- 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.
- 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.” 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
