Chamomilla cham.

MIND. NERVES. EMOTIONS. Mucous membranes: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Liver. Women and CHILDREN. Left side.

ANGER. NIGHT. DENTITION. Cold: Air. Damp. Wind. Taking cold. COFFEE. Narcotics. Alcohol.

BEING CARRIED. Mild weather. Heat. Sweating. Cold applications.

Bad temper. Frantic irritability, snappish and intolerant of pain. Mad during pain. Magnifies her pains. Unappeasable crossness. OVERSENSITIVE. Tosses about, cries out or walks the floor (Ars.); demands instant relief. Beside himself or prostrated by pain. Neuralgic or gouty-rheumatic subjects. Spells of being irritable and restless; OF COLIC; of dry, tickling cough, etc. Cramps, with bilious vomit; of muscles. Numb, on awaking; after pain; hands, when grasping objects. Repeated spasms; of face, arms, legs, etc.

UGLY, CROSS, AND UNCIVIL. QUARRELSOME; vexed at every trifle. Abrupt. Averse to being spoken to or touched. WANTS TO BE CARRIED or what is refused when offered. Omits words. Sensitive to cold wind about ears. Sticking, earache; > warmth. Swelling, or REDNESS OF ONE CHEEK. Faceache (r), to ear. Jaws feel tired. Bad, sour breath. Bitter taste. Thick, yellow-white fur on tongue. Eructations like bad eggs. Distended bowels. Colic going upward; < anger (Colo.). Cutting or wind colic; < night. STOOLS, hot, ACID, GRASS-GREEN, SLIMY, HACKED, yellow-green, OR LIENTERIC; smelling like bad eggs. Irregular, labor-like pains; going up; down inner thighs. Cramps when child nurses. Dark, lumpy menses or lochia. Asthma, < dry weather. Jaundice. Dry palms. Sleepy, disturbed, by pain, starting up, etc. Chilly, yet easily over-heated, hence takes cold. Coldness of one part, with heat of another; < uncovering. Alternate chill and heat. Hot and thirsty or hot sweat, with the pains. Hot coryza; hot stools. Feverish, from suppressed discharges. Sweat on head. Sleepless from abuse of narcotics.

Complementary: Mag-c. Sanic. Related: Nux-v. Stap. Antidotes: Com. Ign. Nux-v. Pul.

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. Child 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 tabacco; 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.).

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.

By heat; anger; evening, before midnight; open air; in the wind; eructations.

From being carried; fasting; warm, wet weather.

There is in Chamomilla a little thread of symptoms, which may nearly always be found running through it,--viz. a spiteful, sudden, or uncivil irritability. In labor cases, though it may not be brought out by questions, we will often find the patient in an irritable mood, feels as if she "can't be civil," "can't give a civil answer," is very snappish and short spoken, etc.

Sufferings from fits of anger--may have a severe headache in consequence, or convulsions, etc. Calmness contra-indicates Cham.

Irritability (snappish, very cross); absent-mindedness. Children cry until they are walked about. Patient thinks the pain is "too severe to be borne," (severity of the pain makes her cross). Desire to lie down; to be in motion. Affections of nursing children from the emotions of their nurses--the mother or the wet nurse.

Coagulated blood from: viscid nasal secretion; concomitant nasal complaints.

Diarrhœa which smells like rotten eggs, and looks like chopped eggs and greens; insufficient stools; complaints coming on during stool: during dentition.

Vomiting in general; of bile. Bitter taste. Affections of hypogastrium. Obstructed flatus.

Female: Complaints of the uterus; pains like labor pains; after-pains, labor-pains of a very severe and aggravating nature; labor spasmodic, (pains may occur where the fœtus is forced up instead of down); threatened abortion, particularly when he passes colorless water with every pain. Discharge of blood before the proper time; menstruation too early; blood coagulated, and generally dark; complaints during. Milk spoiled so the baby won't suck. Affections of the mammæ, particularly where they are inflamed, and very sensitive to the touch.

Respiration loud, without any mucous rattle. Cough with expectoration in the daytime without expectoration in the night; with expectoration of coagulated blood; same, blood being dark; taste of expectoration bitter.

Dryness of; exanthema corroding and spreading; difficult to heal; disposition of, to inflame; inflammation of; soreness of, in children.

Yawning with stretching of the limbs; concomitant complaints of morbid sleep; sleeplessness of children in general; drowsiness with sleeplessness; complaints preventing sleep.

Thirst; chilliness with thirst. Perspiration in general; want of concomitant complaints to; chilliness followed by heat with.

Affects teeth on left lower side; under jaw; glands of the ear. Cheeks very red; having a circumscribed redness of one cheek, the other being pale; bitter taste; urine becoming turbid; aversion to open air; sensation of anxiousness in the body (restlessness); disposition to catch cold; fainting; motion convulsive; clonic spasms.

In the night; from warmth; from anger; before breakfast; during a catarrh; with children, particularly after taking cold; eructations; affecting females, especially during menstruation; from moving the affected parts; while lying down; lying on painless side; from narcotic medicines; during coffee; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration; during pregnancy; during or after scarlet fever; during sleep; during stool; from touching the parts, or touching anything; on getting warm in bed; in the wind; with women, in confinement especially.

While fasting (e.g., before breakfast); from coffee.

Acon., Bellad., Bryon., Mercur., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Acon. Coffea. Ignat., Nux vom., Pulsat.

Child wants to be carried and gets relief. Whining restlessness; child wants different things' refuses or repels them when given. One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Green, watery, corroding stools with colic; thirst, bitter taste, and bitter eructations. Neither lying down, nor sleeping, nor sweating lessens the pain. but relieved after the sweat or on rising. Complaints increase during the sweat. Burning in the soles of the feet; puts them out of bed. Fever, diarrhoea or convulsions, from local irritation during dentition; from Indigestible substances in the stomach or Intestines; from worms etc. Especially useful to calm worry, excitement in very nervous women and children.

German Chamomile

The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotion group, which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease. Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish and constipated bowels contra-indicate chamomilla.

Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. Pains unendurable, associated with numbness. Night-sweats.

Whining restlessness. Child wants many things which he refuses again. Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants. Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly. Impatient, intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complaining. Spiteful, snappish. Complaints from anger and vexation. Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.

Throbbing headache in one-half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.

Ringing in ears. Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat driving patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped.

Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.

Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inability to sleep.

One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches in jaw extending to inner ear and teeth. Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at night. Drives to distraction. Jerking of tongue and facial muscles. Distress of teething children (Calc phos; Terebinth).

Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and pain as from a plug.

Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee, during pregnancy. Nightly salivation.

Eructations, foul. Nausea after coffee. Sweats after eating or drinking. Aversion to warm drinks. Tongue yellow; taste bitter. Bilious vomiting. Acid rising; regurgitation of food. Bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone (Bry; Abies n).

Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration. Hepatic colic. Acute duodenitis (Kali bich (chronic)).

Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic. Chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach. Soreness of anus. Diarrhœa during dentition. Hæmorrhoids, with painful fissures.

Uterine hæmorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like pains. Labor pains spasmodic; press upward (Gels). Patient intolerant of pain (Caul; Caust; Gels; Hyos; Puls). Nipples inflamed; tender to touch. Infant's breasts tender. Yellow, acrid leucorrhœa (Ars; Sep; Sulph).

Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx. Irritable, dry, tickling cough; suffocative tightness of chest, with bitter expectoration in daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's chest.

Insupportable pain in loins and hips. Lumbago. Stiffness of neck muscles.

Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles at night (Sulph). Ankles give way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet, unable to step on them.

Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes.

Worse, by heat, anger, open air, wind, night. Better, from being carried, warm wet weather.

Compare: Cypriped; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls; Coffea; Bellad; Staphis; Ignat. Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of opium. Rubus villosus-Blackberry--(diarrhœa of infancy; stools watery and clay colored).

Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls.

Complementary: Bell; Mag c.

Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Very irritable mood; snaps and snarls; will not speak or answer civilly; mad.

Exceedingly sensitive to pain, which makes her mad: numbness alternates with, or attends, the pains; sweats with the pains.

Excessive uneasiness; anxiety; agonized, tossing about; will only be quieted by carrying the child about.

High fever with sweating, especially on the head; thirsty; one cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold.

Dentition diarrhœa; green stools, foul odor like rotten eggs, much colicky pain, abdomen bloated.

Cough dry < at night, when asleep, from tickling in throat pit; < cold weather and every winter.

Especially adapted to children and nervous, hysterical women.

Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compel him to walk about.

Burning of soles at night; puts feet out of bed.

Numbness with the pains.

Charles J. Hempel called this "the catnip of Homœopathy," because it was particularly adapted to nervous affections, especially of children. This is one of the remedies that finds its leading characteristic symptoms in the mind of the patient. To "boil down" all the different ways in which the Chamomilla mind can be and is expressed: "The patient is cross, ugly, spiteful, snappish. She knows it, admits it, and so does every one else. She will return mean, uncivil, spiteful answers to her best friends, and then confess her fault, to repeat it again and again, and stoutly affirms she cannot help it, she feels so." This state of mind is always present in the marked Chamomilla case, whether it be adult or child.

