Opium


Opium symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Opium? Keynote indications and uses of Opium…


COMMON NAME:

      POPPY

Symptoms

      Want of sensation of the whole body (Anacardium, Cocc., Graphites, Kali- C., Lycopodium, Olnd., Acid phosphoricum., Phosphorus, Plb., Secale, Sepia, Stramonium)

Increased sensitiveness and activity of the muscles subject to the will and diminutions of it in the muscle not subject to the will.

PAINLESSNESS WITH ALMOST ALL AILMENTS.

Trembling of the whole body, with external coldness and starting’s of the limbs(Nux vomica)

TREMBLING OF THE LIMBS AFTER FRIGHT.

CONVULSIONS AFTER FRIGHT (Ign). (N)

WANT OF SENSITIVENESS TO EXTERNAL IMPRESSIONS reverse of Belladonna, Coffea, Nux-v.) AND MEDICINES, WITH A WANT OF REACTION OF THE VITAL POWER (Laur., Psorinum, sulph.)

Renewal and AGGRAVATION of the symptoms from getting heated.

State of stupor (An., Baptisia, Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Acid phosphoricum., Stramonium)

Profound coma; the patient cannot be aroused from the stupor (Bt).

COMPLETE LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, WITH SLOW, STERTOROUS BREATHING (Arnica) (N).

Drunkenness with stupor, as if from smoke (N.).

Delirium tremens (Hyoscyamus, Stramonium) (A).

COMPLAINS O NOTHING; WANTS NOTHING (A).

Thinks she is not at home (Bryonia) (a.).

Delirious, talking, eyes wide open, face red and puffed up (N.)

Picking of bed-clothes during sleep (while awake-Belladonna, Hyoscyamus) (A.)

Full and slow pulse (Gelsemium).

Twitching of the head, arms and hands; now and then jerks, as if he flexors were over-active;l body cold; inclination to stupid sopor; motion of the body and uncovering the head ameliorates (N.).

Pupils greatly contacted, or widely dilated and insensible to light (Bt).

FACE BLOATED, DARK-RED, AND HOT; FEATURES DISTORTED (BaPT., GELS., sTRAM.) (n.).

The lower lip and jaw hangs down (Hyoscyamus, Lycopodium) (N).

Spasms of children, from approach of strangers, from nursing after fright of mother and from crying; eyes half open and up-turned (A,).

Cessation of he labour -pains, with snoring, stupor and twitchings.

Ailments from charcoal vapors, or from inhaling gas (A.).

PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS (Apis.,, Belladonna, cupr., Lycopodium), WITH DROWSINESS OR COMA BETWEEN THE PAROXYSMS (Br.).

Very often indicated in states of diarrhoea, especially where the patient is suffering greatly with abdominal cramp and sharp, shooting na twisting pains in the whole belly area (Coloc., Dioscorea, Magnesia phos., Nux vomica, Veratrum).

Involuntary stools (Sulphur) (A).

Sleepy but cannot sleep (Belladonna,); her bed feels so hot that she can hardly lie on it (Sulphur) (N).

Unrefreshing, soporous sleep, with eyes half-open (Lycopodium) (N.).

Sleeplessness, with acuteness of hearing;clocking striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keeps he awake (N.).

Paralysis of the lungs (Ant-T., Lachesis, Lycopodium).

SNORING DURING INSPIRATION AND EXPIRATION (Arnica) (N.).

Loss of breath on falling asleep 9Grindelia, Lachesis) (A(>)).

HEAVY-STUPID SLEEP, wITH STERTOROUS BREATHING, rED FACE, EYES HALF- CLOSED. BLOOD-SHOT, AND SKIN COVERED WITH HOT SWEAT (A.)

LEAD-POISONOUS VERY FAVORABLY AFFECTED BY ITS USE (Alumina, Colic., Nux vomica, Sepia, Veratrum).

CONSTIPATION ( Bryonia, Mag-M., Plb., Sepia, sil., Thuj).

Hard tympany (Carb-v., Lycopodium, Terebintha) (B).

Acute and serious effects from colicky pains in the abdomen.

Lead colic (Alumina, Coloc., Veratrum) (Bt.)

PASSES NOTHING BUT HEAD, BLACK BALLS FROM THE BOWELS (pLB.) (N).

FAECAL VOMITING (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bryonia, Colchicum, Cuprum, Nux-v., Plb., sulph., Thuja).

INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTIONS (Plb).

Peristaltic motion reversed or paralyzed; bowels seemed closed (Plb). (A.).

Constipation, from inaction or paresis of the rectum. (A.).

Faeces protrude and recede (Silicea, Thuja) (A).

Sexual desire increased (canth., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Platina, Sulphur).

Frequent erections and pollutions (Cantharis, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (C).

Impotency (Agn., Caladium, Con, Lycopodium) (K).

Erections during sleep (Aster., Fluor-Ac., Merc-C., Natrum carbonicum, Nux- V., Rhododendron), with impotence when wake (K.).

Suppressed menses from fright (Aconite) (Br.).

Threatened abortion and suppression of lochia from fright, with stupor (Br.).

APOPLEXY, WITH STERTOROUS BREATHING (Arnica) (G).

Sudden retrocession of acute eruptions (Ant-T., Apis, bry., Cuprum, Zincum met.) (Bt).

Dry, tickling cough, relieved by a drink of water (Causticum) (D).

Dry, spasmodic, nightly cough, preventing sleep (Conium, Hyoscyamus, Pulsatilla) (Bt).

Spasmodic, dry, titillating cough, especially tormenting at night, with scanty expectoration (Bt.).

Body burning even when bathed in sweat (N.).

Colic, with great pressure downwards upon the rectum and bladder, without any passing off the faeces gas or urine (Ra.).

Child makes no water, with full bladder, and has no stool; from nursing after the nurse had a furious fit of passion (N.).

DISTENTION OF THE BLADDER, BUT NO POWER TO EXPEL THE URINE AND A CATHETER HAS TO BE USED (Caust) (N).

RETENTION OF URINE, AFTER CONFINEMENT (Arnica, Arsenicum, bell., Cantharis, Causticum, Equiset, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Secale, Sepia, Stann., Staphysagria, Stramonium) (A).

THE CHILD WITH A WRINKLED SKIN, LOOKS LIKE A DRIED UP OLD MAN (Argentum nitricum) (A).

Marasmus of children (Abrotanum, Natrum muriaticum, Sanicula) (A.)

AGGRAVATION:

      During and after sleep (Apis., lach); while perspiring; from warmth; from stimulants; from spirituous liquors; from fear; from furious fit of passion; and at night.

AMELIORATION:

      From cold;from constant walking; and from open air.

RELATIONSHIP:

      ANTIDOTES for poisonous doses; Strong coffee, Ipecac., Nux vomica, Kali-Per., and constant motion.

When symptoms correspond, the potencies may antidote bad affects of Opium-drugging.

Compare; Ant-T., Apis., Arnica, Belladonna, Bryonia,Cantharis, Digitalis, Ferr-p., gels., Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Lachesis, Nux-M., Nux vomica, Sanguinaria, Stramonium, Verat-V and Zincum met.

COMPLEMENTS:Alumina, Bar-C., Bryonia, Phosphorus, and Plb.

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)