Pix Liquida.
Liquid Tar. (A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.)
Tincture.Clinical.─
Acne. Ardor urinć. Bronchitis.
Desquamation. Diarrhśa. Eczema. Enuresis. Eruptions. Hands, eruptions on. Phthisis.
Psoriasis. Vomiting, black.
Characteristics.─
In old-school practice Tar is
known as a “stimulant expectorant” in chronic bronchitis and phthisis, a stimulant
to the skin in psoriasis and scaly eczema. Buckley (quoted by Allen) has recorded severe
constitutional effects following the local application of preparations of tar in skin
affections. Among these are: High fever; black vomit; black stools; dark-coloured urine;
acute eczema; acne. Homśopaths (led by Jeanes) have brought out the special indications for
the remedy; and chief among them is a pain at the third left costal cartilage, where it
joins the rib. This is really a pain of the left bronchus (Hering), and when associated with
offensive muco-purulent expectoration the indications for Pix
are complete. Cases of phthisis and chronic bronchitis with these characteristics have been
cured by it. A case of chronic bronchitis in a merchant, 55, is recorded in Hom. News (xxix. 414). The cough was <
nights, breath short, copious expectoration, some fever and night-sweats. Ill three years
and growing worse. Raynaud’s prescription of Wood Tar, a teaspoonful four times a day, after
meals and at bedtime, cleared up most of the symptoms.─Pix often cures the enuresis somni of children (R. T. C.).
Relations.─
Compare:
Tereb., Pinus syl., Kre., Eupn., Petrol. In chest pains, Illic. (Illic. has pain at third right costal cartilage; occasionally also left), Myrica, Therid.
Desquamation, Chi. sul.
SYMPTOMS.
2. