Morphinum (purum)

Abdomen

Abdomen.--Distended. Acute pain in abdomen and along spinal column. Tympanitis.

Back

Back.--Pain along spine. Weakness of loins. Aching across lumbo-sacral region; cannot walk erect (Cimicif).

Description

Morphine bears the same relation to Opium as Atropine to Belladonna-i.e, represents its nervous side. It is less stimulating, less convulsant, and more decidedly hypnotic. Constipates less and affects contractility of the bladder more. It is less diaphoretic and more pruritic.

Dose

Dose.--Third to sixth trituration.

Ear

Ears.--Left ear throbs painfully; better, heat. Seems to hear circulation all over body.

Extremities

Extremities.--Staggering gait. Numbness.

Eyes

Eyes.--Bluish, drooping lids. Itching of eyes. Delusion of vision on closing eyes. Starting, injected; diverging strabismus. Pupils unequally contracted. Look unsteady. Ptosis. Paresis of recti interni.

Face

Face.--Dusky red or pallid lividity of face, lips, tongue, mouth or throat.

Fever

Fever.--Chills. Icy coldness. Burning heat; profuse sweat.

Head

Head.--Vertigo from the least movement of the head. Headache with sensation of being "wound-up". Bursting pain; head drawn back.

Heart

Heart.--Alternation of tachycardia and bradycardia. Cardiac muscular tissue is intact, even if severely exhausted. Pulse small, weak, dicrotic.

Male

Male.--Impotency. Pain in right spermatic cord, (Oxal ac).

Mind

Mind.--Profound depression. Irritable, fault-finding, hysterical. Shock induced by terror. Dream-like state.

Mouth

Mouth.--Very dry. Tongue dry, brown violet in middle. Thirst. Loss of appetite, with aversion to meat.

Nervous System

Nervous.--Restlessness and hyperethesia; trembling, twitching, jerking, convulsions. Extremely susceptible to pain. Pain causes twitching and jerking of limbs. Violent and sudden neuralgic pains and sudden fainting. Delirium, melancholic in character. Neuralgias intensely painful, left supraorbital; right intercostal, better from heat; multiple neuritis. Sore feeling all over. Bed feels too hard. Aggravation after sleep (Lach). Neuralgia after zoster (Mezer).

Nose

Nose.--Sneezing in paroxysms. Itching and tingling on end of nose.

Rectum

Rectum.--Diarrhea watery, brown, or black with horrible tenesmus. Constipation; stools large, dry knotty, with tendency to bruise and fissure.

Respiratory

Respiratory.--Faint and struggling for breath diaphragmatic paralysis; hiccough; dyspnea, paroxysmal, on first falling asleep (Lach; Grindel). Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Chest tight. Pain in middle of sternum. Dry, hard, teasing, exhausting cough, worse at night. Strangling cough, with viscid mucus sputum; thin, scanty, but sounds loose and abundant.

Skin

Skin.--Livid; purple spots; zoster-like herpes. Itching. Skin lost its elasticity. Urticaria appearing at climaxis.

Sleep

Sleep.--Yawning, drowsy; prolonged, deep sleep, Sleepless; restless sleep, with frequent startings. Sleepy, but cannot sleep.

Stomach

Stomach.--Nausea incessant and deathly, faintness, constant retching. Vomiting of green fluid. Nausea and vomiting on rising up.

Throat

Throat.--Dry and constricted. Pharynx paralyzed, swallowing almost impossible; better hot drinks, worse solids.

Urinary

Urinary.--Paresis of bladder. Strangury. Slow and difficult urination. Retention of prostatic hypertrophy. Uremia, acute and chronic.