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+ | ====== CODEINUM ====== | ||
+ | <span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Codeinum.</span> | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}An alkaloid of Opium. {{anchor:s3}}C18H21NO3.</span> | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s4}}Provings by E. E. Marcy and others (See Encyclopaedia, vol. 3). | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s5}}"Discovered in 1832 by Robiquet in the muriate of morphia, prepared according to the process of Gregory. {{anchor:s6}}It exists in opium, combined with meconic acid, and is extracted along with morphia in the preparation of muriate of morphia." | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s7}}The provings evolve many symptoms similar to those we find in the provings of morphia. | ||
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+ | ====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Twitching of eyelids</span>, Marcy, Hale's Therap., p. 185; <span grade2>Soreness of skin of face and scalp after neuralgia</span>, E. E. Marcy, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 414; <span grade2>Spasmodic pain in stomach</span>, Marcy, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 419; <span grade2>Diabetes</span>, Pavy, B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 818; <span grade2>Night cough of consumptives</span>, Hale's Therap., p. 185; <span grade2>Sudden twitchings during sleep</span>, E. E. Marcy, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 416; <span grade2>Disturbed sleep from frightful dreams</span>, E. E. Marcy, N. A. J. H., vol. 5, p. 416. | ||
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+ | ====== MIND. [1] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s11}}Great mental exhilaration.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Depression of spirits with dull headache.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Inability to apply the mind.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Lascivious thoughts. | ||
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+ | ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s16}}Confusion and heat of head. | ||
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+ | ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s18}}Heat in head.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Dull headache in morning, which gradually diminishes until noon, when it disappears.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Dull headache soon after getting up in morning, agg. on left side, and lasting about two hours.</span>\\ {{anchor:s21}}Headache from fatigue and excessive mental excitement. | ||
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+ | ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s23}}Weakness of vision.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}Involuntary twitching of left eyelid, sometimes amel. by rubbing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s25}}Involuntary twitching of both eyelids, whenever he attempted to read or write.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s27}}Entire loss of smell. | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Painful soreness of skin of face and scalp, which remained after a severe attack of neuralgia.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s31}}Lips dry and parched, constant inclination to moisten skin. | ||
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+ | ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s33}}Dryness of mouth. | ||
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+ | ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s35}}Tickling sensation in throat, in afternoon and evening. | ||
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+ | ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s38}}Great thirst, with a particular desire for bitter substances. | ||
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+ | ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s40}}Empty eructations, with acute pains in stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s41}}Nausea and vomiting.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s43}}Tenderness in stomach, with violent pulsations of heart and carotids.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Violent spasmodic pain at pit of stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Gastralgia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s46}}(OBS:) Neuralgia of stomach and solar plexus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Affections of stomach or abdomen, dependent on disorder of solar plexus of great sympathetic.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s49}}Extreme tenderness of lower part of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Dull pain throughout entire abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Gastric and abdominal neuralgia. | ||
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+ | ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s53}}Constipation with tenderness of bowels, especially in transverse and descending colon. | ||
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+ | ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s55}}Increased secretion of urine, it being lighter in color.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Semi-paralysis of bladder.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}She passed five pints of urine daily, specific gravity 10.40 and sugar to the extent of 32.72 grains; agg. from anxiety and overwork.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}The urine previously saccharine contained no trace of sugar.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s60}}Sexual excitement during night leading to nocturnal pollutions. | ||
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+ | ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s64}}Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. | ||
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+ | ====== COUGH. [27] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s66}}Short, irritating cough agg. during night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Troublesome cough, with copious mucous and sometimes purulent expectoration.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s68}}Obstinate cough with expectoration and nervous excitability.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Night cough of phthisical patients.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s71}}Fullness and oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Sharp pain in right lung on inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Stitching pains in left lung on breathing.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Severe pain in shoulder and chest on motion. | ||
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+ | ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s76}}Sympathetic palpitation of heart and irregular action from derangement of ganglionic system.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Violent palpitation of heart and carotids.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Painful pulsations of heart on attempting to study or write.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Drawing pain around heart, which beats loud and full. | ||
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+ | ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s81}}Convulsions in muscles of neck.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Convulsive movements of muscles of back and neck.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Neuralgic pains from occiput to back of neck.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Painful pulsations in left side of neck.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Sharp pains extending from stomach and chest through to back, between shoulders, agg. on right side.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Acute pains in region of kidneys. | ||
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+ | ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade3>{{anchor:s88}}Spasmodic twitches in arms.</span>\\ {{anchor:s89}}On moving arm, severe pain in deltoid muscles.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Pulsating pain in left upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Numbness of hands and arms. | ||
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+ | ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s93}}Sensation and power of motion impaired.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s94}}Involuntary twitchings of lower limbs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Painful, spasmodic jerking of legs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s96}}Neuralgic pains in thighs and legs, and subacute rheumatic pains in knee and ankle joints.</span>\\ {{anchor:s97}}Sudden pain in knee joints, making walking impossible for a few minutes.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Paralytic affections of lower extremities, with extreme restlessness, constant desire to change position, and inability to sleep. | ||