Of course the young child cannot give vent to its feelings by talking, so it comes as near to it as it can by whining and crying, sometimes it seems without cause, and also when it shows by fever, diarrhœa, teething and many other complaints that it is actually sick and suffering. It wants this or that thing, puts out its little hand for it, and when it is offered pushes it away and points to something else, to reject it in turn. Now the child does not know what it wants, but the homœopathic physician does. It wants a dose of Chamomilla. This peevish disposition in which nothing pleases, takes possession of the child, mother, father or any and all grades and classes of subjects when Chamomilla is the remedy, and it is found in connection with all kinds of diseases. It is also especially adapted for ailments brought on by fits of anger. In short, it is the leading anger remedy of the Materia Medica.

The other leading anger remedies, or, for ailments brought on by anger, are Aconite, Bryonia, Colocynth, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Staphisagria.

It is also one of the leading remedies for pain, and there is this peculiarity about it, the pain is not always in proportion to the gravity of the case, and we often see, for instance, in labor, a great deal harder pains of which the patient does not complain half so loudly. But in the Chamomilla case the patient is exceedingly sensitive to the pain and exclaims continually, "Oh; I cannot bear the pain." Many times have I met this condition in labor cases, and in the majority of them the cross, peevish, snappish, condition of mind accompanying, and seen it changed in a short time to a mild, uncomplaining, patient state, by a single dose of Chamomilla 200th.

This sensitiveness to pain is not confined to labor cases, but I have often observed it in neuralgias, toothache, rheumatism, etc., and the same happy results follows its use.

This condition of sensitiveness is often found in coffee drinkers, or in those who have been addicted to narcotics.

Chamomilla is very useful here. There is another sensation which is often found in conjunction with, or sometimes alternating with, this pain or sensitiveness, and that numbness.

It is found in rheumatism or paralytic states and is very characteristic. The pains of Chamomilla are oftener aggravated by heat than otherwise, but are not on the other hand, like Pulsatilla, ameliorated by cold. In fact, the patient is often very sensitive to cold, and cold air brings on troubles for which this remedy is specific. I now call to mind a very painful case of rheumatism of the left shoulder in a middle-aged man. It was in my earlier practice, when I was prescribing for names more than I do now, and of course he got Aconite, Bryonia and Rhus toxicodendron, etc., but no relief. A wiser man was called in consultation and the patient was quickly cured by Chamomilla. When I asked the counsel what led him to prescribe this remedy he answered numbness with the pains.

Another condition which is met by this remedy is restlessness and sleeplessness. You will remember that we gave as the great trio of restless remedies Aconite, Arsenicum and Rhus tox That was right, but we did not say that those were all the restless remedies. Here we have another in Chamomilla. Let me quote: "Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, and compel him to walk about." (Rhus tox., Ferrum met., Verat. alb) "Excessive uneasiness, anxiety, agonized tossing about, with tearing pains in the abdomen." "The child can only be quieted by carrying it on the arms will not be quiet unless carried." (Opposite Bryonia). These symptoms represent in a few words the restlessness of this remedy. But some will ask, isn't this similar to your trio of restless remedies? It is; but there are shades of difference and concomitant symptoms that decide between them all. And the true Hahnemannian is the man to recognize them. There is no particular overwhelming fear, fear of death, etc., under Chamomilla as there is under Aconite. The patient is maddened; driven to desperation under Chamomilla; does not care whether she dies or not; had rather die than suffer so, and so we might draw lines of differentiation between this and other restless remedies, but it would take too long. Each physician must get a habit of doing this for himself. In his ability to do this lies the superior skillfulness of the homœopathic practitioner. Without this he can only hope for indifferent success at most, and will be driven to all sorts of experiments, adjuvants, surgical measures and so forth which might be avoided, much to his own credit, and the advantage of his patient. The sleeplessness of the Chamomilla patient is owing to the pain and excessive nerve sensibility and this remedy procures sleep by overcoming these troubles, which make the patient sleepless. Now there are a few symptoms, when occurring in conjunction with the peculiar mind and nervous symptoms of this remedy, that confirm the choice of it, such as.

"Warm sweat on the head wetting the hair."

"Pressing earache in spells; tearing pain extorting; cries."

"Ears particularly sensitive to cold air."

"One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold."

"Face sweats after eating or drinking."

"Toothache if anything warm is taken into the mouth." (Pulsatilla).

"Toothache recommences when entering a warm room."

"Teeth feel too long."

"Dentition with diarrhœa of green stools smelling like rotten eggs."

"Hot and thirsty with the pains; also fainting. " (Hep. sul.).

"Gastralgia in coffee drinkers; constrictive pain, or as if a stone were in the stomach. " (Nux vom.).

"Wind colic; abdomen distended like a drum; wind passes in small quantities without relief."

"Stools green, watery, corroding (Sulph.), like stirred eggs."

"Stools hot, smelling like rotten eggs."

"Metrorrhagia dark coagulated blood, flowing in paroxysms."

"Menstrual colic, also following anger."

"Labor pains press upward, or begin in back, and pass off down inner side of things."

"Rigidity of os, pains unendurable."

"After-pains also unendurable."

"Children have spasms, from fit of anger in the nurse."

"Cough from tickling in throat pit."

"Cough dry, worse at night, especially while asleep, does not waken when coughing." (Calcarea ost., Psorinum.)

"Chronic cough, worse in winter or cold weather."

"Body chilly and cold; face and breath hot."

"Heat and chill intermingled." (Ars. alb.).

"Skin moist and burning hot." (Bell.)

This does not by any means cover all the symptoms which indicate Chamomilla, but when they do occur it is strongly indicated and shows something of the range and usefulness of this remedy when given according to homœopathic rules.

Anger, with rage, violence and heat. Great anguish and restlessness. Crying and howling. Weeping uneasiness ; the child wants different things, and repels them when given to him. The child cries and wants to be carried on the arm. Seeks a cause for quarrel. Peevishness and ill humor ; taciturn absence of mind.

Vertigo, when rising from bed ; from drinking coffee. Pulsating headache, generally in one side of the head, with one red cheek ; worse at night ; in the open air ; in the wind ; better from warm coverings and when walking about. Lancinating pain in one side of the head, with thirst ; better from walking about. Headache, which is felt even during sleep. Hot, clammy perspiration on the scalp and forehead.

Burning heat in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, especially the edges of the lower eyelids, which are swollen. Distortion of the eyes. Yellowness of the whites. Hæmorrhage from the eyes. Spasmodically closed eyelids. Twitching of the eyelids. Aversion to bright light.

Otalgia, with stitches and tearing. Discharge of thin pus from the ears. Inflammatory swelling of the paratid gland. Sensitive hearing.

Wrinkled skin of the nose. Ulcerated nostrils. Sensitive smell.

Bloatedness of the face. Redness and burning heat, particularly of the cheeks ; sometimes of one cheek only, with paleness and coldness of the other. Swelling, with hardness and blueness of one cheek. Red rash on the cheeks. Convulsive movements and twitchings of the facial muscles and lips. Rhagades in the middle of the lower lip. Heat of the face, while the rest of the body is cold. Wrinkles on the forehead.

Putrid smell from the mouth. Dry mouth and tongue, with thirst. Red tongue, cracked. Tongue coated thick, yellow or white. Convulsive movements of the tongue. Inflammation of the soft palate and the tonsils, with dark redness. Sensation of a plug in the throat. Inability to swallow while lying. Inability to swallow solid food. Sore throat, with swelling of the parotid or submaxillary glands.

Insupportable (drawing) toothache (at night) with swelling of the hot, red cheek, and thirst. The toothache recommences when entering the warm room. Toothache, aggravated from drinking any thing warm, especially coffee. Toothache, after a cold and suppressed perspiration. Toothache, with redness and swelling of the gums. Dentition, with convulsions.

Aversion to food ; loathing of food. Great thirst ; longing for cold water. Bitter taste in the mouth early in the morning. Desire for coffee.

Sour eructations (the existing pain is aggravated by eructations). Vomiting, of food ; sour ; of bile. After eating or drinking, heat and perspiration of the face. Distention of the abdomen after a meal. Painful bloatedness of the epigastrium (in the morning). Nausea (after drinking coffee). Colic, after anger. Oppression of the stomach, as if a stone were pressing downwards. Burning in the pit of the stomach. Pressing towards the abdominal ring, as if hernia would protrude.

Nightly diarrhœa, with frequent small discharges and colic. Hot, diarrhœic stools, smelling like rotten eggs. Stools green, chopped. Stools consisting of white mucus, with colic. Diarrhœa during dentition (green mucus). Diarrhœa from cold, from anger, from chagrin. Stools corroding the anus.

