Oleum jecoris aselli
Cod liver oil · Animal
Oleum Jecoris Aselli suits scrofulous, emaciated children and debilitated patients with incipient tuberculosis, whooping-cough, or chronic rheumatism. There is lassitude, emaciation, night sweats, and hectic fever. The remedy also addresses infants who cannot tolerate milk and require a nutritive, hepatic-pancreatic tonic.
Key symptoms
- Atrophy of infants with emaciation; hot hands and head; restless and feverish at night
- Dry, hacking, tickling cough especially at night; soreness through chest
- Whooping-cough in miserable, scrofulous children
- Pains in liver region; incipient tuberculosis
- Hectic fever with night-sweats; constantly chilly towards evening
- Burning in palms; aching in elbows, knees, and sacrum
- Haemoptysis; palpitation accompanying other symptoms
- Children who cannot take milk; yellowness of skin
Worse (aggravation)
- Night (cough, fever, restlessness)
- Towards evening (chilliness)
Cod-liver Oil
Internally, a nutrient and a hepatic and pancreatic remedy (Burnett). Emaciation, lassitude, scrofulous diseases, rheumatic affections. Atrophy of infants; emaciation with hot hands and head; restless and feverish at night. Pains in liver region. Tuberculosis in the beginning.
Chest
Hoarseness. Sharp stitching pains. Burning spots. Dry, hacking, tickling cough, especially at night. Whooping-cough in miserable, scrofulous children. Here give drop doses, increasing daily one drop up to twelve, then descend in the same way (Dahlke). Soreness through chest. Hæmoptysis (Acalypha; Millef). Palpitation, accompanies other symptoms. Yellowness. Children who cannot take milk.
Extremities
Aching in elbows and knees, in sacrum. Chronic rheumatism, with rigid muscles and tendons. Burning in palms.
Fever
Constantly chilly towards evening. Hectic fever. Night-sweats.
Relationship
Compare: Cholesterine; Tubercul; Phosph; Iod. One liter of Ol. Jecoris contains 0. 4 gram Iod. Gadus morrhua--Cod--(frequent breathing, with flapping of alæ nasi; rush of blood to chest; pain in lungs and cough; dry heat in palms).
Dose
First to third trituration. Locally in ringworm, and nightly rubbing, for dwarfish, emaciated babies.
Oleum jecoris Morrhuæ. Cod-liver oil. Oil obtained from the livers of Gadus morrhua and some other allied fishes. N. O. Gadidæ. Tincture. Trituration.
Clinical
Addison's disease. Alopecia. Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Asthma. Bones, affections of. Bright's disease. Cold abscess. Constipation. Coryza. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dwarfishness. Emaciation. Fever. Fistula. Goître. Hair, abnormal growth of. Headache. Heart, palpitation of. Intermittent fever. Joints, stiffness of; fistulæ and abscess around. Liver, diseases of. Lumbago. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Sacralgia. Sciatica. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Sleeplessness. Spinal irritation. Vision, affections of.
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