Morphinum



Stool & Anus

Diarrhoea (the acetate generally produced diarrhoea), watery, with horrid tenesmus, straining and burning in rectum, almost causing frenzy. Constipation for a long time. Stool retained. Indolent evacuation of a little faeces with painful urging.

Urinary Organs

Paresis of bladder. Suppression of stool and urine. Ineffectual efforts. Strangury. Urine: turbid and slimy, diabetic. Albuminuria.

Male Sexual Organs

Impotency. The sexual excitement, voluptuous sensations and erections are incomplete or do not occur. Pain in genital and urinary organs, especially right spermatic cord. Diminished desire.

Female Sexual Organs

Amenorrhoea. Menses too profuse, and too early. Sterility. Sexual desire at first increased, afterwards abrogated.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness. Breathing: stertorous, difficult, slow, thoracic breathing entirely suspended. Struggling for breath.

Chest

Chest tight, breathing difficult, asked to be raised, saying she felt as if she were dying Pain in middle of sternum. Ill with an indescribable sensation, worse then any pain, behind lower half of sternum.

Heart

Palpitation. Violent throbbing in heart and carotids. Congestions of head, palpitations of heart, starts in fright if approached, touch causes cramp and twitchings. Pulse small, weak, dicrotic.

Neck and Back

Stiff-neck. Great pain in back. Pain extending along spine. Pain and twitchings all down spine. Weakness of the loins.

Limbs

Tremors, twitchings, contractions, stiffness of limbs. Violent pain in joints.

Upper Limbs

Stiffness and pain in arms after sleep. Twitchings, tremblings. Fingers numb and both thumbs firmly drawn into palms.

Lower Limbs

Gait insecure, tottering, staggering. Legs swollen. Cramps in several muscles. Wandering, sharp pains in legs and feet, numbness of legs and feet with falling on attempting to stand. Her legs were twitched up and she begged that they might be held, as she could not keep them quiet, it felt as if there were worms in them. Icy coldness of left sole as if standing on oil-cloth.

Generalities

Sudden attacks of fainting. Numb feeling all over. Restlessness. Convulsions.

Skin

Skin deathly pale. Purple spots on body. Skin lost its elasticity. Eruption like zoster, but without pain. Itching: constant, violent, all over, nose, neck, loins, inside thighs.

Sleep

Yawning. Heaviness, drowsiness. Prolonged deep sleep. Half waking, half stupid condition, with perfect ability to think of different things though at the same time busy with confused fantasies, during this slumber limbs stiff and immovable, could only he moved by very great exertion of the will. Heavy sleep with red cheeks. Sleepless. Restless sleep with frequent startings. Sleep restless with headache, fever, and itching of skin. Dreams: pleasant, frightful.

Fever

Chills and rigors. Icy coldness, general, of extremities of left sole. Heat: burning, itching, cheeks hot and flushed. Sweat: profuse, Cold, clammy, viscid, colliquative.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica