Chamomilla

(The recent juice from the whole plant, to be mixed with equal parts of alcohol.)

Although the following symptoms do by no means present a complete list of the curative powers of Chamomilla, yet they are sufficiently numerous to show that Chamomilla belongs to the class of the polychrests. For this reason Chamomilla has been used in domestic practice for the cure of all sorts of recent affections. From a sort of ridiculous pride physicians have deemed Chamomilla inefficient as a remedial agent, and have permitted it in the shape of an infusion or injection simultaneously with their prescriptions,' as if the character of Chamomilla as a domestic medicine deprived it of its powerful medicinal properties. Physicians have also permitted, and do yet permit, the flowers of Chamomilla to be placed in warmed little bags upon painful parts, at the same time that the patients are directed to use internal remedies of a quite different nature. Teachers of midwifery and midwives permit their patients to mix almost every drink and nourishment which is given to the babies and nurses, with the tea of Chamomilla, as if it were a wholesome, never hurtful, or at the worst an indifferent and insignificant plant.

It is scarcely credible that physicians should have been so

' In order not to dishonor their elegant prescriptions by the appearance of such a vulgar name as that of the common Chamomilla matricaria, physicians have been in the habit of prescribing the more valuable Chamomilla Romana offic, without considering that this plant being a different plant, and of a different species (Anthemis nobilis L.) it must have different properties and effects. What does a man who makes prescriptions out of mere names, care about the inherent medicinal properties of drugs 1 Utterly blind to the great powers and the objects of this plant, which it was their duty to investigate, not only for the purpose of learning themselves to employ it in a rational manner for the cure of disease, but also to prevent laymen from abusing it.

The manner in which physicians have treated the chamomile, would be a sufficient evidence of the fact, that practitioners have been living in an incomprehensible blindness for many centuries, and that they have not blushed to surpass the commonest portion of mankind in folly.

Were the medicinal powers of a drug ever so various, they could not cure more than one-tenth of existing diseases, Chamomilla not excluded.

But let us suppose the impossibility that Chamomilla has a curative effect in one-tenth of all existing diseases, does it not then follow that it must have been injurious in the remaining nine-tenths, for the cure of which it has been used indiscriminately ? Is it wise to buy a single advantage by a nine times greater loss ? " What loss ?" replies the common practitioner ? •' I do not see that Chamomilla can do any harm." Indeed as long as he remains ignorant of the pathogenetic symptoms of Chamomilla, he cannot perceive the injury which Chamomilla may inflict upon the organism, and, in his ignorance, considers symptoms produced by that drug, as new phenomena of the disease, deceiving both himself and his patient.

Antidotes are Coffea cruda, Ignatia, and Pulsatilla ; Aconite relieves tearing and drawing pains, when they are felt less during motion. Chamomilla is an excellent antidote to coffee, unless Nux v. corresponds more exactly to the symptoms to be removed. Persons who feel injurious effects from coffee whenever they take any, cannot be relieved by Chamomilla ; they must give up the use of coffee altogether,

Recently I have seldom been able to employ Chamomilla as a remedial agent. Symptoms which seemed to point to Chamomilla were generally found to be produced by the abuse of Chamomilla, and had to be removed by antidotes.