Ineffectual urging, with anguish during micturition. The urine is hot, with flocculent sediment ; turbid. Smarting pain in the urethra during micturition.

Men. Itching, stinging pain in the margin of the prepuce. Soreness of the border of the prepuce. (Sycosis). Excited sexual desire. Women. Pressure towards the uterus, like labor-pain. Metrorrhagia ; the blood is passed in clots, and smells putrid. Discharge of blood between the regular catamenia. Abdominal spasms, before the catamenia ; of pregnant women ; or while nursing. The labor-pains are not sufficient, but cause great restlessness and anguish (over-sensitive to the pains). Violent after-pains. Suppression of milk (milk is cheesy, or mixed with pus ; (milk fever). Puerperal fever. Erysipelas of the mammæ and soreness of the nipples. Induration and swelling of the mammæ ; they are painful to the touch.

Wheezing and rattling in the trachea. Hoarseness, from tenacious mucus in the trachea. Catarrhal hoarseness. Stitches and burning in the larynx, with hoarseness. Hoarseness and cough, from rattling mucus in the trachea.

Burning of the chest. Oppression of the chest, as from flatulence. Constriction of the upper part of the chest. Sudden stoppage of the chest, in children. Stitches in the sides of the chest. Burning pain under the sternum. Rattling of mucus in the chest. Cough from irritation in the chest ; from tickling in the pharynx and larynx, daring the day, with expectoration of small quantities of tough mucus, tasting bitter or putrid. Dry nightly cough of children, from tickling in the throat-pit. Nightly dry cough during sleep. Cough worse at night ; aggravated from crying ; from cold air ; dry winds ; open air ; during sleep. Amelioration of the cough when getting warm in bed.

Pain in the small of the back, especially at night. Stinging pain in the back.

Upper. The arms go to sleep, especially when taking hold of any thing. Convulsions of the arms, with clasping in of the thumb. Convulsive twitchings of the fingers. Cold hands, with cold perspiration in the palms of the hands. Swelling of the palms of the hands. Lower. Cracking of the knee during motion. Burning of the soles of the feet, (at night, he puts his feet out of bed). Sensation of numbness in the toes.

Over-sensitiveness of the nerves ; (pain is insupportable, drives to despair). Over-sensitiveness of the senses, (especially from coffee narcotics). Great, prostrating debility as soon as the pain begins. Convulsive twitchings in the limbs. Convulsions, (during dentition). Sensation of numbness, (extremities).

Yawning and stretching. Drowsiness, with short breathing ; groaning ; starts. Nightly sleeplessness from anxiety and visions. Restless sleep, with weeping and howling, groaning and tossing about. Snoring breathing when asleep. Sleep, full of vivid, fanciful dreams.

Pulse small, tense, and accelerated. Chilliness ; frequently on some parts, while others are hot. Chilliness, with internal heat. Chill and coldness of the whole body, with burning hot face and hot breath. Chilliness and coldness of the fore part of the body, while the back part is hot, or vice versa. Chilliness from exposure to the air, (undressing), or in the cold air. Heat, with occasional chills, and one hot, red cheek, while the other is pale. Heat, with anxiety and perspiration of the face and scalp. Continuous burning heat, with violent thirst, and starts during sleep, and furious delirium. Perspiration during sleep, mostly on the head, smelling sour, and with biting sensation of the skin. Suppressed perspiration.

Yellow skin, (over the whole body). The skin becomes unhealthy, and every injury ulcerates. Rash of infants, and during nursing. Red rash on the cheeks, on the forehead. Ulcers, with darting and lancinating in the night, and excessive sensitiveness to the touch. Itching pimples form around the ulcer, covered with scurf, and suppurating. Inflammatory swelling of the glands.

Extreme sensitiveness to pain, with great irritability. Over-sensitiveness to the open air, and aversion to being in the wind. At night, tearing (rheumatic) pains in the limbs, with sensation of numbness. The pains are worse at night, and are accompanied by thirst and heat. Aggravation at night ; from anger, (colic) ; after taking cold ; while lying down ; during perspiration ; during sleep. Amelioration while fasting ; from bending the head backward ; after perspiration ; on rising.

Matricaria chamomilla. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Acidity. Anger . Asthma (from anger). Blepharospasm. Catarrh. Coffee, effects of. Colic. Convulsions . Cough. Cramp. Croup. Dentition. Diarrhœa . Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia. Earache . Eyes: blepharitis; ophthalmia. Eructations . Erysipelas. Excitement. Excoriation . Fainting fits. Fevers. Flatulence. Flatulent colic. Gout. Gum-rash. Headache . Hernia. Hysterical joint . Influenza. Jaundice . Lienteria. Labour: disorders of; after-pains. Mastitis. Menstruation, disordered . Miliary eruption. Milk-fever. Miscarriage . Mumps. Neuralgia. Parotitis. Perichondritis. Peritonitis. Pregnancy, disorders of. Red-gum . Rheumatism. Salivation (nocturnal). Sciatica. Screaming. Sensitiveness . Spasms. Speech, affections of. Toothache . Ulcers. Uterus, diseases of. Waking, screaming on . Whooping cough.

"There is in Chamomilla a little thread of symptoms, and nearly always found running through it. This is a spiteful, sudden , or uncivil irritability " (Guernsey). Teste puts Cham . at the head of one of his groups, which includes Grat., Viol. t., Hell. n . The common feature of this group is: "A particular derangement of the cerebral functions and even of the whole nervous system; a painful increase of the sentient action, followed by a considerable depression of the vital forces, and a certain disorder of the mental faculties." In spite of its obvious analogies with Puls., Ipec., Acon ., and Coni ., it has marked and exclusive characteristics of its own. "It increases the general nervous sensibility, and stimulates the cerebral functions: a property that seems to give rise secondarily to the various organic alterations that Cham . is capable of producing, and for which it has so often been given with success." "It appears," says Hahnemann, quoted by Teste, "to diminish" [ i.e ., curatively] "in a great degree, the excessive sensitiveness to pain and the violent derangements which pain occasions in the moral condition of the patient. This is the reason why it appeases a multitude of sufferings to which coffee-drinkers, and persons who have been treated with narcotic palliatives are subject. And this is likewise the reason why it ought not to be given to those who bear pain patiently and with resignation. I mention this rule here, for it is of very great importance." Teste remarks an this that Cham . antidotes not only Coffea , but also Causticum , and most of the members of the Causticum group. Over-sensitiveness, with great irritability and crossness, is the leading note of the Chamomilla effects. The pains are unbearable and drive to despair; the patient insists that the doctor shall cure them at once. Prostrating debility as soon as the pains begin. The senses are too acute. Bad temper ( Nux is malicious ). Peevishness; ill-humour; anger, with rage, violence and heat. Cannot bear to be looked at. Cannot be civil to doctor. Impatience. Cham . also corresponds to the effects of anger: colic, diarrhœa, jaundice, twitchings, and convulsions. Child cries, and must be carried about to be quieted. There is hot sweat on head. Stopped up colds, with dripping of hot water from nose. One cheek red, the other pale. Face sweats after eating or drinking. The patient is hot and thirsty with the pains. Cham . is almost typical of the dentition state. The toothache of Cham . comes on when entering a warm room or from drinking anything warm. There is fetor of breath, and of discharges in general. Biliousness preceded by anger. Gastralgia, food eaten lies like a load on stomach, hypochondria distended. Tongue yellowish white. Bitter taste. Colic > by drinking coffee. The diarrhœa of Cham . is: stool hot, yellowish green; like chopped egg; offensive; excoriation round anus. Intertrigo of children. Wind colic; belching of wind < the condition (this is characteristic). Menorrhagia dark clots; fetid; temper always < before and during flow (N u x also, but Nux is conscious of it, Cham . is not). Threatened abortion caused by anger. The pain of labour or at menses is centred in the womb, bearing down, painful contractions, unbearable ; they extend down thighs and are felt in the back. Leucorrhœa is acrid, watery, corrosive, smarting. Cham . has inflammation of the parotid glands, nocturnal salivation. Rheumatism compelling to get up and walk about; thirsty, hot, almost beside himself. Muscles of face and hands twitch. Insomnia of children; start in sleep; twitching of hands and face; hot sweat of head and face; one cheek red. Puts feet out of bed; soles burn. Aggravation by heat is one of the most prominent features of Cham . < By warm food. Cham . may be the remedy in croup, or croupy cough, if mental symptoms and time conditions correspond. W. H. Baker (Rochester) has recorded such a case. A chubby boy, light hair, blue eyes had a croupy cough. Acon . and Spong . at first controlled it, but afterwards failed. The cough became a loose, rattling, suffocating cough; the mucus came up in the throat and nearly suffocated him. Paroxysms at midnight. During the day he was hoarse; ever impatient, nothing seemed to suit him. Cham . c. m. cured, improvement setting in within two hours. "Chamomile tea" has removed the night-sweats of phthisis. Dr. Anderson, of Dover, Delaware, relates the case of a man who had to change three to five times every night. A cup of weak chamomile tea was ordered every night. The second night there was slight diminution, the third he only had to change twice, the fourth once, and after that there was no more trouble. The plant in this case was probably Anthemis cotula , or wild chamomile of U.S. Dr. Anderson learned its use from "an old woman." But the sweats of Chamomilla are also very marked, Nash mentions a characteristic in the association of numbness or alternation of it with pains. He relates the case of a man who had very painful rheumatism of left shoulder, and who got no better from the usual remedies, but was speedily cured by Cham ., the indication being: "Numbness with the pains." Nash differentiates the restlessness of Aco . and Ars . from that of Cham . by the absence in the case of the last of fear of death. The Cham . patient "would rather die than suffer so ." Lying in bed < . Walking > backache and rheumatic pains. > Being carried about. Touch, and even looking at the patient, < . Covering < . Pains recur in evening and are < before midnight. Symptoms generally < night. Warmth < most symptoms. Cold > ulcers; a finger dipped in cold water and applied to the part > toothache. < From music. Heaviness and fulness of whole body from playing piano. There is desire for open air, and yet over-sensitiveness to open air, especially about ears. Damp cold weather < . Windy weather < . Great dread of wind. Cham . is particularly suited to diseases of pregnant women, nurses, and little children. Light or brown-haired persons. Arthritic diathesis.

