Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

If anything warm is taken into the mouth it will bring on aching in the teeth, and sometimesburning 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 upthe body will aggravate this toothache; ameliorated by holding cold drinks in the mouth. Toothache thatis entirely absent in the daytime; as soon as it comes night, and the patient gets into the warm bed, thenthese shooting, tearing pains begin; with the irritability, oversensitiveness to pain, the mental state, hothead, you have the Chamomilla toothache. "Swelling and inflammation of the gums.Threatened abscess of the gums. Toothache when coming into a war room", when it has beenbetter in the cold air. This toothache is one that may be brought on by taking cold, by exposing one'sself 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 ofChamomilla that come on in the evening and night subside about or sometimes before midnight. Frommidnight to morning almost as if the complaints of Chamomilla are absent. Many of them are absentduring the day. It has aggravation in the fore-part 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 towant to prolong the cold in the mouth; when it is so young you would not think it would realize thegood 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 thelarynx without affecting the child anywhere else. "Spasms of the larynx during cough, or withoutcough. Spasmodic constriction of the larynx. Choking.Spasms of the throat. Sore and inflamed". Chamomilla cures sore throat when the throat is of auniform 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 asore throat except in these irritable constitutions, such as suffer from pain, such as are easily angered, ina constant fret. The Chamomilla mental state determines when you are to give Chamomilla in sorethroat."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 antidoteeach other.When persons have been overdrinking coffee, nurses drinking coffee to keep up at night to takecare 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 sometimesbecomes really feverish. Face red, especially on one side. Head hot; extreme irritability.Chamomilla has much vomiting. Eructations of gas which smells like . sulfuretted hydrogen.The Chamomilla patient has violent retching. Making violent efforts to vomit. Seems that it will tearthe stomach. Covered with cold sweat. Exhausted. That is just what Morphine does. If you have everseen a patient who has been overdosed by a doctor---I hope that you will never see one that has beenoverdosed by yourself. Do not make a case, you will have one soon enough---but if you get into a townwhere there is an allopathic physician, and he happens to give Morphine to one of these oversensitivepatients; it may relieve her pain for a little while, but on will come the awful eructations, and she willretch and vomit, and continue to retch when there is nothing to vomit. Chamomilla will stop that, thefirst dose, in a few minutes, and it is the only remedy you will need. It will always stop the vomitingfrom Morphine after the crude effect of Morphine has passed away and the vomiting comes.Colic, especially in the little ones, in the infants. Pain in the stomach and abdomen. The childdoubles up, and screams, and kicks; wants to be carried; is extremely irritable; attack comes on in theevening; one side of the face red, the other side pale; wants things, and when they are given does notwant them; and you have a Chamomilla colic. It is a wind colic. It lasts a fraction of a minute, and thenit straightens out again. It shows that it is a cramp, a wind cramp. In adults, who have felt thesesymptoms, they are said to be cutting, burning, griping. Griping pains. Of course, such are the painsthat are called colicky.Cramps in the bowels. Griping pains. Sometimes griping as if must go to stool. The abdomendistended like a drug. Sometimes ameliorated by warm applications. "Colic while urinating"; that is anuncommon symptom. "Colic in the morning. Tympanitic abdomen".The most striking Chamomilla stool is grass green, or like chopped eggs, or like these twochopped up; yellow and white, intermingled with mucus that is grass green, like chopped grass;chopped spinach. Greenish, slimy discharges, greenish water.