According to Noack and Trinks Chamomilla is especially suitable to venous, bilious (and sometimes to scrofulous) constitutions and to the choleric temperament ; it is suitable for an irritated state of the nervous system, excessive sensitiveness to pain, inclination to spasms and internal grief, for an excessive bilious state induced by moral emotions, for the consequences from quarrel, anger, jealousy, vexation, and especially when these moral disturbances induce fits of anguish degenerating into the most violent spasms of the chest and throat ; or Cham. may be given for the ailments induced by chagrin with bursts of passion, especially when administered immediately (when not given immediately, Puis,, Ign., Nux v., Bry, ought to be preferred, according to Hartmann .) Hysteric females, or females in the climacteric age, pregnant females, lying-in women, nursing females, children, especially new-born babies and sucklings, are the fittest subjects for the use of Chamomilla. Affections of babies originating in moral disturbances of those who nurse them ; affections of babies characterized by green stools, colic, flatulence, restlessness and tendency to start, soreness under the arms and in the neighborhood of the genital organs ; the characteristic violent screaming of babies caused by violent pains in the abdomen, the screams lasting for hours, nothing can appease them, the babies bend double, and full of anguish, toss about on their mothers' arms ; they suffer with heat, the sweat of anguish breaks out in their faces, these symptoms being sometimes accompanied with diarrhoeic stools, emission of flatulence, etc., etc. — Morbid phenomena brought on by colds. — Fainting Its, a7id weaknesses of hysteric females. — Venous hemorrhages. — Spasms, especially of new-born babies, or of children during the period of teething, of pregnant females, lying-in women and hysteric persons ; convulsive condition of small children, with distention of the abdomen, greenish, frequent, white-hacked stools and vomiting of a sour-smelling liquid ; epileptic convulsions ; catalepsy after fright and chagrin. — Catarrhal affections with or without fever ; simple catarrh of children, with tenacious mucus which it is difficult to get loose, cough (especially nightly), slight fever, great restlessness and nightly tossing about. — Acute rheumatism, with drawing or tearing pains, paralytic or numb feeling of the affected parts, (according to Hartmann Cham, is not suitable for muscular rheumatism ;) rheumatalgia. — Acute arthritis. — Inflammatory swelling and induration of tie glands, (in subinflammatory conditions of the cervical and submaxillary glands, Hartmann prefers Dulcam. ;) induration of the mammary glands of new-born babies, or of full-grown persons when caused by a cold, or disturbance of temper ; erysipelatous inflammation of the mammae inconsequence of fright or chagrin, (next to Phosphorus, according to Hartmann ;) sore breasts from weaning, and remaining nodosities. — Strophulus (during dentition.) — Scarlatina miliaris. — Erythema intertrigo • sore skin of children, (when this affection is very obstinate' Gross recommends that the wet-nurse should take Graph, or Sulph. ;) sore nipples.— Erysipelatous inflammations ; erysipelas of the face with bilious complication, (brought on by tooth-ache ;) inflamed chilblains with violent, especially burning pains, (also Arg., Puls., Snip.) — Variola, cough during the suppurative stage. — Rash of children and lying-in women. — Every wound inclines to suppurate. — Ulcers with stinging or burning pains, intensely painful redness round about, especially when aggravated by rheumatism. — Ulcers in the mouth and of the tongue. — Feverish somnolence of children, with twitchings of the limbs, and starlings. — Intermittent Fevers, (see Boenninghausen's Essay by Dr. Hempel.) — Nervous fevers, characterized by diarrhoea, continual fermentation in the abdomen, fainting fits, convulsions, sleeplessness with anguish and vivid fancies, coldness of the whole body, and burning heat of the face ; (in nervous fevers with diarrhoea, Schleicher recommends that the Chamom should be given in alternation with Ars. ;) inflammatory and nervous fevers with delirium ; synochous or typhous fevers complicated with gastric or bilious symptoms ; (in this case Nux v. may also be used, especially when the gastric symptoms prevail.) — Gastric and bilious fevers, especially when brought on after violent chagrin or passion. — Sporadic cholera in children, (preceded Veratrum ;) Asiatic cholera in the stage of the precursory symptoms, especially when the tongue is coated with mucus, when accompanied by cholic in the umbilical region, oppression of the stomach extending as far as the pit of the stomach and combined with an indescribable anguish; or especially in children and weakly persons, when the attack is characterized by a fainting sort of nausea, moderate vomiting, green, watery diarrhoea and colic. — Catarrhal fever. — Fever brought on hy teething. — Milk-fever. — Puerperal fever, the nervous system being greatly irritated, and characterized by vanishing of the milk, milky diarrhoea, excessive lochial discharge with labor-like pains from the small of the back to the front of the abdomen, headache and oppression of the chest. — Hysteric and nervous headache ; headache with catarrhal conditions brought on by suppression of the cutaneous perspiration. Blepharospasmus. — Ecchymoses of the eye ; hemorrhage from the eye. — Catarrhal ophthalmia. — Inflammation of the eyes and lids of new-born babies, and when caused by a cold. — Otalgia ; (also Bell, Merc, s., Nux v.. Puls., Rhus.) — Bleeding at the nose. — Parotitis. — Difficult dentition with diarrhoea, fever, convulsions ; congestive toothache in the period of dentition ; toothache caused by the excessive use of coffee or by cold ; rheumatic toothache of one side, with violent, nightly exacerbation, creeping darting, tearing, pricking, digging-up, corroding, grumbling, drawing, with swelling of the cheeks or the submaxillary glands, with burning swelling of the gums, commencing after eating or drinking, aggravated by cold drinks or coffee ; lancinating toothache, beginning in carious teeth, spreading over all the teeth, and thence extending into the ear, aggravated in the night or when at rest, improved by rising and by cold water. — Angina tonsillaris and pharyngeal, with intense stinging, burning pain of the larynx, roughness of voice, oppression of the chest, titillation inducing cough, inflammatory catarrhal affection of the tonsils and submaxillary glands. — Gastric or bilious condition7is caused by violent chagrin or other causes, with intolerable headache, red and hot countenance, violent thirst, bitter taste in mouth, frequent bitter eructations, retching, turning and griping in the distended pit of the stomach, oppression of the chest and burning heat of the whole body. — Acidity in the primae vise of children, and diarrhoea resulting from it, etc. (in this case also Magn. carb. and Rheum.) — Spasm of the stomach in individuals who incline to internal grief: aching pain with pressure in the stomach, as if a stone had got into the stomach, with shortness of breathing and anguish, sometimes with throbbing headache on the top of the head. — Puerperal peritonitis. — Acute hepatitis. — Jaundice, with ill humor, and a morbid irritability of the peripheral nerves, accompanied with a disposition to inflammatory affections of the skin. — Abdominal sufferings of pregnant females, lying-in and nursing women. — Abdominal spasms, especially flatulent colic ; colic, consisting of cutting, burning pains extending from the stomach to the umbilicus, with short breathing and pale countenance. — Dysentery. — Diarrhoea, serous, catarrhal, rheumatic (also scrofulous and bilious, in the latter case the Cham, is tO" be preceded by Merc.,) watery, thin evacuations, yellow, green, or whitish mucus, without any smell, preceded and accompanied by tearing, cutting colic, which goes off with a sort of violence and with emission of flatulence and leaves burning at the anus behind ; generally accompanied with dryness of the mouth and tongue, thirst, tension and bloatedness of the abdomen increased or excited by eating, followed shortly after by evacuations and sometimes slight fever ; diarrhoea accompanying dentition ; painful diarrhoea with measles ; disposition to, and precursory symptoms of inguinal hernia. — Metritis. — Menstrual colic. — Threatening miscarriage. — Vehement, false labor-pains (also Hyosc, Cic, Ign., Bell.) — Violent after-pains.— Suppression of the secretion of milk. — Inflammatory condition of the air-passages. — Catarrhal cough. — Cough from teething,— Whooping-cough, with vomiting. — Suffocative cough. Asthma spasticum et flatulentum, especially of children. Continual rheumatic immobility of the upper arm ; Hartmann says that he has cured a similar affection only when the pain became intolerable in the night in bed. — Ischias nervosa ; pains in the thigh, the whole thigh being weak, slow walk, sudden and entire paralysis and horrid pain, especially in the night. — Cramps in the calves.

