• The action of Camphora is puzzling, with alternating primary action and vital reactions.

• Camphora pictures a state of collapse.

• Camphora presents with icy coldness of the whole body.

• Camphora shows a sudden sinking of strength.

• The pulse is small and weak.

• Camphora is useful after operations if temperature is subnormal and blood pressure is low.

• Camphora is useful in cholera.

• Camphora is useful in the first stages of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing.

• Camphora presents with subsultus and extreme restlessness.

• Camphora presents with cracking of joints.

• Camphora presents with epileptiform convulsions.

• Camphora has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia.

• Camphora is indicated in local rheumatic affections in cold climates.

• Camphora presents with distention of veins.

• Camphora acts as a heart stimulant for emergency use.

• The patient will not be covered, notwithstanding the icy coldness of the body.

• Camphora is one of the main remedies in shock.

• Pain is better while thinking of it.

• The patient is very sensitive to cold and to touch.

• Camphora is indicated in sequelæ of measles.

• Camphora presents with violent convulsion, with wandering and hysterical excitement.

• Camphora presents with tetanic spasms.

• Camphora especially affects scrofulous children and irritable, weakly blondes.

• Camphora presents with great prostration with cold sweat.

• Camphora presents with bluish discoloration of the skin.

• Absence of thirst, even with high fever.

• Camphora presents with suppression of discharges.

• Camphora presents with great debility.

• A tendency to fainting.

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• Camphora presents with anxiety with restlessness and agitation.

• The patient presents with great irritability and sensitivity to noise.

• Confusion of mind; difficulty in thinking clearly.

• Camphora presents with delirium with incoherent speech.

• Fear of death.

• Loss of consciousness in collapse.

• Camphora presents with wandering and hysterical excitement.

• Camphora presents with mental dullness.

• Camphora presents with apathy.

• Camphora presents with disorientation.

• Irritability.

• Violent temper.

• The patient is restless at night.

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• Essential action: Chill; cramp; convulsion with mental anguish.

• Causes retreat from the circumference to the centre.

• Corrects conditions of cold, collapse, and repercussed eruptive diseases.

• Great coldness of surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces.

• Feeling as if a cold wind were blowing over the body.

• Effective for sudden internal pains arising from chill or other causes, in rapidly repeated doses.

• Tetanic spasms, with showing of teeth by drawing up the mouth corners.

• Internal heat and external coldness.

• Vitality ebbing away.

• Fainting spells growing worse.

• Body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat.

• 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.

• 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.

• Surface cold to touch, yet throws off all covering.

• Irritable, weakly blondes most affected.

• Scrofulous children most sensitive.

• Awkwardness.

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• Anxiety with fretfulness.

• Great anguish and discouragement.

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• Occipital throbbing, synchronous with the pulse.

• Camphora presents with vertigo with nausea and vomiting.

• The headache is ameliorated by thinking of it.

• A sensation of emptiness in the head.

• The pupils are dilated.

• The eyes are sunken.

• Dim vision.

• Photophobia.

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• Inflammation of the eyes.

• Red spots on the eyelids.

• Trembling of the eyelids.

• Staring, wild look.

• Eyes sunken.

• Eyes haggard, and turned convulsively upwards.

• Contraction of the pupils.

• Obscuration of the sight.

• Visions of strange objects.

• Photophobia.

• Everything appears too bright and brilliant.

• Deafness.

• Camphora presents with coryza, with sneezing and chilliness.

• Nosebleed.

• Dryness of the nose.

• Loss of smell.

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• Dry coryza.

• Coryza fluent or dry.

• Sneezing, beginning of coryza.

• Catarrhal affections with headache, from sudden change of weather.

• Nose-bleed.

• Nose cold and pointed.

• Violent stitching or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Sore throat.

• Constriction of the throat.

• Difficult and labored breathing.

• Short, quick respiration.

• Suffocation.

• Coldness of breath.

• Rattling in the chest.

• There are asthma-like symptoms.

• Cough, dry and hacking.

• Cough with expectoration of mucus.

• Dyspnea.

• Cyanosis.

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• There are palpitations.

• Angina pectoris.

• Coldness and constriction in the chest.

