# Chamomilla

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the whole flowering plant of Matricaria chamomilla (German chamomile), a. member of the Asteraceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilution,. and succussion to enhance therapeutic action and eliminate toxicity. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  acute  pain,  irritability,  and. inflammatory  conditions,  particularly  those  involving  hypersensitivity,  restlessness,  and. intolerance to pain. It is noted for symptoms such as teething pain, colic, and extreme irritability,. often aggravated by anger, heat, or touch, and ameliorated by being carried, gentle motion, or warm. applications. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  pain  syndromes (e.g.,  teething  pain,  dysmenorrhea),. gastrointestinal  disorders (e.g.,  colic,  diarrhea),  neurological  complaints (e.g.,  neuralgia,. insomnia), respiratory conditions (e.g., otitis media, cough), and psychological conditions (e.g.,. irritability, anxiety). It suits patients with acute or subacute symptoms characterized by  intense. pain, extreme irritability, hypersensitivity, or restlessness, typically exacerbated by heat, anger,. or sensory stimuli, and often seen in children with teething or colic, women with menstrual pain, or. individuals with stress-related irritability. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a. sensitive,  irritable  constitution,  often  presenting  with  physical  symptoms  like  sharp  pains  or. digestive upset alongside emotional traits like anger or capriciousness, commonly observed in. infants, young children, or adults with low pain tolerance and heightened emotional reactivity. Chamomilla (German Chamomile, Matricaria chamomilla) 563.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Heat (air, rooms, drinks), anger, touch, noise, contradiction, night, teething,. menstruation, rich foods, coffee, sensory stimuli, warm, stuffy rooms, being looked at,. emotional stress.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Irritable, fussy, whining and moaning.
- Capricious.
- Child wants many things which he then refuses.
- Discontented and dissatisfied, demanding.
- They do not know what they want.
- Children want to be carried 
and held.
- Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly.
- Extremely sensitive to every type of pain, always complaining.
- Sensitive to music, noise.
- Aversion to 
talking.
- Can't bear anyone near him.
- Violent from the pains.
- Aversion to being touched.
- Kicks when carried 
and becomes stiff.
- Oversensitive after coffee.
- Despair with the pains.
- Obstinate.
- Fretful, peevish, a frenzy of irritability and sensitivity.
- Fussy (Nux -v.).
- Ugly behavior, cross and 
uncivil, quarrel some.
- Spiteful, snappish.
- Whining restless ness.
- Fidgety, hyper.
- Hasty, hurried.
- Abrupt.
- Sensitive to reprimands.
- Sensitive nerves.
- Complaints from anger and vexation.
- Anger can bn ng out Cham, state (Staph., Coloc.).
- Mistrust.
- Faint after 
intense emotions or intense pain.
- A verse to being spoken to, touched, or being looked at.
- Omits words while 
writing and speaking.
- Excitement and confusion.
- Fear of wind.
- Anxiety with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in 
bladder.
- Impatience, everything goes too slowly.
- Impatient, intolerant of being interrupted.
- Weeping during 
sleep.
- Cross and sleepless.
- Restlessness, driving out of bed.
- Melancholia, with constant moaning and muttering to herself, walks all the time with downcast eyes.
- Women 
become suddenly capricious, quarrelsome , obstinate,  before menses.
- No consideration for feelings of 
others and will enter into a dispute or quarrel with them regardless.
- Peevishness about everything, with dyspnea.
- Dwells on past disagreeable oc currences.
- Moaning on account 
of a very trifling o ffence, which has happened a long time ago.
- Indifference to pleasure.
- Irritability when 
spoken to during menses.
- Tries to get away from her friends if they seek to comfort her.
- Dissatisfaction with 
everything she undertakes.
- Irresolution.
- Thoughts of dying.
- Irritable, fussy, whining and moaning.
- Capricious.
- Child wants many things which he then refuses.
- Discontented and dissatisfied, demanding.
- They do not know what they want.
- Children want to be carried 
and held.
- Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly.
- Extremely sensitive to every type of pain, always complaining.
- Sensitive to music, noise.
- Aversion to 
talking.
- Can't bear anyone near him.
- Violent from the pains.
- Aversion to being touched.
- Kicks when carried 
and becomes stiff.
- Oversensitive after coffee.
- Despair with the pains.
- Obstinate.
- Fretful, peevish, a frenzy of irritability and sensitivity.
- Fussy (Nux -v.).
- Ugly behavior, cross and 
uncivil, quarrel some.
- Spiteful, snappish.
- Whining restless ness.
- Fidgety, hyper.
- Hasty, hurried.
- Abrupt.
- Sensitive to reprimands.
- Sensitive nerves.
- Complaints from anger and vexation.
- Anger can bn ng out Cham, state (Staph., Coloc.).
- Mistrust.
- Faint after 
intense emotions or intense pain.
- A verse to being spoken to, touched, or being looked at.
- Omits words while 
writing and speaking.
- Excitement and confusion.
- Fear of wind.
- Anxiety with ineffectual urging to urinate, without much urine in 
bladder.
- Impatience, everything goes too slowly.
- Impatient, intolerant of being interrupted.
- Weeping during 
sleep.
- Cross and sleepless.
- Restlessness, driving out of bed.
- Melancholia, with constant moaning and muttering to herself, walks all the time with downcast eyes.
- Women 
become suddenly capricious, quarrelsome , obstinate,  before menses.
- No consideration for feelings of 
others and will enter into a dispute or quarrel with them regardless.
- Peevishness about everything, with dyspnea.
- Dwells on past disagreeable oc currences.
- Moaning on account 
of a very trifling o ffence, which has happened a long time ago.
- Indifference to pleasure.
- Irritability when 
spoken to during menses.
- Tries to get away from her friends if they seek to comfort her.
- Dissatisfaction with 
everything she undertakes.
- Irresolution.
- Thoughts of dying.

