====== OLEUM JECORIS ASELLI ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Oleum Jecoris Aselli.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Cod-liver Oil; Oleum Morrhuae.</span>

{{anchor:s3}}Obtained from the liver of Gadus Morrhua, and of other species of Gadus. {{anchor:s4}}The purest cod-liver oil is of a pale yellow color.

{{anchor:s5}}Provings with Jongh's Norwegian oil by Neidhard, U. S. Med. and Surg. {{anchor:s6}}Jour., vol. 8, p. 1.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Hoarseness</span>, Neidhard, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 113; from U. S. M. and S. J., vol. 8, p. 146; <span grade2>Aching in joints and fluttering in sacrum</span>, Neidhard, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 33, from U. S. M. and S. J., vol. 8, p. 4; <span grade2>Rheumatism</span>, Brefeld, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 438; <span grade2>Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica</span>, Bennett, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 438; <span grade2>Scrofula</span>, Madden, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 439.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s10}}Sensation as if out of her mind.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s12}}Dull aching pain in forehead.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}Aching pain about inner part of right eyebrow, as if in periosteum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s14}}Bursting headache after coughing, as if head would split open.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s15}}Pain from occiput to forehead, with nausea.</span>

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s17}}Aching pain in right eye, when using it.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s18}}Trachoma; for chronic forms and constitutional troubles.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s19}}Scrofulous ophthalmia.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s21}}Marked deafness in left ear, and abscess in right.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s22}}Fetid discharge from ears.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s24}}Dry coryza, cough and sneezing.</span>\\ {{anchor:s25}}Fluent coryza, hoarseness and rawness of chest.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s26}}Chronic catarrh and ozaena.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s27}}Bleeding of nose when stooping, with amenorrhea.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s29}}Cachectic expression of countenance.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s31}}Fetid breath.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s33}}Choking and oppressed feeling when lying down.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s34}}Chronic sore throat, with expectoration of yellow mucus.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s37}}Voracious appetite of rachitic children.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s39}}Region of liver sensitive to touch.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s40}}Stitch in right side on motion, with cough on raising arm.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s41}}Heavy pain in right side, with numbness in right arm as if it were dead.</span>

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s43}}Atrophia mesenterica.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Tabes mesenterica; child pale, cachectic, greatly emaciated, with large, tumid abdomen, enlarged liver and swollen mesenteric glands.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Chronic diarrhea, supposed to have been caused by ulceration of mucous membrane.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}Chronic diarrhea in adults, with great emaciation, poor digestion and depressed nutrition.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}Incontinence of urine.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s50}}Addison's disease; Bright's disease.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}Soreness of both ovaries; dysmenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}Discharge of yellow matter from womb, with weak back.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s54}}Menses; premature or copious; obstructed, from taking cold; irregular; amenorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}Leucorrhea.</span>

