OPIUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Insensibility of nervous system
- Depression
- Drowsy stupor
- Painlessness
- Torpor
- General sluggishness
- Lack of vital reaction
- Sopor
- Painless complaints
- Heavy, stupid sleep
- Stertorous breathing
- Sweaty skin
- Dark, mahogany-brown face
- Serous apoplexy
- Venous, passive congestion
- Want of sensitiveness to medicines
- Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated
- Lessens voluntary movements
- Contracts pupils
- Depresses higher intellectual powers
- Lessens self-control
- Lessens power of concentration
- Stimulates the imagination
- Checks all secretions except that of the skin
- Want of susceptibility to remedies
- Diseases that originate from fright
- Patient wants nothing
- Complete loss of consciousness
- Apoplectic state
- Frightful fancies
- Daring, gay, bright
- Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings
- Thinks he is not at home
- Delirious talking, with wide open eyes
- Vertigo
- Lightness of head in old people
- Dull, heavy, stupid head
- Delirium
- Vertigo after fright
- Pain in back of head
- Great weight in back of head
- Bursting feeling in head
- Complete insensibility
- No mental grasp for anything
- Paralysis of brain
- Half-closed eyes
- Dilated pupils
- Insensible pupils
- Contracted pupils
- Ptosis
- Staring glassy eyes
- Red face
- Bloated face
- Swollen face
- Dark suffused face
- Hot face
- Looks intoxicated
- Looks besotted
- Spasmodic facial twitching
- Especially corners of mouth
- Veins of face distended
- Hanging down of lower jaw
- Distorted face
- Dry mouth
- Black tongue
- Paralyzed tongue
- Bloody froth in mouth
- Intense thirst
- Blubbering op lips
- Difficult articulation
- Difficult swallowing
- Vomiting
- Colic
- Convulsions
- Fecal vomiting
- Incarcerated hernia
- Hungry
- No desire to eat
- Hard abdomen
- Bloated abdomen
- Tympanitic abdomen
- Lead colic
- Urging to stool
- Discharge of hard feces
- Obstinate constipation
- No desire to go to stool
- Round, hard, black balls stool
- Feces protrude and recede
- Spasmodic retention of feces in small intestines
- Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy
- Violent pain in rectum
- Pain in rectum as if pressed asunder
- Slow to start urine
- Feeble stream urine
- Retained urine
- Involuntary urine
- Loss of power of bladder
- Loss of sensibility of bladder
- Suppressed menses from fright
- Cessation of labor-pains with coma between paroxysms
- Threatened abortion from fright
- Suppression of lochia from fright
- Sopor
- Horrible labor-like pains in uterus
- Urging to stool
- Breathing stops on going to sleep
- Hoarse
- Deep snoring
- Rattling breathing
- Stertorous breathing
- Difficult respiration
- Intermittent respiration
- Deep respiration
- Unequal respiration
- Heat in chest
- Burning about heart
- Cough
- Dyspna
- Blue face
- Bloody expectoration
- Great drowsiness
- Falls into a heavy stupid sleep
- Profound coma
- Loss of breath on falling asleep
- Coma vigil
- Picking at bedclothes
- Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep
- Distant noise keeps him awake
- Child dreams of cats
- Child dreams of dogs
- Child dreams of black forms
- Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it
- Pleasant dreams
- Fantastic dreams
- Amorous dreams
- Shaking chill
- Heat with sleep
- Heat with sweat
- Thirst only during heat
- Pulse full and slow
- Heat extending over body
- Hot perspiration
- Fever characterized by stupor
- Fever characterized by snoring respiration
- Fever characterized by twitching of limbs
- Fever characterized by intense thirst
- Fever characterized by sleepiness
- General low temperature with inclination to stupor
- Opisthotonos
- Swollen veins of neck
- Painless paralysis
- Twitching of limbs
- Numbness
- Jerks as if flexors were overacting
- Convulsions
- Convulsions worse from glare of light
- Coldness of limbs
- Hot skin
- Damp skin
- Sweating skin
- Constant desire to uncover
- Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs
- Worse from heat
- Worse during sleep
- Worse after sleep
- Better from cold things
- Better from constant walking