Materia Medica
Oleum Animal
Dippel's Animal Oil
Dippel's Animal Oil (OLEUM ANIMALE) Acts on the nervous system, especially on pneumo-gastric region. Useful in migraine and neuralgia of spermatic cord. Burning pains and stitches. "Pulled upward" and "from behind forward" pains.
Head
Tearing pain, with sadness and irritability; worse after dinner; relieved by rubbing. Itching, burning vesicles; better, friction. Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward. Migraine with polyuria.
Eyes
Smarting in eyes; misty vision. Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation when eating. Short-sighted. Twitching of lids (Agar).
Nose
Watery, excoriating discharge; worse in open air.
Face
Feels drawn. Cramp-like pains. Twitching of lips. Malar bone feels pulled upward. Toothache, better pressing teeth together.
Mouth
Bites cheek while 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, eructations.
Abdomen
Flatulence and rumbling. Ineffectual urging stool, with burning in anus. After stool, bruised pain in abdomen.
Urinary
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 seized and pulled forcibly upward; worse, right. Pressure in the perineum. Prostatic hypertrophy.
Female
Early and scanty menstruation; flow black.
Respiratory
Chest feels constricted. Asthma from suppressed foot-sweat. Oppression. Stitches in breast from behind forward.
Extremities
Sprained feeling in small of back. Cracking of vertebrae 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 pm. Better, by rubbing, eructation, open air.
Relationships
Compare: Puls; Ars; Silic; Sepia. Antidotes: Camph; Op.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency and higher.