OPIUM



EARS.

Humming in the ears, also previous to apoplexy. Ringing in the ears.

NOSE.

Dryness of the nose, owing to suppression of the secretion of mucus.

FACE.

Sunken, pale face. Pale face and nausea, with sensation of drowsiness and diminution of all the secretions, frequently even of the exhalations from the skin. Pale face and forehead, and glassy eyes. Clay-colored, pale face and dim eyes filled with tears; he slumbers with his eyes half open, does not heed anything gives vague answers, passes stool involuntarily, settles towards the feet, and has a short anxious respiration. Bluish, clay-colored face. All the muscles of his face are relaxed. bloated face, also with hot and dry skin, white tongue, hoarseness, oppressed breathing, spitting of blood. Dark-red face. Red, bloated, swollen face. The face is cherry-brown. The veins of the face are distended. The face is entirely red, and the eyes look wild, red, and protrude from their sockets. Spasmodic movements of the facial muscles. Convulsive trembling of the facial muscles, lips, and tongue. Distortion of the mouth.

JAWS AND TEETH.

Lock-jaw. Violent pains in the lower jaw. Pain of the upper jaw. Hanging down of the lower jaw. Looseness of the teeth. Fine corrosive pain in the nerves of the tooth.

MOUTH.

Ulcers in the mouth, on the palate and tongue. White tongue. Black tongue. Profuse ptyalism. Ptyalism as if occasioned by Mercurius Suppresses the secretions from the salivary glands, the schneiderian membrane, and glands of the larynx. Dryness in the mouth, without desire for drink, with chilliness over the abdomen. Distention and strangulation in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing, and blue-red face, in daily paroxysms. Inability to swallow. Paralysis of the tongue.

PHARYNX.

Bitter mouth. Flat, almost no taste. Sour taste.

APPETITE.

Loss of appetite. Aversion to all things. Increase of appetite. Canine hunger in frequent paroxysms. Excessive hunger, with great debility.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

Eructations. Nausea. Inclination to vomit. Frequent nausea and vomiting. Violent retching. Vomiting. Haematemesis. Pain in the stomach and convulsive motions, during which she vomits. Continual vomiting. Green vomiting. Slow digestion. Sour vomiting, with stupor.

STOMACH.

Repletion of the stomach. Oppression of the stomach. Weakness of the stomach. Painful distention of the stomach. Violent pain in the stomach. Constrictive pain in the stomach, intolerable, and causing a deadly anguish. Painful distention of the pit of the stomach.

ABDOMEN.

The hypochondria feel tight, and are very painful when touched. Pain in the abdomen, as if one had taken a cathartic Colic, as from a cold. Oppression of the abdomen, and a pressing puffiness as if it would burst. Beating in the abdomen. Aching and tensive pain in the abdomen. Colic, before and after stool. Oppression and heaviness in the abdomen, as from a stone. Drawing colic. Pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines were cut to pieces. The abdomen is distended and painful. Tympanitis. Incarcerated hernia, with vomiting of faeces and urine.

STOOL.

Paralysis of the intestines. Costiveness. Retention of stool and urine. Constipation, from torpor of the intestinal canal, after chronic diarrhoea, abuse of cathartics, long confinement in bed, want of exercise. Frequent constipation of strong plethoric persons, pregnant females, and infants. Hard stool, preceded by pinching pain in the abdomen, and flatulence. Costiveness for weeks, with loss of appetite, nothing but small hard balls being passed. Papescent stool. Watery diarrhoea. Discharge of a black substance by the rectum. Liquid, frothy stools, with itching, burning in the region of the anus, and violent tenesmus. Fetid diarrhoea. Involuntary stools. Excessive pain in the rectum, with

distensive pressure.

URINE.

Suppression of urine. Retention of urine, with dry mouth and increased thirst. Weakness the contractile power of the urinary bladder. Lemon-colored urine, with a good deal of sediment. Dark- colored urine. Dark urine and dry tongue. The urine is dark-red and deposits a sediment. Haematuria. The urine has a brick-dust sediment.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS.

Erections during sleep, and impotence after walking. Excitation of the sexual instinct, erection, emission, and lascivious dreams. Slow sexual desire. Impotence.

FEBRILE GENITAL ORGANS.

Increased menstrual discharge. Excessive labor-pains in the uterus, with anxious, ineffectual urging to stool. Violent movements of the foetus. Suppression of the labor-pains. False spasmodic labor-pains.

LARYNX.

Hoarseness, with dry mouth and white tongue. Faint voice. Paroxysms of a violent dry cough. Cough during deglutition. Spitting of blood. Expectoration of a thick sanguineous mucus.

CHEST.

Quick, oppressed, anxious respiration. Accelerated, difficult respiration. Short, snoring breathing. Short attacks of anxiety, with short, oppressed breathing, and trembling of the arms and hands. Anxiety, with contraction and tightness of the chest. Constriction of the chest, as if it were rigid, with difficult respiration. Asthma, as if the would be attacked with pleurisy. Spasmodic asthma. Oppressed and difficult respiration, and anxiety about the heart. Panting, loud breathing. Loud, painful, rattling respiration. Moaning, slow respiration. Irregular, suffocative breathing. Drawing lacerating pain in the side of the chest. Burning in the heart. Tension in the infracostal region. Tensive pain below the short ribs, along the attachment of the diaphragm, during an inspiration.

BACK AND ARMS.

Drawing-lacerating in the back. Convulsive movements to and fro in the arm. Paroxysmal trembling in the arm. Paralysis of the arm. Trembling of the hands. Itching of the arms and shoulders. Distended veins of the hands.

LEGS.

The lower limb as almost insensible. Violent itching of the lower limbs. Weakness of the lower limbs. Numbness of the foot. Swelling of the foot.

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.

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