Oleum jecoris aselli
Synonyms: English : Cod liver oil; French: Huile de fore de myrue; German: Stocktisch leberthra
Description: A pale yellow oil; on exposure to air absorbs oxygen and becomes thicker but does not dry to a hard varnish. Odour fishy; taste characteristic. Almost immiscible with alcohol; miscible with chloroform ether, Carbon-disulphide, ethyl acetate and light petroleum ether (40 to 60º).It is obtained from the fresh liver of the cod, Gadus callaries L. and other species of Gadus.
Uses:
- Internally, a nutrient and hepatic and pancreatic remedy (Burnett, Boericke)
- Emaciation, lassitude, scrofulous diseases, rheumatic affections, atrophy of infants, emaciation with hot hands and head, restless and feverish at night, Children who cannot take milk.
- Pains in liver region.
- Tuberculosis in the beginning (E. A. Farrington), Dry, hacking, tickling cough, especially at night
- Haemoptysis. [Acalypha; Millef.]
- Hectic fever with night-sweats
History: Proved by Maidhard
Authority: Allen: Encyclopedia Materia Medica, Vol. VII; Hering’s Guiding Symptoms, Vol. VIII, Clarke: A Dict. of Pract. Mat. Med., II.
Storage: All preparations below 6x are to be stored in well closed containers, protected from light.
Prescribed dose: First to third trituration, locally in ring-worm, and nightly rubbing, for dwarfish, emaciated babies
Compare: Cholesterine; Tubercul.; Phosph.; Iod.
Clinical uses described by Clarke J. H.
– Addison’s disease.
– Alopecia.
– Amenorrhoea.
– Anaemia.
– Asthma.
– Bones, affections of.
– Bright’s disease.
– Cold abscess.
– Constipation.
– Coryza.
– Cough.
– Diarrhoea.
– Dwarfishness.
– Emaciation.
– Fever.
– Fistula.
– GoŒtre.
– Hair, abnormal growth of.
– Headache.
– Heart, palpitation of.
– Intermittent fever.
– Joints, stiffness of; fistulae abscess around.
– Liver, diseases of.
– Lumbago.
– Phthisis.
– Pneumonia.
– Rheumatism.
– Ringworm.
– Sacralgia.
– Sciatica.
– Scrofulous ophthalmia.
– Sleeplessness.
