Materia Medica de A a Z

OLEUM ANIMALE AETHEREUM DIPPELI (ol-an)

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; Sil; Sep.

Antidotes: Camph; Op.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency and higher.