Materia Medica
Oleum Animal
Dippel's Animal Oil
Acts on the nervous system, especially on pneumo- gastric region. Useful in migraine and neuralgia of spermatic cord. Burning pains and stitches. pollnd,, upward' and "from behind forrward" pains.
Head
Tearing pain, with sadness and irritability; worse after dinner; relieved by rubbing. Itching, burn- ing vesicles; better, friction. Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward.
Eyes
Smarting in eyes; mist? vision.C Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation when eating. Short- sighted. Twitching of lids. [Agar.]
Nose
Watery, excoriating dischkrge; worse in open air.
Face
Feels drawn. Cramp-likp pains. Twitching of lips. Malar bone feels pulled upward. Toothache, better pressing teeth together.
Mouth
Bites cheek white eating. [Caust.] Tongue feels sore. Greasy feeling in mouth.
Throat
Sore, dry, constricted. Air feels cold.
Stomach
Sensation as if water were in stomach; of coldness, of constriction, and of burning ; better, eruc- tations.'
Abdomen
Flatulence and rumbling. Ineffectual urging to stool, with burning in anus. After stool, bruised pain in abdomen. Urine.-—-Polyuria. Greenish urine, frequent and urgent want to urinate, with tenesmus and scanty emission. Itching in urethra.
Male
Desire increased; ejaculation too soon. Pain along spermatic cord to testicles. Testicles feel scized and pulled forcibly upzward; worse, right. Pressure in the perineum. Prostatic hypertrophy.
Female
Early and scant menstruation; flow black.
Respiratory
Chest feels constricted. Asthma from suppressed foot-sweat. Oppression. Stitches in breast from behind forvard.
Extremities
Sprained feeling in small of back. Cracking of vertebre on raising head. [Aloe; Nat. c.; Thuj.] Restlessness. Rheumatic pain in shoulders. Fish-brine odor of sweat of heels.
Modalities
Worse. after eating, from 2 to 9 p. M. Better, by rubbing, eructation, open air.
Relationships
Compare: Puls.; Ars.; Silic.; Sepia. Antidotes: Camph.: Op.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency and higher.