Head p. 7

(Vertigo when stooping.) Vertigo, especially when talking (a. 16 h.) Vertigo after a meal. Shortly after a meal, when walking, vertigo, as if the head were too heavy to maintain its equilibrium.

5. Vertigo after taking coffee. Vertigo in the morning. Vertigo when rising from bed, as if one were intoxicated. Vertigo with dizziness.' Vertigo in the evening, as if he were unable to collect his senses.

10. (Vertigo and dim-sightedness after lying down, with flushes of heat.) Vertigo as if one were fainting. Slight attacks of vertigo with disposition to faint, {di. \ h.) (Dullness of comprehension.) a. 4, 5, 6 h.) Joyless dullness of sense, with drowsiness, without, however, being able to sleep.

15. He does not understand the question correctly, and gives a wrong answer, with a subdued voice, as if he were delirious, (a. 6 h.) He is easily worn out by reflection. He does not understand any thing correctly, as if he were prevented by a sort of deafness, or a waking dream. (a. 1^ h.) Absence of mind. Vanishing of thoughts.

20. He omits whole words when writing or talking. — He stammers and uses wrong expressions when talking, (a. 4 h.) Want of attention ; external things do not affect him ; perfect indifference, (a. 2 h.) Dull, aching pain in the head, when sitting or reflecting. Heaviness in the head.

25. Headache, the head being heavy and feeling bruised, (a. 3 h.) Headache, felt even while sleeping. Headache, in the morning when in bed and the eyes are yet closed, in a state of half waking ; it disappears entirely when waking and after rising. Pain in the head as if it would burst, when waking, (a. 13 h.) Tearing pain in the forehead, returning^xby starts.

30. Excessively tearing pain in the head, about midnight, rousing him from sleep only momentarily, the sleep being very sound. Drawing headache on one side. (a. 3, 4 h.) Tearing headache on one temple. Lancinating pain in the forehead, extending into the chest. Bone-pain on both sides of the forehead, (a. 3 h.)

35. Tearings and lancinations in the temples from within out-

' Compare 232. wards. Single stitches in one of the two hemispheres of the brain, especially the right, (a. 11 h.) Single violent stitches in the brain. Violent stitches in one half of the head, as after a cold. Stinging headache.

40. Pricking pain in the head, as if the eyes would fall out of the sockets. Transitory attacks of throbbing in one of the hemispheres of the brain. Throbbing headache, (a. 14 h.) Single beatings in the head. (a. -J- h.) Darting pain in the forehead, especially after a meal.

45. Cracking in the left hemisphere of the brain. The ^ left temple is swollen and painful to the touch, (a. 6 h.) Face #^ and hands' are bloated.

Eyes p. 8

Gnawing itching of the skin of the forehead. The pupils become more dilated, after return of consciousness when waking from a nap. (a. 7 h.)

50. Contracted pupils, with inclination to contract still more.^ (a. several h.) Contracted pupils, (the first 4 h.) > Great dryness of the upper and lower Meibomian glands. ' (a. 1 h.) Sore feeling of the external canthi, and sore, excoriated lips. (a. 36 h.) The canthi are full of pus in the morning.

55. Swelling and agglutination of the eyelids in the morning. Agglutination of the eyelids after sleep. Painless, ecchymosed condition of the inner canthus of the right eye. (a. 14 h. Pressure in the eyes, the eyes are inflamed and full of gum in the morning. Aching pain under the upper eyelid, when moving the eyes and shaking the head.

60. Violent stitches in the eyes. Sensation as if fire and heat came out of the eyes (immediately.) Luminous oscillations before the eyes (immediately.) Obscuration of sight, on the sides of visual ray, when looking steadily at a white object. In the morning, the eyes are dim and dull, more rarely so in the evening ; at candle-light a luminous ray appears to extend from the eyes to the light.

65. Dimsightedness, with chilliness. Red rash on the cheeks.

Ears p. 8

Tearing in the ears, otalgia. (Tearing in the right lobule.) Single, long stitches in the ear, especially when stooping, accompanied with inclination to find fault, and getting angry about trifles.

70. A few stitches near the ear, in the neck. When stooping, dull pressure in the ear, as if from a shock! Sensation as if the ears were obstructed, and as if a bird had been fluttering and scraping in the ear. Dull hearing in the evening.* (a. 24 h.) Humming in the ears, as from the rushing of water.

75. Tingling in the ears. (a. 1, 3, 4 h.)

Nose p. 8

Bleeding from the nose. Ulcerated nostrils! The lips become cracked and peel off. (a. 16 h.) The middle of the lower lip cracks, (from 3d to 10th h.)

80. Scurfy ulcerations on the border of the lips, (from 1 to 4 hours.)

Teeth p. 9

Swellings of the gums. Vacillation of the teeth. Toothache with swelling of the cheeks.' At three oclock in the morning a gnawing pain, as if the nerve were being scraped ; at seven he only feels a few jerks resembling stitches.

85. Grumbling and creeping in the upper teeth. Grumbling I and drawing toothache in the jaw. Drawing pain in the teeth. I Toothache, as after a cold, when exposing one's self to the open air, being covered with sweat. Toothache when taking warm things into the mouth.

90. (The toothache recommences in the warm room.) Toothache, which is especially violent after warm drinks, especially coffee. After taking something warm, (but sometimes also after taking something cold,) the toothache comes on, either immediately or in a few minutes. Drawing pain of the teeth after eating or drinking. Toothache after eating or drinking something of moderate temperature, (afterwards.)

