Oleum Animale ol-an.

NERVES. Pneumo-gastric. Digestive organs. Here and there; in single spots or parts. Excretions.

Cold. Eating. Suppressions.

Rubbing. Pressure. Open air.

Soreness. Weak, tremulous; hands, knees, feet, etc. Pain in spots. Neurasthenia. Nervous irritability. Shuffling gait. Urinous, eructations, leucorrhœa, etc. Icy coldness; from tips of teeth, in throat, stomach, etc.

Sad. Introverted. Vanishing thoughts. Speaks in whispers. Faintness or vertigo; of gastric origin; > bending head back. Sees glistening bodies. A skin seems to overhang the eye. Lachrymation, on eating. White of egg seems dried on lips. Malar bones feel pulled up. Twitching lips. Mouth feels greasy. Snowy saliva. Toothache, > biting. Hawks out brown, gluey lumps. Acrid vapor or raw streak in throat, < cough. Water - brash, > chewing tobacco. Pulsation or as of water in stomach. Meteorism. PROFUSE, pale urine; fish - brine odor; < hysteria, migraine, etc. Frequent scanty urine, then headache. Seminal losses; on straining at stool. Testes, swell alternately; feel pulled up. Anxious palpitation. Sore mammæ, before menses. Outward dartings in nipples. Aching (r), scapula, > pressure. Raw flexures. Flesh feels torn from bones. Slow pulse. Alternate chill and heat. Cold, foul foot-sweat; fishy on heels.

Related: Sul. Tell.

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.

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.

Smarting in eyes; misty vision. Glistening bodies before eyes. Lachrymation when eating. Short-sighted. Twitching of lids (Agar).

Watery, excoriating discharge; worse in open air.

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

Bites cheek while eating (Caust). Tongue feels sore. Greasy feeling in mouth.

Sore, dry, constricted. Air feels cold.

Sensation as if water were in stomach; of coldness, of constriction, and of burning; better, eructations.

Flatulence and rumbling. Ineffectual urging stool, with burning in anus. After stool, bruised pain in abdomen.

Polyuria. Greenish urine, frequent and urgent want to urinate, with tenesmus and scanty emission. Itching in urethra.

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.

Early and scanty menstruation; flow black.

Chest feels constricted. Asthma from suppressed foot-sweat. Oppression. Stitches in breast from behind forward.

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.

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

Compare: Puls; Ars; Silic; Sepia.

Antidotes: Camph; Op.

Third to thirtieth potency and higher.

Sadness. Taciturn and thoughtful, absorbed in revery. Frequent vanishing of thought.

Painful dizziness, early in the morning in bed. Painful sensation of reeling and giddiness, in the open air, when stopping. Numb and paralytic sensation in the left side of the head. Pressure on the vertex, shifting to the occiput. Boring in the left frontal protuberance. Sensation as if the blood were rushing to the occiput on entering a room.

Burning in the eyes in the open air or on waking or at candle light. Spasmodic quivering of the lids. Mistiness of sight, especially in the afternoon when writing.

Sticking in the ears. Boring in the ears with dryness of the throat.

Itching burning of the tip of the nose. Itching in the nostrils. Pimples on the septum, with burning and oozing.

Pale, earthy complexion. Redness of the cheeks, even when the skin is cold. Cramp-pain in the (left) cheek. Itching pimples and vesicles on the cheeks. Itching of the lips. Chapped lips.

Dryness in the mouth and throat also, on waking in the morning. Greasy feeling in the mouth and on the palate. Accumulation of a quantity of snow-white saliva in the mouth. Choking and constriction of the throat, particularly in the morning and evening. Dryness of the throat, especially perceptible during empty deglutition. Dryness with sour taste in the mouth. Hawking of tenacious mucus after a meal.

