25/06/2017
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Dr. Nash in his book"Leaders in Homeopathic Therapeutics" says that O***m is one of the worst absued, because frequently used, remedies of all schols of medicine. The true
homeopath does not abuse it, but many mambers of the school calling themselves homeopathic do. A teacher in one of the homeopathic colleges defended its use in narcotic does in may cases to produce sleep and relief from pain. Dr. Nash says tht"I will say jut here that any homeopthic physician tht feels obliged to use O***m or its alkaloid in this way and for this purpose does not understand his business and had better study his Materia Medica, and the principles of applying it according to hahnemann, or else go over to the old school where they make no pretensions to have any law of cure. He goes on to say that the 'In the first place O***m in narcotic doses does not produce slep, but stupor, and it only relieves pain by rendering the patient unconscious to it. How many cases have been so masked by such treatment, tht the disease progressed until there was no chance for cure ? Pain, fever and ll other symptoms are the voice of disease, telling where is the trouble and guiding us to the remedy. The true curative often relieves pain even more quickly than O***m, and does so by curing the conditon upon which it depends. And even in cases where it does not so quickly stop the pain, it is often far better to suffer awhile until the curative can get in its work. Probably ninety-nine in a hundred of those suffering from the terrible habit of morphine eating re first led into it by physicians who prescribe morphine to "relieve pain and procure rest and sleep." And when we take into this account the abuse of stihulants, under the name of tonics, habitually prescribed by the same class of physicians it is no wonder that they are often heard to say, I don't know whether I have done more good or harm..'
Dr. Hahnemann in his Materia Medica Pura describes, "O***m has since been employed by the Allopathic Doctors as the supposed chief remedy against all kinds of coughs, diarrhoeas, vomiting, sleeplessness, melancholy, spasms and nervous ailments - and more especially against all kinds of pains without distinction.But all these innumerable affections are not contained in the primary action of o***m, but just the opposite e.g. example in cases of diarrhoea it constipate the bowels byut it bcomes all the worse subsequently due to secondary counteraction. ,in sleeplessness it causes drowsiness in the primary action but subsequently he will still more sleepless than before due to secondary counteraction) Hence we can easily understand how far from permanent, how far from beneficial must be the result of such an employment of this drug in the majority of diseases of body and mind! And daily experience teaches this.
Homeopathically , O***m is employed in our daily practice in the following ailments:-
Polyneuropathy - Stroke- Constipation - the Unconscious state.- (Cerebro-vascular accidents).
Typical Subjects::- Especially adaptaed to children and old people, disease of first and second childhood(Baryta Carb., Mill.,), persons with light hair, lax muscles, and want of bodily irritablity. Want of susceptability to remedies, lack of vital reaction, the well chosen remedy makes no impression (Carbo v., Laur., Val.) Ailments with insensiblity and partial or complete paralysis, that originate from fright; bad effects of the fear still remaining (Acon.; Hyos;), from charcoal v***rs, from inhaling gas , of drunkards.
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Points & features;-
Stupor & Painless complaints:- All complaints are characterized by stupor.(drowsiness) They are painless; and are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing(noisy inspiration or snoring occuring in deep sleep or coma), Sweaty skin.
Spasms: Spasms of children, from approach of strangers; from nursing after fright of mother (Hyos. - after anger of mother, Cham., Nux); from crying; eyes half open and upturned. Screaming before or during a spasm (Apis, Hell.).
Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool. Round hard, black bowels.
Perspiration:- Hot, damp, sweating. Constant desire to uncover. Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs.
Appearance:- Eyes wide open, face red, puffed; or unconscious, eyes glassy, half-closed, face pale, deep coma; preceded by stupor.
MIND:- Patient wants nothing.Complete loss of consciousness ; apoplectic state. Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright. Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings. Thinks he is not at home. Delirious talking, with wide open eyes. Complaints brought after shock, fright, Cerebro-Vasucular Accidents like Apoplexy;Head injuries(Chronic effects- Natrum Sulph.). Dr. Blackie says tht Head injuries may call for any one of several different remedies If the patient had a bad head injury and looks dull and befuddled; , I would give Arnica every time to start with. If they are not better in 12 hours and look even more befogged, I would follow this with O***m. If O***m does not do it, and you begin to be anxious about the patient, give Hellebore. Hellebore is a rare remedy, but it is good in head injuries that are not doing well and are a bit delayed in getting rightr again.
As regards complaints as brought about after Fear, Dr. Kent states,The O***m patient, when not too stupid rouses up as if starteld, rouses up with the appearance of awful fear or anxiety. The old O***m eater is overwhelmed with anxiety and fear. If a dog jump at him suddenly, he will be thrown into convulsions, have diarrhoea, fits of some sort, and it wil be days and weeks before tht fear is gone. Complaints from fear when the fear remains, or the idea of the fear remains, or the cause of it comes before the yes. A pregnant woman is frightened and an abortion is impending, and the object of the fright continually looms up before her eyes. Epilepsy dating back to a fright and that object comes up before the eyes before the attack comes on, and the fear of fright remains. Hysterical attack; physical shock with diarrhoea and sometimes constipation; retention of urine or return of the menstrual flow as results, or it may stop the me**es for months. In these conditions ther is great fear and the object of the fear remains before the eyes.
