CHAMOMILLA


CHAMOMILLA homeopathic remedy signs and symptoms from the Key to the Homeopathic Materia Medica by Alfred Pulford. Find the common uses of CHAMOMILLA…


IDENTIFICATION

      Extremely oversensitive, snappy, cross, peevish and especially uncivil, the reverse of Pulsatilla; children are only stilled by being carried about in the nurse’s arms, the reverse of Bryonia

ESSENTIAL

      Spiteful; sullen or uncivil irritability. Impatient and excitable. Always complaining. Children whine, restless, want this and that which is refused and pushed away when offered; if they cannot have what they want they moan and cry piteously; want to be petted constantly. Extremely sensitive to pain, especially in opium users. Tongue yellow; taste bitter. Thirst. Feverish. Pains are aggravated at night and from heat, and are almost always semi-lateral. Cheek, especially one only, red. Sweat ameliorates the pain; the pains drive one to despair.

COMMENT.

Mind

      Delusion that one hears strange voices, at night; irritable, sends nurse out of room; obstinate, on appearance of menses; quiet, only while being carried, reverse of Bryonia; oversensitive, after coffee. (L): Desire to be carried, slowly: Pulsatilla, rapidly: Arsenicum; aggravation when, and averse to being, spoken to; weeps, also during sleep, quiet only while being carried. Fear of wind, like Thuja. The characteristic mental symptoms dominate all the diseases to which this drug is homoeopathic, whether pathological states appear in the pathogenesis or not. Ought not to be given to those who bear pain with patience and resignation. Chamomilla has a very bad temper, but Nux is malicious; Chamomilla corresponds to the effects of anger, and is almost typical of that state. It corresponds to Nux in temper before and during menorrhagia, but Nux is conscious of it, while Chamomilla is not. Cannot bear to be looked at, like Ant-c., but Ant-c. has a white tongue. Enters into a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of others. Tosses in bed, not quiet an instant. Aversion to talk and snappish; that answers for both adult and child.

Head

      Pressing pain in temples and vertex, aggravation thinking of it; head weak after coffee. Hot sticky sweat on forehead, Veratrum, cold. Pain in head felt during sleep, is tearing, drawing, generally in anterior part, and almost always semilateral.

Eyes

      Flickering vision, while lying. (L): As of heat streaming out of eyes.

Ears

      (L): Rushing, as of water; stitching pain, on stooping. It is classical that with Cepa, Pulsatilla and Chamomilla one can cure a majority of earaches in children; pain amelioration heat.

Face

      Stitching pain in lower jaw, to teeth; sweat, after drinking (L): Heat, after eating and drinking; pain and numbness sweat, after eating. Heat, during chill, that comes out of eyelids like fire. One cheek red, the other pale; Aconite has one cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold, in fever; Mosch. has one cheek pale and hot, the other red and cold.

Mouth

      Putrid taste, at night. Taste sweet, after eating or drinking.

Teeth

      Boring pain, in root. (L): Pain from coffee or pressure. Pain, toward, or into ear, usually one side, aggravation night, cheek swells, aggravation eating or drinking, especially warm drinks, pain draws, tears.

Throat

      Spasms, etc., during anger.

Stomach

      Pressing pain after coffee; vomiting, a opium, or, bitter during chill, or, of mucus a.m., after coffee. (L): Stomach disordered, after vexation; painful eructations; pain, after coffee; thirst, during pain.

Abdomen

      Inflamed liver, after vexation; pain, at sunrise, or, preventing urination, or, in side of abdomen, after coffee. Abdomen distended with wind, tosses about in agony, bends double; Chamomilla more flatulent, Colocynthis more neuralgic. Colic while urinating.

Urinary

      Stitching, stinging pain, in neck of bladder, when not urinating; dragging pain in urethra, like a labor pain, when not urinating; with urging to urinate.

Genitalia

      Uterus inflamed, after anger; metrorrhagia, aggravation lying on back; cramping pain in uterus, after anger. (L): Metrorrhagia, after anger; labor – like pain, during menses. Very valuable in uterine haemorrhage, where the flow is irregular, dark and clotted, or there may be sometimes constant oozing of dark, foul blood with occasional bright gushes, reminding one of Belladonna, but not in the mental symptoms.

Larynx

      Has cured croup, after failure of Aconite and Spongia

Respiratory

      Impeded breathing, after coffee. (L): Asthmatic breathing, after danger, also difficult breathing after anger.

Cough

      Dry cough, during sleep. Should especially be compared with Pulsatilla

Chest

      Milk suppressed, after anger. A weak cup of chamomile tea every night has removed night sweats of phthisis.

Back

      Pain, after coffee. Pain, down inner side of thighs.

Limbs

      Lame, night; forearm numb, on grasping anything; fingers numb, while sitting; pain in elbows, when carrying a weight; stitching pain in ankles, amelioration motion; tearing paralytic pain in lower limbs, and, in foot, after chill; sudden paralysis of foot; forearm stiff, on grasping anything; trembling of legs, on falling asleep.(L): Lies with limbs abducted; numbness of upper limbs, on grasping anything firmly; tearing pain in paralyzed parts; sudden weakness. Pain down inner side of thighs, from back.

Sleep

      Pains felt during sleep. Wide awake when time to go to bed.

Heat

      Heat at midnight, lying on back, with sweat; burning heat, 9 a.m. to noon; chill absent 9 a.m. to 12 noon. (L): Heat forenoon, with chilliness; heat 9 a.m.; heat of fore part of body; sense of heat; remittents, one red, one pale cheek; shudders. Partial heat, often confined to one cheek, with copious sweat on head.

Sweat

      Acrid. copious on covered parts; on affected parts: Ant-t.

Skin

      Painful ulcer, during menses.

General

      Amelioration, coffee; aggravation touching anything; pains drive one out of bed and compel one to walk about; stitches, jump form place to place, leaving sense of weakness and numbness; amelioration after sweat. The Chamomilla babies are aggravation 9 a.m., the Bryonia babies at 9 p.m. Oversensitive from abuse of narcotics and coffee; or, in cases spoiled by opium or morphine, at least as an intercurrent before giving other remedies, gives most brilliant results; it corresponds to the secondary stage of Opi., not at all to the primary, and acts better in low dilutions. Convulsions of children from punishment, like Ignatia, but lacks the sighing of Ignatia Pains amelioration heat, except teeth and jaws. After long continued use of narcotics. Resembles Mag-c., but stools differ. Chamomilla differs from Belladonna to which it is complementary in diseases of children, by acting more on the nerves of the abdomen, while Belladonna acts more on the cranial nerves. It is a peculiarity of Chamomilla pains generally, that they are aggravation at nigh, when they frequently drive one to the border of distraction, not infrequently with unquenchable thirst and redness of cheeks, also with hot sweat on head even in the hair, generally seem intolerable and not to be endured. The paralysis sense caused by Chamomilla in any part is always accompanied by drawing, tearing pain, and the drawing tearing pain rarely occurs without the paralytic or numb sensation in the part.

Alfred Pulford
Alfred Pulford, M.D., M.H.S., F.A.C.T.S. 1863-1948 – American Homeopath and author who carried out provings of new remedies. Author of Key to the Homeopathic Materia Medica, Repertoroy of the Symptoms of Rheumatism, Sciatica etc., Homeopathic Materia Medica of Graphic Drug Pictures.