Oleum Animale. (Oleum Animale Æthereum.)
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Dippel's Oil ; Rectified Animal Oil.
Dilutions in alcohol or trituration.
Provings by Nenning, Schreter and Trinks, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., vol. 2.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Migraine , Zwingenberg, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 562 ; Greenish urine , etc., Dixon, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 508, from Journal of Health, 1864, p. 180 ; Neuralgia of spermatic cord , Blakely, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 241, from H. M. P. H. Soc., 1859 ; Asthma nervosum , Zwingenberg, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 562.
MIND [1]
Frequent vanishing of thought.
Fretful and ill-humored or sad.
Taciturn or thoughtful, absorbed in revery.
SENSORIUM [2]
Painful dizziness early in morning in bed, or in open air, when stooping.
INNER HEAD [3]
Numb and paralytic sensation in left side of head.
Pressure on vertex shifting to occiput.
Boring in left frontal protuberance.
Migraine always day after a party, where she usually wore a heavy diadem ; polyuria of perfectly clear urine.
Sensation as if blood were rushing to occiput on entering a room.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Itching on right side of occiput, > from scratching.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Mistiness of sight, especially in afternoon when writing.
Burning in eyes, in open air, on waking, by candlelight.
Spasmodic quivering of lids.
Frequent twitching in left upper lid.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Sticking or boring in ears, with dryness in throat.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Itching in nostrils.
Pimples on septum, with burning and oozing.
Itching and burning on tip of nose.
Oozing pimples on nose.
UPPER FACE [8]
Pale, earthy complexion.
Redness of cheeks even when skin is cold.
Cramplike pain in left cheek.
Itching pimples and vesicles on cheeks.
Papulæ on cheek and under skin of occiput.
LOWER FACE [9]
Cracking in left articulation of jaw.
Itching of lips ; chapped lips.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Sour taste in mouth.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Dryness : with sour taste in mouth ; on waking, in morning.
Greasy feeling in mouth and on palate.
Profuse accumulation of saliva in mouth, sometimes snow white.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Dryness of throat, especially during empty deglutition.
Roughness in throat inducing dry, hacking cough.
Hawking of tenacious mucus after a meal.
Choking and constriction of throat, particularly morning and evening.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Desire for softboiled eggs.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Frequent empty eructations relieving nausea.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Pressure in pit of stomach, also after drinking cold water.
Sensation as if stomach were full of water.
Sensation of coldness in stomach.
Burning and heat from stomach to chest.
Stinging in stomach.
Bruised pain about stomach.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
Pressure with sticking in region of liver and spleen.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Shifting of flatus in abdomen, with rumbling.
Drawing from groins to testicles.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Difficult stool ; after long urging ; even when natural.
Burning and stinging in anus and rectum.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Urine : greenish, copious, clear, pale, also depositing a cloud ; greenish and smells fishy ; constipation ; dilated pupils, and occasional rolling of eyes during sleep.
Much urging to urinate, with discharge of only a few drops.
Burning during micturition.
Itching in urethra.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Nocturnal erections and emissions.
Long standing neuralgia of spermatic cord ; excruciating attacks three or four times every year ; pains as if testicles were seized by a hand and pulled very severely.
Both testicles are drawn up and very painful.
Pressing in prostate gland.
Burning stinging about root of penis (afternoon).
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Menses : too early, preceded and accompanied by cutting in abdomen and small of back and sticking in left side of head and vertex ; scanty, black blood, languor of hands and feet.
Leucorrhœa of thin, white mucus.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Spasmus glottidis with disturbance of abdominal organs ; flatulency, colic or diarrhœa ; tympanitis.
Hoarseness with inability to talk loud.
RESPIRATION [26]
Chronic asthma nervosum, for which no organic basis could be detected, but which was caused by repelled foot sweat.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Rushes of blood to chest with dry heat of face.
Violent stitch in upper part of chest, near sternum, as with a red hot needle burning in that spot, continuing a long time after.
Darting in mamma when standing, from behind forward.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Pressure and crushing sensation about heart.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Cracking of vertebræ on raising head.
A few pointed and painful stitches from left scapula to axilla.
Pain in small of back when sitting.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Pimples in bends of elbows.
