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Remedy Name/s: |
Common Name/s: |
Latin, Zoological, Botanical and mineralogical name/s: |
| Opium |
Poppy, Opium poppy |
Papaver somniferum |
General description and domicile:
The opium poppy is native to Asia but is cultivated all over the world today as
a garden flower and for medicinal purposes. It is an annual plant that is
well known for its flowers that are lilac in the wild but is cultivated in a
great variety of colors from white to deep red/purple.
The seed pods are scored with a sharp instrument immediately after losing the
petals and bleed a latex substance (called Opium) which is collected and dried.
This latex is used extensively (legally and illegally) to make morphine and
heroin.
Warning: Opium,
morphine and heroin are exceptionally habit forming and recreational use of
these drugs is illegal in all but very few countries.
Part used and extraction:
The latex, collected and dried
Remedy preparation:
Steeped and dissolved in alcohol to obtain mother tincture
History:
The history of this plant is very mixed. Vast numbers of souls have been
destroyed by addictions over thousands of years but morphine and codeine has
eased the pains of millions of people in health care organizations across the
globe. Codeine and morphine still plays a vital role in conventional medicine
today but it is also true that heroin addiction is one of our biggest social
problems.
Opium was proved by Hahnemann.
How to use these pages:
What follows below is a profile of the homeopathic remedy. This profile must
be compared with the profile of the person to be treated in great detail before
treatment can be commenced. See
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Remedy profile:
Opium people can either be hyperactive and exhilarated or dreamy,
confused and sleepy or they could be both.
When ill they feel faint, sleepy and lethargic. They may be sensitive to
criticism but seem to not feel physical pain at all, suffering in a silent
stupor. They are sleepy and glassy-eyed. They may seem half asleep all the time
but actual sleep evades them.
Key Symptoms:
Droopy, Drowsy, Stupor, Elation, Not sensitive to pain, Hyperactive,
Sleeplessness.
Used for treatment of:
Insomnia (fatigued stupor but no sleep)
Constipation (lazy bowels, sluggish digestion, infrequent
compacted evacuation)
Urine retention
Cough (associated with difficulty of breathing and snoring at
night)
Injury
Shock
Convulsions (associated with delirium)
Fever (accompanied by a desire to sleep all the time)
General Symptoms Worse for:
Factors/Conditions that make the symptoms worse
Warm, hot weather
Sleep
Shock
General Symptoms Better for:
Factors/Conditions that improve symptoms
Cool fresh air
Gentle exercise
See also our Herbal page on
Opium.
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