Its action on skin, mucous membranes, and kidneys is prompt and useful. It is strongly antiparasitic; redness, pain and inflammation; decreases tension. Excellent in winter coughs of old people. Polyarthritis. Chronic rheumatism. Uric acid diathesis. Hay-fever. Chronic hives. Tuberculosis, aids nutrition. Alcoholism when nothing will stay on stomach.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Commentaries
Commentary and literature analysis from various clinical authorities:
- ABDOMEN PAIN IN LEFT HYPOCHONDRIUM
- ABLE TO PENETRATE THE UNBROKEN SKIN
- ABSTRACTS OXYGEN FROM THE TISSUES
- ACID ERUCTATIONS INTO POSTERIOR PART OF PHARYNX WHEN LYING DOWN
- ACT ON BACILLUS OF INFLUENZA DIPHTHERIA THE GONOCOCCUS STREPTOCOCCUS
- ACTT ON MUCOUS MEMBRANES NOSE THROAT MUSCLE TISSUE
- ALCOHOLISM WHEN NOTHING WILL STAY ON STOMACH
- AME FROM DRINKING COLD WATER
- AWAKE BURNING PAIN AT END OF MEATUS ERECTION AND DISCHARGE OPROSTATIC FLUID
- BACKACHE ALL DAY BUT NO FEVER
- BACTERICIDE BACILLUS OF DIPHTHERIA GONOCOCCUS INFLUENZA STREPTOCOCCUS ERYSIPELAS
- BDY PAIN AS FROM TAKE COLD
- BRONCHIAL COUGH IN OLD AGED
- BURNING AND DRYNESS OF NASAL MUCUS MEMBRANE
- BURNING IN THE ANTERIOR URETHRA
- BURNING PAIN IN MEATUS RELIEVED BY APPLYING HOT WATER
- CATARRHAL ULCERATIVE CONDITIONS OF EYE NOSE AND THROAT
- CORYZA AME WARMTH APPLIED LOCALLY OVER FACE AND NOSE
- CORYZA BLAND STUFF DESIRE SNEEZE
- CORYZA COUGH AGG CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE
- COSMETICS FACE PUSTULAR DRY OFF ACNE CLEAR SKIN
- COUGH OF THE AGED SUFFERING FROM BRONCHIAL
- CRUSTS IN BACK OF NOSE WITH DRYNESS PHARYNX
- DEFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SWEAT GLANDS AND FOLLICLES
- DEPRESSED FORGETFUL LACKOF CONCENTRATION
- DEPRESSION OF SPIRIT DULL
- DESIRE FOR ACID AND SPICY FOODS
- DESTROY BACTERICIDE BACILLUS OF INFLUENZA DIPHTHERIA
- DIARRHOEA MORNING
- DIATHESIS URIC ACID WAS DEPOSITED CALCIUM OXALATE
- DIFFUSE HYPERTROPHIC KERATOSIS
- DIMINUTION OF RED BLOOD CORPUSCLES
- DISCHARGE FROM EYES NOSE SNEEZ
- DISEASE OF SKIN CONGENITAL OR HEREDITARY PREDISPOSITION
- DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS OR BLADDER ABNORMAL URINE CALCULI
- DRY HACKING COUGH
- DRYNESS OF MUCUS MEMBRANE ANTERIOR NARES NASO PHARYNX
- DRYNESS OF NASO-PHARYNX
- DRYNESS OF PHARYNX WITH DESIRE COLD WATER
- DULL ACHING ALL OVER THE BODY AS TAKING COLD
- ECZEMA PSORIASIS ACNE ROSACEA ERYSIPELAS RHEUMATISM GOUTY
- EMISSION OF VERY FOUL FLATUS
- EMISSIONS OF VERY FOUL FLATUS
- ERYSIPELAS ECZEMA ACNE URTICARIA
- EXTERNAL APPLICATION TO RHEUMATIC JOINTS
- EXTERNAL FAVOUR IN GYNAECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