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Child lies senseless, completely without consciousness ; frequent changes in face, distortion of eyes, contraction of facial muscles, rattling in chest, with much cough ; it yawns and stretches very much.
Insensibility.
Absence of mind.
When writing or speaking, he omits whole words.
Dulness.
A joyless dulness of senses, with sleepiness, without, however, being able to sleep.
Dulness of senses, diminished power of comprehension.
Confusion of head, with transient painful pressure on eyes, in afternoon.
Imbecility.
Imagines he hears voices of absent persons, at nights, cannot compose himself to sleep.
Ecstasies and delirium.
Tries to get away from her friends if they seek to comfort her.
Child cries ; quiet only when carried.
Utters sudden, startling and piercing cries on waking out of sleep, vows there is some dreadful beast under his bed or in the room, and will not be appeased until the gas is lit and the room is searched ; a boy, æt. 4. θ Nightmare.
Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have what he wants.
Moaning on account of a very trifling offense, which had happened a long time ago.
Whining restlessness ; the child wants this and that, which, when offered, is refused or pushed away.
Involuntary moaning, with heat of face.
He tosses about the bed, with febrile heat and redness of cheeks, and talks confusedly, with open eyes.
Tosses anxiously about bed at night, full of fancies.
Child becomes stiff and bends itself backwards, kicks with its feet when carried, screams immoderately, and throw everything off.
Averse to talking, short and snappish.
Disinclined to talk, is angry if anyone speaks to her.
Introversion, she cannot be induced to say a word.
Cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted while speaking, especially after rising from sleep.
Child does not wish to be touched.
Patient cannot bear any one near him, and answers snappishly.
Cannot bear music.
Sadness.
Melancholia, with constant moaning and muttering to herself, walks all the time with downcast eyes.
Hopelessness.
Very anxious ; everything she undertakes is very unsatisfactory ; she is irresolute, with flushes of heat in face, and cool sweat in palms.
Attacks of anxiety.
Full of anxiety, with great uneasiness.
Anxiety with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in bladder.
Thoughts of dying.
Indifference.
Peevish disposition, nothing pleases.
Peevish about everything, with dyspnœa.
Quarrelsome.
Peevishness ; she seeks a cause for being peevish at everything ; can't return a civil answer.
Fretful, and easily irritated.
Fretful, out of humor and obstinate, even to quarreling, on appearance of menses.
Morose fretfulness ; everything that another does is wrong ; no one does anything to please him.
He frets internally about every trifle.
Very irritable and fretful ; child must be carried.
Very irritable ; moaning and groaning.
Irritable, impatient mood.
Great impatience, everything seems to go too slowly.
She is sleepless and cross.
Ill-humored and irritable, the whole day.
She is always out of humor, particularly at her menstrual periods, when she is headstrong even unto quarreling.
Not applicable to persons patient under influence of pain.
The pains are very distressing, she feels that she can hardly bear them ; she wishes to get away from herself. θ Labor.
In all her sufferings there is a vein of ill humor ; she can hardly speak pleasantly ; feels like scolding about everything ; she often gives vent to her ill humor in spite of all restraint.
She becomes almost furious about the pain ; she cannot bear her clothes to touch the part affected.
Easily chagrined or excited to anger.
Insulting, cross and uncivil in temper.
Great tendency to quarrel, to speak in an obstreperous manner.
Obstinacy.
Mistrust.
The child can only be quieted by carrying it on the arm.
Great restlessness and anxiety.
Restless and impatient, with fever.
Excessive uneasiness, anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing pains in abdomen.
Great restlessness and inward chilliness.
Oversensitiveness to pain, which seems unbearable and drives to despair.
All bad effects following anger. θ Convulsions. θ Chill. θ Fever.
θ Bilious complaints.
Jerking and twitching in its sleep, or the nurse may have had a fit of anger which causes the convulsions in the child.
Bad effects of having felling wounded.

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The general constitutional state of Chamomilla is great sensitiveness; sensitive to every impression; sensitive to surroundings; sensitive to persons; and, above all, sensitive to pain.

The constitutional irritability is so great that a little pain brings forth manifestations as if the patient were in very, great suffering. It naturally belongs to the woman's nervous system, when she is wrought up and extremely sensitive and in pain.

The mental state goes along with this. Sensitiveness of the mind. Great irritability. These two run through Chamomilla so closely that they are inseparable. Sensitiveness to pain. Easily affected by mortification, by chagrin, so that the nerves become extremely sensitive from these causes, and pains, convulsions, colic, headaches and other kinds of nervous symptoms set in.

The nervous child when punished will go into convulsions. The oversensitive nervous woman will suffer from chagrin. Jerking and twitching of muscles from mortification and excitement. Excessive sensibility of the nerves, so excessive that only a few remedies equal it, such as Coffea, Nux vom. and Opium.

Of course, without hearing a lecture on Opium you naturally think of Opium as capable of producing stupor. Those of you who have seen, the awful state of mind and distress that follow the administration of the crude Opium will understand what I mean by the Chamomilla sensitivity. Convulsions of children.

It is not an uncommon thing, even now-a-days, and especially when practicing in the country, for the young mothers and the nurses to give for baby Camomile tea for colic, and the baby goes into convulsions. No one attributes it to Camomile tea, but the doctor will see at once, if he knows Chamomilla, that these convulsions are due to Camomile.

Then you see the jerkings, the convulsions, the hot head, the great sensitivity; sensitiveness, to noise, and to persons, and the great irritability between the convulsions, convulsions of children; they become stiff; roll the eyes; distort the face; twitchings of muscles; throw the limbs about; clinch the thumbs; bend the body backwards.

Such is the natural appearance of the Chamomilla convulsions; those convulsions that come on in oversensitive children, when they have suffered a good deal of pain from teething. Teething ought to be a perfectly healthy process, but it is really looked upon as a disease, and many doctors carry medicines for "teething children," and administer them; first one and then another.

Chamomilla has fallen into that bad use of being given "for teething". It is true that many children suffer from irritability of the brain, convulsions, stomach disorders and vomiting about the time of dentition, but I say dentition should not be a diseased state, it should be normal.

If they were in healthy they would cut teeth without sufferings. But slow teething we have to contend with, and that irritable state, that oversensitiveness, so that he child does not sleep. Wakes up as if it had awful dreams. Wakes up in excitement, vomits, has diarrhea with teething.

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Adapted to persons, especially children— new-born and during dentition—with light or brown hair, excitable, nervous temperament; oversensitive from use or abuse of coffee or narcotics.

Peevish, irritable, oversensitive to pain, drives to despair

(Cof.); cannot return a civil answer.

Child exceedingly irritable, fretful; quiet only when carried; impatient, wants this or that, becomes angry when refused, or when offered petulantly rejects it (Bry., Cina,

Kreos.); "too ugly to live;" cross, spiteful.

Patient cannot endure anyone near him; cannot bear to be spoken to, answers snappishly; whining, moaning.

One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold.

Oversensitive to open air, aversion to wind.

Complaints from anger, especially chill and fever.

Pains; spasmodic, distressing, wants to get away from them.

Toothache if anything warm is taken into the mouth (Bis.,

Bry., Cof.); on entering a warm room; in bed; from coffee; during menses or pregnancy.

Pain : seems unendurable, drives to despair; < by heat ; < evening before midnight; with heat, thirst and fainting; with numbness of affected part; eructations <.

