Oleum animale aethereum

Dippel's Animal Oil

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(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.

Oleum animale aethereum across the other classic books

Oleum animale aethereum appears in 6 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Oleum animale æthereum; Oleum animale, Dippelii; Oleum cornu cervi. Common name , Dippel's oil. Preparation , Dilutions in alcohol. Authorities. Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 2; 1 , Nenning; 2 , Schreter; 3 , Trinks. Emotional. Very cheerful, with lightness of all movements; she had not felt so well in a long…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES. Pneumo-gastric. Digestive organs. Here and there; in single spots or parts. Excretions. Cold. Eating. Suppressions. Rubbing. Pressure. Open air. Soreness . Weak, tremulous; hands, knees, feet, etc. Pain in spots. Neurasthenia. Nervous irritability. Shuffling gait. Urinous, eructations, leucorrhœa, etc. Icy…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“æthereum. Oleum cornu cervi. Dippel's Oil. Bone-naphtha. Dilutions in alcohol. Asthma / Breasts, affections of / Cancer / Constipation / Coryza / Facial paralysis / Gonorrhœa / Migraine / Polyuria / Prostate, affections of / Spermatic cord, neuralgia of / Testes, neuralgia in; retraction of Ol. an. is an empyreumatic…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sadness. Taciturn and thoughtful, absorbed in revery. Frequent vanishing of thought. Painful dizziness, early in the morning in bed. Painful sensation of reeling and giddiness, in the open air, when stopping. Numb and paralytic sensation in the left side of the head. Pressure on the vertex, shifting to the occiput…”

Oleum animale aethereum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Oleum animale aethereum in 772 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (177), HEAD (138), STOMACH (48), FACE (40), BACK (37).

SKIN - ITCHING - biting
SKIN - ITCHING
BACK - PAIN - cutting - Lumbar region - menses - before
FACE - PAIN - drawing - upward
GENERALITIES - PAIN - drawing - upwards
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - drawing - Spermatic cords - upward
STOMACH - WATER,sensation as if full of
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - internally - burning
EXTREMITIES - EXCORIATION - bends of,joints
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - menses, - during
URINE - COPIOUS - increased - headache, - with
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Spermatic cords
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - black
EYE - QUIVERING - lids
GENERALITIES - PAIN - drawing
EAR - PAIN - boring in
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - thin,watery
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - eyes, - above - right
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - outward
THROAT - PAIN - burning - Oesophagus

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