- EXTERNAL USE ECZEMA PSORIASIS ACNE ROSACEA GOUTY JOINTS
- EXTERNAL USE RHEUMATIC JOINTS
- EXTRNAL USE BURNS IN CHILBLAINS SCABIES
- EYE CONCOMITANT FRONTAL HEADACHE
- EYES FEEL STRAINED CONCOMITANT WITH PRESSIVE FRONTAL HEADACHE
- FEELING OF SAND IN THE RIGHT EYE
- FISSURES CRACKS ARE FORMED SURFACE WHERE THICKEST UNYIELDING
- FRONTAL AND SUPRAORBITAL HEADACHE
- FRONTAL HEADACHE AMELIORATION WASHING FACE IN COLD WATER
- GONORRHOEA MICTURITION BURNING IN ANTERIOR URETHRA
- GONORRHOEA WITH FREQUENT MICTURITION
- HAY FEVER LACHRYMATION CORYZA DRY TEASING COUGH
- HAY FEVER LACHRYMATION CORYZA TEASING COUGH
- HAY FEVER LACHRYMATION CORYZA
- HAY FEVER
- HAY-FEVER SNEEZING
- HEADACHE AND PAIN EYEBALLS
- HEADACHE SUPRA ORBITAL AGGRAVATION MOVING EYEBALL
- HEADACHE WITH EYE PAIN NOSE DISCHARGE
- HEADACHE WITH EYES PAIN
- HEREDITARY TRANSMITTED IN LINE OF SEX
- HIVES TUBERCULOSIS AIDS NUTRITION
- INCREASES ASSIMILATION AND CHECCOUGH WASTE URINARY SOLID NITROGENOUS
- INFECTIOUS DISEASES RHEUMATISM TUBERCULOSIS MEASLES PERTUSSIS
- INFECTIOUS DISEASES TUBERCULOSIS MEASLES PERTUSSIS AND RHEUMATISM
- INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- INFLAMMATION OF PELVIS KIDNEY DUE CALCIUM OXALATE
- INFLAMMATION OF THE PELVIS OF THE KIDNEY
- INFLAMMATION RENAL CALCIUM OXALATE CRYSTALS
- IRRITATION OF THROAT AMELIORATION EATING AND DRINKING
- ITCHING IN AXILLA HEEL
- JAW NEURALGIC PAIN TOLEFT HEAD
- KIDNEY INFLAMMATIONCALCIUM OXALATE
- LACHRYMATION CORYZA AND THE DRY TEASING COUGH
- LACHRYMATION CORYZA DRY TEASING COUGH
- LACK OF AMBITION
- LACK OF CONCENTRATION AND FORGETFULNESS
- LAMENESS IN RIGHT SIDE
- LAMENESS LOWER EXTREMITIES CO ORDINATION SEEMS DIMINISHED
- LEUCOCYTES AND LYMPHOCYTE NO CHANGE
- LOCALLY IN BURNS CHILBLAINS ENLARGED GLANDS SKIN DISEASE
- LOCALLY IN BURNS IN CHILBLAINS
- LOSS OF VISION DUE TO DOUBLE CATARACT
- LOWER EXTREMITIES COORDINATION SEEM BE DIMINISHED
- LOWER LIP DRY AND CRAKED IN CENTER WITH SORE PAIN
- MEASEL LACHRYMATION CORYZA DRY TEASING COUGH
- MOVEMENTS EXCEEDINGLY SLOW SPEND HOURS AS MORNING TOILET
- NAUSEA AT TIME MENSES
- NAUSEA WITH BITTER TASTE
- Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS CHANGEABLE EMOTIONAL AND NOT STAND TOBACCO SMOKE
- NEURALGIC PAIN WITH THROBBING IN LEFT LOWER JAW
- NIGHT HAWKING OF WHITE MUCUS DUE TO IRRITATION DRY THROAT
- NO CHAMGE LEUCOCYTES AND LYMPHOCYTES
- OBLIGED TO URINATE OWING IRRITATION
- PAIN FROM THROAT INTO BOTH EARS
- PAIN IN HYPOGASTRIUM RELIEVED BY PASSAGE OF STOOL FLOW URINE
- PAIN IN SUPRA ORBITAL
- PAIN IN TENDO ACHILLES AMELIORATION BY PUTTING THE FOOT ON STRETCH
- PAIN IN UMBILICAL AND LEFT HYPOGASTRIC HYPOCHONDRIUM
