Camph, Camphora Officinale

Core theme

• Camph is the combination of two paradox thing: Cold body (Led) + Covering intolerance (Sec) (Camph ₳ Sec)

• You feel coldness of his body 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)

• Very sensitive to cold: Shivering + extreme cold feeling that does not warm up at all

• Amel in warm weather, but cannot tolerate the bed-heat or being covered.
• 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

CHILL - ICY COLDNESS of the body - uncover, with desire to

Special coldness

• Coldness of the limbs (hands and feet) esp with diarrhea

• Coldness of Hands / Feet makes him sleepy.

• Coldness + Cyanosis + Paleness of Face/ Lips. Shivering in epidemic diarrhea is an important diagnostic symptom.

• Cold / Dry / Loose / Trembling tongue
• Opposite to Sec (A lot of discharge)
• Dry collapse

• Cold sweat + Mania (Stram) (Camph ₳ Stram)
• Cold sweat causes an anxious and sunken face.

Collapse

• Dry collapse: Sudden weakness + Dryness (very little body secretions)
• Weak sweat + Weak / Small pulse that can hardly be touched.

Neonatal asphyxia

• Best remedies are Ant-t, Carb-v, Op , Laur
• Collapse and Cyanosis (Carb-v, Laur)
• Cheyne–Stokes respiration (Op)

Diarrhea

• Along with Cupr, Verat and Camph is the main remedy for severe epidemic diarrhea
• Epidemic diarrhea accompanied by Cyanotic skin + Extreme thirst + Improvement with cold.
• Diarrhea + Cold Sweat/ Body + Cyanosis
• Rice glaze diarrhea that makes the patient extremely weak (like Sec)
• Chronic debilitating watery diarrhea
• His body becomes cold and frozen and may even lead to the collapse
• Most of all, the patient's face becomes cold.
• Summer Diarrhea

Cramps / Convulsion

• Opisthotonus, tetanus
• Severe tonic spasms of the body (Typical epilepsy)
• Scattered 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)

• The patient's tongue is also loose and trembling + Mouth dryness
• Trigeminal nerve palsy = Stretching of facial muscles + Cyanosis + Pallor face

Urethritis

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

Uncommon problems

• Bronchitis, Emphysema
• 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, Mania (Stram)
• Adenoid (Bar-m, Bell, Calc, Phyt, Merc)
• Cerebral hemorrhage, Encephalitis
• Erysipelas, gangrene
• Gastritis, Hepatitis
• Impotence
• Meniere's disease

Rubrics

MIND - RAGE - foaming mouth, with

Antidote

• In the Materia Medica Pura, Hahnemann sees Camph as a kind of universal antidote to the action of drugs.
• 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 irradiation and post chemotherapy, with or without apparent clinical symptoms
• As a prevention treatment before radiation therapy or chemotherapy.