Chamomilla
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Chamomilla
Matricaria Chamomilla. Compositcu.
Persons, especially children, with light-brown hair, nervous, excitable temperament ; oversensitive from use or abuse of coffee or narcotics.
Children, new-born and during period of dentition. Peevish, irritable, oversensitive to pain, driven to despair (Coff.) ; snappish, cannot return a civil answer.
Child exceedingly irritable, fretful; quiet only when carried ; impatient, wants this or that and becomes angry when refused, or when offered, petulantly rejects it (Bry., Cina, Kreos.) ; “too ugly to live;” cross, spiteful.
Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have what he wants; whining restlessness.
Patient cannot endure any one near him; is cross, cannot bear to be spoken to (Sil.) ; averse to talking, answers peevishly.
Complaints from anger, especially chill and fever.
Pain : seems unendurable, drives to despair ; < by heat; < evening before midnight; with heat, thirst and fainting; with numbness of affected part; eructations <.
One cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold.
Oversensitive to open air; great aversion to wind, especially about ears.
Toothache if anything warm is taken into the mouth (Bis., Bry., Coff. ) ; on entering a warm room; in bed; from coffee; during menses or pregnancy.
Labor pains : spasmodic, distressing, wants to get away from them; tearing down the legs; press upward.
Diarrhoea : from cold, anger or chagrin; during dentition; after tobacco; in child-bed; from downward motion (Bor., Sanic.).
Stool green, watery, corroding, like chopped eggs and spinach; hot, very offensive, like rotten eggs.
Nipples inflamed, tender to touch (Helon., Phyt.) ; infant’s breasts tender to touch.
Milk runs out in nursing women (runs out after weaning. Con.).
Convulsions of children from nursing, after a fit of anger in mother (Nux — after fright in mother. Op.).
Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, compel him to walk about (Rhus).
Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Caust., Op.).
Burning of soles at night, puts feet out of bed (Puls., Med., Sulph.).
children, cranial nerves; Cham., abdominal nerves.
In cases spoiled by the use of opium or morphine in complaints of children.
Compare: Bell., Bor., Bry., Coff., Puls., Sulph.
Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla.
Aggravation.; — By heat ; anger; evening, before midnight; open air; in the wind; eructations.
Amelioration. — From being carried ; fasting; warm, wet weather.
What the other books say about Chamomilla
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Chamomilla in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Chamomilla in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Chamomilla in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Chamomilla in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Chamomilla — Keynotes, pp. 90–92. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/chamomilla. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.