# Codeinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Codeine possesses many of the properties of opium, from which it is derived, but it is 
sufficiently disti nctive to entitle it to a separate description. Cod. seems to possess in great degree the 
exhilarating properties some persons experience when taking opium, though it is not without strong soporific 
effects as well. 
Disorders of sensation, notably trouble some itching. Marked sensitiveness of surface. Itching with feeling of 
warmth, numbness and prickling. Characteristic “Itching with warmth. Itching and heat of face and head. A 
sensation of agreeable warmth.” 
Trembling of whole body. Chorea. In voluntary t witching of muscles of arms and lower limbs. Convulsive 
twitchings of muscles and limbs and especially of orbital muscles, are very marked. Twitch ings prevent sleep 
at night. Numbness and prickling. 
Extreme restlessness. Symptoms are periodic, paroxysmal, at times sudden. Diabetes.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse by motion and better by rest. Headaches are worse in morning. Restlessness and cough 
worse at night.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- 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.
- Confusion of the mind.
- Depression 
with dull headache.
- Inability to apply mind.
- Lascivious thoughts.
- Bewildered on waking.
- 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.
- Confusion of the mind.
- Depression 
with dull headache.
- Inability to apply mind.
- Lascivious thoughts.
- Bewildered on waking.

### Vertigo
- Dizziness on blowing nose.
- When closing eyes objects appear to turnaround.

### Head
- Pain from occiput to back of neck.
- Skin of face and scalp sore after neuralgia.
- Dull headache in morning, 
gradually diminishes towards noon, when it disappears.
- Headache with dry lips and constant desire to moisten 
them.
- Headache from fatigue and excessive mental excitement.
- Pain from occiput to back of neck.
- Skin of face and scalp sore after neuralgia.
- Dull headache in morning, 
gradually diminishes towards noon, when it disappears.
- Headache with dry lips and constant desire to moisten 
them.
- Headache from fatigue and excessive mental excitement.

### Eyes
- Involuntary twitching of eyelid (Agar.), sometimes better by rubbing.
- Pu pils contracted.
- Sudden failure 
of vision.
- On blowing nose sparks before eyes.

### Mouth
- Mouth dry.
- Unable to articulate.
- Nose - Mucus discharge with irritation of the Schneiderian membrane.
- Entire loss of smell for several days.

### Throat
- Strong pulsations in both carotids Tickling sensation in throat in afternoons and evenings.

### Chest
- Uneasy feeling about heart.
- Flut tering and oppression, with great desire to walk in op en air.
- Violent 
pulsations of heart and carotids.
- Painful pulsation when attempting to study or write.
- Dry cough worse at night.
- Tickling in larynx and coughing.
- Short and irritating cough, worse at night.
- Copious, purulent expectoration.
- Night cough of tuberculosis.
- Troublesome cough with copious mucus and 
sometimes purulent, expectoration with nervous excitability.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Spasmodic pain at pit of stomach.
- Belchings.
- Empty belchings with acute pains in stomach.
- Nausea 
and vomiting, sometimes preceded by an agreeable glow at epigastrium.
- Violent spasmodic pain at pit of 
stomach (solar plexus).
- Great thirst with desire for bitter substances.

### Urinary & Genital
- Bladder - Semi-paralysis of bladder.
- Quantity of urine increased.
- Sugar in urine.
- Causations - Fatigue and excessive mental excitement causes headache.
- Sexual excitement during the night, leading to pollutions.

### Extremities
- 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.

### Neck & Back
- 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, worse on right side.

### Skin
- Itchy, dry and prickling.
- Eczematous eruption with troublesome itching.
- Itching with feeling of warmth.

### Sleep
- Sleepy and drowsy.
- Cough disturbing sleep.
- Twitchings in sleep.
- Frightful dreams.