Ovi gallinae pellicula
Hen's egg membrane (shell membrane) · Animal
Ovi gallinae pellicula is indicated in women with bearing-down pains, backache, and intolerance of constricting bands around any part of the body. It suits those with irregular menses, leucorrhoea, uterine displacement, and debility, particularly when ovarian and cardiac pains coexist.
Key symptoms
- Sudden pains and bearing-down sensation
- Intolerance of bands on wrist, arms, and waist
- Backache and pain in left hip
- Pain in the heart and left ovary
- Debility with irregular menstruation
- Post-nasal catarrh and coryza
- Leucorrhoea and pruritus vulvae
- Uterine displacement or prolapse
Membrane of Egg-shell
Sudden pains. Bearing-down sensation. Intolerance of bands on wrist, arms, waist, etc. Backache and pain in left hip. Debility. Pain in heart and left ovary.
Relationship
Compare: Calc; Naja; Ova tosta-Tosta præparata-Roasted egg-shells-Calcarea ovorum--(leucorrhœa and backache. A feeling as if the spine were broken and wired, or tied together with a string. Pain of cancer. Warts). Also Egg Vaccine for Asthma. Much interest is shown in Dr. Fritz Talbot's method to cure one form of asthma in children by the use of egg vaccine. Asthma due to susceptibility of the proteid substance in eggs can be cured by immunizing against egg poisons by repeated doses of egg white. After the skin has been cleansed with soap and alcohol the egg-white is rubbed into a slight scratch.
Membrane of the Shell of a Hen's Egg. The fresh membrane is triturated in 0.95 alcohol, allowed to digest several days, and then potentised (Swan).
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Catarrh. Coryza. Heart, oppression of. Hip, left, pain in. Leucorrhœa. Menstruation, irregular. Ovaries, pains in. Post-nasal catarrh. Pruritus vulvæ. Throat, sore. Uterus, misplacements of; prolapse of; retroverted (?). Vertebræ, pain in. Vulva, soreness of.
Characteristics
This preparation was made by Swan, and proved by a young lady, a patient of J. C. Boardman. Swan's paper was read before the Denver Homœopathic Club, and published in a number of Med. Visitor, the date of which I have lost, with additions from H. P., xiii. 323. Under Calc. ov. test. I have given an account of the action of Egg-shells in leucorrhœa, and Swan adds that it has an ancient reputation for "immoderate flux of the courses" (like our Calc. c.), and for nocturnal enuresis. The Egg-shells were anciently used powdered fresh or roasted, and as such were and are …
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