Pix liquida
E. A. Farrington著 — A Clinical Materia Medica
Pix liquida has but two symptoms worthy of note. One proceeds from its action on the lungs. You may give it with confidence in suppurative processes affecting the left lung, with pain at the third left costal cartilage.
Anisum stellatum has the same pain, but here it is referred to the right third costal cartilage. The above symptoms of Pix and Anisum have stood the test of experience over and over again.
Remedies having pains in the left side of the chest, and which are here worthy of mention, are: Myrtus communis (upper part), Sumbul (many pains), Fluoric acid, Oxalic acid, Actea rac. (under nipple), Lilium (through the heart or through the mamma to the back), Kali carb., Sulphur (through to back), Sarsaparilla (from back through to left chest), Pulsatilla nuttal. (left side, under arm near to the back), Guaiacum (stitches at about upper three ribs, purulent sputum), Theridion, Phosphorus and Silicea.
Pix liquida also causes an eruption, especially on the dorsum of the hands; cracks, itches intolerably at night, and bleeds when scratched.