocturnal salivation.

Rheumatism compelling to get up and walk about; thirsty, hot, almost beside himself. Muscles of

face and hands twitch. Insomnia of children; start in sleep; twitching of hands and face; hot

sweat of head and face; one cheek red. Puts feet out of bed; soles burn. Aggravation by heat is

• ▸one of the most prominent features of Cham.
• ▸< By warm food.
• ▸Cham.
• ▸may be the remedy in

• ▸croup, or croupy cough, if mental symptoms and time conditions correspond.
• ▸W.
• ▸H.
• ▸Baker

(Rochester) has recorded such a case. A chubby boy, light hair, blue eyes had a croupy cough.

• ▸Acon.
• ▸and Spong.
• ▸at first controlled it, but afterwards failed.
• ▸The cough became a loose, rattling,

suffocating cough; the mucus came up in the throat and nearly suffocated him. Paroxysms at

• ▸midnight.
• ▸During the day he was hoarse; ever impatient, nothing seemed to suit him.
• ▸Cham.
• ▸c.
• ▸m.

cured, improvement setting in within two hours. "Chamomile tea" has removed the night-sweats

of phthisis. Dr. Anderson, of Dover, Delaware, relates the case of a man who had to change three

to five times every night. A cup of weak chamomile tea was ordered every night. The second

night there was slight diminution, the third he only had to change twice, the fourth once, and

after that there was no more trouble. The plant in this case was probably Anthemis cotula, or wild

• ▸chamomile of U.
• ▸S.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Anderson learned its use from "an old woman.
• ▸" But the sweats of

Chamomilla are also very marked, Nash mentions a characteristic in the association of numbness

or alternation of it with pains. He relates the case of a man who had very painful rheumatism of

left shoulder, and who got no better from the usual remedies, but was speedily cured by Cham.,

the indication being: "Numbness with the pains." Nash differentiates the restlessness of Aco. and

• ▸Ars.
• ▸from that of Cham.
• ▸by the absence in the case of the last of fear of death.
• ▸The Cham.
• ▸patient

• ▸"would rather die than suffer so.
• ▸" Lying in bed <.
• ▸Walking > backache and rheumatic pains.
• ▸>

• ▸Being carried about.
• ▸Touch, and even looking at the patient, <.
• ▸Covering <.
• ▸Pains recur in

evening and are < before midnight. Symptoms generally < night. Warmth < most symptoms.

Cold > ulcers; a finger dipped in cold water and applied to the part > toothache. < From music.

Heaviness and fulness of whole body from playing piano. There is desire for open air, and yet

over-sensitiveness to open air, especially about ears. Damp cold weather <. Windy weather <.

Great dread of wind. Cham. 1s particularly suited to diseases of pregnant women, nurses, and

little children. Light or brown-haired persons. Arthritic diathesis.

• ▸Whining restlessness.
• ▸Child wants many things which he refuses again.
• ▸Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants.
• ▸Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly.
• ▸Impatient, intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complaining.
• ▸Spiteful, snappish.
• ▸Complaints from anger and vexation.
• ▸Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.

Attacks of great anguish, as if the heart would break, with complete discouragement,

excessive inquietude, agitation and tossing, groans and tears, accompanied often by drawing

colic, and pressure at the pit of the stomach.—Disposition to weep, and to be angry, with great

sensitiveness to offence.—Crying and howling.—The child cries and wants to be carried on the

• ▸arm.
• ▸—Quarrelsome and choleric humour.
• ▸—Mischievous disposition in children.
• ▸—Mental

excitement, with strong tendency to be frightened —Hypochondriacal humour.—Patients neither

endure to be addressed by others, nor to be interrupted when conversing.—Peevishness, ill-

humour, absence of mind, taciturnity and repugnance to conversation.—State of mental

abstraction and inadvertence, as if plunged in meditation, with diminished comprehension.—A

sort of stupidity, and apathy to pleasure and to external objects.—Desire for different things,

which, when once possessed, are no longer cared for—Tendency to misapply words when

speaking or writing.—Frantic and furious delirium.

Throbbing headache in one-half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.

Intoxication and staggering, on getting up in the morming.—Vertigo, with

fainting.—Vertigo, with obscuration of the eyes.—Vertigo chiefly in the morning, or in the

evening, or after a meal, or after taking coffee —Headache on waking in the morning, or while

asleep, sometimes with a sensation as if the head were going to burst.—Pain as if caused by a

bruise, and pressive heaviness in the head.—Pullings, shootings, and beatings in the head, often

only semi-lateral, with one red cheek; worse at night; in the open air; in the wind; better from

warm coverings and when walking about.—Cracking in one side of the brain —Hot, clammy

sweat on the forehead, and on the scalp.—Starting pain in the forehead, chiefly after a meal.

Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.

Pain as of a wound, in the corners of the eyes.—Shootings, burning, and heat in the

eyes.—Eyes inflamed, and red, with pressive pains, chiefly on moving the eyes and on shaking

the head.—Great dryness in the margin of the eyelids.—Inflammation of the margin of the eyelids

(esp. of the lower, which are swollen), with mucous secretion, humour in the eyes and nocturnal

agglutination. —Yellow colour of the scleroticaa—Ecchymosis in the eye, and hemorrhage of the

eyes.—Spasmodic closing of the eyelids —Quivering of the eyelids.—Distortion of the

• ▸eyes.
• ▸—Pupils contracted.
• ▸—Sparkling before the eyes.
• ▸—Confused sight, more frequently in the

morning than in the evening.—Semi-lateral obscuration of the sight, on looking at anything

white.—Aversion to bright light.

• ▸Ringing in ears.
• ▸Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat driving patient frantic.
• ▸Stitching pain.
• ▸Ears feel stopped.

Otalgia, with drawing and tensive pains.—Shootings extending to the ears, chiefly on

stooping, with disposition to be angry at trifles, and to take everything in bad part—Tinkling and

buzzing in the ears.—Sensation as if the ears were stopped, and as if a bird were scraping and

fluttering in them.—Sensibility of hearing; music appears insupportable—Inflammatory swelling

of the parotids, as well as of the sub-maxillary glands, and those of the neck.—Discharge of thin

pus from the ears.

Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inability to sleep.

Wrinkled skin of the nose.—Coryza, with obstruction of the nose.—Ulceration and

inflammation of the nostrils—Epistaxis.—Coagulated blood from nose; viscid nasal

secretion.—Very acute smell.

• ▸One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold.
• ▸Stitches in jaw extending to inner ear and teeth.
• ▸Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at night.
• ▸Drives to distraction.
• ▸Jerking of tongue and facial muscles.
• ▸Distress of teething children (Calc phos; Terebinth).

Face hot, red, burning or redness and heat of one cheek, with coldness and paleness of

the other; or face pale, hollow, with distortion of features from pain.—Heat of the face, while the

rest of the body is cold.—Swelling of the face.—Erysipelas in the face, with hard and bluish

swelling of one cheek.—Swelling of one temple, with pain on being touched.—Shooting, drawing,

and pulsative pains in one side of the face.—Red miliary eruption on the cheeks.—Yellow colour

of the skin on the face.—Convulsive movements of the muscles of the face and of the lips.—Lips

cracked, excoriated, and ulcerated Spasms in the jaws, with compression of the

teeth.—Wrinkles on the forehead.

Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee, during pregnancy. Nightly salivation.

Dryness of the tongue and mouth (with thirst), or flow of frothy saliva.—Putrid smell

of the mouth.—Tongue red and cracked, or loaded with thick and yellowish coating. —Blisters on

the tongue and also under it, with shooting pains.—Aphthe in the mouth.—Convulsive

movements of the tongue.

Odontalgia, most frequently semi-lateral, and chiefly at night, when warm in bed,

with insupportable pains which almost induce despair, swelling, heat, and redness of the cheek,

swelling, burning of the gums, and painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.—The toothache

recommences when entering a warm room.—Toothache, after a cold and suppressed

• ▸perspiration.
• ▸—A ffects teeth on |.
• ▸lower side; under jaw.
• ▸—The pains are commonly drawing and

pulling, or pulsative and shooting, or searching and gnawing, in the hollow teeth, appearing

frequently after drinking or eating anything hot (or cold), and chiefly after taking

coffee.—Toothache > by dipping finger in cold water and applying it to affected part —Loosening

of the teeth.—Dentition, with convulsions.

Sore throat, with swelling of the parotids, of the tonsils, and of the sub-maxillary

glands.—Inflammation of the soft palate and tonsils, with dark redness.—Pains in the pharynx,

shooting and burning, or a sensation as if there were a plug in the throat —Inability to swallow

solid food, esp. when lying down.—Burning heat in the throat, from the mouth to the

stomach.—Deep redness of the parts affected.

Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and pain as from a plug.

• ▸Eructations, foul.
• ▸Nausea after coffee.
• ▸Sweats after eating or drinking.
• ▸Aversion to warm drinks.
• ▸Tongue yellow; taste bitter.
• ▸Bilious vomiting.
• ▸Acid rising; regurgitation of food.
• ▸Bitter, bilious vomiting.
• ▸Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone (Bry; Abies n).

Putrid or clammy taste.—Acid taste in the mouth, and of rye-bread.—Bitter taste in

the mouth (early in the morning), and of food—Want of appetite, and dislike to food.—Aliments

cannot descend.—Aversion to, or great longing for coffee, sometimes with nausea, or even

vomiting, and attacks of suffocation, after having partaken of it—After eating, heat and sweat of

the face, inflation and fulness of the stomach, and of the abdomen, risings and inclination to

vomit.—Excessive thirst for cold drinks.

Risings, which aggravate the pains of the stomach and of the abdomen.—Acid

rising (the existing pain is aggravated by eructations).—Regurgitation of food.—Nausea after

eating, and chiefly in the morning. —Uneasiness, and a sort of flabbiness in the stomach, as if the

patient were about to faint—Vomiting of food, and of sour substances, with mucus.—Bitter,

bilious vomiting.—Excessively painful pressure on the precordial region, as if the heart were

going to be crushed, with cries, sweat, and anguish.—Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone on the

stomach, with difficulty of respiration, chiefly after eating, or at night, with inquietude and

tossing, either renewed or mitigated by coffee.—Burning pain in the pit of the stomach, and in the

hypochondria.—After eating or drinking, heat and perspiration of the face.

• ▸Distended.
• ▸Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back.
• ▸Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration.
• ▸Hepatic colic.
• ▸Acute duodenitis (Kali bich (chronic)).

Tension and anxious fulness in the hypochondria, and in the epigastrium (in the

morning), with a sensation as if everything was ascending towards the chest.—Colic, after

anger.—Flatulent colic, with inflation of the abdomen, and accumulation of flatus towards the

hypochondria, and the inguinal ring.—Excessively painful colic, pullings and cuttings in the

abdomen, sometimes in the morning, at sunrise.—Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, with

constant movement in the intestines, and blue circles round the eyes ——Burning cuttings in the

epigastrium, with difficulty of respiration, and paleness of the face —Shooting in the abdomen,

principally on coughing, on sneezing, and on touching it.—Painful sensibility of the abdomen to

the touch, with sensation of ulceration in the interior.—Pressure towards the inguinal ring, as if

hernia were about to protrude —Abdominal spasms.

• ▸Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic.
• ▸Chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach.
• ▸Soreness of anus.
• ▸Diarrhoea during dentition.
• ▸Haemorrhoids, with painful fissures.

Constipation, as from inertia of the rectum.—Diarrhoea during dentition

(green mucus).—Diarrhcea from cold, from anger, from chagrin. —Diarrhcea chiefly at, night, with

spasmodic colic, mostly with slimy, and whitish or watery, or yellowish and greenish feeces, or

mucus mingled with excrement, like eggs when beaten up; or hot corrosive feces, of a fetid

odour, like rotten eggs; or evacuation of undigested substances.—Heemorrhoids, with very painful

fissures and ulcerations in the anus.—Excoriation about anus (intertrigo).

Inclination to make water, with anxiety—On making water, itching and

burning in the urethra.—Urine hot and yellowish, with fleecy sediment; or turbid urine, with

yellowish sediment.—Involuntary or feeble emission of urine.—Excoriation at the edge of the

prepuce.