Desire for soft-boiled eggs. Frequent empty eructations, relieving the nausea and the urging to vomit. Bruised pain about the stomach. Sensation as if the stomach were full of water. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, also after drinking cold water. Stinging in the stomach. Sensation of coldness in the stomach. Burning and heat from the stomach to the chest. Pressure with sticking in the region of the liver and spleen. Shifting of flatulence in the abdomen with rumbling. Drawing from the groins into the testicles.

Difficult stool even when natural. Burning and stinging in the anus and rectum.

Copious, clear, pale urine, also depositing a cloud. Greenish urine. Burning during micturition. Itching in the urethra.

Men. Burning-stinging about the root of the penis (afternoon). Both testicles are drawn up and painful. Pressing in the prostate gland. Nocturnal erections and emissions. Women. Menses too early, preceded and accompanied by colic. Scanty menses, blood black.

Hoarseness with inability to talk loud. Roughness in the throat, inducing dry, hacking cough. Rushes of blood to the chest with dry heat of the face. Pressure and crushing sensation about the heart.

Pain in the small of the back worse when sitting. Cracking of the vertebræ on raising the head.

Upper. Numbness of single fingers. Drawing and digging in the right thumb, as if it would ulcerate. Lower. Sticking in the sole of the foot. Tingling at one spot in the middle of the sole, in the evening. Cramp in the toes. Tearing in the big toe, which is painful as if ulcerated, particularly near the nail. Lameness of the left lower limb and left arm.

Cramp-like drawing in different parts. Languor with indolence ; inclination to sit. Fainting.

Coldness after a walk in the open air. Coldness of the whole left lower limb. Shuddering from the vertex to the chest. Dry, pricking heat, particularly in the face. Perspiration during a meal.

Oleum animale æthereum. Oleum cornu cervi. Dippel's Oil. Bone-naphtha. Dilutions in alcohol.

Asthma. Breasts, affections of. Cancer . Constipation. Coryza. Facial paralysis. Gonorrhœa. Migraine. Polyuria. Prostate, affections of. Spermatic cord, neuralgia of. Testes, neuralgia in; retraction of.

