{"id":13612,"remedy_name":"Chamomilla (HMT)","remedy_type":"Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Chamomilla is prepared from a bushy plant growing wild amongst the\ncrops of wheat and corn.  It has been used to treat various diseases.  In\nparticular, it is useful to tone up th e uterus weakened after childbirth.\nMany people use its leaves as tea.  In homoeopathy, the fresh plant,\nalong with its flowers is ground and mixe d in alcohol.  This is ideal to\ntreat hypersensitive and irritable children  who happen to be very\nstubborn and who lose their temper easily.  They become furious over\ntrivial matters and are very difficult to handle when sick.  Nothing\ncalms them down.  They will ask for something and once their\ndemand has been met, they throw away the object.  They will demand\nto be taken to some place, and having reached there, they will question\nas to why they were brought there.  They are very rude during an\noutrage.  One of the reasons for this is, that the Chamomilla patient\nhappens to be more sensitive to suffering than normal people.  His\nailments are related to nerves and emotions. Chamomilla is ideal to\ntreat people of an extremely sensitive nature.  Outwardly, they may be\nvery ill mannered, but deep down they are very sensitive .  Usually\nthey are silent, yet can explode ove r a trivial matter and become very\ntense.  On the face of it, they are quiet and lazy.  Chamomilla, given in\nhigh potency, provides prompt relie f to such a patient. While his\nemotions come under control, the other medicines get a chance to\nwork.\n\nIt must be remembered that Chamomilla patients with extreme mental\nanguish will not respond to other remedies unless the mental state\nimproves as all of the body\u2019s energy is focussed in one direction.\n\nA patient may apparently be of the Chamomilla nature, but may not\nexhibit its complete set of sympto ms and thus may not benefit from\nChamomilla.  It is not always necessary that the working nature of a\nremedy and the constitution of the patient be a complete match.  The\nphysiology of the human body is ve ry elaborate and intricate,\ntherefore one particul ar remedy may need to be followed by many\nmore.\n\nChamomilla is ideal for the treatment of hypersensitive patients\nexhibiting mental anguish causing jerking and twitching (tonic\ncontractions) of the muscles.  The patient feels as if caught in a vice.\n\nThe entire neuromuscular system  is in disarray. Chamomilla is\nsomewhat similar to Coffea, Nux Vomica and Opium.  The patients of\nCoffea and Nux Vomica are also of ve ry sensitive nature.  The patient\nof Opium is apparently listless, carefree and stuprose, but deep down\nhe is very sensitive.  The Opiu m poisoning makes the patient very\nirritable and restless.  When given in a larger quantity, the first\nreaction caused is un consciousness, then mental anguish  and\nirritability followed by state of  withdrawl.  In addition, some\nsymptoms resemble those of Chamomilla.  On that basis, some Opium\npatients are of a furious nature, they like to be left alone and are silent.\nAnything can provoke them and make them very irritable.\n\nChamomilla offers immediate relief in children who develop\nconvulsions due to any ailment and fever (their nature being that of\nChamomilla).  Chamomilla is very useful in the treatment of\ndysentery of children, when the stools are sticky and of green colour,\nas if grass has been mashed into them.  Ipecac is also a very good\nremedy in this situation.  The st ools are of a similar kind but the\nconstitution is quite different.\n\nIn Chamomilla, heat brings relie f to most pains, except for the\nneuralgic pain of teeth, face and th e jaw, which respond favourably to\ncold.  Nerve endings of a patient, when covered, will get relief by\nwarmth but when the nerve endings become exposed, heat aggravates\nthe symptoms.  These details are not mentioned in most books.  The\ntreating physicians must carefully study all the symptoms so that no\nconfusion is left and the proper remedy may be identified.\n\nThe toothache of a Chamomilla patient starts at night and disappears\nin the morning.  Usually it is more intense in the first part of the night.\nAfter midnight, the pain starts di ssipating.  The toothache of an\nArsenic patient lingers on throughout the night.  