Opium

Generalities

Emaciation.

Tremblings, twitchings, convulsions, often with terrible pains ; with groaning, screaming and biting ; difficult, irregular respiration ; paroxysmal.

The whole body becomes rigid in paroxysms.

A feeling of humming and buzzing throughout the whole body.

Flesh becomes insensible.

Symptoms are generally < becoming heated.

Mind

Delirium, with frightful visions.

Vivid fancies, sometimes amounting to ecstacy.

Starts at the least noise or is fearful of impending death.

Becomes imbecile.

Dull, stupid ; complete insensibility, with stertorous respiration.

Head

Rush of blood to the head.

Heaviness.

Dull headache ; < moving the eyes.

Eyes

Eyes congested, with contracted pupils (rarely dilated and insensible).

Paralysis of the upper lids.

Face

Face hot, puffy, dusky red, with distended blood vessels.

Facial muscles relaxed and hanging down.

Face covered with profuse sweat.

Cramps of the muscles, especially about the mouth.

Mouth

General dryness, with inability to swallow.

Frothing at the mouth.

Paralysis of the tongue ; difficult speech.

Throat

Paralysis of the pharynx so that it is impossible to swallow.

Stomach

Aversion to all food.

Unquenchable thirst.

Ineffectual efforts to vomit.

Vomiting of food ; green, of bile, with violent pains in the stomach and convulsions.

Fecal vomiting.

Abdomen

Distention from flatulence, with cutting pains.

Intestines seem to have lost the power to expel their contents.

Colic, with spasmodic closure of anus.

Tympanitis.

Stool

Diarrhoea, with burning in the anus.

Stools involuntary.

Tenesmus, with stools.

Extreme constipation from inactivity of intestines ; feces hard and dark brown.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine from paralysis of the bladder ; urine passed only after long effort.

Urine often scanty, red.

Clinical

Suppressed menstruation from fright.

Cessation of labor pains, with coma and twitchings.

Puerperal convulsions.

Respiratory organs :

Respiration stertorous or rattling ; difficult, intermittent, suffocative.

Cough, arresting breath ; becomes blue in the face.

Cough, with frothy expectoration of bloody mucus.

Cough dry and racking, from tickling in the larynx, < night, > water.

Expectoration scanty, tenacious.

Heart and Pulse :

Pulse irregular, feeble soft, sometimes slow, with stertorous breathing.

Back and Extremities :

Drawing in the dorsal muscles and bending backward of the body.

Trembling of the limbs or numbness, with swelling of the veins.

Sleep

Irresistible sleepiness, with slow pulse, moist skin, heavy stertorous or snoring respiration.

Fever

Cold extremities and coldness of the surface of the body generally, with warmth of the head.

Dry burning heat, with glowing heat of the face.

Hot sweat over the whole body.

Febrile paroxysms characterized by stupor, snoring respiration and twitching of the limbs.

Clinical

Clearly marked type of intermittent fever is produced and cured by this drug.

Thirst is not always present.