95. When opening the jaws, pain as if the masseter muscles were affected with a painful cramp, which pain affects also the teeth. Toothache, recurring by starts, with swelling of the cheeks and accumulation of saliva ; the pain darts hither and thither, and is aggravated by drinking cold water. Tearing toothache, in the jaw, towards the ear, with swelling of the cheeks. Drawing toothache, in the lower jaw, near the front part. (a. ^ h.) Drawing toothache, without knowing what tooth is affected ; the pain goes off while eating, and is especially violent in the night, the teeth feehng elongated. 2

100. Single stitches in the jaw, extending into the inner ear.

Mouth, Pharynx, and (Esophagus : Cramp-like drawing pain in the palate, towards the fauces. Vesicles with stinging pain, upon and under the tongue. Severe smarting of the upper and hind part of the tongue and the velum pendulum palate. (a. 1 h.) Simple pain in the posterior part of the throat, increasing when moving the throat and when sal-

' Comp. 96, 97. also 46, 47. The toothache produced by Chamomilla (see 81 — 100) is similar to that excited by the excessive use of coffee ; Chamomilla is therefore a specific and homoeopathic remedy for the latter ache.

^ It is characteristic of Chamomilla-pains to be most violent in the night, when they frequently drive one to despair, and are frequently accompanied with unquenchable thirst, heat and redness of one cheek, hot sweat about the head, even in the hair. Chamomilla-pains generally seem intolerable. (See 428.) lowing.

105. Sore throat as if a lump were in the throat, when swallowing, (a. 4. h.) Sore throat with parotitis. Throbbing pain in the submaxillary glands, (a. 4 h.) Throbbing in the throat (a. -^ h.) Ptyalism.

110. Teeth covered with mucus.

Taste and appetite p. 10

Slimy taste, (a. 2 and 12 h.) Sour taste, (a. 3 and 18 h.) The bread tastes sour. Every aliment which he takes into his mouth, tastes to him like old, rancid grease, (a. 2 h.)

115. That which he hawks up, has a putrid taste. (Putrid taste in the mouth in the night.) Fetid breath after dinner, (a. 3 h.) Bitter taste in the mouth, early in the morning, (a. 24 h.) Want of appetite.

120. Want of appetite, the appetite returns when eating. No appetite. He does not relish any food. Aversion to food. Want of appetite, as if he loathed food, which has, however, a good taste.

125. Neither hunger nor appetite. (Aversion to broth.) Beer smells fetid to him. Aversion to coffee. Nausea, inclination to vomit, and suffocative fits after taking coffee for breakfast.

130. Heat over the whole body, early in the morning after taking coffee ; accompanied by sweat and vomiting of bitter mucus ; afterwards bitter taste in the mouth, weakness in the head and inclination to vomit. Violent desire for coffee.' (a. 7 h.) (Desire for raw sour-krout.) Unnatural hunger, in the evening, (a. 3 h.) At supper the food seems to go down as far as the pit of the stomach and to be arrested there, with sensation of fullness, inclination to vomit, and eructations.

Gastric symptoms p. 10

Empty eructations. Sour eructations. The existing pain is aggravated by eructation. One single hiccough, frequently, (a. 1. h.) Fullness during the meal, and nausea afterwards.

140. Repletion of the stomach, after a meal, lasting even until next day ; inclination to vomit. Inclination to vomit after breakfast, the whole morning. Distention of the abdomen, after a meal. Nausea after a meal. After a meal, repletion, anxiety and tearing pain in the back, extending afterwards into the abdomen.

145. Dryness in the mouth, early in the morning, followed by distention of the abdomen, the evacuations being imperfect. Inclination to vomit as if one would faint. Qualmishness. The qualmishness passes off by eating. Inclination to vomit, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth.

150. Inclination to vomit, in the- morning. (Vomiting, without previous eructations.) (Sour vomiting ; a sour smell comes out of her mouth.) Regurgitation of the ingesta (a. 5 h.) Vomiting of the ingesta, caused, first, by the repletion of the abdomen, afterwards by intolerable

^ Seems to be an alternate effect of 12S. nausea.

155. Heat and sweat of the face, after eating or drinking, (a. 14 h.) Pressure in the hypochondria and stomach, after a meal.

Stomach and abdomen p. 11

He utters an anxious cry on account of a pain in the pit of the stomach, as if the heart were being pressed down, and sweats profusely.' Painful bloatedness of the epigastrium, in the morning. Incarceration of flatulence, with pressure upwards, in the hypochondria, (afterwards.)

160. Oppression at the stomach, as if a stone were pressing downwards. Aching pain in the stomach, and under the short ribs, oppressing the breathing, especially after taking coffee, (a. 1 h.) Aching pain above the umbilicus. Flatulent colic ; flatulence moves violently hither and thither, as if the abdominal muscles were on the point of being pierced, with rumbling ; the flatulence presses especially towards the abdominal rings, when the colic subsides, only a little quantity of flatulence is emitted, nor can a«iy be discovered in the abdomen, (a. 3 h.) Flatulent colic, (a. 1 and several h.)

165. Colic returning from time to time ; the flatulence accumulates in the hypochondria and stitches dart through the chest, (a. 8 h.) Continuous, tensive pain in the subcostal region, with tightness around the brain, (and dry catarrh in the chest.) (a. 1 h.) Bubbling sensation in the side, down to the abdomen. Bruised feeling of the abdominal muscles, (a. 9 h.) Hard, distended abdomen.

170. Compressive pain in the abdomen (immediately.) Intolerable colic, early in the morning, at sunrise. Excessive colic. Sensation as if the whole abdomen were hollow, with continual motion in the bowels, (with blue rings around the eyes ;) when the attack comes on in the evening, it is accompanied for a short while with anxiety, (a. 24 h.) Colic, more cutting than pinching.

175. Colic, more cutting than pricking, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Drawing pain in the abdomen. Single attacks of violent pinching in the abdomen, every attack lasting about one minute, (a. 12 h.) Pinching-tearing colic in the umbilical region, and lower down on both sides, with pain in the small of the back, as if it were broken. Continual tearing colic in the side of the abdomen, with sensation as if the parts there were rolled up into a ball.