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. It darkens and thickens on exposure to air and light, and is extremely volatile. A drop on paper evaporates without leaving a greasy stain." Its composition is extremely complex, but it may be regarded as belonging to the group of volatile carbons. Sircar ( Calc. J. of Med ., xvi. 249) gives an interesting account of Ol. an ., and quotes from Hahn. Adv . of April, 1897, a valuable paper on the remedy by C. L. Olds with a discussion thereon. Though it is not the panacea which Dippel imagined it to be when he discovered it, Ol. an . is a very powerful medicinal substance, and since it has been well proved by Nenning, Schreter, and Trinks, it has a definite place in the homœopathic materia medica. As is usually the case with combustive products, Ol. an . has burning pains and burning sensations in almost all parts, and like the carbons and K. carb . it has also stitches and sometimes combinations of the two, "stitches as with red-hot needles." Stitches and pressure may be in all directions, but from behind forward is particularly characteristic. "Stitches from behind forward in breasts; pressure from both sides of the back extends forward." Guided by the former I gave great relief in a case of scirrhus of right breast in which pains darting forward out of the nipple were complained of. "Pulled upward" is another characteristic sensation. It occurs in the malar bones: "Sensation in both malar bones as if pulled forcibly upward." And it also occurs in the testicles. "Both testicles are drawn up and very painful." This led to the cure of a "long-standing neuralgia of spermatic cord; excruciating attacks three or four times every year; pains as if testicles were seized by a hand and pulled very severely." Ol. an . 18 gave almost instant and permanent relief (Blakely Raue's Rec ., 1870, p. 241). The cure of a case of migraine is quoted in H. M ., July, 1895. Zwingenberg, after failing with Sang ., gave Ol. an . 2x, five drops in warm water, morning and evening, to a lady who always suffered from migraine the day after a fashionable party, at which she usually wore a heavy diadem on her head. Polyuria of perfectly clear urine accompanied the migraine and suggested the remedy. This accompaniment may indicate Ol. an . in any nervous disorder. Zwingenberg also cured a case of nervous asthma following repelled foot-sweat. In the discussion on Olds' paper some cures were mentioned. Dever cured toothache in an extremely irritable patient, pain > by pressing the teeth together . The provings have "stitches in right upper molar removed by pressure , after dinner." Dr. Leggett related one case: A very stout Dutch lady, 56 (who had been under constitutional treatment for uterine tumour, engorged liver and cerebral congestion), presented the following symptoms: Sensation as if water rushing back and forth in stomach; fancied the tumour had increased to size it was years ago. She had been walking, standing, and shopping, and had eaten many sweets. Of the remedies having "stomach as if full of water," Ol. an . was chosen as more similar to the case than Mill . or Phell ., and was given in 1m attenuation, a single dose. A month later she was better in every way, and a second dose brought still further improvement. This case in connection with my case of breast tumour still further shows the relationship of Ol. an . to new growths. Olds in his paper brings out the striking and peculiar symptoms of the remedy very clearly. Olds speaks of a proving by himself, but he gives no details of it. Some symptoms mentioned by him I cannot find in Allen or Hering. These I have entered in the Schema and give his authority for each. The Conditions of Ol. an . give the most characteristic general features: > from rubbing; < from eating. < In warm room. > In open air. These are general, but there are exceptions. Among the Peculiar Symptoms mentioned by Olds are: Twitching of lips and swelling beneath right lower jaw. Malar bone feels as if pulled forcibly upward. Greasy feeling in mouth and accumulation of quantities of saliva white as snow. Relaxation of buccal mucous membrane, patient cannot avoid biting cheek when he eats. Soreness of tongue as if scalded. Sensation as of white of egg dried on lips. Sensation as if cold air penetrated throat although the air is warm; > eating and drinking, < empty swallowing. Desire for soft-boiled eggs or for bread only with aversion to meat. Sensation as if water were in stomach; as if a lump of ice there. Eructations taste like urine, and burn. Sensation as if testicles were seized and pulled forcibly upward. Menses too early and too scanty. Cracking in vertebræ of neck on raising head. Sensation in scalp as if skin had been cut and reunited. Other sensations are: As if blood were rushing to head; to occiput on entering a warm room. As if red-hot needles in chest. As if thumb (and toe) would ulcerate. Cramp-like pains in different parts. Indolence and inclined to sit; taciturn; ill-tempered. Winans ( Med. Adv ., xix. 503) gave Ol. an . with success in a case of bilious fever, the patient being a rather fleshy old lady. The indicating symptoms were: Slow pulse (55). Desire for soft-boiled eggs. Itching of left lower eyelid. Sad mood; morose; nothing delights her. Absorbed in self, sad, speaks little. Sepia was required to complete the case, one of the new symptoms being yellowness of palms of hands. The left side is predominantly affected; when direction is noted it is from before backward and from behind upward. > By rubbing is very characteristic. > By stretching. > By pressure. Ol. an . is a chilly medicine, but the chilliness (and also coryza) are < in a warm room and > in open air. Tearing in all fingers is > by washing in cold water. Drinking cold water = pressure in stomach. < From hot drinks. Motion > some rheumatic pains. Raising head = cracking of vertebræ. < Eating (sweat; lachrymation; headache). Especially < after dinner. > Swallowing food or drink, < empty swallowing (throat). < By motion; by mental exertion. > Changing position. Sneezing = bursting pain in chest. The majority of symptoms are < in afternoon; also 2 p.m. < Before, during and commencement of menses. < By noise (noises in the head).

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Dippel's Oil ; Rectified Animal Oil.
Dilutions in alcohol or trituration.
Provings by Nenning, Schreter and Trinks, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., vol. 2.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Migraine , Zwingenberg, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 562 ; Greenish urine , etc., Dixon, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 508, from Journal of Health, 1864, p. 180 ; Neuralgia of spermatic cord , Blakely, Raue's Rec., 1870, p. 241, from H. M. P. H. Soc., 1859 ; Asthma nervosum , Zwingenberg, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 562.

