Oleum animale aethereum
Dippel's animal oil · Animal
Oleum Animale Aethereum suits nervous, neuralgic patients with characteristic pains in the pneumo-gastric region and face, especially the malar bones feeling pulled upward. Migraine with polyuria and neuralgia of the spermatic cord are guiding symptoms. There is a tendency to burning pains, stitching, and twitching in various parts.
Key symptoms
- Migraine with polyuria; neuralgia of spermatic cord
- Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward
- Tearing headache worse after dinner, relieved by rubbing
- Sensation as if water in stomach; coldness, constriction, and burning better from eructations
- Watery excoriating nasal discharge worse in open air
- Toothache better pressing teeth together
- Ineffectual urging to stool with burning in anus; bruised abdominal pain after stool
- Smarting in eyes; glistening bodies before eyes; short-sightedness
Worse (aggravation)
- After dinner (headache)
- Open air (nasal discharge)
Better (amelioration)
- Rubbing (headache)
- Eructations (stomach symptoms)
- Pressing teeth together (toothache)
- Friction (scalp vesicles)
Dippel's Animal Oil (OLEUM ANIMALE)
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; Silic; Sepia.
Antidotes: Camph; Op.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency and higher.
Oleum animale æthereum. Oleum cornu cervi. Dippel's Oil. Bone-naphtha. Dilutions in alcohol.
Clinical
Asthma. Breasts, affections of. Cancer. Constipation. Coryza. Facial paralysis. Gonorrhœa. Migraine. Polyuria. Prostate, affections of. Spermatic cord, neuralgia of. Testes, neuralgia in; retraction of.
Characteristics
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 Conrad 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. …
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