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 (Med., Puls., Sang., San., Sulph.).

Complementary : Bell. in diseases of children, cranial nerves; Cham., abdominal nerves.

In cases spoiled by the use of opium or morphine. Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla.

Evening, before midnight; heat; anger; open air.

From fasting; warm, wet weather; being carried.

Quotidian; regular stages in afternoon. Anticipates, usually two hours every day. Continued, typhoid, from anger, care, grief, taking cold.

11 A. M.—4 P. M. lasting till 11 P. M. Fever without chill, 9 A. M. to 12 M. with redness of one cheek and paleness of the other.

Spring fevers (Canch.) in nervous, sensitive persons, especially residents of cities; from anger or abuse of coffee or opium; during dentition.

Very irritable, cross, peevish, irascible. Aching in all the joints.—E. V. Ross.

Without thirst; slight shiverings frequently creep over the body, alternating with heat of face. Shivers, when uncovering or undressing (Hepar); in the cold air; in some portions, in the face, on the arms, over back and abdomen. Shivering of single parts and heat of others (sweat and heat of single parts, Bry.). Shivering and heat intermingled, mostly with one red and one pale cheek. Chill only on posterior with heat of anterior portion of the body, or vice versa; returns in paroxysms. Cold limbs, with burning heat of the face, in the eyes, and burning hot breath. Coldness over the whole body, with burning heat of the face, which comes out of the eyes like fire. Chill and coldness of the whole body, with burning heat of the face and hot breath.

With some thirst. Long-lasting heat, with violent thirst and frequent startings in sleep. Heat and shivering intermingled, with one cheek red, the other pale. Burning heat in lightly covered parts, though almost cold when not covered. Heat and sweat of the face when eating and drinking (Anac., Bell.). Great agitation, anxiety. Very irritable, can hardly answer one civilly (Bry.—exceedingly irritable, everything makes him angry, Anac.)

One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold. Coldness of body with burning heat of face (Arn.).

Sweat; hot, of head and face; profuse on covered parts (Cinch.).

Instead of fever paroxysm, violent bilious colic with vomiting and diarrhœa from anger or vexation.

Hot perspiration, especially of the face and head; sweats easily. Profuse sweat on covered parts (Cinch.—affected parts sweat profusely, Ant. t.). Profuse sweat at night; on walking the sweat ceases, and returns on falling asleep (Sabad). Sweat frequently of sour odor and with smarting of the skin (Caps.). Relief of pain, after sweat, not during.

Coated yellowish; or white at the sides and red in the middle (reverse of Ant. t.). Blisters on the tongue. Taste—bitter, sour, putrid.

Never clear; constitutional and mental symptoms of this stage are usually guiding. Patients suffer from bad digestion.

In consequence of anger or vexation, we often have instead of the usual fever paroxysm, violent colic, bilious bitter vomiting and diarrhœa. Chamomilla vies with Cina and Arsenicum in the treatment of intermittents occurring in children.

Fevers of children; irritable, cross. Fever attacks in spring, in nervous persons residing in cities; from anger, vexation.

Omits words when writing or speaking.
Confusion of the head, with transient, painful pressure on the eyes, in the afternoon.
Dulness of senses, diminished power of comprehension.
Imagines he hears the voice of absent persons, at night.
Child cries, quiet only when carried.
Whining restlessness; the child wants this and that, which when offered are refused, or pushed away.
Cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted while speaking, especially after rising from sleep.
Irritable, impatient mood.
Great impatience, everything seems to go slowly.
Peevishness, nothing pleases.

Dulness of senses, with sleepiness, yet cannot sleep.
Vertigo: after eating; staggering, in the morning on rising from bed; with fainting; with dimness of sight when sitting up in bed.

Pressive pain in both temples, as from strong pressure with the thumbs, forenoon.
Tearing and stinging pain in left side, particularly in the temple, and in and around the eye.
One sided drawing headache.
Violent stinging pains in left side of head, from the occiput to upper jaw.
Pressing headache, as from a stone in the forehead, hot head, worse evenings.
Intense headache in vertex, like a pressure from within, feeling as if the top of her head were blown off.
Throbbing headache.
Transient attacks of throbbing in one-half of the brain.
Pressure, extending from the vertex to the forehead and temples; worse when thinking of it, from sudden stooping, or from mental exertion.

Head sweats during sleep.

Flickering before the eyes when lying down.
Eyes swollen, in the morning; agglutinated with purulent mucus.
Inflammation of the eyes, lids agglutinated in the morning; discharge of blood from the eyes; inflammation caused by exposure to cold, damp atmosphere, or it worse, by every cold change of weather.
Yellow conjunctiva.
Violent pressure in the orbital region; sensation in the eyeball as if it were tightly compressed from all sides, with momentary obstruction of vision.

Roaring in the ears, as from rushing water.
Stitches in the ear, especially when stooping.
Occasional tearing in the left ear.
Pressing earache in spells, with tearing pain, extorting cries.

Extremely sensitive to all odors.
Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, dry heat and stopped up sensation; feeling as if coryza would appear.
Coryza: fluent, watery; viscid.
Nosebleed, relieving the confusion of the head.

Red; or redness and heat of one (left) cheek, other pale; pale, sunken, distorted by pain; yellow, bloated.
Burning in face.
Left cheek swollen.
Neuralgia of the face, the pain causes hot sweat about the head and extorts screams.
Gives great relief in ordinary inflammatory and rheumatic faceache.

Lips crack and peel.
Rhagades in the middle of lower lip.

Toothache: stitching; digging; gnawing; as from taking cold; during or after eating; if anything warm is taken into the mouth, especially after coffee; in open air; in the room; getting warm in bed; during menstruation; most left side and lower teeth, worse at night.
Teeth feel too long.
Gums red and tender, during dentition.

Taste: bitter; sour; like rancid fat; putrid.
Tongue: coated, white; yellowish; or white at the sides, red in the middle; red, cracked; coated white, with islands on it.
Burning on the tongue.

Fetid smell from the mouth after dinner.
Heat in the mouth, pharynx and œsophagus to stomach.
Collection of saliva, of metallic, sweetish taste.

Spasmodic constriction of the pharynx.
Sore throat, with swelling of the parotid gland.

Thirst for cold water and desire for acid drinks.
Likes to hold the cold water to the mouth, a long time; when drinking.
Aversion to: beer; coffee and warm drinks.
Want of appetite.

After eating and drinking, heat and sweat of the face; after eating, abdomen puffed up.

Eructations; sour; constant, empty.
Fruitless efforts to vomit.
Nausea and inclination to vomit, and bitter vomiting.
Inclination to vomit, with diarrhœa and fever during the night.
Vomiting: of bile; of what has been drunk; slimy matter; sour.
Severe vomiting with griping.

Pressive pain in stomach and beneath the short ribs, which impedes breathing, especially after drinking coffee.
Pressing and cutting in the epigastrium, with anxiety.
Severe painful pressure in the epigastrium makes her toss about in despair.
Stinging pain in pit of stomach.

Stitching pains in the hypochondria.
Stitches in region of liver, with frequent chilliness, after vexation.

Griping, tearing colic in region of navel and lower down on both sides, with pain in small of back as if it were broken.
Feeling of griping and chilliness inside of abdomen, passing downwards into legs as far as the knees.
Colic returns from time to time, flatulence accumulates in the hypochondria, and stitches shoot through the chest.
Wind colic, abdomen distended like a drum, wind passes in small quantities without relief; relieved by applying warm cloths.
Abdomen tympanitic and sensitive to touch.
Constricting pain in the abdomen and back; she kicks, grates her teeth and screams.
Dragging toward the abdominal rings, as if the parts were too weak, and hernia would appear.
Pain in the belly from side to side, just above the navel, corresponding to the transverse colon, commencing in the right and going over to left.

Stools: watery, frequent, preceded by cutting, constricting bellyache, worse in epigastric region; mucous, with colic and vomiturition; bilious with burning in anus; painful, thin green, consisting of feces and mucus; green, watery, corroding, with colic, thirst, bitter taste and bitter eructations; like chopped eggs, smelling sour; hot, smelling like rotten eggs.
Griping with great ineffectual desire for stool.
Bowels relaxed after "colic"; stools first white then putty-like.
Hemorrhoids: blind; painful, bleeding, burning.
Ulcerating fissures at the anus.

Dragging down the ureters like labor-pains, with very frequent urging to urinate.
Burning in the neck of bladder when urinating.
Urine: yellow, with flaky sediment; burning in urethra while passing; scanty, turbid, clay-colored soon after passing; turbid, gets thick when standing, sediment yellow.

Violent erections.

Menses: too early; too profuse; offensive.
Drawing from small of back forwards, griping and pinching in uterus, followed by discharge of large clots of blood.
Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with severe labor-like pain in the uterus; tearing pains in the legs.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.
Yellow, smarting leucorrhœa.
Burning in the vagina, as if excoriated.

