Camph, Camphora Officinale
1 Core theme
Camph state contains cold body (Led) + intolerance to cover (Sec)
2 Coldness
Skin Coldness
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 (A state similar to Carb-v internal Anxiety/restlessness),
He is uncomfortable being covered. (Sec)
Camph ₳ Carb-v , Camph ₳ Sec
Very sensitive to cold: Shivering + extreme cold feeling that does not warm up at all
He is better in warm weather, but cannot tolerate the heat of the bed and 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
Coldness of the limbs (hands and feet) esp with diarrhea
Coldness of hands /feet makes him sleepy.
2.1 Cyanotic coldness
Coldness + Cyanosis + Paleness of face/lips + Shivering in epidemic diarrhea is an important diagnostic symptom.
2.2 Dry Coldness
- Cold /dry / loose / trembling tongue
- Opposite to Sec (A lot of discharge)
- Dry collapse
2.3 Cold sweat
- Cold sweat with mania (Stram) (Camph ₳ Stram)
- Cold sweat causes an anxious and sunken face.
2.4 Neonatal asphyxia
- Best remedies are Ant-t, Carb-v, Op , Laur
- Collapse and cyanosis (Carb-v, Laur)
- Cheyne–Stokes respiration
3 Collapse
- Dry collapse: sudden weakness + very little body secretions
- Weak sweat + weak and small pulse that can hardly be touched.
4 Diarrhea
- Along with Cupr and Verat, Camph is the main remedy for severe epidemic diarrhea
- Epidemic diarrhea which is 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
5 Cramps /Convulsion
Epistonus, 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
5.1 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 Repertory)
The patient's tongue is also loose and trembling + Mouth dryness
Trigeminal nerve palsy = stretching of facial muscles + cyanosis + pallor face
6 Urethritis
Pain and burning in urinary ducts when urinating
Urgency for burning + gray urine
7 Uncommon problems
- Bronchitis, emphysema
- Heartbreak ttacks + Restlessness and moaning (Stram) with tingling and discomfort in whole body
- Anxious/ Restless/ Moaning in disease
- Fear of unknown people and places, fear of the dark, ghosts, mania (Stram)
- Adenite (Bar-m, Bell, Calc, Phyt, Merc)
- Cerebral hemorrhage, encephalitis
- Red wind, gangrene
- Gastritis, hepatitis
- Impotence
- Meniere's disease