Oleum Jecoris Aselli ol-j.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Chest. Liver. Tendons.

Worse

Milk. Cold damp.

General

Rigid tendons. Faulty nutrition. Atrophic infants. Intolerance of milk.

Particulars

Yellow tongue, leucorrhœa, sputum, skin, etc. Hoarseness. Cough, with palpitation. Early phthisis. Soreness or stitches in chest. Burning spots. Milk crust. Ring-worm. Always taking cold. Chilly up back. Heat in palms, toward evening. Hectic.

Related

Related: Pho.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Cod-liver Oil

General

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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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.

Characteristics

The number of people who "cannot take cod-liver oil" is very great; which means that Ol. j. a . is a pathogenetic as well as a curative agent. Neidhard proved it and elicited some very definite symptoms, and to these have been added effects, curative and pathogenetic, observed on patients. The oil contains a large number of proximate principles of great complexity, to which its specific medicinal properties are due. Recent developments of sarcopathy mark out Ol. j. a . as a liver remedy, an ally of Cholesterine , and this the provings confirm. Very decided pains in the liver and liver region with great soreness were noted in Neidhard's provings, and these symptoms give one of the keynotes of the remedy ─ Soreness . Not only the liver, but the throat, chest, abdomen, kidneys, ovaries, joints, and back are all sore; the spine is sore as in spinal irritation. Another keynote is the occurrence of palpitation of the heart as a concomitant of other symptoms; with cough; with short breath. Allied to this is a "sense of fluttering, like the movements of a watch, commencing in region of sacrum, gradually rising to occiput, and in its ascent affecting abdomen and chest, so that the patient is transfixed, unable to move hand or foot;" also "creeping sensation all over with a rush of blood to heart." The reputation of Ol. j. a . as a remedy for phthisis and scrofulous affections is shown by the provings to be specific, whatever food-value the oil may possess in addition. "Dry, hacking cough night-cough; cough with tough expectoration, yellow or white soreness of chest, especially on coughing; sharp stitches here and there, through chest; burning through to back; burning in spots," are among the symptoms experienced. The fever symptoms are strongly marked, both hectic and intermittent. One very characteristic feature is: "Fever < towards evening with burning in palms ." Chills running down the back. Feet constantly cold. Ol. j. a . is a chilly medicine: sensitive to draughts; feels as if continually taking cold. The cough is < from exposure to cold; < in damp weather. The sensitiveness to chill and damp is part of the intermittent fever action of the remedy, and along with it is affection of the spleen, which is the seat of several symptoms. During the chill and before it there is thirst. When the fever came on the cough was > . The yellowness of Ol. j. a . appears not only in the expectoration, but in the coating of the tongue, yellow mucus from sore throat, and a yellow Leucorrhœa. On the female sexual organs Ol. j. a . has a powerful action, increasing the menstrual flow and restoring it when in abeyance. Burnett has shown that ringworm generally has its constitutional basis in a consumptive habit, and Bacil . has again and again proved the remedy. This is paralleled in a local use of the anti-phthisic Ol. j. a . which was taught me by De Noë Walker. In recent ringworm the application of the plain oil at bedtime is at once the most innocent and most effectual of local measures that I know. Before the application the part should be washed well with soft soap. Another use of the remedy taught me by the same authority is as a general application in the case of emaciated, dwarfish, chilly babies and children. A nightly rubbing with the oil soon revolutionises their condition. The nutrition of the skin is improved and the medicinal properties of the oil are absorbed without any tax being put on the organs of digestion. Burnett says olive oil acts as well. That may be, but it does not act better. I have no comparative figures to refer to. When the symptoms indicate Ol. j. a . it should certainly have the preference. Defective nutrition; anæmia; weakness and emaciation; deficiency of animal heat. Children who cannot take milk. The headaches are usually frontal; over right eye; bursting after coughing. Other symptoms are: Red face (also in hectic). Voracious appetite. Foul breath. Symptoms go in all directions ─ from above down; from below up; from front to back; and from back to front. One curious symptom was abnormal growth of hair on the face of a woman. Another was passage of mucus from urethra, with burning, during stool. Symptoms are < by touch; by riding; by a fall. < By motion; raising arm; stooping; bending side inwards; walking. Laughing < cough. Lying down = oppressed feeling; and < cough. Coughing = soreness of chest; headache. Fever > cough. < From draught of air; exposure to cold; living in cold, damp localities.

