Chamomilla

German Chamomile

Ears

William Boericke 1922

Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat drknng patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped.

William Boericke 1922

Ringing in

Eyes

William Boericke 1922

Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.

Face

William Boericke 1922

One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches in jaw extending to inner ear and

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotion group, which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease. Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful indications. Chamoniilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. Pains unendurable, associated with numbness. Night-sweats.

Head

William Boericke 1922

Throbbing headache in one-half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.

Mind

William Boericke 1922

Whining resilcssncss. Child wants many things which he refuses again. Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants. Child can only be qiueted when carried about and petted constantly. Impatient, intolerant of being snoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complaining. Spiteful, snappish. Complaints from anger. Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.

Nose

William Boericke 1922

Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inability to

Teeth

William Boericke 1922

Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at 218

References

This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:

James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain

Published by Gentle Pills under CC0 1.0 — original wording, dedicated to the public domain. Not a substitute for the primary texts.

Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.