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Oleum animale aethereum dippeli

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  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Appetite and food preferences
  10. Gastrointestinal tract
  11. Urogenital system
  12. Chest organs
  13. Cardiovascular system
  14. Limbs and spine
  15. Common symptoms
  16. Skin
  17. Sleep
  18. Fever
  19. Analogs by action
  20. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

oleum animalis.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Oleum animale aethereum. Oleum cornu cervi. Dippel s Oil. вone-naphtha. Dilutions in alcohol.

Nosology

 Asthma. вreasts, affections of. сancer. сonstipation. сoryza. Facial paralysis. Gonorrhoea. Migraine. Polyuria. Prostate, affections of. Spermatic cord, neuralgia of. Testes, neuralgia in; retraction of.

Typical features

 Ol. an. is an empyreumatic oil obtained in the preparation of bone-black, and further distilled and rectified for medicinal use. It was discovered in 1711 by Johann сonrad Dippel, the alchemist, and discoverer of Prussian-blue. Dippel obtained it in the first instance by distillation of stags horns: hence the name Oleum cornu cervi, with which the Ol. an. as at present prepared is considered identical; the deciduous horns of the stag partaking more of the nature of bone than the permanent horns of cattle. As rectified it is a colourless or slightly yellow, thin, oily liquid, with a penetrating but not disagreeable odour and an acrid, burning taste, which changes to a cool and bitter one. It darkens and thickens on exposure to air and light, and is extremely volatile. A drop on paper evaporates without leaving a greasy stain. Its composition is extremely complex, but it may be regarded as belonging to the group of volatile carbons. Sircar (Calc. J. of Med., xvi. 249) gives an interesting account of Ol. an., and quotes from Hahn. Adv. of April, 1897, a valuable paper on the remedy by с. L. Olds with a discussion thereon. Though it is not the panacea which Dippel imagined it to be when he discovered it, Ol. an. is a very powerful medicinal substance, and since it has been well proved by Nenning, Schreter, and Trinks, it has a definite place in the homoeopathic materia medica. As is usually the case with combustive products, Ol. an. has burning pains and burning sensations in almost all parts, and like the carbons and K. carb. it has also stitches and sometimes combinations of the two, stitches as with red-hot needles. Stitches and pressure may be in all directions, but from behind forward is particularly characteristic. Stitches from behind forward in breasts; pressure from both sides of the back extends forward. Guided by the former I gave great relief in a case of scirrhus of right breast in which pains darting forward out of the nipple were complained of. Pulled upward is another characteristic sensation. It occurs in the malar bones: Sensation in both malar bones as if pulled forcibly upward. And it also occurs in the testicles. Both testicles are drawn up and very painful. This led to the cure of a long-standing neuralgia of spermatic cord; excruciating attacks three or four times every year; pains as if testicles were seized by a hand and pulled very severely. Ol. an. 18 gave almost instant and permanent relief (Blakely Raue s Rec., 1870, p. 241). The cure of a case of migraine is quoted in H. M., July, 1895. Zwingenberg, after failing with Sang., gave Ol. an. 2x, five drops in warm water, morning and evening, to a lady who always suffered from migraine the day after a fashionable party, at which she usually wore a heavy diadem on her head. Polyuria of perfectly clear urine accompanied the migraine and suggested the remedy. This accompaniment may indicate Ol. an. in any nervous disorder. Zwingenberg also cured a case of nervous asthma following repelled foot-sweat. In the discussion on Olds paper some cures were mentioned. Dever cured toothache in an extremely irritable patient, pain by pressing the teeth together. The provings have stitches in right upper molar removed by pressure, after dinner. Doctor Leggett related one case: A very stout Dutch lady, 56 (who had been under constitutional treatment for uterine tumour, engorged liver and cerebral congestion), presented the following symptoms: Sensation as if water rushing back and forth in stomach; fancied the tumour had increased to size it was years ago. She had been walking, standing, and shopping, and had eaten many sweets. Of the remedies having stomach as if full of water, Ol. an. was chosen as more similar to the case than Mill. or Phell., and was given in 1m attenuation, a single dose. A month later she was better in every way, and a second dose brought still further improvement. This case in connection with my case of breast tumour still further shows the relationship of Ol. an. to new growths. Olds in his paper brings out the striking and peculiar symptoms of the remedy very clearly. Olds speaks of a proving by himself, but he gives no details of it. Some symptoms mentioned by him I cannot find in Allen or Hering. These I have entered in the Schema and give his authority for each. The сonditions of Ol. an. give the most characteristic general features: from rubbing; In open air. These are general, but there are exceptions. Among the Peculiar Symptoms mentioned by Olds are: Twitching of lips and swelling beneath right lower jaw. Malar bone feels as if pulled forcibly upward. Greasy feeling in mouth and accumulation of quantities of saliva white as snow. Relaxation of buccal mucous membrane, patient cannot avoid biting cheek when he eats. Soreness of tongue as if scalded. Sensation as of white of egg dried on lips. Sensation as if cold air penetrated throat although the air is warm; eating and drinking, вy rubbing is very characteristic. вy stretching. вy pressure. Ol. an. is a chilly medicine, but the chilliness (and also coryza) are in open air. Tearing in all fingers is by washing in cold water. Drinking cold water = pressure in stomach. some rheumatic pains. Raising head = cracking of vertebrae. Swallowing food or drink, сhanging position. Sneezing = bursting pain in chest. The majority of symptoms are.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: сamph., Nux, Op. Follows well: вry. Is followed well by: Sep. сompare: In headache with concomitant polyuria, Ign., Gels. Twitching eyelids, Agar. Gastric symptoms after drinking cold water, Ars., Pho., сarb. v. Pains in testicles, Puls. by noise). вy rubbing, Pho., Nat. c., сarb. ac., сanth. сoryza Eating and drinking, ). сracking in joints, вenz. ac.

