Camphora
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Camphor
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Keynotes
Camphora
Camphor. Lauraceae.
Pain better while thinking of it (Hell. — worse. Cal. p., Helon., Ox. ac.).
Persons physically and mentally weak and irritable.
Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., Psor.).
Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of body cold, face pale, blue, lips livid; profound prostration.
Surface cold to the touch yet cannot bear to be covered ; throws off all coverings (Med., Sec.).
■ Entire body painfully sensitive to slightest touch.
Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.
Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea ; nose cold and pointed; anxious and restless ; skin and breath cold (Ver., Jatr.).
In first stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera; severe, long-lasting chill (Ver.).
Great coldness of the surface with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent (Ver.) ; pulse weak, externally small, scarcely perceptible.
Measles and scarlatina when eruption does not appear; with pale or cold blue, hippocratic face; child will not be covered (Sec.).
All sequelae of measles.
Relations. — Camphor antidotes nearly every vegetable medicine; also tobacco, fruits containing prussic acid, poisonous mushrooms; should not be allowed in the sick room in its crude form.
Compare: Carbo veg., Opium, Verat., Sec.
Amelioration., — When thinking of existing complaint; warm air; drinking cold water.
Note for Thought. — All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphor and Opium. — HerinG.
What the other books say about Camphora
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Camphora in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Camphora in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Camphora in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Camphora — Keynotes, pp. 76–77. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/camphora. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.