Chamomilla cham.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

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

Worse

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

Better

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

General

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.

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Particulars

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.

Related

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

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

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.).

Relations

Complementary: Bell. in diseases of children, cranial nerves; Cham., abdominal nerves. In cases spoiled by the use of opium or morphine in complaints of children. Compare: Bell., Bor., Bry., Coff., Puls., Sulph. Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla.

Aggravation

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

Amelioration

From being carried; fasting; warm, wet weather.

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General

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.

Mental

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.

Nose

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

Stool

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

Stomach and Abdomen

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

Sexual

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.

Chest

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.

Skin

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

Sleep

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

Fever

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

Generalities

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.

Worse

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.

Better

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

Remedies following

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

Antidotes

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

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Red line symptom

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.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

German Chamomile

General

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.

Mind

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.

Head

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

Ears

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

Eyes

Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.

Nose

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

Face

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).

Throat

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

Mouth

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

Stomach

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).

Abdomen

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)).

Stool

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.

Female

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).

Respiratory

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.

Back

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

Extremities

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.

Sleep

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

Modalities

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

Relationship

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.

Dose

Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

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.

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Mind and Disposition

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.

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

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

Nose

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

Face

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.

Mouth and Throat

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.

Teeth

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.

Appetite and Taste

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

Stomach and Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

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.

Urinary Organs

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

Genital Organs

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.

Larynx and Trachea

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.

Chest

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.

Back

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

Extremities

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.

Generalities

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).

Sleep

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.

Fever

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.

Skin

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.

Conditions

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.

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General

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

Clinical

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.

Characteristics

"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.

Relations

Cham. antidotes: Coffee, and the narcotics. Especially opium as it corresponds to its secondary effects (useful in nerve storm when morphia is discontinued); the nightly headaches of Thuja. It is antidoted by: Aco., Alum., Borax, Camph., Coccul., Coff., Coloc., Coni., Ign., Nux v., and especially Puls. Puls. and Cham. antidote one another, and precede and follow each other well. Compatible: Merc. sol., Sul., Puls. Complementary: Bell. in diseases of children (Cham. acts more on nerves of abdomen, Bell. more on cranial nerves.) Compare: in dentition, Bell., Borax, Calc., Tereb.; in over-sensitiveness, Aco., Coff., Hep., Hyo., Ign.; diarrhœa, parotitis, toothache, Merc. (Merc. has hard, pale swelling of face, Cham. red and hot); sour breath, constrictive gastralgia in coffee drinkers, Nux (Cham. has bad temper during menses; Nux has malicious temper); toothache < in bed at night; < from warmth, Sul., Merc., Puls.; distension of abdomen unrelieved by eructation, Chi.; indignation and its effects, Coloc., Staph., Nux, Bry.; aversion to be looked at, Ant. c., Chi., Stram.; > by moving about, Rhus., Fer., Verat., (Ver. has maddening pains compelling to walk about, but there is none of the feverishness and excitement of Cham.); stopped catarrh, Nux, Samb., Sticta.; nocturnal salivation, Nux., Pho., Rhus.

Causation

Dentition. Anger. Indigestion. Pain.

Mind

Attacks of great anguish, as if the heart would break, with complete discouragement, excessive inquietude, agitation and tossing, groans and tears, accompanied often by drawing colic, and pressure at the pit of the stomach. ─ Disposition to weep, and to be angry, with great sensitiveness to offence. ─ Crying and howling. ─ The child cries and wants to be carried on the arm. ─ Quarrelsome and choleric humour. ─ Mischievous disposition in children. ─ Mental excitement, with strong tendency to be frightened. ─ Hypochondriacal humour. ─ Patients neither endure to be addressed by others, nor to be interrupted when conversing. ─ Peevishness, ill-humour, absence of mind, taciturnity and repugnance to conversation. ─ State of mental abstraction and inadvertence, as if plunged in meditation, with diminished comprehension. ─ A sort of stupidity, and apathy to pleasure and to external objects. ─ Desire for different things, which, when once possessed, are no longer cared for. ─ Tendency to misapply words when speaking or writing. ─ Frantic and furious delirium.

Head

Intoxication and staggering, on getting up in the morning. ─ Vertigo, with fainting. ─ Vertigo, with obscuration of the eyes. ─ Vertigo chiefly in the morning, or in the evening, or after a meal, or after taking coffee. ─ Headache on waking in the morning, or while asleep, sometimes with a sensation as if the head were going to burst. ─ Pain as if caused by a bruise, and pressive heaviness in the head. ─ Pullings, shootings, and beatings in the head, often only semi-lateral, with one red cheek; worse at night; in the open air; in the wind; better from warm coverings and when walking about. ─ Cracking in one side of the brain. ─ Hot, clammy sweat on the forehead, and on the scalp. ─ Starting pain in the forehead, chiefly after a meal.

Eyes

Pain as of a wound, in the corners of the eyes. ─ Shootings, burning, and heat in the eyes. ─ Eyes inflamed, and red, with pressive pains, chiefly on moving the eyes and on shaking the head. ─ Great dryness in the margin of the eyelids. ─ Inflammation of the margin of the eyelids (esp. of the lower, which are swollen), with mucous secretion, humour in the eyes and nocturnal agglutination. ─ Yellow colour of the sclerotica. ─ Ecchymosis in the eye, and hæmorrhage of the eyes. ─ Spasmodic closing of the eyelids. ─ Quivering of the eyelids. ─ Distortion of the eyes. ─ Pupils contracted. ─ Sparkling before the eyes. ─ Confused sight, more frequently in the morning than in the evening. ─ Semi-lateral obscuration of the sight, on looking at anything white. ─ Aversion to bright light.

Ears

Otalgia, with drawing and tensive pains. ─ Shootings extending to the ears, chiefly on stooping, with disposition to be angry at trifles, and to take everything in bad part. ─ Tinkling and buzzing in the ears. ─ Sensation as if the ears were stopped, and as if a bird were scraping and fluttering in them. ─ Sensibility of hearing; music appears insupportable. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the parotids, as well as of the sub-maxillary glands, and those of the neck. ─ Discharge of thin pus from the ears.

Nose

Wrinkled skin of the nose. ─ Coryza, with obstruction of the nose. ─ Ulceration and inflammation of the nostrils. ─ Epistaxis. ─ Coagulated blood from nose; viscid nasal secretion. ─ Very acute smell.

Face

Face hot, red, burning or redness and heat of one cheek, with coldness and paleness of the other; or face pale, hollow, with distortion of features from pain. ─ Heat of the face, while the rest of the body is cold. ─ Swelling of the face. ─ Erysipelas in the face, with hard and bluish swelling of one cheek. ─ Swelling of one temple, with pain on being touched. ─ Shooting, drawing, and pulsative pains in one side of the face. ─ Red miliary eruption on the cheeks. ─ Yellow colour of the skin on the face. ─ Convulsive movements of the muscles of the face and of the lips. ─ Lips cracked, excoriated, and ulcerated. ─ Spasms in the jaws, with compression of the teeth. ─ Wrinkles on the forehead.

Teeth

Odontalgia, most frequently semi-lateral, and chiefly at night, when warm in bed, with insupportable pains which almost induce despair, swelling, heat, and redness of the cheek, swelling, burning of the gums, and painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. ─ The toothache recommences when entering a warm room. ─ Toothache, after a cold and suppressed perspiration. ─ Affects teeth on l. lower side; under jaw. ─ The pains are commonly drawing and pulling, or pulsative and shooting, or searching and gnawing, in the hollow teeth, appearing frequently after drinking or eating anything hot (or cold), and chiefly after taking coffee. ─ Toothache > by dipping finger in cold water and applying it to affected part. ─ Loosening of the teeth. ─ Dentition, with convulsions.

Mouth

Dryness of the tongue and mouth (with thirst), or flow of frothy saliva. ─ Putrid smell of the mouth. ─ Tongue red and cracked, or loaded with thick and yellowish coating. ─ Blisters on the tongue and also under it, with shooting pains. ─ Aphthæ in the mouth. ─ Convulsive movements of the tongue.

Throat

Sore throat, with swelling of the parotids, of the tonsils, and of the sub-maxillary glands. ─ Inflammation of the soft palate and tonsils, with dark redness. ─ Pains in the pharynx, shooting and burning, or a sensation as if there were a plug in the throat. ─ Inability to swallow solid food, esp. when lying down. ─ Burning heat in the throat, from the mouth to the stomach. ─ Deep redness of the parts affected.

Appetite

Putrid or clammy taste. ─ Acid taste in the mouth, and of rye-bread. ─ Bitter taste in the mouth (early in the morning), and of food. ─ Want of appetite, and dislike to food. ─ Aliments cannot descend. ─ Aversion to, or great longing for coffee, sometimes with nausea, or even vomiting, and attacks of suffocation, after having partaken of it. ─ After eating, heat and sweat of the face, inflation and fulness of the stomach, and of the abdomen, risings and inclination to vomit. ─ Excessive thirst for cold drinks.

Stomach

Risings, which aggravate the pains of the stomach and of the abdomen. ─ Acid rising (the existing pain is aggravated by eructations). ─ Regurgitation of food. ─ Nausea after eating, and chiefly in the morning. ─ Uneasiness, and a sort of flabbiness in the stomach, as if the patient were about to faint. ─ Vomiting of food, and of sour substances, with mucus. ─ Bitter, bilious vomiting. ─ Excessively painful pressure on the precordial region, as if the heart were going to be crushed, with cries, sweat, and anguish. ─ Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone on the stomach, with difficulty of respiration, chiefly after eating, or at night, with inquietude and tossing, either renewed or mitigated by coffee. ─ Burning pain in the pit of the stomach, and in the hypochondria. ─ After eating or drinking, heat and perspiration of the face.

Abdomen

Tension and anxious fulness in the hypochondria, and in the epigastrium (in the morning), with a sensation as if everything was ascending towards the chest. ─ Colic, after anger. ─ Flatulent colic, with inflation of the abdomen, and accumulation of flatus towards the hypochondria, and the inguinal ring. ─ Excessively painful colic, pullings and cuttings in the abdomen, sometimes in the morning, at sunrise. ─ Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, with constant movement in the intestines, and blue circles round the eyes. ─ Burning cuttings in the epigastrium, with difficulty of respiration, and paleness of the face. ─ Shooting in the abdomen, principally on coughing, on sneezing, and on touching it. ─ Painful sensibility of the abdomen to the touch, with sensation of ulceration in the interior. ─ Pressure towards the inguinal ring, as if hernia were about to protrude. ─ Abdominal spasms.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, as from inertia of the rectum. ─ Diarrhœa during dentition (green mucus). ─ Diarrhœa from cold, from anger, from chagrin. ─ Diarrhœa chiefly at, night, with spasmodic colic, mostly with slimy, and whitish or watery, or yellowish and greenish fæces, or mucus mingled with excrement, like eggs when beaten up; or hot corrosive fæces, of a fetid odour, like rotten eggs; or evacuation of undigested substances. ─ Hæmorrhoids, with very painful fissures and ulcerations in the anus. ─ Excoriation about anus (intertrigo).

Urinary Organs

Inclination to make water, with anxiety. ─ On making water, itching and burning in the urethra. ─ Urine hot and yellowish, with fleecy sediment; or turbid urine, with yellowish sediment. ─ Involuntary or feeble emission of urine. ─ Excoriation at the edge of the prepuce.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching, stinging pain in the margin of the prepuce. ─ Swelling of prepuce (Sycosis). ─ Excited sexual desire.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia suppressed, with swelling and pressive pains in the pit of the stomach, and in the abdomen. ─ Pains like those of labour, and general dropsy. ─ Menstrual colic, before the catamenia. ─ Pressure towards the uterus, as if from the pains of child-birth. ─ Pains may occur by which the fœtus is forced up instead of down. ─ The labour-pains are not sufficient, but cause great restlessness and anguish (over-sensitive to the pains). ─ Violent after-pains. ─ Metrorrhagia, with discharge of deep-red blood, and of clots, accompanied by labour pains. ─ Discharge of blood between the regular catamenia. ─ Burning pains and smarting in the vagina. ─ Corrosive leucorrhœa, with smarting. ─ Scirrhous induration of the mammary glands. ─ Suppression of milk (milk is cheesy or mixed with pus; milk fever). ─ Puerperal fever. ─ Erysipelas of the mammæ and soreness of the nipples.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh and hoarseness, with accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat. ─ Stitches and burning in the larynx, with hoarseness. ─ Burning pain in the larynx. ─ Spasmodic constriction in the gullet. ─ Dry cough, produced by a constant titillation in the larynx, and under the sternum, chiefly in the evening, and at night in bed, continuing during sleep, and sometimes accompanied by a fit of suffocation. ─ Wheezing and rattling in the trachea. ─ Anger provokes the cough (in children). ─ Expectoration of mucus of a bitter or putrid taste.

Chest

Respiration short, croaking, or wheezing and stertorous. ─ Deep respiration, with sensible rising of the thorax. ─ Fit of suffocation, as if from constriction of the larynx or of the chest. ─ Attacks of flatulent asthma, with anxiety and fulness in the precordial region. ─ Oppression of the chest. ─ Shootings in the chest, chiefly on breathing. ─ Burning in the chest, with dizziness and anxiety. ─ Shooting in the regions of the heart, with difficulty of respiration.

