Mono-bromide of Camphor (CAMPHORA MONO-BROMATA)
excitability is present. He has given it chiefly in single doses of 3x trituration. In a case reported
which were induced by the sight of physical deformity, the touch of a cold, clammy hand, and
the mention of odours, the actual presence of which did not affect him, complete relief was
symptoms: Directions appeared to be reversed; north seemed south, and east seemed west;
innumerable black flies seemed to be flitting over the field of vision; he was sleepless; and when
he did sleep it was restless and vexed with ghastly dreams. (Camph. has visions of spirits in
sleep.) The reversal of directions lasted many days, and the strain on the faculty of attention was
conditions relieved by it: Hysteria, weeping and laughter alternately. Headache in women and
of testes and prostate. Impotence. Spermatorrhcea.
Anxiety with fretfulness——Great anguish and discouragement.—A fraid of his own
Dizziness, as if from intoxication, esp. on walking.—Giddiness, with heaviness of the
head and vanishing of the senses.—Vertigo, and heaviness of the head, which obliges the patient
to incline the head backwards.—Headache, as if the brain were bruised, or sore from a
wound.—Dull headache above the os frontis, with inclination to vomit.—Constrictive headache,
esp. in the occiput and above the root of the nose, greatly aggravated by stooping, by lying down,
or by the touch, and disappearing when the attention is directed to the pain.—Incisive shocks in
the head on lying down.—Pulsative headache at night, with shootings in the forehead and heat of
sunstroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head
(to the side or backward), < from movement or in the cold air; > when lying down, or when
thinking of it.—Spasms, which draw the head on one side.
Inflammation of the eyes.—Red spots on the eyelids.—Trembling of the
objects.—Photophobia.—Everything appears too bright and brilliant.
Heat and redness of the ears, esp. in the lobes.—Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with
deep redness and pressive shooting pain.
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.—Foam at the mouth.—Cold sweat on face, upper lip everted.
Breath fetid in the morning.—Foam at the mouth.—Abundant accumulation of a
viscid and slimy saliva.
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 < if even a soft
little crust of bread touches the affected tooth; < from drinking coffee or spirituous liquors; >
after drinking beer or cold water; but < from water kept in mouth; > by coition.
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 ——Burning heat in the throat, extending
thirst.
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.—Cutting colic at night—Belly-ache as if diarrhoea
would follow.—Drawing pain, as from a 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, 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 cesophagus and stomach.—Diarrheea: with colicky pain, esp. when caused by cold;
attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength—Involuntary diarrhoea —Blackish
feeces.
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.—Hzematuria—Burning pain during the
emission of urine.—Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.
Sexual orgasm.—Erethism of sexual system.—Labour-like
pains.—Menses too profuse; or absent.
Inceased desire.—Erethism.—Attacks of violent priapism during
of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude —Strangury from
stricture.
Voice husky; weak; mucus in air passages, not removed by hacking;
high and squeaky.—Constriction of larynx, feeling as if throat tied —Cutting, cold feeling deep in
windpipe; causes a slight cough.—Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea. Breathing: anxious;
oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow; snoring; almost completely arrested.—Asthma, < from
chest followed by cold breath.—Fatiguing, hacking, dry cough—Every inspiration starts the
cough.
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.—Cramps in the chest—Shootings in the chest.
Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, esp. after a
meal.—Anxiety at heart—Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when
lying on 1. side, > when turning on r. side.
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.—Coldness in small of back and loins; inner
coldness < by walking a few steps.—Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.
Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the
arms.—Convulsive movement of the arms, which describe circles.—Pressure and acute drawing
open, distorted; thumb drawn back.
Pains, as from a 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; with icy coldness.—Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the
nails, on walking.
24. Generalities—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 —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, 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 sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch.—Erysipelatous
inflammations.—Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body.—Dryness of the skin.
Strong desire to sleep in the day.—Coma, 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.
Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold.—Cold 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, esp.
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.
Camphora Bromata.
Monobromide of Camphor; a compound in which one atom of hydrogen of the camphor
has been replaced by one of bromine. C10 His Br O. Trituration.
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
others. He notes that it acts much more powerfully on carnivorous animals than on herbivora.
Second trituration.
atica; rheumatic pains. Pains in the hip, thigh and knee. Burning
pains in the feet. Pains in the lower limbs ; drawing, siiching and
tearing. Paralysis of the limbs, upper and lower. Perspiration of the
hands and feet. The perspiration of the feet is cold and offensive.
Stiffness of the arms. Stretching out the lower limbs aggravates the
pain. Rheumatic swelling of the knees and legs. (Edematous swelling,
of the feet and legs. Tingling in the fingers, as if asleep. Trembling
of the hands and of the lower limbs. Ulcers on the legs. Burning,
Sleep restless. Dreams anxious and frightful. Sleepiness in the
thoughts. This remedy has cured many cases of chronic intermittent
fever with evening chill. Chill beginning in the feet. Shaking chill.
