Chamomilla



Head

Intoxication and staggering, on getting up in the morning. 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 o the scalp, Starting pain in the forehead, chiefly after a meal.

Eyes

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 (especially of the lower, which are swollen), with mucous secretion, humour in the eyes and nocturnal agglutination. Yellow colour of the sclerotica. 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.

Ears

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.

Nose

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.

Face

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.

Teeth

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. Affects teeth on left 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 better by dipping finger in cold water and applying it to affected part. Loosening of the teeth. Dentition, with convulsions.

Mouth

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. Aphtha in the mouth. Convulsive movements of the tongue.

Throat

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, especially when lying down. Burning heat in the throat, from the mouth to the stomach. Deep redness of the parts affected.

Appetite

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. Ailments 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.

Stomach

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 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.

Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, as from inertia of the rectum. Diarrhoea during dentition (green mucus). Diarrhoea from cold, from anger, from chagrin. Diarrhoea chiefly at night, with spasmodic colic, mostly with slimy, and whitish or watery, or yellowish and greenish faeces, or mucus mingled with excrement, like eggs when beaten up, or hot corrosive faeces, of a fetid odour, like rotten eggs, or evacuation of undigested substances. Haemorrhoids, with very painful fissures and ulcerations in the anus. Excoriation about anus (intertrigo).

Urinary Organs

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.

Male Sexual Organs.

Itching, stinging pain in the margin of the prepuce. Swelling of prepuce (Sycosis). Excited sexual desire.

Female Sexual Organs.

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 fetus 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 mammae and soreness of the nipples.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Chest

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.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica