Codeinum
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General EN
Codeinum.
An Alkaloid of Opium. C18 H21 NO3.
Clinical EN
Blepharospasm. Chorea. Cough. Diabetes. Eczema. Gastralgia. Numbness. Pruritus. Restlessness. Spasmodic twitchings. Vomiting of pregnancy.
Characteristics EN
Codein possesses many of the properties of opium, from which it is derived, but it has characters sufficiently distinctive to entitle it to a separate description. Codein seems to possess in great degree the exhilarating properties some persons experience on taking opium, though it is not without strong soporific effects as well. There are many disorders of sensation, notably troublesome itching. The characteristic here is "Itching with warmth." "Itching and heat of face and head." "A sensation of agreeable warmth" is another characteristic symptom.
Convulsive twitchings of muscles and limbs, and especially of orbital muscles, are very marked. Twitchings prevent sleep at night. Numbness and prickling. Codein has in many cases controlled diabetes.
Headache is < in morning; restlessness and cough < at night. Symptoms in general are < by motion and > by rest.
Relations EN
Compare: Opium in sickness, pains in stomach and region of solar plexus, constipation, sexual excitement. Agar. (twitching of eyelids; Ars. (pains in legs, nightly restlessness); Hyo. (twitching of eyelids after reading); Lach. (sensitiveness of surface); Rhus, Sul., Sul. ac. (trembling); Culex (vertigo on blowing nose).
Causation EN
Fatigue and excessive mental excitement = headache.
Mind EN
Great exhilaration of spirits
Depression with desire to sleep, frightful dreams and dull headache on awaking
Increased or diminished power of fixing attention or applying mind
Bewildered on waking
Confusion.
Head EN
Dizziness on blowing nose
When closing eyes objects appear to turn round
Dull headache in morning, gradually diminishes towards noon when it disappears
Dull headache soon after rising, < l. side, lasting about two hours
Dull headache with dry lips and constant desire to moisten them
Headache from fatigue and excessive mental excitement.
Eyes EN
Involuntary twitching of l. eyelid, sometimes > by rubbing
Involuntary twitching of both eyelids whenever he attempted to read or write
Pupils contracted
Sudden failure of vision
On blowing nose sparks before eyes.
Nose EN
Mucous discharge with irritation of the Schneiderian membrane.—Entire loss of smell for several days.
Mouth EN
Mouth dry.—Unable to articulate.
Throat EN
Strong pulsations in both carotids.—Tickling sensation in throat, in afternoons and evenings.
Stomach EN
Great thirst with a particular desire for bitter substances
Empty eructations with acute pains in stomach
Nausea and vomiting; sometimes preceded by an agreeable glow at epigastrium
Tenderness in stomach with violent pulsations of heart and carotids
Violent spasmodic pain at pit of stomach (solar plexus).
Stool EN
Constipation, with tenderness of bowels, esp. transverse and descending colon, and some flatulence.
Urinary Organs EN
Semi-paralysis of bladder.—Quantity of urine increased and saccharine.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Sexual excitement during the night, leading to pollutions.
Respiratory Organs EN
Tickling in larynx which causes a cough
Short, irritating cough < during night
Troublesome cough with copious mucous, and sometimes purulent, expectoration; with nervous excitability
Night cough of phthisis
On inspiration, pain in r. lung; pain below scapula; stitching pains in l. lung.
Heart EN
Uneasy feeling about heart
Fluttering and oppression with great desire to walk in open air
Painful pulsation when attempting to study or write
Violent pulsations of heart and carotids.
Neck And Back EN
Neuralgic pains from occiput to back of neck
Convulsions in muscles of back
Sharp pains extending from stomach and chest through to back, between shoulders, < on r. side.
Limbs EN
Paralytic weakness in arms and legs
Spasmodic twitches in arms and legs
Numbness of hands and feet; prickling and numb sensation in various parts of the body.
Upper Limbs EN
Pains in deltoids on moving arms
Jerking pain in arm
Pulsating pain in l. upper arm.
Lower Limbs EN
In lower limbs involuntary twitchings; spasmodic jerkings; neuralgia and rheumatic pains.—Paralytic affections with extreme restlessness.
Generalities EN
Extreme restlessness.—Trembling of whole body.—Marked sensitiveness of surface.—Choreic movements.—Symptoms are periodic, paroxysmal; at times sudden.
Skin EN
Itchy; prickling
Eczematous eruption with troublesome itching
Itching with feeling of warmth.
Sleep EN
Sleepy and drowsy
Twitchings in sleep
Cough disturbing sleep
Frightful dreams.