Oleum Animale Aethereum
Dippel's Animal Oil
By William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(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.
Urine
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 vertebræ 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.
Relationship
Compare: Puls; Ars; Silic; Sepia .
Antidotes: Camph; Op .
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency and higher.