CAMPHORA



Frequent and almost continual empty eructations after dinner. Absence of thirst, or else excessive thirst. Bitter taste of food. Nausea with ptyalism. Nausea and inclination to vomit, going off after an eructation. Short attacks of vertigo, after several attacks of inclination to vomit. Cold sweat, especially in the face, at the commencement of vomiting. Bilious vomiting, streaked with blood.

STOMACH

Pain in the stomach. Violent pressure in the pit of the stomach, or the anterior portion of the liver. Sensation in the pit of the stomach as if it had been strained by distention, and bruised by blows, with fullness in the abdomen. Burning in the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach. Asiatic cholera, with cramps, particularly in the calves, coldness of the body, great anguish, burning in the oesophagus and stomach, and painfulness of the pit of the stomach to the touch.

ABDOMEN

Cold feeling in the epigastrium and hypogastrium. Burning heat in the epigastrium and hypogastrium. Bruised feeling in the abdomen. Pinching pain in the umbilical region. Contractive pain below to short ribs, extending to the lumbar vertebrae. Aching in the hypochondria. Cutting colic, at night. Short- lasting ascites. Abdominal spasms.

STOOL

Difficult expulsion of faces. The rectum feels narrow, swollen, and is painful during emission of flatulence. Desire for stool, passing but little, followed by an urgent desire, and a still lesser discharge of faces. Obstinate constipation. Involuntary diarrhoea. Blackish stools.

URINE

Retention of urine. Strangury. Diminished power of the bladder, the urine came out very slowly. Strangury, with desire to urinate, and tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Painful micturition. Burning of the urine during emission. Reed urine. Red, thick urine, with thick sediment. Urine yellow-green, turbid, having a musty smell. Urine turbid and thick, after standing, of a white-greenish color, without sediment.

Genital Organs

Inclination to nocturnal emissions. Sensation of contraction in thee testes. Weakness of genital organs, and want of sexual desire. Relaxation of the scrotum, want of erections and sexual instinct. Violent erections. Want of sexual desire, erections, and emission of semen, are primary effect of Camph; it acts as a palliative, if on uses it to remove excessive sexual desires, erection, and frequent pollutions which had existed for a long time past; the evil is afterwards increased by the reaction of the organism against the drug. Amorous ecstasy. Impotence in the male. A sort of violent labor-pains (in a female).

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

Mucus in the trachea, which cannot be detached, and causes roughness of voice. Pain in the trachea and bronchial tubes, mostly when coughing, even when clearing the throat. Accumulation of mucus in the air passages, excessive, with danger of suffocation; suffocative catarrh and paralysis of the lungs in old people. Short and hacking cough, as if occasioned by a cutting coolness in the trachea. Grippe.

CHEST

Deep and slow breathing. Oppression of the chest, resembling a suffocative catarrh, as if originating in a pressure in the pit of the stomach. Oppressed, anxious, panting breathing. Difficult, sluggish respiration. Constrictive sensation in the throat. Spasms of the chest from the vapors of Copper or Arsenicum Angina pectoris after a cold. Stitches in the left breast, when walking.

BACK

Painful drawing stitches through and between the scapulae, extending to the chest, when moving the arms. Tensive pain in the muscles of the nape of the neck, increasing in violence at every movement of the neck.

ARMS

Convulsive rotation of the arms. Painful pressure in the right elbow-joint, more violent when leaning it upon the table, in which case the pain extends to the hands. Stitches in the fore- arm.

LEGS

Difficult motion and weariness of the lower limbs. Cracking of the hips, knee, and tarsal joints. Tremor of the feet. Drawing pain, as from bruises, in the thighs and knees. Lacerating in the thighs. Vacillation, weariness of the limbs. Feeling of great weariness in the feet when walking; the legs feel bruised and tight. Drawing cramp-pain in the dorsum of the foot, especially during motion. Lacerating cramp-pain in the dorsum of the foot, along the outer surface of the calf of the thighs.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.