• ▸Uterine haemorrhages.
• ▸Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like pains.
• ▸Labor pains spasmodic; press upward (Gels).
• ▸Patient intolerant of pain (Caul; Caust; Gels; Hyos; Puls).
• ▸Nipples inflamed; tender to touch.
• ▸Infant's breasts tender.
• ▸Yellow, acrid leucorrhoea (Ars; Sep; Sulph).

Catamenia suppressed, with swelling and pressive pains in the pit

of the stomach, and in the abdomen.—Pains like those of labour, and general dropsy.—Menstrual

colic, before the catamenia.—Pressure towards the uterus, as if from the pains of child-

birth.—Pains may occur by which the foetus is forced up instead of down.—The labour-pains are

not sufficient, but cause great restlessness and anguish (over-sensitive to the pains).—Violent

after-pains —Metrorrhagia, with discharge of deep-red blood, and of clots, accompanied by

labour pains.—Discharge of blood between the regular catamenia.—Burning pains and smarting

in the vagina.—Corrosive leucorrhoea, with smarting.—Scirrhous induration of the mammary

glands.—Suppression of milk (milk is cheesy or mixed with pus; milk fever).—Puerperal

fever.—Erysipelas of the mamme and soreness of the nipples.

Itching, stinging pain in the margin of the prepuce.—Swelling of

prepuce (Sycosis).—Excited sexual desire.

Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx. Irritable, dry, tickling cough; suffocative tightness of chest, with bitter expectoration in daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's chest.

Catarrh and hoarseness, with accumulation of tenacious mucus in the

throat —Stitches and burning in the larynx, with hoarseness.—Burning pain in the

larynx.—Spasmodic constriction in the gullet.—Dry cough, produced by a constant titillation in

the larynx, and under the sternum, chiefly in the evening, and at night in bed, continuing during

sleep, and sometimes accompanied by a fit of suffocation—Wheezing and rattling in the

trachea.—Anger provokes the cough (in children).—Expectoration of mucus of a bitter or putrid

taste.

Respiration short, croaking, or wheezing and stertorous.—Deep respiration, with

sensible rising of the thorax.—Fit of suffocation, as if from constriction of the larynx or of the

chest.—Attacks of flatulent asthma, with anxiety and fulness in the precordial

• ▸region.
• ▸—Oppression of the chest.
• ▸—Shootings in the chest, chiefly on breathing.
• ▸—Burning in the

chest, with dizziness and anxiety.—Shooting in the regions of the heart, with difficulty of

respiration.

Insupportable pain in loins and hips. Lumbago. Stiffness of neck muscles.

Tensive stiffness of neck muscles—Glands swollen, often very sensitive;

painful when turning neck.—Aching pain in the sacrum, chiefly at night—Pain as of a bruise in

the sacrum, with pulling pains, like those of labour, extending to the thigh.—Shooting, pulling,

tearing pain in the back.—Painful stiffness in the loins, after having been seated some

time.—Insupportable pain in the loins and in the hip, in the morning, on the side opposite to that

on which the patient is reclining.—Convulsions in the back, with a throwing backwards of the

head, and stiffness of the body as in tetanus.

Numbness and stiffness of the arms on grasping an object.—Convulsions of

the arms, with clasping in of the thumb.—Nocturnal pains, with paralytic weakness in the

arms.—Swelling; or coldness; and paralytic stiffness of the hands; with cold perspiration in the

palms of the hands.—Numbness or convulsive movements of the fingers.—Finger-joints red and

swollen.—Retraction of thumbs.

Paralytic and drawing pain in the hip and in the thigh, extending to the feet,

chiefly at night.—Tension of the muscles of the thighs, and of the legs—Cramps in the calves of

the legs, chiefly at night.—Tearing sensation, with a paralytic condition of the feet, at

• ▸night.
• ▸—Cramp.
• ▸—Cracking of the knee during motion.
• ▸—Burning in the soles of the feet (at night,

he puts his feet out of bed).—Sensation of numbness in the toes.—Burning and itching in the feet,

as from chilblains.—Swelling of the foot and of the sole of the foot.

24. Generalities—Rheumatic, drawing pains, chiefly at night in bed, with paralytic state, and

sensation of torpor in the parts affected, and inclination to move them continually; mitigated by

external heat.—Pain with thirst, heat, and redness (of one) of the cheeks, and hot sweating of the

head.—Pulsative pains, as from an, abscess.—Over-excitement, and excessive sensibility of the

nervous system, with great sensibility to pain, which appears insupportable and induces

• ▸despair.
• ▸—Over-sensitiveness of the senses (esp.
• ▸from coffee and narcotics).
• ▸—Great sensibility in

the open air, and principally to wind—The extremities feel, as it were, stiff and paralysed.—Great

weakness and inclination to fall, with prostration of strength to fainting as soon as the pain

commences.—Syncope, with sensation of sinking and faintness in the precordial region.—Attacks

of catalepsy, with hippocratic face, extremities cold, eyes half-closed, pupils dilated and

dull.—Attacks of spasms and of convulsions, with face red and bloated, and convulsive

movements in the eyes, the eyelids, the lips, the muscles of the face, and of the

tongue.—Epileptic convulsions, with retraction of the thumbs, and foam before the mouth,

preceded by colic, or followed by a lethargic state.-—Urgent inclination to remain lying down; a

child will neither walk nor be carried in the arms.—Cracking, and pain resembling a bruise, in the

Joints.

Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles at night (Sulph).

Ankles give way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet, unable to step on them.

Miliary eruption, with itching and nocturnal tickling —Unhealthy skin; every injury

tends to ulceration.—In the ulcers, tingling, itching, burning, and jerking shootings, with

excessive sensibility to the touch.—Itching pimples form around the ulcer, covered with scurf,

and suppurating.—Yellow colour of the skin (over the whole body).—Rash of infants and during

nursing.—Red rash on the cheeks, on the forehead.—Inflammatory swelling of the glands.

Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes.

