Opium

General

OPIUM. [Opium] Poppy. Hahnemann. Papaveraceae.

Mind

► Unconscious ; eyes glassy, half closed ; face pale ; deep coma. ► Drunkenness, with stupor, eyes burning and dry. ► Vivid imaginations, exaltation of mind. ► Imagines parts of body very large. ► Thinks she is not at home. ► Delirious talking, eyes wide open, face red, puffed up. ► Mania-a-potu ; with dulness of the senses, and at intervals sopor, with snoring ; in old, emaciated persons ; sees animals ; affrighted expression of face. ► Imbecility of will, as though annihilated. ► Nervous and irritable. ► Ailment from : excessive joy ; fright ; anger or shame. ► After fright, the fear of the fright still remaining.

Sensorium

► Great sensibility to sound, light, and the faintest odors. ► Apoplexy, with vertigo, buzzing in the ears, loss of consciousness, red, bloated, hot face ; tetanic rigidity. ► Congestion of blood to the head, with pulsations in it. ► Great heaviness of the head. ► On rising, fainting. ► Vertigo, a sort of anxiety when rising ; after typhus ; also, from injuries of head. ► Dull, stupid, as if drunk.

Inner Head

► Headache aggravated on moving the eyes. ► Chronic hydrocephalus.

Eyes

► Obscuration of sight. ► Amblyopia. ► The pupils are dilated and insensible to light. ► Contracted pupils. θ Cholera infantum. ► Sensation as if the eyes were too large for the orbits. ► Eyes glassy, protruded, immovable. ► Staring look. ► Red, half-closed eyes, dilated, immovable pupils ; eye burning, hot and dry. ► Swelling of the lower lids. ► The lids hang down, as if paralyzed.

Ears

► Acuteness of hearing ; clocks striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake. ► Congestion to ears ; hematorrhoea.

Nose

► Loss of smell. ► Stitches in the right nostril on taking a long inspiration. ► Stoppage of nose ; dry coryza.

Face

► Bloated, dark, red and hot ; red ; pale, clay-colored, sunken countenance and eyes, with red spots on the cheeks ; bluish (purple), swollen face. ► Muscles of face relaxed, lower lip hangs down. ► Trembling, twitching and spasmodic movements of facial muscles. ► Corners of the mouth twitch ; distortion of the mouth. ► The veins of the face are distended. ► The face of a suckling, three or four weeks old, was like that of an old man.

Lower Face

► The lower lip and jaw hang down. ► Foam at mouth.

Tongue, Etc

► Paralysis of tongue and difficult articulation. ► Tongue quivering, coated dirty yellow, unctuous. ► Black tongue. ► Ulcers in the mouth and on the tongue.

Mouth

► Dry. ► Ptyalism : spitting of blood. ► Saliva lessened.

Throat

► Dryness of the throat. ► Inability to swallow ; daily attacks of distention and strangulation.

Desires And Aversions

► No thirst. ► Violent thirst ; aversion to food, or canine hunger without appetite. ► Desire for spirituous liquors ; costive.

Eating And Drinking

► After wine : 1, 26. When drinking : 27.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Unsuccessful vomiturition in drunkards. ► Vomiting, first of food, then of a fecal-smelling substance ; hiccough ; great thirst, cold limbs ; distorted face ; ileus or intussusception of bowels ; incarcerated hernia. ► Vomit : green, bloody or bitter, with violent colic and convulsions ; of feces.

Stomach

► Heaviness and pressure in the stomach. ► Inactivity of the digestive organs.

Hypochondria

► Swelling of the spleen.

