Homeopathy Remedy Chamomilla


Chamomilla homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Chamomilla …


      A tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant of Matricaria Chamomilla, Linn., when in flower.

General Action

      It belongs to the catarrhal group, affecting all mucous membranes. Its rheumatoid or neuralgic pains are noteworthy (compare its botanical relatives, Arnica and Gnaphalium). Its action on the emotional sphere is, however, most characteristic and serves to indicate the remedy in a greater number of complaints than its general symptomatology might suggest.

Allies.- Pulsatilla, Sulphur, Aconite, Natrum mur.; also Arnica, Gnaphal. and Tanacet.

Generalities

      Sitting stiff like a statue, noticing nothing; the child becomes stiff, bends backward, stamps on the nurse’s arm, screams and throws everything off. Convulsions in children, now one leg, now the other is moved up and down, grasping for something, mouth drawn back and forth, eyes starting (Tanacet.). Twitching of limbs and eyelids; of limbs and head in morning nap. Tossing about, with heat and redness of cheeks, confused talk and open eyes. Starting. Stretching. The child will neither stand nor walk, and cries piteously; will always lie, does not wish to be carried.

Stitches in various parts, (<) joints; jumping from place to place (Pulsatilla), (<) knees and ankles, (>) motion; in joints, along bones and in muscles, in latter with jerking and tearing; or drawing pains, in r. then l. leg, extending into ankles and dorsa of feet, then again in r. shoulder, on hips or l. half of head. Tearing here and there; T. in attacks in evening. Pains seem intolerable. Pains (<) eructation; at night, (>) warm compresses; (at night, (>) sitting up in bed); (<) neck, throat and occiput, when standing long and keeping body in one position; composed of itching and sticking, in spots, now in one part, now in another, (<) scratching. Bruised pain in stormy weather. Drawing pain in all bones, even in occiput; in head, now in shoulder-joint and hip- joint, now in lower limbs; in scapulae, chest and bands, as from taking cold. Oppression; on moving; in mornings, with irritability. Feeling of impending illness. Uneasiness; anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing in abdomen (Aconite); cannot remain in bed.

Weakness; in morning; during rest; when the pain begins; (>) motion, with inability for earnest thought; in attacks, (<) limbs; sudden, while sitting and walking, (<) knees, with cracking of knees; faintlike; faintlike, after breakfast; paralytic, of painful parts, (>) walking, the pains (<) sitting or lying, (<) parts at rest or tensely drawn, for instance, in wrist when writing. Faintness; and sicken, sinking about heart, sudden paralyzed feeling in leg, pain in all limbs as if beaten (compare Tanac.). Paralyzed feeling in parts when pains had ceased; the paralytic feeling in any part in always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and the drawing or tearing pains rarely occur without the paralytic or numb sensation in the part (see Tanacet). Stiffness. Aggravation on r. side; of all symptoms by walking. Amelioration when walking; during midday heat; by sweat.

Clinical Rheumatism and rheumatoid pains, the pains make the patient wild and about in distress. Convulsions in children brought on by excitement, especially with one cheek red and the other pale, and not sweat.

Mind

      Whining restlessness, the child wants this and that, but when given it he will not have it or pushes it away. Piteous moaning of a child because he cannot have what he wants. The child can only be quiet when carried on the arm. Moans on account of trifling, even imaginary insults; moans with heat of face. Weeping and wailing. Talking strangely at night while awake and sitting up in bed. Peevishness (Pulsatilla, Ant-cr.); about everything, with dyspnoea; about pains, especially those which involved joints and extended along bones, as paralytic and drawing pains; in morning on rising, with disinclination on mental labor; on appearance of menses, with obstinacy even to quarreling; after dinner; the hypochondriac whims and peevishness seem to him to depend upon stupidity and heaviness of head and constipation. Impatience (Ignatia); everything goes too slowly. Intolerance of being spoken to or interrupted, (<) after rising from sleep, with sluggish pupils. Reserved. Taciturn; and earnest, reconciled to his fate, about which he is deeply affected (later action). Talks with aversion, in a short, abrupt way. Cannot stop talking about old vexations. Quarrelsome. Suspicious that he may been insulted. Inclined to scold. Gloomy. Anxiety (Aconite); in bed, with rapidly changing pupils; while urinating, without mechanical hindrance; with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in bladder; and dissatisfaction with everything that she undertakes, irresolution, with flushes of heat in face and cool sweat in palms; with uneasiness; with trembling and palpitation; as if he must go to stool. Apprehension. Dread of wind; of work. (Conscientious scruples about everything.)

