CODEINUMLiquid

Codeinum is a homoeopathic medicine derived from the alkaloid Codeine, extracted from Opium. It is primarily known for its action on the nervous system, respiratory tract, digestive system, and skin, particularly where spasms, restlessness, twitching, itching, and cough predominate. It is especially useful in spasmodic and paroxysmal conditions, and helps manage nervous excitability, tickling cough, and eczematous eruptions. The medicine is well-suited to individuals suffering from periodic or sudden neuralgic pains, gastric irritability, or mental confusion.

Common Name: Codeine
 

SBL’s Codeinum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Convulsions and Neuralgia

• Codeinum relieves neuralgic pains extending from occiput to neck.
• Aids in managing sharp pains radiating from stomach and chest through the back.
• Helps with convulsions in back muscles and localized right-sided pain.

Paralytic Weakness and Jerking

• Helps manage paralytic weakness, especially in arms and legs.
• Relieves involuntary twitches, spasmodic jerks, and numbness in extremities.
• Useful in neuralgia, rheumatic limb pain, and restlessness, particularly in lower limbs.
• Aids in relieving deltoid pain, jerking in arms, and pulsating pain in the left upper arm.

Dry Cough and Stitching Chest Pain

• Relieves tickling in the larynx, leading to short, dry, irritating cough, worse at night.
• Helps manage productive coughs with copious mucus or purulent expectoration, often with nervous sensitivity.
• Useful in night cough of phthisis (tuberculosis).
• Aids in relieving stitching chest pains, inspiratory pain, and discomfort below the scapula, especially on the right side.

Skin Eruption with Itching

• Helps in managing eczema, itchy, and prickling eruptions.
• Relieves itching with warmth, which often appears as periodic or paroxysmal episodes.

Depression and Emotional Imbalance

• Aids in managing states of mental exhilaration, alternating with depression, drowsiness, and confusion.
• Helps relieve frightful dreams, mental dullness, and difficulty in focusing.
• Useful for emotional imbalance following restlessness and sudden mental strain.
• Supports those who feel bewildered on waking or suffer from mental fatigue.

Headache & Dizziness

• Helps manage dull, left-sided headaches occurring soon after rising and subsiding by midday.
• Relieves dizziness, especially when blowing the nose, and sensation of objects spinning with eyes closed.
• Supports relief from headache caused by fatigue and excessive mental activity.

Eyes & Eyelid Twitching

• Aids in relieving involuntary eyelid twitching, especially when reading or writing.
• Helps with sudden vision failure and sparks before the eyes during nasal pressure.
• Useful in managing symptoms of pupil contraction and light sensitivity.

Irritation of Mucosa with Pulsation

• Relieves irritation of the nasal mucosa with mucous discharge.
• Helps restore lost sense of smell due to nasal inflammation.
• Manages dryness of mouth and speech difficulty due to nerve involvement.
• Supports relief from tickling sensation in the throat, particularly in the afternoon and evening.
• Helps relieve strong pulsations in carotids, often linked to gastric or cardiac symptoms.

Stomach Pain & Vomiting

• Relieves gastric tenderness, especially at the epigastrium with pulsations of heart and carotids.
• Aids in managing nausea and vomiting, particularly in pregnancy or after an initial sensation of pleasant warmth in the stomach.
• Helps alleviate spasmodic stomach pain, acute thirst, and craving for bitter substances.

Constipation

• Manages constipation associated with tenderness, especially in the transverse and descending colon.
• Supports in relieving accompanying flatulence.

Bladder Inactivity

• Aids in managing semi-paralysis of the bladder, especially when urine is increased and saccharine (suggesting a link with diabetes).
• Helps in regulating urinary function and relieving suppression symptoms.

Low Sexual Desire

• Supports in reducing night-time sexual excitement, which may lead to pollutions and restlessness.

Palpitation and Violent Carotid Pulsation

• Supports relief from palpitations, fluttering, and cardiac uneasiness, often triggering a desire to walk in open air.
• Helps manage violent heart and carotid pulsations, especially during mental exertion or stress.

Sleepiness

• Codeinum aids in reducing drowsiness, interrupted sleep, and twitches during sleep.
• Helps relieve sleeplessness due to coughing or frightful dreams, improving overall sleep quality.