Neck and Back

Tensive stiffness of neck muscles. ─ Glands swollen, often very sensitive; painful when turning neck. ─ Aching pain in the sacrum, chiefly at night. ─ Pain as of a bruise in the sacrum, with pulling pains, like those of labour, extending to the thigh. ─ Shooting, pulling, tearing pain in the back. ─ Painful stiffness in the loins, after having been seated some time. ─ Insupportable pain in the loins and in the hip, in the morning, on the side opposite to that on which the patient is reclining. ─ Convulsions in the back, with a throwing backwards of the head, and stiffness of the body as in tetanus.

Limbs

Cracking in joints, with pain in them as if bruised. ─ Pain in periosteum of limbs with paralytic weakness. ─ Convulsive single jerks in limbs. ─ All joints sore as if bruised and tired out; there is no power in hands or feet, though without corresponding weariness.

Upper Limbs

Numbness and stiffness of the arms on grasping an object. ─ Convulsions of the arms, with clasping in of the thumb. ─ Nocturnal pains, with paralytic weakness in the arms. ─ Swelling; or coldness; and paralytic stiffness of the hands; with cold perspiration in the palms of the hands. ─ Numbness or convulsive movements of the fingers. ─ Finger-joints red and swollen. ─ Retraction of thumbs.

Lower Limbs

Paralytic and drawing pain in the hip and in the thigh, extending to the feet, chiefly at night. ─ Tension of the muscles of the thighs, and of the legs. ─ Cramps in the calves of the legs, chiefly at night. ─ Tearing sensation, with a paralytic condition of the feet, at night. ─ Cramp. ─ Cracking of the knee during motion. ─ Burning in the soles of the feet (at night, he puts his feet out of bed). ─ Sensation of numbness in the toes. ─ Burning and itching in the feet, as from chilblains. ─ Swelling of the foot and of the sole of the foot.

Generalities

Rheumatic, drawing pains, chiefly at night in bed, with paralytic state, and sensation of torpor in the parts affected, and inclination to move them continually; mitigated by external heat. ─ Pain with thirst, heat, and redness (of one) of the cheeks, and hot sweating of the head. ─ Pulsative pains, as from an, abscess. ─ Over-excitement, and excessive sensibility of the nervous system, with great sensibility to pain, which appears insupportable and induces despair. ─ Over-sensitiveness of the senses (esp. from coffee and narcotics). ─ Great sensibility in the open air, and principally to wind. ─ The extremities feel, as it were, stiff and paralysed. ─ Great weakness and inclination to fall, with prostration of strength to fainting as soon as the pain commences. ─ Syncope, with sensation of sinking and faintness in the precordial region. ─ Attacks of catalepsy, with hippocratic face, extremities cold, eyes half-closed, pupils dilated and dull. ─ Attacks of spasms and of convulsions, with face red and bloated, and convulsive movements in the eyes, the eyelids, the lips, the muscles of the face, and of the tongue. ─ Epileptic convulsions, with retraction of the thumbs, and foam before the mouth, preceded by colic, or followed by a lethargic state. ─ Urgent inclination to remain lying down; a child will neither walk nor be carried in the arms. ─ Cracking, and pain resembling a bruise, in the joints.

Skin

Miliary eruption, with itching and nocturnal tickling. ─ Unhealthy skin; every injury tends to ulceration. ─ In the ulcers, tingling, itching, burning, and jerking shootings, with excessive sensibility to the touch. ─ Itching pimples form around the ulcer, covered with scurf, and suppurating. ─ Yellow colour of the skin (over the whole body). ─ Rash of infants and during nursing. ─ Red rash on the cheeks, on the forehead. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the glands.

Sleep

Yawning and stretching. ─ Sleepiness, during the day, without being able to sleep, on lying down. ─ Coma, and coma-vigil, with pulling pain in the head, and nausea, or with feverish restlessness, short respiration, and thirst. ─ Nocturnal sleeplessness, with attacks of anguish, visions, and illusions of the sight and hearing. ─ Snoring breathing when asleep. ─ On sleeping, starts with fright, cries, tossing, tears, talking, raving, groans, snoring, and constant separating of the thighs. ─ Fantastical, lively, quarrelsome and vexatious dreams, with morose and sullen aspect. ─ Nocturnal delirium.

Fever

Pulse small, tense, accelerated. ─ Constant alternation of cold, or of partial shuddering, with partial heat, in different parts of the body. ─ Chilliness and coldness of the forepart of the body, while the back part is hot, or vice versâ . ─ General heat, esp. in the evening, or at night in bed, with anxiety, thirst, redness of the cheeks, hot perspiration of the head, at the forehead, and the scalp; and sometimes, chiefly on uncovering the body, mixed with shivering or shuddering. ─ After or during the heat, sour sweat, which causes an itching on the skin. ─ Burning heat and redness (often only in one) of the cheeks, chiefly at night, with groans, tossing, and cold or heat in the rest of the body. ─ Intermittent fever, with nocturnal aggravation, pressure on the pit of the stomach, nausea or bilious vomiting, colic, diarrhœa, and painful emission of urine. ─ Chilliness, with internal heat. ─ Chill and coldness of the body, with burning hot face and hot breath. ─ Nocturnal sweat, when asleep. ─ Continuous burning heat, with violent thirst, and starts during sleep, and furious delirium.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

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.

Sensorium

Dulness of senses, with sleepiness, yet cannot sleep.
Vertigo : with vanishing of thoughts ; after eating ; after drinking coffee ; staggering, in morning on rising from bed ; with fainting ; with dimness of sight, when sitting up in bed ; in bed, with nausea ; when stooping ; on rising after
sitting ; while sitting erect ; when talking.

Inner head

Heaviness, dulness, pressure, constriction, or burning in forehead.
Tearing headache in forehead, with sensation as if a lump was falling forward, while sitting, or turning over in bed.
Recurrent, paroxysmal, tearing headache in forehead.
Sticking-tearing headache in forehead, which extends into chest.
Jerking headache in forehead, especially after eating.
Pressive pain in both temples, like from strong pressure with thumbs, forenoon.
Pressure, extending from vertex to forehead and temples ; < when thinking of it, from sudden stooping, or from mental exertion.
Pressing headache as from a stone in forehead, hot head, < evenings.
Headache, especially in temples ; a pressure as from firm pressure with fingers.
Tearing pain in temples.
Tearing and stinging pain in left side, particularly in temple, and in and around eye.
Stitches in temples.
Tearing headache, with heaviness of head, < about noon, after vexation, or an error in diet.
Violent stinging pains in left side of head, from occiput to upper jaw, after vexation.
Pressure increasing and decreasing, especially in right half of forehead and in right temple, where are also felt very frequent dull stitches, which sometimes extend to occiput like electric sparks.
Pressing and burrowing headache, especially in forehead and temples.
Tearing and sticking, extending outward to temples.
Wandering pains in temples, frequently recurring, and always < at beginning.
Pressure and pressing from vertex extending over forehead and temples, < as soon as attention was directed to it, and by sudden stooping, or by mental exertion, as when reflecting or even reading.
Throbbing headache.
Stitches through head, from hard palate to vertex.
Headache like needle-stitches, as if eyes would fall out of head.
Transient attacks of throbbing in one-half of brain.
One-sided drawing headache.
Sensation of compression of brain, or as from constriction of meninges.
Heaviness in head : with dulness ; with pain in temples ; particularly in occiput on waking in morning ; with drawing forward of head ; with bruised sensation.
Confusion of head : with disinclination for mental work ; with inclination to bend it backward ; with sticking and boring, especially in right temple, in morning ; with pressure in paroxysms, during afternoon, particularly on walking.
Congestion to head : following anger ; with pressure while lying down ; on vertex ; with heat in face and oppression of chest ; with stitches in head and chest.
Pain in head, as if it would burst, on waking from sleep.
She has intense headache on top of head, as from pressure from within, and feeling as if top of head was blown off ; t.
Sensation of fulness and heat in head.
Headache : felt even during sleep ; in morning in bed ; with vertigo ; after eating ; at night.
Megrim.

Outer head

Swelling of temples, with painfulness to touch.
Rheumatic pain in head. θ Dysentery.
Inclined to bend head backward.
Moves her head backward and forward.
Warm sweat on head, wetting hair.
Hot, sticky sweat covering forehead and hairy scalp.
Feeling as if hair stood on end, with shivering. θ Gastro-bilious fever.

Sight and eyes

Staring eyes.
Aversion to light.
Intense photophobia, least light unbearable. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Flickering before eyes : she could not see where she was ; when lying down.
Eyes dim and weak in morning ; by candlelight it seemed as if rays of light passed from eyes to flame.
Obscuration of vision laterally, when fixing vision upon a white object.
Dim-sightedness with vertigo, when sitting up in bed ; with chilliness.
Great burning and heat in eyes.
Severe stitches in eyes.
Sensation as if eyeball was drawn tightly backward.
Inflammation of eyes, lids agglutinated in morning ; discharge of blood from eyes ; inflammation caused by exposure to cold, damp atmosphere, or < by every cold change of weather.
Eyes swollen in morning ; agglutinated with purulent mucus.
Yellow conjunctiva.
Conjunctivis, in infants.
Pustules on cornea, with considerable vascularity, profuse lachrymation, not much photophobia, child thirsty and peevish. θ Dentition.
Keratitis pustulosa, with considerable photophobia, moist eruption on face and head, child very cross.
Great dryness of edges of eyelids, or copious mucous secretion.
Profuse acrid discharge from eyes and nose. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Spasmodic closure or great heaviness of lids.
Pressive pain beneath upper lid, on moving eyes and shaking head.
Lids agglutinated after sleep.
Great dryness in meibomian glands on margin of lids.
Great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids, first left then r., so that child cannot open them.
On pressing lids apart, conjunctiva appears swollen and dark red.
Inner surface of lids, as well as ball of eye, covered with much, partly yellow purulent mucus, partly with bloody fluid.
Least pressure causes pure blood and large quantity of muco-pus to issue from between lids.
At canthi and along border of lids dried muco-pus.
Swelling and bluish redness of skin, with running of pure blood from eye.
Soreness of canthi.
Corners of eyes are filled with purulent matter, in morning.
Stitches in orbital region.
Violent pressure in orbital region ; sensation in eyeball, as if it was tightly compressed from all sides, with momentary obstruction of vision.
Eyes protrude and rotate constantly in their orbits. θ Tetanic convulsions after measles.
Ophthalmia neonatorum ; diarrheic stools, chafing of genitals, flabbiness of muscles, rash, restless sleep ; child wants to be carried.
Catarrhal and scrofulous ophthalmia in cross, peevish children during dentition.
Arthritic ophthalmia, first stage.

Hearing and ears

Great sensitiveness to noise, especially to music. θ Otalgia.
Illusions of hearing, at night, as though voices of absent persons where heard.
Roaring in ears, as from rushing water.
Ringing in ears. θ Post-partum hemorrhage.
She cannot endure music.
Sensation as if ears were stopped.
Sensation as if hot water was running out of right ear.
Dull pressure as from a blow in inner ear, on stooping.
Sharp stitches in right meatus.
Single large stitches in ear, especially when stooping, with ill humor and peevishness about trifles.
Stitches extending into inner ear from lower jaw.
Frequent stitches and sudden, transient spasmodic sensation in front of right ear, in region of tragus ; this sensation sometimes extended into auditory canal.
Stitches in ear, especially when stooping.
Occasional tearing in left ear. θ Hemicrania.
Pressing earache in spells, with tearing pain, extorting cries.
Otalgia : with hot, perspiring forehead ; lancinations or tensive drawing pains extending to lobes of ears.
Moist earwax, or scarcity of earwax, resulting in dryness.
Acute inflammation of middle ear, when patient is prostrated by and intolerant of shooting, drawing pains ; auricle usually hot and red ; meatus red, but not swollen ; membrana tympani not much congested.
Right ear red and painful. θ Intermittent fever.
Dull stitches in right mastoid process.
Particularly sensitive to open air about ears.
Swelling of parotid gland.

Smell and nose

Extremely sensitive to all odors.
Nosebleed, relieving confusion of head.
Bleeding, coagulated or dark blood. θ Epistaxis.
Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, dry heat and stopped up sensation in nose ; feeling as if coryza would appear ; also with pressure in forehead.
Coryza : fluent, watery ; viscid ; acrid ; with loss of smell ; with dry hacking cough.
Catarrh, with dry, fatiguing cough, painful bruised feeling in umbilical region, painfully sensitive to touch, and < at night. θ Dentition.
Stoppage of nose.
Dryness and sensation of fulness and heaviness in nose, followed by nosebleed.
Catarrhs, with ulcerated nostrils and chapped lips, one cheek pale, the other red, with chills and thirst.
Crawling in nose until eye waters.

Upper face

Convulsive movements and twitching of facial muscles and lips.
Neuralgia of face, pain causes hot sweat about head and extorts screams ; stinging pain extending to upper jaw, from occiput, left side.
Burning in face.
Hot face, with redness of cheeks.
Redness of one cheek, returning in paroxysms, without shivering or internal heat. θ Hemicrania.
Forehead hot, but moist. θ Otalgia.
Wrinkled forehead.
Red face, or redness and heat of one (l.) cheek, the other being pale.
Face pale, sunken, distorted by pain.
Yellow or bloated face.
One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold.
Heat of face, while rest of body is cool.
Paleness of face, with cold cheeks.
Face sweats after eating or drinking.
Puffiness of face and cheeks.
Fiery red rash on face. Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Facial erysipelas after toothache.
Skin of forehead wrinkled above nose.
Swelling, hardness and blueness of one cheek. θ Neuralgia.
One-sided swelling of cheek, generally left.
Erysipelas, starting on left cheek, near nose, gradually spreading over face and head.
Stitches in joint of right jaw, extending into upper back teeth, severe but transient.
Exanthema on face.

