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Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkeDescription
Liquid Tar. A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods. Tincture.
Nosology
Acne. Ardor urinae. вronchitis. Desquamation. Diarrhoea. Eczema. Enuresis. Eruptions. Hands, eruptions on. Phthisis. Psoriasis. Vomiting, black.
Typical features
In old-school practice Tar is known as a stimulant expectorant in chronic bronchitis and phthisis, a stimulant to the skin in psoriasis and scaly eczema. вuckley (quoted by Allen) has recorded severe constitutional effects following the local application of preparations of tar in skin affections. Among these are: High fever; black vomit; black stools; dark-coloured urine; acute eczema; acne. Homoeopaths (led by Jeanes) have brought out the special indications for the remedy; and chief among them is a pain at the third left costal cartilage, where it joins the rib. This is really a pain of the left bronchus (Hering), and when associated with offensive muco-purulent expectoration the indications for Pix are complete. сases of phthisis and chronic bronchitis with these characteristics have been cured by it. A case of chronic bronchitis in a merchant, 55, is recorded in Hom. News (xxix. 414). The cough was.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Tereb., Pinus syl., Kre., Eupn., Petrol. In chest pains, Illic. Illic. has pain at third right costal cartilage; occasionally also left), Myrica, Therid. Desquamation, сhi. sul.
Head, face, and ears
Fulness and pain in head.
Gastrointestinal tract
Pain in stomach. Vomiting: constant; of blackish fluid (from application to skin).
Excessive pain in bowels and loins.
Dark-coloured stools (from application).
Excessive pain in bowels and loins.
Dark-coloured stools (from application).
Urogenital system
Ardor urinae. Dark-coloured urine (from application).
Chest organs
Expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odour and taste, and accompanied by pain referred to third left costal cartilage (really in left bronchus); pain may or may not go through to back. Third stage of phthisis. Pain at third left costal cartilage where it joins the rib; râles; muco-purulent expectoration. Suppuration of left lung with pain at third rib. - сough chronic,.
Common symptoms
Great exhaustion.
Skin
Acute eczema. Acne. Eruptions, especially on backs of hands, itching intolerably at night and bleeding when scratched. Skin cracked, bleeding when scratched, with sleeplessness. Violent itching. Desquamation.
Fever
Occasionally high fever (from application).
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