CHAMOMILLA.
EYE.
► *The eye is swollen in
the morning, and agglutinated with purulent mucus, [1].
► Burning in the eyes, followed by lachrymation, and then
a sensation of great heat about the eyes (ten minutes after 5 drops), [11]. ► Burning in the eyes, with
sensation as if their upper surface were very dry and rough (third day), [11]. ► Sensation of heat in the
eyes (second day after 20 drops), [11]. ► Sensation as if fire and heat came out of the eyes
(immediately), [1]. [260.]
► Pressure upon the eyes (second day after 20 drops;
fourth day; eleventh day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Pressure in the eyes; the eyes are inflamed and full of gum
in the morning, [1]. ►
Great pressure, especially in the orbital region, [11].
► Severe stitches in the eyes, [1]. ► Brow and Orbit. ► Pressure in the orbital region and upon the eyes, with severe
stitches and oppressive pain, as if one were strongly pressing with the fingers, half an
hour after waking (seventh day), [10]. ► Heavy pressure above the eyes, [1].
► *Violent pressure in the orbital region; sensation in the
eyeball as if it were tightly compressed from all sides, with momentary obscuration of
vision (soon after taking), [9]. ► Severely pressing pains over the right eye, with sensation of
pressure upon the right eyeball, towards noon, [7]. ► Stitches in the orbital region (four hours after 20 drops), [11]. ► Stitches in the
right orbital and temporal regions, especially in the right side (third day after 60 drops),
[11]. [270.] ► Stitches in the upper and inner portion of the right orbit,
from the nasal canal into the nose (second day after 20 drops), [11]. ► Lids. ► Lids much swollen and bluish-red, first left, then right;
child cannot open them, [19]. ►
In the morning, in bed, the eyes were half open and turned downward, pupils somewhat
dilated; a kind of stupid sleep, [2]. ► Inner surface of lids and of ball covered with much yellowish
purulent mucus and bloody fluid; slight pressure on lids brings pure blood or pus out; pure
blood oozes out frequently on screaming and coughing, [19].
► Lids agglutinated after sleep, [1]. ► Trembling of the right
lower lid (thirty-five minutes after 20 drops), [11]. ► Transient twitchings in the eyelids and limbs (ether. oil), [18]. ► Great dryness in
the Meibomian glands on the margin of the upper and lower lid (after one hour), [1]. ► A pressive pain
beneath the upper lid on moving the eyes and on shaking the head, [1]. ► Painless congestion in the
white of the inner canthus of the right eye (after fourteen hours), [1]. [280.] ►
Canthi full of matter in the morning, [1]. ► In canthi and margins of lids, dried pus, [19]. ► Feeling of soreness in the
external canthi, with denuded sore lids (after thirty-six hours), [1]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus.
► Lachrymation (fifteen minutes after 5 drops), [11]. ► Lachrymation of
the right eye (second day), [10]. ► Conjunctiva swollen and dark-red, [19]. ► Ball. ► Sensation as if the eyeball were drawn tightly backward
(second and third days after 60 drops), [11]. ► Pupil. ► Pupils become
more dilated after return of consciousness, on waking from a nap (after seven hours), [1]. ► Contracted pupils
(first four hours), [1]. ►
Pupils very much contracted, though inclined to contract still more (after several hours), [1]. ► Vision. [290.] ► The eyes seem
sensitive to light (second day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Flickering before the eyes (immediately), [1]. ► Flickering before the eyes;
she could not see where she was, [2]. ► It became black before the eyes, [2]. ► Eyes dim and weak in the
morning, seldom in the evening, by the light it seemed as if rays of light passed from the
eyes to the flame, [1]. ►
Dim vision, with chilliness, [1]. ► Obscuration of vision at the side, if one fixes the vision
upon a white object, [1]. ►
Frequent obscuration like a fog before the eyes (third day after 5 drops), [11].
EAR.
► Dulness before the
ears, in the evening (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Sensation as if the ears were stopped, and it seems as if a
bird were rustling and fluttering in them, [1]. [300.] ►
Several times during the day, feeling as if hot water were running out of right ear (second
and third days), [20]. ►
Dull pressure as a from a blow in the inner ear on stooping, [1].