Lower face

Child draws mouth back and forth, or from side to side. θ Teething. θ Convulsions.
Single stitches in jaw, extending into inner ear.
Lips crack and peel ; rhagades in middle of lower lip.
At night, lips become dry and stick together, without thirst.
Swelling of submaxillary glands. θ Toothache. θ Facial erysipelas.
Sensation of heaviness in lower jaw.
Pain on opening jaws, as if masseter muscles were painfully ; cramped, which pain also extended into teeth.
Feeling of weakness in muscles of mastication, with inclination to hold mouth open, and increased saliva.

Teeth and gums

Toothache is so violent, she tosses about, moans constantly and complains of digging, gnawing pain in hollow teeth ; < at night, preventing sleep ; < from coffee.
Violent toothache in an apparently sound tooth ; single stitches through left upper jaw, with itching and crawling sensation in teeth. θ Amenorrhœa.
Toothache : stitching ; digging ; gnawing ; from suppressed perspiration ; from taking cold ; during or after eating ; if anything warm is taken into mouth, especially after coffee, < by talking ;
in open air ; in room ; getting warm in bed ; during menstruation and pregnancy ; most left side and lower teeth ; < at night ; affecting principally women and children ; after abuse of mercury.
Drawing toothache (without being able to locate it in any tooth) ; it disappears during eating, but especially rages at night, therewith teeth feel too long.
Drawing pain in teeth after eating and drinking.
A slight burrowing and sensation of heaviness in alveoli of some of back teeth ; "this sensation seems intolerable, and makes him very peevish."
Sensation of fulness and heaviness in alveoli of first and second back teeth of both sides of upper jaw, with a slight burrowing and boring in their roots, with a sensation as if alveoli were distended and formed a hard, tense swelling.
Throbbing toothache, insupportable at night, < by warmth of bed, patient turns about and keeps moaning.
Grumbling drawing toothache in jaw.
Violent toothache in left upper jaw, always after eating warm food.
Toothache recurring in intermittent attacks, with swelling of cheeks and accumulation of saliva ; pains shoot back and forth, even extend to eye and ear ; < by drinking cold water.
Toothache recommences when entering the warm room, or drinking anything warm.
One-sided toothache and tearing in head and jaw.
Toothache as from taking cold, if one exposes oneself to cold air when sweating.
Toothache from draught of air, extending towards ear. θ Otalgia.
Toothache in attacks with ptyalism.
Paroxysms of violent pain from root of upper eye tooth to cheek, nose and temple.
Grumbling and crawling in teeth of upper jaw.
Periodical violent toothache in molar, left lower jaw, tooth is hollow ; pain is drawing and jerking ; < before midnight, > after eating.
Rheumatic toothache : particularly one-sided, < at night ; pains unendurable, red cheek, cannot designate which tooth is affected ; jerking, tearing pain often extending into ear ; often < after eating and drinking, often > by dipping finger into cold water
and applying it to affected part ; very much < from drinking cold drinks ; warmth of bed unbearable.
Teeth sensitive to touch, especially some hollow back teeth.
Teeth feel too long.
Looseness of teeth.
Teeth covered with mucus.
Gums red and tender. θ Dentition.
Burning in swollen gums.
Sensation as if gums were swelling about some of back teeth.
Tearing toothache which extends to ear, with swelling of cheek and periosteal swelling.
Painful swelling of left cheek, caused by a carious, badly plugged tooth ; pain lancinating, < at night.
Teething children : with watery, greenish and also chopped diarrhœa, smelling like rotten eggs ; jerking of limbs or starting ; convulsions ; child bends double and draws legs upon abdomen ; moaning ; want to be carried ;
dry cough ; restless at night ; want to drink ; quick rattling breathing.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : slimy, bitter ; sour ; like rancid fat ; putrid ; offensive at night.
Bread tastes sour.
Bitter taste in mouth, in morning.
Burning on tongue.
Tongue red in middle, white at sides. θ Tertian intermittent.
Tongue : coated, white ; yellowish ; or white at sides, red in middle ; red, cracked ; dry.
Severe biting on back of tongue and on roof of palate.
Tongue dry, with thirst for water, loss of appetite, flushes of heat, sweat of face and palpitation, followed by unnatural hunger.
Blisters on and beneath tongue, with stinging pain.
Convulsive movements of tongue.

Inner mouth

Heat in mouth, pharynx and œsophagus to stomach.
Dryness of mouth, in morning, followed by distension of abdomen and imperfect evacuation.
Extreme dryness in mouth, with lameness of limbs.
Collection of saliva, of metallic, sweetish taste.
Offensive taste in mouth, at night.
What he hawks up has an offensive taste.
Sourish odor from mouth.
Fetid smell from mouth.

Palate and throat

Pain in left side of fauces while swallowing ; velum was somewhat reddened, and external pressure just under angle of jaw caused pain in fauces.
Spasmodic drawing pain in palate, extending into fauces.
Pain in back part of throat, < by moving throat and swallowing.
Spasmodic constriction of pharynx.
Stitches in throat, near ear.
Throbbing in back part of throat.
Inflammation of throat, with sensation as though something was sticking in it, which ought to be removed by hawking ; heat in pharynx, and thirst ; dark redness of affected parts.
Catarrhal inflammation of throat, of tonsils or pharynx, with acute stinging-burning pain in larynx ; usually roughness of voice, some dyspnœa, tickling irritation to cough.
Sore throat, with swelling of parotid or submaxillary glands, or tonsils.
Difficult swallowing of solid food, and when lying down.
Sore throat from suppression of cutaneous action.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Unnatural hunger, in evening.
Want of appetite.
When food is set before him, it makes him shudder, it is so repugnant.
Great thirst for cold water and desire for acid drinks.
Thirst, with febrile heat and redness of cheeks.
Unquenchable thirst, with dryness of tongue.
Increased thirst, with evening fever and painful diarrhœa.
Likes to hold cold water to mouth a long time, when drinking. θ Dentition.
Desire for : acids ; sauerkraut.
Aversion to : beer ; coffee and warm drinks ; to broth.

Eating and drinking

Fulness while eating, with nausea after eating.
After eating and drinking, heat and sweat of face.
After eating : vertigo ; abdomen puffed up.
Thirsty and hot with the pains.
In morning, after drinking coffee, heat all over and sweat, with vomiting of bitter mucus, followed by bitter taste in mouth, weakness in head, and nausea.
After drinking coffee : vertigo.
Cutting pain and debility after drinking.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Eructations : sour ; constant, empty ; aggravate the pain .
Eructations of gas, smelling of bad eggs.
Eructations and passage of flatus.
The existing pain is increased by eructations.
Disgust, qualmishness, > by eating.
Nausea : with vertigo while lying in bed ; and inclination to vomit ; and bitter vomiting ; after drinking coffee ; after breakfast ; with collection of saliva in mouth ; as if she would faint.
Nausea after morning coffee, with attacks of suffocation.
Inclination to vomit : with diarrhœa and fever during night ; as if one would faint.
Fruitless efforts to vomit.
Vomituritio, with slight stinging pain in region of liver, after vexation.
Vomiting : of bile ; of food ; of what has been drunk ; slimy matter ; sour.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Severe painful pressure in epigastrium makes her toss about in despair. θ Intermittens tertiana.
Pressive pain in stomach and beneath short ribs, which impedes breathing, especially after drinking coffee.
Epigastrium painfully bloated, in morning, with sensation as if contents were passing into chest ; belching of wind is painful.
Pressing and cutting in epigastrium, with anxiety.
Burning of stinging pain in pit of stomach.
Pressure in stomach, as from a stone pressing down.
Pressure in stomach after eating a little.
Burning across stomach into each hypochondrium.
Gastralgia : in highly irritable persons, or following vexation ; pressure as from a stone in scrobiculum and under short ribs, left side, and short breathing, anxiety, fear, restlessness, tossing about, sometimes throbbing headache on vertex, driving patient out of bed ;
< after a meal or at night.
Constrictive gastralgia in coffee drinkers.
Gastralgia relieved by drinking coffee.

Hypochondria

Stitching pains in hypochondria.
Stitches in region of liver, with vomiturition and frequent chilliness, after vexation. θ Hemicrania.
Pressure in hypochondria and in stomach after eating.
Continual tensive pain in hypochondriac region, with tension around brain.
Fulness and distension in hypochondria.
Incarceration of flatus in hypochondria.
Diaphragmitis.
Hepatitis after vexation or taking cold, with gastric troubles and icteroid symptoms.

Abdomen and loins

Pressive colic about navel.
Griping-tearing colic in region of navel and lower down on both sides, with pain in small of back, as if it was broken.
Umbilical region sensitive.
Colicky cutting pains in abdomen, with hard chill ; the pain seems insufferable, she wants to jump out of bed.
Colic, rather cutting than sticking, with accumulation of saliva in mouth.
Constant tearing colic in side of abdomen, as if parts were rolled up in a ball.
Tearing pain in abdomen.
Constricting pain in abdomen and back ; she kicks, grates her teeth, and screams.
Colic returns from time to time, flatus accumulates in hypochondria, and stitches shoot through chest.
Gurgling in side extending into abdomen.
Abdominal cramps, particularly flatulent colic ; flatus collects in various places and strives to force a passage ; distension of hypochondria and epigastrium ; patient suffers from anxiety, restlessness and clammy perspiration.
Sensation as if bowels were drawn up in a ball, and abdomen was empty.
Wind colic, abdomen distended like a drum, wind passes in small quantities without relief ; > by applying warm cloths.
Wind colic, with tympanitis and vomiturition.
Wind colic, with sensation as if a hernia would appear.
Hysteric colic.
Abdominal pain, with frequent emission of pale, colorless urine in large quantities.
Colic while urinating.
Colic at sunrise.
Colic, with violent pain in left hip, when lying on right side
Abdomen is distended, but soft ; when pressed, patient complains of increased oppression of chest and anxiety.
Distension of abdomen after a meal or in morning.
Abdomen tympanitic and sensitive to touch. θ Agalactia. θ Peritonitis.
Abdomen sensitive to touch, particularly in inguinal region.
Sensation as if whole abdomen was hollow, with constant motion in intestines.
Compressive pain in abdomen.
Pain in abdomen, as when constipation causes a delayed passage.
Bruised pain in muscles of lower abdomen.
Pain in abdomen prevents urination.
Dragging towards abdominal rings, as if parts were too weak and hernia would appear.
Peritonitis.

Stools and rectum

Flatus : sour smelling ; stinking ; putrid.
Stools : green, slimy, mucous ; mixed green and white, mucous ; chopped, white and yellow, mucous ; green or yellowish ; watery, frequent, preceded by cutting constricting bellyache, < in epigastric region ; mucous, with colic and vomituritio ;
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 or stirred eggs, smelling sour ; hot,
smelling like rotten eggs ; changeable ; containing undigested food ; mucous and bloody.
Violent bilious diarrhœa, with intense colic and burning in anus, after vexation.
In diarrhœa, especially of watery, mucous character, stools preceded by violent cutting pain below umbilicus ; > after stool.
Diarrhœa, with violent colic, forcing screams.
Daily four or five bloody, slimy stools, preceded by bellyache and tenesmus ; a child, a year old.
Several mucous passages, with colic and vomituritio. θ Suppressed measles from taking cold.
Nightly diarrhœa, with colic, so that she was obliged to bend double.
Diarrhœa after taking cold or from anger ; very painful cutting jerks from right shoulder towards head, with thirst and debility.
Watery diarrhœa ; six to eight passages daily, preceded by cutting, constricting bellyache, < in epigastric region.
Mucous diarrhœa. θ Scarlet rash.
Painless, green, watery diarrhœa, a mixture of feces and mucus.
Diarrhœa, green and watery, and slimy, or like chopped eggs and spinach.
Green, fetid stool, watery discharge.
Passages at first greenish, later like rice-water. θ Diarrhœa.
Yellowish-brown stool, sour, fetid ; bites everything, plays with tongue and gums ; sour vomiting ; sleepless. θ Dentition.
White, slimy diarrhœa, with colic.
Diarrheic complaints aggravated : during dentition ; after taking cold ; after anger or chagrin ; at night ; after tobacco ; in childbed ; from downward motion ; after suppression of perspiration.
Torpid stool.
Constipation ; discharges yellow and solid, crumbling from excessive dryness. θ Dentition.
Constipation from inactivity of anus.
Sticking pain in rectum after every stool.
Hemorrhoids : blind ; painful, bleeding, burning, inflamed.
Stitches in rectum after stool.
Soreness of anus, particularly after stool.
Itching pain in anus.
Ulcerating fissures at anus.
Chafing about anus.

