Remedy

Camphora officinalis

Camphor

3 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • 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 coldness of the whole body; sudden sinking of strength; pulse small and weak.
  • Subsultus and extreme restlessness.
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  • Cracking of joints.
  • Epileptiform convulsions.
  • Camphor has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia.
  • In local rheumatic affections in cold climates necessary.
  • Distention of veins.
  • As a heart stimulant for emergency use of Camphor is the most satisfactory remedy.
  • Drop doses on sugar as often as every five minutes.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

MotionNightContactCold air

Better

Warmth

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness, tendency to unconsciousness, feeling as if he would die. Influenza; headache, with with mucus symptoms, sneezing, etc. Beating pain in cerebellum. Cold sweat. Nose cold and pinched. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Fleeting stitches in temporal region and orbits. Head sore. Occipital throbbing, synchronous with the pulse.

Eyes

Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.

Nose

Stopped; sneezing. Fluent runny nose (cold) on sudden change of weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent nosebleed, especially with goose-flesh state of skin.

Face

Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold. Cold sweat.

Stomach

Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Coldness, followed by burning.

Stool

Blackish; involuntary.

Urine

Burning and painful, drop-by-drop urination, with constant urge to pass stool of the neck of the bladder. Retention with full bladder.

Male

Desire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.

Respiratory

Praecordial distress. Suffocative dyspnoea. Violent, dry, hacking cough; Palpitation. Breath cold. Suspended respiration.

Sleep

Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme restlessness.

Extremities

Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints. Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.

Fever

Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body. Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.

Skin

Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered.

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