MORPHINUM MURIATICUMLiquid

Morphinum muriaticum, the hydrochlorate salt of the alkaloid Morphia derived from Opium, represents the deeply acting, narcotic and hypnotic side of Opium, akin to how Atropine reflects the neuro-active properties. Compared to crude Opium, it is less stimulating and convulsant but far more sedative, depressant, and pruritic in action. It profoundly affects the central nervous system and sensorium, producing mental confusion, dulled perceptions, and diminished reflex activity. Morphinum muriaticum is particularly indicated in states of nervous collapse, insomnia with restless agitation, intense pain sensitivity, and conditions involving neurogenic dysfunction of the gastrointestinal and urinary systems.

Common Name

English: Hydrochlorate of Morphia

SBL’s Morphinum muriaticum can be helpful in the following conditions:

Mental Depression & Hyperaesthesia

• Aids in profound mental depression, discouragement, and melancholic delirium.
• Morphinum muriaticum helps manage restlessness, hyperesthesia, and twitching from extreme pain sensitivity.
• Supports cases of shock from fear, dream-like confusion, and neuralgias.
• Aids in violent, sudden neuralgic pains—especially left supraorbital and right intercostal—better from heat.
• Helps in jerking, trembling, and spontaneous limb movements from nervous exhaustion.
• Manages hysterical, irritable, fault-finding mental states with sleeplessness.
• Supports intense sensitivity where bed feels too hard; aids in general sore, bruised sensations.
• Aids in staggering gait, general numbness, and trembling due to nervous system derangement.

Paroxymal Dyspnea & Weakness

• Helps manage paroxysmal dyspnea, especially on falling asleep; supports diaphragmatic weakness and Cheyne-Stokes breathing.
• Aids in dry, hard, teasing cough—worse at night and exhausting in nature.
• Supports the expulsion of thick, sticky sputum with a sensation of suffocation.
• Manages tightness and soreness in the middle of the chest with faintness and struggling for breath.
• Aids in cough with viscid mucus that sounds abundant but is scanty in amount.

Cardiac Exhaustion

• Supports alternating tachycardia and bradycardia, with general cardiac exhaustion.
• Morphinum muriaticum aids in conditions where the pulse is small, weak, and dicrotic.
• Helps maintain cardiac muscle tone even under extreme stress or weakness.

Gastrointestinal Distress

• Aids in persistent, deathly nausea with faintness and vomiting—especially of green fluid.
• Helps manage vomiting triggered by rising or movement.
• Supports abdominal distention, tympanitis, and pain radiating along the spinal axis.
• Aids in constipation with large, knotty stools that bruise and fissure the rectum.
• Helps in violent, watery, brown or black diarrhea with painful tenesmus.
• Supports loss of appetite with aversion to meat and constant thirst.

Paresis of Bladder

• Aids in paresis of the bladder with slow, difficult urination and retention.
• Helps manage strangury, urinary retention due to prostatic hypertrophy.
• Supports conditions of uremia—both acute and chronic.
• Aids in impotency and neuralgia in the right spermatic cord.

Headache and Senses Disturbances

• Supports bursting headaches with sensation of being "wound-up"; head drawn back.
• Aids in vertigo on the slightest movement; itching of eyes and nose.
• Helps manage bluish, drooping eyelids (ptosis), unsteady gaze, and unequal pupil contraction.
• Aids in paresis of ocular muscles and strabismus with starting, visual illusions.
• Helps in throbbing pain in the left ear and auditory sensitivity—hearing one’s own circulation.
• Manages sneezing fits with tingling at the tip of the nose.

Difficulty Swallowing

• Aids in dry, constricted throat making swallowing difficult—better from hot drinks.
• Supports management of dry mouth and brownish-violet coating on the tongue.
• Helps in cases of thirst with overall dryness of the mouth, tongue, paralyzed pharynx and aversion to solids.

Backache & Muscular Weakness

• Aids in pain along the spine, especially the lumbo-sacral region. Beds feels too hard.
• Helps manage muscular weakness preventing upright posture.
• Supports soreness and aching in the loins, knees, and legs with alternating movement.
• Aids in numbness, staggering gait, and loss of motor control.

Skin Irritability & Disturbed Sleep

• Helps manage pruritus, livid skin discoloration, and zoster-like eruptions.
• Supports skin conditions like urticaria, especially during climactic changes.
• Aids in disturbed sleep with frequent startings, prolonged drowsiness, and insomnia.
• Supports inability to sleep despite overwhelming drowsiness.

Fever With Chills

• Aids in alternating chills and burning heat with profuse sweating.
• Helps in general malaise with coldness rising from the spine.
• Morphinum muriaticum supports deep fatigue, sore sensation throughout the body, and a bruised feeling.