Frequent vanishing of thought.
Fretful and ill-humored or sad.
Taciturn or thoughtful, absorbed in revery.

Painful dizziness early in morning in bed, or in open air, when stooping.

Numb and paralytic sensation in left side of head.
Pressure on vertex shifting to occiput.
Boring in left frontal protuberance.
Migraine always day after a party, where she usually wore a heavy diadem ; polyuria of perfectly clear urine.
Sensation as if blood were rushing to occiput on entering a room.

Itching on right side of occiput, > from scratching.

Mistiness of sight, especially in afternoon when writing.
Burning in eyes, in open air, on waking, by candlelight.
Spasmodic quivering of lids.
Frequent twitching in left upper lid.

Sticking or boring in ears, with dryness in throat.

Itching in nostrils.
Pimples on septum, with burning and oozing.
Itching and burning on tip of nose.
Oozing pimples on nose.

Pale, earthy complexion.
Redness of cheeks even when skin is cold.
Cramplike pain in left cheek.
Itching pimples and vesicles on cheeks.
Papulæ on cheek and under skin of occiput.

Cracking in left articulation of jaw.
Itching of lips ; chapped lips.

Sour taste in mouth.

Dryness : with sour taste in mouth ; on waking, in morning.
Greasy feeling in mouth and on palate.
Profuse accumulation of saliva in mouth, sometimes snow white.

Dryness of throat, especially during empty deglutition.
Roughness in throat inducing dry, hacking cough.
Hawking of tenacious mucus after a meal.
Choking and constriction of throat, particularly morning and evening.

Desire for softboiled eggs.

Frequent empty eructations relieving nausea.

Pressure in pit of stomach, also after drinking cold water.
Sensation as if stomach were full of water.
Sensation of coldness in stomach.
Burning and heat from stomach to chest.
Stinging in stomach.
Bruised pain about stomach.

Pressure with sticking in region of liver and spleen.

Shifting of flatus in abdomen, with rumbling.
Drawing from groins to testicles.

Difficult stool ; after long urging ; even when natural.
Burning and stinging in anus and rectum.

Urine : greenish, copious, clear, pale, also depositing a cloud ; greenish and smells fishy ; constipation ; dilated pupils, and occasional rolling of eyes during sleep.
Much urging to urinate, with discharge of only a few drops.
Burning during micturition.
Itching in urethra.

Nocturnal erections and emissions.
Long standing neuralgia of spermatic cord ; excruciating attacks three or four times every year ; pains as if testicles were seized by a hand and pulled very severely.
Both testicles are drawn up and very painful.
Pressing in prostate gland.
Burning stinging about root of penis (afternoon).

Menses : too early, preceded and accompanied by cutting in abdomen and small of back and sticking in left side of head and vertex ; scanty, black blood, languor of hands and feet.
Leucorrhœa of thin, white mucus.

Spasmus glottidis with disturbance of abdominal organs ; flatulency, colic or diarrhœa ; tympanitis.
Hoarseness with inability to talk loud.

Chronic asthma nervosum, for which no organic basis could be detected, but which was caused by repelled foot sweat.

Rushes of blood to chest with dry heat of face.
Violent stitch in upper part of chest, near sternum, as with a red hot needle burning in that spot, continuing a long time after.
Darting in mamma when standing, from behind forward.

Pressure and crushing sensation about heart.

Cracking of vertebræ on raising head.
A few pointed and painful stitches from left scapula to axilla.
Pain in small of back when sitting.

Pimples in bends of elbows.
Numbness of single fingers.
Drawing and digging in right thumb as if it would ulcerate.