• Weak, rapid pulse.

• Feeble pulse.

• Irregular pulse.

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• Nausea and vomiting.

• There are abdominal cramps and distention.

• Coldness of the abdomen.

• Diarrhea or constipation.

• The abdomen feels bloated.

• Burning in the stomach.

• Vomiting of bile.

• Absence of thirst.

• There are hiccups.

• Flatulence.

• Suppression of urine.

• Scanty, dark urine.

• Frequent urination.

• Burning during urination.

• Involuntary urination.

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• Sexual excitement with impotence.

• Coldness of the genitals.

• Satyriasis.

• Priapism.

• Premature ejaculation.

• Nymphomania.

• Stiffness in the back.

• Numbness and tingling in the limbs.

• There are cramps in the muscles.

• Subsultus tendinum.

• Cracking of joints.

• Rheumatism in cold climates.

• Heaviness of limbs.

• Weakness of limbs.

• Trembling of limbs.

• Bluish discoloration of the skin.

• Cold, clammy skin.

• Great prostration with cold sweat.

• The skin is sensitive to touch.

• Itching of the skin.

• Restless sleep.

• Sleepiness during the day.

• The dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Cold; Touch; Motion; Thinking about the pain.

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• Thinking about the pain; Warmth (temporarily).

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• Camphora is incompatible with Kali nit.

• Cantharis is complementary to Camphora.

• Antidotes to Camphora: Opium; Nitr sp dulc; Phosphorus.

• Compare Camphora with: Carbo vegetabilis; Cuprum metallicum; Arsenicum album; Veratrum album.

• Camphora is useful after Aconite where fear persists.

• Consider Camphora in cases of shock following injury or surgery.

• C10 H16 O. - N. O. Lauraceć. A gum obtained from Laurus camphora. Solution in rectified spirit.

• wants to be diverted from thoughts of himself.

• Fears to be left alone.

• Quarrelsome and combative humour; mania to dispute.

• Dulness of the senses.

• Loss of consciousness.

• Confusion of ideas; delirium.

• Rage.

• Loss of memory.

• Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition and disappear when thinking of them.

• Dizziness, as if from intoxication, especially on walking.

• Giddiness, with heaviness of the head and vanishing of the senses.

• Vertigo, and heaviness of the head, obliging the patient to incline the head backwards.

• Headache, as if the brain were bruised, or sore from a wound.

• Dull headache above the os frontis, with inclination to vomit.

• Constrictive headache, especially in the occiput and above the root of the nose, greatly aggravated by stooping, by lying down, or by the touch, and disappearing when the attention is directed to the pain.

• Incisive shocks in the head on lying down.

• Pulsative headache at night, with shootings in the forehead and heat of the body.

• Congestion in the head.

• Inflammation of the brain (after sunstroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head, < from movement or in the cold air; > when lying down, or when thinking of it.

• Spasms, which draw the head on one side. Spasmodic movement of head; head drawn to r. side; rest of body relaxed; unconscious. Spasmodic drawing of head laterally or backwards with deathly coldness.

• Heat and redness of the ears, esp. in the lobes.

• Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain.

• Face deadly pale; or deep red.

• Icy-cold, livid, pale face.

• Erysipelas in the face.

• Convulsive distortion of the features.

• Convulsive clenching of the jaws.

• Hippocratic face.

• Foam at the mouth.

• Cold sweat on face, upper lip everted.

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• Toothache, as if from swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with sensation of lengthening of the teeth.

• Acute shocks in the roots of the incisors.

• Painful looseness of the teeth.

• Flying toothache, gnawing boring in molars, mostly in hollow ones; much < if even a soft little crust of bread touches the affected tooth; < from drinking coffee or spirituous liquors; > after drinking beer or cold water; but < from water kept in mouth; > by coition.

• Breath fetid in the morning.

• Foam at the mouth.

• Abundant accumulation of a viscid and slimy saliva.

• Soreness in the throat on swallowing, as if from excoriation of the throat, which is felt even at night.

• Dry, scraping sensation of the palate.

• Burning heat in the throat, extending from the palate to the stomach.

• More decided relish for all food, and esp. for broth.

