Pix liquida
by Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
Liquid tar.
Introduced by Jeanes.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odor and taste and accompanied by pain, referred to third costal cartilage (really in left bronchus) ; pain may or may not go through to back. θ Bronchial catarrh. θ Phthisis.
Useful in third stage of phthisis.
Pain at third left costal cartilage, where it joins with rib ; rales through lungs and muco-purulent sputa. θ Phthisis.
Suppurative processes affecting left lung, with pain at third left costal cartilage.
SENSATIONS [43]
Pain : in left third costal cartilage.
Intolerable itching : of eruption on hands.
SKIN [46]
Eruption, especially on backs of hands, itching intolerably at night and bleeding when scratched.
Violent itching.
Skin cracked, bleeding when scratched, with sleeplessness.
RELATIONS [48]
Compare Anisum stellatum in chest pains.