Head:- Nervous headaches beginning in the backof the head and spreading over the whle face; worse in the morning. He feels as if his head were held down to the pillow by the intense aching pain in the base of the brain, and yet when he gets he is unable to lie down again. This is common in women; a false plethora; excitable; going though pregnancy or menstruation; headache. The patient sits up and is unable to lie down.The pain begins in the morning and is so violent that the patient cannot move, cannot wink the eye, turn the head, cannot bear the least jar or the ticking of the clock; face is mottled, purple, blue; eyes injected. It is difficult to get symptoms from her. O***m will relieve at once. But mot of the complaints are painless. Vertigo;Lightness of head in old people. . Dull, heavy, stupid. Delirium. Vertigo after fright. Pain in back of head; great weight there (Gels.) Bursting feeling. Complete insensibility; no mental grasp for anything. Paralysis of brain. VERTIGO:- Stupefying, when raising up, compelling him to lie down. Stupefaction and full confusion of head, like a v***r in brain, as from intoxication.
Face::- Bloated, dark red , hot swollen & dark .. Bluish. pale or earth colored countenance. distended blood vessels on. Looks intoxicated, besotted(Bapt.;lach.)- Relaxation of all facial muscles and drooping of lower lip. Profuse sweat on. Spasm of facial muscles, especially about mouth. Trismus.(lockjaw)Hanging down of lower jaw. Distorted.
Eyes:- Dry heat and burning in.eyes. Red, inflamed. Half open and turned upward. Upper lids hang down relaxed.(Gels.Causti.) Staring look. dilated, immobile pupils. Obscuration of vision: Paralysis of optic nerve or cataract.
Mouth:- Dry. Tongue black, paalyzed bloody froth. Intense thirst. Blubbering of lips. Difficult articulation and swallowing.
Chest: Where there is continued and steady stertorous breathing (there may be occasional stertorous breathing as for instance, coming on and lasting a little while after a convulsion--but wait and see whether that does not presently die away; if there is continuous stertorous breathing, give O***m) Respiration deep; unequal. Breathing stops on going to sleep; must be shaken to start it again (Grindelia)Hoarse. Difficult, intermittent, deep, unequal respiration. Heat in chest; burning about heart. Cough, with dyspnoa and blue face; with bloody expectoration.
Stomach:- The stomach is in a state of undue war,mth, sinking, all-gone hungry, and this is not relieved by eating. He fills the stomach full and yet the faint feeling remains. The foods sours in the stomach and is vomited. He can take no more food. He comes covered with a cold sweat, gret naustion, nausea vomiting, with colic and convulsions. F***l vomiting. Incarcerated hernia. Hungry; no desire to eat.
Abdomen:- Hard, bloated, tympanitic. Lead colic during colic, urging to stool and discharge of hard f***s.
Stool:- Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool.Round, hard ,black balls, . F***s protrude and recede(Thuj; Sil.). Spasmodic retention of f***s in small intestines. Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy. Violent pain in re**um, as if pressed asunder.
Urine:-Slow to start; feeble stream.Retained.or involuntary, after fright. Loss of power or sensibility of bladder.
Sleep:- Great drowsiness (Gels; Nux musch.). Falls into a heavy stupid sleep. Profound coma. Loss of breath on falling asleep (Grind.). Coma vigil. Picking at bedclothes. Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep. Distant noise, c***s crowing, etc, keep him awake. Child dreams of cats, dogs, black forms. Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it. Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams. Shaking chill; then heat, with sleep and sweat. Thirst only during heat.
Fever:- Absence of perspiration; heat without perspiration; very hot, sweltering perspiration; complaints concomitant to perspiration i.e.., those which may appear with perspiration. Intermittent fever where the chilliness is followed by heat, with perspiration which may be hot and sweltering; where there is no chill, but the fever is accompanied by this perspiration; patient may not feel cold all day, or may have only a little chill, and at night when in bed complain that, "the sheets feel so very hot."
Female:- Suppressed me**es from fright. Cessation of labor-pains with coma between paroxysms. Threatened abortion and suppression of lochia, from fright, with sopor. Horrible labor-like pains in uterus, with urging to stool.
Back and Extremities:- Opisthotonos. Swollen veins of neck. Painless paralysis (Oleand.)Twitching of limbs.. Numbness. Jerks as if flexors were overacting. Convulsions; worse from glare of light; coldness of limbs.
Skin:- Hot, damp, sweating, Constant desire to uncover.Hot perpiration over whole body except lower limbs.
Sensations:- Feeling of numbness in the outer part; of some kind of an obstruction in the inner parts; pains like labor pains.
Modalities:-
Worse:- During and after sleep (Apis mellifica, lachesis)
While perspiring
Warmth
Stimulants
(In Nut-shell- worse From anxiety or fear; from reproaches; with drunkards; after brandy; from spirituous liquors in general; during respiration; on rising; during sleep; after sleep; in pregnancy where the mother complains of the violent motions of the fotus. [Sensation as though a living fotus were moving in the abdomen, when there is nothing there,Croc.sat.]
Better:
Cold
Constant waling.
Relations:- Remediies following:- Acon.; Bellad, Bryon, Hyosc., Nux mosch., Nux vom.Tart., emt.,
Complementary: Alu., Bry., Phos., Plb.
Antidotes:- Acute O***m poisoning. Atropine and Black Coffee.
Chronic O***m poisoning: Ipecac; Nux; Passiflora. Berberis is useful to counteract o***m habit.
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