Y awning and stretching.—Sleepiness, during the day, without being able to sleep, on

lying down.—Coma, and coma-vigil, with pulling pain in the head, and nausea, or with feverish

restlessness, short respiration, and thirst—Nocturnal sleeplessness, with attacks of anguish,

visions, and illusions of the sight and hearing. —Snoring breathing when asleep.—On sleeping,

starts with fright, cries, tossing, tears, talking, raving, groans, snoring, and constant separating of

the thighs.—Fantastical, lively, quarrelsome and vexatious dreams, with morose and sullen

aspect.—Nocturnal delirium.

Pulse small, tense, accelerated. —Constant alternation of cold, or of partial

shuddering, with partial heat, in different parts of the body.—Chilliness and coldness of the

forepart of the body, while the back part is hot, or vice versa.—General heat, esp. in the evening,

or at night in bed, with anxiety, thirst, redness of the cheeks, hot perspiration of the head, at the

forehead, and the scalp; and sometimes, chiefly on uncovering the body, mixed with shivering or

shuddering.—A fter or during the heat, sour sweat, which causes an itching on the skin—Burning

heat and redness (often only in one) of the cheeks, chiefly at night, with groans, tossing, and cold

or heat in the rest of the body.—Intermittent fever, with nocturnal aggravation, pressure on the pit

of the stomach, nausea or bilious vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, and painful emission of

urine.—Chilliness, with internal heat —Chill and coldness of the body, with burning hot face and

hot breath.—Nocturnal sweat, when asleep.—Continuous burning heat, with violent thirst, and

starts during sleep, and furious delirium.

• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Anger.
• ▸Asthma (from anger).
• ▸Blepharospasm.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Coffee, effects of.

• ▸Colic.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Cramp.
• ▸Croup.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Diarrhea.
• ▸Dysmenorrhcea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.

• ▸Earache.
• ▸Eyes: blepharitis; ophthalmia.
• ▸Eructations.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Excitement.
• ▸Excoriation.

• ▸Fainting fits.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Flatulent colic.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Gum-rash.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hernia.
• ▸Hysterical

• ▸Joint.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Lienteria.
• ▸Labour: disorders of; after-pains.
• ▸Mastitis.
• ▸Menstruation,

• ▸disordered.
• ▸Miliary eruption.
• ▸Milk-fever.
• ▸Miscarriage.
• ▸Mumps.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Parotitis.

• ▸Perichondritis.
• ▸Peritonitis.
• ▸Pregnancy, disorders of.
• ▸Red-gum.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Salivation

• ▸(nocturnal).
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Screaming.
• ▸Sensitiveness.
• ▸Spasms.
• ▸Speech, affections of.
• ▸Toothache.

• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Uterus, diseases of.
• ▸Waking, screaming on.
• ▸Whooping cough.

Cham. antidotes: Coffee, and the narcotics. Especially opium as it corresponds to its

secondary effects (useful in nerve storm when morphia is discontinued); the nightly headaches of

• ▸Thuja.
• ▸Jt is antidoted by: Aco.
• ▸, Alum.
• ▸, Borax, Camph.
• ▸, Coccul.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Coloc.
• ▸, Coni.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Nux

• ▸v.
• ▸, and especially Puls.
• ▸Puls.
• ▸and Cham.
• ▸antidote one another, and precede and follow each other

• ▸well.
• ▸Compatible: Merc.
• ▸sol.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸Complementary: Bell.
• ▸in diseases of children (Cham.

• ▸acts more on nerves of abdomen, Bell.
• ▸more on cranial nerves.
• ▸) Compare: in dentition, Bell.
• ▸,

• ▸Borax, Calc.
• ▸, Tereb.
• ▸; in over-sensitiveness, Aco.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸; diarrhoea, parotitis,

• ▸toothache, Merc.
• ▸(Merc.
• ▸has hard, pale swelling of face, Cham.
• ▸red and hot); sour breath,

constrictive gastralgia in coffee drinkers, Nux (Cham. has bad temper during menses; Nux has

• ▸malicious temper); toothache < in bed at night; < from warmth, Sul.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸; distension of

• ▸abdomen unrelieved by eructation, Chi.
• ▸; indignation and its effects, Coloc.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, Nux, Bry.
• ▸;

• ▸aversion to be looked at, Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸; > by moving about, Rhus.
• ▸, Fer.
• ▸, Verat.
• ▸, (Ver.
• ▸has

maddening pains compelling to walk about, but there is none of the feverishness and excitement

• ▸of Cham.
• ▸); stopped catarrh, Nux, Samb.
• ▸, Sticta.
• ▸; nocturnal salivation, Nux.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Rhus.

Compare: Cypriped; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls; Coffea; Bellad; Staphis; Ignat. Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of opium. Rubus villosus-Blackberry--(diarrhoea of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).

Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls.

Complementary: Bell; Mag c.

Third to thirtieth attenuation.

The general constitutional state of Chamomilla is great sensitiveness ; sensitive to every impression ; sensitive to surroundings ; sensitive to persons ; and, above all, sensitive to pain. The constitutional

irritability is so great that a little pain brings forth manifestations as

if the patient were in very great suffering. It naturally belongs to the

woman’s nervous system, when she is wrought up and extremely sensitive and in pain.

The mental state goes along with this. Sensitiveness of the mind.

Great irritability. These two run through Chamomilla so closely that

they are inseparable. Sensitiveness to pain. Easily affected by mortification, by chagrin, so that the nerves become extremely sensitive from

these causes, and pains, convulsions, colic, headaches and other kinds

of nervous symptoms set in. The nervous child when punished will

go into convulsions. The oversensitive nervous woman will suffer

from chagrin. Jerking and twitching of muscles from mortification

and excitement. Excessive sensibility of the nerves, so excessive that

only a few remedies equal it, such as Coffea, Niix vom. and Opium.

