La Chamomilla è la comune camomilla, pianta selvatica della famiglia della Composite. Il rimedio viene ricavat
o dal succo dei fiori freschi.
o dal succo dei fiori freschi. Si tratta di una pianta nota a tutti che cresce in maniera spontanea ed omogenea in tutto il territorio nazionale e ad altitudini fino agli 800 m slm. Molto note sono anche le sue proprietà calmanti, assorbenti e antispasmodiche per cui l'infusione dei suoi fiori è particolarmente indicata, oltre che per gli usi tradizionali, anche per manifestazioni quali aerofagia, coliti, fermentazioni intestinali, pirosi e gastriti.
Ha inoltre una importante azione antitossica in quanto aiuta ad ostacolare l'assorbimento attraverso lo stomaco e l'intestino di sostanze harmful or poisonous.
Less well known is perhaps that chamomile, taken in excessive quantities, produces exciting action: certainly know how many mothers struggling with sleepless children, if taken in optimal dosage induces in fact a beneficial effect on sleep, but if you overdo it with the dosage you get the opposite result, causing hypersensitivity and restlessness. In homeopathy the
Chamomilla has largely use in children, but not all.
"Type" Chamomilla is a subject very sensitive to any pain. This situation makes it so often exaggerated irritable, impulsive, quarrelsome, restless and capricious. Sometimes even refuses to talk to him or that it touch, look for an excuse to quarrel and she put this anger and this sopprattutto hostility against those around him, almost as if it considers them guilty of his suffering. It has a particularly excessive sweating in the head and suffers from insomnia at night and sleepiness during the day.
a child is very capricious, kicks, throws away items that you have requested does not like being stroked or even looked at it and it seems only when it is brought consolation in the arms of a parent.
The main therapeutic indications of Chamomilla are:
- eruptions of infants with the presence of dental pain, capriciousness, possibly fever and / or watery diarrhea, greenish smelly
- pain from dental caries, abscess or extraction
- ear pain resulting from dental eruption with possible increase in body temperature, phlegm and jaw pain. Rather characteristic is the warm, red face from the painful, cold and pale on the other side
- insomnia of infants and young children, often caused by teething or scolding or punishment by parents
- painful periods and pain for the
birth - painful as a result of excess choleric, especially on the stomach or belly or head
- facial neuralgia.
All Chamomilla symptoms worsen with the anger, the intake of stimulants such as coffee, evening and at night, better with passive movement (as cot or car) and the heat (except a toothache that improves with cold).