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Opium
Papaver somniferum · OP
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Origin Plant · Papaveraceae · Simple
Habitat Opium is the gummy exudation of the unripe capsule of the poppy
ClarkePreparation Tincture.
Sources 17 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose
200X, Ø
Third to thirtieth and 200th potency. Non-Homeopathic Preparations and Uses.--Palliative only in great pain, sleeplessness, peritonitis, and to check excess secretion in diarrhoea, diabetes, etc. Opium (crude).--Official dose, 1 grain. Laudanum (tincture)-Dose, 5 to 20 drops. Extract of Opium 1/4 to 1 grain. Paregoric-Tinctura Camphora Composita. Contains in each dram 1/4 grain of Opium equal to 1/30 grain of Morphine. Dose 1/2 to 1 fluid dram for adults. For an infant 3 to 5 drops. Dover's Powder consists of Opium, Ipecac and Sulphate of Potash. It contains 10% each of Opium and Ipecac. Dose 5 to 15 grains. Morphine-1/8 to 1/4 grain. Magendie's solution-16 grains to 1 oz or 5 drops equal to 1/6 grain. Codein-1/2 to 1 grain. Apomorphia-1/20 to 1/10 grain hypodermically.

Reason for useBoericke

Hahnemann says that it is much more difficult to estimate the action of Opium than of almost any other drug. The effects of Opium as shown in the insensibility of the nervous system, the depression, drowsy stupor, painlessness, and torpor, the general sluggishness and lack of vital reaction, constitute the main indications for the drug when used homeopathically. All complaints are characterized by sopor. They are painless, and are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing. Sweaty skin. Dark, mahogany-brown face. Serous apoplexy-venous, passive congestion. Want of sensitiveness to the action of medicines. Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated. Opium lessens voluntary movements, contracts pupils, depresses higher intellectual powers, lessens self-control and power of concentration, judgment; stimulates the imagination, checks all secretions except that of the skin. Want of susceptibility to remedies even though indicated. Diseases that originate from fright.


▲ Worse heat, during and after sleep (Apis; Lach.)
▼ Better cold things, constant walking

By regionBoericke
Mind Patient wants nothing. Complete loss of consciousness; apoplectic state. Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright. …
Head Vertigo; lightness of head in old people. Dull, heavy, stupid. Delirium. Vertigo after fright. Pain in back of head; great weight there (Gels). …
Eyes Half-closed, dilated; pupils insensible, contracted. Ptosis (Gels; Caust). Staring glassy.
Stomach Vomiting, with colic and convulsions. Fecal vomiting. Incarcerated hernia. Hungry; no desire to eat.
Female Suppressed menses from fright. Cessation of labor-pains with coma between paroxysms. …
Respiratory Breathing stops on going to sleep; must be shaken to start it again (Grindelia). Hoarse. Deep snoring; rattling, stertorous breathing. …
Sleep Great drowsiness (Gels.; Nux mosch). Falls into a heavy stupid sleep. Profound coma. Loss of breath on falling asleep (Grind). Coma vigil. …
Fever Pulse full and slow. Heat extending over body. Hot perspiration. …
Skin Hot, damp, sweating, Constant desire to uncover. Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs.

Books*
Antidoted by Ipecacuanha 3, Nux Vomica 3, Aceticum Acidum 2 +30
Complementary —
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Antimonium Tartaricum, Belladonna +3
Compare Belladonna, Apis Mellifica, Gelsemium Sempervirens +57

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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