CAMPHORA- a snapshot

  • Physically and mentally weak and irritable
  • Very sensitive to cold air (HEP, CIST CAN, KALI MUR, PSO)
  • Algidity, can’t get warm
  • Desire to kill someone while walking on street
  • Strips himself and tries to jump out of window
  • Despair, suicidal
  • Crying in squeaky hoarse voice
  • Causation
    • Shock of injury
    • Vexation
    • Sunstroke
  • Pains > thinking (HELLEBORUS) (opp CAL PHOS, HELON, OXALIC ACID)
  • Shock from injury
    • Cold body, blue lips, lividity and profound prostration
  • Cold flabby tongue
  • Entire body painfully sensitive to touch
  • Erysipelas
  • In exanthematous fevers eruptions do not appear, cause severe prostration and cold body
  • Icy cold body, yet cannot bear to be covered (SEC COR)
  • Fearful, raving,
    • Extreme fear of night
    • Of dark
    • Can’t bear to be alone
  • Convulsions with unconsciousness. cataleptic rigidity
  • Insensibility
  • Agg < when half asleep > suddenly attending complaint, > warmth
  • Catarrh
    • Influenza
    • Old age
    • Feeling of coryza but no discharge
    • Fluent coryza, headache
    • Throbbing occiput
    • Sudden change of weather bring complaint
  • Oppression of chest from arsenic or copper fumes
  • Retained yellowish and offensive urine
  • Burning
                mouth
    • Stomach
    • Abdomen
  • Mucus in air passage with danger of suffocation
  • Cramps in legs with icy coldness of limbs
  • Affections of
    • Back of foot
    • Patella
  • Burning throat
  • A dose of OPIUM enhances action of CAMPH, and it acts powerfully again.
  • After surgery with low BP low temp, give 1x 3 gutt, every 15 min