### Head
- Throbbing headache in one half of the brain, inclination to bend head backwards.
- As if hair stood on 
end with shivenng.
- Headaches, worsefrom coffee.
- Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp during sleep, 
wetting the hair.
- Headache of delicate, over-fatigued women.
- Headache, better when mind is engaged, worse 
morning and 9 p.m.
- Kidneys - Urine hot and yellowish.
- Stitches in urethra.
- Throbbing headache in one half of the brain, inclination to bend head backwards.
- As if hair stood on 
end with shivenng.
- Headaches, worsefrom coffee.
- Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp during sleep, 
wetting the hair.
- Headache of delicate, over-fatigued women.
- Headache, better when mind is engaged, worse 
morning and 9 p.m.
- Kidneys - Urine hot and yellowish.
- Stitches in urethra.

### Eyes
- Lids smart.
- Yellow conjunctiva.
- Spasmodic c losing of lids.
- Bloody water from the eyes of newborn 
babies.

### Ears
- Sensitive to cold wind  or noise about ears.
- Earache withsoreness, swellingand heat, driving 
patient frantic.
- Earache, sticking, better warmth.
- Stitching pain.
- Otitis media with fever and pain.
- Ears feel 
stopped u p.
- Ears sensitive to touch and painful.
- Ringing after hemorrhages.
- Roaring in the ears as of 
rushing water.
- Music is insupportable.
- As if hot water was running out.
- Hear voices of absent persons, at night.

### Face
- Swelling or redness of the cheek.
- Red cheeks and hot sweat during colic.
- One cheek red and hot, 
other pale and cold.
- Face pale, sunken, distorted by pain.
- Neuralgia of the face with hot s weat about the 
head, pain extending into ear.
- Jerking of tongue and facial muscles.
- Jaws feel tired.
- Stitches injaw extending 
to inner ear and teeth.
- Sweats after eating or drinking.

### Mouth
- Toothache, worse after warm drinks, coffee, at night.
- Worse during d entition.
- Toothache worse 
during pregnancy.
- Toothache drives to distraction.
- Teeth feel elongated.
- Distress of teething children (Calc-
p., Ter.).
- Jerking in tongue.
- Thick.
- white, yellow fur on tongue.
- Nightly sali vation of sweetish taste.
- Painful wisdom teeth.
- Bitter taste.
- Bad.
- sour 
breath.
- Nose - Extremely sensitive to all smells.
- Crawling in nose, until eyes water.
- Hot coryza, with obstruction of 
nose, inability to sleep.
- Skin wrinkled.

