Pix liquida

Pine-tar

Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 521

Tar and its constituents act on various mucous membranes.

Its skin symptoms most important. A great cough medicine, Bronchial irritation after influenza. [Kreosot.; Kali bich.] Scaly eruptions. Much itching. Constant vomiting of blackish fluid, with pain in stomach. Alopecia. [Fluor. ac.]

Chest

Pain at a spot about the third left costal cartilage where it joins the rib. Rales through the lungs, and muco-purulent sputum; offensive odor and taste. Chronic bronchitis.

Skin

Cracked; itches intolerably; bleeds on scratching. Eruptions on back of hands.

Relationship

Compare its constituents: Kreosot.; Petrol.; Pinus; Eupion; Terebinth.; Carbolic acid.

The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.

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