Urinary organs

Dragging towards ureters like labor pains, with very frequent urging to urinate.
Sticking pain in neck of bladder when not urinating.
Burning in neck of bladder when urinating.
Ineffectual urging, with anguish ; sensation of smarting, or burning pain in urethra, during micturition.
Desire to pass water frequently, it being profuse and pale. θ Nervous disorders.
Biting pain in urethra when urinating.
Urination prevented on account of pain in abdomen.
Force of bladder is weakened, urine passes in a weak stream.
Involuntary passage of urine, which feels hot.
Involuntary urination at night.
Urine : hot ; yellow, with flaky sediment ; scanty ; turbid, clay-colored soon after passing ; turbid, gets thick when standing, sediment yellow ; abundant and light-colored ; red as blood.

Male sexual organs

Violent erections, and excited sexual desire ; also nightly emissions.
Itching, stinging pain in margin of prepuce.
Swelling of prepuce and soreness of border. θ Sycosis.

Female sexual organs

Congestion to uterus.
Drawing tearing in uterus, painful to touch ; she feels as though she could not possibly bear the least touch. θ Induration of uterus.
Menses : too early ; too profuse ; blood offensive smelling ; blood coagulated, dark.
Menses suppressed.
Suppression of menses, with swelling of pit of stomach, and a pain as if heart would be pressed down, with swollen abdomen, labor-like pains and anasarca.
Excessive menstruation, blood dark, nearly black, clotted, with pain through from back to front, attacks of syncope, coldness of limbs, much thirst.
Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with severe labor-like pains in uterus ; tearing pains in legs.
Cutting colic and drawing in thighs before menses.
Labor-like pains before or during menstruation.
During menses : swollen breasts, sore nipples, diarrhœa with colic, fainting, short, dry cough, labor-like pains.
Discharge of blood before proper period.
Passage of blood between menses.
Metrorrhagia, even in old women.
Metrorrhagia of dark, coagulated blood, flowing more in paroxysms ; much thirst ; coldness of limbs.
Metrorrhagia, with passage of fetid blood in lumps.
Pressing towards genital organs ; passing of large quantities of colorless urine.
Drawing from small of back forward, griping and pinching in uterus, followed by discharge of large clots of blood.
Menstrual colic, following anger.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.
Acrid, biting, watery discharge from vagina, particularly after a meal.
Yellow, smarting leucorrhœa.
Smarting burning in vagina, as if excoriated.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Toothache during pregnancy, pains render her frenzied.
Bloody discharge with labor-like pains during pregnancy.
Threatened abortion, with discharge of dark blood ; frequent urination, urine profuse and pale ; great restlessness and agony ; irritability ; heaviness of whole abdomen ; frequent yawning, chills and shuddering.
Uterine hemorrhage after abortion, in spells ; contracting, outward pressing pains in abdomen proceeding from back ; < when lying on back ; ringing in ears ; frontal headache.
Labor pain press upward ; she is hot and thirsty, cross and inclined to scold.
Labor pains spasmodic and distressing ; tearing pains down legs ; she is oversensitive to the pain, wishes to get away from herself ; is irritable and snappish, desires fresh air ; says she must and will get up.
Spasmodic distressing labor pains during pregnancy, preventing sleep ; irritability.
Violent labor pains and tearing in veins of legs, with discharge of dark, coagulated blood.
Labor pains, with more or less discharge of dark blood and frequent urination, urine being profuse and pale.
Hour glass contraction ; irritable ; thirsty ; desire for fresh air ; restless.
Rigidity of os ; scarcely able to endure the pains.
After pains very acute and distressing.
Constant violent after pains on second day after delivery of fourth child ; become unbearable when child nurses, so that she screams out.
Too long continued after pains.
Post-partum hemorrhage : uterus outside abdomen is felt to be contracted into little knots or bunches about size of a walnut ; redness of one cheek, paleness of the other.
Milk fever, after anger.
Metritis, after violent anger, especially after parturition, and lochia generally increased.
Puerperal fever, with great restlessness, excitement, sore breasts, absence of milk ; mucous, greenish, watery, milky diarrhœa, profuse lochia, with labor-like pains, going through from back to front.
Puerperal convulsions, after anger ; or has one red cheek, the other being pale.
Rash of lying in women and nursing infants, caused by heat or errors in diet, with watery, greenish, chopped-egg diarrhœa, corroding anus.
Lochia too profuse and bloody.
Suppression of lochia, followed by irritability, diarrhœa, colic and toothache.
Dark lochial discharge.
Excessive sweating after confinement.
Milk runs out in nursing women.
Milk is cheesy, or mixed with blood or pus.
Suppression of milk from a fit of anger.
Distress after nursing.
Mamma hard and tender to touch, with drawing pains ; is fretful, sleepless and cross.
Induration in mammary glands, very tender to touch ; drawing lacerating pains. θ Scirrhus.
Breasts are very tender, nipples inflamed and swollen.
Erysipelas of breasts, nipples excessively sore.
Infants : screaming day and night, often without cause ; incipient hydrocephalus ; stoppage of nose, or watery moisture running from nose ; inflammation of intestines, when stools are thin, watery, accompanied by much pain, < at night ; the little sleep at
night disturbed by frequent starting ; incipient marasmus, frequent diarrheic stools, occasionally swelling of glands, abdomen tense and hard ; hernia ; scream with colic ; frequent diarrheic stool corroding anus ; screaming with great restlessness, tossing about,
colic, drawing up of legs ; troublesome, dry cough ; pneumonia ; catarrhal irritation, loose cough, rattling breathing ; cardiac anguish ; induration of mammary glands, tender to touch ; erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of breasts ; convulsive
twitching of limbs, when falling asleep ; incipient spasms ; epileptic attacks ; feverish condition with irritated nerves, anxiety and restlessness, easily startled ; abrasions and chafing ; rash.
Children have spasms in consequence of nursing milk vitiated by a fit of anger.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Burning in larynx.
Sensation of rawness and scraping in larynx.
Sensation of rawness in upper part of air passages.
Sensation of slight pressure on air passages, with some irritation to cough.
Tickling in pit of throat causing scraping, dry cough.
Voice hoarse.
Catarrhal hoarseness, with dryness of eyelids, burning or stinging sensation in larynx, painful soreness in one spot, only relieved by long coughing and raising a little phlegm.
Hoarseness, on account of tough mucus in larynx, which can only be relieved by strong hawking.
Hoarseness, with violent persistent cough, a high degree of heat every evening, with fretfulness on awaking ; and child frets and scolds, asks for one thing and then for another.
Hoarseness after taking cold.
Inflammation of throat, with stinging, ulcerative pain at epiglottis, which excites cough and interferes with swallowing.
Whistling, wheezing and rattling in trachea, when breathing.
Sensation of cord around trachea, with constant desire to cough.
Croup of children ; spasm of chest, with suffocative attacks after anger ; child wants to be carried.
Nervous bronchial asthma.

Respiration

Anxious breathing.
Oppressed breathing, as if chest was not wide enough.
Dyspnœa, constricted feeling at suprasternal fossa, with constant irritation to cough.
Dyspnœa, as from suffocative catarrh (larynx feels constricted) in region of pit of throat, a constant irritation to cough.
Suffocative dyspnœa, with sensation of being strangled by cord around trachea ; constant desire to cough.
Suffocative attacks from repercussion of measles eruption, by taking cold.
Rapid, deep breathing, with great heaving of chest.
Short, panting breath.
Short breath, with rattling.
Short, croaking breathing.
Draws short, deep breaths, with great elevation of thorax.
Rattling breathing, with cough.
Rattling breathing, slow inspiration and rapid expiration.
Sour smelling or fetid breath.
Loud, rattling, sighing or unequal respiration.
Snoring inspirations during sleep, which are shorter than the expirations, with open mouth and hot, clammy sweat on forehead.
Asthma after a fit of anger.
Asthmatic attack, seemingly produced by an accumulation of flatus, > from bending head back, in cold air, and from drinking cold water ; < in dry weather and from warm diet.
Asthma from vapors of sulphur, after Pulsat.

Cough

The child becomes angry and then coughs.
Cough and hoarseness with rattling mucus in trachea, especially during winter.
Constant irritation to cough, beneath upper part of sternum.
Constant desire to cough, with sensation of cord around trachea.
Cough caused by irritation low down in air passages, during night.
Cough from tickling in chest.
Paroxysms of coughing about midnight, with which something seems to rise in throat, as if she would suffocate.
Cough, particularly at night, with tough, slimy expectoration, tasting bitter and putrid.
Dry cough < at night and during sleep.
Cough, with expectoration during day, without at night.
Dry cough from catching cold.
Rough, scraping cough of children in winter, with tickling in suprasternal fossa, < at night.
Dry cough, continuing during sleep.
Cough dry and hacking ; child is very fretful.
Scraping, dry cough, caused by tickling in pit of throat, < at night, even in sleep, especially with children after taking cold in winter.
Rough, dry cough. θ Sequel to measles.
Cough, with flushes of heat in face, at same time chilliness of limbs and back.
Cough threatens to burst chest. θ Rheumatism.
Amelioration of cough, when getting warm in bed.
Expectoration bloody, dark and coagulated.
Cough, with rattling in chest.
Expectoration : acrid, blood coagulated ; dark ; mucous ; viscous ; watery.
Taste of expectoration : bitter, putrid, or sour.
Catarrhal stage of whooping cough, with constant irritating, dry cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Burning pain under sternum, and from beneath sternum to mouth.
Burning in chest, with dulness in head, as if he did not know where he was, with anxiety.
Constriction in upper part of chest, which hurts on coughing.
Tensive pain across chest, when breathing.
Sudden stitches and darts through chest, extorting screams ; dyspnœa taking away voice and threatening suffocation. θ Rheumatism.
Single severe stitches in chest at times.
Stitches in chest from abdomen after each start, as in a fright, when waking or sleeping.
Chest painful, when coughing.
Stitches in sides of chest.
Stitches shoot from abdomen into middle of chest, as from flatulence.
Stitches in side of chest beneath ribs and shoulder blades, when breathing.
Pain in chest with every deep breath. θ Rheumatism.
Chest is sore internally as if bruised.
Oppression of chest as from flatus, which has accumulated in upper part of abdomen.
Heavy feeling in chest.
Pressive pain beneath sternum, which impedes breathing.
Drawing pain, or sensation as if right side of chest was repeatedly drawn inward.
Oppression of chest, short, moaning breathing, with pain in chest, sometimes stitches, on taking a deep breath.
Rattling of mucus in chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation and faintness.
Uneasiness about heart, faints frequently ; twitching of limbs ; oppression of chest. θ Shock of injury.
Pain in heart, as if something weighed it down. θ Cardialgia.
A kind of faintness ; he becomes sick and qualmish about heart, feet suddenly feel paralyzed, with heaviness of all limbs, as if they were worn out.
Shooting stitches in precordial region, thence to various parts of body.
Rapid stitches about heart, on motion, interfering with breathing.
Pulse small, but tense and accelerated. θ Neuralgia.
Pulse frequently very unequal, and for at time weak.
Pulse first full, then again weak and contracted.
Pulse small and uneven.

Outer chest

Tearing pain in region of clavicle and throat.
Whole thorax feels as if beaten. θ Rheumatism.
A hard node beneath nipple, painful to touch, with drawing tearing pain.
Scirrhous hardness of mammary glands.

Neck and back

Tensive stiffness of cervical muscles.
Glands swollen and often very sensitive ; painful when turning neck.
Drawing pain in scapulæ.
Drawing or stinging or tearing pain in back.
Great pain in back, sometimes extending through abdomen to front, and into genitals. θ Threatened miscarriage.
Bruised sensation in muscles of loins and back.
Small of back feels bruised.
Contractive sensation in spine.
Pain in small of back, especially at night.
Fulness, anxiety, and tearing pain in back, after eating ; afterwards extends to abdomen.
Backache, < when stooping and walking, and from coffee.
Unendurable pain in loins and hip joint at night, if he lies upon opposite side.
Stiff pain in loins after sitting.
Backache. θ Tertian intermittent.

Upper limbs

Uninterrupted fine sensitive pressure in articular ligaments and periosteum of arm from shoulder to fingers, a drawing-tearing, < after midnight, when lying on back, > when lying upon painful arm.
Jerking stitches like electric sparks in left shoulder and extending into cervical muscles.
Stitches extending through right arm to shoulder.
Pain in arms, cannot bear slightest motion.
Tearing pain in muscles of arms, particularly in flexors of forearm, in morning soon after waking, < in cool evening air.
Stiffness of arm, as if it would go to sleep, when one grasps anything with hand.
Crawling tearing in bones of arm, extending into fingers, as if arm was numb.
Pricking numb sensation in right arm, waking from sleep at night.
Arms immediately go to sleep, if she grasps anything firmly ; she is obliged to let them sink down.
Paralytic like pressive sensation along nerves of arm, extending to tips of fingers.
Drawing and paralytic pain in elbows and hands.
Drawing pain in inner portion of arm, from elbow to tips of fingers, late in evening.
Pain in elbows as after carrying a heavy weight with arms bent, aggravated by extending arms, < on right side.
Drawing pain and stitches in wrist.
Left arm went to sleep without having been lying on it.
Convulsions of arms, with clenching of thumbs.
Convulsive twitchings of fingers.
Severe stitches in arms along bones, especially in forearms and in metacarpal bones.
Stitches in hands and finger joints.
Burning pain in hand, in afternoon.
Fingers become cold and are inclined to "go to sleep," while sitting.
Fingers "go to sleep," in morning.
Cold hands, with cold perspiration in palms of hands. θ Rheumatism.
Pain in thumb and index finger, as from a sprain or a strain, or from too great exertion, or as if it was broken ; felt when moving it.
Finger joints red and swollen.