Relations

Antidoted by: Iris v. (chill with sick stomach and diarrhœa). Compare: Cholest., Fel., and sarcodes generally. In phthisis, ringworm; emaciation, Bac., Pho. Emaciation and ravenous appetite, Iod. Intolerance of milk, Æthus., Calc., Lac v., Mag. c. Pains in head with cough, Caps., Bry., Nat. m. Chilly; effects of damp localities, Nat. sul., Aran. Heavy eyelids, Gels., Op.

Mind

Feels miserable all over, with great nervous irritation. ─ Sensation as if out of her mind.

Head

Giddiness in head. ─ Dull aching pain in forehead. ─ Steady aching sensation from l. to r. temple. ─ Aching about inner part of r. eyebrow as if in periosteum. ─ Bursting headache after coughing as if head would split. ─ Pain from occiput to forehead with nausea.

Eyes

Eyes swelled. ─ Heaviness over eyes with dry and parched hands. ─ Aching pain in r. eye when using it. ─ Lachrymation when walking in open air ( < l.). ─ Lids so heavy, can hardly raise them. ─ During chill, blindness. ─ Everything turns black.

Ears

Deafness in l. ear, abscess in r. ─ Fetid discharge from ears.

Nose

Dry coryza, cough and sneezing. ─ Fluent coryza, hoarseness and rawness of chest. ─ Chronic catarrh and ozæna. ─ Nose-bleed when sleeping, with amenorrhœa.

Face

Face red. ─ A growth of short, thick hair on chin and upper lip (in a woman).

Mouth

(Putrid smell from decayed tooth ceased whilst taking the oil.). ─ Tongue: loaded; coated yellow. ─ Parched feeling in mouth. ─ (Fetid breath cured.)

Throat

Soreness in throat after hawking up phlegm. ─ Chronic sore throat, with expectoration of yellow mucus. ─ Tickling in throat; weakness in breath. ─ Thyroid gland swollen.

Stomach

Voracious appetite diminished (in rickety children). ─ Appetite lost; could not take milk. ─ Thirst: great; constant; before and during chill. ─ Nausea. ─ Vomiting; of bile and mucus with bitter and acid taste at expiration of chill. ─ Acid vomiting with the chill. ─ Burning in stomach. ─ Weight in stomach.

Abdomen

Soreness and heaviness in region of liver < by exercise; sore like a boil on pressure. ─ Heavy pain in r. side with numbness of r. arm as if dead. ─ Beating pain in spleen. ─ Aching in spleen region on breathing and coughing, with pain at apex of scapula (at end of chill). ─ Jerking, drawing pains in region of spleen. ─ Flatulence relieved. ─ (Atrophia mesenterica).

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa: at night and early morning; with the chill. ─ Constipation.

Urinary Organs

Soreness in kidneys, following soreness in liver. ─ Discharge of mucus from urethra with burning, every morning during stool. ─ Acceleration of urinary secretion. ─ Urine with bricky sediment. ─ (Incontinence cured).

Female Sexual Organs

Acts as emmenagogue. ─ Menses reestablished (cure). ─ Increase of menstrual flow so strong as to render a suspension of the oil necessary. ─ Soreness of both ovaries; dysmenorrhœa. ─ Leucorrhœa: yellow; with weak back.

Respiratory Organs

Cough: all night; hard spells in morning; hacking; tickling in middle of upper chest with palpitation; violent with retching, night and day; with stitches, on raising arm; < from draughts of air; < lying down at night, prevents sleeping; loose all day; from exposure to cold, damp weather; with emaciation and weakness; > when fever comes on. ─ Expectoration: yellow or yellowish-green, saltish, tough; tough white; white; bloody mucus. ─ Breath short, with palpitation of heart; asthmatic.

Chest

Oppression, with heat. ─ Weakness in chest and back ( < l.). ─ Soreness: all over chest or in centre with hacking cough and aching between shoulders, < r. side; in chest and stomach with cough; < by motion. ─ Burning pains in spots in some one portion of chest. ─ Burning and heat in l. chest; through to back, with cough. ─ Pains in upper chest on coughing. ─ Pneumonia of both upper lobes of lungs. ─ Pain through lower chest to back. ─ Pain r. side above and below scapula; breathing there is arrested by soreness; sharp stitch l. side. ─ Sensation of excoriation in l. chest; < upper and lower part of l. chest, extending to back. ─ Weakness in breast; tickling in the throat. ─ (Phthisis.)