Threatened abortion, with discharge of dark blood.
Labor-pains spasmodic and distressing; tearing pains down into legs.
Rigidity of the os; scarcely able to endure the pains.
Hour-glass contraction; irritable; thirsty; desire for fresh air, restless.
Puerperal convulsions, after anger; or has one red cheek, the other pale.
After-pains very distressing.
Suppression of the lochia, followed by diarrhœa, colic and toothache.
Excessive heat, anxiety, tendency to syncope, red face, especially redness of one cheek; formation of pus; puerperal peritonitis.
Mammæ hard and tender to touch; with drawing, rheumatic pains; worse in open air and at night.
Nipples inflamed and very tender; infants breasts tender to the touch.

Sensation of rawness and scraping in the larynx.
Hoarseness, on account of tough mucus in the larynx, which can only be removed by strong hawking.
Catarrhal hoarseness of trachea, with dryness of eyelids.

Oppressed, as if chest were not wide enough.
Short, with rattling.
Threatened suffocation, from repercussion of measle eruption.
Dyspnœa, constricted feeling at the supra-sternal fossa, with constant irritation to cough.
Asthmatic attack, seemingly produced by an accumulation of flatus, better from bending the head backwards; in cold air, and from drinking cold water; worse in dry weather and from warm diet.

Hoarseness and rattling cough from mucus in the trachea, especially during winter.
Cough caused by irritation low down in the air passages, during the night.
Paroxysms of coughing about midnight, with which something seems to rise in throat as if she would suffocate.
Constant irritation to cough beneath the upper part of the sternum.
Cough particularly at night with tough, slimy expectoration, tasting bitter.
Cough, with expectoration during day, without at night.
Expectoration bloody dark, coagulated.

Constriction in the upper part of chest.
Chest painful when coughing.
Stitches shoot from the abdomen into the middle of the chest, as from flatulence.
Sudden stitches and darts through the chest, extorting screams; dyspnœa taking away the voice and threatening suffocation.

Palpitation and faintness.
Pulse small, but tense and accelerated, frequently very unequal, and then for a time weak.

Drawing pain in the back.
Pain in the small of the back, especially at night.
Bruised sensation in the muscles of the loins and back.
Small of back feels bruised.

Pain in the arms, cannot bear the slightest motion.
Stiffness of the arm, tendency to formication when grasping with the hand.
Finger-joints red and swollen.

Violent drawing, tearing pains, from the left ischium to the os calcis and sole of the foot, with cramp-like tension of the muscles.
Tearing pains from abdomen down into legs. See 23, 24.
Cramp in the calves.
Tearing pain in the feet after a severe chill; must lie down and keep quiet; pain in ankle, worse from every motion.
Redness and swelling around the malleoli.
Heaviness and lassitude in the legs.
Burning of the soles at night; puts the feet out of bed.

Pain in the periosteum, with paralytic weakness.
Drawing and tearing pains in the limbs, worse at night.
Joints sore, as if bruised and tired out; no power in the hands and feet.
Cracking in the joints, especially of the lower limbs, with pains therein, as if bruised.
Aching in all the limbs, with lassitude.
Limbs feel heavy.

Inclination to lie down.
Motion: 32, 33. Rising from sleep: 1; from bed: 2. Sitting up in bed: 2. Lying down: 5. Stooping: 3, 6. Must lie down and keep quiet: 33. Tosses about, starts up: 37, 40. Bending head back: 26. Bends backward: 36.

Child makes itself and bends backwards, kicks with the feet when carried, screams immoderately, and throws everything off.
Convulsions of children: legs moved up and down, grasping and reaching with the hands, mouth drawn from side to side, eyes staring.
Twitching in the eyelids, eyeballs, lips and facial muscles.
Pain in limbs, with weakness and slow, dragging gait.
General prostration, faintness.

Yawning and stretching.
Sleep, with half open eyes; sleepy, but cannot sleep.
Sleepless and restless at night.
Scarcely sleeps, and on falling asleep is tormented by anxious, frightening dreams.
During sleep: moaning; weeping and wailing; starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking.

Morning: 2, 5. Forenoon: 3. Afternoon: 1, 12. Evening: 3. Night: 1, 10, 16, 24, 27, 31, 33, 34, 37, 46. Midnight: 27. Day: 27.

Warmth: 19; of bed: 10. Dry weather: 2, 6. Cold air: 26, 40; damp: 5. Open air: 10, 24. Cold change of weather: 5. Winter: 27. Wants fresh air: 24. Uncovering: 40. Room: 10.
Heat aggravates the pains.

Coldness with thirst.
Chill and shivering, generally of single parts only, with heat of others.
Chill and coldness of the whole body, with burning heat of the face and hot breath.
Chill of posterior part with heat of anterior of body, or vice versa.
Slight shiverings, alternating with heat, creep over the back and abdomen.
Shivering when uncovering and from cold air.
Heat and shivering intermingled mostly with one red and one pale cheek.
Burning heat in lightly covered parts, though when not covered almost cold.
Anxious heat, with sweat of the face and scalp.
Long-lasting heat, with violent thirst and frequent startings in sleep.
Sweat during sleep, most on the head, usually of sour odor, and with smarting sensation in skin.
Revulsion of, and therefrom entire want of sweat.

Right: 18. Left: 3, 6, 8, 10, 18, 33. Above downwards: 24, 33. Below upwards: 28. Behind forwards: 23.
Symptoms in provings go from right to left; therefore cures from left to right.

The paralytic sensations are always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and the drawing or tearing pains rarely occur without the paralytic or numb sensation in the part.

Muscular or articular rheumatism, with great nervous excitability; also when pains are erratic, worse knees and ankles; numbness afterwards. They drive him out of bed and compel him to walk about.

Touch: 19, 24, 46. Wants to be carried: 1.
Wounds which suppurate (topically and internally).

Unhealthy, every injury suppurates.
Exanthema difficult to heal.
Red rash on the cheeks.
Skin inclined to inflammation.
Burning and smarting pain in the ulcer, at night, with crawling and painful oversensitiveness to touch.
Itching pimples covered with scurfs, and ulcerating around the ulcer.
Severe itching of the sweating parts.
Skin yellow, jaundiced.

Children. Light or brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament.
Adults; even persons with arthritic or rheumatic diathesis.

Antidotes to Chamom.: Acon; Alum, Borax, Camphor., Coccul., Coffea, Coloc., Ignat., Nux vom., and especially Pulsat.
Similar to Tarax. See 11; Hepar, Calend. (suppuration).
Chamom. antidotes: Coffea, Opium.
Complementary to Magnes.

A tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant of Matricaria Chamomilla, Linn., when in flower.

It belongs to the catarrhal group, affecting all mucous membranes. ▶ Its rheumatoid or neuralgic pains are noteworthy (Compare its botanical relatives, Arnica and Gnaphalium). ▶ Its action on the emotional sphere is, however, most characteristic and serves to indicate the remedy in a greater number of complaints than its general symptomatology might suggest.

Puls., Sulph., Acon., Nat. m., also Arnica, Gnaphal. and Tanacet.

Sitting stiff like a statue, noticing nothing; the child becomes stiff, bends backward, stamps on the nurse's arm, screams and throws everything off. ▶ Convulsions in children, now one leg, now the other is moved up and down, grasping for something, mouth drawn back and forth, eyes staring (Tanacet.). ▶ Twitching of limbs and eyelids; of limbs and head in morning nap. ▶ Tossing about, with heat and redness of cheeks, confused talk and open eyes. ▶ Starting. ▶ Stretching. ▶ The child will neither stand nor walk, and cries piteously; will always lie, does not wish to be carried.

Stitches in various parts, agg. joints; jumping from place to place (Puls.), agg. knees and ankles, amel. motion; in joints, along bones and in muscles, in latter with jerking and tearing; or drawing pains, in right then left leg, extending into ankles and dorsa of feet, then again in right shoulder, on hips or left half of head. ▶ Tearing here and there; T. in attacks in evening. ▶ Pains seem intolerable. ▶ Pains agg. eructation; at night, amel. warm compresses; (at night, amel. sitting up in bed); agg. neck, throat and occiput, when standing long and keeping body in one position; composed of itching and sticking, in spots, now in one part, now in another, agg. scratching. ▶ Bruised pain in stormy weather. ▶ Drawing pain in all bones, even in occiput; in head, now in shoulder-joint and hip-joint, now in lower limbs; in scapulæ, chest and hands, as from taking cold. ▶ Oppression; on moving; in morning, with irritability. ▶ Feeling of impending illness. ▶ Uneasiness; anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing in abdomen (Acon.); cannot remain in bed.