In Chamomilla, there\nis swelling of the gums  along with the formati on of blisters and the\ngums start receding from the teet h.  People who do not clean their\nteeth properly also begin to suffer from these kinds of symptoms.\n\nAs a matter of fact, Chamomilla patients are narrow-minded and they\nare somewhat mean.  They do not  care for others and have no\nsympathy for them.   They are very sensitive for their own sake.  They\nare self-centred and self-interested.  To lose one\u2019s temper with others\nis part of the same constitution.\n\nThe Chamomilla symptoms worsen at about 9 a.m., like Natrum Mur\nand sometimes at 9 p.m. also.  The patient hears noises in the ears\nlike firecrackers going off.  The ear is very sensitive to wind draft,\naggravating the symptoms.  Otherwis e, the patient likes open air but\nkeeps the ears covered.  People who use a scarf either feel very cold or\ndislike the air, but the patient of Chamomilla is different, he merely\nprotects the ears but not the face.\n\nChamomilla is the best remedy for an angry type of person who has a\nsore throat , associated with spasms and inflammation. The\nChamomilla patient feels awfully thirsty.  Sleeplessness due to\nCoffee, in general responds very we ll to Nux Vomica but to dispel all\nthe side effects of Coffee, Chamomilla is more effective.  Similarly,\nthe ill effects of Chamomilla can be neutralised by Coffee.\n\nChamomilla is mentioned to be a good treatment when a person\ndevelops gas smelling like rotten eggs and belches out the same odour.\n\nIn allopathy, doctors use morphine as analgesic, especially during a\nheart attack.  Morphine may cause severe vomiting which can be\nusefully treated by Chamomilla. In Chamomilla, the abdominal pain\nbends the patient over, as in Colo cynth.  The pain is unbearable,\nlocated at the umbilicus and the live r area.  After a furious fit, the\npatient develops a colicky pain in the abdomen.  The belching is\nmalodorous.  The patient dislikes  anything hot.  The tongue is\nyellowish and the taste is bitter.  Vomiting also tastes bitter.  The\nabdomen feels very heavy.  A ll these are the symptoms of\nChamomilla.\n\nSome women pass blood clots during their menstrual period .  It\nlooks as if the inner lining of the uterus is being sh redded and peeled\noff.  This particular condition is closely related to Chamomilla.\n\nA Chamomilla patient will develop convulsions during pregnancy\nand at the time of childbirth.  Chamomilla should also be remembered\nfor the treatment of excessive bleeding after childbirth .  Often, this\nalone may control the post-partum  haemorrhage. Some lactating\nwomen may develop cramps of some part of the body.  In particular, if\nthis spasm is that of the legs or the neck, a dose or two of Chamomilla\nwill provide relief.  In fact, Chamomilla will prove to be beneficial for\n\nthe nursing child also.  A suckling baby can get the medicine through\nits mother\u2019s milk but this is not always the case.  If possible, he should\nbe treated separately.  If the sympto ms of the child are similar to the\nconstitution of his mother, then treating the mother only may suffice.\n\nChamomilla is also useful for the treatment of cough, especially\ncoughing during sleep or on getting furious.  Chamomilla also\ninvigorates the resistance during an epidemic of whooping cough .\nChamomilla will be more effective if  the child is of irritable nature,\nbut it can be useful in the simple seasonal type of cough too.\n\nChamomilla is most essential to treat the persistent peevishness and\nrestlessness associated with diarrhoea during teething.  If the child is\nin the habit of crying and screaming at night due to dreadful dreams,\nhe should be treated with Chamomilla.\n\nChamomilla is one of the topmost remedies for the treatment of\nearache.  In fact in this condition, one of the three following remedies\nis routinely used.  If the child cr ies and feels helple ss, he should be\ntreated with Pulsatilla.  If he cries with anger, then Chamomilla should\nbe administered.  When none of these two symptoms are present,\nAlium Cepa will often work.\n\nAntidotes: Nux Vomica, Coffea\n\nAdjuvants: Belladonna, Mag Carb\n\nPotency: 30, 1000 or sometimes CM","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":[],"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}