Numbness of single fingers.
Drawing and digging in right thumb as if it would ulcerate.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Excoriation in bends of hips.
Sticking in sole of foot.
Tingling in one spot in middle of sole in evening.
Cramp in toes.
Tearing in big toe, which is painful as if ulcerated, particularly near nail.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Lameness of left limb and left arm.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Raising head : cracking of vertebræ.
Standing : darting in mamma.
Stooping : painful dizziness.
Sitting : pain in back.
NERVES [36]
Languor with indolence, inclination to sit.
Fainting.
Cramplike drawing in different parts.
TIME [38]
Morning : painful dizziness.
Choking and constriction of throat.
Afternoon : mistiness when writing ; burning about root of penis.
Evening : choking and constriction of throat ; tingling in one spot of sole.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Open air : painful dizziness ; burning of eyes ; walk in open air ; coldness of left leg.
On entering room : as if blood were rushing to occiput.
FEVER [40]
Shuddering from vertex to chest.
Coldness : after a walk in open air ; of whole left lower limb.
Dry, pricking heat, particularly in face.
Perspiration during a meal.
ATTACKS, PERIODICITY [41]
Every year three or four attacks : neuralgia of spermatic cord.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Left : numb and paralytic sensation in side of head ; boring in frontal protuberance ; twitching in upper lid ; cramplike pain in cheek ; cracking in articulation of jaw ; sticking in side of head ; stitches from scapula to axilla ; lameness of lower limb and arm ; coldness of lower limbs.
Right : itching on side of occiput ; drawing and digging in thumb.
From behind forward : darting.
SENSATIONS [43]
As if blood were rushing to head ; as if stomach were full of water ; as if testicles were seized by hand and pulled severely ; as of red hot needles in chest ; as if thumb would ulcerate ; as if toe would ulcerate.
Pain : in small of back.
Excruciating neuralgia : of spermatic cord.
Violent stitch : in upper part of chest.
A few pointed, painful stitches : from left scapula to axilla.
Tearing : in big toe.
Darting : in mamma.
Cutting : in abdomen and small of back.
Cramplike drawing : of different parts.
Cramp : in toes.
Cramplike pain : in left cheek.
Drawing : from groins to testicles ; in right thumb.
Boring : in left frontal protuberance ; in ears.
Digging : in right thumb.
Bruised pain : about stomach.
Crushing sensation : about heart.
Stinging : in stomach ; in anus and rectum.
Burning stinging : about root of penis.
Burning : in eyes ; of pimples on septum ; of tip of nose ; from stomach to chest ; in anus and rectum ; during micturition ; in chest ; of skin.
Sticking : in ears ; in region of liver and spleen ; in left side of head and vertex ; in sole.
Dry, pricking heat : < in face.
Heat : from stomach to chest ; of face.
Excoriations : in bends of hips.
Painfulness : of both testicles.
Tingling : in one spot in middle of sole.
Roughness : in throat.
Dryness : in throat.
Pressure : on vertex shifting to occiput ; in pit of stomach ; in region of liver and spleen ; in prostate gland ; about heart.
Constriction : of throat.
Numb and paralytic sensation : in left side of head.
Numbness : of single fingers.
Lameness : of left lower limb and arm.
Biting-itching : of skin.
Gnawing-itching : of skin.
Itching : on right side of occiput ; in nostrils ; of tip of nose ; of pimples on cheeks ; of lips ; in urethra.
Shuddering : from vertex to chest.
Coldness : in stomach ; of whole left lower limb.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
After wearing heavy diadem : migraine.
Scratching : > itching on occiput.
Rubbing : burning of skin >.
SKIN [46]
Burning ; biting-itching > from rubbing ; gnawing-itching.
Itching like flea-bites, disappearing suddenly or changing to burning and heat.
Vesicles like scabious pimples.
Red watery vesicles after scratching.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
A lady, usually wore a heavy diadem upon head ; migraine.
RELATIONS [48]
Antidoted by : Camphor., Nux vom., Opium .
Compare : Ignat . and Gelsem . in headache and polyuria ; Agar . in twitching of eyelids ; Arsen., Carbo veg . and Phosphor . in gastric symptoms after cold water ; Pulsat . in male sexual organs.