Camphora

1 . Scrofulous children are most sensitive to this remedy : blonde type.

2 . Great praecordial anxiety and restlessness.

3 . Sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces ; hippocratic face, husky voice, etc., even after surgical operations.

4 . Body surface cold yet patient does not feel cold and cannot bear covering (with less suddenness, Secale ).

5 . Initial stages of cholera , colds, etc., before discharges are established.

6 . Colic, cramps and convulsions with mental anguish.

7 . Pains disappear when thinking of them (rev. Calc. phos ., etc.).

8 . Sudden retrocession of eruptions or suppression of discharges.

9 . Antidotes most vegetable poisons including tobacco, mushrooms, etc.

10 . Complaints > open air ; profuse sweat.

Notes. Best administered as Rubini's tincture on sugar :

Keynote : Collapse.

Advisable to keep this drug away from all others owing to its antidotal action.