Oleum Jecoris Aselli

Internally, a nutrient and a hepatic and pancreatic remedy (Burnett). Emaciation, lassitude, scrofulous diseases, rheumatic affections. Atrophy of infants ; emaciation with hot hands and head; restless and feverish at night. Pains in liver region . Tuberculosis in the beginning.

Chest

Hoarseness. Sharp stitching pains. Burning spots. Dry, hacking, tickling cough , especially at night. Whooping-cough in miserable, scrofulous children. Here give drop doses, increasing daily one drop up to twelve, then descend in the same way (Dahlke). Soreness through chest . Hæmoptysis ( Acalypha; Millef ). Palpitation , accompanies other symptoms. Yellowness . Children who cannot take milk.

Extremities

Aching in elbows and knees, in sacrum . Chronic rheumatism, with rigid muscles and tendons. Burning in palms .

Fever

Constantly chilly towards evening. Hectic fever . Night-sweats.

Relationship

Compare: Cholesterine; Tubercul; Phosph; Iod . One liter of Ol. Jecoris contains 0. 4 gram Iod. Gadus morrhua --Cod--(frequent breathing, with flapping of alæ nasi; rush of blood to chest; pain in lungs and cough; dry heat in palms).

Dose

First to third trituration. Locally in ringworm, and nightly rubbing, for dwarfish, emaciated babies.