Of course, without hearing a lecture on Opium you naturally think of

Opiuni as capable of producing stupor. Those of you who have seen

the awful state of mind and distress that follow the administration of

the crude Opium will understand what I mean by the Chamomilla

sensitivity. Convulsions of children. It is not an uncommon thing,

even now-a-days, and especially when practicing in the country, for

the young mothers and the nurses to give the baby Camomile tea for

colic, and the baby goes into convulsions. No one attributes it to

Camomile tea, but the doctor will see at once, if he knows Chamomilla,

that these convulsions are due to Camomile. Then you see the jerkings, the convulsions, the hot head, the great sensitivity ; sensitiveness

to noise, and to persons, and the great irritability between the convulsions, convulsions of children ; they become stiff ; roll the eyes ; distort the face ; twitchings of muscles ; throw the limbs about ; clinch the

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The woman, such as 1 liave described, oversensitive to pain, snappish, suffering intensely from a little pain, takes on many symptoms

at the menstrual period. The incnsirual flow is black, clotted, offensive. Cramping pains in the uterus, clutching and griping, ameliorated

by heat. “Oversensitive to pain,” with all the pains and complaints,

and the mental state, the irritability, the snappish mental state at a

menstrual period. Whether it be a menorrhagia, or a metrorrhagia,

there arc copious black clots. “Menstrual colic following anger,”

M^hich means violent cramping pains in the uterus during menstniation

if she has had any great excitement to anger her. Sexual irritability,

emotions, disturbance of mind, will bring on cramps at the menstrual period in a woman who is not subject to cramps, affecting her

as if she had taken cold. It is a very useful remedy in membranou.s

clysmenorrhoca. It, perhaps, has existed from the first menstrual

period. Every month the woman throws off a little membranous

formation. This is thrown off with violent labor-like pains, and often

with clots. Chamomilla may be a palliative. It is not the constitutional

remedy that clears away, and prevents the future formation of this

membrane, like the deeper antipsorics, but it is often palliative in th^

more severe attacks, with the irritable condition of the mind ; feverish

condition ameliorated by heat ; cramping, and clutching like labor

pains. “Yellow, smarting leucorrhoea. Excessive menstruation ; blood

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dark, nearly black, clotted, with pain through Irom back to front, attacks of syncope, coldness of limbs, much thirst.’'

In pregnancy the woman has also Chamomilla conditions. Irregu

lar contractions ; false labor pains. I^abor pains that are felt in wrong

places. Labor pains that are felt too much in the back. Contractions

that are most painful, cutting, tearing, bringing out screams, so irritable ; she scolds the pains ; she scolds the doctor ; she scolds everybody ; drives the doctor out of the room : drives the nurse off, and

then calls for her again : refuses things that are offered. Labor pains

that are clutching here, and clutching there, and cramping, showing

that certain fibres of the uterus are contracting in one direction, and

certain other fibres in another. There is not that uniform, regular

contraction that should take place in the expulsion of the contents of

the uterus ; expulsion of a mole or exjmlsion of a child. If the physician can have the pregnant woman under his care during the period of

gestation he ought to be able to select remedies to remove these irregular contractions of the uterus, or fo prevent them when it comes time

• ▸for labor.
• ▸The pains are then not so violent.
• ▸She feels the contractions, but in many instances they are painless.
• ▸You will not always be

able to prepare women, they will not always permit it. Women are

more inclined to be notional and whimsical and to have their own way

a short time before confinement ihari at any other time. . A w^oman

ought to be under treatment all through, gestation, and. sometimes it

takes longer. Gestation is a fortuitc^is time for the woman, to ' take

treatment. Symptoms representative t>f her disordered state come out

then that do not appear at any other time. If she has a psoric condition it may remain dormant until pregnancy comes on. which may act

as an exciting cause to bring oiit the conditions that are in the constitution. It furnishes, therefore, a good time for the homoeopathic

physician to study the case and give that woman a constitutional remedy based upon those symptoms that will not only remove those

symptoms and prepare her for confinement, but will remove very much

of the disorder in her economy, and she will go on through life liberated from much distress, cured from many conditions that perhaps

would not have come out until some other occasion brought them out.

A woman that knows much about Homoeopathy would submit herself

regularly to constitutional treatment during gestation, that is, would

be particular to give the physician everything, all the details, all the

sufferings, all the trouble, that he may study that case. The things

that are to be observed during gestation are to be added to the consitutional symptoms found when gestation is not present, because they

are all evidence of a disturbance in that one patient. And it is the

patient that is to be treated, not a disease. It is simply another form

of disturbance, of disorder of the economy. The things that Chamo*

milla reaches during confinement, and during its course, and at the

close of it, are irregular contractions, like hourglass contractions.

‘‘Rigidity of the os.’" After confinement, after-pains. With all these

the same menta] condition, the same oversensiriveness to pain. “Postpartum haemorrhage.” Every time the child is put to the breast,

cramping of the uterus ; cramp in the back. Either of these, or both,

Chamomilla cures. The two principal remedies you will have to rely

on for these conditions, cramping in the back and cramping in the

abdomen every time the child is put to the breast, are Chamomilla and

Piilsatilla, They are two decidedly different remedies in the mental

sphere. One is mild and gentle, though whimsical ; and the other is

snappish and irritable. Both arc sensitive to pain, Init Chamomilla is

far more sensitive to pain than Pulsatilla,

Chamomilla has inflammation of the mammary glands. You cannot

prescribe for that unless you have something along with it, and I am

sure you will recognize a Chamomilla patient. The woman goes into

convulsions. At the beginning of the confinement the husband comes

into the room in some snappish way, “to make his wife behave herself it makes her mad, and she goes into convulsions. The doctor,

perhaps, has just turned his back upon it, but now he says, “Well,

why did I not think to give this woman a dose of Chamomilla? If I

had done that I would have prevented these convulsions.” She becomes

very philosophical after a dose of Chamomilla, and often goes to sleep.

There are many suffocative attacks and difficulties of breathing, inflammation of the larynx, etc., that you can read up easily. The cough

of Chamomilla has some striking things in it. It is a hard cough, a

dry, hacking cough. The child goes to sleep at night and coughs and

does not wake up. Coughs in its sleep. It is a little feverish has

taken cold, and one side of the face is flushed. It is crabbed when it is

awake. The child becomes angry when it has a cold and a little cough,

and a little disturbance of the larynx and bronchial tubes has been

noticed coming on, and all at once it becomes more excitable, wants to

be carried, and if not pleased, or is angered, it will go into a hard

coughing spell, and cough and vomit. “Coughing spells from anger.”

