Opium

van E. B. Nash — Leaders in Typhoid Fever

Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

REMEDIES FOLLOWING THE FIRST OR PRODROMAL STAGE OF TYPHOID FEVER

OPIUM AND NUX MOSCHATA

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 half-open eyes; face dark red and bloated; stertorous breathing; involuntary stools and retained urine. This state may alternate with wild delirium with loud talking, laughing or singing and attempts to escape, but the leading indications are those pertaining to the stupid state. On account of this alternation of stupor and wild delirium it may sometimes be difficult to choose between Opium and Hyoscyamus, which has the same, but close comparison will generally decide.

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