Fever evening and night. Evening fever intermingled with chilliness
followed by fever, but no sweat follows fever, with pain in lower limbs,
There are numerous skin symptoms, as might be expected from a
study of Sulphur and Calcarea. Burning and itching. Desquamation.
Cracked skin. The skin is cracked after washing in winter, especially of the hands, like we find in salt rheum. Liver spots ; pale skin
and yellow skin, even to marked c^scs of jaundice. Dryness of the
skin. The eruptions are boils, burning moist or dry eczema, herpetic
pustules, scabby scaly Nxsicles. Itching, burning eruptions. This remedy
ameliorated by scratching. Sensitive skin. Ulceration of the skin.
Wounds heal slowly. Unhealthy skin. Ulcers bleed, burn ; arc scaly,
crusty and deep.
The camphor bottle is a great mischief in the bouse, as camphor
antidotes most of our remedies. Camphor in potentized form will
cure many complaints. It is suitable in some acute complaints attended with nervous excitement, even to frenzy, with spasms and convulsions and finally exhaustion, 'fhe Camphor state is one of convulsions or coldness. In the most acute period of the Camphor excitement, the excitability and frenzy of the patient are extreme, or
he goes into the other extreme, in which the irritability is lost and
there is loss of sensation, unconsciousness and coldness. The two
extremes may be seen in one patient, one earlier and the other later.
He may go from the extreme of mental excitement and violence to
one of prostration and exhaustion, in which the body is blue and cold
and yet must Be uncovered. In the mental state there is anxiety and
extreme fear ; fear of persons, of strange spheres, of the dark ; the
dark is filled with imaginary spectres ; he dare not get out of bed in
the dark ; everything that moves is a spectre and the inanimate things
of the room become alive and terrify him. Frenzy. Coupled with this,
there is kidney and urinary trouble, like that of Cantharis, and because
of this similarity, the two remedies are both complementary and antidotal to each other. If a woman has poisoned herself with Cantharis,
and there is present the frenzy and excitement, Camphor will act as an
antidote.
The details of the mental symptoms are worthy of much consideration. The patient goes into a state not unlike imbecility, and the appearance is as if it had come on slowly. The mind and memory arc
gone. He closes the eyes, seemingly asleep, and answers no questions.
Delirious with the heat, rage and mania, wants to jump out of bed or
out of the window. Screams and calls for help. Tosses anxiously in
bed. Anxiety and almost loss of consciousness. These symptoms will
indicate Camphor in pucrpeial fever, in congestion of the brain, or in
shock from violent inflammation of organs. Confusion comes from
the shock and comes with violence. The more violently the patient
suffers, the sooner he is cold, and when he is cold, he must uncover
even in a cold room. This is somewhat like Secale, In Seealc the patient, when cold, wants to uncover and to be in a cold room, and it
also has frenzy, and so there is nothing in what we have yet seem to distinguish Secale from Camph. But there is another thing that runs
through Camph., by which a distinction can be made. The coldness,
frenzy and heat very often intermingle. When the Camphor patient
is becoming cold, he has spells of heat which come over him ; flashes
of heat intermingle with rending, tearing, burning pains, either in the
inflamed organ or along the nerves. The patient is a most troublesome patient to nurse ; nobody and nothing suits. If an inflammation
of the bladder comes on, there is intense pain and tenderness, and from
the shock of the suffering the mind is in a state of frenzy. Coldness
then comes on and the patient wants to be uncovered, wants cold air,
wants the windows open, but before all this can be done, a flash of
heat comes on and then he wants the covers on, and the register turned
on, and wants a hot iron and hot hottles ; but this stage now passes erff,
and while the nurse is bringing the hot irons he wants her to open the
windows and have everything cool. You will see at once that these are
serious cases. This occurs with opisthotonos, convulsions, inflammation of the brain, liver, kidney, bladder, coming on from violent shock
and cold with great exhaustion. You will see this in one who has
worked for hours for his life, and when the excitement is over reaction
sets in and it is like a whirlwind ; he has worked until he is exhausted
and now he is prostrated, cold and blue ; here is the sphere w^here the
old woman with her Camphor bottle has established a reputation, but
potentized Camphor will do more for him than the Camphor bottle,
it will put him into a refreshing sleep.
It is useful in the climacteric period with flushes of heat and sweat
in a warm room ; the limbs and abdomen are very cold and she suffers
from cold when uncovered and sweats copiously when covered. She
cannot endure covering to warm her limbs though she suffers from
cold.
The head is full of pain ; throbbing pain. Contractive feeling as if
laced together in the cerebellum. The whole back of the head and
neck throb like hammers ; worse from bending head forward ; burning
and stinging. Frontal headaches.
