Camphora



Urinary Organs

Retention of urine. Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream, as if the urethra were contracted. Urine of a yellowish green, turbid, and of a mouldy smell. Haematuria. Burning pain during the emission of urine. Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased desire. Erethism. Attacks of violent priapism during dreams. Absence of sexual desire, and impotence. Sudden laxness of penis. Nocturnal emissions. Involuntary masturbation. Sensation of contraction in the testes. On left side of root of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude. Strangury from stricture.

Female Sexual Organs

Sexual orgasm. Erethism of sexual system. Labor-like pains. Menses too profuse, or absent.

Respiratory Organs

Voice husky, weak, mucus in air passages, not removed by hacking, high and squeaky. Constriction of larynx, feeling as if throat tied. Cutting, cold feeling deep in windpipe, causes a slight cough. Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea. Breathing: anxious, oppressed, sighing, quiet, deep and slow, snoring, almost completely arrested. Asthma, worse from bodily exertion. Hot breath (with acute eruptive diseases). Cool breath. A cold feeling in chest followed by cold breath. Fatiguing, hacking, dry cough. Every inspiration starts the cough.

Chest

Suffocating oppression of the chest, and constriction of the larynx, as if from the vapor of sulphur. Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs, with danger of suffocation. Cramps in the chest. Shootings in the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, especially after a meal. Anxiety at heart. Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when lying on left side, better when turning on right side.

Neck and Back

Tension and stiffness of the neck on moving it. Heat with an inward vibration spreads from neck and from between shoulders into limbs. Drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades, extending into chest when moving arms. Pressure in small of back with leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs. Coldness in small of back and loins, inner coldness worse by walking a few steps. Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.

Upper Limbs

Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the arms. Convulsive movement of the arms, which describe circles. Pressure and acute drawing in the arm and forearm. Hands icy cold. Hands do not feel anything he touches. Fingers stiff, open, distorted, thumb drawn back.

Lower Limbs

Pains, as from a bruise, in the thighs and in the knees. Great weakness of the legs. Cramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep. Cramps in the calves of the legs, with icy coldness. Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, on walking.

Generalities

Convulsions and cramps of different kinds. Tetanus, with loss of consciousness, and vomiting. Attacks of epilepsy, with rattling in the throat, face, red and puffed, convulsive movements of the limbs, and even of the tongue, of the eyes, and of the muscles of the face, hot and viscid perspiration on the scalp, and on the forehead, after the fit, comatose drowsiness. He falls down insensible. Diminished circulation of the blood to the parts most distant from the heart. Uneasiness, relaxation, and heaviness over the whole body. Sinking of all strength. Fainting fits. Cracking in the joints. Rheumatic lancinations in the muscles. Difficulty in moving the limbs. Painful sensibility of the periosteum of all the bones. Sufferings in consequence of a chill. Icy coldness of the whole body, with paleness of the face. The majority of the symptoms appear during movement, or else at night, or are aggravated by cold, the open air, and contact. The symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them. Causation Shock from injury. Eruptions, suppressed. Cold air. Sunstroke. Vexation.

Skin

Skin sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch. Erysipelatous inflammations. Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body. Dryness of the skin.

Sleep

Strong desire to sleep in the day. Coma, with incoherent words. Nocturnal sleeplessness, from nervous excitement. Snoring and tossing during sleep. During sleep, the inspirations are shorter than the expirations. Dreams: anxious, fearful, visions of spirits, about what is intended or what has happened in morning hours. Extreme restlessness with anxiety.

Fever

Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold. Cold over the whole body, with deadly paleness of face, shivering, and chattering of the teeth. Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest. Heat of the body, with redness of face, especially in the cheeks, and in the lobe of the ear. General heat, which becomes excessive on walking. Heat with distended veins, aggravated from every movement. Pulse remarkably small and slow, or excessively quick and full. The blood does not circulate to the parts distant from the heart. Sensation of dryness on the whole cutaneous surface.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica