CAMPHORA

CAMPHORA. [Camphor.] Camphor. Hahnemann. Lauraceae.

► Loss of memory. ► Awkwardness. ► Delirious, somnolent, with slow fever, at night. ► Afraid to be alone, especially at night. ► Anxiety, precordial ; restless tossing about ; palpitation of heart. ► Mental excitability. ► Thinking about an existing pain causes it to disappear.

► Feels lighter, as if not touching the ground. ► Vertigo : in frequent short attack ; after nausea and retching ; and heaviness of head, worse on stooping. ► Totters in walking. ► Staggers as if drunk. ► Vanishing of all the senses, even touch. ► Sunstroke or inflammation of the brain arising from exposure to the sun. ► Stupor. ► Fainting. ► Apoplexy.

► Rush of blood to the head, with heaviness of head ; better from external pressure. ► Frontal headache ; pressure outward ; also left-sided. ► Contraction, as if laced together, in the cerebellum, and glabella, with coldness all over. ► Throbbing, like beats with a hammer, in the cerebellum, synchronous with the pulse ; head hot, face red, limbs cool, better standing ; mostly with such as were deprived of their usual sexual intercourse. ► Pains run from head to tips of fingers with trembling and uneasiness.

► Spasmodic motion of head. ► Premature grey hairs.

► Objects appear too bright, at the same time black spots are seen. ► Sparks and fiery wheels, alternating with mistiness. ► Letters run together, while reading. ► Eyes fixed, staring, turned upwards or outwards. ► Eyes closed at first, and later staring, looking upwards. ► Pupils contracted, immovable. ► Conjunctiva injected, pupils dilated, lachrymation in open air ; lids stiff, sore or tense ; quivering of upper lid. ► Chronic inflammation of the eyes. ► Eyes worse in the sunlight.

► Singing, ringing or buzzing in the ears. ► Pain in left ear from dark red pimple, which suppurated in thirty-six hours. ► Ear-lobe hot and red. ► Yellow blisters around the ear, with erysipelas of the face.

► Fluent coryza, with headache, on sudden change of weather.

► Face : red, with warmth of body ; bluish and pinched, deathly ; pale, with crawlings ; pale, distorted and sunken ; pale and haggard ; pale and livid ; cold. ► Wild, staring, unconscious look. ► Cold sweat on face, with vomiting. ► Erysipelatous red cheeks and ear-lobes.

► Lockjaw, with coldness and pale surface, (and brownish look of eruption, during partial repercussion, in scarlatina). ► Froth or foam at the mouth.

► Teeth seem too long, cutting toothache, which seem to originate from the swelling of a submaxillary gland.

► Taste : acute beef broth tastes too strong. ► Food tastes bitter, meat more so than bread. ► Speech : feeble, broken, hoarse. ► Tongue : cold.

► Saliva, running together, watery. ► Coldness in the mouth.

► Heat : on hard palate ; in throat ; in oesophagus.

► Neither appetite not thirst. ► Drink pleases, yet has no thirst. ► Burning thirst, drinks large quantities without relief.

► Circulation worse after eating.

► Belching and gulping up the contents of the stomach. ► Vomit : bilious ; of some blood ; mostly sour. ► Chronic vomiting, in the morning, of sour mucus. ► Watery, slimy vomit. θ Summer complaint. ► Coldness after vomiting. ► Absence of nausea and vomit ; body icy-cold. θ Cholera.

► Sensation of heat in the stomach. ► Coldness in the stomach. ► Anguish and burning on oesophagus and stomach. ► Pain, as if beaten, or overstretched, in the pit of stomach, with fullness of the abdomen ; sensitive to touch.

► Aching in the anterior part of liver. ► Constrictive pain below short ribs, extending to lumbar vertebrae. ► Aching pressure in both hypochondria.

► Coldness in the upper and lower abdomen, followed by burning heat therein.

► After taking cold, cutting pain, with a loose discharge of dark brown or black feces, like coffee grounds. ► Rice-water stools. θ Summer complaint. ► Diarrhoea, great prostration, cold, yet will not be covered. ► Diarrhoea, with colicky pains, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air. ► Absence of discharge ; body icy-cold. θ Cholera. ► Constipation from inactivity of the rectum. ► Urging to stool, and insufficient discharge.

► Urine : scanty, not often ; by drops ; burning ; yellowish-green turbid of musty odor ; reddish in dropsy. See 23. ► Unsuccessful urging to urinate. ► Retention of urine : strangury.

► Want of sexual desire, with weakness of the parts ; want of erections ; testicles relaxed ; impotence. ► Gonorrhoea, with constant sticking together of the meatus. ► Chordee.

► Menses increased. ► Dropsy of the uterus ; red, some times greenish urine, deposits a thick sediment ; urine passed slowly, bladder being nearly paralyzed, body cold.

► Labor-pains : weak or ceasing ; will not be covered, restless ; skin cold. ► Suppuration of the mammae ; fine stinging on the nipples. ► Newborn children : hard places in the skin on the abdomen and thighs, quickly increasing and getting harder ; sometimes with a deep redness spreading nearly over the whole abdomen and thighs ; violent fever, with startings and tetanic spasms, with bending backwards.

► Voice : hoarse ; husky ; hollow ; weak ; uncertain. ► Cutting, cold feeling deep in trachea, causes a slight cough.

