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Opium

30C / 200COpium
Dried Latex of Poppy · Papaver Somniferum · "The Painless Stupor Remedy"
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🎯 It acts as a profound depressant of the nervous system, causing stupor, painlessness, and a lack of vital reaction.
📖 Boericke writes:
Dried Latex of the Poppy
(PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM)
Hahnemann says that it is much more difficult to estimate the action of Opium than of almost any other drug. The effects of Opium as shown in the insensibility of the nervous system, the depression, drowsy stupor, painlessness, and torpor, the general sluggishness and lack of vital reaction, constitute the main indications for the drug when used homeopathically. All complaints are characterized by sopor. They are painless, and are accompanied byheavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing. Sweaty skin. Dark, mahogany-brown face. Serous apoplexy-venous, passive congestion. Want of sensitiveness to the action of medicines. Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated. Opium lessens voluntary movements, contracts pupils, depresses higher intellectual powers, lessens self-control and power of concentration, judgment; stimulates the imagination, checks all secretions except that of the skin. Want of susceptibility to remedies even though indicated. Diseases that originate from fright.
👤 Constitution
•Typically presents with a dark, mahogany-brown face, bloated features, and a state of general sluggishness or stupor.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sweaty skin.
introduction
Complete loss of consciousness; apoplectic state.
mind
Vertigo; lightness of head in old people.
head
Red, bloated, swollen, dark suffused, hot.
face
Hanging down of lower jaw.
face
Round, hard, black balls.
stool
Deep snoring; rattling, stertorous breathing.
respiratory
Hot perspiration.
fever
Twitching of limbs.
back and extremities
Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for states of deep mental dullness, delirium, or complete loss of consciousness.
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.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th and 200th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Ipecacuanha →Nux Vomica →Passiflora Incarnata →
🔄 Compare With
Apis Mellifica →Belladonna →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Nux Moschata →Codeinum →Morphinum →Eschscholtzia Californica →
📚 Sources & References

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