Chamomilla suits persons, especially children,
with light brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament; oversensitive
from use or abuse of coffee or narcotics.
Children, new-born and during period of dentition.
Peevish, irritable, oversensitive to pain, driven to despair (
Coff. ); snappish, cannot return a civil answer.
Chamomilla child is exceedingly irritable, fretful; quiet only
when carried; impatient, wants this or that and becomes angry when
refused, or when offered, petulantly rejects it ( Bry. , Cina ,
Kreos. ); "too ugly to live;" cross, spiteful.
Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have what he wants;
whining restlessness.
Patient cannot endure any one near him; is cross, cannot bear to
be spoken to ( Sil. ); averse to talking, answers peevishly.
Complaints from anger, especially chill and fever.
Pain: seems unendurable, drives to despair; < by heat; <
evening before midnight; with heat, thirst and fainting; with numbness
of affected part; eructations <.
One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold.
Oversensitive to open air; great aversion to wind, especially about
ears.
Toothache if anything warm is taken into the mouth ( Bis. , Bry.
, Coff. ); on entering a warm room; in bed; from coffee; during
menses or pregnancy.
Labor pains; spasmodic, distressing, wants to get away from them;
tearing down the legs; press upward.
Diarrhoea: from cold, anger or chagrin; during dentition; after
tobacco; in child-bed; from downward motion ( Bor. , Sanic. ).
Stool green, watery, corroding, like chopped eggs and spinach;
hot, very offensive, like rotten eggs.
Nipples inflamed, tender to touch ( Helon. , Phyt. ); infant's
breasts tender to touch.
Milk runs out in nursing women (runs out after weaning, Con. ).
Convulsions of children from nursing, after a fit of anger in mother
( Nux - after fright in mother, Op. ).
Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, compel him
to walk about ( Rhus ).
Sleepy, but cannot sleep ( Bell. , Caust. , Op. ).
Burning of soles at night, puts feet out of bed ( Puls. , Med.
, Sulph. ).
Relations. - Complementary: Bell. in diseases of children, cranial
nerves; Cham. , abdominal nerves.
In cases spoiled by the use of opium or morphine in complaints
of children.
Compare: Bell. , Bor. , Bry. , Coff. , Puls. , Sulph.
Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla.
Aggravation. - By heat; anger; evening, before midnight; open air;
in the wind; eructations.
Amelioration. - From being carried; fasting; warm, wet weather.
Chamomilla
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