Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

e. 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 thepain; 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 painsare absent.Chamomilla has melancholy, and has suffering of the mind, without pain. Then the Chamomillapatient 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; wantsto do something new. The answer from both the adult and the child are snappish. Complaints come onfrom contradiction; from anger. Convulsions come on from anger. If the child is suffering fromwhooping cough it will have a coughing spell, a spasmodic cough from being irritated. Goes into aspunky state, gets red in the face, and then gets to coughing. Peevishness. "Quarrelsome. Easilychagrined 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 conditionthat 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 thesymptoms, in particular, are present.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 thinkingabout the sufferings. The headaches are worse evenings. A particular time in the evening for manycomplaints to be worse is 9 o'clock. Sometimes 9 o'clock in the morning, and sometimes 9 in theevening. Fever conditions 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 painin the head as soon as attention was directed to it, better by busying the mind at something else, or byoccupation; 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 bycold. Pains of the ear and sides of the head are ameliorated by heat; earache ameliorated by heat.There are pains in the eyes. Inflammation of the eyes with bleeding. Oozing of a bloody waterfrom the eyes of the new born infant. Chamomilla will cure if there is irritability of the temper. Profuseacrid discharges; yellow discharges; discharges of purulent matter from the eyes. Violent pressure inthe 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".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. Youwill 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 heatin 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 ears. The ears are so sensitiveto air when other parts of the face and head are not sensitive to air. You will find some patients thatcannot have air touch the neck.Others have extra covering between the shoulders. Chamomilla singles out the ears. The wholebody 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.Rending pains in the face, sometimes involving the teeth and the outer face at the same time. Itis not an uncommon thing to have a very sensitive woman if she is disturbed by chagrin, if she has beenvexed 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 theteeth the pains will be ameliorated by cold. Heat of the face, while the rest of the body is cold. "Theface sweats after eating or drinking". It is 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 cheek"; that is, aninflammatory attack, gets redder and redder, and finally purple, going into erysipelas, with the mentalsymptoms. Hot face, redness of one side. Burning in the face. Neuralgia of the face.