Lower limbs

Pain in hip joint, as if sprained, on walking, after sitting, in evening.
A kind of fierce labor pain, extending from sacrum into thigh, a drawing paralytic pain.
Violent drawing tearing pains from left ischium to os calcis and sole, with cramplike tension of muscles. θ Sciatica.
Stitches in nates and thighs.
Pain on posterior surface of right thigh when walking.
Bruised pain in thighs.
Tearing pains down legs.
Short attacks of exhaustion, especially of lower extremities.
An indescribable pain in thigh on rising after sitting, and when lying with thigh stretched out.
Paralytic stiffness with weariness of thigh, like a bruise.
Stitches in thighs.
Bruised pain in thighs.
Heaviness and lassitude in legs. θ Post-partum hemorrhage.
Restlessness of legs and feet, at night.
He was obliged to stretch out legs from time to time in order to get rested.
Trembling of lower leg, when going to sleep.
Tearing pain in upper and lower legs.
Stitches jumping about from place to place, especially in knees and ankles, disappearing on motion.
Tension in knees.
Cracking of knee during motion.
She had to draw up her feet on account of pain in calves and knees, when she stretches they "go to sleep."
Drawing pain, extending from knee through lower leg, late in evening.
Drawing, tearing pain, extending from knee to ankle.
Violent drawing up of knees towards chest so soon as he falls asleep, dreams he is falling into the depths.
Stitches below head of fibula.
Cramp in legs and calves.
Crawling and heaviness of calves.
Sensation in legs as if they would fall asleep.
Redness and swelling around malleoli. θ Rheumatism.
Constrictive sensation in ankles.
Tearing pain in feet, he cannot allow them to be covered in bed.
Tearing pain in feet after a severe chill ; must lie down and keep quiet, pain in ankle, < from every motion.
Feet seemed paralyzed, and pithy in soles on stepping on them, < at night.
Itching pain internally in side of heel.
It seems as though toes would bend up and would go to sleep, while sitting, especially great toe.
Spasmodic contraction of toes, with tearing pain in limbs.
Tearing pain in feet following a severe chill ; she has to lie down and keep quiet, every motion brings on pain in joint of foot.
Feet feel paralyzed, with faintness. See 29 .
Tension in feet and up calves.
Burning of soles, at night ; puts feet out of bed.
Sensation of numbness in toes.

Limbs in general

Pain in periosteum, with paralytic weakness.
Drawing and tearing pains in limbs, < at night.
Tearing (neuralgic) pain in all limbs ; only > by constant tossing about in bed.
Aching in all limbs, with lassitude.
Pain in limbs, with weakness, slow dragging gait.
Drawing tearing jerks in long bones of limbs, or in tendons.
Nightly lame, tearing pain in limbs, with sensation of numbness.
Limbs feel heavy. θ Threatened miscarriage.
Stiffness in limbs.
Convulsive twitching in limbs. θ Threatened miscarriage.
Convulsive, single jerks of limbs, when just falling asleep.
Hands and feet become easily stiffened in cold, as if they would be frozen.
Joints sore, as if bruised and tired out ; no power in hands and feet.
Pains in all joints on motion, as if they were stiff and would break.
Cracking in joints, especially of lower limbs, with pains therein, as if bruised.
Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, and compel him to walk about.

Rest. position. motion

Inclination to lie down.
Lying : pressure in head ; down, flickering before eyes ; difficult swallowing ; in bed, nausea with vertigo ; on back, pressing pain in abdomen, proceeding from back ; pressing in articular ligaments ; indescribable pain in thighs, when stretched
out ; must lie down, tearing pain in feet ; < neuralgic pain ; wakeful.
Lying upon opposite side : pain in loins and hip joint.
Sitting : erect in bed, vertigo ; tearing headache ; in bed, dim-sightedness ; fingers become cold ; toes bend up ; drowsy ; causes stiff pain in loins.
Sits stiffly on a chair, like a statue, and does not seem to notice anything.
Rising : from bed, vertigo ; after sitting, vertigo ; after sitting, pain in thigh ; aggravates ulcers.
Stooping : pressure from vertex to forehead ; dull pressure as from a blow in inner ear ; stitches in ear ; backache.
Bending head backward : asthmatic attack.
Shaking head : pressive pain beneath upper eyelid.
Turning : over in bed, tearing headache ; neck painful.
Grasping with hand : stiffness of arm ; arms "go to sleep."
Stretching : when lying, causes pain in thigh ; is obliged to stretch legs to get rested ; "gone-to-sleep" feeling in calves and knees.
Child stretches itself.
Tossing about in bed, < pain in all limbs.
Tosses about in bed as if desperate : colic.
She must and will get up.
Walking : backache ; > rheumatic pains.
Child gets relief from being carried.
Moving : eyes, pressive pain beneath upper lid ; head backward and forward, throat pains.
Motion : slightest, pain in arms ; stitches in limbs, jumping from place to place ; cracking of knee ; tearing pain in feet ; pain in all joints ; aggravates ulcers ; rapid, stitches about heart.

Nerves

Excessive impressionability and irritability of nervous system.
Oversensitiveness after abuse of coffee or opium.
Irritability, especially following anger, progressing even to most violent spasms of chest and throat.
Intense restlessness, and spasmodic twitching of limbs. θ Threatened miscarriage.
Child suddenly stiffens body and bends backwards, kicks when carried, screams immoderately and throws everything off. θ Dentition.
Tremulous starting up ; twitches of limbs and eyelids.
Single twitches of limbs and of head during morning nap.
Convulsions of children : child becomes stiff, rolls its eyes, distorts face, twitches, throws its limbs about, clenches thumbs, bends body backward or sideways, has rattling breathing, with foam at mouth ; moves legs up and down alternately, grasps and
reaches with hands, mouth drawn from side to side, eyes staring, or eyes and face distorted ; stupor. θ Dentition.
Convulsive condition of little children, with distended abdomen, greenish, whitish, chopped, frequent stools ; vomiting of sour smelling fluid.
Tetanic convulsions following measles.
Twitching in eyelids, eyeballs, lips and facial muscles.
Pain in limbs, with weakness, and slow, dragging gait.
General prostration, faintness.
Great prostrating debility as soon as pain begins. θ Neuralgia.
Lassitude in morning on awaking.
Syncope, particularly hysterical.
Sensation of numbness.
Neuralgia : patient wild and unruly, wants relief at once ; heat with anxiety and restlessness ; hot sweat, particularly on face and scalp ; < at night, while lying down ; must get up and rush about ; affects principally left
side.

Sleep

She complains of sleepiness on account of bruised feeling in limbs, with inclination to weep and ill humor.
Frequent yawning. θ Threatened miscarriage.
Yawning and stretching.
Sleepiness, with dulness of senses.
Sleep, with half-open eyes.
Snoring breathing when asleep.
Sleepy, but cannot sleep.
Drowsiness, with short breathing, groaning, starts.
If he sits down during day he wishes to sleep, but if he lies down he is unable to sleep, and remains awake.
Could not sleep till 2 A. M., partly from painful weakness in limbs, partly from sensation of heat and restlessness, which makes him toss about in bed.
Sleepless and restless at night.
Restless sleep, with weeping, howling, groaning and tossing about.
Sleeplessness, with fever and dyspnœa.
Starting and jerking while asleep.
Scarcely sleeps, and on falling asleep is tormented by vivid, fanciful, anxious and frightening dreams.
Horrid nightmare ; child awakes three or four times nightly with fearful fright, uttering sudden startling and piercing cries, and vows there is some dreadful beast under the bed or in his room ; nervous, peevish and fretful.
During sleep : moaning ; weeping and wailing ; snoring inspirations with open mouth ; starting up, crying out, tossing about and talking ; headache and other pain are felt ; hot, sticky sweat on forehead ; twitching of muscles.
Coma vigil, or rather an inability to open eyes ; slumbering without sleep, quick expiration and tearing headache in forehead, with nausea.
Lies with knees apart while sleeping.
Aggravation of complaints on falling asleep and awaking.
Dreams : anxious ; she sees horrible apparitions and starts ; about fatal accidents.

Time

At night : sensation of violent heat, with burning, unquenchable thirst, dry tongue, stupefaction.
Night : headache after eating ; illusions of hearing ; umbilical region sensitive to touch ; toothache < ; toothache before midnight ; rheumatic toothache ; painful swelling of cheek ; children want to be carried ; taste slimy, bitter, sour,
rancid, putrid, offensive ; inclination to vomit ; gastralgia < ; diarrhœa ; involuntary urination ; inflammation of intestines < ; cough without expectoration ; pain in small of back ; unendurable pain in loins ; legs restless ; feet seem
paralyzed ; burning in soles ; drawing tearing pains in limbs ; violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed ; neuralgia < ; sleepless ; rheumatism ; burning smarting or darting lacerating pains in ulcer ; itching of rash.
Midnight : paroxysms of coughing.
After midnight : pain in arm.
At 2 A. M. : cough not sleep.
Morning : vertigo, on rising ; sticking and boring in right temple ; headache ; eyes dim and weak ; inflammation of eyes ; eyes swollen ; corners of eyes filled with purulent matter ; bitter taste ; after drinking coffee, heat, sweat,
vomiting ; epigastrium painfully bloated ; colic at sunrise ; heaviness ; fingers "go to sleep ;" single twitches in limbs.
Early in morning in bed : eyes half open and directed downward, somewhat enlarged pupils, sopor.
From 9 to 12 A. M. : general heat, then violent sweat.
Forenoon : pressive pain in both-temples.
Noon : < tearing headache.
Afternoon : pressure in head ; burning pain in hand ; fever paroxysms.
Evening : pressive headache ; burning cheeks ; flying shivers ; unnatural hunger ; hoarseness, with violent cough ; drawing pain in inner portion of arms ; pain in hip joint ; drawing pain in knee ; fever.
Day : cough with expectoration.
Day and night : screaming.

Temperature and weather

Warm things taken into mouth : < toothache.
Warm room : toothache commences in.
Getting warm in bed : < toothache ; > cough.
Heat of bed : < ulcers.
Pains are aggravated by heat.
Warm clothes : > abdominal colic.
Cold : > ulcers.
Cold water : < toothache ; rheumatic toothache.
Draught of air : toothache.
Open air : desire for ; ulcers aggravated.
Oversensitive to open air, aversion to wind, particularly sensitive about ears.
Cold air : very sensitive to ; chilly.
Cold change of weather : < inflammation of eyes.
Sensitiveness to moist air.
Damp cold weather : < inflammation of eyes.
Great dread of wind.
Windy weather : < ulcers.
Dry weather : asthmatic attacks.

Fever

Chilliness and coldness in general ; internal coldness ; one-sided chill with or without thirst.
Chill and coldness of whole body, with burning heat of face and hot breath.
Cold limbs, with burning heat of face, burning heat in eyes, and burning hot breath.
Coldness of face, hands and feet.
Chill of posterior, with heat of anterior part of body, or vice versa.
Immediately after uncovering, violent chill.
Chill, with trembling of body, nausea and bitter vomiting.
Chill and shivering, generally of single parts only, with heat of others.
Chill, followed by heat, with biting, sour smelling sweat.
Chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air ; she has to keep well covered at night.
Shivering when uncovering and from cold air.
Slight shiverings, alternating with heat, creep over back and abdomen.
Shivering on posterior portion of body, of arms, of thighs, and of back, which returns in paroxysms, without external coldness, but rather with internal and external heat, especially of forehead and face.
Shivering from draught.
Constant alternation of heat and coldness of various parts ; at one time hands were cold, at another warm ; at one time lower leg, at another thigh was cold, at another warm ; at one time forehead was cold and cheeks hot, etc.
Alternation of cold and heat in different parts of body, especially face.
Heat and shivering intermingled, mostly with one red and one pale cheek.
Febrile excitement and oversensitiveness to twitchings and spasms.
Internal heat, with shivering.
Heat, with anxiety and sweat on face and scalp.
Burning heat in lightly covered parts, though when not covered almost cold.
Burning in cheeks, with flying shiverings, in evening.
Heat creeping over head and face continued a long time.
Heat and sweat of face, after eating and drinking.
Biting heat.
Long-lasting heat, with violent thirst and frequent startings in sleep.
Heat, flushed face, great thirst, headache, colic, abdomen sensitive to touch and tympanitic ; milk disappeared.
Fever, with redness of one cheek and paleness of other.
General heat 9 to 12 A. M., then violent sweat.
Evening fever, with diarrhœa.
Great heat and sleeplessness at night.
Child is very feverish and cross. θ Dentition.
Hot and thirsty with the pains.
Profuse sweat of covered parts.
Hot sweat, from pain. θ Neuralgia.
Sweat during sleep, most on head, usually sour smelling.
Sweat, with smarting sensation in skin.
Profuse night sweat, with sleeplessness.
Relief of pain after sweat, not during.
Revulsion of, and therefrom entire want of sweat.
Suffering on account of checked perspiration, or on account of a fit of anger.
Cold perspiration.
While sweating, severe itching of sweating parts.
Paroxysm in afternoon, usually anticipating two hours.
Intermittent fever, not produced by swamp miasm, but in Spring in nervous persons, and where large cities extend.
Intermittent fever, chill accompanied by external and internal heat.
Instead of usual fever paroxysm, violent biliary colic, with vomiting and diarrhœa, in consequence of vexation.
Gastric or bilious fever : particularly after violent outbreak of anger ; hot face ; unquenchable thirst ; bilious taste ; vomituritio ; anxiety ; restlessness, etc.
Worm fever, with spasms.
Gastro-rheumatic fever after taking cold, followed by gastric complaints, vomituritio, bitter taste, etc., or first gastric, then rheumatic troubles, such as tearing pain in limbs, colic, chilliness, heat, sour sweat, restlessness and sleeplessness at night.
Puerperal fever, with great restlessness and irritability ; lack of milk in breasts.
Prodroma of pituitary fever.
Nervous fever.
Typhoid fever, in consequence of anger, care, grief and taking cold ; spasmodic symptoms, diarrheic stools, with fermentation in abdomen ; attacks of fainting, twitching, sleeplessness, with fear, vivid fancies ; body cold and face burning hot.

