CHAMOMILLA



Simple pain of all the joints on moving, as if they were stiff and would break (aft. 6 h.).

345. All the joints are painful, as if bruised and beaten; there is no power in the hands and feet, but without proper feeling of fatigue.

All his limbs are painful.

Pain in the periosteum of the limbs with paralytic weakness.

Tearing pain in the limbs, which can only be allayed by perpetually turning about in bed.

Attack of tearing pains in the evening.

350. Single, rare, drawing tearing jerks in the shafts of the bones of the limbs, or in the tendons.

Convulsive, single twitches of the limbs when on the point of falling asleep.

Twitching in the limbs and eyelids.

Single twitchings of the limbs and head in the morning sleep.

Infantile convulsions: alternately first one then the other leg is moved up and down; the child grabs at and tries to get something with its hands, and draws the mouth to and fro, with staring eyes.

355. The child lies as if unconscious, completely devoid of sense, its face is frequently transformed, the eyes distorted, the facial muscles drawn awry; it has rattling in the chest, with much cough; it yawns and stretches much.

General stiffness for a short time.

In the parts whence the pain has departed sensation of paralysis.

Weariness, especially of the feet (aft. 10 h.).

Weakness; she wants to be always seated (aft. 5 h.).

360. Dreads all work.

Greater weakness when resting than when moving; he is strong enough when moving.

The greatest weakness in the morning, which does not allow him to rise from his bed.

After breakfast he feels at first very well, but after a few minutes a faint-like sinking of the strength (aft. 8 h.).

When the pain begins there immediately occurs weakness, so that he feels like to sink down; he must lie down.

365. The child insists on lying down, it will not allow itself to be carried (aft. 2 h.).

The child will not put its foot to the ground nor walk; it weeps piteously (aft. 4 h.).

The greatest weariness and weakness, which borders on fainting (aft. 4 h.).

Fainting fits.

Sinking feeling about the heart.

370. Fainting fits that return sooner or later (aft. 1/2, 3, 4, 5 h.).

A kind of faint: he becomes sick, and has a sinking feeling about the heart; the legs become suddenly as if paralysed, and he has pains in all the limbs as if they had been beaten.

Heaviness of the limbs, yawning and drowsiness all day.

Frequent very violent yawning, without sleepiness, with gay activity (aft. 1 h.).

Frequent, interrupted (ineffectual attempts at) yawning (aft.1/4 h.).

375. By day, drowsiness and laziness.

Drowsiness when eating.

Uncommon sleepiness (aft. 3/4 to 1.5 h.).

When seated by day he feels like to go to sleep, but when he lies down he cannot sleep, but remains awake.

In the morning, in bed, half-open, downward-directed eyes, pupils somewhat dilated, stupefied drowsiness. [Stf.]

380. Nocturnal sleeplessness, accompanied by attacks of anxiety; very vivid visions and fantastic pictures hover before him (aft. 1 to 4 h.).

In the drowsy state of awaking he imagines one about him to be quite another (stouter) person.

At night it seems to him as though he heard the voices of absent persons.

He chatters unintelligibly in his sleep, directing this or that obstacle to be removed.

At night, when awake and sitting up in bed, he talks nonsense.

385. Sleep full of fantastic dreams.

Vivid, distinct dreams, as if a story were being acted before him while awake.

In his dream he carries on conversations with lively memory and thoughtfulness.

Moaning in sleep.

Weeping and howling in sleep.

390. Quarrelsome, vexatious dreams.

His sleep seems to him to be more fatiguing and tiresome; his expression in sleep is gloomy, cross and sad.

At night in sleep he starts with affright.

Starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking in sleep (aft. 6 h.).

He tosses about anxiously at night in bed, is full of fantasies.

395. He cannot stay in bed.

He has the greatest anxiety in bed, but not when he is out of bed; at the same time the pupils dilate and contract rapidly.

The nocturnal pains can be allayed by warm compresses.

(Sitting up in bed alleviates the nocturnal pains.)

Snoring inspiration in sleep.

400. In sleep snoring inspiration which is shorter than the expiration, with mouth somewhat opened, and hot clammy sweat on the forehead. (aft. 3 h.).

Groaning in sleep, with hot clammy frontal sweat.

Waking stupefied slumber, or rather inability to open the eyes; slumber without sleep, rapid expiration and tearing pain in the forehead, with inclination to vomit. (aft. 1.5 h.).

