Aconite [Acon]
Nervous erethism, constant restlessness; the child gnaws at its fingers for fists, or something else, cries, whines, or frets much of the time; restless sleep, much heat about head, sometimes with cold hands and feet; constipation or diarrhoea; great thirst, the child tries to cool its gums with the cold water, or with cool glass.
AEthusa-cyn [Aeth]
Convulsions from teething, lies unconscious, dilated pupils; staring eyes, eyeballs turned downward, thumbs and fingers bent inward, cold limbs and body convulsed, abdomen bloated; pulse small, frequent and hard.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Tongue white, much vomiting, no thirst; stools composed of hard lumps and watery secretions, passing together.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Flabby children, when there are cerebral symptoms, child screams out sharply and suddenly during sleep, especially at night; urine scanty, sometimes more profuse; red spots over skin, causing itching and restlessness, worse at night; the gum covering the teeth may have the appearance of a sac containing water.
Arsenicum-album [Ars]
Child thin, pale, acrid, restless; looks weak and waxen; bad, undigested, foetid stools; dry, shrivelled skin, and is particularly restless after midnight; vomiting of all fluids soon after swallowing them, especially water; a sip or two of cold water very often; GUM OVER TOOTH LOOKS BLISTERED OR SEEMS FILLED WITH A DARK, WATERY FLUID; dry, scaly milk-crust; strikes its head or face for relief.
Belladonna [Bell]
Active children, groaning and moaning gives them partial relief; violent starting and jumping, whilst sleeping or waking, with fright; pupils and heat of head; skin hot, burning; stool; NUMEROUS TURGID BLOOD VESSELS IN CONGESTED GUMS.
Borax [Bor]
Child afraid of a downward forward motion, even in sleep; great sensitiveness to least noise; starting and crying out during sleep, wants to hold on to something, as if afraid of falling; stools watery; yellow, green or grown; APHTHOUS CONDITION OF GUMS and so sensitive as to shriek from the least touch, even of the nipple, when hungry.
Bryonia [Bry]
Dry, parched lips, dry mouth and constipation; stools dark and dry, as if burnt (all secretions diminished); child wants to be quiet and dreads motion; if raised up it vomits and feels faint; vomits its food unchanged, soon after taking it (AEth.); likes cold water best; SWOLLEN GUMS HOT AND DRY THOUGH PALE OR LIGHT RED.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Dry mouth alternating with salivation; dentition tardy, often attended with convulsions and a loose rattling cough; continued thirst for cold drinks, more at night; desire for wine, salt and sweet things; canine hunger in the morning; LONGING FOR EGGS; painful and difficult urination, urine usually clear and of a pungent odor, abdomen large, hard and swollen; stools large, hard, chalky or thin and whitish; soft and flabby muscles; feet cold and damp; sleepless after 3 A.M.; child sweats easily and takes cold. When the teeth come early the fontanelles will close late, and vice versa; scrofulous ophthalmia with pustules on cornea.
Calcarea-phos [Calc-p]
Peevish and fretful; fontanelles still open or had been closed and opened against, most on vertex; cold sweat on face; body cold; head totters; the neck too slender to support the head, which falls from side to side; veins show through the skin; squinting as if from pressure; eyes somewhat protruding; during dentition flatulent diarrhoea; greenish, thin stools; children refuse to nurse or want to nurse all the time, crave salt and smoked meat, ham, bacon; THEY LOSE FLESH AND ARE BACKWARD IN TEETHING, STANDING OR WALKING; skull soft and thin, like paper, crepitating on pressure; convulsive starts when lying on back, ceasing when lying on side.
Causticum [Caust]
Children with delicate skin, when, during the evolution of a group of teeth, intertrigo appears, with occasional convulsions; prolonged constipation; stools tough, covered with mucus, and shine like grease; yellowish, sickly looking tint, ravenous hunger, takes its food hurriedly, frequent belching up of watery portion of its nourishment; SUPPURATION OF SWOLLEN GUMS; SEVERAL TEETH WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH TOGETHER.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Peripheral hyperaesthesia, starting, and jumping during sleep; when awake it must be carried around to soothe its sufferings; one cheek red, the other pale; watery slimy diarrhoea, or like chopped eggs and spinach and smelling like rotten eggs, or obstinate constipation; dry, hacking cough, very thirsty, likes to hold its mouth in cold water a long time when drinking; very little appetite and frequent vomiting of thin, sour milk; sleeplessness; GUMS RED AND TENDER; wants to be carried in open air.