That is, he coughs when there is already a cold or a cough, and if the

patient becomes angry he has a fit of coughing. The coughing complaints, and chest complaints, and laryngeal complaints are generally

worse at night. The feverish condition comes on at night with the

Chamomilla colds, with the Chamomilla whooping cough, with the

Chamomilla chest complaints. Most of the complaints of Chamomilla

are better after midnight. From 9 o’clock to midnight they are worse.

“6ry cough worse at night and during sleep,” Dry cough from catching cold. Rough, scraping cough of children in winter, with tickling in

suprasternal fossa, worse at night. Dry cough, continuing during

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sleep. Amelioration of cough when getting warm in bed. Chamomilla is a very common remedy in whooping cough, where the child

wants to be carried ; keeps the nurse busy all the time. Coughs and

gags and vomits, and it is very irritable and srapricious in all of its

wants and coughs during sleep.

You can now easily detect the chest symptoms. They go with the

mental symptoms and the irritability and cough. The cough in the

chest is scarcely different from the cough in the larynx and the cough

from cold, ft is the same Chamomilla cough. Cough during sleep.

During most of the complaints, fevers, colds, acute complaints and

little attacks, burning of the extremities. Stitching pains in the limbs.

Cramping in the muscles. Limbs go to sleep. With the pains in the

limbs, and sometimes in other parts, but particularly in the limbs, a

benumbed feeling, or pains with the feeling of deadness, pains accompanied by a benumbed feeling, sometimes almost complete loss of sensation of the skin, yet the pains in the long nerves, in the extremities

are very violent, and the patient seems just as sensitive to pain as at

other times. Extremely sensitive to pain, but the pains themselves

cause a benumbing feeling to follow them. It has been called in older

• ▸books a paralyzing pain.
• ▸Convulsions of the extremities.
• ▸Convulsions of the whole body.
• ▸‘‘Cramps in the legs and calves.
• ▸Tearing

pains in the feet following a severe chill. Burning of the soles at night ,

puts the feet out of bed.'* All the routine prcscribers whenever the

patient is known to put the feet out ;of bed give Sulphur, yet there is a

large list of remedies with hot feet^ burning soles, and all of them will

put the feet out of bed, of course, to cool them off. There is no reason

why they should all get Sulphur.

Another feature of the pains that come on at night, sometimes before

ntidnight is, they arc so violent that he cannot keep still. When the

child has pains he wants to be carried, that seems to do him good.

When the adult has pains at night in bed he gets up and walks the

floor. Benumbing pains, pains ameliorated by heat, pains that drive

• ▸him out of bed at night, with twitchings of the limbs.
• ▸Oversensitiveness to pain.
• ▸Great irritability.
• ▸The Chamomilla patient can not go

• ▸to sleep at night.
• ▸He is sleepy, like Bell.
• ▸, but he cannot sleep.
• ▸If he

quiets down during the day he wants to go to sleep. But as soon as

the time comes to go to bed he is wdde awake, he is sleepless and restless at night, especially the fore part. At times the Chamomilla patient becomes so full of visions and so much excited during the fore

part of the night in his efforts to go to sleep that when he docs go 10

sleep he jerks and twitches and has horrid dreams, and is full of

sufferings. “Anxious dreams. Sees horrible apparitions and starts :

dreams about fatal accidents.'’ Worn out mentally from trying to go

to sleep, and he is tired out.

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thumbs ; bend the body backwards. Such is the natural appearance ol

the Chamomilla convulsions ; those convulsions that come on in oversensitive children, when they have suffered a good deal of pain from

teething. Teething ought to be a perfectly healthy process, but it is

really looked upon as a disease, and many doctors carry medicines for

‘'teething children,'' and administer them ; first one and then another.

Chamomilla has fallen into that bad use of being given “for teething',’

It is true that many children suffer from irritability of the brain, convulsions, stomach disorders and vomiting about the time of dentition,

but I say dentition should not be a diseased state, it should be normal.

If they were in healthy they would cut teeth without sufferings. Bin

slow teething we have to contend with, and that irritable state, that

oversensitiveness, so that he child does not sleep Wakes up as if it

had awful dreams. Wakes up in excitement, vomits, has diarrhex^a with

teething. These symptoms come at this time when the child has not

• ▸been properly looked after.
• ▸Or perhaps the mother has not been properly qualified for parturition.
• ▸“Tetanic convulsions.
• ▸Twitching in

• ▸the eyelids.
• ▸Pain in the limbs.
• ▸General prostration, faintness.
• ▸‘

Neuralgic pains all over the body with numbness. Twitching, darting,

• ▸tingling pains.
• ▸The pains are mostly ameliorated by heat, with the exception of the teeth and jaws.
• ▸Toothache, pain in the teth ameliorated by cold, and made worse by heat.
• ▸But the earaches and pains in the

extremities are made better by heat.

You will see in the text under ‘^Temperature and Weather” the

symptom “Pains are worse from heaf,'^ with two black bars as if it

were the most important symptom in it, and then below, without any

bar. “Sensitive to cold. Chilly," and “Better from heat but the fact

is the pains that are w'orsc from heat are about the teeth and jaws, and

it is decidedly a particular symptom relating only to a part ; whereas

it is true that the patient in the general state, entirely contrary to

Avhat this says, is better by heat. The pains in general are better by

heat. The patient himself is better by heat. Consequently, this being

a particular, it should state that the pains that are so commonly worse

by heat arc of the teeth.

The most important part of Chamomilla is the mental state. It per^

vades the whole economy and you will see that every region that is

taken up, every part that is studied, brings into it the mental state of

the patient. This remedy has more mental symptoms than symptoms

• ▸in any other part.
• ▸Crying.
• ▸“Piteous moaning.
• ▸Irritable.
• ▸" The irritability is so great that it manifests itself sometimes in a very singular

way. The patient seems to be driven to frenzy by the pains, and she

forgets all about her prudence and her diplomacy. Loss of generosity ;

she has no consideration for the feelings of others. She will simply

enter into a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of anybody.

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So, when you go into practice, do not be surprised when you go to

the bedside of a patient in labor, who is full of pains and sufferings,

if she says: ‘'Doctor, I don’t want you, get out.” Just such an one

will pass under other circumstances as a lady. The awful pains that

she is having drive her to frenzy, and this frenzy, this oversensitiveness to pain, is coupled with the mental state. Inability to control her

temper, and the temper is aroused to white heat. Now, in the child, the

child whines and cries and sputters about everything. It wants something new every minute. It refuses everything that it has asked for.