Shivering on single parts, which are not cold, with drowsiness (aft. 2, 1/2 h.).

He has shivering on certain parts, in the face (aft. 1/2 h.), on the arms (aft. 2 h.), with or without external coldness.

405. He is cold, and at the same time the rigor usually courses from the back to the abdomen (aft, 1 and 4 h.).

When he uncovers himself, he shivers.

Chilliness (immediately); none of his articles of clothing are warm enough for him.

He shivers at cold air (aft. 2 h.),

In the evening on lying down, coldness, a kind of dulness of hearing, in which the sound appears to come from a distance, nausea, restlessness, tossing about in bed, a kind of stupefaction of the head and diminished sensibility of the skin, so that the skin when scratched feels numb.

410. Icy coldness of the cheeks, hands and feet, with burning heat of the forehead, neck and chest then again heat and redness on the right cheek, during which the hands and feet become again properly warm, with contracted and not dilatable pupils; thereafter snoring sleep (aft. 1 to 3 h.).

Coldness of the whole body, with burning heat of the face, which flames out at the eyes.

Cold limbs, with burning heat of the face, burning heat in the eyes, and burning breath (aft. 5 h.).

(Violent internal chill, without coldness of the external parts excepting the feet which are cold, with thirst; then great heat with sweat; when he then stretches his arms out of bed, chill, and when he covers them again with the bed-clothes, perspiration; at the same time tearing in the forehead).

(After a meal chill all over, followed by heat in the cheeks.)

415. Shivering over the posterior aspect of the body, the arms, the thighs and the back, which recurs in fits, without external coldness, rather with internal dry heat, and external heat, especially of the forehead and face.

Chill only over the anterior aspect of the body (aft. 1/4 h.).

(Fever: during the chill he is compelled to lie down, thirst during the chill, no thirst during the heat; sweat after the heat; during the perspiration only, shooting pain in the left half of the brain; the following morning bitter taste in the mouth.)

In the afternoon (about 4 o’clock) chill (during which he says things he did not wish to say), with nausea in the abdomen, until 11 p.m.; in addition to this throbbing shooting pain in the forehead, aggravated by lying down.

(Fever: rigor in the afternoon, he cannot get warm. with flow of saliva from the mouth, bruised pain in the back and side, and aching stupid pain in the forehead, then at night extreme heat with violent thirst and sleeplessness.)

420. In the evening chilliness; at night much sweat and thirst.

Immediately after throwing off the clothes violent chill. [Stf.]

In the evening burning in the cheeks, with transient rigor.

Repeated attacks of redness in one cheek, without shivering or internal heat (aft. 4 and 12 h.).

Internal heat with shivering.

425. External heat with shivering.

Continual alternation of heat and cold in various parts; the hands are at one time cold, at another warm-sometimes the forearm, sometimes the upper arm at one time cold at another warm-sometimes the forehead cold while the cheeks are hot, &c. [Stf.]

Before midnight, when he tries to go to sleep lying on his back, immediately heat attended by general perspiration (aft. 6 h.).

At night the lips were dry and stuck together, without thirst.

Along with febrile heat and redness of cheek, thirst.

430. Glowing heat in the cheeks with thirst.

Hot face with redness of cheeks. [Stf.]

Along with febrile heat and redness of cheeks he tosses about in bed and talks nonsense, with open eyes.

Feeling of external heat, without actual external heat (aft. 1 and 3 h.).

Feeling of heat, without external heat and without thirst.

435. The lightly covered parts are burning hot, the uncovered parts almost cold. [Stf.]

Excites a pungent heat. [SENAC, (When used in agues. Original not accessible, but Caldwell’s translation (Philadelphia 1805) gives the quality of heat as “pungent”, by which word Hahnemaun’s “beissed” may also be rendered.) De recondita febrium interm. et remitt. natura, p. 183.]

At night terrible feeling of heat, with burning unquenchable thirst, dry tongue, stupefaction. [Stf.]

At night great heat with sleeplessness (aft. 24 h.). [Stf]

General heat, in the forenoon from 9 till 12 o’clock; then profuse perspiration. [Stf.]

440. His tongue is dry, with thirst for water, anorexia, flying heat, perspiration on face and palpitation of the heart followed by unnatural hunger.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.