Weakness; in morning; during rest; when the pain begins; amel. motion, with inability for earnest thought; in attacks, agg. limbs; sudden, while sitting and walking, agg. knees, with cracking of knees; faintlike; faintlike, after breakfast; paralytic, of painful parts, amel. walking, the pains agg. sitting or lying, agg. parts at rest or tensely drawn, for instance, in wrist when writing. ▶ Faintness; and sickness, sinking about heart, sudden paralyzed feeling in legs, pain in all limbs as if beaten (Compare Tanac.). ▶ Paralyzed feeling in parts where pains had ceased; the paralytic feeling in any part is always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and the drawing or tearing pains rarely occur without the paralytic or numb sensation in the part (See Tanacet.). ▶ Stiffness. ▶ Aggravation on right side; of all symptoms by walking. ▶ Amelioration when walking; during midday heat; by sweat.

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It belongs to the catarrhal group, affecting all mucous membranes. Its rheumatoid or neuralgic pains are noteworthy (compare its botanical relatives, Arnica and Gnaphalium). Its action on the emotional sphere is, however, most characteristic, and serves to indicate the remedy in a greater number of complaints than its general symptomatology might suggest.

Sharp, mostly sticking pains which change from place to place when in the bones and muscles, but particularly in the joints; generally > motion.
Tearing pains at night, with a feeling of numbness.
Extreme sensibility to pain; seems as though it could not be borne.
Pains cause even despair.
Over-sensibility of all the organs of special sense (such as follows drinking coffee or the use of palative narcotics).
The pains are most violent at night, and accompanied by heat and thirst.
During the pain there is also weakness, even to sinking down.
Uneasiness, anxiety, agonizing tossing about, with tearing in abdomen.
Faintness and sickness, sinking about the heart, sudden paralyzed feeling in legs, pain in all the limbs as if beaten.
Twitchings; threatening convulsions; one leg or the other is moved up and down; the child becomes stiff, bends backward, screams and throws everything off.

Whining restlessness; the child wants this and that, but when given it he will not have it or pushes it away; piteous moaning of a child because he cannot have what he wants; the child can only be quiet when carried on the arm; moans on account of trifling, even imaginary insults; moans with heat of face.
Peevishness about everything, with dyspnœa; about pains; on appearance of menses, with obstinacy even to quarreling.
Impatience; everything goes too slowly.
Intolerance of being spoken to or interrupted, < after rising from sleep, with sluggish pupils.
Anxiety; with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in bladder; dissatisfaction with everything that she undertakes, irresolution, with flushes of heat in face and cool sweat in palms; with uneasiness.
Excitement and confusion.
Omission of words when writing or speaking.
Unconsciousness in a child; frequent changes in face, distortion of eyes, contraction of facial muscles, rattling in chest, cough, yawning and stretching.

Clinical:
The great indication for the use of Chamomilla is to be found in the mental condition of the patient; children are extremely restless and impatient; they want to be petted constantly and carried about, and they cry piteously if they cannot have everything they want; older people are peevish and impatient, extremely sensitive to pain; even the slightest twinge is intolerable; they are always complaining.
It is not infrequently indicated in people who have been in the habit of taking opium, bromide of potash, etc.
These mental symptoms will call for the drug in a great variety of neuralgias, painful diseases, hysterical symptoms, etc., even if indications other than the preceding are wanting; it, at least, changes the aspect of the case and makes it more amenable to treatment.

Inclination to bend backward.
Pressure increasing and decreasing in half of forehead and in right temple, where there are stitches which sometimes extend to occiput like electric sparks.
General confusion in the afternoon, with pressure on the eyes.
Vertigo after eating; staggering in the morning on rising; in attacks, with tendency to faint.
Drawing, tearing headache on one side, extending down into the chest.
Throbbing headaches in one-half of the brain.
Rush of blood, with throbbing in the head.
Headache follows suppressed perspiration.
Pains in the head always worse when thinking of them.

Burning heat in the eyes.
Eyes inflamed.
Margins of the lower lids inflamed and swollen.
Distortion of the eyes; twitching of the lids.
Spasmodic closure of the lids.
Eyes are swollen and agglutinated in the morning.
Photophobia.

Stitching, tearing pain, worse stooping, with ill humor about trifles.
Hearing extremely sensitive.

Ulceration of the nostrils.
Nose-bleed.
Coryza, with loss of smell.
Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, dry heat, stopped sensation, feeling as if coryza would appear; also with pressure in forehead.
Sensitiveness to smell.

One cheek red, the other pale.
Face puffy and red.
Heat of the face, with cold body.
One-sided swelling of the cheeks.
Twitching of the muscles of the face and lips.
Hot, sticky sweat on forehead.
Deep cracks in the lower lip.

Toothache after warm drinks, after coffee, after eating and drinking, especially after warm food; pain drives one to distraction.
Drawing toothache after eating and drinking, worse at night; teeth feel too long.
Teeth sensitive to air, especially the hollow back teeth.
The gums are swollen and burning hot with the toothache.
(Very valuable for troubles of children when teething.)
Tongue coated yellow; dirty white, with blisters on and beneath it, with stinging.
Bitter taste.
Salivation, of sweetish, metallic taste; taste like rancid fat.
The whole mouth seems hot.

Inflammation of the soft palate and tonsils.
Pain in the left side when swallowing.
Constriction of pharynx, spasmodic; food remains sticking in the tip of the throat; impossible to swallow solid food when lying down.

Thirst.
Loss of appetite, even aversion to food.
Sour eructations; of gas, like spoiled eggs.
Nausea after drinking coffee in the morning, with attacks of suffocation.
Sour vomiting.
Pressure on the stomach after eating a little, as from a stone.
Cramps in the stomach after being angry.
A feeling of fullness, with anxiety.

Distention after eating.
Collection of flatulence in the hypochondria.
Cutting, burning and tearing pains in the upper part of the abdomen, with short breath.
Cutting pains before menstruation, with darting pains in the thighs.
Intermittent pains, with flatulence and stitches in the chest.

Hæmorrhoids, blind.
Bleeding.
Itching pain in the anus.

Diarrhœa; nightly, with colic so that she must bend double; hot, smelling like rotten eggs; green, watery, painless, consisting of feces and mucus; white, slimy, with colic.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa; green, slimy mucus; chopped, white and yellow mucus; often of a changeable color; often undigested; often like chopped eggs and spinach; nearly always of foul odor, especially in children during teething or after taking cold; associated with colic, often with soreness of the anus.

Anxious urging to urinate.
Burning in the neck of the bladder when urinating.
Frequent need to urinate; urine pale, copious.

Drawing pains from the small of the back, griping and pinching in uterus, then discharge of large clots of blood.
Dragging towards uterus like labor pains, with frequent urging to urinate.
Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with labor-like pains in uterus and tearing in veins of legs.
Acrid, watery discharge after dinner; yellow, biting leucorrhœa.

Clinical:
A very valuable remedy for uterine hæmorrhages; the flow is irregular, dark and clotted; sometimes there is constant oozing of dark, foul blood, with occasional bright gushes (Bell.).
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.
Menstrual colic, especially the result of anger.
Severe pains follow labor, especially if they extend down thighs, with great nervous excitement.
Threatening miscarriage from fits of anger.
During labor the patient is intolerant of the pain, the os is rigid and the pains extend into the thighs.
Puerperal convulsions after anger, one cheek hot, the other pale.
Suppression of milk from anger.
Inflamed breasts.

Larynx raw, scraping.
Hoarseness, caused by a collection of tough mucus in the larynx, which is only detached by violent hawking.
Whistling, wheezing and rattling when breathing.
Rawness in the upper part of the trachea; pressure and irritation to cough.
Cough at night caused by irritation low in trachea; in a paroxysm at night, with which something seems to rise into the throat, as if she would suffocate.
Dry cough in sleep at night.
Dry, tickling cough, seeming to come from the pit of the throat.
Constriction of the upper part of the chest; soreness on coughing.
Suffocative tightness, constriction of larynx, in region of pit of throat, irritation to cough.
Irritation beneath the upper part of sternum, with or without cough.

Drawing, tearing pains, worse at night, sometimes > constant tossing about.
Cracking of the joints, with bruised pain.
Soreness of all the joints, as if bruised and tired.
No power in hands and feet.
The arms seem to fall asleep easily; seem stiff when grasping anything.
Convulsions of the arms; thumb drawn into the hand.
Cold sweat in the hollows of the hands.
Cramps in the calves.

A red rash on the cheeks; tendency to ulceration, with burning, biting pain and crawling.
Injuries suppurate easily.
Itching at night with the eruption.
The whole skin becomes yellow.

Sleep during the day, but cannot sleep at night if he lies down.
Sleeplessness until 2 A. M., on account of painful weakness in limbs, heat and restlessness.
Starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking.
Moaning in sleep.

