OPIUM



Evacuation of a black matter by stool (aft. 24 h.). [LEVESQUE – BLASOURCE, l. c.]

Fluid frothy stools, with itching burning in the anus and violent tenesmus. [GRIMM, l. c.]

260. Very foetid diarrhoea. [GRIMM, l. c.]

Violent painful movements of the foetid, often remitting for hours, but recurring in still greater intensity. [D’OUTERPONT, l. c.]

The uterus as soft. (In the original – “The utherus was so soft that the movements of the child”- see previous symptom – “could be felt externally.” This was coincident with a general paralysed state.)

Horrible labour-like pains in the uterus, which compelled her to bend the abdomen double, with anxious, almost ineffectual urging to stool (aft. ¼ h.).

Horrible pressing-asunder pain in the rectum (between 4 and 6 h.).

265. Lemon-coloured urine, with much sediment. [GRIMM, l. c.]

Dark coloured urine. [RIEDLIN, Lin. Medorrhinum, ann. Iv, þDecemb., obs. 16. (Observation.)]

Dark urine and dry tongue (in himself). [YOUNG, l. c.]

Very dark red urine, which deposits a sediment. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]

Haematuria. [HECQUET, l. c.]

270. Very scanty, very red urine, without cloudiness. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]

The urine has a brick-coloured sediment. [CHARVET, l. c.]

Sensation when straining to pass urine as if the passage to the urethra were closed.

Involuntary interruption of the stream when urinating. [CHARVET, l. c.]

He can only pass the urine after long straining. [CHARVET, l. c.]

275. He passes little urine of very dark red colour, with cutting pains while urinating. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]

Suppresses the evacuation of urine.[MURRAY, l. c.]

Urine suppressed. [KILIAN, l. c.]

Retention of urine. [MATTHAEI, l. c. – HUNTER, l. c., p. 641.]

Opium suppresses the secretion of urine. [PITCRAINE, Diss. de Circulatione in Animalibus genitis et non genitis, L. B., § 13. (Observations.) ]

280. Retention of urine, with quite dry mouth and increased thirst. [MATTHAEI, l. c.]

Keeps back the evacuation of urine. [ETTMULLER, l. c., §§ 3. 4.]

Weakens the contractile power of the bladder. [DE HALLER, De Partib. Corp. irritab. Et sensib., sect. 2. (Not found.) ]

Opium sometimes suppresses sometimes promotes the urine. [GEOFFROY, l. c.]

Excites the urinary secretion. [WILLIS, l. c. – BERGER, l. c., § 2.]

285. Stiffness of the penis during sleep, and after waking complete impotence. [SRALPAART VAN DER WIEL, cent. ii, obs. 41. (From 3ss of solid opium.) ]

Excessive stiffness of the penis. [MOSES CHARAS, Pharm., Reg., cap. 51. (Symptoms not found.) ]

Exalted sexual desire, with erections, pollutions, and lascivious dreams. [MURRAY, l. c.]

Exaltation of the sexual desire, with erections, pollutions, and lascivious dreams. [MURRAY, l. c.]

Exaltation of the sexual desire, erections of the penis, nocturnal emissions of semen. [GEOFFROY, l. c.]

Lascivious dreams and nocturnal emissions of semen. [WEDEL, l. c., ii, 3.]

200. It excites the sexual desire. [WEDEL, l. c.]

Amorous ecstasy, erection of the penis for twenty-four hours, lascivious dreams, nocturnal seminal emmisions. [TRALLES, l. c., I, p. 131.]

Nocturnal seminal emission (the 1st n.).

At night amorous pictures of fancy, pollutions. [CH. DE HELLWICH, bresl. Sammlungen, 1702. (Not accessible).

Uncontrollable lechery. [JOH. JAC. SAAR, Reise nach dem Orient. (Statement as to use of opium by Chinese.) ]

295. In some excitation, in others diminution of the sexual desire. [SACHS VON LEWENHEIM, in Misc. Nat. Cur., ann. 2, obs. 69. (General statement.) ]

Sluggishness of the sexual desire. [RENODAEUS, Mat. Medorrhinum, lib. 1, sect. 13, cap. 2.(Statement.) ]

Is considered as emasculating and weakening the sexual desire. [WEDEL, l. c.]

Excitation of the sexual passion.

Impotence. [CHARVET, l. c.]

300. Impotence of the lame. [REINEGGS, l. c. – GARCIAS AB HORTO, hist. Aromat., cap. 4. (Observation.) ]

Cooling of the sexual desire. [REINEGGS, l. c.]

Increased menstrual flux (aft. 2 h.).

Opium left the menses regular, even in a case where the patient had swallowed for thirty years a drachm and more daily, on account of very painful and spasmodic attacks. [JUNCKER and BOHMER, l. c.]

In the warm room, after walking in the open air, stoppage of the nose like a stuffed cold. [Gn.]

305. Hoarseness. [YOUNG, l. c.]

Hoarseness, with very dry mouth and white tongue. [GRIMM, l. c.]

Extreme hoarseness. [YOUNG, l. c.]

Hoarseness, as from mucus in the windpipe.

She coughed while swallowing fluid. [DE lA CROIN, l. c.]

310. The cough becomes worse after eating.

Hollow, very dry cough (immediately after taking it); it goes off again quickly.

Attack of violent, dry cough; thereafter yawning and sudden loud cry (aft. 36 h.).

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.