► Stitches in the region of the right tragus, extending
even into the auditory canal, where it continues as a small, slight spasmodic sensation, [9]. ► *Stitches from the
tragus into the meatus (thirty-five minutes after 20 drops), [11]. ► Stitches in the meatus
(second day after 20 drops), [11]. ► Stitches, with sensation of contraction in the external
meatus in front of the tragus, [11]. ► *Frequent stitches and sudden, transient spasmodic sensation in
front of the right ear, in the region of the tragus; this sensation sometimes extended into
the auditory canals (first day), [6]. ► Transient stitches across the left ear, [14]. ► Sharp stitches in the
right meatus (forty-five minutes after 5 drops), [11].
► Dull stitches in the right mastoid process, [11]. [310.] ► *Single large stitches in the ear, especially when stooping, with
ill-humor and peevishness about trifles, [1].
► Tearing in the ears, earache, [1]. ► (Tearing in the right
lobule), [1]. ►
Hearing. ► She cannot endure music, [1]. ► Ringing in the ears,
[11]. ► Ringing in
the ears (after one, three, and four hours), [1]. ► Roaring in the hears (thirty minutes after 40 drops), [11]. ► Great ringing in
the right ear, with stitches in the right tragus, extending into the meatus (third day), [11]. ► Roaring and
ringing in the right ear (eleventh day after 60 drops), [11].
► *Roaring in the ears, as from rushing of water, [1]. [320.] ► Roaring in the ears, in the afternoon, [12]. ► Severe roaring in the
ears, [10].
NOSE.
► Objective and
Discharges. ► Ulcerated nostrils, sore nose, [1]. ► Must often sneeze,
[17]. ► Frequent
sneezing, and a sensation as though a coryza would ensue (second day after 5 drops), [11]. ► Frequent violent
sneezing, with crawling in the nose; some drops of clear blood had been discharged from the
nose during the afternoon (third day after 60 drops), [11].
► Evening, suddenly, repeated sneezing (second day), [17]. ► *Coryza, from five to
eight days (after two hours), [1]. ► Thin fluent coryza; watery mucus drops from nose; disappeared
in three hours (second day), [17]. ► Nose-bleed, [1]. [330.] ► Discharge of a few
drops of bright-red blood from the nose, which relieved the confusion of the head and the
abnormal sensations in the nose (second day after 60 drops), [11].
► Epistaxis after rising and washing, which immediately
relieved the confusion of the head and stoppage of the nose (second morning after 10 drops),
[11]. ► Epistaxis
from the right nostril, with relief of the inflammation in the left wing of the nose, and
complete relief of the head (third day after 5 drops), [11].
► Stoppage of the nose, with rush of blood to it (fourth
day after 5 drops), [11]. ►
Stoppage of the nose, with heat in it, as if coryza would ensue (eighth day after 60 drops),
[11]. ► Violent
stoppage of the nose, with sensation as if he would have nose-bleed, lasting half an hour
(soon after taking), [8]. ►
Stopped nose, like a stopped coryza (after one hour), [1].
► Stopped nose, like a stopped coryza, with mucous
discharge from the nose, [1]. ►
Subjective. ► Increased sensation in the nose,
as if coryza or epistaxis would occur (second day after 20 drops), [11]. ► *Irritation to sneeze, with
crawling and dry heat and stopped sensation in the nose, with a sensation as if coryza would
appear, also with pressure in the forehead (second day after 5 drops), [11]. [340.] ► Dryness and sensation of fulness in the nose, soon followed
by nose-bleed (twelfth day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Dryness and stopped sensation in the nose returns, with
sensation as though the nose would bleed (soon), [8]. ► Nose somewhat dry and stopped, with tension and sensation of
heaviness in it (second morning after 20 drops), [11].
► Feeling of dryness, heat, and fulness in the nose
(second day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Sensation of great dryness and fulness in the nose (soon
after 60 drops), [11]. ►
A transient sensation of great dryness and burning in the nose (third day), [11]. ► Constant great sensation
of dryness of the mucous membrane of the nose, and on the border of the left wing of the
nose a painful sensation to touch, as if a pustule would develop (thirty-five minutes after
5 drops), [11]. ►
Fulness, with some crawling in the nose and some lachrymation (after 5 drops), [11]. ► Transient
sensation of fulness in the nose, with sensation as if it would bleed (third morning), [8]. ► Crawling in the
nose, provoking sneezing (ten minutes after 5 drops), [11].
