Morphinum
An Alkaloid of Opium
Abdomen
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Distended. Acute pain in abdomen and along spinal column.
Back
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Pain along
Dose
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Third to sixth trituration.
Ears
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Left ear throbs painfully; better, heat. Seems to hear circulation all over body.
Extremities
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Staggering gait. Numbness.
Eyes
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Delusion of vision on closing
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Bluish, drooping lids. Itching of
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Staring, injected; diverging strabismus. Pupds unequally contracted. Look unsteady. Ptosis. Paresis of recti interni.
Face
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Dusky red or pallid lividity of face, lips, tongue, mouth or
Fever
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Chills. Icy coldness. Burning heat; profuse
Guiding symptoms
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Morphine bears the same relation to Opium as Atropine to Belladonna — i. e., represents its nervous side. It is less stimulating, less convulsant, and more decidedly hypnotic. Constipates less and aTects contractility of the bladder more. It is less diaphoretic and more pruritic.
Head
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Vertigo from the least movement of the
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Headache, with sensation of being “wound-up.” Bursting pain; head drawn
Heart
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Alternation of tachycardia and bradycardia. Cardiac muscular tissue is intact, even if severely exhausted. Pulse small, weak, dicrotic.
Male
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Impotency. Pain in right spermatic cord. [Oxal. ac.]
Mind
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Profound depression. Irritable, fault-finding, hysterical. Shock induced by terror. Dream-Uke state.
Mouth
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Very dry. Tongue dry, brown violet in middle. Thirst, Loss of appetite, with aversion to meat.
Nose
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Sneezing in paroxysms. Itching and tingling on end of
Rectum
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Diarrhoea watery, brown, or black with horrible tenesmus. Constipation ; stools large, dry, knotty, with tendency to bruise and fissure. Urinary, — Paresis of bladder. Strangury. Slow and difficult urination. Retention of prostatic hypertrophy. Urccmia, acute and chronic.
Respiratory
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Faint and struggling for breath ; diaphragmatic paralyv^- hiccough; dyspnoea, paroxysmal, on first falling asleep. [Lach.; GrindeL] Cheyne- Stokes respiration. Chest tight. Pain in middle of sternum. Dry, hard, teasing, exhausting cough, worse at night. Strangling cough, with viscid mucus sputum; thin, scanty, but sounds loose and abundant.
Skin
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Livid; purple spots; zoster-like herpes. Itching. Skin lost its elasticity. Urticaria appearing at climaxis. Nervous. — Restlessness and liyperacsthesia ; trembling, twitching, jerking, convulsions. Extremely susceptible to pain. Pain causes twitching and jerking of litnbs. Violent and sudden neuralgic pains and sudden MORPHINUM — MOSCHUS 511 fainting. Delirium, melancholic in character. Neuralgias intensely painful; left supraorbital; right intercostal, better from heat; multiple neuritis. Sore feeling all over. Bed feels too hard. Aggravation after
Sleep
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[iMch.] Neuralgia after zoster. [Me::er.]
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Yawning, drowsy; prolonged, deep
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Sleepless ; restless sleep, with frequent startings. Sleepy, but cannot
Spine
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Weakness of loins. Aching across lumbo-sacral region ; cannot walk erect. ICimicif.]
Stomach
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Nausea incessant and deathly, faintness, constant retching. Vomiting of green fluid. Nausea and vomiting on rising up.
Throat
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Dry and constricted. Pharynx paralyzed, swallowing almost impossible; better hot drinks, worse solids. 510
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.