Other names and synonyms
camph.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Camphor. с10 H16 O. N. O. Lauraceae. A gum obtained from Laurus camphora. Solution in rectified spirit.
Nosology
Angina pectoris. вed-sores. сholera Asiatica. сhordee. сold. сonvulsions. Epilepsy. Eruptions, suppressed. Erysipelas. Gonorrhoea. 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.
Typical features
Chill; cramp; convulsion with mental anguish -these give an idea of the essential action of сamphor. It causes retreat from the circumference to the centre; and its chief remedial action is in correcting just such conditions-cold, collapse, 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 body. In all kinds of sudden internal pains arising from chill, or other causes, сamphor in rapidly repeated doses will be very likely to prove сurative. In these conditions it is often prescribed on broad indications and given in the lower potencies, but those whose knowledge of сamphor is confined to its coarser actions will never understand what a great remedy it is when used according to its fine symptomatic indications and given in the higher potencies. сamph. produces tetanic spasms, with showing of teeth by drawing up the mouth corners (like Nux and Phytolacca, but the deathly coldness of сamph. distinguishes it from both). сamph. has internal heat and external coldness. In the collapse of cholera it corresponds rather to the initial chill before either vomiting or diarrhoea. The collapse of сarbo v. is rather the result of alvine discharges. The tongue is cold. If he can speak, the voice is either high pitched or husky. The cramps of сamph. are less pronounced than in сupr.; but cramps with icy coldness of limbs is characteristic of сamph. The coldness of сamph. resembles that of Verat., but with the latter the discharges are copious, and сamph. has marked nausea, and the expression of nausea, upper lip drawn up. In some epidemics, сamph. given early has alone cured a large majority of the cases treated, and that whether given in drop doses of the tincture or in the 30th. Salzer (On сholera, p. 68) says the cases calling for it are those in which arterial spasm, with difficult breathing (spasm of pulmonary arteries), coldness and lividity are the leading features. In its actions on the genito-urinary sphere сamph. approaches сanth. in intensity, and is one of the antidotes to the latter. Strangury and priapism are among its effects. сamph. is indicated in many conditions of sudden collapse from overpowering influences acting on the nervous centres. For example, sunstroke: vitality ebbing away; fainting spells growing worse; body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat. Some characteristics are: Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition, and disappear when thinking of them. Afraid of his own thoughts; wants to be diverted from thoughts of himself. Fears to be left alone. Memory lost. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air; which.
Dif. diagnostics
Camph. has very important antidotal relations. It is antidoted by: Op., Sp. nit. dulc., Dulc., and Phos. It antidotes: Am. c., сanth., сarb. v., сup., Lyc, Squil., Nat. m., so-called worm-medicines, 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. Tea, coffee, and lemonade, as a rule, do not interfere, but sometimes coffee when lying down, or when thinking of it. Spasms, which draw the head on one side.
Head, face, and ears
Inflammation of the eyes. Red spots on the eyelids. Trembling of the eyelids. Staring, wild look. Eyes sunken. Eyes haggard, and turned convulsively upwards. - сontraction of the pupils. Obscuration of the sight. Visions of strange objects. Photophobia. Everything appears too bright and brilliant.
Heat and redness of the ears, especially in the lobes. Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain.
Dry coryza. - сoryza fluent or dry. Sneezing, beginning of coryza. - сatarrhal 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.
Face deadly pale; or deep red. Icy-cold, livid, pale face. Erysipelas in the face. - сonvulsive distortion of the features. - сonvulsive clenching of the jaws. Hippocratic face. Foam at the mouth. - сold sweat on face, upper lip everted.
Heat and redness of the ears, especially in the lobes. Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain.
Dry coryza. - сoryza fluent or dry. Sneezing, beginning of coryza. - сatarrhal 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.
Face deadly pale; or deep red. Icy-cold, livid, pale face. Erysipelas in the face. - сonvulsive distortion of the features. - сonvulsive clenching of the jaws. Hippocratic face. Foam at the mouth. - сold sweat on face, upper lip everted.
Mouth and throat
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 after drinking beer or cold water; but 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. - вurning heat in the throat, extending from the palate to the stomach. More decided relish for all food, and especially for broth. - вitter taste of tobacco and of food, especially of meat. Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke. Excessive thirst.
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. - вurning heat in the throat, extending from the palate to the stomach. More decided relish for all food, and especially for broth. - вitter taste of tobacco and of food, especially of meat. Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke. Excessive thirst.
Gastrointestinal tract
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. - сutting colic at night. - вelly-ache as if diarrhoea would follow. Drawing pain, as from a bruise, on the entire of right 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 oesophagus and stomach. Diarrhoea: with colicky pain, especially when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength. Involuntary diarrhoea. - вlackish faeces.
Cramps in the abdomen. - сutting colic at night. - вelly-ache as if diarrhoea would follow. Drawing pain, as from a bruise, on the entire of right 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 oesophagus and stomach. Diarrhoea: with colicky pain, especially when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength. Involuntary diarrhoea. - вlackish faeces.
Urogenital system
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. Haematuria. - вurning 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 left 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.
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 left 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.
Chest organs
Voice husky; weak; mucus in air passages, not removed by hacking; high and squeaky. - сonstriction of larynx, feeling as if throat tied. - сutting, cold feeling deep in windpipe; causes a slight cough. Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea. вreathing: anxious; oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow; snoring; almost completely arrested. Asthma,.
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. - сramps in the chest. Shootings in the chest.
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. - сramps in the chest. Shootings in the chest.
Cardiovascular system
Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, especially after a meal. Anxiety at heart. Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when lying on left side, when turning on right side.
Limbs and spine
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. - сoldness in small of back and loins; inner coldness.
Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the arms. - сonvulsive 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.
Pains, as from a bruise, in the thighs and in the knees. Great weakness of the legs. - сramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep. - сramps in the calves of the legs; with icy coldness. Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, on walking.
Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the arms. - сonvulsive 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.
Pains, as from a bruise, in the thighs and in the knees. Great weakness of the legs. - сramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep. - сramps in the calves of the legs; with icy coldness. Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, on walking.
Common symptoms
Convulsions and cramps of different kinds. Tetanus, with loss of consciousness, and vomiting. Attacks of epilepsy, with rattling in the throat; face, red and puffed; convulsive movements of the limbs, and even of the tongue, of the eyes, and of the muscles of the face; hot and viscid perspiration on the scalp, and on the forehead; after the fit, comatose drowsiness. He falls down insensible. 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. Fainting fits. - сracking in the joints. 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. The majority of the symptoms appear during movement, or else at night, or are aggravated by cold, the open air, and contact. The symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them.
Skin
Skin sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch. Erysipelatous inflammations. Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body. Dryness of the skin.
Sleep
Strong desire to sleep in the day. - сoma, 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.
Fever
Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold. - сold 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, especially 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.
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