OPIUM uses [Op uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Blissed-out state – dream-like, peaceful, euphoric
state
Lack of reaction with insensibility and sleepiness
Hyperesthesia, overexcitement and sleeplessness
A/F
| - | Emotions - fear, FRIGHT, anger shame, sudden, joy |
| - | Receding eruptions |
| - | Suppressed discharges |
| - | Sun |
| - | Alcohol |
| - | Charcoal fumes |
| - | Lead |
| - | Drug withdrawal |
MODALITIES
| < | Heat |
| < | During and after sleep [Lach, Apis] |
| < | Receding eruptions, suppressed discharges |
| < | Fear, fright |
| < | Stimulants |
| < | Sunstroke |
| < | Alcohol |
| < | Odours |
| > | Cold things |
| > | Constant walking |
| > | Uncovering |
MIND
| - | All complaints are characterized by SOPOR. Heavy,
stupid, comatose sleep. Stupor and coma. Coma from injury, fright, apoplexy |
| - | FEARS; AFTER FRIGHT; WHICH REMAINS. (Urine and stools involuntary; after
fright. Suppression of menses, or threatened abortion and suppression of
lochia from fright) |
| - | Complaints in children FROM FRIGHT OF THE MOTHER DURING PREGNANCY |
| - | Constitutional LIARS. Tendency to lie |
| - | Blunted morals. NO CONSCIENCE |
| - | Blissful, peaceful, sensous, dreamy. Sensation of happiness, carefulness |
| - | Forgetful of sufferings. PAINLESSNESS of complaints usually painful |
| - | Excitement, great flow of ideas, vivid imagination |
| - | Impatience, irritation, nervousness |
| - | Beautiful or frightful delusions and dreams |
| - | Workaholic, carries out tasks with an extremely clear mind. Great mental
acuity |
| - | Desire to escape from reality (Anh, Cann-i) |
| - | Acute senses |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | WARM-BLOODED |
| - | Ailments of drunkards; of children and of old age with want of bodily
irritability |
| - | Marasmus, child looks like a wrinkled, dried old man |
| - | Increased sensitiveness and activity of the muscles subject to the will and
diminution of it in the muscles not subject to the will |
| - | Lessens voluntary movements, depresses higher intellectual powers, lessens
self control and power of concentration, judgement and stimulates the
imagination |
| - | LACK OF VITAL REACTION. Want of susceptibility to remedies even though
indicated. INSENSIBILITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM |
| - | PAINLESS of normally painful complaints. Complains of nothing, asks for
nothing |
| - | Internal dryness. CHECKS ALL SECRETIONS of the body, except that of skin |
| - | SWEATY SKIN. HOT PERSPIRATION over whole body, except lower limbs. Bed feels
so hot that cannot lie on it |
| - | PARALYSIS; PAINLESS [Olnd]; of brain, tongue and bowels |
| - | Complete loss of consciousness; APOPLETIC state. Involuntary and unconscious
passing of stool and urine |
| - | Head - Pain in back of head, great weight there |
| - | Injury or concussion (Arn, Cic, Hell, Nat-s) |
| - | Face - Flushed face, deep red, dark, hot, intoxicated, swollen, veins
distented |
| - | Looks dull, besotted |
| - | Hanging down of lower jaw |
| - | Eyes; staring; glassy or half open. Pupils insensible constricted |
| - | Mouth - Paralysis of tongue |
| - | Abdomen - Colic, tympanitis, post-surgical ileus (Raph) |
| - | Incarcerated, umbilical or inguinal hernia |
| - | Vomiting; in peritonitis; of faecal matter of urine |
| - | Rectum - Severe constipation, no desire for stool (Alum) |
| - | Faecal impaction with retention of stools from ileus |
| - | Receding stool |
| - | Diarrhoea from fright or joy |
| - | Constipation of newborns |
| - | Stools - ROUND HARD, BLACK BALLS |
| - | Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy |
| - | PARALYTIC ATONY OF BOWELS and BLADDER; after laparotomy |
| - | Urinary system - Retained urine or involuntary urination after fright |
| - | Retention of urine in newborns |
| - | Female genitalia - Suppressed menses, threatened abortion from fright |
| - | Cessation of labour with coma and twitchings |
| - | One of the chief remedies for foetal movements when they become excessive |
| - | Respiratory system - SNORING |
| - | SLEEP APNEA. BREATHING STOPS ON GOING TO SLEEP; must be shaken to start it
again (Lach, Grind). Wakes suddenly or has to be shaken to start again |
| - | DIFFICULT, SLOW AND INTERMITTENT RESPIRATION, as from paralysis of lungs |
| - | Unequal, rattling STERTOROUS BREATHING |
| - | C.V.S. - Pulse full and slow |
| - | C.N.S. - Spasms of children; from nursing after fright of mother; from heat |
| - | Epilepsy from approach of strangers (children); from fright |
| - | Screaming before and during spasms |
| - | Drowsiness or stupor between the spasms |
| - | Tetanic spasms, opisthotonus |
| - | Extremities - Trembling and twitching of all limbs < after fright |
| - | Sleep - NARCOLEPSY, FALLS INTO A HEAVY STUPID SLEEP. Sleepiness on reading
or concentrating |
| - | Very sleepy but cannnot sleep [Bell] |
| - | Sleeplessness from slight noises, from ACUTENESS of HEARING Cocks crowing or clocks striking at a great distance, keep him awake |
| - | Bed feels too hot |
| - | Skin - Hot perspiration |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Sleepiness |
| - | Painlessness |
| - | Stertorous, rattling breathing |
| - | Hot, sweaty skin |
| - | Paralysis; painless of bowels, brain, tongue |
| - | Constitutional liars |
| - | Insensibility of nervous system |
| - | Lack of vital reaction |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Bowel obstruction, Cerebral accident, Chronic
fatigue syndrome, Concussion, Constipation, Fecal impaction, Insomnia,
Meningitis, Narcolepsy, Seizures, Sepsis, Sleep apnoea |
| - | May be given when the system fails to respond to the indicated remedy and
then is often followed by Lachesis |
| - | Retention of urine following parturition - Dr. E. A. Farrington |
| - | If a patient has enuresis or other psychosomatic illness after discharge from a hospital, remember Opium if other selected remedies fail - Dr. Fouister |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Followed Well By: Acon, Ant-t, Bell, Bry, Hyos, Nux-m, Nux-v
Compare: Acon, Alum, Ambr, Ant-t, Apis, Apom, Arn, Ars, Bar-c, Bell,
Bov, Bry, Calc, Cann-i, Carb-v, Cham, Chel, Chic, Chloral, Cod, Coff, Colch,
Croc, Cup, Dros, Gels, Graph, Grin, Hell, Hyos, Ign, Ip, Lach, Lachn, Lauro,
Lyc, Mill, Morph, Mosch, Nat-m, Nux-v, Plb, Pso, Puls, Raph, Rhod, Rhus-t,
Sang, Sec, Sil, Stram, Sulph, Thuj, Valer, Verat, Ver-v, Zinc
Antidoted By: Arg-n, Bell, Camph, Cham, Ip, Nux-v, Sars, Sulph, Vanil,
Vinum
It Antidotes: Ant-t, Bell, Dig, Lach, Merc, Nux-v, Plb, Stram, Strych
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