### Throat
- Inability to swallow solid food when lying.
- Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen.
- Constriction and 
pain as from a plug.
- COMMENTS - Kent differentiated Cham, from Puls, by noting that you want to hug Puls., and spank Cham.
- For any childhood disease with Cham, picture.
- Teste remarked on this that Cham, anti dotes not only Coff., but also Caust.
- and most of the members of the 
Caust.
- group.
- Cham, may be a remedy in croup or croupy cough, if mental symptoms and time condi tions 
correspond.
- Earaches, teething and colic.
- Wisdom teeth in adults.
- Toothache worse drinking something warm, at night.
- Ear infections, ear is hypersensitive to the least touch.
- Fevers.
- Whooping cough.
- Dry, hacking cough.
- Unbearable pains, drive to despair, the patient insists that the doctor shall cure them at once.
- Prostrating 
debility as soon as the pains begin.
- Hypersensitive with great irritability and crossnes s.
- Sleeplessness due to teething, colic, ear infections.
- 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 from heat, 
worse by warm food.
- Nocturnal salivation.
- Rheumatism compelling to get up and walk about, thirsty, hot, almost beside himself.
- Muscles of face and 
hands twitch.
- Intertrigo of children.
- Inflammation of the parotid glands.
- Infantile jaundice, neonatal jaundice, 
with sleeplessness, crying and screaming since birth.
- Diarrhea is hot, slimy, watery, yellowbrown or yellowish-green stool like chopped egg.
- Stools are grass green 
(Mag-c.).
- Diarrhea with colic.
- Offensive, excoriation around anus.
- Wind colic.
- Worse belching of wind.
- Threatened miscarriage caused by anger.
- The pain of labor or at menses is centered in the womb, bearing 
down, painful contractions, unbearable, they extend down thighs and are felt in the back.
- Leucorrhea is acrid, 
watery, corrosive, smarting.
- Menorrhagia dark clots, fetid, temper always worse before and during flow.
- Guernsey noted that “there is in Chamo milla a little thread of symptoms and nearly always found running 
through it.
- This is a spiteful, sudden or uncivil irritability.” In spite of its obvious analogies wit h Puls.
- Ip., Aeon, 
and Con., it has marked and exclusive characteristics of its own.
- “It increases the general nervous sensibil ity 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.” 
Hahnemann said, “It appears to diminish 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 pa in patiently and 
with resignation.
- I mention this rule here, for it is of very great importance.” 
W.
- H.
- Baker (Rochester) recorded such a case.
- A chubby boy, light hair, blue eyes has a croupy cough.
- Aeon, 
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.
- 100,000c cured, improvement setting in within two hours.
- Dr.
- Anderson of Dover, Delaware, related the case of a man who had to change three to five times every night 
due to excessive sweating.
- 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 Anthémis cotula, or wild chamomile of the U.S.
- Dr.
- Anderson learned its 
use from “an old woman.” But the sweats of Cham, are also very marked.
- Nash mentioned a characteristic in the association of numbness or alternation of it with pains.
- He related 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 differentiated the 
restlessness of Aeon., 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.”