Cicuta-vir [Cic]
Grinding together of the teeth, which are through, with pressing of jaws together like lockjaw; severe convulsions with limbs relaxed and hanging down, or unnaturally stiffened and extended; child wants to sleep, but starts; great agitation; child grasps nurse in a frightened manner.
Cina [Cina]
Excessive peevishness, wants everything and pushes it away when offered, does not like to be spoken to or touched; restless in his sleep, wants to be rocked; unusual hunger, cries out from colicky pains and cries for water; rubs its nose; hacking cough followed immediately by an effort of swallowing; milky white (phosphatic) urine; watery diarrhoea, containing lumps of white or green mucus, looking like parched corn; dilated pupils; pulse not accelerated, but respiration diminished.
Coffea [Coff]
Child very excitable and sleepless, it seems as if it could not sleep; frets and worries in an innocent manner, IS NOT CROSS BUT SLEEPLESS; laughs one moment and cries the next; feverish for want of sleep, which cannot obtain. (Opium after the failure of Coffea)
Colchicum [Colch]
Convulsions during teething, reflex from abdominal irritation; stools changeable, variegated, slimy, faecal, acrid or sour; starting and jerking in sleep, or wakened by frightful dreams; grinding of teeth, rolling of head.
Colocynthis [Coloc]
Much colic, forcing child to double up, with writhing and twisting; stools watery, frothy or bloody; colic relieved by pressing hard upon abdomen.
Cuprum-acet [Cupr-acet]
Dryness of mouth, with colicky pains in bowels; convulsions; beginning with cramps in lower extremities and drawing in fingers and toes, with much throwing about of the limbs; frothing at the mouth and choking in throat; spasms preceded by violent vomiting of mucus; after one spasms the child screams, turns and twists till another spasm occurs; green, bloody, painful stools.
Cuprum-met [Cupr]
Dryness of mouth, with colicky pains in bowels; convulsions; beginning with cramps in lower extremities and drawing in fingers and toes, with much throwing about of the limbs; frothing at the mouth and choking in throat; spasms preceded by violent vomiting of mucus; after one spasms the child screams, turns and twists till another spasm occurs; green, bloody, painful stools.
Dolichos-pruriens [Dol]
Gums itch and are relieved by rubbing; soreness and tenderness of gums; constipation; dry, tettery eruptions. In feverish dentition give a dose of Aconite, before Dol., or convulsions may set in.
Dulcamara [Dulc]
All teething troubles increased by damp old weather, though the child is not exposed to it, and rests snugly in its cradle; diarrhoea, salivation.
Ferrum [Ferr]
PERSISTENT DIARRHOEA THE RESULT OF TEETHING; stools composed of mucus and undigested food, sometimes excoriating and exhausting, though painless; face flushed with red spot on cheeks; vomiting soon after taking food; SLOW DENTITION.
Ferrum-phos [Ferr-p]
Fever and spasms during dentition, eyes inflamed, with hot cheeks, (<) by warmth, (>) by cold drinks; high temperature.
Gelsemium [Gels]
Fever during dentition; child frantic, awakens with fierce and sudden screams; face deep red; fontanelle pulsate too strongly; pain about ear; will not allow his gums to be examined, they are swollen and tender; excessive irritability of mind and body; sleeplessness, twitching of muscles; no thirst.
Graphites [Graph]
Swelling of gums, which BLEED READILY WHEN RUBBING THEM; oozing of clear, glutinous, watery fluid behind the ears, on face, scalp, leaving a raw surface, (<) at the evolution of each group of teeth; constipation, or large difficult stool.
Helleborus [Hell]
CONSTANT CRAVING FOR MEAT; child keeps up chewing motion during sleep, grinds its teeth, rolls head during sleep; dilated pupils, drowsiness; stools white and jelly-like; ringworms.
Hepar [Hep]
Dry, herpetic eruption in bend of joints, greatly itching; whitish, sour-smelling diarrhoea, (>) with every cutting of teeth; GUMS ULCERATED, TENDER AND PAINFUL; traumatic cerebritis.
Hyoscyamus [Hyos]
Pressing of gums together, putting hands to jaws, fingers into mouth; difficulty in swallowing; convulsions, beginning with twitchings of muscles of face, especially about eyes; dilatation of pupils; dark-coloured, bloated appearance of face, and deep sleep after the spasm goes off.
Ignatia [Ign]
Child awakens from sleep with piercing cries and trembles all over; convulsive jerks of single parts; frequent of heat, with perspiration, spasms return ar the same hours daily, with trembling all over; spasms with cries or involuntary laughter; mucous or bloody stools; often with undue exertion and prolapsus of rectum; sighing and sobbing continue long after the crying; spasms glottidis.