Oleum Jecoris Aselli
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General
OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI Cod-liver Oil
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.
Haemoptysis (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 alae 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.