CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS



NOSE

Sore nose; ulcerated nostrils. Bleeding of the nose. Sensitive smell. Obstruction of the nose, with discharge of mucus, fluent coryza.

FACE

Redness and burning heat of the face, particularly of the cheeks, sometimes of only one cheek, with coldness and paleness of the other cheek. Pale, sunken countenance, with features as if distorted by pain. Frequent changes of color in the face. Yellow complexion. Bloatedness of the face. Erysipelas in the face swelling of one side of the cheeks, with hardness, blue- redness, and drawing, beating, and darting pains. Red rash on the cheeks. Convulsive movements and twitchings of the facial muscles and lips. Parched lips. Scurfy ulcerations on the border of the lip.

MOUTH

Putrid or sour smell from thee mouth. Dry mouth and tongue, with thirst. Red tongue, fissured. Thick, white, or yellow coating of the tongue. Stinging vesicles on and under the tongue.

THROAT

Pain in the throat, increased by movement and deglutition. Beating in the throat. Pain as from a plug when swallowing. Stinging and burning in the pharynx. Burning heat in the oesophagus, extending to thee mouth and stomach. Inability to swallow solid food, particularly in a recumbent posture. Sore throat, with swelling of the parotids, or submaxillary glands; inflammation and swelling of the tonsils with dark redness.

JAWS AND TEETH

Swelling of the gums. Looseness of the teeth. Toothache, with swelling of the checks plus Grumbling and creeping in the upper teeth. Grumbling and drawing pain in the jaw. Drawing pain in the teeth. Toothache, as after a cold or suppressed sweat. Toothache when taking warm things into the mouth. The toothache recommences in a warm room. Toothache which is especially violent after warm drinks, especially coffee. Toothache with painful swelling of the gums or the submaxillary glands. Nightly toothache, particularly after getting warm in the bed. Toothache, recurring by starts, with swelling of the cheeks and accumulation of saliva. Drawing toothache, without knowing what tooth is affected, the pain goes off while eating, and is especially violent in the night, the teeth feel elongated. Throbbing, darting, and jerking in the teeth; digging and gnawing in decayed teeth; intolerable toothache, driving one to despair. Burning and painful swelling of the gums. Difficult dentition, with diarrhoea, fever, and convulsions.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Sour taste. Putrid taste in the mouth in the night. Bitter taste in the mouth, early in the morning. Aversion to food. Want of appetite, as if he loathed food. Unnatural hunger, in the evening.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Empty eructations. Sour eructations. The existing pain is aggravated by eructation. Frequent hiccough Fullness during a meal, and nausea afterwards. Repletion of the stomach, after a meal, lasting even until next day; inclination to vomit. Inclination to vomit after breakfast, the whole morning. Distention of the abdomen, after a meal. Nausea after a meal. Inclination to vomit, as if one would faint. Vomiting, without previous eructations. Sour vomiting, also of the food or of slimy substances. Bitter, bilious vomiting. Regurgitation of the ingesta. Vomiting of the ingesta, caused, first, by the repletion of the abdomen, afterwards by intolerable nausea. Acidity in the primae-viae of children. Heat and sweat of the face, after eating or drinking. Pressure in the hypochondria and stomach, after a meal.

STOMACH

Anxious cry on account of a hard, aching, oppressive pain in the pit of the stomach, with profuse sweat. Painful bloatedness of the epigastrium, in the morning, with sensation as if the contents were rising to the chest. Incarceration of flatulence, with pressure upwards, in the hypochondria. Oppression at the stomach, as if a stone were pressing downwards. Aching pain in the stomach, and under the short ribs, oppressing the breathing, especially after taking coffee. Spasms of the stomach, particularly in persons addicted to the use of coffee, or with aching pain, particularly after a meal, or at night, with restlessness and tossing, with either aggravation or amelioration by coffee. Burning in the pit of thee stomach and hypochondria.

ABDOMEN

Aching pain above the umbilicus. Flatulent colic. Continuous, tensive pain in the subcostal region, with tension around the brain. The abdominal muscles feel bruised. Hard distended abdomen. Compressive pain in the abdomen (immediately). Excessive colic. Sensation as if the whole abdomen were hollow, with continual motion in the bowels (with blue rings around the eyes. Colic, more cutting than pinching. Drawing pain in the abdomen. Continual lacerating colic in the side of the abdomen, with sensation as if the parts there were rolled up into a ball. Pain in thee abdomen, as is felt by persons who are costive, when pressing out the stool. Abdominal spasms. Darting in thee abdomen, particularly when coughing, sneezing, or touching the parts. Enteritis. Painful sensitiveness of the abdomen to contact, as if the parts were ulcerated. Peritonitis. Pressing towards the abdominal ring, as if hernia would protrude.