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Hoarseness connected with incipient as well as advanced stages of consumption.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s60}}Irritating cough.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Violent cough, with retching night and day.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}Laughing excites fits of coughing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s63}}Cough: on raising arm, with stitches; agg. from drafts of air; agg. on lying down at night; loose all day; agg. on lying down, preventing her from sleeping; severe, following exposure to cold, damp weather, at times yellowish expectoration, at others cough dry, hacking; long-continued, with emaciation, loss of strength and appetite, finally excessive weakness, with expectoration of heavy, bloody mucus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s64}}Expectoration: yellow or yellowish-green.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Weakness in chest and back; more in left.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s67}}Soreness: all over chest or in centre of chest, with barking cough and aching between shoulders; in chest through shoulders, agg. right side; in chest and stomach, with cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s68}}Sore, dull pain in chest when in motion or riding on horseback.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s69}}Burning heat in left chest through to back, with cough.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s70}}Pain in upper part of chest when coughing.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s71}}Pain through lower part of chest, passing through to back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s72}}Haemoptysis: with hawking of phlegm in morning; flying pains all across chest; caused by a fall.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s73}}Pneumonia of upper lobes of both lungs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Phthisis pulmonalis: soreness in chest and stomach, with hard coughing spells in morning; loss of appetite and strength; expectoration of yellow mucus or bloody sputa; affection of glands, bones or cutaneous troubles; when tubercles have not yet softened or even when they are in first stage of softening; vomica with perfect pectoriloquy under right clavicle; excavation in apex of right lung; scrofulous diathesis.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s76}}Palpitation of heart.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}Pulse accelerated, soft and small.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s79}}Soreness from back to chest.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s80}}Pain through back.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s81}}Sharp, heavy, aching pain in lower spine.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Spinal irritation; sore to touch.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Sense of fluttering, like movements of a watch, commencing in region of sacrum and gradually rising to occiput.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s84}}Often placed her hand on sacrum, as if to support it, and complained of pain in neighborhood of sacro-iliac synchondrosis; her walk became gradually more and more difficult.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s85}}Rheumatic pains in sacrum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s86}}Chronic lumbago of several years standing, with difficulty in walking; cachexia with edema.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}Rheumatic pains in shoulder.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Hip joint disease; more valuable when disease originated in bone itself than in synovial membrane.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s91}}Sciatica, with atrophy of affected limb.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}White swelling of knees; scrofulous hip disease.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s93}}Chronic arthritis of ankle joint.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s94}}Rheumatic pain in left foot.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s95}}Fistulae and abscesses around joints.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Continued aching and sore pain in elbow and knee joints.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}Movements of joints more limited, especially in elbows and knees; and all attempts at flexion or extension caused most excruciating suffering.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s102}}Lying down: oppressed feeling; cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Stooping: bleeding of nose.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Motion: stitch in right side; sore pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Raising arm: coughing.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Walking: becomes more and more difficult; pain in sacro-iliac synchondrosis; chronic lumbago.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s108}}Loss of vital power; emaciation.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s110}}Loss of sleep.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s111}}Dreams of seeing objects in room during sleep.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s113}}Morning: haemoptysis, with hawking of phlegm; hard coughing spells.\\ {{anchor:s114}}All day: cough loose; cold perspiration.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Evening: slight hoarseness.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Day and night: violent cough, with retching.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Night: cough agg.; fever; exacerbations destroyed all repose.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s119}}Draft of air: cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Exposure to cold: cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Damp weather: cough agg.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s123}}Constantly chilly, feeling as if she was continually taking cold.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s124}}Chills from occiput down to back.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s125}}Heat in palms of hands every night.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s126}}Hectic fever, with nocturnal aggravations.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s127}}Cold perspiration all day.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Night sweats.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s130}}Every night: heat in palms.\\ {{anchor:s131}}For six months: amenorrhea.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s133}}Right: pain about inner eyebrow; aching pain in eye; abscess in ear; stitch in side; heavy pain in side; numbness in arm; soreness in shoulder; vomica, with perfect pectoriloquy under clavicle; excavation in apex of lung.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Left: marked deafness; weakness agg. in side of back; burning heat in chest; rheumatic pain in foot.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s136}}As if out of her mind; as if head would split open; as if right arm were dead; as if she were continually taking cold.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Pain: from occiput to forehead; in upper part of chest; through lower part of chest to back; through back; in neighborhood of sacro-iliac synchondrosis.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Bursting pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Flying pains: all across chest.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Stitch: in right side.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Aching pain: in forehead; about inner part of right eyebrow; in right eye; between shoulders; sharp; heavy, in lower spine; in elbow and knee joints.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Rheumatic pains: in sacrum; in shoulders; in left foot.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Sore dull pain: in chest; in elbow and knee joint.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Erratic pains: in joints.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Heavy pain: in right side.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Soreness: of both ovaries; all over chest; in centre of chest; in chest through shoulders; in stomach; from back to chest.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Burning heat: in left chest through to back.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Heat: in palms.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Rawness: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Sense of fluttering, like movements of watch: in region of sacrum, rising to occiput.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Oppressed feeling: when lying down.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Numbness: in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Itching: of skin.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s155}}Weakness, emaciation and anemia; defective nutrition, especially in children.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s156}}Nervous affections, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, in emaciated, pale, anemic persons, with deficiency of animal heat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s157}}Atrophy of infants; emaciation, with hot hands and head; constant tendency to catarrhs; bones affected; rachitis; fever at night, with sweat, mostly on head, neck and hands; cannot take milk; vivid dreams, restless and feverish at night.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s158}}Contraction of muscles; musculo-fibrous rheumatism.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s159}}Rheumatism, produced by protracted residence in damp and cold localities; affection confined to joints; gradual exhaustion of strength and impairment of nutrition.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s160}}Rheumatism of long standing; patient confined to bed or room, and only in warm summer months experienced a slight alleviation of her sufferings; nearly whole body was attacked, but principally inferior extremities, sacrum, back and shoulders; walking was entirely prevented by the insupportable pains, stiffness and swelling of joints; a kind of hectic fever and constant nightly exacerbations destroyed all repose; patient was wasted, of a bleachy whiteness, of a cachetic appearance and habit, and had lost all hope of relief.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s161}}Chronic gout and rheumatism of elderly persons, with rigidity of muscles and tendons, joint nearly inflexible.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s162}}Erratic pains in joints, with edema.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s163}}Scrofulosis: diseases of joints; in pale, thin cachectic subjects.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Rachitis; malacosteon, affecting female pelvis; caries and strumous osteitis.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s165}}Caries: especially attacking epiphises of long bones; in which there is a fistulous ulcer with raised edges, bleeding and discharging a flocculent pus of a nauseating smell.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Softening of bones in adults.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s167}}Scrofulous abscesses and ulceration of glands, or when indolent ulcer with excoriated edges remains, or one extending under skin and beneath muscles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s168}}Cold abscesses.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s172}}Touch: region of liver sensitive; spine sore.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Riding on horseback: sore pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Caused by a fall: flying pains in chest.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

{{anchor:s176}}Itching.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Skin red all over; eruption of small red spots.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Herpes; scald head.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Scrofulous ulcers discharging a large quantity of pus; cold abscesses.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s180}}Lupus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s181}}Icthyosis.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s183}}Strumous diathesis; slender, lean figure; thin, transparent skin; frequent pulse; great excitability of nervous system; urine of high specific gravity.</span>\\ {{anchor:s184}}Boy, aet. 12; scrofula.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Mrs. F., aet. 30; cough.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Lady, aet. 30; constant chilliness.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Mrs. M., aet. 30, formerly of strong robust constitution; rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Mrs. O., aet. 36; cough.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s190}}Compare: <span grade2>Phosphor.</span> in catarrh and hoarseness; <span grade2>Iod.</span> in ravenous appetite of rachitic children; <span grade2>Iod., Phosphor.</span> and <span grade2>Spongia</span> in lung diseases.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 08, 1889 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r317|Oleum jecoris aselli]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r317|Oleum jecoris aselli]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1889 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}