Abdomen

► Distended, with flatus ; anti-peristaltic motion, belching and vomiting ; bowels seem absolutely closed, but with constant urging to stool and urine ; anxiety, flying heat internally, stupefaction. ► Squeezing pains, as if something were forced through a narrow space ; shooting pains into testes and bladder ; restless, anxious, changing position ; face hot ; pulse slow ; nephralgia. ► Crampy intestinal motions ; rolling up, as of a hard body in right hypochondrium. θ Ileus. ► Colic from lead. ► Hard, bloated, tympanitic abdomen. ► Laxness of abdominal organs. ► Incarcerated umbilical and inguinal hernia ; fecal vomit.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : watery ; black, fetid ; frothy with burning in anus, tenesmus ; involuntary, offensive, thin ; involuntary, after fright. ► Cholera infantum, with stupor, snoring and convulsions. ► Asiatic cholera, typhoid symptoms or after too much camphor. ► Constipation of corpulent, good-natured women and children. ► Stool in hard, round, black balls ; costive from inactive bowels ; from spasmodic retention in small intestines with feeling of pressing asunder. ► Retention of stool, from ileus or paresis of intestines.

Urine

► Involuntary urination. ► Urine : suppressed ; drowsy, stupid ; retained, bladder full, from nursing after passion of nurse ; from contraction of sphincter or paralysis of fundus of bladder ; passes with difficulty, as from atony ; seldom and scanty, dark-brown, brick-dust sediment. ► Stream interrupted from spasm of neck of bladder ; cutting in urethra. ► Hematorrhoea.

Male Sexual Organs

► Excitement of the sexual organs and violent erections ; or impotence.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses profuse, violent colic, forcing her to bend over ; urging to stool. ► Amenorrhoea from fright ; irresistible drowsiness ; eclampsia. ► Prolapsus uteri from fright. ► Fetid discharge from uterus. θ After metritis. ► Softness of uterus.

Pregnancy

► Violent movement of the foetus. ► Abortion threatening after great fright, especially if in the latter part of pregnancy. ► During parturition : cessation of labor-pains ; coma ; retention of stool and urine ; often from fright. ► During and after labor, spasm, with loss of consciousness and drowsiness, open mouth ; coma between paroxysms. ► Suppression of lochia from fright, with sopor. ► Newborn children, pale, breathless, cord pulsates. ► Suckling of a few weeks, had not grown, but was like an old man. See 8. ► Limbs lax, skin wrinkled ; the bones of the skull had lapped over during birth, the parietals over each other, and over the occiput.

Larynx

► Hoarseness, with dry mouth and throat, and white tongue. ► Feeble voice, and requires a strong effort to talk loud. ► Laryngismus stridulus.

Breathing

► Short inspiration, long, slow expiration, epigastrium drawn in ; fine rales, constant cough, sopor, face bluish ; great anguish and dread of suffocation ; looks as if dying ; slightly better from cold air and bending forward ; worse from smoking or wine. ► Difficult intermittent breathing, as from paralysis of lungs. ► Rattling breathing ; or deep snoring breathing, with wide open mouth ; stertorous breathing. ► Suffocative attacks during sleep, like nightmare. θ Diphtheria.

Cough

► Dry, tickling, paroxysmal, worse at night ; with gaping, drowsiness, yet cannot sleep ; or, with spasm of lungs and blue face ; when drinking ; with difficult sputa followed by gaping ; sputa are frothy, containing blood and mucus. ► Cough with dyspnoea and blue face. θ Diphtheria. ► Cough, with profuse sweat on whole body. θ Diphtheria.

Lungs

► Tension and constriction of the chest. ► Heat in the chest. ► Blood thick, frothy, mixed with mucus ; great oppression ; burning about heart, tremor, feeble voice ; anxious sleep, with starts ; legs cold, chest hot ; especially for drunkards.

Heart And Pulse

► Burning about the heart. ► Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on the neck. ► Pulse : varies ; full and slow, with snoring ; quick, hard, with anxious breathing ; irregular and unequal ; imperceptible ; face purple ; in cyanosis neonatorum.

Neck And Back

► Back bent backward, spasmodically.

Upper Limbs

► Twitching and spasmodic movement of the arms and hands, as in drunkards. ► Paralysis of arms. ► Veins of hand distended.

Lower Limbs

► Twitching and spasmodic movement of legs. ► Weakness, numbness and paralysis of the legs. ► Heaviness and swelling of the feet. ► Feels as if her lower limbs were severed from her body and belonged to some one else.

Limbs In General

► Trembling of the limbs after fright. ► Spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs. ► Convulsive movements of the limbs. ► Coldness of a the extremities.

