Apomorphinum hydrochloricum

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

An alkaloid obtained from Morphia, but containing one equivalent less of water - C 17 H 17 NO 2 (Morphine is C 17 H 19 NO 3 ). Solution.

Clinical

Alcoholism / Opium habit / Pregnancy, vomiting of / Sea-sickness / Vomiting, cerebral; reflex

Characteristics

Apomorphine contains the emetic properties of Opium. It causes very rapid vomiting, most rapid when injected subcutaneously. Vomiting without previous nausea. Drowsiness. Faintness. The peculiarity of the vomiting is its suddenness, completeness, and the absence of pain or continued nausea. It has been used with success in cases of sympathetic vomiting, and from pressure of a tumour on the brain. Halbert has given Apomorph. 3x with success in a desperate case of combined alcoholism and opism. The symptoms were constant nausea; constipation; insomnia; delirious headache; extreme emaciation; pronounced hysteria.

Relations

Compare: Opium, Ipec., Ant. t., Cer. ox.

Apomorphinum hydrochloricum across the other classic books

Apomorphinum hydrochloricum appears in 5 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“A substance obtained from morphine (differing only from morphine in having one less equivalent of water). Formula NO2 . (Morphine is C17H19 Authority. J. B. Victor Victor Bourgeois, de L'Apomorphine, un nouvel émétique, monograph, Paris, 1874. Injection of three milligrammes of Apomorphine; no result. October 26, 9.20…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Alkaloid from Decomposition of Morphine by Hydrochloric Acid (APOMORPHIA) The chief power of this drug lies in the speedy and effective vomiting that it produces, which becomes a strong guiding symptom to its homeopathic use. The vomiting is preceded by nausea, lassitude and increased secretion of sweat, saliva, mucus…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ApomorpbinUUli prepared from Morphia by treatment with hydrochloric acid under pressure. CjyHijNOj.HCl. 1,11. Prevings and Poisonings. — I. Dr. J. G. Blackley, May a3th, 1869, at 9 p.m., injected i^^x of a 10 per cent. sol. under skin of I. arm, pulse being 72 and temp. 98°. ^^ During the first 2 m. no effects were…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Easy vomiting without previous nausea.”

Apomorphinum hydrochloricum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Apomorphinum hydrochloricum in 2 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

STOMACH - VOMITING
STOMACH - NAUSEA

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