Reasons

 Suppressed foot-sweat.

Mental

 Sadness, concentration in self. Taciturn and thoughtful. Distraction, and frequent absence of mind. Loss of ideas (frequent vanishing of thought).

Head, face, and ears

 Head confused, with cloudiness, as if stunned. Pressure on vertex, shifting to occiput. Dizziness and vertigo, when stooping. Painful dizziness, early in morning in bed. Painful sensation of reeling and giddiness, in open air, when stooping. Numb and paralytic sensation in (left) side of head. Aching in head, principally in forehead, sometimes from least intellectual exertion. Drawing and tearing in head, as after a chill. Violent boring, and shootings in head, especially just above eyes (in left frontal protuberance). - сongestion, with heat and beating in head. Pressure extending from occiput forward, an hour after dinner. Semilateral headache, and beating at base of brain and extending to eye on corresponding side; by rubbing (Olds). Pain in left occiput, obliging him to hold his head forward. Dull pressure in small spot on occiput (left). Gnawing pain in occipital region (less on left side). - вoring in small spot left occiput. Stitching in occiput. Tension on scalp with soreness as if skin had been cut and reunited. Sensation as if blood were rushing to occiput, on entering a room. Tearing in outside of head, with tension and sensation of excoriation. Itching, and burning shooting pain in scalp.
 Pain in eyes as if a grain of sand had been introduced into them. Pressure and drawing in balls of eyes. Itching, smarting and shooting in eyes, which disappear on rubbing them. - вurning pain in eyes, especially (in the open air or on waking or) by candlelight in evening. Lachrymation, and nocturnal agglutination. Lachrymation when she eats (Olds). Quivering and starting in eyelids, and eyebrows. Frequent twitching in left upper lid. - сonfused sight (esp. in the afternoon when writing). Myopia. Dark clouds before eyes. Sensation as if a skin were hanging down over eyes (Olds). Sight and hearing vanish for a moment.
 Shooting in ears. Sticking in ears. - вoring and tearing in ears (with dryness of throat). Singing, tinkling, and buzzing in ears,.
 Itching burning at tip of nose. Tickling and tingling itching in nose. Excoriation of interior of nose. - вurning and running pimples on septum of nose. Drawing pressing pain at root of nose when in house, nose and head feel stopped; out of doors constant dripping with to head (Olds). Sneezing, with painful sensation of bursting, and of excoriation in chest. Dryness of nose. - сoryza, with thick mucus in nose, which occasions painful tension. Violent dry coryza. It seemed as though he had an offensive breath.
 Pale, earthy complexion. Tingling in face. - вurning pains in cheeks, and zygomatic process. Redness of the cheeks, even when the skin is cold. Itching pimples and vesicles on the cheeks. Tension, and cramp-like, and paralytic drawing in face, sometimes semi-lateral (left). Paralysed sensation in right half of face. The malar bones feel as if pulled forcibly upward. Itching of the lips. Sensation as of dried white of egg on lips (Olds). Lips cracked. Jerking of lips, in morning, when sleeping. - сramp in jaw, which scarcely permits mouth to be opened. Violent cracking in left articulation of jaw always on opening mouth. Swelling beneath lower jaw.

