Chamomilla in Homeopathy – Best Remedy for Teething, Colic & Irritable Children

• Common Name: German Chamomile
• Source: Vegetable (from the flower)
• Family: Compositae (Asteraceae)
• Miasm: Psora predominantly
• Temperament: Choleric and oversensitive
• Thermal: Hot patient

Clinical Sphere:

• Especially useful in teething children, painful dentition, colic, earache, neuralgia, and oversensitivity to pain
• A top remedy for irritability and anger from trifles

Key Indications:

Teething Disorders:

• Restless, irritable, cries constantly, wants to be carried
• Green, slimy, hot diarrhoea during dentition
• One cheek red, the other pale
• Child throws things away after demanding them

Irritability & Mental State:

• Extremely sensitive to pain; becomes irritable and angry
• Child cannot be pleased – wants one thing, then another
• Angry from pain, snappish, ill-humored
• Mental symptoms appear with physical ailments (e.g., colic with anger)

Colic & Abdominal Pains:

• Drawing up of legs, abdomen distended and sensitive
• Pains unendurable, makes the patient scream with anger
• Flatulent colic, especially in infants

Earaches:

• With screaming and restlessness, worse at night
• Ear sensitive to touch and wind

Fever:

• With great irritability, red-hot face
• Wants to be carried constantly
• Profuse sweating

Toothache:

• Worse from warm drinks or food
• Pain unbearable, with hot, swollen cheeks
• Accompanied by rage or impatience

Mind:

• Irritable, fretful, snappish
• Angry at trifles
• Cannot bear to be looked at or spoken to
• Child wants to be carried all the time
• Changes desires frequently – throws away toys or food
• Sensitive to noise and pain – "Pain seems unendurable"

Guiding Symptoms:

• Child wants to be carried constantly – only then quiet
• One cheek red, the other pale
• Oversensitive to pain, noise, and touch
• Anger during illness (especially during fever or pain)
• Diarrhoea: green, chopped-egg like, sour-smelling

Modalities:

Worse From	Better From
Anger, wind, night	Being carried, warm wraps
Dentition, touch, coffee	Mild movement, warmth
Cold air, open air	Passive motion (carried)

Potency & Dosage:

• 30C, 200C for acute irritability, colic, teething
• Repetition depends on severity – generally 2–3 doses a day in acute cases
• Mother tincture rarely used

Relationships:

Compare With	Complementary	Follows Well	Antidote
Belladonna, Pulsatilla, Nux vomica, Cina, Colocynth	Belladonna	Aconite	Nux vom, Pulsatilla, Coffea

Particular Tips:

• Great remedy for childhood complaints with anger & irritability
• "Chamomilla children are capricious – cry, whine, and demand things which they immediately reject."
• Marked nervous system hypersensitivity
• Commonly used during labour for intolerable pains and anger

One-Line Summary:

Chamomilla is best suited to irritable, angry, oversensitive individuals—especially children—who want to be carried and are never satisfied.