A CHAMOMILLA CASE


Though awake she kept silent. Similarly when questioned for the second time there was no answer. To my third question she answered in a snappish way, “Dont talk to me.” So thee was aversion to talk and snappish reply. Nowadays I usually begin treatment of Chamomilla cases with the thirtieth potency of the drug and I think with better results.


(From The Homoeopathic Recorder, August 1921).

MISS ——, aged 8. My daughter. It was in the early days of my practice. Had catarrhal jaundice. There was slow fever with the usual yellow conjunctivae. Without the clear indication of any other medicine I gave Mercurius dulcis 6x. No improvement followed. I do not remember what other medicine I gave, but the patient grew worse. The temperature rose and the yellow discoloration spread to face and other parts of the body.

A week thus passed when one evening on going to her bedside I asked how did she feel. Though awake she kept silent. Similarly when questioned for the second time there was no answer. To my third question she answered in a snappish way, “Dont talk to me.” So thee was aversion to talk and snappish reply. This suggested to me the one medicine that has such a characteristic mental symptom.

But as I am never a key-note prescriber I went over the case again and consulted my books of Materia Medica and found that the medicine suggested by her mental symptom was quite suitable. So I gave her that night Chamomilla 12. The next morning temperature was almost normal. I repeated the medicine twice or thrice and afterwards a dose of Chamomilla 30. The patient completely recovered in a week. Nowadays I usually begin treatment of Chamomilla cases with the thirtieth potency of the drug and I think with better results.

S. C. Bose