We have heard about Camphor in cholera, which is a disease that
brings the patient down quickly. The face is cold, blue and shrivelled,
without much sweat, in the cases that would make one think of Camphor. There is not much discharge from the bowels, not much vomiting and not much sweat ; but suddenly he becomes cold, blue and collapsed, as it were paralyzed and goes* into a stupor.
Convulsions with frothing at the mouth. Blue lips, lock-jaw, tetanus.
Cold sweat on the face with vomiting. Erysipelatous appearance of
face.
There is a desire to drink without thirst. There is also insatiable)
thirst ; he is not satisfied with incredible quantities of cold water. Cannot get it cold enough, and cannot get enough, but he soon vomits it up.
The gastric irritation is marked. Everything is vomited. The
tongue is blue and cold and the breath is cold. Everything coming out
of the body is cold. The air as it leaves the chest feels like that from
a cellar, like Carbo v, and Verat, The tongue is cold and trembling.
Such states are found in cholera. All through the cold stage there is
burning. The inside of the body seems to bum, or there is a sense
of internal smarting like a rawness or a sence of burning without heat.
The pain in the stomach in gastritis is so violent that the anguish
on the face is equal to that in Arsenic ; a deathly anguish is felt in his
stomach and he feels that he must die. Burning, rending, tearing pain
in the stomach with retching and vomiting. Cramps in stomach and
bowels and spreading to other parts of the body until there are convulsions and opisthotonos. Anguish at the pit of the stomach drives
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him to despair- Heat in the stomach. Cold feeling in the stomach.
Abdomen is full of colic and burning. Cold feeling in the abdomen.
Cholera stools ; rice water discharges, with anxiety, restlessness,
spasms of the muscles, cramps of the chest, prostration, increasing
coldness and blueness ; wants to be uncovered and he is going into
collapse. The old Camphor, Cuprum and Veratrum still hold together
for Asiatic cholera. In Camphor there is prostration, blueness, coldness and yet he wants to be uncovered and the body is cold and dry.
The other two remedies have all there is in cholera, but in Cuprum
there is not so much coldness, more cramping, more convulsive tendency
and not so much prostration. The more cramping there is the more it
is Cuprum, The more copious the discharge from the bowels and the
more profuse the vomiting and sweat, the more we would think of
Veratrum, Cold and dry — Camphor. Cold and copious discharge —
Veratrum,
After taking cold there is cutting, with involuntary discharge of
dark brown faeces like coffee grounds. Tenesmus. At times the
cholera patient, with the coldness and blueness, is retching and straining to vomit and suffering with horrible tenesmus to get rid of a
little stool and has convulsions here and there. These bowels symptoms gradually increase until there is no ability to strain at stool, a
paralytic condition. Rectum seems contracted and painful.
The same state arises in the bladder as in the rectum, and there is retention with horrible torture. The patient sits on the commode and
strains to pass the urine, but there is a paralytic condition of the bladder.
The urine is red, bloody, and comes by drops like Canth, Tenesmus
of the neck of the bladder.
Camphor increases the sexual erethism to an unbearable degree.
In some cases from large doses this is seen in the extreme, and in
other cases the reverse takes place. It has both sexual erethism and
impotency in its provings. I once knew a French woman who had
ait insane desire to keep her boys always at home with her, and she
thought she could accomplish this if she could only keep them away
from the girls ; and to destroy their sexual desire she kept a bag of
camphor under their pillows. All of them were made impotent. But
in some provers it establishes sexual erethism. It has this like Canth,
Camphor produces a coryza, with a profuse discharge from the nose
and from the air passages, from the nose to the bronchi. Bronchitis of
children and old people. Old withered up people take cold at every
and Camph. are wonderful remedies in octogenarians. Every cold
seems threatening. Old people don't come down with cold the same as
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young people ; they are prostrated, sinking, have rattling in the chest
and the family think it is the death rattle and that it is grandpa’s last
spell. These three remedies fit the case, they are like the advanced
cases in which the hot stage is omitted. Camph. has very little heat ;
it has the sensation of heat ; but not a marked hot stage. There are
other symptoms in this medicine such as you will find in old people.
Jerking of the muscles, trembling and jerking. Spasm^ic conditions with trembling. Trembling of the tongue.
The general constitutional state of a Camphor patient is coldness
and extreme sensitiveness to cold. In acute inflammatory conditions
he is cold and wants the covers off. In acute complaints there is
violent thirst, in chronic complaints thirstlcssness. It is the same in
Arsenic, in the acute thirsty, bur in the chronic thirstlcss.
In Camphor an important thing to recall in the acute is that during
the heat and when the pains are on he wants to be covered up. The
coldness is relieved by cold, he wants more cold.
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