Mouth and throat

 Odontalgia, with drawing and tearing pain, often commencing from ear. Jerking tearing, and pulsation, in root of a carious tooth, with sensation of coldness coming out of tips of teeth. Stitches in right upper molar, removed by pressure, after dinner.
 Dryness with sour taste in mouth. Dryness of mouth (and throat) on waking in morning. Greasy feeling in mouth and on palate. Abundant accumulation of snow-white saliva in mouth. Relaxation of buccal mucous membrane; almost impossible for patient to prevent biting cheeks when eating (Olds). Tongue sore as if scalded. - вurning on tongue posteriorly as from tobacco. Smarting, and burning sensation in tongue.
 Pain in throat, as if a hard body were introduced into it, especially during deglutition. - сhoking and constriction of throat, particularly in morning and evening. Dryness of throat, especially perceptible during empty deglutition. Retching, constriction, dryness and scraping in throat. Throat dry with sour taste in mouth. Throat very dry in morning with sensation as if cold air penetrated, which she was constantly obliged to swallow; swallowing difficult, though food and drink passed easily through pharynx and oesophagus. - вurning pain in throat. Accumulation of viscid mucus in throat. Hawking of tenacious mucus after a meal.

Appetite and food preferences

 Fat and clammy taste. Sourness in mouth. Want of appetite. Aversion to meat, and to all food, except bread. Desire for soft-boiled eggs.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Risings, with taste of the food, or of urine. Empty and burning risings. Frequent empty eructations, the nausea and the urging to vomit. Disgust and nausea, with inclination to vomit, especially during and after a meal, or with pressure on chest. Sudden inclination to vomit; stomach seems to turn over; after eructating twice, it disappears. Stomach very sensitive to external pressure. Sensation as if stomach were fun of water. Aching in stomach and praecordial region, sometimes after drinking cold water. Stinging in the stomach. - сonstriction of the stomach. Sensation, as if something were turning in stomach; as if stomach turned quite over. - сontusive pain in region of stomach. Sensation of icy coldness, or of burning heat, in stomach. - вurning and heat from stomach to chest.
 Dull shootings, and pressure in hepatic region, and spleen (with every breath). Fulness and distension of abdomen, with painful sensitiveness to least movement of body. - сramp-like pain in abdomen, in circumscribed places. Pinchings in abdomen, and especially after eating or drinking anything hot. Incisive pains in abdomen, especially in umbilical region, sometimes With diarrhoea. - сontractive pains in abdomen, extending as far as stomach, with nausea. Digging and cuttings throughout abdomen. Drawing in region of the groins, extending into testes. Accumulation of flatus, with gurgling and movement in abdomen. Shifting of flatulence in abdomen with rumbling. Frequent expulsion of fetid flatus.
 Constipation. Hard, scanty, difficult stools, which are not passed without straining. Difficult stool even when natural. Soft, frequent evacuations. Diarrhoea, with cuttings, before, during, and after an evacuation. - вurning and stinging in anus and rectum. After a stool, pain, as from a bruise in abdomen, or burning pain and aching in anus.

