Oophorinum

Ovarian Extract. A Sarcode. Trituration of expressed juice of ovary of sheep or cow.

Clinical

Acne rosacea / Climacteric, sufferings of / Flushings / Nervousness, climacteric / Ovaries, tumours of; disease of / Prurigo

Characteristics

On the analogy of the action of Thyroidin in myxœdema, Ooph. has been used with much success in cases of suffering following excision of the ovaries, and for the climacteric sufferings of women. I have had good results with it in such cases in the lower triturations. It has been suggested as a remedy in ovarian cysts. E. Saalfeld (quoted H. W., xxxii. 296), in view of Landau's observations on the effect of Ooph. on the nervous sufferings of women at the climacteric, gave Ooph. to women suffering from acne rosacea and other skin disorders of the climacteric. A woman, 20, after double oophorectomy had lichen-like eczema. This was greatly relieved by Ooph. as well as the accompanying nervous symptoms and adiposity. He obtained good results also in some non-climacteric cases as: (1) Acne and seborrhœa in chlorotic women. (2) A case of prurigo which had lasted from childhood in a woman of 26. In this case the itching was > for a short time after the period. This > during menses may prove a keynote, and relates the remedy to Zinc.