# Oleum Animale Aethereum ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Sycotic Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime ## Keynote Indications Ol-an. is an oil obtained from the preparation of bone-black and further distilled and rectified for medicinal use. It was discovered in 1711 by Johann Conrad Dippel, the alchemist, who was the discoverer of Prussian blue. Dippel obtained it in the first instance by a distillation of stags' horns, the deciduous horns of the stag partaking more of the nature of bone than the permanent horns of cattle. This lead to the name Oleum cornu cervi, with which the Ol-an. is at present prepared is considered identical. Sircar noted that though it is not the pana cea which Dippel imagined it to be when he discovered it, Ol -an. in a very powerful medicinal substance and since it has been well proved by Nenning, Schreter and Trinks, it has a definite place in the Homeopathic Materia Medica. Grimmer indicated it in cases of breast cancer with burning or sticking and pres sure radiating in all directions, relieved by rubbing and in the open air. A uterine tumor cured with several doses of Ol -an. 1000c potency given at long intervals shows its relationship to new growths. Pain in spots. Stitches, burning pains, as with red hot needles. “Pulled upward’’ and “from behind forward” pains in malar bones, testicles, breasts. Flesh feels torn from bones. Affe cted part feels sore. Symptoms appear here and there or in single parts. Affects the nerves, especially pneumogas - tric nerve, digestive organs. Neurasthenia. Migraine, neuralgia of spermatic cord. Tremulous weakness of hands, knees, feet etc. Shuffling gait. Icy coldness from tips of teeth in throat, stomach etc. Chilliness (and coryza) are worse in a warm room and better in open air. Sensation as if stomach were full of churning water. Urinous odor with belch- ings, leucorrhea etc. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Better from rubbing, pressure. Better stretching, changing position. Bet ter in open air. Better eructation. Worse from cold. Worse in warm room, hot drinks. Worse eating. Worse suppres sions, noise. Worse from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Worse before, during and commencement of menses. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Ill-tempered. - Nervous irritability. - Sad introverted, absorbed in self, speaks in whispers. - Indolent, inclined to sit, taciturn. - Vanishing thoughts. - Faintness from gastric origin. - Ill-tempered. - Nervous irritability. - Sad introverted, absorbed in self, speaks in whispers. - Indolent, inclined to sit, taciturn. - Vanishing thoughts. - Faintness from gastric origin. ### Vertigo - Vertigo from gastric origin, better bending head backwards. - COMMENTS - Dippel's Animal Oil is “a colorless or slightly yellow, thin, oily liquid with a penetrating but not disagreeable odor and an acrid, burning taste, which changes to a cool and bitter one. - It darkens and thickens on exposure to air and light and is extremely volatile. - A drop on paper evapo rates without leaving a greasy stain.’Tts composition is extremely complex, but it may be rega rded as belonging to the group of volatile carbons. - Burning pains and burning sensations in almost all parts, stitching pains, “stitches as with red -hot needles” (Kali-c., other carbons). - Stitches and pressure in all directions, particularly from behind f orward. - Cramp-like pains indifferent parts. - Sensa tion of part being pulled upward. - The left side is predominantly affected, when direction is noted it is from before backward and from behind upward. - Cracking in vertebra of neck on raising head. - Twitching of lips and swelling beneath right lower jaw. - Malar bone feels as if pulled forcibly upward. - Greasy feeling in mouth and accumulation of quantities of saliva white as snow. - Relaxation of buccal mucus membrane, patient cannot avoid biting cheek when he eats. - Sensation as of white of egg dried on lips. - Soreness of tongue as if scalded. - Sensation as if cold air penetrated throat although the air is warm, better eating and drinking, worse empty swallowing. - Desire for soft-boiled eggs or for bread, with aversion to meat. - Sensation as if water were in stomach, as if a lump of ice there. - Belchings taste like urine and burn. - Both testicles are drawn up and very painful. - “Stitches from behind forward in breasts, pressure from both sides of the back extends forward.” Menses too early and too scanty. - Clarke gave great relief in a case of cancer of right breast in which the patient complained of pains darting forward out of the nipple. - Dr. - Leggett related the case of a very stout Dutch woman, 56, who had been under constitutional treatment for uterine tumor, engorged liver and cerebral congestion. - She fancied the tumor had increased to the size it was years ago. - She had the