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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 by heavy, 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

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3rd to 30th and 200th

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Ipecacuanha →Nux Vomica →Passiflora Incarnata →

🔄 Compare With

Apis Mellifica →Belladonna →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Nux Moschata →Codeinum →Morphinum →Eschscholtzia Californica →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Opium is listed in 364 rubrics across 20 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 107 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nervous System55 Mind46 Abdomen45 Urinary System28 Head26 Respiratory System26 Fever25 Generalities18 Female Sexual System17 Stomach14 Eyes13 Face13 Circulatory System10 Locomotor System8 Modalities8 Skin4 Mouth3 Tongue3 Teeth1 Ears1

See all 364 rubrics for Opium →