Homeo Wk 5

Question 1

What are the main sensations of the compositae family?

Answer 1

• injured
• hurt or insulted
• burnt or scalded
• fear of being touched, hurt, or approached
• emotional, as if being wounded or “needled”

Question 2

Camomile is a ? and ?

Answer 2

nervine and carminative

Question 3

Camomile can cause ?, especially in people…

Answer 3

allergies
people allergic to ragweed or daisies

Question 4

What are the affinities of chamomile?

Answer 4

• the nervous system
• behavior and personality disorders with anger, agitation, irritability
• digestive and respiratory symptoms
• ear

Question 5

What are the key mental traits of a Chamomilla patient?

Answer 5

• Peevish, restless, whiny, difficult children
• Only quiet when carried and caressed
• Capricious, snappish, spiteful, hostile
• Intolerance to pain, averse to being spoken to
• Always complaining; piteous moaning
• Angry, accusatory response to pain
• May strike, kick, or hold breath in anger

Question 6

How does Chamomilla react to pain?

Answer 6

• Intolerant of pain, impatient
• Becomes angry, accusatory
• May hit, kick, or hold breath in anger

Question 7

What general symptoms are seen in Chamomilla?

Answer 7

• Numbness after pain, on awakening
• Spasms/cramps in face, arms, legs
• Neuralgic or gouty rheumatic diathesis
• Hot and thirsty; alternating heat/chills during fever
• Pain moves side to side or upward, worse after anger

Question 8

When is Chamomilla better?

Answer 8

Being carried, warm wet weather, sweating, cold applications

Question 9

When is Chamomilla worse?

Answer 9

At night, teething, being looked at

Question 10

What are Chamomilla’s key physical symptoms?

Answer 10

• Earaches, toothaches, colic with unbearable pain
• One cheek red & hot, one pale & cold
• Green diarrhea, colic, jaundice, convulsions (from anger/teething)
• Migraines: bends head backward; hot sweat on head
• Dysmenorrhea, pain after delivery, while nursing

Question 11

What are the main themes of Stramonium?

Answer 11

• Sudden violence, spasms, terror, darkness
• Great fear of darkness, water, suffocation, animals
• Sudden rage: kicking, biting, striking
• Lives under impression of immediate danger (Acute Miasm)
• Ailments from fright, PTSD, religious obsession
• Awakes screaming at night; desires light but reacts badly to direct light

Question 12

What fears are common in Stramonium?

Answer 12

• Fear of the dark, falling in darkness
• Fear of water, suffocation, animals (especially dogs)
• Fear of violence, strangers, black things/animals

Question 13

What general symptoms are seen in Stramonium?

Answer 13

• Restlessness, feeling of falling (real or delusional)
• Spasms/twitching from fright (tics, convulsions)
• Suppressed secretions (urine, stool, menses, sweat)
• Painlessness of complaints that are usually painful

Question 14

What are Stramonium’s key physical symptoms?

Answer 14

• Stammering, facial spasms, sardonic grin
• Twitching, trembling, limbs fall asleep
• Neck stiff, cannot bend head backward
• Throat very dry, congestion, great delirium but little fever/pain
• Colds, pneumonia, meningitis