sensation as if water rushing back and forth in stomach. - She had been walking, standing and shopping and had eaten many sweets. - Of the remedies having “stomach as if full of water,” Ol -an. - was chosen as more similar to the case than Mill, or Phell. - and was given in 1000c potency, a single dose. - A month later she was better in every way and a second dose brought still further improvement. - A case of long-standing neuralgia of the spermatic cord was cured. - There were ex cruciating attacks three or four times every year, pains as if testicles were seized by a hand and pulled very severely. - Ol -an. - 18c gave almost instant and permanent relief. - Dever cured a toothache in an extremely irritable patient, pain better by pressing the teeth together. - The provings had “stitches in right upper molar removed by pressure after dinner.” The cure of a case of migraine is quoted in H. - M., July, 1895. - Zwingenberg, after failing with Sang., gave Ol - an. - 2x, five drops in warm water, morning and evening to a woman who always suffered from migraine the day after a party, at which she usually wore a heavy diadem on her head. - Polyuria of clear urine accompanied the migraine and suggested the remedy. - This accompaniment may indicate Ol-an. - in any nervous disorder. - Zwingenberg also cured a case of nervous asthma following repelled foot-sweat. ### Head - Migraine with polyuria. - Pain in spots. - Tearing pain with sadness and ir ritability, worse after dinner, relieved by rubbing. - Itching, burning vesicles, better friction. - Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward. - Migraine with polyuria. - Pain in spots. - Tearing pain with sadness and ir ritability, worse after dinner, relieved by rubbing. - Itching, burning vesicles, better friction. - Malar bones feel pulled forcibly upward. ### Eyes - Smarting in eyes, misty vision. - Lachrymation when eating. - Short -sighted. - Glistening bodies before the eyes. - Twitching of lids (Agar.). - A skin seems to over- hang the eyes. ### Face - Cramp-like pains. - Feels drawn. - White of an egg seems dried on lips. - Twitching of lips. - Malar bone feelspulled upward. - Swelling beneath right lower jaw. - Toothache, better from pressing teeth together. ### Mouth - Bites cheek while eating (Caust.). - Snow-white cottony saliva. - Greasy feel ing in mouth. - Tongue sore as if scalded. - Toothache, better pressing teeth together with sensation of coldness coming out from tips. - Nose - Watery, excoriating discharge, worse in open air. ### Throat - Sore, dry, constricted, empty swallowing difficult, though food and drink pass easily. - As if cold air penetrates the throat. - Acrid vapor or raw streak in throat, worse cough. - Hawks out gluey, brown lumps. ### Chest - Stitches at clavicle. - Chest feels constricted. - Oppression. - Anxious palpitations. - Pulse slow. - Kidneys - Polyuria. - Frequent and urgent want to urinate with tenesmus and scanty emission. - Small stream of urine. - Profuse, pale urine of fish brine odor, worse hysteria, migraine. - Greenish urine. - Itching in urethra. - Asthma from suppressed footsweat. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Sensations as if water were in stomach, of coldness, constriction, and burning, better belchings. - Urinous belchings. - Water brash, better chewing tobacco. - Temperature - Alternate chill and heat. - Cold, foul foot-sweat, fishy smell on heels. - Flatulence and rumbling. - Bruised pain in abdomen after stool. - Drinking cold water causes pressure in stomach, worse from hot drinks. - Desires bread. - Worse eating (sweat, lachrymation, headache). - Especially worse after dinner. ### Urinary & Genital - Desire increased, ejaculation too soo n. - Pain along spermatic cord to tes ticles. - Testicles feel seized and pulled forcibly upward, worse right. - Pressure in the perineum. - Prostate hypertrophy. - Seminal losses, on straining at stool. - Stitches in breast from behind forwards. - Sore breasts before menses, outward stitches in nipples in scirrhus. - Menses, early, scanty, black flow. - Urinous leucorrhea. ### Extremities - Sprained feeling in small of back. - Cracking of vertebrae on raising head (Aloe, Nat -c., Thuj.). - Rheumatic pain in shoulders. - Restlessness. - Fish-brine odor of sweat of heels. ### Neck & Back - Cracking in cervical vertebrae on raising the head. - Aching in right scapula, better pressure. - Sprained feeling in sacrum. - Unsteady gait. - Breasts - Stitches in breast from behind forward. - Causations - Ill effects of suppressions, especially of foot sweat. ### Skin - Excoriation in bends of joints. ### Generalities - Sensation in scalp as if skin had been cut and reunited. - As if blood were rushing to head to occiput on entering a warm room. - As if red-hot needles in chest. - As if testicles were seized and pulled forcibly upward. - As if thumb (and toe) would ulcerate.