If it is for something to eai, for something to play with, for its toys,

when these are handed to the child it throws them away ; slings them

clear across the room. Strikes the nurse in the face for presuming to

get something or other that the little one did not want, yet had asked

for. Capriciousness. It seems that the pains and sufferings are sometimes ameliorated by passive motion, this very particularly in children.

The pains seem to be better when the child is carried, so the child wants

to be carried all the time. This is true in the colic and in the bowel

troubles. It is true with earache ; it is true w'ith the evening fevers,

and the general sufferings from cold and conditions while teething.

Children must be carried. The nurse is compelled to carry the child all

the time. And then there is the restlessness and capriciousness about

the members of the family. The child goes two or three times up and

down the room with the nurse, and then reaches out for its mother ;

goes two or three times up and dowm the room with her and then

wants to go to its father. And so it is changing about. Never satisfied.

It seems to have no peace. When it has earache the sharp shooting

• ▸pains cause the child to screech out.
• ▸C!
• ▸arrics the hand to the ear.
• ▸The

pains often cause that sharp, piercing tone of the voice. Adults in

pain cannot keep still the pains are so severe ; it is not always that

they are decidedly ameliorated by moving, but they seem to be. But

they move because they cannot keep still. So the Chamomilla patient

is tossing in bed, if in bed ; not an instant quiet. And along with all of

these the same irritability ; becomes violently excited at the pain ;

angry at the pain ; irritable about the pain ; will scold about the pain ;

the pain is so torturesomc. Aversion to talk, and snappish. The

patient is constantly sitting and looking within herself when pains are

absent.

Chamomilla has melancholy, and has suffering of the mind, without

pain. Then the Chamomilla patient sits and thinks within herself —

a sort of introspectioh. Cannot be induced to say a word. Sadness.

The Chamomilla child cannot be touched. Wants to do as he pleases.

Wants to change ; wants to do something new. The answer from both

• ▸the adult and the child are snappish.
• ▸Complaints come on from contradiction ; from anger.
• ▸Convulsions come on from anger.
• ▸If the

chamomilla

child is suffering from whooping cough it will have a coughing spell, a

spasmodic cough from being irritated. Goes into a spunky state, gets

• ▸red in the face, and then gets to coughing.
• ▸Peevishness.
• ▸“Quarrelsome.
• ▸Easily chagrined or excited to anger.
• ▸Bad effects of having the

feelings wounded.’* Such is the mental state, and, as I have remarked,

that mental state will be found wherever there is an innaminatory

condition that Chamomilla fits. In pneumonia, in bronchitis, laryngitis,

inflammations of the ear, erysipelas, headaches, fevers, Chamomilla is

capable of curing when the mental state is present, and the symptoms,

in particular, are present.

• ▸The headaches of Chamomilla are found in scnsiti\e people, sensitive women.
• ▸Nervous ; overstrained ; overtired.
• ▸Fidgety.
• ▸Excitable

women that suffer from pain. A little headache seems an enormous

thing. Throbbing, tearing, bursting pains. Congestive licadaches.

Worse when thinking of tlie pain, or when thinking about the sufferings. The headaches are worse evenings. A partu ular time in the

evening for many complaints to he worse is 9 o*clock. Sometimes 9

o’clock in the morning, and sometimes 9 in the evening. Fever condition worse 9 o’clock in the morning. Pains worse in the cnening, and

especially worse about 9 o’clock. Stitching, tearing pains in the temples

and head. Wandering pains in the temples. Pressing pain in the

head as soon as attention was directed to it, better by busying the

mind at something else, or by occupation ; forcing one’s self to do

something, and to think of something else. Congestion to the head.

Violent neuralgia of the face, teerh^ jear, sides of the head. Pains inside of the mouth are ameliorated by cold. Pains of the ear and sides

of the head are ameliorated by heat ; earache ameliorated by heat.

There arc pains in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes with bleeding.

Oozing of a bloody water from the eyes of the new born infant.

Chamomilla will cure if there is irritability of the temper. Profuse

acrid discharges ; yellow discharges ; discharges of purulent matter

• ▸from the eyes.
• ▸Violent pressure in the orbit.
• ▸Lachrymation accompanying coryza with sneezing.
• ▸Stuffing up of the nose.
• ▸Headaches,

irritability. Associated with the above is a symptom : “Face red and

hot on one side, the other side pale.” Like the whole constitution of

the remedy there is a great sensitiveness of hearing. Roaring, ringing

and singing in the ears. Stitching pains in the cars, ameliorated by

heat. Pressing earache. You will see the little one when the pain

comes on put its hands up to its ears, and spitefully moaning, yelling

and screaming. Violent pains in the ear. When old enough to talk

about it will complain of heat in the car, and a feeling of fulness as if

the ear were obstructed or stuffed up. In adults, nervous, sensitive

women who cannot ride in the wind without covering up their ears.

The ears are so sensitive to air when other parts of the face and head

are not sensitive to air. You will find some patients that call not have

air touch the neck. Others have extra covering between the shoulders.

Chamomilla singles out the ears. The whole body is sensitive to air

and to cold, and he wants to dress with plenty of covering.

Sneezing, watery coryza. Hot face on one side, and often with pains

in the head and jaws. Fluent coryza, viscid, acrid, with loss of smell.

Loss of smell lasting v hilc the cold lasts.

