Chamomilla


Chamomilla homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


     Common Name: Chamomile.

Introduction

Matricaria Chamomilla, L.

Natural order: Compositae.

Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.

Mind.

Emotional.

Great mental excitement (10 minutes after 5 drops). At night while awake and sitting up in bed, he talks strangely. At night, it seems as though he hears the voices of absent persons. Fixed ideas (later action. The disposition, which was formerly very much affected by every depressing or exciting circumstance, was soothed by Chamomilla at the beginning of every proving, so that he became equable and insensible to every provocation; after a while, however, a certain exhaustion indolence and inactivity of mind appeared, which ceased on stopping the remedy, and the former irritability returned. Earnest and taciturn mood, reconciled to his fate, about which he is deeply affected (later action). Weeping and wailing.

Weeping mood and despondency; she complains of loss of sleep on account of general bruised feeling in the limbs. Cries piteously (after 4 hours). Moaning on account of every trifling offense, which had happened a long time ago. Moaning and groaning on account of ill- humor (after 5 hours. Involuntary moaning with heat of the face. Piteous moaning of a child because he cannot have what he wants (after 3 hours).

Mood depressed and uneasy (8 days after 60- drops). Very depressed mood, with anxiety and oppression, as of impending evil (20 minutes after 5 drops). Reflective, one cannot get a word out of her. Apprehensiveness (10th day). Apprehensive feeling and depressed mood (soon after 60 drops). Dread of every work. Great dread of wind. Anxiety, as if he was obliged to go to stool and ease himself. Anxiety, with ineffectual urging to urinate without much urine in the bladder. Anxiety while urinating. Without any mechanical hindrance. Repeated attacks of anxiety during the day. Full of anxiety with great uneasiness (41 minutes after 10 drops). He is beside himself on account of anxiety, weeps and sweats profusely.

Very anxious; everything that she undertakes is very unsatisfactory; she is irresolute, with flushes of heat in the face, and cool sweat in the palms. He is excessively anxious in bed, but not out of it, with rapidly changing pupils.

Hypochondriac anxiety. Trembling anxiety, with palpitation (after 1 hour). (She makes conscientious scruples about everything). Disposition again much more excited than usual (7th day after 60 drops). Mood somewhat excited, uneasy (5th day). Excited, irritable temper. Irritable mood. Mood irritable; easily becomes impatient (3rd day after 5 drops). Disposition irritable and impatient. Since taking this drug, the great irritability of disposition has very much diminished, even to the point of being blunted. Ill-humored and irritable, the whole (3rd day). Ill- humor; he suspects that he has been imposed upon. Peevish disposition (22 and 22 grains). The disposition was quiet during the whole day, though the pains sometimes made him very peevish, especially those which involved the joints, and extended along the bones as paralytic and drawing pains; the wrist pains sometimes seemed intolerable, although they were not very severe, and were transient. (* It seems remarkable that Herr H. should characterize these pains as intolerable, and as making him so uncomfortable and fretful, especially as he did not know what he was taking.- Prof. Hoppe. *) Peevishness; she seeks a cause for being peevish at everything (after 3 hours).

Peevish about everything, with dyspnoea. Fretful, and easily irritated (3rd and 4th days). He is constantly fretful and inclined to be peevish. Morning, on rising, fretful and disinclined to mental, labor, during the day better (2nd day). Fretful, out of humor, and obstinate, even to quarreling, on the appearance of the menses. Fretfulness, for 2 hours. Fretfulness, after eating dinner. Morose fretfulness; everything that another does is wrong; no one does anything to please him. He frets internally about every trifle. Disposed to anger, scorn, and quarrelsomeness (after 2 hours). Morose, inclined to scorn (after 12 hours). Talks with aversion, in a short, abrupt way. ” Great impatience,” everything seems to go too slowly (15 minutes after 5 drops). Whining restlessness; the child wants this and that, and when it is given he will not have it, or pushes it from him (after 4 hours). He cannot stop talking about old vexatious circumstances. He cannot endure being spoken to, or interrupted, especially after rising from sleep, with sluggish pupils, difficult to dilate and to contract (after 10 hours). (* The disease, sometimes dangerous similar to an acute bilious fever, which is caused by violent vexatious anger, with heat of the face, unquenchable thirst, bilious taste, anxiety, uneasiness, etc. has so much homoeopathic similarity to the symptoms of Chamomilla that it cannot be otherwise than that Chamomilla should relieve the whole trouble speedily and specifically one drop of the diluted juice, as above mentioned, removes this condition as by magic – H. *). His hypochondriac whims and his peevishness about the most trifling circumstances seem to him to depend upon stupidity and heaviness of the head and constipation. The child can only be quiet when carried on the arm. Want of attention, careless; external objects make no impression upon him; he is indifferent to everything (after 2 hours). Intellectual. Confused, excited mind. He stammers, uses wrong expressions, and corrects himself (after 4 hours). He understood a question wrongly and answered incorrectly, with subdued voice, as if he were delirious (after 6 hours).

