Pix Liquida
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General EN
Pix Liquida.
Liquid Tar. (A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.) Tincture.
Clinical EN
Acne. Ardor urinae. Bronchitis. Desquamation. Diarrhoea. Eczema. Enuresis. Eruptions. Hands, eruptions on. Phthisis. Psoriasis. Vomiting, black.
Characteristics EN
In old-school practice Tar is known as a "stimulant expectorant" in chronic bronchitis and phthisis, a stimulant to the skin in psoriasis and scaly eczema. Buckley (quoted by Allen) has recorded severe constitutional effects following the local application of preparations of tar in skin affections. Among these are: High fever; black vomit; black stools; dark-coloured urine; acute eczema; acne. Homoeopaths (led by Jeanes) have brought out the special indications for the remedy; and chief among them is a pain at the third left costal cartilage, where it joins the rib.
This is really a pain of the left bronchus (Hering), and when associated with offensive muco-purulent expectoration the indications for Pix are complete. Cases of phthisis and chronic bronchitis with these characteristics have been cured by it. A case of chronic bronchitis in a merchant, 55, is recorded in Hom. News (xxix. 414).
The cough was < nights, breath short, copious expectoration, some fever and night-sweats. Ill three years and growing worse. Raynaud's prescription of Wood Tar, a teaspoonful four times a day, after meals and at bedtime, cleared up most of the symptoms Pix often cures the enuresis somni of children (R.
T. C.).
Relations EN
Compare: Tereb., Pinus syl., Kre., Eupn., Petrol. In chest pains, Illic. (Illic. has pain at third right costal cartilage; occasionally also left), Myrica, Therid. Desquamation, Chi. sul.
Head EN
Fulness and pain in head.
Stomach EN
Pain in stomach.—Vomiting: constant; of blackish fluid (from application to skin).
Abdomen EN
Excessive pain in bowels and loins.
Stool And Anus EN
Dark-coloured stools (from application).
Urinary Organs EN
Ardor urinae.—Dark-coloured urine (from application).
Respiratory Organs EN
Expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odour and taste, and accompanied by pain referred to third l. costal cartilage (really in l. bronchus); pain may or may not go through to back.—(Third stage of phthisis.)
Pain at third l. costal cartilage where it joins the rib; râles; muco-purulent expectoration
Suppuration of l. lung with pain at third rib
Cough chronic, < night; expectoration purulent; fever at night.
Generalities EN
Great exhaustion.
Skin EN
Acute eczema
Acne
Eruptions, esp. on backs of hands, itching intolerably at night and bleeding when scratched
Skin cracked, bleeding when scratched, with sleeplessness
Violent itching
Desquamation.
Fever EN
Occasionally high fever (from application).