Attacks, periodicity

Pains recur in evening and are worse before midnight.
Paroxysms : redness of one cheek ; of toothache, with ptyalism ; of pain in head ; of neuralgia ; of fever, which usually anticipates two hours.
Intermittent attacks of toothache.
From time to time : colic from flatulence.
Winter : rough, scraping cough.

Locality and direction

Left : side of head, tearing and stinging pain ; great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids ; occasional tearing in ear ; neuralgia in face ; cheek red and hot ; cheek swollen ; erysipelas in cheek ; violent stitches in upper
jaw ; toothache in lower jaw ; violent toothache in upper jaw ; periodical toothache in lower jaw ; painful swelling in cheek ; pain and swelling in fauces ; gastralgia ; pain in hip ; arm went to sleep ; ischium, violent drawing tearing
pains ; scalp and face, neuralgia.
Right : side of head, pressure increasing and decreasing ; great swelling and bluish redness of eyelids ; ear, as if hot water was running over it ; ear, frequent stitches ; ear, red and painful ; stitches in jaw joint ; pain in elbow ; cutting
jerks in shoulder ; when lying on side, pain in left hip ; temple, sticking, boring ; side of chest, drawing sensation.
Right to left : pain in abdomen.
One-sided chill.
Side to side : child draws mouth from.
Back to front : pain in female sexual organs.
Backward : inclined to bend head backward ; moves head backward and forward ; and forward, child draws mouth ; labor pains press.

Sensations

Oversensitiveness of senses, especially if produced by coffee or narcotics.
As if a lump was falling forward in head ; as from firm pressure with fingers on forehead ; as from a stone in forehead ; as if eyes would fall out of head ; as if head would burst ; as if top of head was blown off ; as if hair stood on end ;
as if eyeball was drawn tightly backward ; as if orbital region was tightly compressed from all sides ; as if ears were stopped ; as if hot water was running over right ear ; pressure as from a blow in inner ear ; as if gums were swollen about lower back teeth ;
as though something was sticking in throat ; as if contents of stomach were passing into chest ; as if small of back was broken ; as if abdomen was rolled up in a ball ; as if a hernia would appear ; as if heart would be pressed down ; as of a cord around
trachea ; as if she would suffocate ; as from flatulence, oppression of chest ; as if limbs were worn out ; thorax, as if beaten ; as if arms were numb ; as if thumb was broken ; as if sprained on walking, limbs ; as if legs would "go to
sleep ;" as if bruised and tired out, joints ; as if abdomen was hollow ; teeth as if too long ; as if right side of chest was drawn inward.
Unendurable pain : in loins and hip joint.
Lancinations : in ears ; in teeth ; in ulcers.
Cutting : pain and debility after drinking ; in epigastrium ; pains in abdomen ; pain below umbilicus ; jerks from right shoulder towards heart ; colic before menses.
Shooting : in middle ear ; in precordial region.
Stitches : in temples ; left side of head ; extending to occiput like electric sparks ; from palate to vertex ; in head and chest ; in eyes ; in right meatus, on stooping ; in right mastoid process ; in right joint of jaw, extending into
ear ; through l. upper jaw ; in throat, near ear ; in hypochondria ; in region of liver ; shoot through chest ; and darts, through chest from abdomen ; in sides of chest ; in precordial region ; in arms along bones ; in wrist ; in hands
and finger joints ; in thighs ; jumping about, from knees to ankles ; in rectum ; like electric sparks in left shoulder ; in nates.
Stinging : pain in temple ; in face ; pain beneath tongue ; burning pains in larynx ; pain in region of liver ; pain in pit of stomach ; in margin of prepuce ; in larynx ; in skin ; at epiglottis ; in back.
Sticking : tearing headache ; pain in rectum after stool ; pain in neck of bladder.
Tearing pain : in forehead ; in temples ; left side, temple in and around eye ; in left ear ; in head and jaws ; toothache ; colic in abdomen ; in uterus ; pain in veins of legs ; pain in region of clavicle ; beneath nipple ; in
back after eating ; in muscles of arms from shoulder to fingers ; from left ischium to os calcis ; down legs ; pain in upper and lower legs ; pain in feet ; in back ; in bones of arm.
Paralytic sensations are always accompanied by drawing or tearing pain, and drawing or tearing pains rarely occur without paralytic or numb sensation in the part.
Jerking : headache in forehead ; toothache ; of long bones of limbs.
Boring : in roots of teeth ; in right temple.
Burrowing ; headache in forehead and temples ; in head ; in alveoli of lower back teeth.
Pinching : in uterus.
Digging : teeth and gums.
Gnawing : hollow teeth.
Grumbling : toothache.
Griping : tearing colic in region of navel ; inside of abdomen ; in uterus.
Dragging : towards abdominal rings.
Drawing : headache ; in ears ; toothache ; in uterus ; in thighs ; in palate ; from small of back ; pain in right side of chest ; pain beneath nipple ; pain in scapulæ ; from shoulder to fingers ; in arms and hands ; in
elbows and hands ; in wrists ; violent, from left ischium to os calcis pains though lower legs and ankles ; in mamma.
Biting : on back of tongue ; in urethra ; in eruption on nape of neck.
Smarting : in vagina ; in skin ; in urethra.
Burning : in forehead ; in eyes ; in face ; in swollen gums ; on tongue ; stitching pain in throat ; in stomach ; in anus ; in neck of bladder ; in urethra ; in vagina ; in larynx ; pain under sternum ; in chest ;
in palms ; in hand ; soles ; face ; heat in lightly covered parts ; in skin ; in cheeks.
Aching : in all limbs.
Scraping : in larynx.
Rawness : in larynx.
Pressive pain : in both temples ; beneath upper eyelid ; in stomach ; beneath sternum.
Pressing : headache ; from vertex over forehead ; earache ; in epigastrium ; towards genitals.
Pressure : inner head ; extending from vertex to forehead ; r. half of forehead ; from vertex over forehead, when lying down ; in head from within out ; in orbital region ; in forehead ; in epigastrium, severe ; in stomach, after eating a
little ; as from a stone, in scrobiculum ; in hypochondria ; on air passage ; in articular ligaments of arms.
Soreness : in rectum, after stool ; in larynx ; chest, internally ; of canthi ; in border of prepuce ; of nipples ; of joints.
Bruised : sensation in head ; feeling in umbilical region ; pain in muscles of lower abdomen ; sensation in muscles ; pain in thighs ; feeling in limbs ; in skin.
Wandering pains : in temples.
Neuralgic pain : in face.
Rheumatic : pain in head ; toothache ; pains in limbs drive him out of bed.
Sprained : pain in thumb and index finger ; in hip joint.
Stiff pain : in loins.
Ulcerative : pain at epiglottis.
Indescribable : pain in thigh.
Pain : in temples ; in teeth, shoots back and forth in paroxysms ; in belly from side to side ; in abdomen, prevents urination ; in left side of fauces ; labor-like, in uterus ; in chest, with every deep breath ; in heart ; in small of
back ; unendurable, in loins ; in arms ; in thumb ; in hip joint ; in calves ; in periosteum of limbs ; in joints.
Throbbing : headache ; in one-half of brain ; toothache ; in back part of throat.
Heaviness : inner head ; in nose ; in whole abdomen ; in chest ; as if heart was weighed down ; of limbs ; of eyelids ; in lower jaw ; in alveoli of some of back teeth ; in legs ; of calves.
Stopped up feeling : in nose.
Fulness : in head ; in nose ; and distension in hypochondria ; after eating ; in alveoli of first and second back teeth ; of both sides of upper jaw.
Empty : abdomen.
Uneasiness : about heart.
Distended : alveoli.
Tensive : drawing in ears ; pain in hypochondria ; around brain ; stiffness in cervical muscles ; knees ; feet and calves ; pain across chest.
Constriction : in forehead ; of meninges ; of pharynx ; pain in abdomen and back ; at suprasternal fossa ; in upper part of chest ; in ankles.
Constricting : bellyache.
Contracting : outward pains in abdomen ; sensation in spine.
Compressed sensation : of brain ; pain in abdomen.
Cramped feeling : jaw ; legs and calves.
Spasmodic sensation : in front of right ear.
Weariness : of thigh.
Weakness : muscles of mastication ; of limbs.
Numbness : of fingers ; in toes ; all over ; with prickling in arm.
Pithy : soles feel.
Paralyzed feeling : along nerves of arm to tips of fingers ; in feet ; painful, from sacrum into thigh ; stiffness in thigh ; pain in elbows and hands ; feet ; weakness of limbs.
Crawling : in nose ; left upper jaw ; in bones of arms ; in calves.
"Going to sleep :" of arms ; fingers, knees and calves.
Tickling : in pit of throat ; in chest.
Itching : left upper jaw ; pain in anus ; in margin of prepuce ; toes ; of sweating parts ; of rash ; of skin ; in side of heel.
Coldness : inside of abdomen ; of limbs ; of face, hands and feet.
Chilliness : inside of abdomen.
Shuddering : through skin.
Heat : in face ; in head ; in eyes ; in auricle ; in nose ; left cheek ; of face ; in mouth ; in pharynx ; and restlessness ; forehead and face ; and coldness of various parts at one time ; different parts of body ;
and shivering ; and anxiety ; creeping over head and face ; with pain.
Dryness : of mouth ; of eyelids ; of nose.

Tissues

Acts more on sensory than on motor sphere.
Inflammation resulting from a fit of passion.
Excessive sensibility and irritability of fibre.
Spasmodic trembling, associated with symptoms of nervous irritability.
Muscular or articular rheumatism, with great nervous excitability.
Neuralgia in paroxysms of most violent character.
Rheumatism ; drawing, tearing pains, accompanied by sensation of lameness or numbness ; pain more in tendons, ligaments and bones (not in muscles), without swelling of parts ; pain < at night ; they do not change location.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Ebullitions and hemorrhages.
Incipient gout ; gouty ophthalmia.
Inflammation, swelling, induration, and atrophy of glands.
Indurations in mammary gland.
Serous non-suppurative inflammations, or suppuration of cellular tissue, or pus scanty, thin and corroding.
Female genitals : leucorrhœa ; menstrual troubles ; dysmenorrhœa ; menorrhagia, etc.
Increases the secretions of the respiratory mucous membrane.
Bilious vomiting ; subacute hepatitis ; mucous diarrhœa.
Rheumatism, in ligaments and periosteum.
Fever arising from physical irritation, such as dentition, or indigestible foreign bodies in intestines ; nervous system highly excited, yet sensorium not much perverted.
All catarrhal affections, with or without fever, especially after taking cold, occurring most frequently in children and women of nervous excitable temperament.
Catarrhal affections of eyes, ears, gastro-intestinal, urino-genital and respiratory mucous membranes.
Intestinal catarrh, with affections of liver and bladder.
Digestive canal : increased and altered secretions, accumulation of flatus during the period of dentition.
Looseness of bowels, with colic, following anger, or in children.
On the skin it produces miliary eruption, isolated papules and pustules, and an unhealthy disposition, so that wounds do not readily heal, but become very painful.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Painful to touch : outer head ; umbilical region ; abdomen sensitive ; teeth ; uterus ; mamma ; hard node beneath nipple ; ulcers.
Sensitive to touch : skin.
Pressure : causes pure blood to issue from eyelids ; on angle of jaw causes pain in fauces ; on chest, oppression.
Covering : < pain in feet.
Injuries : readily suppurate.
Shock of injury : unstrung by pain ; < from talk or touch ; groaning ; pain burning and as if torn ; pale, cold, moist skin, or general perspiration ; forehead and limbs cold ; > from hot applications.
Children obtain relief by being carried.