- PAIN RUNNING FROM THE THROAT TO BOTH EAR
- PAIN UMBILICAL AND LEFT HYPOGASTRIC URGE STOOL
- PAIN UMBILICAL LEFT HYPOGASTRIC AME BENDING STOOL URINE
- PHARYNX FEELS FULL OF MUCUS
- PIMPLE PUSTULAR AND DRY OFF
- POLY ARTHRITIS RHEUMATIC
- POWERFUL VASOMOTOR CONSTRICTOR ON MUCOUS SURFACES
- PRURITUS ACNE AND URTICARIA
- PRURITUS OF PREGNANCY
- PSORIASIS WELL DEVELOPED SCALES ATTACHED IN CENTER DETACHED EARLY
- PSORIASIS
- PSORISIS ACNE ROSACEA ERYSIPELAS
- READILY OXIDIZABLE EASILY ABSTRACTS OXYGEN FROM TISSUES
- REFLEX HERNIA HAEMORRHOIDS VARICOCELE
- RESTRICTED ALBUMINOID DISINTEGRATION FAVOURED ASSIMILATION
- RHEUMATIC PAINS
- RHEUMATISM POLYARTHRITIS
- SCALY AND ITCHING ECZEMA
- SEMINAL EMISSION DURING SLEEP
- SKIN FEELS DRY AND ITCHES
- SKIN IS DRY AND WRINCOUGHLES ROUGH HAIR FALL
- SKIN SCALY CONGENITAL OR HEREDITARY PREDISPOSITION
- SKIN THICK DRY HOT AND SCALY CRACK
- SNEEZING WITH CONSTANT RUNNING OF EYES AND NOSE
- THROAT PERSISTS REMAINING SORE PAINS ON SWALLOWING
- TIRE FEEL MENTAL TORPIDITY SLEEPINESS
- TIRED FEELING SLEEPINESS
- ULCER EYE NOSE AND THROAT
- URIC ACID BRICCOUGH DUST GRAVEL DEPOSITED RHEUMATIC PAIN
- URIC ACID DIATHESIS IN LITHEMIC CONSTITUTION COUGH
- URIC ACID DIATHESIS RHEUMATIC PAIN
- URIC ACID DIATHESIS
- URINE AT INTERVALS OF TWENTY MINUTES DRIBBLING DUE IRRITATION
- URINE BURNING MEATUS
- URINE CALCIUM OXALATE CRYSTALS ABUNDANT
- URINE CALCIUM OXALATE CRYSTALS INFLAMMATION PELVIS KIDNEY
- URINE CALCIUM OXALATE CRYSTALS URIC ACID CRYSTALS
- URINE CALCIUM OXALATE CRYSTALS
- USE LOCALLY IN BURNS CHILBLAINS SKIN DISEASE
- VARIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASES TUBERCULOSIS MEASLES PERTUSSIS AND RHEUMATISM
- VASOMOTOR CONSTRICTOR ON MUCOUS SURFACES
- WHOOPING COUGH TONSILITIS BRONCHIAL TIRESOME
- WHOOPING COUGH TONSILITIS BRONCHIAL
- WHOOPING COUGH TONSILITIS
- WHOOPING-COUGH TONSILITIS
- WINTER COUGH OF OLD PEOPLE
Clinical Applications
Compare: Hepar; Calc; Silica; Sulph; Ars; Petrol .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Its action on skin, mucous membranes, and kidneys is prompt and useful. It is strongly antiparasitic; redness, pain and inflammation; decreases tension. Excellent in winter coughs of old people. Polyarthritis. Chronic rheumatism. Uric acid diathesis. Hay-fever. Chronic hives. Tuberculosis, aids nutrition. Alcoholism when nothing will stay on stomach.
Mental & Emotional Symptoms
Irritable and depressed. Forgetful, lack of concentration.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Dull, aching; better cold, pressure. Dull frontal and supra-orbital headache; worse moving eyes, cold air; better, warmth.
