Remedy

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Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Pine-tar

General

Tar and its constituents act on various mucous membranes.

Its skin symptoms most important. A great cough medicine. Bronchial irritation after influenza (Kreosot; Kali bich). Scaly eruptions. Much itching. Constant vomiting of blackish fluid, with pain in stomach. Alopecia (Fluor ac).

Chest

Pain at a spot about the third left costal cartilage where it joins the rib. Rales through the lungs, and muco-purulent sputum; offensive odor and taste. Chronic bronchitis.

Skin

Cracked; itches intolerably; bleeds on scratching. Eruptions on back of hands.

Relationship

Compare its constituents: Kreosol; Petrol; Pinus; Eupion; Terebinth; Carbolic acid.

Dose

First to sixth potency.