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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 Boericke
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

Reason for useLippe

Numbness and insensibility of the body and limbs. [85] Trembling of the whole body, with external coldness and jerking and twitching in the limbs. Trembling of the limbs after fright. Convulsions, with sudden loud cries. Buzzing through the whole body. Want of sensitiveness against the effects of medicines, with want of vital reaction. [90] Increased excitability and action in the voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in the involuntary muscles. Paralysis without pain. Convulsions and spasmodic motions, with foam at the mouth. Convulsions, with sleep after the paroxysms. Rigidity of the whole body. [95] Tetanic spasms, with bending the head or back backwards. Epileptic convulsions, particularly at night or towards morning, with suffocative paroxysms.


By regionLippe
Mind And Disposition Vivid imagination, exaltation of the mind, increased courage, with stupefaction and dulness. Stupid indifference ; imbecility. …
Head Stupefying vertigo when rising, compelling one to lie down. …
Eyes The lids hang down as if paralyzed. The eyes are half open and are turned upwards. [20] The pupils are dilated and insensible to light. Staring look. …
Stomach And Abdomen Violent thirst ; aversion to food, or canine hunger without appetite. Vomiting, with violent colic and convulsions ; of green substance ; of blood.
Extremities Upper. Twitching and spasmodic movements of the arm. Paralysis of the arms. Trembling of the arms and hands.
Sleep Drowsiness, great inclination to sleep ; dreams, and cannot be roused. Coma vigil. …
Fever Pulse varies very much ; full and slow, with difficult, snoring breathing ; quick and hard with heat, with quick and anxious breathing. …
Skin Dropsical swelling of the whole body. Redness and itching of the skin. Blue spots on the skin.

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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