[350.] ► Pressive
stitches in the nasal bones (second day after 60 drops), [11].
► Crawling in the nose (second day), [17]. ► *Crawling in the nose until
the eye waters, [10]. ►
Severe crawling in the right nostril, as if coryza would follow, at 10 A.M. (second day), [10]. ► Excessive
crawling and a sensation of fulness in the nose during the whole forenoon (second day after
5 drops), [11]. ►
Smell. ► Extremely sensitive to all smells,
[1]. ► Beer seems
to smell offensive, [1].
FACE.
► Puffiness of the
face and hands, [1]. ►
*Burning in the face (thirty minutes after 40 drops), [11]. ► Cheeks. ►► *Redness of one cheek, returning
in paroxysms, without shivering or internal heat (after four and twelve hours), [1]. ► Lips. [360.] ► *Lips crack and peel
(after sixteen hours), [1]. ►
Dry lips, [12]. ►
At night, the lips become dry and stick together, without thirst, [1]. ► Jaws. ► Heaviness in the jaws, with slight burrowing in the alveoli
(sixth day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Sensation of heaviness in the lower jaw returns about 1 P.M.
(third day), [11]. ►
Pain on opening the jaws, as if the masseter muscles were painfully cramped, which pain also
extended into the teeth, [1]. ►
*Stitches in the right joint of the jaw, extending into the upper back teeth, severe but
transient, [10]. ►
Single stitches in the jaw, extending into the inner ear, [1]. ► Feeling of weakness in the
muscles of mastication, with inclination to hold the mouth open, with increased accumulation
of saliva (third day), [11].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Looseness of the teeth, [1].
[370.] ► Teeth
covered with mucus, [1]. ►
Wakened at 3 A.M. by toothache (a corroding pain, as if something scratched the nerve),
which ceased about 7 o’clock, so that only a few jerklike stitches remained, [1]. ► Toothache occurs during the
forenoon, and lasts all day (third day), [7]. ► *Toothache as from taking cold, if one exposes himself to the cold
air when sweating, [1]. ► Toothache while eating, [14].
► *Toothache while eating, and for some time afterwards,
[14]. ► *Toothache
after eating and drinking, though nothing warm nor cold was taken (later), [1]. ► *After eating and
drinking, especially something warm (though also after cold things), toothache reappears immediately or after a minute, [1]. ► Toothache, even when not
eating, in the left lower canine tooth and in the incisor next to it, aggravated by touching
the tooth with the tongue, [14]. ► *Toothache if anything warm is taken into the mouth, [1]. [380.] ►► *Toothache, especially severe after a warm drink, particularly coffee, [1]. ► (Toothache is renewed in a warm room), [1]. ► Toothache, with swelling of
the cheek, [1]. [The toothache which Chamomilla causes
is very similar to that so frequently produced by drinking coffee; the latter is therefore
homœopathically and specifically cured by small doses of Chamomilla. -H.] ► Toothache recurring in intermittent attacks, with swelling of
the cheeks and accumulation of saliva; the pains shoot back and forth, even extending to the
eye, and are aggravated by drinking cold water, [1]. ► Violent toothache in a left upper diseased back tooth during
breakfast, [14]. ►
*Violent toothache in the left upper jaw, every time after eating warm food, [13]. ► *Drawing toothache
(without being able to locate it in any tooth); it disappears during eating, but especially
rages at night, therewith the teeth feel too long, [1].
[It is a peculiarity of Chamomilla pains generally that they are worse at night, when they frequently drive one to the border of distraction, not
infrequently with unquenchable thirst and redness of the cheeks; also
with hot sweat on the head even in the hair. The pains
of Chamomilla generally seem intolerable, and not be endured. All these
characteristies of Chamomilla show how similar diseased conditions may be removed
homœopathically by it. -H.] ► Drawing toothache in the
lower jaw, extending forward (after half an hour), [1].
► Grumbling-drawing toothache in the jaw, [1]. ► Pressive toothache in the
alveoli of the right upper jaw, [9]. [390.] ► Tearing toothache,
which extends to the ear, with swelling of the cheek, [1].
