Plant
Camphora
Camphor
Repertory abbreviation: Camph.
Pictures a state of collapse. Icy coldness of the whole body ; sudden..sinking. Qf.strength; pulse small and weak. After operations, if temperature is sub- normal, low blood pressure, 3 doses camph. ix, 15- 183 minute intervals. Thhis condition is met with in cholera, and here it is that Camphor has achieved classical fame. First stages of a cold, with clilliness and nees- ing. Subsultus and extreme restlesness. Cracking of joints. Camphor has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia. In local rheumatic affections in cold cli- ates necessary. Distention of veins. It is characteristic of Cam
Head
Influenza; headache, with cartarrhal symp- toms, 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 zerith the pulse.
Eyes
Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.
Nose
Stopped; sneezing. Fluent coryza on sud- den change of weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent e'pistaxis, especially with goose-flesh state of skin.
Face
Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold.
Stomach
Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Cold- ness, followed by burning.
Stool
Blackish; involuntary. Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, great weak- ness, collapse, tongue and mouth cold. Urine.— Burning and strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Retention with full bladder.
Male
Desire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.
Respiratory
Pracordial distress. Suffocative dysp- ncea. Asthma. Violent, dry, hacking cough. Palpita- tion. Breath cold. Suspended respiration.
Extremities
Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints. Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.
Skin
Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered. [Sccale.] Modaities. —- W'orse, motion, night, contact, cold air. Better, warinth.
Sleep
Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme restlessness.
Fever
Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body. Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.
Relationships
Camphor antidotes or modifies the action of nearly every vegetable medicine -- tobacco, worm medicines, etc. Laffa acutcngula (whole body ice-cold, with a restlessness and anixiety ; burning thirst). Camphoric arid (a prophylactic against catheter fever; cystitis 15 grains three times a day). Incompatible: Kali nit. Complementary: Canth. Antidotes: Opium; Nitr. sp. dule.; Phos. Compare: (arbo; Cuprum; Arsenic; Veratr.
Dose
Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling of Spirits of Camphor.