Camph, Camphora Officinale

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Camphora officinalis, derived from the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) of the Lauraceae family, has a long history of use in traditional Asian medicine and is an aromatic, evergreen tree whose wood yields camphor, a crystalline compound traditionally used in topical preparations and medicinal products.

Core theme

Camph is the combination of two paradox thing: Cold body + Covering intolerance

Cold body

  • Like Led, he is Sensitive to cold
  • Cold feeling that does not warm up at all
  • Shivering
  • Coldness of Hands / Feet makes him sleepy.
  • Coldness + Cyanosis + Paleness of Face/ Lips.
  • Cold / Dry / Loose / Trembling tongue

Covering intolerance

  • Like Sec, he cannot tolorate any covering (Camph ₳ Sec)
  • Amel in warm weather, but cannot tolerate Bed-heat/ Being covered.
  • You touch his body coldness as a sign but he says that my body is hot and burning from the inside as a symptom (Similar to Carb-v internal Anxiety/restlessness) (Camph ₳ Carb-v)
  • He uses a warm compress for his problems to make him feel better but takes off his clothes and opens the windows in order to breathe

    CHILL - ICY COLDNESS of the body - skin; of - blue, yet wants to be uncovered; dry skin and CHILL - ICY COLDNESS of the body - skin; of - whole body; the - cold breath; with MIND - LIE on bare floor; wants to

Gasteroentritis

  • Coldness of the limbs (hands and feet) esp with diarrhea.
  • Shivering in epidemic diarrhea is an important diagnostic symptom.
  • Main remedy for severe epidemic diarrhea (Along with Cupr, Verat)
  • Accompanied by Cyanotic skin + Extreme thirst + Cold amel +Cold Sweat
  • Rice glaze diarrhea that makes the patient extremely weak (Sec)
  • Chronic debilitating watery diarrhea (opposite to Ph-ac)
  • His body becomes cold and frozen and may even lead to the collapse
  • Most of all, the patient's face becomes cold.
  • Summer Diarrhea

Mania

  • Cold sweat + Mania (Stram) (Camph ₳ Stram)
  • Cold sweat causes an anxious and sunken face.
  • Heartbreak attacks + Restlessness and moaning (Stram) + Tingling / Discomfort in whole body
  • Anxious/ Restless/ Moaning in disease
  • Fear of unknown People / Places
  • Fear of the Dark / Ghosts


Collapse

  • Dry collapse: Sudden weakness + Dryness (Little body secretions)
  • Weak sweat + Weak / Small pulse that can hardly be touched.
  • Opposite to Sec (A lot of discharge) (Camph ₳ Sec)

Neonatal asphyxia


Cramps / Convulsion

  • Opisthotonus, tetanus
  • Severe tonic spasms of the body (Typical epilepsy) Contractions in different parts of the body (face, bladder, urinary-genital tracts, organs)
  • Convulsions + Cold Body / Skin / Sweat
  • He Screams / Cries during the seizure
  • Seizures caused by suppression of skin rashes
  • Facial spasm: The patient's face is stretched and spastic, so that the teeth are visible from the bottom of the lips.

    FACE - Lips - drawn up (Boger)

SRP

  • Tongue is loose and trembling + Mouth dryness

Uncommon entities

Trigeminal nerve palsy

  • Stretching of facial muscles + Cyanosis + Pallor face

Urethritis

  • Pain and burning in urinary ducts when urinating
  • Urgency for burning + Gray urine

Others


Classic Antidote

  • Camph is a universal antidote for the action of remedies. (Hahnemann)
  • For this purpose it must be given very frequently, but in very small doses, when requisite every five to fifteen minutes, or when there is great urgency every two or three minutes, about one drop of the saturated alcoholic solution


New suggestions

  • PTSD
  • Any state, acute or chronic, after a serious injury, even if there are no real apparent clinical symptoms
  • Post Radiotherapy / Chemotherapy, with or without apparent clinical symptoms (As a prevention treatment)
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