Skin

Yellow skin.
Skin moist and burning hot.
Stinging pain leaving soreness after scratching.
Burning in skin.
Smarting in skin.
Skin creepy and sensitive to touch.
Bruising pain and smarting in skin.
Dryness of skin.
Itching of skin.
Shuddering felt all over skin.
Skin unhealthy, every injury suppurates.
Exanthema difficult of healing.
Miliary exanthema.
Miliary eruption on the cheeks.
Red rash on cheeks and forehead.
Erysipelas in the face.
Erysipelas accompanying toothache.
Hives in peevish, fretful children.
An eruption, only slightly elevated on nape of neck, which causes a biting sensation, compelling her to scratch.
Small red blotches on skin, which are covered with nettle-like rash.
Rash of infants and lying-in women. Small red spots on skin covered with pimples.
Red rash, consisting of thick pimples, which are crowded into a red spot in skin, on lumbar vertebræ and on side of abdomen ; they itch especially at night, with some biting, shuddering is felt all about the spot from time to time.
Repercussion of measles after taking cold, nothing but bluish spots visible, with watery evacuations, nausea and colic.
Skin inclined to inflammation.
Oversensitiveness of skin in children.
Excoriation of children and infants between thighs.
Burning and smarting or darting lacerating pain in ulcer, at night, with crawling and painful oversensitiveness to touch and air, particularly to wind.
Redness and swelling of ulcers.
Lancinating and darting in ulcers.
"Proud flesh" in sensitive ulcers, with inflamed edges.
Ulcers are aggravated : at night ; in open air ; during menstruation ; from motion of affected part ; by wet poultices ; by pressure on side of limb opposite to ulcer ; on rising from seat or bed ; from drinking coffee ; from heat of bed, and
in windy weather.
Ulcers are improved by cold.
Pustulous pimples on face.
Itching pimples covered with scurfs, and ulcerating around ulcer.
Severe itching of sweating parts.
Rhagades of skin.
Skin yellow, jaundiced.
Sequela of scarlatina.
Chilblains.
Pimples appear with itching around an ulcer, which is covered with a crust and suppurates, margin around base of ulcer very red.
Inflammatory swelling of glands.
Skin symptoms are aggravated : in evening and night ; when the child is kept too warm ; after taking cold ; after scarlet fever, during menstrual flow ; during pregnancy ; during perspiration, and after suppressed perspiration.

Stage of life, constitution

Light or brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament.
Children, newborn and during period of dentition.
Diseases of children, especially such as affect abdominal organs or are dependent on them.
Adults, even aged persons with arthritic or rheumatic diathesis.
A child, æt. 6 weeks ; ophthalmia.
A male infant, of eight weeks, constipated since birth ; dentition.
A child, æt. 9 months ; eclampsia.
A child, a year old ; diarrhœa.
A boy, æt. 1 year ; dysentery.
A boy, æt. 4, light complexioned, blue eyed, sandy haired ; nightmare of two years duration.
A girl, æt. 5 ; otalgia.
A boy, æt. 13 ; measles.
A small, robust girl, æt. 17, has not menstruated ; toothache.
A young servant girl, suffering since four weeks ; intermittent tertiana.
A servant girl, after vexation ; bilious vomiting, diarrhœa and colic.
A girl, æt. 20, robust build, short in stature, quiet, even temperament ; rheumatism.
A woman, æt. 25 ; tetanic convulsions after measles.
A woman, æt. 25, delicate constitution, has been nursing three months ; agalactia.
A woman, æt. 26 ; threatened abortion.
A woman, æt. 26, robust build, in third pregnancy ; threatened miscarriage.
A woman, æt. 28, sensitive disposition ; diarrhœa, with colic.
A woman, æt. 30, of vigorous constitution ; toothache.
A widow, æt. 30 ; dysmenorrhœa.
A woman, æt. 34, after vexation ; hemicrania.
A woman, æt. 34 ; post-partum hemorrhage.
A robust woman, æt. 34 ; ill effects of anger.
A high-tempered, thin young woman ; bilious fever.
A woman, æt. 40, exhausted suffering look ; neuralgic toothache.
A man, æt. 40, robust and well nourished ; sciatica.
A woman, æt. 50, diarrhœa after taking cold ; gastric derangement.
A man, æt. nearly 60, addicted to the use of opium ; muscular twitching.
A man suffering from painful swelling of left cheek caused by a carious and badly plugged tooth.
A farmer, after intermittent fever, vexation ; bilious colic.
A woman, æt. 83 ; diarrhœa.

Relations

Antidoted by : Acon., Alum., Borax, Camphor ., Coccul ., Coffea, Coloc., Conium, Ignat., Nux vom ., Pulsat .
It antidotes ; Coffea, Opium . (As long also as 1830, I gave Chamom . in cases spoiled by the use of Opium or Morphia , at least as an
intercurrent before giving other remedies, and mostly with brilliant results. It corresponds to the secondary symptoms of Opium , not at all to the primary, and acts better in the lower dilutions. C. Hg.)
Compatible : Merc. sol . and Sulphur in diarrhœa ; Pulsat .
Complementary : Bellad . in diseases of children. (Chamom. acts more on nerves of abdomen, Bellad. more on the cranial nerves.)
Compare : Acon ., Alum ., Arnic ., Arsen ., Bellad ., Borax, Bryon., Calc. ostr .
(dentition), Caustic ., Cina , Coccul ., Coffea (oversensitive to pain), Coloc., Conium (vertigo in bed), Cypripedium
(sleeplessness), Hepar, Hyosc., Ignat . (nervousness, oversensitiveness, etc.), Lycop., Magn. carb., Mercur . (diarrhœa, swollen parotid), Nux vom . (sour smelling breath, constrictive
gastralgia in coffee drinkers), Pulsat . (gastric and intestinal symptoms, temperament and mood), Rheum, Silica (nursing children), Sulphur (burning of soles of feet at night in bed,
diarrhœa).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

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.

Mind

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.

Convulsions

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.

These symptoms come at this time when the child has not been properly looked after. Or perhaps the mother has not been properly qualified for parturition.

"Tetanic convulsions.

Twitching in the eyelids.

Pain in the limbs.

General prostration, faintness."

Neuralgic pains all over the body with numbness. Twitching, darting, tingling pains. The pains are mostly ameliorated by heat, with the exception of the teeth and jaws. Toothache, pain in the teeth ameliorated by cold, and made worse by heat. But the earaches and pains in the extremities are made better by heat.

You will see in the text under "Temperature and Weather" the symptom:

"Pains are worse from heat," with two black bars as if it were the most important symptom in it, and then below, without any bar,

"Sensitive to cold. Chilly," and "Better from heat;"

but the fact is the pains that are worse from heat are about the teeth and jaws, and it is decidedly a particular symptom relating only to a part; whereas it is true that the patient in the general state, entirely contrary to what this says, is better by heat.

The pains in general are better by heat. The patient himself is better by heat. Consequently, this being a particular, it should state that the pains that are so commonly worse by heat are of the teeth.

The most important part of Chamomilla is the mental state. It pervades the whole economy and you will see that every region that is taken up, every part that is studied, brings into it the mental state of the patient.

This remedy has more mental symptoms than symptoms in any other part. Crying.

"Piteous moaning. Irritable."

The irritability is so great that it manifests itself sometimes in a very singular way. The patient seems to be driven to frenzy by the pains, and she forgets all about her prudence and her diplomacy.

Loss of generosity

she has no consideration for the feelings of others. She will simply enter into a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of anybody.

So, when you go into practice, do not be surprised when you go to the bedside of a patient in labor, who is full of pains and sufferings, if she says:

"Doctor, I don't want you, get out." just such an one will pass under other circumstances as a lady. The awful pains that she is having drive her to frenzy, and this frenzy, this oversensitiveness to pain, is coupled with the mental state.

Inability to control her temper, and the temper is aroused to white heat. Now, in the child, the child whines and cries and sputters about everything. It wants something new every minute. It refuses everything that it has asked for. If it is for something to eat, for something to play with, for its toys, when these are handed to the child it throws them away; slings them clear across the room.

Strikes the nurse in the face for presuming to, get something or other that the little one did not want, yet had asked for. Capriciousness. It seems that the pains and sufferings are sometimes ameliorated by passive motion, this very particularly in children.

The pains seem to be better when the child is carried, so the child wants to be carried all the time. This is true in the colic and in the bowel troubles. It is true with earache; it is true with the evening fevers, and the general sufferings from cold and conditions while teething.

Children must be carried. The nurse is compelled to carry the child all the time. And then there is the restlessness and capriciousness about the members of the family. The child goes two or three times up and down the room with the nurse, and then reaches out for its mother; goes two or three times up and down the room with her and then wants to go to its father. And so it is changing about. Never satisfied. It seems to have no peace.

When it has earache the sharp shooting pains cause the child to screech out. Carries the hand to the ear. The pains often cause that sharp, piercing tone of the voice. Adults in pain cannot keep still the pains are so severe; it is not always that they are decidedly ameliorated by moving, but they seem to be. But they move because they cannot keep still.

So the Chamomilla patient is tossing in bed, if in bed; not an instant quiet. And along with all of these the same irritability; becomes violently excited at the pain angry at the pain; irritable about the pain; will scold about the pain the pain is so torturesome. Aversion to talk, and snappish. The patient is constantly sitting and looking within herself when pains are absent.

Chamomilla has melancholy, and has suffering of the mind, without pain. Then the Chamomilla patient sits and thinks within herself a sort of introspection. Cannot be induced to say a word. Sadness. The Chamomilla child cannot be touched.

Wants to do as he pleases. Wants to change; wants to do something new. The answer from both the adult and the child are snappish. Complaints come on from contradiction; from anger. Convulsions come on from anger.

If the child is suffering from, whooping cough it will have a coughing spell, a spasmodic cough from being irritated. Goes into a spunky state, gets red in the face, and then gets to coughing. Peevishness.

"Quarrelsome. Easily chagrined or excited to anger.

Bad effects of having the feelings wounded."

Such is the mental state, and, as I have remarked, that mental state will be found wherever there is an inflammatory condition that Chamomilla fits. In pneumonia, in bronchitis, laryngitis, inflammations of the ear, erysipelas, headaches, fevers, Chamomilla. is capable of curing when the mental state is present, and the symptoms, in particular, are present.

Headache

The headaches of Chamomilla are found in sensitive people, sensitive women, nervous; overstrained; overtired. Fidgety. Excitable women that suffer from pain. A little headache seems an enormous thing. Throbbing, tearing, bursting pains. Congestive headaches.

Worse when thinking of the pain, or when thinking about the sufferings. The headaches are worse evenings. A particular time in the evening for many complaints to be worse is 9 o'clock. Sometimes 9 o'clock in the morning, and sometimes 9 in the evening.

Fever condition worse 9 o'clock in the morning. Pains worse in the evening, and especially worse about 9 o'clock. Stitching, tearing pains in the temples and head. Wandering pains in the temples.

Pressing pain in the head as soon as attention was directed to it, better by busying the mind at something else, or by occupation; forcing one's self to do something, and to think of something else. Congestion to the head. Violent neuralgia of the face, teeth, ear' sides of the head. Pains inside of the mouth are ameliorated by cold. Pains of the ear and sides of the head are ameliorated by heat; earache ameliorated by heat.

Eyes

There are pains in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes with bleeding. Oozing of a bloody water from the eyes of the new born infant. Chamomilla will cure if there is irritability of the temper.

Profuse acrid discharges; yellow discharges; discharges of purulent matter from the eyes. Violent pressure in the orbit. Lachrymation accompanying coryza with sneezing. Stuffing up of the nose. Headaches, irritability.

Associated with the above is a symptom:

"Face red and hot on one side, the other side pale."

Ears

Like the whole constitution of the remedy there is a great sensitiveness of hearing. Roaring, ringing and singing in the ears. Stitching pains in the ears, ameliorated by heat. Pressing earache.

You will see the little one when the pain comes on put its hands up to its ears, and spitefully moaning, yelling and screaming. Violent pains in the ear. When old enough to talk about it will complain of heat in the ear, and a feeling of fullness as if the ear were obstructed or stuffed up.

In adults, nervous, sensitive women who cannot ride in the wind without covering up their cars.

The ears are so sensitive to air when other parts of the face and head are not sensitive to air.

You will find some patients that can not have air touch the neck. Others have extra covering between the shoulders. Chamomilla singles out the ears. The whole body is sensitive to air and to cold, and he wants to dress with plenty of covering.

Sneezing, watery coryza. Hot face on one side, and often with pains in the head and jaws. Fluent coryza, viscid, acrid, with loss of smell. Loss of smell lasting while the cold lasts.

Face

Rending pains in the face, sometimes involving the teeth and the outer face at the same time. It is not an uncommon thing to have a very sensitive woman if she is disturbed by chagrin, if she has been vexed by her servant, to go to her room and suffer tortures from pain in the face from that excitement, from anger.

If it is the outer nerves in the face the pains will be ameliorated by heat; but when it affects the teeth the pains will be ameliorated by cold. Heat of the face, while the rest of the body is cold.

"The face sweats after eating or drinking."

It is a common feature of this remedy to sweat only about the head, the hairy scalp.

Sometimes during measles or scarlet fever we will have Chamomilla manifestations. Sweating about the head, face red on one side.

"One-sided swelling of the check;"

that is, an inflammatory attack, gets redder, and redder, and finally purple, going into erysipelas, with the mental symptoms.

Hot face, redness of one side. Burning in the face. Neuralgia of the face. If anything warm is taken into the mouth it will bring on aching in the teeth, and sometimes burning and throbbing in the roots of the teeth; tearing, stitching, stinging pains, aggravated by talking; aggravated in the open air; aggravated in a warm room, or getting warm in bed, anything that heats up the body will aggravate this toothache; ameliorated by holding cold drinks in the mouth.