180. Pain in the abdomen, such as is felt by persons who are costive, when pressing out the stool.^

Stool p. 11

Pain as from constipation, (a. 4 h.) Constipation.

' See 234, 236, 428.

2 180, 181, 182, 183. All pains, arising from costiveness, are secondary effects, the primary being diarrhoea. Constipation from inactivity of the rectum, the prover being obliged to press out the faeces by bearing down with the abdominal muscles, (a. 1, 4 h.) Sharply pinching colic, with discharge of light-colored faeces, (a. 12, 24 h.)

185. (Undigested faeces.) (Hot, diarrhoeic stool, smelling like rotten eggs.) Painless, green, watery diarrhoea, a mixture of faeces and mucus. Watery diarrhoea with (and without) diarrhoea. Nightly diarrhoea with colic, obliging her to bend double.

190. The faeces are covered with mucus, and mucus is passed between one piece of the fseces and the next. Diarrhoea of white mucus with colic, (a. 1, 3 h.) Pricking pain in the rectum, after every stool. Pressing towards the abdominal ring, as if hernia would form. (a. 3 h.) Sensation as if blind haemorrhoids would come on.

195. Flowing haemorrhoids. Blind haemorrhoids. Itching pain at the anus. (a. -^ h.)

Urinary organs p. 12

(The emission of urine is prevented by pains in the abdomen.) Stitching pain in the neck of the bladder, between the acts of micturition,

200. Burning in the neck of the bladder, during micturition. Smarting pain in the urethra, during micturition. Anguish during micturition, without any mechanical obstacle. Weakened strength of the bladder ; slow and weak stream, (a. 20 h.) Anguish, with unsuccessful desire to urinate, without much urine being in the bladder.

205. Involuntary emission of urine, (a. 3, 4 h.)

Genital organs p. 12

Itching of the scrotum, (a. 6 h.) Excited sexual desire, (afterwards.) Nightly emission. Erection in the morning.

210. Soreness of the border of the prepuce. Itching-stinging pain of the margin of the prepuce, (a. 3 h.) Erosive burning in the vagina. Yellow, corrosive, leucorrhœa. Acrid, watery leucorrhoea after dinner.

215. Pressure towards the uterus, like labor-pains, with frequent desire to urinate. Cutting colic, and drawing in the thighs previous to the period. Frequent discharge of coagulated blood, with tearing pains in the veins of the legs and violent labor-pains in the uterus. Drawing, from the small of the back, followed by griping in the uterus, and discharge of large clots of coagulated blood. Metrorrhagia.

220. Metrorrhagia, even of old females. Out of humor and headstrong even unto quarreling, at the appearance of the menses. Suppression of the menses, with distention of the pit of the stomach, and a pain as if the heart were being pressed down, accompanied with swelling of the abdomen, labor-like pains and anasarca.

Cold, coryza p. 12

Obstruction of the nose. (a. 1 h.) Obstruction of the nose as from dry coryza, with discharge of muous from the nose.

225. Coryza for five to eight days. (a. 2 h.) Wheezing, whizzing, and subdued rattling in the trachea. Hoarseness from tenacious mucus in the larynx, (a. 8 h.) Catarrhal hoarseness of the trachea, with dryness of the eyelids, (a. 1 to 8 h.) Hoarseness and cough, from rattling mucus in the trachea ; the place from which the nmcus has been hawked up, feels sore. (a. 2 h.)

230. Burning in the throat.

Chest p. 13

Burning pain under the sternum, reaching to the mouth. Burning in the chest, with dullness of the head,' as if he knew not where he was, with anxiety. The inside of the chest feels bruised, (a. 24 h.) Aching pain under the sternum, not arresting the breathing, and neither aggravated by breathing nor by contact.

235. Aching pain under the sternum, oppressing the breathing, (a. 10 h.) Cardialgia.*^ Drawing pain, or sensation as if the right half of the chest were repeatedly drawn inwards, (a. 12, 16 h.) Contraction of the chest. Oppression at the chest.

240. Tensive pain across the chest, when taking an inspiration. Clawing pain, obliquely over the upper part of the chest, (evening.) (a. 5 h.) Oppression of the chest as from flatulence, becoming incarcerated in the epigastrium, with aching pain ; accompanied by pain in the stomach, as in heart-burn ; afterwards burning in the spine. Constriction of the upper part of the chest ; this symptom is accompanied with soreness when coughing, (a. 4 h.) Asthma,a as in suffocative catarrh, {constriction of the throaty) in the reg-ion of the pit of the throat, with cons ta7it desire to cough, (a. \ h.)

245. Fit of cough about midnight, she feels as if something had got into her throat which threatens to suffocate her. Almost uninterrupted titillation under the upher part of the sternum,, without however cough being induced in every instance. Dry cough, produced by titillation and continual itching in the trachea, about the pit of the throat, (a. 4 h.) Violent dry cough when sleeping, (a. 11 h.) Dry cough, four or five fits a day.

250. (The child becomes angry and coughs.) Stitches, irradiating from the abdomen into the chest, with constant thirst without heat, before midnight. Stitches (rather dull) darting from the abdomen into the middle of the chest, as if caused by flatulence. Stitches from the abdomen into the chest, after starting as with fright, be it sleeping or waking. Stitches in the side of the chest, under the ribs and scapulae, during an inspiration, (a. 4 h.)

255. Prickings in the chest. Single violent stitches in the chest. (a. 2, 4 h.) Stitches through the chest, at every inspiration. Stitches from the middle of the chest to the right side, after every inspiration, (a. I2 h.) Scirrhous hardness of the mammary glands.

260. Hard nodosity below the nipple, painful to the touch, sometimes affected with a drawing-tearing pain without being touched. Tearing pain in the region of the clavicle and throat, (a. 2 h.) (Tensive stiffness of the muscles of the neck.) Drawing pain in the scapulae, chest and hands, as if from a cold. (a. 15, 16 h.)

