# Pix Liquida

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
In old-school practice, taris known as a “ stimulant expectorant” in chronic bronchitis and 
tuberculosis, and a stimulant to the skin in psoriasis and scaly eczema.  
Tar and its constituents act on various mucus membranes. 
Cough. Bronchial irritation after influenza (Kreos., Kali -bi.). Tuberculosis and chronic bronchitis. Pain at the 
third left costal carti lage, where it joins the rib, pain of the left bronchus, with an offensive muco -purulent 
expectoration the indications for Pix are complete. 
Scaly eruptions. Much itching. Alopecia (Fl-ac.). Constant vomiting of black fluid with pain in stomach.

## Symptoms by System

### Chest
- Suppuration of left lung with pain at third rib.
- Pain at a spot about the third l eft costal cartilage,  
where it joins the rib.
- Rales through the lungs and chest.
- Kidneys - Ardor urine.
- Dark-colored urine.
- Chronic bronchitis.
- Cough chronic, worse night, expectoration purulent, fever at night.
- Muco-purulent 
sputum, offensive odor and taste.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Excessive pain in bowels and loins.

### Skin
- Acute eczema.
- Acne.
- Desquamation.
- Skin cracked, itches intolerably,  bleeds on scratching, with 
sleeplessness.
- Eruptions on back of hands.
- COMMENTS - Buckley recorded severe constitutional effects following the local application of preparations of 
tar in skin disorders, includ ing a high fever, black vomit, black stools, dark -colored urine, acute eczema, and 
acne.
- In the Hom.
- News., Raynaud noted a case of chronic bronchitis in a merchant, 55.
- The cough w as worse 
nights, breath short, copious expectoration, some fever and nightsweats.
- He had been ill three years and was 
growing worse.
- Raynaud prescribed wood tar, a tea spoonful four times a day after meals and at bedtime, which cleared up 
most of the symptoms.
- Pix.
- often cures the bedwetting of children.