Face
Skin feels dry and itches. Acne on chin.
Throat
Irritated; pain to ears; sore, dry, with hawking and expectoration.
Eyes
Burn, red; worse, any change of temperature.
Nose
Bland coryza; stuffed feeling; feels sore inside. Irresistible desire to sneeze.
Stomach
Disagreeable taste, burning sensation, very thirsty. Nausea. Increased appetite .
Abdomen
Disposition to soft, shapeless stools. Griping in umbilical and left hypogastric region. Early morning diarrha.
Urine
Increased in quantity and frequency. Burning pain in meatus. Uric acid deposits.
Female
Fullness in lower abdomen. Nausea at time of menses.
Respiratory
Coryza; dry, teasing cough . Bronchiectasis and phthisis. Bronchitis, especially of the aged.
Skin
Heat and irritation; itching . Scaly and itching eczema. Crops of boils . Pruritus of pregnancy. Psorisis, Acne, rosacea, erysipelas.
Extremities
Lameness in right shoulder and right lower extremity.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
ICHTHYOLUM
Mind
Irritable and depressed. Forgetful, lack of concentration.
Head
Dull, aching; better cold, pressure. Dull frontal and supra-orbital headache; worse moving eyes, cold air; better, warmth.
Face
Skin feels dry and itches. Acne on chin.
Throat
Irritated; pain to ears; sore, dry, with hawking and expectoration.
Eyes
Burn, red; worse, any change of temperature.
Nose
Bland coryza; stuffed feeling; feels sore inside. Irresistible desire to sneeze.
Stomach
Disagreeable taste, burning sensation, very thirsty. Nausea. Increased appetite.
Abdomen
Disposition to soft, shapeless stools. Griping in umbilical and left hypogastric region. Early morning diarrhœa.
Urine
Increased in quantity and frequency. Burning pain in meatus. Uric acid deposits.
Female
Fullness in lower abdomen. Nausea at time of menses.
Respiratory
Coryza; dry, teasing cough. Bronchiectasis and phthisis. Bronchitis, especially of the aged.
Skin
Heat and irritation; itching. Scaly and itching eczema. Crops of boils. Pruritus of pregnancy. Psorisis, Acne, rosacea, erysipelas.
Extremities
Lameness in right shoulder and right lower extremity.
Relationship
Compare: Hepar; Calc; Silica; Sulph; Ars; Petrol.
Dose
Lower potencies.
Externally, it is used as an ointment, with Lanoline 20 to 50 per cent; for chronic eczema and psoriasis, also acne rosacea and gouty joints. Chilblains, scabies. Rectal suppositories for senile prostate.
Ichthyolum.
Clinical
Arthritis. Gonorrhœa. Neuralgia. Phthisis. Pruritus vulvæ. Rheumatism. Skin, affections of.
Characteristics
This is an unproved remedy which has been used in old-school therapeutics as an external application, and internally in skin affections, rheumatism, scrofula, nephritis, and gonorrhœa. It is a powerful antiseptic. As an external application to rheumatic joints it has achieved marked results. A solution of equal parts of Ichthyol and water is warmed and applied to the affected joint on calico and covered with heated cloths, outside of which is an impervious fabric to prevent evaporation. Pure Ichthyol or an ointment of Lanoline and Ichthyol maybe used instead. Gouty joints have also been benefited. Ichthyol appears to act by virtue of its power of allaying pain and inflammation, but there can be no doubt that a thorough proving would bring out a specific relationship to the maladies in which it has been used with success. Scarpa claims to have used it with excellent effect in a large number of cases of phthisis.
Relations
Ichth. belongs to the Petroleum class of remedies. Compare also Calc. caust. (lime-water compresses to allay inflammation); Sulph. Plantago (anodyne application); Carbol. ac.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Lower potencies. Externally, it is used as an ointment, with Lanoline 20 to 50 per cent; for chronic eczema and psoriasis, also acne rosacea and gouty joints. Chilblains, scabies. Rectal suppositories for senile prostate.
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