- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Poppy. (Papaveraceae.) Especially adapted to children and old people; diseases of first and second childhood (Bar. c., Mill.), persons with light hair, lax muscles, and want of bodily irritability. Want of susceptability to remedies ; lack of vital reaction, the well chosen remedy makes no impression (Carbo v., Laur…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Papaver somniferum. Natural order , Papaveraceæ. Common names , Opium, Mohnsaft. Preparation , Tincture of the gummy exudation from the unripe capsules. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 99 , from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, 278, with critical annotations in brackets, by Dr. Hughes.)”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Dried Latex of the Poppy (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM) Hahnemann says that it is much more difficult to estimate the action of Opium than of almost any other drug. The effects of Opium as shown in the insensibility of the nervous system, the depression, drowsy stupor, painlessness, and torpor, the general sluggishness and lack…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ALIVE, sensations (Comp. Formication) BLACK, dark, etc. BLUISH, purple, livid, etc. BROWNISH, rusty, etc. CARPHOLOGY, NERVOUS PICKING, ETC. CHEST, internal DUALITY, in pieces, separated, as if some one else, etc. DUSKY COLOR EMACIATION EMOTIONS, excitement, etc. EXPRESSION, changed. FAINT, faints easily, etc…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MIND. SENSES. NERVES: Brain. Cerebro-spinal. Sympathetic. Lungs. Respiration. Digestive tract. EMOTIONS. FEAR. Fright. Joy. Odors. ALCOHOL. Sleep. Suppressed discharges. Receding eruptions. If heated. Cold. Uncovering. Negative , torpid states; but little pain, secretion or reaction. Paralysis; painless; of brain…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Papaver somniferum. Poppy. N. O. Papaveraceæ. (Opium is the gummy exudation of the unripe capsule of the poppy.) Tincture. After-pains / Apoplexy / Bladder, paralysis of / Brain, affections of / Cancer / Catalepsy / Chilblains / Colic / Constipation / Diabetes mellitus / Dreams / Dysmenia / Epilepsy / Fear, effects of…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“PAPAVERACEAE. We now proceed to study the Papaveraceae, an order of plants from which we obtain Opium, Sanguinaria Canadensis, and Chelidonium majus. As an order, they act on the circulation of the blood, tending to produce narcosis of a greater or less degree by exciting a fulness of the bloodvessels of the brain…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Mental.--Daring state of the mind; gaiety; affections of the intellect; very easy of comprehension; delirium. Face.--Bluish appearance of the face; very red; bloated; distorted. Chest.--Where there is continued and steady stertorous breathing (there may be occasional stertorous breathing as for instance, coming on and…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(The dried milky juice of the green, half-ripe heads of the Papaver somniferum, especially of the large-headed white poppy, Papaver officinale, Gm.) In recent times many chemists have given themselves unspeakable trouble to analyze opium, and to dissociate its several constituent parts; morphium (morphia), narcotin…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Poppy. Papaveraceæ. Introduced by Hahnemann. For provings and toxicological reports which are numerous, see R. A. M. L., vol. 1, p. 278, and Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 7, p. 173 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Ill effects of anger , Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 5, p. 271 ; Mental disturbance ; Idiocy , Sonnenberg, Schüler…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“OPIUM. Inspissated juice of Papaver somniferum, L., white poppy. Nat. Ord., Papaveracea. 1. Provings. — I. Hahnemann, il/^/. J/<f</. /'t/ra, vol. i of original, vol. ii of translation. Contains 144 symptoms from self and 4 fellowprovers, and 518 from authors. 2. a. Bard counted his pulse every h. for a d., and found…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Among the striking features of Opium is a class of complaints marked by painlessness, inactivity, and torpor. Many of the provers taking small doses had torpor, inability to realize or feel their surroundings, or to take in the nature of states and judge of things. Deception in vision, taste, touch; deception of the…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Trembling of the whole body with external coldness and startings of the limbs. Trembling of the limbs after fright. Want of sensation of the whole body. Increased sensitiveness and activity of the muscles subject to the will and dimunitions of it in the muscles not subject to the will. Painlessness with most all…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Vivid imagination, exaltation of the mind, increased courage, with stupefaction and dulness. Stupid indifference; imbecility. Stupefaction of the senses. Illusions and frightful fancies; visions. Loquacious delirium, with open eyes and red face; furious delirium. Mania, with frightful or pleasing, delightful visions…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: poppy. Want of sensation of the whole body (Anac., Cocc., Graph., Kali-C., Lyc., Olnd., Phos-Ac., Phos., Plb., Sec., Sep., Stram.). Increased sensitiveness and activity of the muscles subject to the will, and diminutions of it in the muscles not subject to the will. PAINLESSNESS WITH ALMOST ALL AILMENTS…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Abnormal painlessness. Want of susceptibility, trembling, lack of vital reaction. Blunted morals, worst liars in the world. Reversed peristalsis and fecal vomiting. Fright; the fear of the fright remaining. Sleepy but cannot sleep. Hears sounds not ordinarily noticed. Very hot skin with sweating; perspiration…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Insomnia. (69) Case.—Miss B., school teacher, brunette, age 26, had taught for several years, and was very nervous and worried much about her work. She asked me to give her something for insomnia. Had taken sulphonal, but feared she would get into the habit of it. She was sleepy more or less in the daytime, and in the…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“Perhaps here is as good a place as any to introduce two remedies that are especially adapted to those cases that come under the head of febris stupida, viz., Opium and Nux moschata. Opium here leads all the remedies. The stupor is complete; almost impossible to rouse him; lies speechless sometimes, with open or…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“(Papaver somniferum, the white poppy) ONE of the ancient saws of medicine has it: “Sine papaveribus et sine medicamentis ex eis confectis manta et clauda esset medicina,” which may be vernacularized, “Without poppy and its derivatives, medicine would be a wash-out.” Nothing better than Opium exemplifies the difference…”