Teeth and gums

Toothache that is entirely absent in the daytime; as soon as it comes night, and the patient gets into the warm bed, then these shooting, tearing pains begin; with the irritability, oversensitiveness to pain, the mental state, hot head, you have the Chamomilla toothache.

"Swelling and inflammation of the gums.

Threatened abscess of the gums.

Toothache when coming into a warm room," when it has been better in the cold air. This toothache is one that may be brought on by taking cold, by exposing one's self to cold air when sweating; and yet the toothache itself when present is ameliorated by cold.

"Toothache from a draft of air."

"Ameliorated from eating cold things.

Worse before midnight."

The most of the troubles of Chamomilla that come on in the evening and night subside about or sometimes before midnight.

"From midnight to morning almost all of the complaints of Chamomilla, are absent.

Many of them are absent during the day.

It has aggravation in the forepart of the night.

"Teeth feel too long.

Swollen gums."

The Chamomilla infant will often hold a glass of cold water against the gums. The little one has inflamed gums, painful gums, the coming forth of the teeth is painful, and it seems to want to prolong the cold in the mouth; when it is so young you would not think it would realize the good of making use of the cold edge of the glass. Offensive foetid smell from the mouth.

The spasms that affect the child all over are likely to affect the larynx, and sometimes affect the larynx without affecting the child anywhere else.

"Spasms of the larynx during cough, or without cough.

Spasmodic constriction of the larynx.

Choking.

Spasms of the throat. Sore and inflamed."

Throat

Chamomilla, cures sore throat when the throat is of a uniform redness, spreading pretty evenly over the whole throat, with considerable swelling. Inflammation of tonsils. Much redness; when the mental state is present. It will never cure a sore throat except in these irritable constitutions, such as suffer from pain, such as are easily angered, in a constant fret. The Chamomilla mental state determines when you ne to give Chamomilla in sore throat.

"Want of appetite. Great thirst for cold water and desire for acid drinks.

Unquenchable thirst."

Aversion to coffee, warm drinks, to soups and liquid foods, The aversion to coffee is a strange thing. Chamomilla and coffee are very much alike in the general sensitivity of the economy. They antidote each other. When persons have been overdrinking coffee, nurses drinking coffee to keep up at night to take care of the patient; persons overdrinking coffee when tired and overworked. Chamomilla is its antidote.

"Thirsty, and hot with the pains."

When the pains come, no matter where, she heats up, and sometimes becomes really feverish. Face red, especially on one side. Head hot; extreme irritability.

Chamomilla has much vomiting. Eructations of gas which smells like sulphuretted hydrogen. The Chamomilla patient has violent retching. Making violent efforts to vomit. Seems that it will tear the stomach. Covered with cold sweat. Exhausted. That is just what Morphine does.

If you have ever seen a patient who has been overdosed by a doctor - I hope that you will never see one that has been overdosed by yourself. Do not make a case, you will have one soon enough, but if you get into a town where there is an allopathic physician, and he happens to give Morphine to one of these oversensitive patients; it may relieve her pain for a little while, but on will come the awful eructations, and she will retch and vomit, and continue to retch when there is nothing to vomit.

Chamomilla will stop that, the first dose, in a few minutes, and it is the only remedy you will need. It will always stop the vomiting from Morphine after the crude effect of Morphine has passed away and the vomiting comes.

Colics

Colic, especially in the little ones, in the infants. Pain in the stomach and abdomen, The child doubles up, and screams, and kicks; wants to be carried; is extremely irritable; attack comes on in the evening; one side of the face red, the other side pale; wants things, and when they are given does not want them; and you have a Chamomilla colic.

It is a wind colic. It lasts a fraction of a minute, and then it straightens out again. It shows that it is a cramp, a wind-cramp. in adults, who have felt these symptoms, they are said to be cutting, burning, griping. Griping pains.

Of course, such are the pains that are called colicky. Cramps in the bowels. Griping pains. Sometimes griping as if must go to stool The abdomen distended like a drum. Sometimes ameliorated by warm applications.

"Colic while urinating;" that is an uncommon symptom.

"Colic in the morning.

Tympanitic abdomen."

The most striking Chamomilla stool is grass green, or like chopped eggs, or like these two chopped up; yellow and white, intermingled with mucus that is grass green, like chopped grass; chopped spinach. Greenish, slimy discharges, greenish water.

Those old enough to express themselves in the proving said that the stool felt hot while it passed. It smells like sulphuretted hydrogen. Copious stool; scanty stool, with dysenteric straining. Watery diarrhoea, six or eight passages daily. Mucous diarrhoea. Green, watery stool, fæces and mucus.

"Yellowish brown stool."

Also constipation, with no ability to strain. A paralytic weakness of the rectum; inactivity of the rectum. Anus is "pouting," with swollen appearance and redness.

Women

The woman, such as I have described, oversensitive to pain, snappish, suffering intensely from a little pain, takes on many symptoms at the menstrual period. The menstrual flow is black, clotted, offensive. Cramping pains in the uterus, clutching and griping, ameliorated by heat.

"Oversensitive to pain," with all the pains and complaints, and the mental state, the irritability, the snappish mental state at a menstrual period. Whether it be a menorrhagia, or a metrorrhagia, there are copious black clots.

"Menstrual colic following anger," which means violent cramping pains in the uterus during menstruation if she has had any great excitement to anger her. Sexual irritability, emotions, disturbance of mind, will bring on cramps at the menstrual period in a woman who is not subject to cramps, affecting her as if she had taken cold.

It is a very useful remedy in membranous dysmenorrhoea. It, perhaps, has existed from the first menstrual period. Every month the woman throws off a little membranous formation. This is thrown off with violent labor-like pains, and often with clots.

Chamomilla may be a palliative. It is not the constitutional remedy that clears away, and prevents the future formation of this membrane, like the deeper antipsorics, but it is often palliative in the more severe attacks, with the irritable condition of the mind; feverish condition, ameliorated by heat; cramping, and clutching like labor pains,

"Yellow, smarting leucorrhoea.

Excessive menstruation; blood dark, nearly black, clotted, with pain through from back to front, attacks of syncope, coldness of limbs, much thirst."

Pregnancy

In pregnancy the woman has also Chamomilla conditions. Irregular contractions; false labor pains. Labor pains that are felt in wrong places. Labor pains that are felt too much in the back.

Contractions that are most painful, cutting, tearing, bringing out screams. so irritable; she scolds the pains; she scolds the doctor; she scolds everybody; drives the doctor out of the room; drives the nurse off, and then calls for her again; refuses things that are offered.

Labor pains that are clutching here, and clutching there, and cramping, showing that certain fibres of the uterus are contracting in one direction, and certain other fibres in another. There is not that uniform, regular contraction that should take place in the expulsion of the contents of the uterus; expulsion of a mole or expulsion of a child.

If the physician can have the pregnant woman under his care during the period of gestation he ought to be able to select remedies to remove these irregular contractions of the uterus, or to prevent them when it comes time for labor. The pains are then not so violent. She feels the contractions, but in many instances they are painless.

You will not always be able to prepare women, they will not always permit it. Women are more inclined to be notional and whimsical and to have their own way a short time before confinement than at any other time. A woman ought to be under treatment all through, gestation, and sometimes it takes longer.

Gestation is a fortuitous time for the woman to take treatment. Symptoms representative of her disordered state come out then that do not appear at any other time. If she has a psoric condition it may remain dormant until pregnancy comes on, which may act as an exciting cause to bring out the conditions that are in the constitution.

It furnishes, therefore, a good time for the homoeopathic physician to study the case and give that woman a constitutional remedy based upon those symptoms that will not only remove those symptoms and prepare her for confinement, but will remove very much of the disorder in her economy, and she will go on through life liberated from much distress, cured from many conditions that perhaps would not have come out until some other occasion brought them out.

A woman that knows much about Homoeopathy would submit herself regularly to constitutional treatment during gestation, that is, would be particular to give the physician everything, all the details, all the sufferings, all the trouble, that he may study that case.

The things that are to be observed during gestation are to be added to the constitutional. symptoms found when gestation is not present, because they are all evidence of a disturbance in that one patient. And it is the patient that is to be treated, not a disease. It is simply another form of disturbance, of disorder of the economy.

The things that Chamomilla reaches during confinement, and during its course, and at the close of it, are irregular contractions, like hourglass contractions.

"Rigidity of the os."

After confinement, after pains. With all these the same mental condition, the same oversensitiveness to pain.

"Postpartum hemorrhage."

Every time the child is put to the breast, cramping of the uterus; cramp in the back. Either of these, or both, Chamomilla cures. The two principal remedies you will have to rely on for these conditions, cramping in the back and cramping in the abdomen every time the child is put to die breast, are Chamomilla and Pulsatilla.

They are two decidedly different remedies in the mental sphere. One is mild and gentle, though whimsical; and the other is snappish and irritable. Both are sensitive to pain, but Chamomilla is far more sensitive to pain than Pulsatilla.

Chamomilla has inflammation of the mammary glands. You cannot prescribe for that unless you have something along with it, and I am sure you will recognize a Chamomilla patient. The woman goes into convulsions.

At the beginning of the confinement the husband comes into the room in some snappish way,

"to make his wife behave herself;" it makes her mad, and she goes into convulsions.

The doctor, perhaps, has just turned his back upon it, but now he says,

"Well, why did I not think to give this woman a dose of Chamomilla?

If I had done that I would have prevented these convulsions."

She becomes very philosophical after a dose of Chamomilla, and often goes to sleep.

Chest, cough and respiration

There are many suffocative attacks and difficulties of breathing, inflammation of the larynx, that you can read up easily.

The cough of Chamomilla has some striking things in it. It is a hard cough, a dry, backing cough. The child goes to sleep at night and coughs and does not wake up. Coughs in its sleep, It is a little feverish has taken cold, and one side of the face is flushed.

It is crabbed when it is awake. The child becomes angry when it has a cold and a little cough, and a little disturbance of the larynx and bronchial tubes has been noticed coming on, and all at once it becomes more excitable, wants to be carried, and if not pleased, or is angered, it will go into a hard coughing spell, and cough and vomit.

"Coughing spells from anger."

That is, he coughs when there is already a cold or a cough, and if the patient becomes angry he has a fit of coughing. The coughing complaints, and chest complaints, and laryngeal complaints are generally worse at night.

The feverish condition comes on at night with the Chamomilla colds, with the Chamomilla whooping cough, with the Chamomilla chest complaints.

Most of the complaints of Chamomilla are better after midnight. From 9 o'clock to midnight they are worse.

"Dry cough worse at night and during sleep."

Dry cough from catching cold. Rough, scraping cough of children in winter, with tickling in sus sternal fossa, worse at night.

Dry cough, continuing during sleep. Amelioration of cough when getting warm in bed. Chamomilla is a very common remedy in whooping cough, where the child wants to be carried; keeps the nurse busy all the time. Coughs and gags and vomits, and it is very irritable and capricious in all of its wants and coughs during sleep.

You can now easily detect the chest symptoms. They go with the mental symptoms and the irritability and cough. The cough in the chest is scarcely different from the cough in the larynx and the cough from cold.

It is the same Chamomilla cough. Cough during sleep. During most of the complaints, fevers, colds, acute complaints and little attacks, burning of the extremities.

Limbs

Stitching pains in the limbs. Cramping in the muscles. Limbs go to sleep. With the pains in the limbs, and sometimes in other parts, but particularly in the limbs, a benumbed feeling , or pains with the feeling of deadness, pains accompanied by a benumbed feeling; sometimes almost complete loss of sensation of the skin, yet the pains in the long nerves in the extremities are very violent, and the patient seems just as sensitive to pain as at other times.

Extremely sensitive to pain, but the pains themselves cause a benumbing feeling to follow them.

It has been called in Older books a paralyzing pain. Convulsions of the extremities. Convulsions of the whole body.

"Cramps in the legs and calves.

Tearing pains in the feet following a severe chill.

Burning of the soles at night, puts the feet out of bed."

All the routine prescribers whenever. the patient is known to put the feet out of bed give Sulphur,, yet there is a large list of remedies with hot feet, burning soles, and all of them will put the feet out of bed, of course, to cool them off.

There is no reason why they should all get Sulphur.

Another feature of the pains that come on at night, sometimes, before midnight is, they are so violent that he cannot keep still. When the child has pains he wants to be carried, that seems to do him good. When the adult has pains at night in bed he gets up and walks the floor.

Benumbing pains, pains ameliorated by heat, pains that drive him out of bed at night, with twitchings of the limbs.

Oversensitiveness to pain. Great irritability.

Sleep

The Chamomilla patient can not go to sleep at night. He is sleepy, like Bell., but he cannot sleep. If he quiets down during the day he wants to go to sleep. But as soon as the time comes to go to bed he is wide awake, he is sleepless and restless at night, especially the fore part.

At times the Chamomilla patient becomes so full of visions and so much excited during the forepart of the night in his efforts to go to sleep that when be does go to sleep he jerks and twitches and has horrid dreams, and is full of sufferings.

"Anxious dreams. Sees horrible apparitions and starts; dreams about fatal accidents."

Worn out mentally from trying to go to sleep, and he is tired out.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

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.).

Relations

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.

Aggravation

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

Amelioration

From fasting; warm, wet weather; being carried.

Type

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

Time

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.

Cause

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

Prodrome

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

Chill

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.

Heat

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.

Sweat

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.

Tongue

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

Apyrexia

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.

Analysis

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