Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

one attributes it to Camomile tea, but the doctor will see at once, if he knows Chamomilla, that theseconvulsions are due to Camomile. Then you see the jerkings, the convulsions, the hot head, the greatsensitivity; 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 ofthe Chamomilla convulsions; those convulsions that come on in oversensitive children, when they havesuffered a good deal of pain from teething. Teething ought to be a perfectly healthy process, but it isreally looked upon as a disease, and many doctors carry medicines for "teething children", andadminister them; first one and then another. Chamomilla has fallen into that bad use of being given "forteething". It is true that many children suffer from irritability of the brain, convulsions, stomachdisorders and vomiting about the time of dentition, but I say dentition should not be a diseased state, itshould be normal. If they were in health they would cut teeth without sufferings. But slow teething wehave to contend with, and that irritable state, that oversensitiveness, so that the child does not sleep.Wakes up as if it had awful dreams. Wakes up in excitement, vomits, has diarrhea green, slimydiarrhea@a, like chopped grass. Offensive diarrhea with teething. These symptoms come at this timewhen the child has not been properly looked after. Or perhaps the mother has not been properlyqualified for parturition. "Tetanic convulsions. Twitching in the eyelids. Pain in the limbs. Generalprostration, faintness".Neuralgic pains all over the body with numbness. Twitching, darting, tingling pains. The painsare mostly ameliorated by heat, with the exception of the teeth and jaws. Toothache, pain in the teethameliorated by cold, and made worse by heat. But the earaches and pains in the extremities are madebetter by heat.You will see in the text under "Temperature and Weather" the symptom "Pains are worse fromheat", with two black bars as if it were the most important symptom in it, and then below, without anybar, "Sensitive to cold. Chilly", and "Better from heat"; but the fact is the pains that are worse fromheat 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 byheat. The pains in general are better by heat. The patient himself is better by heat. Consequently, thisbeing 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 andyou will see that every region that is taken up, every part that is studied, brings into it the mental stateof 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 herdiplomacy. Loss of generosity; she has no consideration for the feelings of others. She will simply enterinto a quarrel or dispute regardless of the feelings of anybody. So, when you go into practice, do not besurprised when you go to the bedside of a patient in labor, who is full of pains and sufferings, if shesays: "Doctor, I don't want you, get out". Just such a 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, iscoupled with the mental state.Inability to control her temper, and the temper is aroused to white heat. Now, in the child, thechild 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 playwith, for its toys, when these are handed to the child it throws them away; slings them clear across theroom. Strikes the nurse in the face for presuming to get something or other that the little one did notwant, yet had asked for. Capriciousness. It seems that the pains and suffering are sometimesameliorated by passive motion, this very particularly in children. The pains seem to be better when thechild is carried, so the child wants to be carried all the time. This is true in the colic and in the boweltroubles. It is true with earache; it is true with the evening fevers, and the general sufferings from coldand conditions while teething.Children must be carried. The nurse is compelled to carry the child all the time. And then thereis the restlessness and capriciousness about the members of the family. The child goes two or threetimes up and down the room with the nurse, and then reaches out for its mother; goes two or threetimes 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 tothe 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