Position, Etc

► Must lie down : 1. Rising up : 2. Moving eyes : 3. Changing position : 19. Bending forward : 26.

Motion

36. Lying on back : 37.

Nerves

► Spasms : from emotion, fright, anger, etc. ; from approach of strangers (children) ; from crying. ► Throws limbs or stretches arms at right angles to body ; or, tetanic rigidity, opisthotonos with rolling laterally. ► Spasm begins with loud screams ; then foam at mouth ; trembling of limbs ; suffocation ; eyes half open and upturned, pupils large and insensible to light. ► After attack deep sleep, face remains deep red and hot ; stupor between spasms. ► Twitching, trembling of head, arms, hands ; now and then jerks of flexors ; body cold ; stupor ; motion of body and uncovering head relieves. ► Faints every fifteen minutes ; shuts eyes ; head hangs unconscious ; jerks ; sighing. ► Want of susceptibility to drugs ; want of vital reaction. ► Numbness and insensibility. ► Paralysis, insensibility after apoplexy ; also in drunkards ; old people ; retained stool and urine.

Sleep

► Heavy, stupid sleep, with red face. ► Drowsiness or sopor ; stertorous breathing ; hot sweat. ► Sleepy, but cannot go to sleep ; face bloated. ► Coma vigil. ► Stupefying sleep, with the eyes half open and snoring. ► During sleep, picking of bedclothes ; groaning ; voluptuous dreams. ► Stupid sleeplessness, with frightful visions, before midnight. ► Sleeplessness, with acuteness of hearing ; clocks striking and cocks crowing at a great distance, keep her awake.

Time

► Remission during the day and evening. ► Aggravation night and morning. ► Night : 27, 40. Before midnight : 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Bed feels so hot she can hardly led on it ; better from cold ; worse from heat. ► Very susceptible to cold air. ► Cold air : 26. Uncovering head : 36. Wants to uncover : 40.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Stiff and cold ; chill and diminished head, stupor ; weak, scarcely perceptible pulse. ► Coldness only of the limbs. ► Chill after part of night, thirst, pains in limbs, head hot, sleepy ; afterward heat, with sleep, headache, pale face, bilious vomit ; then sweat, mostly on legs, with burning hot feeling. ► Fever, whole body burning even when bathed in sweat, face red, stupor ; snoring, mouth open ; limbs twitch ; wants to uncover. ► During lucid intervals or intervals between paroxysms complains that head (or bed) is too hot. θ Typhus. ► Flushed face, cold legs, sleepy, but cannot sleep. ► Sweat over whole body, which is burning hot ; sleep and snoring. ► Hot, profuse, morning sweat, wants to be uncovered. ► Sweat on upper part of body ; lower part hot and dry. ► Cold sweat on the forehead. ► Typhoid type of fever, stupor, can scarcely be aroused ; speechless ; eyes half open ; mild delirium or loud talking, fury, singing, desire to escape ; the darker red the face the more it is indicated ; impending cerebral paralysis from profound congestion.

Attacks

► Nightly epileptic attacks ; combined with mental derangement.

Sides

► Right : 19, 42. Left : 18.

Tissues

► Plethora. ► Morbus coeruleus or cyanosis. ► Suppurations painless, also ulcers. ► Burning or sensation of coldness in the veins. ► Jerks, only the flexors active. ► Increased excitability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles. ► Dropsical swelling of the whole body.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 46.

Skin

► Dryness of the skin, without fever. ► Very troublesome itching all over, fine pricking, rarely sensitive to touch. ► Redness and itching of the skin. ► Blue spots on the skin. ► Paleness of the skin.

Stages And States

► Especially suitable for children and old persons. ► Frequently suited to persons addicted to spirituous drink.

Relationship

► Opium is often indicated in ailments from charcoal vapors. ► Opium antidotes : Bellad., Digit., Laches., Mercur., Nux vom., Strychnia, Plumbum, Stramon., Tart. emet. ► Antidotes to Opium : strong coffee, Bellad., Ipec., Nux vom., Vinum, Vanil. arom.