Other names and synonyms
ol-an, oleum animalis.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
This volatile oil was prepared by Dippel first by distillation of stags’ horn. It affects the NERVES esp. pneumogastric nerve; digestive organs. Symptoms appear here and there or in single parts. Affected part feels sore. Tremulous weakness; of hands, knees, feet etc. Pain in spots. Stitches; burning pains, as with red hot needles. Pulled upward and from behind forward pains; in malar bones, testicles; mammae etc. Icy coldness; from tips of teeth, in throat, stomach etc. Shuffling gait. Urinous; eructations, leucorrhoea etc. Flesh feels torn from bones. Ill effects of suppressions esp. of foot sweat. Neurasthenia.
Modalities
Cold. Eating. Suppressions. Menses. Hot drinks. Noise. 2 to 9.
Rubbing. Pressure. Stretching. Open air. сhanging position. Eructation.
Rubbing. Pressure. Stretching. Open air. сhanging position. Eructation.
Mental
Indolent; inclined to sit. Nervous irritability. Sad; introverted; absorbed in self; speaks in whispers. Vanishing thoughts. Faintness; from gastric origin.
Head, face, and ears
Pain in spots. Migraine with polyuria. Vertigo from gastric origin, better bending head backwards.
Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation on eating. A skin seems to overhang the eyes. Twitching of lids.
Malar bones feel pulled up. Twitching lips. White of an egg seems dried on lips. Swelling beneath right lower jaw.
Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation on eating. A skin seems to overhang the eyes. Twitching of lids.
Malar bones feel pulled up. Twitching lips. White of an egg seems dried on lips. Swelling beneath right lower jaw.
Mouth and throat
Toothache better pressing teeth together, with sensation of coldness coming out from tips. Mouth feels greasy. Snow-white cottony saliva. Tongue sore as if scalded. вites cheek while eating.
Sore, dry,; constricted; empty swallowing difficult though food and drink pass easily. As if cold air penetrates the throat. Hawks out, gluey, brown lumps. Acrid vapour or raw streak in throat; worse cough.
Sore, dry,; constricted; empty swallowing difficult though food and drink pass easily. As if cold air penetrates the throat. Hawks out, gluey, brown lumps. Acrid vapour or raw streak in throat; worse cough.
Gastrointestinal tract
Water-brash; better chewing tobacco. Pulsation or as of water in stomach. Sensation of coldness (as of a lump of ice), burning, constriction, better eructation. Urinous eructations.
Flatulence and rumbling.
Flatulence and rumbling.
Urogenital system
Profuse, pale urine; of fish brine odour; worse hysteria; migraine. Frequent scanty urine, then headache. Greenish urine. Small stream of urine.
Seminal losses; on straining at stool. Testes; swollen, alternately; feel pulled up forcibly upward and seized. Neuralgia of spermatic cord. Pressure in perineum. Prostate hypertrophy.
Menses; early, scanty; black flow. Sore mammae before menses; outward stitches in nipples; in scirrhus. Stitches in breast from behind forwards. Urinous leucorrhoea.
Seminal losses; on straining at stool. Testes; swollen, alternately; feel pulled up forcibly upward and seized. Neuralgia of spermatic cord. Pressure in perineum. Prostate hypertrophy.
Menses; early, scanty; black flow. Sore mammae before menses; outward stitches in nipples; in scirrhus. Stitches in breast from behind forwards. Urinous leucorrhoea.
Chest organs
Asthma from suppressed foot sweat. Stitches at clavicle.
Cardiovascular system
Anxious palpitation. Pulse slow.
Limbs and spine
Aching scapula (right) better pressure. Sprained feeling in sacrum. Unsteady gait. сracking in cervical vertebrae on raising the head.
Skin
Excoriation in bends of joints.
Fever
Alternate chill and heat. сold foul foot sweat; fishy on heels.
Dif. diagnostics
Sulph; Tell.