Excitement; and confusion. Joyless Dullness of senses, with ineffectual desire to sleep. Waking stupefied slumber or inability to open eyes, quick expiration, tearing in forehead and nausea. Omission of words when writing or speaking. Stammering, mistakes in speaking. Vanishing of thought; in afternoon. Inattention. Ideas fixed (later action). Stupefaction, with vertigo; with compression of brain. Comprehends nothing alright, as if deaf or in a waking dream. Misunderstands questions, answers incorrectly, with a subdued voice, as if delirious. Exhaustion; in evening. Indolence; in morning. At right it seems as if he heard voices of absent persons. Mistakes a familiar person for a different (larger) one, while overpowered with sleep. Unconsciousness in a child, frequent changes in face, distortion of eyes, contraction of facial muscles, rattling in chest, cough, yawning and stretching.

Clinical The great indications for the use of Chamomilla is to be found in the mental condition of the patient; children are extremely restless and impatient, they want to be petted constantly and carried about, and they cry piteously if they cannot have everything they want; older people are peevish and impatient, extremely sensitive to pain, even the slightest twinge is intolerable, they are always complaining. It is not infrequently indicated in people who have been in the habit of taking opium, bromide of potash, etc. These mental symptoms will call for the drug in a great variety of neuralgias, painful diseases, hysterical symptoms, etc., even if indications other than the preceding are wanting; it, at least, changes the aspect of the case and makes it more amenable to treatment.

Head

      Wagging backward and forward. Inclination to bend backward. Inability to hold erect, necessity to bend far forward or far backward. Stitches; as if eyes would fall out. Tearing at night. Burrowing, (<) forehead and temples. Pressure increasing and decreasing, (<) half of forehead and in r. temple, where there are stitches, which sometimes extend to occiput like electric sparks.

Aching; in morning, (>) when fully awake; in evening; in afternoon, with heaviness and with stitches in temples; (<) r.; after eating; after sitting a long time after mental exertion, with vertigo; even in sleep; after waking, (<) mental effort, especially the pressure in vertex extending to forehead and temples, with sensation as if temples were passed by thumbs; on waking, (<) motion, earnest thought, reading, (<) forehead, with inability to fix attention; (<) evening, with weakness of head; with pressure as from a finger, sometimes in temples, sometimes in lower part of forehead and in frontal eminences, with inclination to bend head backward; with pain in eyeballs and sensation in r. half of head, (<) r. temple, as from an angle pressing into head; mostly one-sided frontal, (>) dinner and eructations, with warmth of head and vertigo; throbbing, as if it would burst, on waking; consisting of heaviness and bruised sensation; confused, when sitting and reflecting; paroxysmal, in morning; periodical, stupefying, in afternoon, beginning with pressure upon vertex, then extending to forehead and temples. Brain feels constricted by meninges; by dura mater, (>) appearance of heat in head and sweat.

Confusion; 5 A.M. on waking, and stupefaction; morning on waking; morning after waking; in morning, with sticking and boring, (<) r. temple; afternoon, with pressure on eyes; afternoon, with paroxysmal sensations in nose; with disinclination to mental labor, which aggravated the headache. Stupefaction; 7 P.M., with vertigo, (<) closing eyes. Fulness. Pulsation. Heaviness; morning on waking; 6 P.M., with pressure and burrowing in temples, (<) r. Congestion; 5 A.M.; (<) mental work, with pressure on vertex. Rush of blood; at noon during the heat, (>) in evening while walking in cool air, with pain; 3 P.M., (>) 7 P.M., by nosebleed, with stitches, and to nose, with full sensation; and to chest; and to chest, on earnest thinking, with stitches in r. chest. Vertigo (Tanac.); in morning; forenoon; after eating (Petrol.); after coffee; on rising after long sitting; while sitting erect; after long stooping and some cough; (on stooping); (after lying down, with dim vision and heat in face); (<) when talking, staggering, in morning on rising; in attacks, with tendency of faint; as if head were too-heavy, with walking after eating; in evening, as if unable to collect his senses; even to faintness.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.