Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

decidedly different remedies in the mental sphere. One is mild and gentle, though whimsical; and theother is snappish and irritable. Both are sensitive to pain, but Chamomilla is far more sensitive to painthan Pulsatilla.Chamomilla has inflammation of the mammary glands. You cannot prescribe for that unlessyou have something along with it, and I am sure you will recognize a Chamomilla patient. The womangoes into convulsions. At the beginning of the confinement the husband comes into the room in somesnappish 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 l notthink to give this woman a dose of Chamomilla? If I had done that l would have prevented theseconvulsions". She becomes very philosophical after a dose of Chamomilla, and often goes to sleep.There are many suffocative attacks and difficulties of breathing, inflammation of the larynx,etc., that you can read up easily. The cough of Chamomilla has some striking things in it.It is a hard cough, a dry, hacking cough. The child goes to sleep at night and coughs and doesnot wake up. Coughs in its sleep. It is a little feverish, has taken cold, and one side of the face isflushed. 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 itbecomes more excitable, wants to be carried, and if not pleased, or is angered, it will go into a hardcoughing spell, and cough and vomit. "Coughing spells from anger". That is, he coughs when there isalready a cold or a cough, and if the patient becomes angry he has a fit of coughing. The coughingcomplaints, and chest complaints, and laryngeal complaints are generally worse at night. The feverishcondition comes on at night with the Chamomilla colds, with the Chamomilla whooping cough, withthe 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 coughfrom catching cold. Rough, scraping cough of children in winter, with tickling in suprasternal 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; keepsthe nurse busy all the time. Coughs and gags and vomits, and it is very irritable and capricious in all ofits wants and coughs during sleep.You can now easily detect the chest symptoms. They go with the mental symptoms and theirritability and cough. The cough in the chest is scarcely different from the cough in the larynx and thecough 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.Stitching pains in the limbs. Cramping in the muscles. Limbs go to sleep. With the pains in thelimbs, and sometimes in other parts, but particularly in the limbs, a benumbed feeling, or pains with thefeeling of deadness, pains accompanied by a benumbed feeling, sometimes almost complete loss ofsensation of the skin, yet the pains in the long nerves, in the extremities are very violent, and the patientseems just as sensitive to pain as at other times. Extremely sensitive to pain, but the pains themselvescause 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 thepatient is known to put the feet out of bed give Sulfur, 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 noreason why they should all get Sulfur.Another feature of the pains that come on at night, sometimes before midnight is, they are soviolent that he cannot keep still. When the child has pains he wants to be carried, that seems to do himgood. When the adult has pains at night in bed he gets up and walks the floor. Benumbing pains, painsameliorated by heat, pains that drive him out of bed at night, with twitchings of the limbs.Oversensitiveness to pain. Great irritability. The Chamomilla patient cannot 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 tosleep. 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 muchexcited during the forepart of the night in his efforts to go to sleep that when he does go to sleep hejerks and twitches and has horrid dreams, and is full of sufferings".Anxious dreams. Sees horribleapparitions and starts: dreams about fatal accidents". Worn out mentally from trying to go to sleep, andhe is tired out.