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Health Remedies - Opioid Abuse |
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Opioids (Narcotics) are pain relievers. It includes heroine, morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl. Opioid abuse occurs when the compulsive use of opioids harms a person’s health or social functioning, or when a person is addicted to or dependent on opioids. Users of opioids can develop tolerance and psychological and physical dependence on these drugs when they take them over time. The symptoms of opioid poisoning are analgesia (absence of feel of pain), euphoria, shallow breathing, small pupils, bloodshot eyes, nausea, vomiting, skin itching and flushing, constipation, slurred speech etc. Acute narcotic withdrawal causes withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, muscle aches, nasal stuffiness, runny nose etc, but it is not life threatening unless the person is medically compromised. |
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Atropa acuminata |
As a sedative and narcotic (root and leaf); gastrointestinal hypermotility, hyper-secretion, peptic ulcer, spastic constipation, spastic dysmenorrhoea, nocturnal enuresis, bronchial asthma and whooping cough (leaves); sunstroke and painful menstruation (plant); as specific antidote to opium and muscarine poisoning (berries). |
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Coffea arabica |
For heart palpitations, narcotic poisoning, sporadic fever, cough and asthma |
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Grewia tiliaefolia |
In dysentery; it is applied externally to remove irritation from cow-itch; as an
antidote to opium poisoning (wood) |
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Iris kumaonensis |
Antidote for opium addiction and for reducing fever (leaf and root); in the treatment of colic pain due to intestinal worms, hot and cold disorders of the stomach and intestines, and pain below the neck and shoulders (seeds);in tinnitus, pain in the ears and weakening of the eyesight (flowers). |
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Passiflora alata |
In atrophy of various parts, anxiety, opiate withdrawal and insomnia (leaf extract). |
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