Opium

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Opium in every book at once →

Keynotes

Negative, torpid states; but little pain, secretion or reaction. Paralysis; painless; of brain, tongue, bowels, lungs, etc. Tremor. Twitchings; during sleep. Convulsions. Epilepsy, in sleep. Internal dryness. Hot, head; sweat; bed seems, hunts a cold place, etc. Stupid sleep, spasms, violent chills, etc., during. .................... PLACID; says nothing ails him. Dreamy. Sluggish. Dull. Stupid. No will power. Lying. Fears; after fright. Delirium; with terror; alcoholic. Wants to go home. Carphology. Cerebral congestion; intercurrent; apoplectic. Heavy occiput. Visual hallucinations. Inactive pupils. Red, bulging, staring eyes. Dark, turgid, sweaty or hot red face or red and pale alternatly. Old look; after cholera infantum. Mouth twitches or hangs open. Cravings, without appetite. Vomiting; in peritonitis. As of a weight in abdomen. Bowels feel obstructed. Paralytic atony of bowels and bladder; after laparotomy. Hard tympany. Colic; lead. Stools of hard, black balls. Constipation. Bloody mucus oozes from open anus. Retained urine. Lively fœtal motions. Rattling, unequal breathing. Sighing. Snoring. Stertor. Tickling cough. Pneumonia. Weak heart. Crawlings here and there. General itching. Skin rough and dirty. Painless ulcers. Tired and sleepless; drunkards. SOMNOLENCY. Heavy, stupid sleep; of the aged. Full, slow pulse (Dig.). Hot, sweaty (Samb.) and drowsy; with cold limbs. Sweaty, without relief.

Worse

EMOTIONS. FEAR. Fright. Joy. Odors. ALCOHOL. Sleep. Suppressed discharges. Receding eruptions. If heated.

Better

Cold. Uncovering.

Region

MIND. SENSES. NERVES: Brain. Cerebro-spinal. Sympathetic. Lungs. Respiration. Digestive tract.

Relationships

Complementary: Alu. Bar-c. Bry. Pho. Plb. Related: Arn. Nux-m.

What the other books say about Opium

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Opium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Opium in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Opium in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Opium in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Opium — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/opium. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.