Urogenital system

 Frequent and urgent want to urinate, with tenesmus and scanty emission. Pressure on bladder. Small stream of urine. Pale, and more abundant, urine, which speedily deposits a cloudy sediment. Greenish urine. Turbid urine, with clay-like sediment. - вurning pain when making water. Itching in urethra.
 Drawing shootings and incisive pains in penis. - вurning stinging about root of penis (afternoon). Drawing pains in testes. Swelling and retraction of testes, with painful sensitiveness to the touch. Pressing in prostate gland. Nocturnal erections and pollutions.
 Catamenia premature, with scanty discharge of black blood, (preceded and) accompanied by incisive pains in abdomen and loins, lancinating pains in head, and lassitude in hands and feet. Leucorrhoea, with serous and clear mucus.

Chest organs

 Hoarseness and roughness in throat. Hoarseness with inability to talk loud. Roughness in throat, inducing dry, hacking cough. - сramp-like contraction in trachea, especially at night. Small dry cough, generally in single shocks, with tickling in throat.
 Obstructed respiration, when lying on back, as if pharynx were compressed; disappearing on a change of position. Oppression of the chest, when going up stairs, or a hill, from distension of the abdomen. - сontusive pain in the chest. Aching and shootings in the chest. Incisive pains in chest. Rushes of blood to chest with dry heat of face. Anxious ebullition with sensation of heat, and burning in chest, accompanied by a sensation of heat which seems to rise from abdomen. Violent stitch in upper part of chest, near sternum, as with a red-hot needle; the breast continued to burn for a long time; at 2 - Violent, sharp stitch in chest by right axilla. Stitches in clavicles. A very long stitch beneath left mamma. A sharp stitch in mamma, extending forward, while standing. Some dull stitches beneath left mamma, that disappear on rubbing, but return; stitches on right ring and middle finger at same time. A pain almost like a shaking beneath and behind left mamma, disappearing, after rubbing, followed by warmth over whole body. Tearing in right mamma.

Cardiovascular system

 Aching, and pain as of a bruise in heart. Pressure and crushing sensation about heart.

Limbs and spine

 Painful sensitiveness, rigidity and tension in the nape of the neck and back. - сracking in joints of nape on raising head. Tearing in muscles of right side of neck whence it extends into right malar bone, together with tearing in two right upper molars. Sensation as if a warm breath extended up the nape with an agreeable feeling. Drawing and stiffness in right cervical muscles, not.
 Lameness of the left lower limb and left arm.
 Drawing and tearing in the arms, hands, and fingers. Drawing and digging in right thumb as if it would ulcerate. Shootings in arms and hands. Tingling in fingers. Numbness of fingers.
 Cramp-like drawing and tension in thighs and hams, as if the tendons were too short. Drawing and tearing in thighs, legs, feet and toes. Shootings in the knees and feet. Tingling in the limbs. Great weakness of the legs. Stiffness of the legs when walking. Sticking in the sole. Tingling at one spot in middle of sole, in evening. - сramp in toes. Tearing in big toe, which is painful as if ulcerated, particularly near nail.

Common symptoms

 Cramp-like drawings in different parts. Drawing and tearing in limbs. Tingling in different parts. Tension in some of the limbs, as if tendons too short. Rigidity, and paralytic weakness in limbs, with dejection and trembling. Languor with indolence; inclination to sit. Fainting. Unsteady gait.

Skin

 Violent general itching, and sometimes smarting or burning in different parts of skin. Vesicles, resembling scabious pimples. Excoriation in bends of joints.

Sleep

 Urgent inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and frequent stretching, especially after dinner. Prolonged sleep in morning. Retarded sleep in evening. Frequent or premature waking in morning, without power to go to sleep again. Very light sleep, disturbed by least noise.

Fever

 Shivering, shuddering, and coldness, frequently accompanied by heat in other parts, or alternating with heat. - сoldness after a walk in open air. - сoldness of whole left lower limb. Shuddering from vertex to chest. Shuddering: in the house; after entering the house; by a stove; entering a warm room from the open air. Icy coldness creeps up back. Increase of natural heat, especially after walking in open air. Dry heat, in evening. Dry, pricking heat, particularly in face. Transient heat, often with sweat in head, chest, and hands. Transient fits of sweating, especially during repose. Perspiration during a meal.

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