Excoriation in bends of hips.
Sticking in sole of foot.
Tingling in one spot in middle of sole in evening.
Cramp in toes.
Tearing in big toe, which is painful as if ulcerated, particularly near nail.

Lameness of left limb and left arm.

Raising head : cracking of vertebræ.
Standing : darting in mamma.
Stooping : painful dizziness.
Sitting : pain in back.

Languor with indolence, inclination to sit.
Fainting.
Cramplike drawing in different parts.

Morning : painful dizziness.
Choking and constriction of throat.
Afternoon : mistiness when writing ; burning about root of penis.
Evening : choking and constriction of throat ; tingling in one spot of sole.

Open air : painful dizziness ; burning of eyes ; walk in open air ; coldness of left leg.
On entering room : as if blood were rushing to occiput.

Shuddering from vertex to chest.
Coldness : after a walk in open air ; of whole left lower limb.
Dry, pricking heat, particularly in face.
Perspiration during a meal.

Every year three or four attacks : neuralgia of spermatic cord.

Left : numb and paralytic sensation in side of head ; boring in frontal protuberance ; twitching in upper lid ; cramplike pain in cheek ; cracking in articulation of jaw ; sticking in side of head ; stitches from scapula to axilla ; lameness of lower limb and arm ; coldness of lower limbs.
Right : itching on side of occiput ; drawing and digging in thumb.
From behind forward : darting.

As if blood were rushing to head ; as if stomach were full of water ; as if testicles were seized by hand and pulled severely ; as of red hot needles in chest ; as if thumb would ulcerate ; as if toe would ulcerate.
Pain : in small of back.
Excruciating neuralgia : of spermatic cord.
Violent stitch : in upper part of chest.
A few pointed, painful stitches : from left scapula to axilla.
Tearing : in big toe.
Darting : in mamma.
Cutting : in abdomen and small of back.
Cramplike drawing : of different parts.
Cramp : in toes.
Cramplike pain : in left cheek.
Drawing : from groins to testicles ; in right thumb.
Boring : in left frontal protuberance ; in ears.
Digging : in right thumb.
Bruised pain : about stomach.
Crushing sensation : about heart.
Stinging : in stomach ; in anus and rectum.
Burning stinging : about root of penis.
Burning : in eyes ; of pimples on septum ; of tip of nose ; from stomach to chest ; in anus and rectum ; during micturition ; in chest ; of skin.
Sticking : in ears ; in region of liver and spleen ; in left side of head and vertex ; in sole.
Dry, pricking heat : < in face.
Heat : from stomach to chest ; of face.
Excoriations : in bends of hips.
Painfulness : of both testicles.
Tingling : in one spot in middle of sole.
Roughness : in throat.
Dryness : in throat.
Pressure : on vertex shifting to occiput ; in pit of stomach ; in region of liver and spleen ; in prostate gland ; about heart.
Constriction : of throat.
Numb and paralytic sensation : in left side of head.
Numbness : of single fingers.
Lameness : of left lower limb and arm.
Biting-itching : of skin.
Gnawing-itching : of skin.
Itching : on right side of occiput ; in nostrils ; of tip of nose ; of pimples on cheeks ; of lips ; in urethra.
Shuddering : from vertex to chest.
Coldness : in stomach ; of whole left lower limb.

After wearing heavy diadem : migraine.
Scratching : > itching on occiput.
Rubbing : burning of skin >.

Burning ; biting-itching > from rubbing ; gnawing-itching.
Itching like flea-bites, disappearing suddenly or changing to burning and heat.
Vesicles like scabious pimples.
Red watery vesicles after scratching.

A lady, usually wore a heavy diadem upon head ; migraine.

Antidoted by : Camphor., Nux vom., Opium .
Compare : Ignat . and Gelsem . in headache and polyuria ; Agar . in twitching of eyelids ; Arsen., Carbo veg . and Phosphor . in gastric symptoms after cold water ; Pulsat . in male sexual organs.