Chamomile.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Difficult dentition when one of the cheeks is red and hot and the gums are swollen and very sensitive. The child is excessively irritable and may have green-colored, slimy stools. Spasmodic dysmenorrhoea with great irritability of temper and sensitiveness to pain.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Intense headache with sensation of pressure with in the cranium. Somnolence. Irritable temper, restless sleep.1. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea.2.
DOSE.
Prompt results are obtained from doses ranging from the first to the third decimal dilution of the tincture. The infusion in doses of from one-half dram to one ounce is also effective.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Periodical sick headache. Head congested, irritable temper.1.
Difficult dentition, when one of the cheeks is red and hot, and the gums are swollen and very sensitive. The child is irritable and threatened with convulsions.1.
The child refuses to be soothed except when being carried about.1.
Acid, sour-smelling children, that are excessively irritable, and prone to acid diarrhoea; stools green as grass.1-
2.
Summer diarrhoea of children during teething. Green, many colored, and slimy stools.2.
Flatulent colic in neurotic, irritable persons.1.
Spasmodic dysmenorrhoea with great irritability of temper and sensitiveness to pain. Very quarrelsome: can hardly speak a pleasant word.1.
