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Chamomilla

30C / 200CChamomilla
German Chamomile · Matricaria Chamomilla · "The Unbearable Pain Remedy"
cham.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to treat extreme irritability, sensitivity to pain, and digestive disturbances, especially in children.
📖 Boericke writes:
The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotion group, which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease. Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and give the needful indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish and constipated bowels contra-indicate chamomilla.
Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. Pains unendurable, associated with numbness. .
👤 Constitution
•Typically children or sensitive individuals who are hot, thirsty, and extremely irritable; they are intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb.
introduction
Whining restlessness.
mind
Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.
mind
Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat driving patient frantic.
ears
Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at night.
face
, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration.
abdomen
Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with -like pains.
female
Ankles give way in the afternoon.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for emotional outbursts, extreme irritability, and restlessness, particularly in children who demand constant attention.
Whining restlessness.
Child wants many things which he refuses again.
Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants.
Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly.
Impatient, intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complaining.
Spiteful, snappish.
Complaints from anger and vexation.
Mental calmness contraindicates Chamom.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to thirtieth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Belladonna →Magnesium Carbonicum →
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Cypripedium Pubescens →Anthemis Nobilis →Aconitum Napellus →Coffea Cruda →Staphysagria →Ignatia Amara →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Belladonna →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Chamomilla is listed in 466 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 196 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System71Abdomen69Nervous System49Mind30Stomach29Teeth29Modalities25Locomotor System23Respiratory System22Ears17Face15Fever14Head14Generalities10Nose8Skin6Urinary System6Circulatory System6Eyes6Mouth4Gums4Tongue3Male Sexual System3Taste2Throat1

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