Chamomilla Materia Medica
Diseases of children, pregnant women, nursing mothers, little children
Chief tissue affinity is with the nervous system inducing an extreme degree of over-excitability and hypersensitivity
Excessive sensibility to nerves is only equaled by Coff, Nux-V, Op
So effectually calms nervous excitement that it has been termed “opium of homeopathy”
Causation – Dentition, Anger, Indigestion, Pain
Complaints from anger and vexation
Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla
CHILDREN
Face may have one cheek red and hot whilst the other is pale and cold
Children in a snarling mood
Snapping
Angry
Irritable
Throwing things that is asked for
Cry when approached or interfered with
Becomes quieter when picked up and carried
If punished or their demands are not met with they throw a fit of anger
Very cross, cannot be appeased
Not all angry children need chamomile
Peevish
Ugly in behaviour
Kicks when carried and becomes stiff
Expresses self by throwing tantrums
FOULNESS
Putrid smell of the mouth
Eructation’s smell like rotten eggs, stools have a similar odour
DIARRHOEA
Hot, foul smelling corroding stools
Looks like chopped eggs
Yellowish greenish colour
Also present is a snappish temperament
CONVULSIONS
After anger, dentition, nursing, fit of anger in mother
Legs move up and down, grasping and reaching with hands, thumbs turn inward
Mouth drawn from side to side
Twitching – eyelids, eyeballs, lips and facial muscles - Staring eyes
LABOUR
Great rigidity of the os uteri
Labour pains that press upward and are spasmodic and distressing
Patient is snappish, hysterical and fault-finding
Great desire for fresh air
Thirsty and hot during labour
MENTALS
Continuous problem, chronic, not short term symptoms
Excitability is leading symptom
Irritability - whole state is focused on this
Ugly in behaviour - cross and uncivil
Tries to get away from friends if they try to comfort her
Send nurse home
Spiteful
Angry
Weeping in sleep
Moan, whinge - Not satisfied
Capriciousness
Don’t like to be looked at or touched
Want to be left alone
Anger when consoled
Anger from interruption
Restless > rocked
< 9.00 p.m.
Ailments from anger
Delusions of being insulted, takes offence easily
Sensitive to air and cold
Women become suddenly capricious, quarrelsome, obstinate before menses
Women, restlessness driving out of bed during menses
Has no consideration for feelings of other and will enter into dispute or quarrel
with them regardless
Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences
Moaning on account of every trifling offence, which has happened long time ago Seeks a cause for being peevish at everything
Thoughts of dying
PAIN
Unendurable, becomes mad with pains or magnifies pain
Demands instant relief for suffering, would rather die than suffer
Excessive sensitiveness to pain
Hypersensitivity to pain (D/D Coffee, Aconite
Pains are unbearable, drives them to despair
Prone to teething problems
Prone to middle ear infections
AGGRAVATION
Damp, cold weather
Wind
Warmth most symptoms, but the patient himself feels > from warmth
Night around 9.00 p.m.
Coffee
Over sensitiveness after coffee
Narcotics
Alcohol
Aversion to being touched
AMELIORATION
Warmth
Open air - yet sensitive about the ears
Cold application
Cold drinks
CLINICAL USES
Dentition
Labour
Over-sensitivity to pain
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