► Pain in a left upper hollow back tooth, less during
dinner, but more during supper (third day), [14]. ► Sensation in the upper back teeth as if they were too heavy
and dragged downward (thirty-five minutes after 20 drops), [11].
► Grumbling and crawling in the teeth of the upper jaw, [1]. ► Sensation of
distension and heaviness in the roots of the upper back teeth on both sides (second morning
after 10 drops), [11]. ►
Boring and digging pains in the teeth on waking in the morning (after 5 drops), [11]. ► Boring and
digging in the roots of some of the back teeth, especially in the hollow ones; cold water
relieves this sensation for the moment, but is soon returns more severe than ever (fifteen
minutes after 5 drops), [11]. ►
Long-continued dull digging and boring in the roots of some of the back teeth, [11]. ► Drawing pain in
the teeth, [1]. ►
*Drawing pain in the teeth after eating and drinking, [1]. [400.] ► Pressure upon the canine tooth and first back tooth of the
left side above and below caused pain (fourth day), [14].
► Very transient pressure and pressing-asunder pain in
the teeth (soon), [8]. ►
Slight transient pressive pain in the second and third back teeth in the afternoon, [8]. ► Stitches in some
of the lower teeth in the morning (after 40 drops), [11].
► Severe stitches in the roots of the three back teeth of
the left upper jaw (nine hours after 60 drops), [11]. ► Evenings, tearing pain in teeth, worse from tea, and
continued so as to disturb sleep, with restlessness and heat in face, [17]. ► *Teeth sensitive to touch,
especially some hollow back teeth (ninth day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Teeth very sensitive to
touch, especially some hollow teeth of the upper jaw, with heaviness in the alveoli, etc.
(seventh day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Throbbing pain in the second and third right lower back
teeth, aggravated by pressure, and momentarily relieved by cold water (second day after 60
drops), [11]. ►
Throbbing in the roots of some of the back teeth, especially in the right upper jaw, and
pain in some of the teeth when touched (fourth day after 60 drops), [11]. [410.] ► The prover remarks that the first left upper tricuspid is
hollow, that he had pain in it nine months ago, but only while eating, and then only if some
food got into it, and these pains have increased during the proving of Chamomilla; he
farther remarks that since his earliest recollection he has bad much sweat on the feet, and
four or five years ago he had much pain in his throat, [14].
► Gums and Alveoli. ►
Swelling of the gum, [1]. ►
Swelling of the gum, with increased tension; pressure upon it causes a pricking as with
needles; this he had had frequently before, but never to such a degree, [9]. ► Swollen gum, with tension,
sticking and violent pulsation of the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws, especially of the
lower, and particularly in the region of the right angle, with severe pressure and sensation
of pain, [3]. ►
*Sensation as if the gum were swelling about some of the back teeth (fifteen
minutes after 5 drops), [11]. ►
Heaviness in the lower alveoli, with dull stitches and pressure in some of the back teeth of
the right side of the lower jaw (thirty minutes after 10 drops), [11]. ► Heaviness in the lower
alveoli, especially in the last back teeth, with dull digging sensation in the roots of the
lower back teeth of both sides (third day), [11]. ► Great heaviness in the alveoli; they feel as if filled with
lead (fifteen minutes after 5 drops), [11]. ► Great heaviness in the alveoli, with pressive pain, digging,
and pressure in some of the back teeth, especially of the lower jaw (soon after 60 drops), [11]. ► *Sensation of fulness
and heaviness in the alveoli of the first and second back teeth of both sides of the upper
jaw, with a slight burrowing and boring in their roots, with a sensation as if the alveoli
were distended and formed a hard, tense swelling (second day after 5 drops), [11]. [420.] ► *A slight burrowing and sensation of heaviness in the alveoli of
some of the back teeth; “this sensation seems
intolerable, and makes him very peevish” (third day after 5 drops), [11]. ► Pressure in the
alveoli of the upper back teeth (thirty-five minutes after 20 drops), [11]. ► Pressure and heaviness in
the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws, as if they were filled with lead, especially
noticed in the lower jaw, where it seems to start from the anterior foramen (mental
foramen), towards 6 P.M., [9]. ►
Pressure and sensation as of something heavy in the alveoli of the upper jaw, especially on
the right side; the teeth feel as though filled with lead, [7].