► Quiet ; deep and slow ; difficult, slow ; anxious. ► Suffocative oppression. ► Asthma, worse from bodily exertion. ► Hot breath with acute eruption. ► Cold breath ; also after cold feeling in chest.

► Dry cough in the forenoon. ► Violent dry cough, with hoarseness after measles. ► Every inhalation starts the cough.

► Mucus in the air-passages. ► Influenza, when during the stages of invasion the patient feels cold and chilly, body and mind seem in a depressed condition. ► Stitches : from the shoulders into the chest ; in left side of chest when walking. ► Sensation of coldness, extends from the pit of stomach over the whole sternum. ► Congestion of the chest.

► Trembling palpitation, with anxiety. ► Palpitation : with sudden oppression of breathing ; with cold face, limbs and body ; with pale face and cold body ; after eating ; after waking, with twitches. ► Precordial distress when loudly spoken to ; sensation of severe coldness and irresistible sleepiness. ► Pulse : full ; weak ; not perceptible. ► Diminished flow of blood of those parts remote from heart.

► Fine rash on outer throat and chest.

► Pain in fifth, sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae ; worse moving the head ; better from pressing the hand thereon. ► Painful drawing and stiffness on the side of neck when walking in open air. ► Drawing stitches through and between the shoulder-blades extending into chest when moving arms. ► Cold feeling, or chilliness in the back.

► Convulsive rotation of the arms. ► Arms : stiff ; powerless. ► Painful pressure in right elbow-joint, extends to the hand when leaning on it. ► Hands : tremble ; cold ; bluish. ► Fingers stiff, open, distorted ; thumb drawn back at nearly right angles with its metacarpus.

► Cracking and creaking in the hip, knee, and ankle-joints. ► Drawing, bruised pain in the right thigh, and on inner side near and below the patella. ► Knees give way ; tremble. ► Cramps in the calves. ► Drawing, crampy pain on the dorsum of the feet, especially on moving them. ► Tearing, crampy pain on the dorsum of the feet, extending up the outer side of the calves to the thighs. ► Tearing in tips of toes of left foot, and under the nails, when walking.

► Coldness of the limbs. ► Drawing in the fingers, then in the toes. ► Rheumatism returns repeatedly, attacking part after part, even internal organs.

► Every motion : 40. Moving, head : 31 ; arms : 31 ; feet : 33. Walking : 2, 28, 31, 33. Bodily exertion : 26. Standing : 3. Stooping : 2.

► Attacks of malaise. ► Trembling of inner parts. ► Great prostration. ► Easily started when awake, and then feels throbbing or palpitation. ► Spasms of children, with sopor ; from suppressed eruptions. ► Eclampsia, with anaemia ; coldness. ► Tetanic spasms of the arms, hands, feet and lower jaw ; body stiff, with slight opisthotonos ; from suppressed scarlatina. ► Epileptic spasm. ► What of bodily irritability ; insensibility to touch.

► Sleepy in daytime. ► Sleep : stupid ; deep ; unrefreshing. ► Dreams : anxious, fearful. ► Sleeplessness, alternating with coma.

► Morning : 16. Forenoon : 28. Night : 1.

► Sun : 5. Open air : 5, 31. Cold air : 40. Change of weather : 7. Will not be covered : 20, 46.

► Icy-coldness all over, with deathlike paleness of the face. ► Great coldness of the surface without the usually accompanying change of color, and at the same time a desire to be uncovered. ► Chill, chilliness and sensitiveness to the cold air. ► Chill, with shivering and shaking ; teeth chattering. ► Chill : with anxiety ; with unconsciousness ; with pale face ; with clonic spasms. ► Heat, with distension of veins increased by every motion. ► Cold, clammy, exhausting sweat.

► Rheumatic attacks remit, go to one part after another. ► Attacks come on suddenly.

► Right : 18, 32, 33. Left : 3, 6, 28, 33. Above downwards : 3, 32. Below upwards : 28, 33. Behind forward : 31.

► Sensations of dryness all over the body. ► Cramps all over.

► Soft parts drawn in. ► Cyanosis. ► External parts turn black. ► Internal congestions. ► Cramps in inner an outer parts. ► Cracking of joints. ► Stenosis after inflammations. ► Dropsy of external parts ; less of internal. ► Glands inflamed.

► Touch : 17, 36. Pressure : 3, 31.

► Dryness of skin, not a trace of sweat. ► Blood blisters. ► Erysipelas. ► Gangrene. ► Hard spots. ► Sequelae of measles. ► Sudden sinking away of variola pustules. ► Measle eruption delays ; tetanic rigors ; skin cold, bluish ; dysuria. ► Scarlatina : with cold, blue, hippocratic face ; rattling in throat ; with hot breath, hot sweat on forehead, child will not be covered.

► Irritable, weakly ; blondes most affected. ► Scrofulous children are most sensitive to Camphor.

► Antidotes : Opium, Spir. nitr. dulc, Dulcam. ► Camphor antidotes Canthar., Cuprum, Squilla. ► In most other cases, the smelling of Camphor is not antidotal, but palliative, by producing the symptom "pain better while thinking of it". ► Camphor. aggravates the effect of Nitrum, and seems to be injurious if given after it. ► Tea, coffee and lemonade do not interfere.