Camphora

by Anja Heij

 
People who need the homeopathic camphor are intensely cold and react in a very specific way to coldness. The body is cold and blue, the face and lips are pale or blue, the face looks Hippocratic (as if the person is about to die). Even the tongue and the breath are cold. Yet this person does not want to be covered! Despite his coldness and his great sensitivity to cold, this person desires cold air and an open window. The coldness is altenated with times of fever. Now during fever the Camphora patient wants to be covered, but as soon as the coldness returns he wants to throw off the blankets and experience cold air again.