CAMPHORA

Source indications

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

  • Angina pectoris
  • Bed-sores
  • Cholera Asiatica
  • Chordee
  • Cold
  • Convulsions
  • Epilepsy
  • Eruptions, suppressed
  • Erysipelas
  • Gonorrha
  • 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
  • Chill
  • Cramp
  • Convulsion with mental anguish
  • Great coldness of surface
  • Sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces
  • Feeling as if a cold wind were blowing over body
  • Sudden internal pains arising from chill
  • Tetanic spasms
  • Showing of teeth by drawing up the mouth corners
  • Internal heat and external coldness
  • Collapse of cholera
  • Tongue is cold
  • High pitched or husky voice
  • Cramps with icy coldness of limbs
  • Nausea
  • Expression of nausea, upper lip drawn up
  • Arterial spasm
  • Difficult breathing
  • Spasm of pulmonary arteries
  • Coldness and lividity
  • Strangury
  • Vitality ebbing away
  • Fainting spells growing worse
  • Body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat
  • Pains are felt during a half-conscious condition
  • Afraid of his own thoughts
  • Wants to be diverted from thoughts of himself
  • Fears to be left alone
  • Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air
  • Takes cold easily
  • Surface cold to touch, yet throws off all covering
  • Extremities cold, with cramps
  • Awkwardness
  • Spasmodic movement of head
  • Head drawn to r. side
  • Rest of body relaxed
  • Unconscious
  • Spasmodic drawing of head laterally or backwards with deathly coldness
  • Erysipelas spreading to central membranes
  • Repercussed eruptions
  • Soft parts drawn in
  • Skin painfully sensitive
  • Irritable, weakly blondes most affected
  • Scrofulous children most sensitive
  • Anxiety with fretfulness
  • Great anguish and discouragement
  • Quarrelsome and combative humour
  • Mania to dispute
  • Dulness of the senses
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Confusion of ideas
  • Delirium
  • Rage
  • Dizziness
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Vanishing of the senses
  • Vertigo
  • Headache
  • Brain were bruised
  • Sore from a wound
  • Dull headache above the os frontis
  • Inclination to vomit
  • Constrictive headache
  • Incisive shocks in the head
  • Pulsative headache at night
  • Shootings in the forehead
  • Heat of the body
  • Congestion in the head
  • Inflammation of the brain
  • Spasmodically turned head
  • Movement or in the cold air
  • Spasms
  • Draw the head on one side
  • Inflammation of the eyes
  • Red spots on the eyelids
  • Trembling of the eyelids
  • Staring, wild look
  • Eyes sunken
  • Eyes haggard
  • Eyes turned convulsively upwards
  • Contraction of the pupils
  • Obscuration of the sight
  • Visions of strange objects
  • Photophobia
  • Everything appears too bright and brilliant
  • Heat and redness of the ears
  • Abscess in the meatus auditorius
  • Deep redness
  • Pressive shooting pain
  • Dry coryza
  • Coryza fluent or dry
  • Sneezing
  • Catarrhal affections with headache
  • Sudden change of weather
  • Nose-bleed
  • Nose cold and pointed
  • Violent stitching or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip
  • Face deadly pale
  • Face deep red
  • Icy-cold, livid, pale face
  • Convulsive distortion of the features
  • Convulsive clenching of the jaws
  • Hippocratic face
  • Foam at the mouth
  • Cold sweat on face
  • Upper lip everted
  • Toothache
  • Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands
  • 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
  • Breath fetid in the morning
  • Abundant accumulation of a viscid and slimy saliva
  • Soreness in the throat on swallowing
  • Excoriation of the throat
  • Dry, scraping sensation of the palate
  • Burning heat in the throat
  • Decided relish for all food
  • Bitter taste of tobacco and of food, esp. of meat
  • Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke
  • Excessive thirst
  • Pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch
  • Almost continual eructations after dinner
  • Nausea
  • Attacks of vertigo
  • Vomiting of bile or of blood
  • Cold sweat, chiefly on the face
  • Burning and heat in the stomach
  • Pain
  • Bruise, in the epigastrium
  • Strong pressure in the epigastrium
  • Cramps in the abdomen
  • Cutting colic at night
  • Belly-ache as if diarrha would follow
  • Drawing pain
  • Bruise, on the entire of r. 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
  • Inactivity of the intestines
  • Contraction of the rectum
  • The rectum feels narrow and swollen
  • Painful during the emission of flatulence
  • Asiatic cholera
  • Cramps in calves
  • Coldness in body
  • Anguish
  • Burning in sophagus and stomach
  • Diarrha: with colicky pain, esp. when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength
  • Involuntary diarrha
  • Blackish fces
  • Retention of urine
  • Strangury
  • Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder
  • Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream
  • Urethra were contracted
  • Urine of a yellowish green, turbid, and of a mouldy smell
  • Hmaturia
  • Burning 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
  • Impotence
  • Sudden laxness of penis
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Involuntary masturbation
  • Sensation of contraction in the testes
  • Pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude
  • Sexual orgasm
  • Labour-like pains
  • Menses too profuse
  • Menses absent
  • Voice husky
  • Weak
  • Mucus in air passages
  • Cutting, cold feeling deep in windpipe
  • Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea
  • Breathing: anxious; oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow; snoring; almost completely arrested
  • Asthma
  • Hot breath
  • Cool breath
  • Cold feeling in chest
  • Fatiguing, hacking, dry cough
  • Every inspiration starts the cough
  • Suffocating oppression of the chest
  • Constriction of the larynx
  • Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs
  • Danger of suffocation
  • Shootings in the chest
  • Palpitation of the heart
  • Anxiety at heart
  • Spasmodic stitches in region of heart
  • Oppression of chest
  • Tension and stiffness of the neck
  • Heat with an inward vibration
  • Drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades
  • Pressure in small of back
  • Leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs
  • Coldness in small of back and loins
  • Inner coldness
  • Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back
  • Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades
  • Convulsive movement of the arms
  • 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
  • Bruise, in the thighs and in the knees
  • Great weakness of the legs
  • Cramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep
  • Cramps in the calves of the legs
  • Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails
  • Convulsions and cramps of different kinds
  • Tetanus
  • Attacks of epilepsy
  • 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
  • Comatose drowsiness
  • Falls down insensible
  • Diminished circulation of the blood
  • Uneasiness, relaxation, and heaviness over the whole body
  • Sinking of all strength
  • Fainting fits
  • Cracking 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
  • Paleness of the face
  • Symptoms appear during movement
  • Symptoms are aggravated by cold, the open air, and contact
  • Symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them
  • Skin sorely sensitive
  • Erysipelatous inflammations
  • Skin, bluish and cold
  • Dryness of the skin
  • Strong desire to sleep in the day
  • Coma
  • Incoherent words
  • Nocturnal sleeplessness
  • Nervous excitement
  • Snoring and tossing during sleep
  • 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
  • Excessive sensibility to fresh air
  • Tendency to take cold
  • Cold over the whole body
  • Shivering
  • Chattering of the teeth
  • Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest
  • Heat of the body
  • Redness of face, esp. in the cheeks, and in the lobe of the ear
  • General heat
  • Walking
  • Heat with distended veins
  • 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