Rending pains in the face, sometimes involving the teeth and the

outer face at the same time. It is not an uncommon thing to have a

very sensitive woman if she is disturbed by chagrin, if she has been

vexed by her servant, to go to her room and suffer tortures from pain

in the face from that excitement, from anger. If it is the outer nerves

in the face the pains will be ameliorated by heat ; but when it affects

the teeth the pains will be ameliorated by cold. Heat of the face,

while the rest of the body is cold. “The face sweats after eating or

drinking.” It is a common feature of this remedy to sweat only about

the head, the hairy scalp. Sometimes during measles or scarlet fever

we will have Chamomilla manifestations. Sweating about the head,

face red on one side. “One-sided swelling of the check that is, an

inflammatory attack, gets redder, and redder, and finally purple, going

into erysipelas, with the mental symptoms. Hot face, redness of one

• ▸side.
• ▸Burning in the face.
• ▸Neuralgia of the face.
• ▸If anything warm

is taken into the mouth it will bring on aching in the teeth, and sometimes burning and throbbing in the roots of the teeth ; tearing, stiching,

stinging pains, aggra\ ated by talking ; aggravated in the open air ; aggravated in a warm room, or getting warm in bed, anything that heats

up the body will aggravate this toothache ; ameliorated by holding cold

drinks in the mouth. Toothache that is entirely absent in the daytime ; as soon as it comes night, and the patient gets into the warm bed,

• ▸then these shooting, tearing pains begin ; with the irritability, oversensitiveness to pain, the mental state, hot head, you have the Chamomilla toothache.
• ▸‘^Swelling and inflammation of the gums.
• ▸Threatened abscess of the gums.
• ▸Toothache when coming into a warm room,”

when it has been better in the cold air. This toothache is one that

may be brought on by taking cold, by exposing one's self to cold air

when sweating ; and yet the toothache itself when present is ameliorated by cold. “Toothache from a draft of air.” “Ameliorated from

eating cold things. Worse before midnight.” The most of the troubles

of Chamomilla that come on in the evening and night subside about or

sometimes before midnight. From midnight to morning almost all of

the complaints of Chamomilla are absent. Many of them are absent

during the day. It has aggravation in the fore-pan of the night.

“Teeth feel too long. Swollen gums.” The Chamomilla infant will

often hold a glass of cold water against the gums. The little one has

inflamed gums, painful gums, the coming forth of the teeth is painful,

and it seems to want to prolong the cold in the mouth ; when it is so

young you would not think it would realize the good of making use of

the cold edge of the glass. Offensive foetid smell from the mouth.

The spasms that affect the child all over arc likely to affect the

larynx, and sometimes affect the larynx without affecting the child

anywhere else. “Spasms of the larynx during cough, or without

• ▸cough.
• ▸Spasmodic constriction of the larynx.
• ▸Choking.
• ▸Spasms of

the throat. Sore and inflamed.” Chamomilla cures sore throat when

the throat is of a uniform redness, spreading pretty evenly over the

whole throat, with considerable swelling. Inflammation of tonsils.

Much redness ; when the mental state is present. It will never cure a

sore throat except in these irritable constitutions, such as suffer from

pain, such as arc easily angered, in a constant fret. The Chamomilla

mental state determines w'hen you are to give Chamomilla in sore

throat.

"Want of appetite. Great thirst for cold water and desire for acid

drinks. Unquenchable thirst.” Aversion to coffee, warm drinks, to

soups and liquid foods. The aversion to coffee is a strange thing.

Chamomilla and coffee are very much alike in the general sensitivity

of the economy. They antidote each other. When persons have been

overdrinking coffee, nurses drinking coffee to keep up at night to take

care of the patient ; persons overdrinking coffee when tired and overworked. Chamomilla is its antidote. “Thirsty, and hot with the

pains.” When the pains come, no matter where, she heats up, and

sometimes becomes really feverish. Fare red, especially on one side.

Head hot : extreme irritability.

Chamomilla has much vomiting. Eructations of gas which smells

• ▸like sulphuretted hydrogen.
• ▸The Chamomilla patient has violent retching.
• ▸Making violent efforts to vomit.
• ▸Seems that it will tear the

• ▸stomach.
• ▸Covered with cold sw'eat.
• ▸Exhausted.
• ▸That is just what

Morphine does. If you have ever seen a patient who has been overdosed by a doctor — I hope that you will ne\er sec one that has been

overdosed by yourself. Do not make a case, you will have one soon

enough — ^but if you get into a town where there is an allopathic physician, and he happens to give Morphine to one of these oversensitive

patients ; it may relieve her pain for a little while, but on will come the

awful eructations, and she will retch and vomit, and continue to retch

when there is nothing to vomit. Chamomilla will stop that, the first

dose, in a few minutes, and it is the only remedy you will need. It

will always stop the vomiting from Morphine after the crude effect of

Morphine has passed away and the vomiting comes.

Colic, especially in the little ones, in the infants. Pain in the stomach

and abdomen. The child doubles up, and screams, and kicks ; wants to

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be carried ; is extremely irritable ; attack comes on in the evening ; one

side of the face red, the other side pale ; wants things, and when they

are given docs not want them ; and you have a Chamomilla colic. It is a

wind colic. It lasts a fraction of a minute, and then it straightens out

again. It shows that it is a cramp, a wind-cramp. In adults, who have

felt these wsymptoins, they arc said to be cutting, burning, griping.

Griping pains. Of course, such are the pains that are called colicky.

Cramps in the bowels. Griping pains. Sometimes griping as if must

• ▸go to stool.
• ▸The abdomen distended like a drum.
• ▸Sometimes ameliorated by warm applications.
• ▸“Colic while urinating that is an uncommon symptom.
• ▸“Colic in the morning.
• ▸Tympanitic abdomen.
• ▸”

The most striking Chamomilla stool is ^rass greeti, or like chopped

eggs, or like these two chopped up ; yellow and white, intermingled

with mucus that is grass green, like chopped grass ; chopped spinach.

Greenish, slimy discharges, greenish water. Those old enough to express themselves in the proving said that the stool felt hot while it

passed. It smells like sulphuretted hydrogen. Copious stool ; scanty

• ▸stool, with dysenteric straining.
• ▸Watery diarrhma, six or eight passages daily.
• ▸Mucous diarrhoea.
• ▸Green, watery stool, feces and mucus.

'‘Yellowish brown stool.” Also constipation, with no ability to strain.

A paralytic weakness of the rectum ; inactivity of the rectum. Anus is

“pouting,” with swollen appearance and redness.

Cracking in joints, with pain in them as if bruised.—Pain in periosteum of limbs

with paralytic weakness.—Convulsive single jerks in limbs.—AlI joints sore as if bruised and tired

out; there is no power in hands or feet, though without corresponding weariness.