Shivering, with internal heat; with heat, which comes out of the face like fire.
Chill on anterior part of the body.
Chill in various parts, alternating with heat; at one time cold, at another warm, etc.
Cold limbs, with heat of face and eyes and hot breath.
In general, coldness or chilliness in isolated parts of the body, with heat of other parts, or with alternating heat.
Heat in the morning after coffee, with sweat, vomiting of bitter mucus, then bitter taste, weakness in head and nausea.
Heat, even in lightly covered parts, with coldness of others.
Flushes of heat over the head and face.
Heat of the face, especially after eating and drinking, with sweat.
Heat of the cheeks in the evening, with flying shivering.
Burning in soles at night.
Sweat on covered parts.
The sweat is of a sour, pungent odor.

Cham. / (Children) / The child.

Chamomilla,-Thine the pain
that can fearful height obtain,
With a head in steaming sweat,
And a mind in angry fret.
Pains Neuralgic in thy ear,
And thy teeth and face appear.
Colic, too, with thee we find,
Mostly of a bilious kind.
Jaundice showing bilious rule,
And a green and griping stool.
Chest catarrh, is thine to keep,
Even coughing in thy sleep.
Ills from cutting teeth the cause,
Child the while exceeding cross.
One cheek pale the other red,
And a hot and sweaty head.
Over-sensitive to pain,
Chills and heat alternate reign.
Menstrual colic,-"after pains,"-
Clotted metrorrhagic drains.
Worse when lying down at rest,
When in motion feeling best.

The Child,-Has one red cheek.

The Child, Nate Cina, has a job with Achsa at Red Moss.

This Child,-Who is cross,-Is in Cina, with his Aunt, Netty Kip, the creole.

One red cheek: Cham., Nat. m., Cina, Aco., Bell., Acet. a., Sang., Mos. (Left, Acet., Nat. m.)

Cross-Uncivil: Cham., Cina, Ant. c., Nux. v., Tart. e., Kal. p., Kreo., etc.

Indicated in diseases of children, during the period of dentition, with diarrhoea; the characteristics are clear-cut. Here, and in adults, in neuralgic, menstrual and other troubles, the intolerance of pain, aggravation from anger and great mental irritablility are safe guides.

Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla.

Sleepy, but cannot sleep.

Colic brought on by anger.

Toothache, worse from taking anything warm into the mouth.

Gastralgia, with bitter, sour vomiting.

Peevishness, fretfulness, intolerance of pain.

Child only kept quiet by being carried up and down (fondness of passive motion).

Diarrhoea; stools green, watery, hot, corroding, containing white particles; smell like rotten eggs.

Dry, hacking cough, from tickling low down in the trachea; scanty expectoration of bitter taste; stitching pain under the false ribs.

Profuse menstruation of dark, clotted blood, with spasmodic, labor-like pains.

Worse from heat, anger; in the early night.

Better from being carried; in warm, wet weather.

Stupidity. Day dreams. Mental obtuseness. Great, anxious excitability weeping, howling and tossing shout, Great anxiety at heart. Impatience. Peevishness, with incessant scraping and howling. Bad effects of anger, with vehemence and wrath: Glowing heat of face, hot sweat on head, spasms, fainting attacks with vertigo, qualmishness, or paralysis of legs. Aversion to music.

On raising up.

Tearing in one side, or in forehead and temple, extending into jaws, waking one from sleep about midnight Congestion to, with throbbing therein, more on one side. Heavy. Aches from suppressed sweat. Hot, sticky sweat on scalp and over forehead. Worse: Night: open air, especially in the wind. Better: Warm applications, walking about in room, after rising.

Wags it to and fro. Very sensitive to fresh air, wind and touch. Erysipelatous swelling, mostly one - sided, of face, temples and head, with unbearable pain. Takes cold in, especially when sweating. Worse: Night, open air, wind, scratching. Better: Warm wraps, gentle motion in a warm room.

Burning beat in. Inflammation of, until they bleed, and of lower lids, with swelling of latter. Distorted, with twitching lids. Spasmodic closure of lids. Aversion to bright light.

Earache, with sticking and tearing pains. Sensitive bearing.

Nose bleed. Ulcerated nostrils. Most extreme acuteness of smell. Fluent coryza.

Red, puffy. Heat of, also with coldness of body. Swelling of one cheek. Redness of one cheek, paleness of the other. Twitching facial muscles and lips. Wrinkling of forehead. Deep cracks in lower lip.

Unendurable, drawing ache at night, with thirst and hot, red, swollen cheeks. Toothache worse from warm drinks, especially coffee. Burning and swelling of gums during toothache. Spasms in children suffering with symptoms of the teeth.

Foul breath. Sore throat with swollen parotids. frothing at. Inflammation of soft palate and tonsils. Inability to swallow solid food when lying, also in general. Food lodges in throat pit. Dryness in throat Red, figured tongue. Convulsive motions of tongue.

Taste: Putrid or bitter, in mouth.

Violent pressure, as from a stone in, after every meal. Spasm of, after anger. Fullness in pit of, with anxiety.

Hypochondria: Inflation of. Inflammation of liver.

Appetite: Anorexia and repugnance to food. Great thirst for cold water.

Eructations: Sour, which intensify the symptoms. Bitter.

Nausea, etc. - Great qualmishness. Inclination to vomit after drinking coffee. Vomiting: Of bile, sour, of mucus or drink.

Cutting, burning and tearing in upper, with shortness of breath, Cramps in. Painful distension of, with inflamed intestines.

Flatulence: Colic from, especially at night.

Diarrhoea: At night, with frequent but small stools, greenish, hacked, or curdled, undigested, mucus, with bellyache and inflation of abdomen.

Hot. Anxious urging to urinate.

Labor - like pains in uterus. Anxiety and restlessness, with feeble labor pains during parturition.

Menses: Uterine hemorrhage, of bad smelling clots. Discharge of blood between menses. Acrid leucorrhoea.

Rapid, rattling. Short. Tightness of chest in region of throat pit.

Dry, after catching cold (in children in winter). Dull, suffocative, from, tickling in chest, throat, larynx and throat - pit, dry at night, during sleep during day, with expectoration of a scanty, tenacious mucus of a bitter or foul taste.

Sticking burning in. Whistling and wheezing in trachea. Hoarseness.

Neck: Inflammatory swelling and induration of cervical glands.

Burning stinging pain and bursting feeling in. Spasm of. Excoriated nipples. Scirrhous induration and swelling of mammae. Pus and cheesy milk in mammae. Tickling and stinging pain in throat pit. Palpitation.

Arms go to sleep easily when grasping anything tightly. Convulsion of arms with clenched thumbs. Cold sweat on palms.

Nightly paralytic, tearing pains with numb feeling in limbs. Convulsive twitches in limbs. Convulsive twitches in limbs. Extremely sensitive to cool air and great aversion to wind. Oversensitive to pain, it seems unendurable and drives him in despair from place to place. Hyperesthesia of all the senses (especially also after coffee or narcotic palliatives). Pains are most intense at night and ear accompanied by heat and thirst. When the pain begins he quickly sinks down from prostration. Violent effects of anger, particularly if he eats or drinks at that time. Opisthotonos. Emaciation. The child always desires be carried.

Glands inflamed, swollen.

Yellow, over entire body. Unhealthy. Excoriated, in children. Eruption with itching at night.

Somnolency with short breath, starting and groaning. Nightly sleeplessness with visions and anxiety. Crying out, starting up, tossing about and weeping during sleep. Yawning and stretching.

Pulse: Small, but tense and accelerated, often very irregular and for a time weak. Chill: And shuddering usually only of single parts, with heat of others. Shivering with internal heat. And coldness of entire body, with burning heat of face and hot breath. Alternate shivering and coldness of some, with heat of other parts. Of posterior half, with heat of the other half of the body or the reverse. Shivering whenever he uncovers, and in cold air. Heat: Mingled with shuddering, mostly with one red and one pale cheek. Anxious, with sweat on face and hairy scalp. Long - continued, with intense thirst and frequent starting up in sleep. Burning, with sour sweat and furious delirium, most intense at night. Sweat: In sleep, most profuse on head, mostly sour, and smarting the skin. Recession of, consequently entirely wanting. Clammy.

Allied Remedies: ACO., Alum., Ap., Ars., Bell., Bor., Caps., Chin., Cina., COCCL., Coff., Coloc., HEP., IGN., Ip., Kre., Lyc., MAG-C., NUX-V., Petr., PULS., Rhe., Rhus-t., Stram., Sul., Valer.

Unceasing crying and yelling.

Cross and peevish, angry disposition.

Anxious restlessness in mind and body with tossing about.

The child wants to be carried, and is then more quiet.

Oversensitiveness to pain, and of the organs of sense to fresh air and wind.

Twitchings and convulsions of children during dentition.

Pulsating pain, as from concealed suppuration.

Heat and redness of one cheek.

Pains accompanied by thirst and heat.

Perspiration of the head, especially the borders of the hair.

Drowsiness with moaning and staring.

Bad effects from wrath, from coffee and narcotic palliatives.

Aggravation in the night, after breakfast, after suppressed perspiration, on getting warm in bed.