Camphora

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Camphor

This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Camphora in every book at once →

Keynotes

Algidity; can't get warm; at start of colds, cholera, etc. Bluish, old, pinched look. ICY COLD, YET AVERSE TO COVERS (Sec-c.), or wants them off then on; with internal burning heat; and anxious. Sudden weakness; dry collapse. Cholera. Scanty or retained discharges. Violent tonic spasm; of bladder; then stupor, with coldness. .................... Insensibility or anxiety. Head feels knotted up. Hammering in occiput. Inhaled air seems cold. Coryza; in old age. Retracted lips; upper. Cold tongue. Burning thirst. Burning in stomach. Strangury. Hæmaturia. Sexual excitement. Satyriasis. Hoarse, squeaking voice. Asphyxia neonatorum. Cold breath. Thumbs cramp backward. Cramp in calves. Dry skin. Erysipelas. Very sensitive to cold air or taking cold. Shaking chill, with cold skin. Wants cover during hot stage only. Sudden, inflammatory fevers with rapid alternation of heat and cold; followed by rapid prostration. Heat or sweat, > covers. Corrects spoiled cases and antidotes most remedies. Chilly, below scapulæ; before colds.

Worse

Cold. Drafts. When half asleep. (Mag-p-au. Nit-ac.). Mental exertion. Shock. SUPPRESSION. Inattention.

Better

Free discharges. Sweat. Thinking of it.

Region

DIGESTIVE TRACT. Cerebro-spinal nerves. Urinary organs. Nose.

Relationships

Antidotes: Coff. Op. Pho. Related: Carb-v. Cup. Op. Sec-c. CANCER FLUVIATILIS (See Astacus Fluviatilis)

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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Camphora in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Camphora — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/camphora. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.