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CHAMOMILLA
Matricaria chamomilla, German chamomile
Clinical Picture:A remedy especially indicated for children. Useful during the period of dentition.
Peevish, irritable, oversensitive to pain, driven to despair (Coffea cruda); snappish, impudent; pains alternate with numbness.
Fretful, quiet only when carried; impatient, wants articles and becomes angry when refused or when offered, petulantly rejects them (Bryonia alba, Cina, Kreosotum); "too ugly, to live," cross, spiteful. Piteous moaning because the child cannot have what he wants; whining, restlessness.
Pains seem unendurable; increased by heat, in the evening before midnight; accompanied by thirst and fainting, with numbness of affected parts; eructations increase.
Toothache, if anything warm is taken into the mouth (Bismuthum oxydatum, Bryonia alba, Coffea cruda). Painful teething with or without fever and with greenish diarrhea.
Stools green, watery, corroding, like chopped eggs in spinach; hot, very offensive, like rotten eggs.
Convulsions or children from nursing (after a fit of anger in the mother: Nux vomica. For convulsions in child after fright in mother: Opium).
Indicated in cases mistreated by the use of opiates in disorders of children and adults.
Modalities:
Worse:
Dry heat.Better:
Anger.
Evening (before midnight).
Open air.
In the wind.
Eructations.
From being carried.
Fasting.
Warm, wet weather.
Relations:
Complementary to Belladonna atropa in diseases of children and of cranial nerves in adults.
Summary of Indications:
Childhood disorders with severe irritability - acute pain syndromes.
Antidotes:
| Aconitum napellus | Colocynthis |
| Alumina | Conium maculatum |
| Borax | Ignatia amara |
| Camphora officinalis | Nux vomica |
| Cinchona (China) officinalis | Pulsatilla nigricans |
| Coccuius indicus | Valeriana |
| Coffea cruda |
Note:
Mental calmness of patient contraindicates use of Chamomilla.