• Bitter taste of tobacco and of food, esp. of meat.

• Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke.

• Excessive thirst. Tongue is cold. Voice is either high pitched or husky.

• 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, < 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.

• Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, esp. after a meal.

• Anxiety at heart.

• Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when lying on l. side, > when turning on r. side.

• Suffocating oppression of the chest, and constriction of the larynx, as if from the vapour of sulphur.

• Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs, with danger of suffocation.

• Cramps in the chest.

• Shootings in the chest.

• Arterial spasm, with difficult breathing (spasm of pulmonary arteries), coldness, and lividity.

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• The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch.

• Almost continual eructations after dinner; nausea > by eructation.

• Inclination to vomit, followed by attacks of vertigo.

• Vomiting of bile or of blood.

• At the commencement of the vomiting, cold sweat, chiefly on the face.

• Sensation of burning and heat in the stomach.

• Pain, as from a bruise, in the epigastrium.

• Strong pressure in the epigastrium.

• Cramps in the abdomen.

• Cutting colic at night.

• Belly-ache as if diarrhśa would follow.

• Drawing pain, as from a bruise, on the entire of r. side of the abdomen.

• Sensation of fulness in the abdomen.

• Sensation of cold or of burning heat in the epigastrium and in the abdomen.

• Constipation.

• Difficult evacuation, as if from inactivity of the intestines, or from contraction of the rectum.

• The rectum feels narrow and swollen; is painful during the emission of flatulence.

• Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness in body, anguish, burning in śsophagus and stomach.

• Diarrhśa: with colicky pain, esp. when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength.

• Involuntary diarrhśa.

• Blackish fćces.

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• 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.

• Hćmaturia.

• Burning pain during the emission of urine.

• Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.

• Inceased 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 l. side of root of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude.

• Strangury from stricture.

• Sexual orgasm.

• Erethism of sexual system.

• Labour-like pains.

• Menses too profuse; or absent.

• 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 < by walking a few steps.

• Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.

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• 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.

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• 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.

• Skin sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch.

• Erysipelatous inflammations.

• Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body.

• Dryness of the skin.

• 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.

• 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, esp. 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.

• Cold and cold air.

• Movement.

• Bodily exertion.

• Night.

• Open air.

• Contact.

• Stooping.

• Lying down.

• Coffee.

• Spirituous liquors.

• Water kept in the mouth.

• Walking a few steps (inner coldness in back and loins).

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• When thinking of them.

• Lying down.

• Turning on r. side (heart symptoms).

• After drinking beer or cold water (toothache).

• By coition (toothache).

• Nausea > by eructation.

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• Clinical: Angina pectoris, Bed-sores, Cholera Asiatica, Chordee, Cold, Convulsions, Epilepsy, Eruptions, suppressed, Erysipelas, Gonorrhśa, Heart affections, Hyperpyrexia, Influenza, Measles, Memory, loss of, Priapism, Rheumatism, Sexual mania, Sleeplessness, Snake-bites, Spasms, Strangury, Sunstroke, Taste, disordered, Tetanus, Tobacco habit, Twitching, Urethra, spasmodic stricture of, Urine, suppression of

• Antidoted by: Op., Sp. nit. dulc., Dulc., and Phos.

• Antidotes: Am. c., Canth., Carb. v., Cup., Lyc, Squil., Nat. m., tobacco, bitter almonds, and other fruits containing prussic acid; also the secondary affections remaining after poisoning with acids, salts, metals, poisonous mushrooms, &c.

• Incompatible: Nitrum.

• Coffee sometimes <.

• Compare: Alo.; Carbo v. (coldness from undeveloped exanthema, collapse; epistaxis, dark, persistent; low hćmorrhages generally); Canth.; Cup.; Dulc.; Sec. (skin cold with desire to uncover); Lyc. (head drawn to one side-Lyc. to left, Plumb. and Stram. to right, Bufo to either); Op. (narcotism, heart affections); Pho. (anguish and burning in cholera). Sp. dul. nit., Squil., Verat.

• Resembles Aconite in effect on colds and sleeplessness.

• Acts on the genito-urinary sphere with intensity similar to Cantharis. Antidote to Cantharis.