Back p. 14

Stinging pain in the back.

265. Tearing in the back. Driving pain in the back, for an hour. (a. 1 h.) Contractive sensation in the spine. Pain in the small of the back, especially/ in the night.

270. The small of the back feels bruised. (A sort of furious labor-pains) from the small of the back into the thighs, a drawing-paralytic pain. (a. 1, 2 h.) Painful stiffness in the loins, after sitting, (a. 16 h.) Intolerable pain in the loins and hip-joint, in the night, when lying on the opposite side.

Upper extremities p. 14

Uninterrupted, fine, sensitively painful pressure in the ligaments and periosteum of the arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, similar to a drawing or tearing, (almost as severe without as with motion ;) worst in the night, especially when lying on the back, and least when lying upon the painful arm. (a. 8 h.) (after midnight.)

275. Creeping tearing in the long bones of the arms down to the fingers, as if the arm were numb or had gone to sleep. When seizing something with the hand the arm, feels stiff, as if it would go to sleep. Drawing-paralytic pain in the elbows and hands. Drawing pain in the interior of the arm, from the elbow to the tips of the fingers, late in the evening, (a. 1 h.)

280. Drawing pain in the wrist-joint. Pain of the thumb and index-finger, as if sprained, strained, broken, over-fatigued, felt when moving it. Burning pain in the hand, afternoon, (a. 72 h.) The hands are cold ; she feels a paralytic stiffness in the hands, with gloominess of the head ; she is sensitive to the open air, as if she could catch cold easily. Cold hands with cold sweat in the palms of the hands, the body being naturally warm. (a. 2 h.)

285. The fingers become cold, and incline to go to sleep, when sitting, (a. 1 h.) The fingers go to sleep, in the morning, (a. 12 h.)

Lower extremities p. 14

Tearing pain in the thighs and legs. Pain in the hip-joint, as if sprained, when standing up after sitting, (evening.) (a. 5 h.) Paralytic stiffness, with weakness, in the thigh.

290. Excessive pain in the thigh, when rising from a seat, or when stretching the legs in the recumbent position. Transitory pain, as if bruised, in the thighs. (a. ^ h.) Cracking in the knee during motion, (a. 3 h.) Drawing pain from the knee through the leg, late in the evening. Drawing-tearing pain in the knee, down to the malleoli.

295. Sensation in the legs as if they would go to sleep. He is obliged to extend the legs from time to time, to become easy. AVhen extending the feet too much, or when leaning them against something, he is attacked with cramp in the calves, abating when bending the knees, in the night, (a 8 h.) Cramp in the calves, (a. 10 h.) 'Inclines to cramp in the calves.

300. Tensive, cramp-like pain in the calves, when moving the feet, (a, 8 h.) Nightly, paralytic weakness of the feet ; they are weak, he cannot stand up, and when he does stand up, he falls down, with drawing pain in the leg, and numbness and pithy feeling of the sole. The feet feel paralyzed.' Tearing pain in the feet, he cannot cover them. Burning of the soles, in the night ; he puts the feet out of the bed.

305. Burning and itching in the feet, as if they had been frozen, (a. 3 h.) Sudden swelling of one foot and of the sole. Itching pain in the interior of the heel. (a. 3 h.) Itching of the sole of the foot. Cramp-like contraction of the toes, with tearing pains in the limbs.

310. Sensation as if the toes would become curbed and numb, when sitting, especially the big toes. (a. 1 h.)

General symptoms p. 15

Great aversion to the wind. Hands and feet become easily rigid in the cold, as if they would freeze, (a. 5 h.) Pain,' partly itching, partly stinging, here and there, at a small spot ; after scratching, the part feels sore. (a. 4 h.} Eruption on the nape of the neck little elevated, causing a smarting sensation obliging one to scratch.

315. Pustulous pimples in the face ; they do not cause any pain, except when touched. Red rash on cheeks and forehead, without heat. Small, red spots upon the skin, the spots being covered with rash-pimples. Thick clusters of red pimples upon a red spot on the skin, itching especially in the night, and somewhat smarting, in the region of the lumbar vertebrae and the side of the abdomen ; occasionally a shuddering is felt all around, especially in the evening. The skin becomes unhealthy, and every injury forms an ulcer.

320. An existing ulcer becomes painful, (a. f h.) Darting and lancinating pain in the ulcer. Burning and smarting pain in- the ulcer, in the night, with creeping and excessive se?positiveness to the touch. Redness, swelling and bruised pain in the ulcer around the foot. Itching pimples form round the ulcer, covered with scurf and suppurating ; the margin round the base of the ulcer is very red.

325. Cracking in the joints, especially those of the lower limbs, and pains in the same as if bruised, nevertheless no real weariness, (a. 8 h.) Simple pain of all ihe joints during motion, as if they were stiti" and would break, (a. 6 h.) Bruised pain of all the joints, or as if worn out ; hands and feet have lost their strength, but without any real weariness. Heaviness in all the limbs. Pain in the periosteum of all the limbs, with paralytic weakness.

330. Tearing pain in the limbs, which can only be appeased by constantly turning from side to side in the bed. Evening-attack of tearing pains. Single, rare, drawing, tearing jerks in the long bones of the limbs or in the tendons.

Fits, weakness p. 16

Convulsive, single twitchings of the limbs, when on the point of falling asleep. Twitchings in the limbs and eyelids.

335. Single twitchings of the limbs and head, during the morning slumber. Convulsions of children : both legs alternately are moved up and down ; the child grasps at something, draws the mouth to and fro, with staring eyes. The child lies insensible, with frequent changes in the countenance, distorts the eyes, and facial muscles ; rattling in the chest, with much cough ; the child yawns and stretches the limbs. General stiffness, for a short period. Sensation of paralysis in the parts, in which the pain had abated.

