{"id":950,"remedy_name":"Ichthyolum","remedy_type":"Homeopathic Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Ichthyolum is an unproved remedy which has been used in old -school therapeutics as an \nexternal application and internally in skin affections, rheumatism, scrofula, nephritis and gonorrhea. \nIchth. is a powerful antiseptic. It has achieved marked results as an external ap plication to rheumatic joints. A \nsolution of equal parts of Ichthyol and water is warmed and applied to the affected joint on calico and covered \nwith heated cloths, outside of which is an impervious fabric to prevent evaporation.  \nPure Ichthyol or an ointment of Lanoline and Ichthyol may be used instead with Lanoline making up 20 to 50 \npercent of the ointment. Externally, it is used as an ointment for chronic eczema, psoriasis, acne rosacea, \n \n \ngouty joints, chilblains and scabies. Rectal suppositories for senile prostate. Its action on skin, mucus \nmembranes and kidneys is prompt and useful. \nIt is strongly anti -parasitic, redness, pain and inflammation, and dec reases tension. Polyarthritis. Chronic \nrheumatism. Uric acid diathesis. Gouty joints. Alcoholism, when nothing will stay on stomach. \nHay fever. Chronic hives. Excellent in winter coughs of old people. Tuberculosis, helps nutrition.  Scarpa \nclaimed to have used it with excellent effect in a large number of cases of tuberculosis.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Irritable and depressed. Forgetful, lack of concentration. Irritable and depressed. Forgetful, lack of concentration.","Head":"Dull aching, better cold, pressure. \nDull frontal and supra-orbital headache, worse moving eyes, cold air, better warmth. \nKidneys - Burning pain in meatus. Increased in quantity and frequency. Uric acid deposits. Dull aching, better cold, pressure. \nDull frontal and supra-orbital headache, worse moving eyes, cold air, better warmth. \nKidneys - Burning pain in meatus. Increased in quantity and frequency. Uric acid deposits.","Eyes":"Burn, red, worse any change of temperature.","Face":"Skin feels dry and itches. Acne on chin.","Mouth":"Disagreeable taste, burning sensation, very thirsty. \nNose - Bland coryza, stuffed feeling, feels sore inside. Irresistible desire to sneeze.","Throat":"Irritated, pain to ears, sore, dry with hawking and expectoration. \nCOMMENTS - Anshutz wrote: \u2018The principal action of Ichthyol in the following proving seems to have been on \nthe mucus membranes of the nose and throat, on muscle tissue, producing rheumatic pain, on the skin and \non the urine. \n\u201cThe blood count was not conclusive, only two cases being tested and in one a diminution of red blood \ncorpuscles before after taking the drug) was noted. No marked change in the number or character of the \nleucocytes and lymphocytes was noted. \n\u201cMost of the provers had increased ap petite and after taking the drug for some time a marked feeling of well-\nbeing. Stool became free in some cases diarrhea and offensive. \n\u201cA languid, tired feeling with mental torpidity while actively taking the drug was usually followed by a feeling of \nimproved, vigorous health when the drug was left off to be again repeated upon renewed administration of the \nremedy. \n\u201cThe skin showed many interesting changes worthy of further proving, pruritus, acne and urticaria being \nproduced. Rheumatic pains in different parts of the body were also noted. \n\u201cThe urine showed valuable changes: Increased urination was noted in all cases with a change in color from \nthe usual straw to a dark straw or reddish tint. The solids were increased, as were the sulphates.  \n\u201cIn many cases uric acid was deposited in the form of brick -dust or red sand, which microscopically proved to \nbe the lozenge, plate and gravel form of uric acid crystals. \n\u201cCalcium oxalate crystals were also found in a few cases and in several instances the passage of the crystals \nproduced a mild inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney (mild catarrhal pyelitis) which in the writer's case \ndisappeared after six months, when the urine had again become normal. \n\u2018Therapeutically it would seem that in Ichthyol we have a potent remedy for the uric acid diathesis with its \nvarious manifestations and symptoms. Lithemia, as indicated by the urinary proving, should prove amenable \nto the drug if given in potency. \n\u201cHay fever symptoms were also prominent in the proving of the drug and its applica tion in this intractable \naffection is awaited with interest, local applications of Ichthyol having been used by a number of physicians in \ncases of hay fever with quite satisfactory results for some time. \n\u201cThe lachrymation, coryza and the dry, teasing cough of measles seems also well pictured in some of the \nsymptoms produced by this drug. Whooping cough tonsillitis and tiresome intractable cough of the aged \nsuffering from bronchial disorders would also appear to offer a chance for trial with this remedy.  \n\u201cIt was prescribed it in several cases o f gonorrhea with frequent urination and burning in the anterior urethra \nwith some success. Some have seen the remedy act beneficially in dry, hacking coughs such as were \ndeveloped by the provers. \n\u201cThe 3x, 6x and 8x potency, especially the latter, were employed.\u201d","Chest":"Dry, teasing cough. Bronchitis, especially of the aged. Bronchiectasis and tuberculosis.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Nausea. Griping in umbilical and left hypogastric region. Increased appetite.","Urinary & Genital":"Fullness in lower abdomen. Nausea at time of menses.","Extremities":"Lameness in right shoulder and right lower extremity.","Skin":"Heat and irritation. Itching. Scaly and itching eczema. Psoriasis. Hives. Acne rosacea, erysipelas. \nCrops of boils. Itching during pregnancy."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}