STOOL

Constipation from inactivity of the rectum. Sharp pinching colic, with discharge of light-colored faces. Undigested stools. Hot, diarrhoeic stool, smelling like rotten eggs. Painless, green, watery diarrhoea, a mixture of faces and mucus. Nightly diarrhoea with colic, obliging her to bend double. Diarrhoeic stool, consisting of white mucus, with colic. Diarrhoea during dentition, from cold, from anger and chagrin; corrosive; like mixed eggs. Inflamed varices, with ulcerated rhagades of the anus. Flowing haemorrhoids. Blind haemorrhoids. Itching pain at the anus.

GENITAL ORGANS

Sticking pain in the neck of the bladder between the acts of micturition. Burning in the neck of the bladder, during micturition. Smarting pain in the urethra during micturition. Ineffectual urging with anguish, during micturition, without any mechanical obstacle. Weakened strength of the bladder. Involuntary emission of urine. Urine is hot, yellow, with flocculent sediment; turbid, with yellowish sediment.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS

Itching of the scrotum. Excited sexual desire. Nocturnal emission. Soreness of the border of the prepuce. Itching- stinging pain of the margin of the prepuce.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS

Burning in the vagina, as if excoriated. Yellow corrosive leucorrhoea. Acrid watery leucorrhoea after dinner. Pressure towards the uterus,, like labor-pains, with frequent desire to urinate. Cutting colic, and drawing in the thighs previous to the period. Abdominal spasms before the period. Frequent discharge of coagulated blood, with tearing pains in the veins of the legs and violent labor-pains in the uterus. Drawing, from the small of the back, followed by griping in the uterus, and discharge of large clots of coagulated blood. Metrorrhagia. Metrorrhagia, even of old females. Out of humor, and headstrong even unto quarrelling, at the appearance of the menses. Suppression of the menses, with distention of, and a hard, aching, oppressive pain in the pit of the stomach, accompanied with swelling of the abdomen, labor-like pains, and anasarca. Abdominal spasms of pregnant and nursing females; precursory symptoms of after-pains f miscarriage; violent after-pains; haemorrhage after delivery; puerperal fever; milk fever; suppression of milk; erysipelas of the mammae and soreness of the nipples. Sleeplessness and cries, colic, diarrhoea, soreness of the new-born infants; hard breasts. Induration in the mammae, with drawing-lacerating, and pain to the touch. Scirrhous induration.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

Wheezing, whizzing, and subdued rattling in the trachea. Hoarseness, from tenacious mucus in the larynx. CATARRHAL hoarseness of the trachea, with dryness of the eye-lids. Hoarseness and cough, from rattling mucus in the trachea; the place from which the mucus has been detached feels sore. Burning in thee larynx. Tracheitis. Croup. Catarrhal cough of children, after a cold, or after measles.

CHEST

Burning pain under thee sternum, extending to the mouth. Burning in the chest, with dullness of the head, as if he knew not where he was, with anxiety. The inside of the chest feels bruised. Aching pain under the sternum, oppressing the breathing. Cardialgia. Contraction of the chest. Oppression of the chest. Tensive pain across the chest, when taking an inspiration. Oppression of the chest as from flatulence, which had become incarcerated in the epigastrium, with aching pain; accompanied by pain in thee stomach, as in heartburn; afterwards burning in the spine. Constriction of the upper part of the chest, accompanied with soreness when coughing. Asthma as in suffocative catarrh (constriction of the throat), in the region of the pit of thee throat, with constant desire to cough. Sudden stoppage of the breath in children. Almost uninterrupted titillation under the upper part of the sternum, without the cough being constant. Dry cough, produced by titillation and continual itching in the trachea, about the pit of the throat. Violent dry cough when sleeping. The child becomes angry and coughs. Stitches in the side of the chest, under thee ribs and scapulae, during an inspiration. Prickings in the chest. Stitches through the chest, at every inspiration. Stitches from thee middle of the chest to thee right side, after every inspiration.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.