340. Weariness, especially of the feet. (a. 10 h.) Weakness ; she wants to sit all the time. (a. 5 h.) Dreads all kinds of labor. Weakness which is greater during rest than motion ; he has tolerable strength during motion. Excessive weakness in the morning when rising from bed.

345. Comfortable feeling after breakfast, in a few minutes afterwards, faintish sort of failing of strength, (a. 8 h.) When the pain begins, he feels a weakness as if he would fall down j he has to lie down. The child wants to lie down, does not want to be carried (a. 2. h.) The child does not want to stand up or to walk ; he cries distressingly, (a. 4 h.) Excessive weakness and weariness, (a. 4 h.)

350. Fainting fits. Qualmishness about the heart. Fainting its, recurring sooner or later, (a. ^, 3, 4, 5 h.) Kind of fainting; qualmish about the heart, the feet feel paralyzed all of a sudden, and the limbs feel worn out. Heaviness of the limbs, yawning and drowsiness the whole day.

Sleep p. 16

Frequent wide yawnings, without drowsiness, with cheerful and merry mood. (a. 1 h.) Frequent, incomplete yawning, (a. ^ h.) Drowsiness in day-time. Drowsiness during a meal. Excessive drowsiness, (a. ^ to 1^ h.)

360. When sitting he feels sleepy ; but when lying down, he is unable to fall asleep. Nightly sleeplessness, accompanied by fits of anguish ; vivid visions are hovering before his fancy, (a. 1 to 4 h.) AVhen waking up and being yet full of sleep, he mistakes one for some one quite different, (for some one bigger.) He imagines he hears the voice of absent j)e7S07is in the night. In his sleep he talks about this or that obstacle to be removed.

365. In the night, while waking and sting in the bed, he says absurd things. Sleep full of fanciful dreams. Vivid dreams, as if he were doing something in a state of waking. He delivers discourses in a dream, with vivid memory and reflection. Moaning when asleep.

370. Weeping and howling when asleep). Q,quarrelsome, vexatious dreams. Sleep appears troublesome fo him ; when he sleeps, his face looks gloomy, vexed and sad. He starts in his sleep. Starting, uttering sudden cries, tossing about and talking while asleep, (a. 6 h.)

375. In the night he turns anxiously from side to side in his bed, full of fancies. He cannot remain in bed. He feels in excessive anguish when in bed, but none when out of it ; accompanied with great mobility of the pupils. The nightly pains may be moderated by warm poultices. (The nightlypains are relieved by sitting up in the bed.)

380. Snoring breathing when asleep. Snoring inspirations when asleep; they are shorter than the expirations, the mouth being somewhat opened, and the forehead being covered with hot, viscid sweat, (a. 3 h.) Moaning when asleep, with hot, viscid sweat in the forehead. Coma vigil, or rather inability to open the eyes ; slumber without any sleep, quick expiration and tearing headache in the forehead, with inclination to vomit, (a 1-^ h.)

Fever p. 17

Shuddering of some parts, which are not cold, with drowsiness, (a. 2-^ h.)

385. He feels a shuddering in some parts, in the face., (a. jr h.) over the arms, (a. 2 h.) without or with external coldness. He is cold, with thrills of shuddering from the back to the abdomen, (a. 1 and 4 h.) He shudders when uncovering himself Chilliness (immediately.) Thrills of shuddering in the open air. (a. 2 h.)

390. Coldness, in the evening when lying down, a sort of deafness, the sound appearing to come from a distance, inclination to vomit, uneasiness, tossing about in the bed, a sort of stupefaction of the head and diminished sensibility of the skin, the skin feeling numb and pithy when scratched. Icy coldness of the cheeks, hands and feet, with burning heat of the forehead, neck, chest; then again heat and redness of the right cheek, hands and feet becoming again naturally warm, with contraction of the pupils, the dilatation ceasing altogether ; afterwards sleep with snoring, (a. 1 to 3 h.) Coldness of the whole body with burning heat in the face, the eyes shining like fire. Cold limbs, with burning heat in the face, burning heat in the eyes and burning breathing, (a. 5 h.)

395. (Violent, internal chilliness, without coldness of the outer parts, except the feet, with thirst; afterwards great heat with sweat; when putting an arm from under the cover, she feels chilly, and when putting it back again, she sweats ; Aith tearing in the forehead.) (Chilliness all over, after a meal, afterwards heat in the cheeks.) Shuddering, on the back part of the body, arms, thighs and back, returning by starts, without external coldness, in the place of which he feels a dry heat within, and also without, especially on the forehead and in the face ; chilliness on the front part of the body. (a. | h.) (Fever: during the chilly stage he is obliged to lie down, thirst during the chilly, none during the hot stage; sweat after the heat; during the sweat pricking headache in the left hemisphere of the brain ; next morning bitter taste in the mouth.)

400. Chilliness in the afternoon, (uttering words which it was not his intention to utter,) with nausea in the abdomen, lasting until 11 oclock at night, accompanied by a throbbing-stinging headache in the forehead, aggravated by lying down. (Fever : chills in the afternoon ; he is unable to get warm, with ptyalism, bruised pain in the back and side, and dull, aching pain in the forehead ; next night excessive heat with violent thirst and sleeplessness.) Chilliness in the evening ; much sweat and thirst in the night. Burning cheeks in the evenings with thrills of chilliness. Redness of one cheek, recurring hy starts, without shuddering or internal heat. (a. 4 to 12 h.)

405. Internal heat with shuddering. External heat with shuddering. When laying himself upon his back, before midnight, he feels hot at once and sweats all over. (a. 6 h.) The lips were dry in the night, and adhered to one another, without thirst. Thirst, with feverish heat and redness of the cheeks.

