Chamomilla
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Bad temper. Frantic irritability, snappish and intolerant of pain. Mad during pain. Magnifies her pains. Unappeasable crossness. OVERSENSITIVE. Tosses about, cries out or walks the floor (Ars.); demands instant relief. Beside himself or prostrated by pain. Neuralgic or gouty-rheumatic subjects. Spells of being irritable and restless; OF COLIC; of dry, tickling cough, etc. Cramps, with bilious vomit; of muscles. Numb, on awaking; after pain; hands, when grasping objects. Repeated spasms; of face, arms, legs, etc. .................... UGLY, CROSS, AND UNCIVIL. QUARRELSOME; vexed at every trifle. Abrupt. Averse to being spoken to or touched. WANTS TO BE CARRIED or what is refused when offered. Omits words. Sensitive to cold wind about ears. Sticking, earache; > warmth. Swelling, or REDNESS OF ONE CHEEK. Faceache (r), to ear. Jaws feel tired. Bad, sour breath. Bitter taste. Thick, yellow- white fur on tongue. Eructations like bad eggs. Distended bowels. Colic going upward; < anger (Colo.). Cutting or wind colic; < night. STOOLS, hot, ACID, GRASS-GREEN, SLIMY, HACKED, yellow-green, OR LIENTERIC; smelling like bad eggs. Irregular, labor-like pains; going up; down inner thighs. Cramps when child nurses. Dark, lumpy menses or lochia. Asthma, < dry weather. Jaundice. Dry palms. Sleepy, disturbed, by pain, starting up, etc. Chilly, yet easily over-heated, hence takes cold. Coldness of one part, with heat of another; < uncovering. Alternate chill and heat. Hot and thirsty or hot sweat, with the pains. Hot coryza; hot stools. Feverish, from suppressed discharges. Sweat on head. Sleepless from abuse of narcotics.
Worse
ANGER. NIGHT. DENTITION. Cold: Air. Damp. Wind. Taking cold. COFFEE. Narcotics. Alcohol.
Better
BEING CARRIED. Mild weather. Heat. Sweating. Cold applications.
Region
MIND. NERVES. EMOTIONS. Mucous membranes: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Liver. Women and CHILDREN. Left side.
Relationships
Complementary: Mag-c. Sanic. Related: Nux-v. Stap. Antidotes: Com. Ign. Nux-v. Pul.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Chamomilla — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/chamomilla. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.