Camphora bromata
Monobromated camphor · Plant · Lauraceae
Camphora Bromata is indicated primarily in states of nervous excitability and acts as a nervous sedative. It shares properties with Camphor but with an added bromine sedating character. It suits conditions of heightened irritability, spasmodic complaints, and sexual excess with spermatorrhoea. It reportedly intensifies and makes more permanent the action of Quinine.
Key symptoms
- Nervous excitability as the chief guiding condition
- Sense of direction reversed; north seems south, east seems west
- Hysteria with weeping and laughing alternately
- Spermatorrhoea and nightly painful emissions
- Cholera infantum and infantile convulsions
- Trance-like states
- Sleeplessness with restless sleep and ghastly dreams
Mono-bromide of Camphor (CAMPHORA MONO-BROMATA)
Nervous excitability is the guiding condition. Suppression of milk. Nightly emissions. Painful erections. Paralysis agitans. Cholera infantum, and infantile convulsions. Intensifies the action of Quinine and renders it more permanent.
Mind
Directions appear reversed, i.e, north seems south, and east seems west. Hysteria; weeping and laughing alternately. Trance-like state.
Dose
Second trituration.
Monobromide of Camphor; a compound in which one atom of hydrogen of the camphor has been replaced by one of bromine. C10 H15 Br O. Trituration.
Clinical
Cholera infantum. Chordee. Direction, sense of, lost. Gastric catarrh. Hysteria. Influenza. Irritation in acute eczema. Nervous excitability. Sleep, disorders of. Spermatorrhœa.
Characteristics
Dr. Cooper has found Camph. bro. of wide utility in all cases where nervous excitability is present. He has given it chiefly in single doses of 3x trituration. In a case reported by Dr. E. M. Beard of a young man who suffered from gastric catarrh in convulsive paroxysms 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 afforded by 3 gr. doses of Camph. bro. every 3 or 4 hours. But the drug set up these singular symptoms: Directions appeared to be reversed; north seemed south, and east seemed west; innumerable black flies seemed to be …
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