COMMON NAME:
CAMPHOR.
Symptoms
Great faintness and prostration (Ant-T., Kali-P., Laur., Sepia, Veratrum) (Ra).
Diminished circulation of the blood to parts most distant the heart (coldness of the external body).
Throbbing pains in the cerebellum, like the pounding of a hammer (Belladonna, Gloninum, Natrum muriaticum, Psorinum), synchronous with the beat of the heart (N.).
Pulse: weak, extremely small, and scarcely perceptible (Carbo vegetabilis, Laur.) (A.).
BURNING IN THE STOMACH (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Phosphorus, Secale) (Ra.).
Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea (Arsenicum) (A.).
ASIATIC CHOLERA (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Hydr-Ac., Kali-P., Lachesis, Naja, Phosphorus, Secale, Veratrum).
COLOUR OF THE FACE BLUISH (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Digitalis, Hyoscyamus, Ipecac., Lachesis, Opium, Veratrum).
SUDDEN SINKING OF STRENGTH (Aconite, Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Colchicum, Crotalus horridus, Graphites, Hydr- Ac., Laur., Phosphorus, Secale, Sepia, Veratrum).
Face : livid, pale, haggard; pale and anxious; distorted, bluish and cold (N.).
GREAT COLDNESS OF THE SKIN, YET THE CHILD CANNOT BEAR TO BE COVERED (Secale). (G.).
Extremities cold and blue, with cramps (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Kali-P. Veratrum (Bt.).
Tongue: cold, flabby, trembling (Lachesis). (A.).
Pernicious intermittent (Ant-T., Arsenicum, Veratrum) (A.).
Long-lasting chills (Arsenicum, Causticum, China, Colchicum, Ferrum, Sepia, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Nat- M.) (Bt.).
ICY COLDNESS ALL OVER; FACE DEATHLY PALE (Carbo vegetabilis, Secale, Veratrum) (N.).
Involuntary diarrhoea (Aloe., Kali-P., Sulphur); stools blackish (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Sulphur) (Bt.).
Pains, as if bruised in inner parts (Apis., Baptisia, Belladonna, Eup-P., Ipecac., Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pyrog., Rhus toxicodendron).
Half stupid and senseless (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Belladonna, Bryonia, Cantharis, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Opium, Acid phosphoricum., Stramonium, Verat) (Ra.).
Urine: deep red and depositing a thick sediment (Apis, Berberis, Cantharis, Lycopodium, Sepia) (G.).
Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air (Hepar).
Retention of urine during cholera (Cantharis, Lachesis, Opium, Veratrum) (K.).
Strangury, not relieved by burning (Bt.).
Loss of sensation (Anacardium, Arsenicum, Carb-Ac., Causticum, China, Cocc., Conium, Kali-Br., Mercurius, Nux vomica, Olnd., Opium, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Plb., Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Zincum met.).
IMPOTENCE: WITH COLDNESS, WEAKNESS, AND ATROPHIED CONDITION OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS (Agn., Caladium, Lycopodium, Sulphur) (Bt.).
Cracking of the joints (Ang., Calcarea, Caps., Cocc., Kali bichromicum, Ledum, Natrum muriaticum, Nit- Ac., Petroleum, Rhus toxicodendron, Sulphur).
Epilepsy, with much congestion of blood to the brain (Max Ht.).
Rheumatic stitches in the muscles (Asafoetida, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Kali carb., Mercurius, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Spigelia, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Tarax., Thuja).
STAGE OF COLLAPSE: NOSE COLD AND POINTED: ANXIETY AND RESTLESSNESS; SKIN AND BREATH COLD (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Jatropa, Veratrum) (A.).
Rattling in the throat (Ant-T., Bromium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla) (G.).
Great anguish, as though he would suffocate (Apis., Argentum nitricum, Cuprum, Lachesis, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Ra.).
Hoarse, husky voice (Carbo vegetabilis, Phosphorus). (Ra.).
Pains disappear when thinking of them (Helleborus; pains worse when thinking of them- Calcarea phos., Helonias, Ox-Ac.). (N.).
THE PATIENT OBJECTS TO BEING COVERED, NOTWITHSTANDING THE OBJECTIVE COLDNESS; THROWS, OFF ALL COVERINGS (Carbo vegetabilis, Secale, Sulphur) (N.).
Coryza: first stage, when the nose is stuffed up and the inspired air feels cold; the patient feels chilly (D.).
CHOLERA SICCA: COLLAPSE, WITH SCANTY OR ABSENT DISCHARGES. Body cold as ice; great prostration; voice squeaky or husky; upper lip retracted (D.).
Sexual desire increased. Chordee or priapism (Cannabis sativa, Cantharis, Phosphorus, Pic-Ac., Sulphur). Nightly emissions (Br.).
Satyriasis (Belladonna, Cantharis, Hyoscyamus, Phosphorus, Platina, Stramonium) (B.).
Asphyxia neonatorum (Ant-T., Laur.) (B.).
Eyes fixed, staring, distorted (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium) (C.).
Foam at the mouth, during convulsions (Art-V., Bufo., Cuprum, Hyoscyamus) (K.).
Sleeplessness, from nervous overexcitability (Coffea, Kali-P., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Stramonium).
GREAT PRAECORDIAL ANXIETY AND DISTRESS (Aconite, Argentum nitricum, Arsenicum, Hydr-Ac., Lachesis, Phosphorus, Veratrum) (C.).
Camphor, topically, causes an erysipelatous dermatitis, with bright redness, and, eventually, blisters (from concentrated solution) (F.).
Suffocative catarrh, with paralysis of the lungs (Ant-T., Lycop., Phosphorus) (Bt.).
Headache, with catarrhal affections (Bryonia, Kali bichromicum, Pulsatilla) (G.).
Sudden retrocession of eruptions, with cold skin and great prostration (Ant-T., Apis., Carbo vegetabilis, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Bt.).
BAD EFFECTS OF SHOCK FROM INJURY; SURFACE OF THE BODY COLD; FACE PALE, BLUE; LIPS LIVID; PROFOUND PROSTRATION (A.).
Useful in cases of measles or scarlatina when eruption does not appear (Ant-T., Bryonia, Cuprum, Helleborus, Lachesis, Stramonium) (A.)
May be given in all sequelae of measles (Carbo vegetabilis, Kali carb., Phosphorus, Pulsatilla) (A.).
AGGRAVATION:
During motion; at night; from contact; in cold air; and in the dark.
AMELIORATION:
From warmth; when thinking of the existing complaint; in warm air; and from drinking cold water.
RELATIONSHIP:
Camphor ANTIDOTES or modifies the action of nearly every vegetable medicine, such as tobacco, opium, etc.
Similar to: Aconite, Ant-T., Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Hydr-Ac., Laur., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Secale and Veratrum
On account of its baneful influence Camphor
Should not be allowed in the sick room in its crude form.
NOTE. A few large doses of Camphor, if given at the very start, will at once arrest many cases of diarrhoea during cholera epidemic.
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)