Camphora
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Hahnemann says: "The action of this substance is very puzzling and difficult of investigation, even in the healthy organism because its primary action, more frequently than with any other remedy, alternates and becomes intermixed with the vital reactions (after effects) of the organism. On this account it is often difficult to determine what belongs to the vital reactions of the body and what to the alternating effects due to the primary action of the camphor." Pictures a state of collapse. Icy
Camphora — Materia Medica
Camphora — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Camphora — mind · James Tyler Kent
In the mental state, there is anxiety and extreme fear; fear of persons, of strange spheres, of the dark; the dark is filled with imaginary specters; he dare not get out of bed in the dark; everything that moves is a specter and the inanimate things of the room become alive and terrify him. Frenzy. Coupled with this, there is kidney and urinary trouble, like that of Cantharis, and because of this similarity, the two remedies are both complementary and antidotal to each other. If a woman has poisoned herself with Cantharis, and there is present the frenzy and excitement, Camphor will act as an antidote. The details of the mental symptoms are worthy of much consideration. The patient goes into a state not unlike imbecility, and the appearance is as if it had come on slowly. The mind and memory are gone. He closes the eyes, seemingly asleep, and answers no questions. Delirious with the heat, rage and mania, wants to jump out of bed or out of the window. Screams and calls for help. Tosses anxiously in bed. Anxiety and almost loss of consciousness. These symptoms will indicate Camphor in puerperal fever, in congestion of the brain, or in shock from violent inflammation of organs. Confusion comes from the shock and comes with violence. The more violently the patient suffers, the sooner he is cold, and when he is cold, he must uncover even in a cold room. This is somewhat like Secale. In Secale the patient, when cold, wants to uncover and to be in a cold room, and it also has frenzy, and so there is nothing in what we have yet seem to distinguish Secale from Camph. But there is another thing that runs through Camph., by which a distinction can be made.
Camphora — general · James Tyler Kent
The camphor bottle is, a great mischief in the house, as camphor antidotes most of our remedies. Camphor in potentized form will cure many complaints. It is suitable in some acute complaints attended with nervous excitement, even to frenzy, with spasms and convulsions and finally exhaustion. The Camphor state is one of convulsions or coldness. In the most acute period of the Camphor excitement, the excitability and frenzy of the patient are extreme, or he goes into the other extreme, in which the irritability is lost and there is loss of sensation, unconsciousness and coldness. The two extremes may be seen in one patient, one earlier and the other later. He may go from the extreme of mental excitement and violence to one of prostration and exhaustion, in which the body is blue and cold and yet must be uncovered.
Camphora — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Better when thinking of the existing complaint. Throbbing, like beats with ahammer, in cerebellum, isochronous with pulse, head hot, face red, limbs cool, > in standing ; mostly with such as were deprived of sexual intercourse. Contraction as if laced together in cerebellum and glabella, with coldness all over. Very sensitive to cold air. Nose cold and pointed (in diarrhoea and cholera). Cold sweat, with vomiting. Tongue, cold, flabby, trembling. Anxiety and restlessness, absence of evacuations, frequently chilly or feeling as if cold air was bUming on covered parts ; great sinking and collapse. (Cholera.) Burning during urination. Newborn children ; asphyxia ; hard places in skin on abdomen and thighs, quickly increasing and getting harder, sometimes with a deep redness spreading nearly over whole abdomen and thighs ; violent fever, wi*h startings and tetanic spasms, with bending backward ; they make no water. Influenza. Cool breath, as from the grave, playing upon hand held before mouth. (Carbc 1teg.) Coldness of limbs. Congestion to chest. All sequela of measles. Cold, clammy, weakening sweat. Pulse : weak ; not perceptible ; frequent and scarcely per ceptible ; accelerated without fever ; very much accelerated, but undulating, and without strength ; very rapid ; full and rapid ; full and irritable ; irritable in evening ; hard or soft ; extremely . . . small and slow ; ' small and hard, becoming slower and slower ; small, weak and quite frequent ; could not be counted. Icy coldness all over, with death-like paleness of face ; diminished circu lation to farts most distant from heart.
Camphora — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
One cannot reel out memories of the curative effects of camphor because they are so prompt as to be promptly forgotten. The triumphs of camphor in cholera are given in the article on Cholera, a good part of which should properly be included in this drug picture. The mental symptoms of Camphor are extraordinary. They run into several pages of Allen’s Encyclopedia : though other Materia Medicas give very little idea of the extreme mental sufferings that can -be-evoked by Camphor. It was a puzzle case, many years ago, that drew one’s attention to these symptoms, and, once realized, they are not easily forgotten. Woman of forty-nine : ill for five months. Floodings : then " cardiac set in ”, as she expressed it. Then influenza—three times in five months. Nerves terrible! Heart as if it would burst. Feels as if she were going to die every minute. Very chilly. No energy. Nothing to live for. Every effort exhausts. Worse from a bath ; has to " wash piece-meal ”. Was found in a faint in her last bath. Anguish at night : feeling that she is dying. Her relief at realizing, " Why, I am still alive ! ” Heart’s action was poor, but there was no disease, in spite of several attacks of rheumatic fever, the first at eighteen. Luckily she was asked, ” What do you take for these attacks ? ” She took Camphor—eight drops of the spirit of camphor in water as often as from seven to eight times a day. Had done so for five or six years. She took it every time she had a heart attack. Her doctor knew of this, and he said it would not hurt her. The totality of her symptoms worked out to Lycopodium or Phosphorus. And in spite of the fact that Phosphorus antidotes Camphor, she was given Lyc. 30, three doses.
Camphora — modalities · H.C. Allen
Amelioration: When thinking of existing complaint; warm air; drinking cold water.
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