► Long-continued pressure and sensation of heaviness in
the upper and lower alveoli, [11]. ► Continued slight pressure in the alveoli of the upper second
and third back teeth of each side, extending up to beneath the eyes (fourth day), [7]. ► Tensive pressing
asunder and sensation of pressure in the upper alveoli, especially involving the second and
third back teeth, continued the second day, [7]. ► Pressive pain and a feeling as if distended by wind in the
alveoli of the second and third back teeth on both sides of the upper jaw; this sensation
was persistent, with frequent intermissions, and extended deep into the malar bone; it was
especially noticed in the right side, [7]. ► Some indications of the pressive pain in the alveoli of the
upper second and third back teeth (first day), [8]. ► Stitches in the alveoli of the upper and lower jaws (forty
minutes after 40 drops), [11]. [430.] ► Throbbing and
sensation of heat in the alveoli and gum of the upper back teeth, and afterwards also about
the lower jaw; boring and digging in the roots of the teeth, only momentarily relieved by
cold water, at 9 A.M. (third day after 5 drops), [11].
► Tongue. ► Red
tongue, [2]. ►
*Furred tongue, [22]. ►
Yellow, furred tongue (16 to 20 grains), [21]. ► *Tongue coated dirty-white, [11].
► *Tongue coated yellow, [18].
► Tongue slimy-coated, without changed taste and without
want of appetite (second day), [17]. ► Blisters on and beneath the tongue, with stinging pain, [1]. ► *Tongue dry, [17]. ► The tongue is
dry, with thirst for water, loss of appetite, flushes of heat, sweat of the face and
palpitation, followed by unnatural hunger, [1]. [440.] ► Severe biting on the
back of the tongue and on the roof of the palate (after one hour), [1]. ► General Mouth. ► Offensive odor from the mouth after dinner, like a foul
breath (after three hours), [1]. ►
Dryness of the mouth in the morning, followed by distension of the abdomen and imperfect
evacuation, [1]. ►
Dryness and bitter-tasting mucus in the mouth in the morning (after 5 drops), [11]. ► Toward noon, sensitive
scraping-burning in back of mouth, [17]. ► Spasmodic drawing pain in the palate, extending into the
fauces, [1]. ►
Severe tickling in the hard palate (nine hours after 60 drops), [11]. ► Pressure in the salivary
glands, with increased secretion of saliva (second day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Pressure and dull stitches
in the salivary glands with pressure and increased secretion of saliva (sixth day after 60
drops), [11]. ►
Stitches and pressive sensation in the salivary glands, especially a sensation of swelling
in the tonsils (ninth day after 60 drops), [11]. ► Saliva. [450.] ► Secretion of saliva increased, [11].
► Increased secretion of saliva (eleventh day after 60
drops), [11]. ►
Increased secretion of saliva, with a sensation of pressure in the salivary glands (second
day after 20 drops), [11]. ►
Increased secretion of saliva soon after supper, with a peculiar sweetish metallic taste, [9]. ► Profuse secretion
of tough saliva (ten minutes after 40 drops), [11]. ► *Collection of metallic sweetish saliva in the mouth
(second day), [9]. ►
Great accumulation of metallic-tasting saliva, [10]. ► The saliva was especially copious half an hour after supper,
and had a sweetish metallic taste, [9]. ► *Salivation, [1]. ► Taste. ► Slimy taste
(after two and twelve hours), [1]. [460.] ► (At night, an
offensive taste in the mouth), [1]. ► Sour taste (after three and eighteen hours), [1]. ► Bitter taste in the mouth
(second day), [9]. ►
*Bitter taste in the mouth in the morning (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Bitter aromatic
taste, [22]. ►
Taste fatty, unpleasant, with irritation to vomit (soon), [8].
► An unpleasant fatty taste in the mouth, with increased
secretion of saliva, [11]. ►
Disgusting taste of the drug (8 to 14 grains), [21]. ► *Everything tastes like old rancid fat (after two hours),
[1]. ► Bread tastes
sour, [1].® 2000
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