When writing or speaking, he omits whole words. Thoughts vanish. Absence of mind; he sits lost in thought. Great distraction of mind, even amounting to loss of ideas and inability to reflect earnestly for any length of time, in the afternoon. Dulness of the senses, diminished comprehension (after 4, 5 and 6 hours). A joyless dulness of the senses, with sleepiness, without, however, being able to sleep. He understands and comprehends nothing right, as if a kind of deafness prevented him, or as if he were in a waking dream (after 1 hour and a half). Exhaustion of mind (4th day after 60 drops). Complete mental exhaustion, in the evening. He is easily exhausted by reflecting. Disinclination for mental work (soon). Great disinclination for mental work. When waking, while yet over-powered with sleep, he mistakes familiar persons for quite different ones (larger ones). Slight stupefaction, with some vertigo. Slight sensation of stupefaction, with feeling of compressor of the brain. Coma vigil, or rather an inability to open the eyes; slumbering without sleep, quick expiration, and tearing headache in the forehead, with nausea (after one hour and a half). The child lies senseless, completely without consciousness; frequent changes in the face, distortion of the eye, contraction of the facial muscles, rattling in the chest, with much cough; it yawns and stretches very much.

Head.– Confusion.

Confusion of head. Confusion of the head, with great inclination to bend it backward (4th day after 5 drops). Confusion of the head, with sticking and boring in it, especially in the right temple, in the morning (after 60 drops). Confusion of the head, with pressure by paroxysms, during the afternoon. Confusion of the head, with transient painful pressure on the eyes, in the afternoon. Great confusion of the head. Very great confusion of the head throughout the whole day, with great disinclination for every mental labor, which immediately increased the headache. Head confused (2nd day). Head confused, after waking in the morning. Head quite confused, especially while lying down (3rd day). Head much confused, on waking (4th morning after 5 drops). Head very much confused; scarcely able to do any mental work. Head very much confused and stupefied, on waking at 5 A.M. (2nd day after 5 drops). Stupefaction of the head (40 minutes after 5 drops).

Stupefaction of the head, without real headache. Stupefaction of the head returns one hour after the nose bleed, with vertigo, especially on closing the eyes, at 7 A.M. (3rd day after 5 drops). Dulness of head. Vertigo. Vertigo (10th day).

Vertigo, even to faintness. Vertigo, in the morning. Vertigo, in the evening, as if he were unable to collect his senses.

Vertigo, after drinking coffee. Vertigo, after eating.

(Vertigo and dim vision after lying down, with transient heat in the face). Vertigo, on rising after sitting a long time. Vertigo while sitting erect, not while lying. (Vertigo, when stooping). Vertigo, especially when talking (after 16 hours). Vertigo, even to falling down, as if the head were top- heavy, when walking soon after eating. Vertigo, with dizziness. (* Compare S. 800 *). Some vertigo in the forenoon. Some vertigo, after stooping a long time, and some cough. Slight attack of vertigo (30 minutes after 5 drops). Slight attacks of vertigo, with tendency to faint (after a quarter of an hour). A drunken staggering kind of vertigo, in the morning on rising from bed. General Head. Rush of blood to head.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.