Chamomilla – What are the indications, key notes, and modalities?

Indications:

• Fever with thirst and intense sweating
• Teething
• Painful otitis media
• Colic, gastrointestinal symptoms with much distress

Constitutionally for irritable, inconsolable children, temper tantrums, desire to be firmly held

Key notes:

• Capricious (nothing satisfies, desire for things that are then refused)
• Fever with one cheek pale, the other red
• Green, chopped-spinach stool

Modalities:

< pain, heat

For teething, dDx. Calc-carb (< cold but thirst for cold drinks), Ferrum-phos (high fever with few sx.), Pulsatilla (thirstless, > cold)

For otitis media, dDx. Belladonna (high fever without thirst < heat, motion, lying down), Graphites (suppurative, cold but not > heat), Pulsatilla (thirstless, > cold), Tuberculinum (< cold)

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