CAMPHORA
Common
Name: Camphor
Mental:
Fear of solitude in the dark (Stram), at night.
Shrieking,
screaming, shouting for help (especially accompanies Convulsions).
Thinking of
complaints ameliorates.
Least provocation
causes excitability, then irritability à may go into a frenzy state.
Excitability state alternates with extreme exhaustion state.
Irritable and
dictatorial, short-tempered in their family environment.
Feels unloved by
family. Forsaken or isolated.
Sluggishness and
dullness of mind, leads to confusion and LOSS OF MEMORY.
Delirious states
with wild, obscene talking, violent gestures, bites, strikes, spits.
Physical:
COLDNESS,
CRAMPS, CONVULSIONS
Shock from injury,
infection or exposure to cold.
SUDDEN and
COMPLETE SINKING of STRENGTH.
Pneumonia or
bronchitis with collapse.
Surface is
icy cold to touch, yet cannot bear to be covered, throws off all coverings (Sec), alternating with internal
burning heat and anxiousness.
Sensitive to cold
air. Internal coldness. Sensation of a cold wind on covered parts.
Ill effects of
suppression – e.g. suppressed sexual desire (Con).
Sudden
collapse - weakness. Profound prostration. Sleep extends into a coma.
Pain > while
thinking of it.
Face has an anxious expression, is distorted, bluish and cold.
Nose cold and
pointed, skin and breath cold.
Sudden
attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea with anxiety and
restlessness.
Ailments from Stranguria, tenesm of neck of
bladder in Cystitis with burning dysuria.
Rashes from
exposure to sunlight.
Modalities:
Agg: From suppressed perspiration & discharge.
Amel: When thinking of existing complaint, warm air, drinking cold
water.
KEY NOTES:
Throbbing headache
in occiput, standing ameliorates.
Drawn upper lip,
exposing teeth.
Vomiting with cold
perspiration.
Warm bed
aggravates, with cold extremities.