Oleum animale aethereum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Dippel's Animal Oil 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.

Modalities

Worse, after eating, from 2 to 9 pm. Better, by rubbing, eructation, open air.

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.

Face

Feels drawn. Cramp-like pains. Twitching of lips. Malar bone feels pulled upward. Toothache, better pressing teeth together.

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.

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.

Urinary

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.

Relationships

Compare: Puls; Ars; Silic; Sepia. Antidotes: Camph; Op.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency and higher.

What the other books say about Oleum animale aethereum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Oleum animale aethereum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Oleum animale aethereum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/oleum-animale-aethereum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.