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+ | ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s100}}Spasmodic twitching of upper and lower extremities. | ||
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+ | ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s104}}Motion: severe pain in shoulder and chest.\\ {{anchor:s105}}On moving arm: severe pain in deltoid muscles. | ||
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+ | ====== NERVES. [36] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s107}}Extreme restlessness.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s108}}Trembling of whole body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Morbid sensitiveness of surface in nervous and hysterical females.</span>\\ {{anchor:s110}}Frequent paroxysms of involuntary twitchings of muscles of all parts of body, indigestion and various manifestations of morbid excitability of nervous system in consequence of chronic ovaritis and suppressed menses.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Chorea; sleep constantly disturbed; unusual tendency to involuntary twitching of muscles of different parts of body. | ||
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+ | ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s113}}Sleepiness, drowsy feeling.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Sudden twitchings during sleep, so violent as to wake up the sleeper in affright.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s115}}~</span> <span grade3>Chorea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Disturbed sleep from frightful dreams, causing patients to wake in morning exhausted and unrefreshed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Sleep constantly disturbed by severe night cough.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s118}}~</span> <span grade3>Phthisis.</span> | ||
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+ | ====== TIME. [38] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s120}}In morning: dull headache, which gradually diminishes until noon, when it disappears; dull headache soon after getting up, agg. on left side, and lasting about two hours; awakes exhausted and unrefreshed on account of disturbed sleep.\\ {{anchor:s121}}In afternoon: tickling in throat.\\ {{anchor:s122}}In evening: tickling in throat.\\ {{anchor:s123}}During night: sexual excitement leading to nocturnal pollutions; short, irritating cough worse.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Night cough of phthisical patients. | ||
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+ | ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s126}}Sudden: pain in knee joints; twitchings during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Spasmodic: twitching of left eyelid; twitches in arms; jerking of legs; twitching of upper and lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Frequent: paroxysms of involuntary twitching of muscles of all parts of body.\\ {{anchor:s129}}For a few minutes: walking impossible on account of sudden pain in knee joints.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Constant: inclination to moisten skin; desire to change position; disturbance of sleep from chorea; disturbance of sleep by night cough.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Lasting about two hours: dull headache agg. on left side, soon after getting up in morning.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Dull headache in morning, which gradually diminishes until noon, when it disappears. | ||
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+ | ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s134}}Right: sharp pain in lung on inspiration; sharp pains from stomach and chest through to back, between shoulders, agg. on side.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Left: dull headache agg. on side; involuntary twitching of eyelid; stitching pains in lung on breathing; painful pulsations in side of neck; pulsating pain in upper arm. | ||
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+ | ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s137}}Pains: in stomach; in shoulder and chest; in deltoid muscles; in knee joints.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Stitching pains: in left lung on breathing.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Painful spasmodic jerking: of legs.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Drawing pains: around heart.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Painful soreness: of skin of face and scalp, after neuralgia.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Sharp pain: in right lung on inspiration; from stomach and chest through to back, between shoulders, agg. on right side.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Acute pains: in region of kidneys; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Neuralgic pains: from occiput to back of neck; in thighs and legs; of stomach and solar plexus.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Subacute rheumatic pains: in knee and ankle joints.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Spasmodic pain: at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Pulsating pain: in left upper arm.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Painful pulsations: of heart on attempting to study or write; in left side of neck.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Prickling: of skin.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Dull pain: throughout entire abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Dull: headache.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Fullness: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Itching: of skin over whole body; of eczema and porrigo.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Tenderness: in stomach; of bowels, especially in transverse and descending colon.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Tickling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Numbness: of hands and arms.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Dryness: of lips; of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Heat: of head. | ||
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+ | ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s161}}Sensation of general warmth with itching of skin, over whole body. | ||
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+ | ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s165}}Rubbing: involuntary twitching of left eyelid, sometimes amel. by. | ||
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+ | ====== SKIN. [46] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s167}}Itching of skin over whole body.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Troublesome itching of eczema and porrigo.</span>\\ {{anchor:s169}}Prickling of skin. | ||
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+ | ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== | ||
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+ | {{anchor:s171}}Woman, aet. 68; diabetes. | ||
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+ | ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== | ||
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+ | <span grade2>{{anchor:s173}}Codeineum</span> cured gastralgia, which had withstood all other remedies, <span grade2>Bellad.</span> included.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s174}}Codeinum</span> relieved cough and sleeplessness in phthisical patients after failure of <span grade2>Hyos., Ipecac.</span> and <span grade2>Conium.</span>\\ {{anchor:s175}}Compare: <span grade2>Agar.</span> (twitching of eyelids); <span grade2>Arsen.</span> (pains in legs and nightly restlessness); <span grade2>Hyos.</span> (twitching of eyelids after reading); <span grade2>Laches.</span> (superficial sensitiveness); <span grade2>Rhus tox.</span> (chorea, nightly restlessness, pains in legs); <span grade2>Sulphur</span> (spasmodic twitching of legs); <span grade2>Sulph. ac.</span> (trembling of whole body). | ||
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+ | ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== | ||
+ | ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 | | ||
+ | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r581|Codeinum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r581|Codeinum]] | | ||
+ | ^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. | | ||
+ | ^ Year: | 1884 | | ||
+ | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | | ||
+ | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |} | ||