410. Glowing heat of the cheeks, with thirst. Feverish heat and redness of the cheeks, with tossing about and delirium, eyes open. Sensation of external heat, without there being any. (a. 1 and 3 h.) Feeling of heat, without any external heat, or without thirst. Dry tongue, desire for water, want of appetite, flushes of heat, sweat in the face, palpitation of the heart, followed by an unnatural hunger.

15. Unquenchable thirst and dry tongue, (a. 5 h.) Thirst in the evening ; in the night he is waked by a pain. He cannot bear being covered, on account of feeling hot externally. (General morning-sweat, with smarting sensation of the skin.) General night-sweat, without sleep.

420. Sweat in the face, on the neck and hands, (a. 6 h.) Sweat during sleep, especially about the head. Frequent, transitory sweats in the face and palms of the hands. Involuntary moaning during the heat in the face. Repeated attacks of anguish in day-time.

425. Anguish as if he had to go to stool. Tremulous anguish, whh palpitation of the heart, (a 1. h.) Congestion of blood to the heart (immediately.) Excessive restlessness, anxious, agonizing tossing about, with tearing fains in the abdomen, (a. 1 h.) Afterwards dullness of sense and intolerable headache.

Moral symptoms p. 19

Hypochondriac anxiety.

430. Cardialgia, he is beside himself Aith anguish, moans and sweats profusely. Crying and howling. (Fits for some minutes, every two or three hours:) the child makes himself rigid, bends backwards, kicks with his feet while carried upon the arm, screams immediately, and throws every thing off. Weeping uneasiness ; the child wants this and that ; when the things are given to him, he does not want them, or repels them. (a. 4 h.) The child is not still till carried on the arm.

435. Distressing howling of the child, because the things which he desired were refused. (a.3h.) Very anxious; nothing what she undertakes is satisfactory ; she is irresolute ; flushes of heat in the face and cool sweat in the palms of the hands. Tremulous tendency to start. He inclines to start, (a. 24 h.) He starts at the least trifle.

440. Crying on account of a very trifling and often imaginary offence which frequently is very old. Is unable to stop talking about old, vexatious things. He suspects that he had been offended. His hypochondriac whrnis and his ill humor about the least trifles, seem to him to proceed from dullness and heaviness of the head, and constipation. Ill humor after a meal.

445. Ill humor for two hours. Peevishness and ill humor ; he is dissatisfied with every thing that others do. Internally he feels vexed about every trifle. He inclines to be angry and out of humor. Angry at every thing, with asthma.

450. He cannot bear being spoken to, or interrupted, especially after rising, the pupils being scarcely moveable, either for dilatation or contraction.' (a. lOh.) She cannot bear music. Excessively sensitive to all odors. Irritated mood. Peevish, inclining to be quarrelsome, (a. 12 h.)

455. Inclining to be quarrelsome and angry, (a 2 h.) She seeks a cause for quarreling, (a. 3 h.) Moaning and groaning from bad spirits, (a 5 h.) Taciturn ; does not talk except Avhen forced, (a. 6 h.) (Full of scruple about every thing.)

460. Earnest and taciturn ; resigned to his fate, which he feels deeply (afterwards.) Fixed ideas (afterwards.)

Head p. 20

Giddy when sitting straight, not when lying down.' Dullness of head. Heaviness in the head. (Tearing pains m the forehead, with sensation as if a lump were falling forwards, when sitting up or turning in the bed.)

5. Wrinkles on the forehead.

Eyes p. 20

Luminous oscillation before the eyes ; she saw- not where she was. Obscuration of sight.

Mouth and gastric symptoms p. 20

Red tongue. Vomiting.

Stool p. 20

10. Stool.

Chest p. 20

Short, panting breath. Short, deep breath, with great heaving of the chest. Sudden stitches about the heart, oppressing the breathing during motion.

Extremities p. 20

The left arm goes to sleep.

15. Tension in the knee ; tension in the feet, along the calves. She has to draw up the feet, owing to a pain in the calves and knees ; they go to sleep when stretching them.

Sleep and fever p. 20

Early in the morning, when in bed, the eyes are half open, turned downwards, the pupils somewhat dilated, sopor. Violent desire for water.- —20 Constant alternation of heat and coldness in different parts ; the hands are now cold, now warm ; now the leg, now the thigh is cold or warm ; now the forehead is cold and the cheeks hot, etc. Violent chilliness immediately after uncovering one's self. Even the slightly covered parts are burning hot, the uncovered parts are cold. Excites a smarting heat. Horrid feeling of heat in the night, with burning, unquenchable thirst, dry tongue, stupefaction.

25. Hot face with redness of the cheeks. Great heat in the night, with sleeplessness. General heat, in the forenoon from nine to twelve oclock ; afterwards violent sweat. Violent sweat of the covered parts. Weeping mood and discouragement ; with sleeplessness owing to a general bruised feeling in all the limbs.

30. Her head totters to and fro.

Moral symptoms p. 20

She sits like a statue, and does not seemto take notice of any thing roundabout, (a. 24h.) Taciturn. Aversion to talking ; is very short.

In a girl of nineteen years, from a few cups of tea of chamomile.

Notes

VOL. II. 2

' 46, 47, see 83, 96, 97. 2 See 392.

3 See 393. * See 391.

1 See 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, as far as 23, 283. « See 157. ' The paralytic sensation produced by Chamomilla in any one part, is always accompanied with drawing or tearing pain, and this drawing or tearing pain is always accompanied with a paralytic or numb sensation in that part; see 271, 278, (274, 275,) 302, 329, (339, 346.) VOL. II. 3 ' (See 69) The following symptoms, immediate consequences of vio- lent ano-er and resembling an acute bilious fever: flushes of heal, un- nuenchTiblc thirst, bilious taste, inclination to vomit, anirmsh, restlessness, etc correspond to the symptoms of Chamomilla. One drop of the above mentioned dilution cures these symptoms as by a charm.