Camphor. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Cinnamomum camphora, Gum camphor, Karpura, Chalk of barus.

Constituents

Evergreen tree. Height 30 meters. Berries are black. Flowers are white. Bark contains volatile compounds, safrole, and cineole (Eucalyptol). Leaves contain more carbon, and sulphur.

Therapeutics

This is analgesic, sedative, anti-pruritic, spasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, expectorant, and antiseptic medicine.

It is a respiratory stimulant, and mucus reducing medicine.

It is medicine for inhalation in respiratory congestion.

It is medicine externally for swelling, and inflammation.

It is medicine externally with vegetable oil on affected parts for cold, cough, pain, fever, inflammation, rheumatism, muscular pain, and sprain (Ricinus communis, Asafoetida, Ignatia, Sinapis).

It is medicine externally for muscle spasm.

It reduces peripheral circulation like ergot (Vasodilators-Aconitum, Belladonna, Bryonia alba, Veratrum viride). 

It is medicine for central ischemia, hypotension, and diarrhoea.

It is remedy in sleeplessness, excitement, hysteria, and anxiety state.

It is remedy for fever with extreme chill.

It is remedy for dry nose, and dry cough.

It is remedy for lethargy and excessive sleepiness (Mucus retention).

It is remedy for bronchial spasm (Inhalation).

It is remedy for cholera, vomiting, fatigue, collapse, cyanosis, and delirium.

It is remedy for impotence, and night seminal emission.

It is remedy for muscle spasm, and convulsion (Nux vomica, Phytolacca).

It is remedy for chronic kidney diseases (Thuja, Abies canadensis, Astringents).

It is remedy for chronic liver diseases.

It is remedy for cataract (Calcarea fluoricum).

It is a remedy for schizophrenia.

It is remedy for carcinoma of lungs (Tumor-Arsenic album).

It had been used as the emergency herbal medicine.

It is an insect repellent. 

It was an ingredient in gunpowder.

It had been used for embalming dead body or a person on the verge of death (Cinnamomum, Myrrha, Ricinus communis).

It had been used in vinegar to expel bad smell in rooms.

It has eucalyptus (Cineole -Ginger, Cannabis indica, Damiana) like action on inhalation.

It is a respiratory & cardiac stimulant. Camphorated alcohol is absorbed through the skin. Thus, it stimulates nerve endings.

It is an antidote in cobra poisoning, and scorpion sting (Thuja, Styrax, Ocimum can, Myrrha, Piper nigrum, Azadirecta).

It is prophylactic remedy for epidemic infection (Gelsemium, Ignatia, Nux vomica; Viscum album, Allium sativa, Asafoetida, Ricinus communis, Arsenic album, Sulphur).

It is the antidote of Manganum.

Word “karpooram” means substance that creating happiness. Kafur (Arabic) means tree of paradise. 

Dose

Dilution.

Inhalation- Only single dose (With or without Mint, Eucalyptus, Ginger, Sage, Damiana or similar volatile oil).

Externally with vegetable oil.

Internally in sugar globules.