CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS



BACK

Stinging pain in the back. Lacerating in the back. Drawing pain in the back. Contractive sensation in the spine. Pain in the small of the back specially in the night. The small of the back feels bruised. A sort of furious labor-pains from the small of the back in to the thighs, a drawing pain, with lameness. Painful stiffness in the loins, after sitting. Intolerable pain in the loins and hip-joint, in the night, when lying on the opposite side. Lacerating pain in the region of the clavicle and throat. Drawing pain in thee scapulae, chest, and hands, as if from a cold.

ARMS

Uninterrupted, fin, painful pressure in the ligaments and periosteum of the arm, from the shoulder to the fingers. When sizing anything with the hand, the arm feels stiff, as if it would go to sleep. Drawing, paralytic pain in the elbows and hands. Nocturnal pains with lameness. Burning pain in the hand, afternoon. The hands are cold; paralytic stiffness in the hands, with gloominess of the head; sensitive to the open air. Swelling of the palms of the hands. Convulsive twitchings of the fingers.

LEGS

Lacerating pain in the thighs and legs. Paralytic stiffness, with weakness, in the thigh. Excessive pain in the thigh, when rising from a seat, or when stretching, thee legs. Transitory pain as if bruised, in thee thighs. Drawing rheumatic pains, at night, with lameness and numbness, and relief by external warmth. Lameness, with drawing extending into thee thigh, particularly at night. Coxagra. Drawing pain. Sensation in the legs as if they would go to sleep. Cramp in the calves. Nightly paralytic weakness of the feet. The feet feel lame. Lacerating pain in the feet. Burning of the soles, in the night. Burning and itching in the feet, as if they had been frozen. Sudden swelling of one foot and of the sole.

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.