Oleum animale
Dippel’s Animal Oil
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 481
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. Migrain with polyuria.
Eyes
Smarting in eyes; misty vision. Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation when eating. Short-sighted. Twitching of lids. [Agar.]
Nose p. 482
Watery, excoriating discharge; worse in open air.
Face p. 482
Feels drawn. Cramp-like pains. Twitching oj lips. Malar bone feels pulled upward. Toothache, better pressing teeth together.
Mouth p. 482
Bites cheek while eating. [Caust.] Tongue feels sore. Greasy feeling in mouth.
Throat p. 482
Sore, dry, constricted. Air feels cold.
Stomach p. 482
Sensation as if water were in stomach; of coldness, of constriction, and of burning; better, eructations.
Abdomen p. 482
Flatulence and rumbling. Ineffectual urging to stool, with burning in anus. After stool, bruised pain in abdomen.
Urine p. 482
Polyuria. Greenish urine, frequent and urgent want to urinate, with tenesmus and scanty emission. Itching in urethra.
Male p. 482
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 p. 482
Early and scant menstruation; flow black.
Respiratory p. 482
Chest feels constricted. Asthma from suppressed foot-sweat. Oppression. Stitches in breast from behind forward.
Extremities p. 482
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 p. 482
Worse, after eating, from 2 to 9 p. m. Better, by rubbing, eructation, open air.
Relationship p. 482
Compare: Puls.; Ars.; Silic.; Sepia.
Antidotes: Camph.; Op.
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