Likes to hold cold water in mouth for a long time, when drinking, Dentition.
After eating and drinking, heat and sweat of face.
Thirsty and hot with the pains.
Fruitless efforts to vomit.
The pains present are aggravated by eructation.
Pressure in STOMACH, as from a stone pressing down.
Constrictive gastralgia in coffee drinkers.
Colic returns from time to time, flatus accumulates in hypochondria and stitches shoot through chest. Gurgling in side extending into ABDOMEN.
After a meal abdomen becomes distended.
Wind colic, abdomen distended like a drum, wind passes in small quantities without relief: (>) by applying warm cloths.
Children have spasms in consequence of nursing milk vitiated by a fit of anger.
Abdomen tympanitic and sensitive to touch.
A white slimy DIARRHOEA with bellyache.
Green, watery, corroding, with colic, thirst, better taste, and bitter eructations; like chopped or stirred eggs, smelling sour; hot, smelling like rotten eggs; changeable, containing undigested food; mucous and bloody.
A forcing towards inguinal ring, as if that part too weak, and a hernia would come or constipation from inactivity of rectum.
Ulcerating fissures at anus.
MENSTRUAL colic, following anger.
Membranous dysmenorrhoea.
Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with severe labour-like pains.
Drawing from sacral region forward, griping and pinching in uterus, followed by discharge of large clots of blood.
Yellow, smarting leucorrhoea.
Labour pains press upwards; she is hot and thirsty, cross and inclined to scold.
Rigidity of os; scarcely able to endure the pains.
After-pains, very acute and distressing.
Puerperal convulsions after anger; or has one red cheek, the other being pale.
Rash of lying-in women and nursing infants, caused by heat or errors in diet, with watery, greenish, chopped egg diarrhoea, corroding anus.
Mammae hard and tender to touch, with drawing pains, is fretful, sleepless and cross.
Suffocative tightness CHEST, larynx constricted with constant irritation to cough.
Almost uninterrupted tickling irritation to cough under upper part sternum: does not always result in coughing.
Tickling in pit of THROAT, causing dry, scraping cough. Voice hoarse.
Sensation of rawness and scraping in larynx.
Hoarseness from viscid mucus in larynx only brought away by violent hawking.
Suffocative attacks from repercussion of measles eruption, by taking cold.
Needle-like pricks in CHEST; or single severe stitches.
Asthma after a fit of anger.
Scraping, dry cough, caused by tickling in pit of throat, (<) at night, even in sleep, especially with children after taking cold in winter.
Drawing pain in BACK; pain sacrum especially at nights.
ARMS immediately go to sleep, if she grasps anything firmly; she is obliged to let them sink down.
Cracking in joints, especially lower limbs: pains as if bruised.
Cramp in legs and calves.
Burning of soles, at night; puts feet out of bed.
Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, and compel him to walk about.
SLEEPLESS and restless at night.
Child gets relief from being carried.
Oversensitiveness after abuse of coffee or opium.
Child suddenly stiffens body and bends backwards, kicks when carried, screams immoderately and throws everything off. Dentition.
Tremulous starting up; twitches of limbs and eyelids.
Single twitches of limbs and of head during morning nap.
Moaning in sleep. Weeping and howling in sleep. Starts up, cries out. Tosses and talks in sleep.
Sleepy, but cannot sleep.
Pains are aggravated by heat, which relieves abdominal colic.
CHILL and coldness of whole body, with burning heat of face and hot breath.
Feeling of external heat, without actual external heat.
Internal heat with shivering.
Heat and shivering intermingled, mostly with one red and one pale cheek.
In evening, burning cheeks with transient rigor.
Burning heat face which comes out of eyes like fire.
Long-lasting HEAT, with violent thirst and frequent starting in sleep.
Hot and thirsty with the pains.
Fever.
Profuse SWEAT of covered parts. (THUJA of uncovered parts.)
Sweat during sleep, most on head, usually sour smelling.
Sweat, with smarting sensation in skin.
Oversensitiveness of senses, especially if produced by coffee, or narcotics.
Paralytic sensations are always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and drawing or tearing pains rarely occur without paralytic or numb sensation in the part.
Especially helps children newborn and during period of dentition.
Adults, even aged persons with arthritic or rheumatic diathesis.
DR. BOERICKE characterizes Chamomilla thus-
Chamomilla is sensitive; irritable, thirsty, hot and numb. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle contra-indicates Chamomilla.
One would like to add the following, which comes from America, to CHAMOMILLA, our “Drug Picture”.
In the discussion on an interesting paper on Chamomilla, the following delightful and illuminating sidelights flashed out-
DR. FARRINGTON: Many years ago I read a story about Wesselhoeft and Lippe, and when those old boys got together, they had some very good talks on materia medica, and it was too bad that they couldn’t have been recorded or that we couldn’t have listened in. Occasionally they vied with one another and tried to see who used it most.
Old Wesselhoeft thought he has Lippe at a disadvantage He said, “Dr. Lippe, I had a woman patient who got this peculiar symptom: she felt as though she were walking around on the ends of the bones of her legs.* and didn’t have any feet, as though the feet were gone. What remedy did I give her?”
Lippe said, “You gave her de Chamomilla, by Gott.”
Well, about a year ago I went to see a woman of eighty, who complained about her feet, that they hurt her, and her corns “always twinging in the damp weather”, and she said, “The funny thing is that I feel as though I were walking on the ends of the bones of my legs.”
I gave her Chamomilla and it not only removed that sensation, which possibly someone might say is imagination, but it cured her corns.
DR. GRIMMER: I want to relate a case of strychnine poisoning. Shortly after I graduated, I was called in the early hours of the morning to a young lady in the throes of strychnine convulsions. I had no antidotes and couldn’t get any because the drug-stores were locked up. I didn’t even have a stomach pump and wouldn’t have done any good with it if I had, because she had got this by taking strychnine given to her, I think, in 1/12 grains. She had been given a vial and the doctor told her to take two or three for headache, but she kept taking them until she got a big dose.
Her teeth were clenched and her head was drawn back and she was pale, not flushed. I started to ask a few questions and she said through her teeth, “Why don’t you do something? I can’t bear this any longer. Do something!”
Well, I had Chamomilla in the thousandth potency, so I put a powder of Chamomilla on her tongue; and I want to tell you no chemical antidote would bring the results that that did. She soon relaxed, in about five minutes she vomited and a few minutes later she had a call to go the other way, and by morning, except for tremendous soreness from the muscular convulsions, she was all right, but she broke out with a lot of herpetic eruptions around the mouth, which Rhus tox. took care of, as well as the muscular soreness.
Dr. EDWARDS: Dr. Tyrrell said once to me, “When the husband complains of the wife’s cross and irritable, and he can’t get along with her, give him a dose of Chamomilla,” and it has worked. I have done it many times.