### Chest
- Ear pain or otitis media, with throbbing or burning sensations, resembling acute otitis.
- media, worse with cold air, heat, or anger.
- Cough, dry or spasmodic, with throat irritation, resembling acute bronchitis or post-.
- viral cough, aggravated by cold air, night, or emotional stress.
- Hoarseness  or  throat  soreness,  with  burning  or  rawness,  resembling  pharyngitis,.
- worse with heat or talking.
- Tendency to respiratory infections, with fever and irritability, worse in warm, stuffy.
- rooms or during teething.
- Chamomilla (German Chamomile, Matricaria chamomilla) 565.
- Psychological:.
- Extreme irritability or anger, with capriciousness or intolerance to contradiction,.
- resembling adjustment disorder or oppositional defiant disorder, worse with pain,.
- heat, or noise.
- Anxiety or restlessness, with a sense of overwhelm, resembling generalized anxiety.
- disorder, aggravated by pain, sensory stimuli, or emotional stress.
- Mood  swings  or  whining,  often  linked  to  physical  discomfort,  resembling  acute.
- stress reaction, worse with touch or being looked at.
- Mental  agitation  or  difficulty  concentrating,  resembling.
- attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in acute states, worse with pain or.
- environmental overstimulation.
- Systemic:.
- Fever or flushing, with restlessness or irritability, resembling acute febrile illness or.
- teething fever, worse with heat, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Hypersensitivity  to  stimuli  (e.g.,  noise,  touch,  light),  with  aggravation  in  warm,.
- stuffy environments and a desire for cool, quiet settings.
- Profuse, hot, or offensive sweating, particularly during pain, fever, or irritability.
- episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions.
- Tendency to restlessness or agitation, with a sensation of internal heat, worse with.
- pain or emotional stress.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Belchings like bad eggs, foul.
- Acid rising, regurgitation of food.
- Colic in infants, children.
- Pressive 
pains, as from a stone (Bry., Abies -n.).
- Violent retching before vomiting.
- Severe, bitter, bilious vomiting with 
griping.
- Vomiting after morphine.
- Sweats aft er eating or drinking.
- Thirst, for cold water, sour drinks.
- Aversion 
to coffee, warm drinks.
- Nausea after coffee.
- Tongue yellow, tastes bitter.
- Temperature - Chilly, yet gets easily overheated, hence takes cold.
- Coldness of one part with heat of another, 
worse uncovering.
- Alternate chill and heat.
- Feverish from suppressed discharges.
- Sweat on head.
- Thirst during 
fever.
- Distended abdomen.
- Spells of colic from time to time.
- Flatulent colic after anger, with red cheeks 
and hot per spiration.
- Pain from side to side or going upward after anger.
- Colic in infants, children.
- Colic 
during dentition.
- Griping in region of navel and pain in small of back.
- Cutting pains, wind colic, worse night, 
urinating, better warm applications.
- As if bowels were knotted and abdomen empty.
- Acute duodenitis.

### Urinary & Genital
- Irregular labor-like pains, going up and down inner thighs, with  profuse discharge of clotted, dark 
blood.
- Intolerable labor pains, sends the doctors and nurse away, then calls again.
- Lochia too profuse and 
bloody or suppressed.
- Puerperal convulsions after anger.
- Distressing after pains.
- Menorrhagia with black clots, 
profuse with coldness of limbs and much thirst.
- Menstrual cramps with alot of pain and irritability.
- Dysmenorrhea from anger or emotions.
- Membranous dysmenorrhea, specially at puberty.
- Yellow, and acrid 
leucorrhea.
- Oozing of dark, foul blood with occasional gush of bright, red blood.

### Extremities
- Numbness and stiffness of hands, when grasping objects.
- Palms dry.
- Violent rheumat ic pains drive 
him out of bed at night, compelled to walk about.
- Burning of soles at night (Sulph.).
- Feet as if paralyzed, cannot 
step on them, at night.
- Feel as if she is walking on the ends of bones of her legs.
- Cramps in calves.
- Ankles 
give way in the afternoon.
- Liver - Hepatic colic.

### Neck & Back
- Insupportable pain in loins and hips.
- Lumbago.
- Stiffness of neck muscle s.
- Severe pains in loins and 
hips, opposite 
Chamomilla vulgaris to that on which patient is lying.
- Breasts - Breasts sore, nipples inflamed and very tender.
- Infants' breasts tender.
- Cramps, when child nurses.
- Milk is spoiled, baby won't suck.
- Causations - Ill effects of bad temper.
- Abuse of coffee or narcotics.
- Dentition.
- Constitutions - Suited to diseases of preg nant women, nurses and little children.
- Irritable, colicky babies, 
teething problems, earaches.
- Hypersensitive to pain.
- Arthritic diathesis.
- Neuralgic or gouty rheumatic diathesis.

### Skin
- Fever or flushing, with restlessness or irritability, resembling acute febrile illness or.
- teething fever, worse with heat, exertion, or emotional stress.
- Hypersensitivity  to  stimuli  (e.g.,  noise,  touch,  light),  with  aggravation  in  warm,.
- stuffy environments and a desire for cool, quiet settings.
- Profuse, hot, or offensive sweating, particularly during pain, fever, or irritability.
- episodes, worse at night or in warm conditions.
- Tendency to restlessness or agitation, with a sensation of internal heat, worse with.
- pain or emotional stress.

### Sleep
- Drowsy, but cannot sleep.
- Sleeplessness due to pain, teething, colic, earinfec - tions.
- Sleepless 
from abuse of stimulants, coffee, narcotics.
- Moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep.
- Anxious, frightened 
dreams with half-open eyes.
- Pain disturbs sleep.
- Sleeps with thighs separated.