Opium

Face

Bluish appearance of the face; very red; bloated; distorted.

Chest

Where there is continued and steady stertorous breathing (there may be occasional stertorous breathing as for instance, coming on and lasting a little while after a convulsion--but wait and see whether that does not presently die away; if there is continued stertorous breathing, give Opium ). Respiration deep; unequal.

Stool

Obstructed evacuation; stools resemble hard, round, black balls, and are voided in succession; evacuation obstructed from indurated feces.

Sleep

Drowsiness; sleep not refreshing; deep and heavy, with stertorous respiration; with open eyes; concomitant complaints to morbid. Dreams very pleasant; amorous; fantastic.

Fever

Absence of perspiration; heat without perspiration; very hot, sweltering perspiration; complaints concomitant to perspiration i.e. , those which may appear with perspiration. Intermittent fever where the chilliness is followed by heat, with perspiration which may be hot and sweltering; where there is no chill, but the fever is accompanied by this perspiration; patient may not feel cold all day, or may have only a little chill, and at night when in bed complain that, "the sheets feel so very hot."

Sensations

Feeling of numbness in the outer part; of some kind of an obstruction in the inner parts; pains like labor pains.

Generalities

Pupils dilated--may see this after cholera infantum where the brain is threatened: hardness of hearing; hunger without desire to eat. Discharge of urine too scanty. Labor pains ceasing, labor too weak. Apoplexy with stertorous breathing; blackness of outer parts; blueness of the whole skin or cyanosis. Motion convulsive; clonic spasms, especially when the stertorous breathing lasts all the time between the spells; blue-black swelling here and there over the body.

Worse.-- From anxiety or fear; from reproaches; with drunkards; after brandy; from spirituous liquors in general; during respiration; on rising; during sleep; after sleep; in pregnancy where the mother complains of the violent motions of the foetus. (Sensation as though a living foetus were moving in the abdomen, when there is nothing there, Croc. sat .)

Remedies following:-- Acon., Bellad., Bryon., Hyosc., Nux mosch., Nux vom., Tart. emet .

Antidote

Ipec .