MORPHINUM PURUM


MORPHINUM PURUM symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy MORPHINUM PURUM…


INTRODUCTION

The following pathogenetic effects of this substance are derived from: Pfister’s “Schweizer Zeitschrift,” II., No. 2; Wibmer’s “Medicines and Poisons;” Ronander, in Heeker’s “Till. Ann.,” 1834; Sentaerner, in Buchner’s “Tox.” p. 202; Hegmanus, in Cooper’s MedorrhinumGaz.,” 1837, No. 27; Charvet.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Convulsive twitching. Violent spasmodic concussions. Subsultus- tendinum. Restlessness and sleeplessness. Diminished sensibility. Illusion of the senses. Muscular debility. Excessive exhaustion.

SKIN.

Warm skin. Itching of the skin, and cutaneous eruptions.

SLEEP.

Disposition to sleep. Sopor. Restless sleep, which is frequently disturbed with frightful dreams. Headache after waking, margins around the eyes, general feeling of weakness and exhaustion.

FEVER.

Profuse sweat, with retention of urine. Cold sweat over the whole body. Small irregular pulse. Pulse small, intermitting. Pulse slow, large, intermitting. Imperceptible pulse. Fever, with intermittent, small, and contracted pulse.

MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Violent restlessness. Violent nervous irritation. Loss of consciousness. Stupor. Weakness of memory. Indescribable anguish. Apoplexy, loss of sense and consciousness, loss of mobility, with laborious snoring headache.

EYES.

Vertigo. Dullness of the head. Heaviness in the head. Congestion of blood to the head. Irritation of the brain. Tightness in the head. Transitory headache.

EYES.

Fullness in the orbits. Contraction or dilation of the pupils. Obscuration of sight.

EARS.

Ringing, drumming, violent roaring in the ears.

FACE

Bluish, cadaverous face.

MOUTH

Ptyalism.

APPETITE

Disagreeable taste. Bitterness in the mouth. Loss of appetite.

STOMACH

Turns of nausea and disposition to vomit. Constant retching. Continual vomiting.

ABDOMEN

Pain in the epigastric region and in the intestinal canal, with constipation, which is frequently followed by sudden diarrhoea. Colicky pains. Suppression of stool and urine.

STOOL.

Constipation. Violent diarrhoea.

URINE

Ineffectual urging to urinate. Diminished and concentrated urine. The breathing. The inspirations are rare and rattling. Violent beating of the heart and carotids.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.