Heart

Palpitation of heart; with cough; with short breath. ─ Rush of blood to heart, with a creeping sensation all over body. ─ Sudden stitch in heart. ─ Pulse accelerated, soft, and small.

Neck and Back

Soreness from back to neck. ─ Pain through back. ─ Sharp, heavy aching pain in lower spine. ─ Spinal irritation, sore to touch. ─ Fluttering from sacrum to occiput. ─ Weakness and dull aching in sacral region, > by pressure. ─ Often placed hand on sacrum to support it; often complained of pain in region of sacro-iliac joint; walking increasingly difficult.

Limbs

Continual aching and sore pain in elbow and knee-joints. ─ Movements in joints were limited; esp. elbows and knees; flexion and extension caused excruciating suffering.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in shoulders. ─ Hands dry and parched with pain in spleen. ─ Pain in bones of l. arm.

Lower Limbs

Abscess appeared on l. gluteus maximus near anus, and discharged three times; afterwards another boil r. side of chest. ─ Hip-joint disease; esp. when originating in bone (rather than in synovial membrane). ─ Sciatica with atrophy of affected limb. ─ White swelling of knee. ─ Rheumatic pain in l. foot. ─ Fistulæ and abscesses round joints. ─ Soreness of both feet. ─ Feet constantly cold.

Generalities

Atrophy. ─ (Emaciated person gains weight.). ─ Creeping sensation all over body with rush of blood to heart. ─ Soreness all round body to back. ─ Fluttering (like a watch) rising from sacrum to occiput, affecting abdomen and chest in such a way that she becomes transfixed, unable to move hand or foot, and arresting movement if in motion at time of seizure. ─ Stitches and bearing down in one or other sides; < bending side inward. ─ Contraction of muscles: musculo-fibrous rheumatism.

Skin

Skin red all over, at night in bed, with irritability, > in morning. ─ An eruption of small red spots, like psora, appeared, and from that time she made rapid progress. ─ Eruptions: papular; vesicular; herpetic. ─ (Scrofulous ulcers discharging a large quantity of pus; cold abscesses. ─ Lupus. ─ Ichthyosis.)

Sleep

Less sleepy than usual. ─ Sleepless after 3 a.m. ─ Dreams of seeing objects in the room during sleep.

Fever

Constantly chilly; feels as if constantly taking cold. ─ Chills from occiput down back and round abdomen. ─ Chill: 3 a.m.; in evening; with some vomiting and purging for six hours; with spasmodic pain in region of navel (returned every evening for four days, relieved by Iris v.). ─ Chilly on going to bed; afterwards heat, < in hot room; burning face. ─ Flushes of heat; face red, stomach hot, heat to tips of toes. ─ Heat in palms; every night. ─ Fever and excitement every night producing wakefulness. ─ Tertian intermittent. ─ Fever followed by violent sweat, esp. of head, neck, and arms. ─ Sweat: every night; with smell of the oil; only on lower limbs. ─ Cold perspiration all day.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Cod-liver Oil ; Oleum Morrhuæ.
Obtained from the liver of Gadus Morrhua, and of other species of Gadus. The purest cod-liver oil is of a pale yellow color.
Provings with Jongh's Norwegian oil by Neidhard, U. S. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. 8, p. 1.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Hoarseness , Neidhard, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 113 ; from U. S. M. and S. J., vol. 8, p. 146 ; Aching in joints and fluttering in sacrum , Neidhard, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 33, from U. S. M. and S. J., vol. 8, p. 4 ; Rheumatism , Brefeld, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 438 ; Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica , Bennett, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 438 ; Scrofula , Madden, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 439.

Mind

Sensation as if out of her mind.

Inner head

Dull aching pain in forehead.
Aching pain about inner part of right eyebrow, as if in periosteum.
Bursting headache after coughing, as if head would split open.
Pain from occiput to forehead, with nausea.

Sight and eyes

Aching pain in right eye, when using it.
Trachoma ; for chronic forms and constitutional troubles.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.

Hearing and ears

Marked deafness in left ear, and abscess in right.
Fetid discharge from ears.

Smell and nose

Dry coryza, cough and sneezing.
Fluent coryza, hoarseness and rawness of chest.
Chronic catarrh and ozæna.
Bleeding of nose when stooping, with amenorrhœa.

Upper face

Cachectic expression of countenance.

Inner mouth

Fetid breath.

Palate and throat

Choking and oppressed feeling when lying down.
Chronic sore throat, with expectoration of yellow mucus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Voracious appetite of rachitic children.

Hypochondria

Region of liver sensitive to touch.
Stitch in right side on motion, with cough on raising arm.
Heavy pain in right side, with numbness in right arm as if it were dead.

Abdomen and loins

Atrophia mesenterica.
Tabes mesenterica ; child pale, cachectic, greatly emaciated, with large, tumid abdomen, enlarged liver and swollen mesenteric glands.

Stools and rectum

Chronic diarrhœa, supposed to have been caused by ulceration of mucous membrane.
Chronic diarrhœa in adults, with great emaciation, poor digestion and depressed nutrition.

Urinary organs

Incontinence of urine.
Addison's disease ; Bright's disease.

Female sexual organs

Soreness of both ovaries ; dysmenorrhœa.
Discharge of yellow matter from womb, with weak back.
Menstruation ; premature or copious ; obstructed, from taking cold ; irregular ; amenorrhœa.
Leucorrhœa.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness connected with incipient as well as advanced stages of consumption.

Cough

Irritating cough.
Violent cough, with retching night and day.
Laughing excites fits of coughing.
Cough : on raising arm, with stitches ; < from drafts of air ; < on lying down at night ; loose all day ; < on lying down, preventing her from sleeping ; severe, following exposure to cold, damp weather, at times yellowish expectoration, at others cough dry, hacking ; long-continued, with emaciation, loss of strength and appetite, finally excessive weakness, with expectoration of heavy, bloody mucus.
Expectoration : yellow or yellowish-green.

Inner chest and lungs

Weakness in chest and back ; more in left.
Soreness : all over chest or in centre of chest, with barking cough and aching between shoulders ; in chest through shoulders, < right side ; in chest and stomach, with cough.
Sore, dull pain in chest when in motion or riding on horseback.
Burning heat in left chest through to back, with cough.
Pain in upper part of chest when coughing.
Pain through lower part of chest, passing through to back.
Hæmoptysis : with hawking of phlegm in morning ; flying pains all across chest ; caused by a fall.
Pneumonia of upper lobes of both lungs.
Phthisis pulmonalis : soreness in chest and stomach, with hard coughing spells in morning ; loss of appetite and strength ; expectoration of yellow mucus or bloody sputa ; affection of glands, bones or cutaneous troubles ; when tubercles have not yet softened or even when they are in first stage of softening ; vomica with perfect pectoriloquy under right clavicle ; excavation in apex of right lung ; scrofulous diathesis.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation of heart.
Pulse accelerated, soft and small.

Neck and back

Soreness from back to chest.
Pain through back.
Sharp, heavy, aching pain in lower spine.
Spinal irritation ; sore to touch.
Sense of fluttering, like movements of a watch, commencing in region of sacrum and gradually rising to occiput.
Often placed her hand on sacrum, as if to support it, and complained of pain in neighborhood of sacro-iliac synchondrosis ; her walk became gradually more and more difficult.
Rheumatic pains in sacrum.
Chronic lumbago of several years standing, with difficulty in walking ; cachexia with œdema.

Upper limbs

Rheumatic pains in shoulder.

Lower limbs

Hip joint disease ; more valuable when disease originated in bone itself than in synovial membrane.
Sciatica, with atrophy of affected limb.
White swelling of knees ; scrofulous hip disease.
Chronic arthritis of ankle joint.
Rheumatic pain in left foot.
Fistulæ and abscesses around joints.

Limbs in general

Continued aching and sore pain in elbow and knee joints.
Movements of joints more limited, especially in elbows and knees ; and all attempts at flexion or extension caused most excruciating suffering.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : oppressed feeling ; cough <.
Stooping : bleeding of nose.
Motion : stitch in right side ; sore pain in chest.
Raising arm : coughing.
Walking : becomes more and more difficult ; pain in sacro-iliac synchondrosis ; chronic lumbago.

Nerves

Loss of vital power ; emaciation.

Sleep

Loss of sleep.
Dreams of seeing objects in room during sleep.

Time

Morning : hæmoptysis, with hawking of phlegm ; hard coughing spells.
All day : cough loose ; cold perspiration.
Evening : slight hoarseness.
Day and night : violent cough, with retching.
Night : cough < ; fever ; exacerbations destroyed all repose.

Temperature and weather

Draft of air : cough <.
Exposure to cold : cough <.
Damp weather : cough <.

Fever

Constantly chilly, feeling as if she was continually taking cold.
Chills from occiput down to back.
Heat in palms of hands every night.
Hectic fever, with nocturnal aggravations.
Cold perspiration all day.
Night sweats.

Attacks, periodicity

Every night : heat in palms.
For six months : amenorrhœa.

Locality and direction

Right : pain about inner eyebrow ; aching pain in eye ; abscess in ear ; stitch in side ; heavy pain in side ; numbness in arm ; soreness in shoulder ; vomica, with perfect pectoriloquy under clavicle ; excavation in apex of lung.
Left : marked deafness ; weakness < in side of back ; burning heat in chest ; rheumatic pain in foot.

Sensations

As if out of her mind ; as if head would split open ; as if right arm were dead ; as if she were continually taking cold.
Pain : from occiput to forehead ; in upper part of chest ; through lower part of chest to back ; through back ; in neighborhood of sacro-iliac synchondrosis.
Bursting pain : in head.
Flying pains : all across chest.
Stitch : in right side.
Aching pain : in forehead ; about inner part of right eyebrow ; in right eye ; between shoulders ; sharp ; heavy, in lower spine ; in elbow and knee joints.
Rheumatic pains : in sacrum ; in shoulders ; in left foot.
Sore dull pain : in chest ; in elbow and knee joint.
Erratic pains : in joints.
Heavy pain : in right side.
Soreness : of both ovaries ; all over chest ; in centre of chest ; in chest through shoulders ; in stomach ; from back to chest.
Burning heat : in left chest through to back.
Heat : in palms.
Rawness : of chest.
Sense of fluttering, like movements of watch : in region of sacrum, rising to occiput.
Oppressed feeling : when lying down.
Numbness : in right arm.
Itching : of skin.

Tissues

Weakness, emaciation and anemia ; defective nutrition, especially in children.
Nervous affections, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, in emaciated, pale, anemic persons, with deficiency of animal heat.
Atrophy of infants ; emaciation, with hot hands and head ; constant tendency to catarrhs ; bones affected ; rachitis ; fever at night, with sweat, mostly on head, neck and hands ; cannot take milk ; vivid dreams, restless and feverish at night.
Contraction of muscles ; musculo-fibrous rheumatism.
Rheumatism, produced by protracted residence in damp and cold localities ; affection confined to joints ; gradual exhaustion of strength and impairment of nutrition.
Rheumatism of long standing ; patient confined to bed or room, and only in warm summer months experienced a slight alleviation of her sufferings ; nearly whole body was attacked, but principally inferior extremities, sacrum, back and shoulders ; walking was entirely prevented by the insupportable pains, stiffness and swelling of joints ; a kind of hectic fever and constant nightly exacerbations destroyed all repose ; patient was wasted, of a bleachy whiteness, of a cachetic appearance and habit, and had lost all hope of relief.
Chronic gout and rheumatism of elderly persons, with rigidity of muscles and tendons, joint nearly inflexible.
Erratic pains in joints, with œdema.
Scrofulosis : diseases of joints ; in pale, thin cachectic subjects.
Rachitis ; malacosteon, affecting female pelvis ; caries and strumous osteitis.
Caries : especially attacking epiphises of long bones ; in which there is a fistulous ulcer with raised edges, bleeding and discharging a flocculent pus of a nauseating smell.
Softening of bones in adults.
Scrofulous abscesses and ulceration of glands, or when indolent ulcer with excoriated edges remains, or one extending under skin and beneath muscles.
Cold abscesses.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : region of liver sensitive ; spine sore.
Riding on horseback : sore pain in chest.
Caused by a fall : flying pains in chest.

Skin

Itching.
Skin red all over ; eruption of small red spots.
Herpes ; scald head.
Scrofulous ulcers discharging a large quantity of pus ; cold abscesses.
Lupus.
Icthyosis.

Stage of life, constitution

Strumous diathesis ; slender, lean figure ; thin, transparent skin ; frequent pulse ; great excitability of nervous system ; urine of high specific gravity.
Boy, æt. 12 ; scrofula.
Mrs. F., æt. 30 ; cough.
Lady, æt. 30 ; constant chilliness.
Mrs. M., æt. 30, formerly of strong robust constitution ; rheumatism.
Mrs. O., æt. 36 ; cough.

Relations

Compare : Phosphor . in catarrh and hoarseness ; Iod . in ravenous appetite of rachitic children ; Iod., Phosphor . and Spongia in lung diseases.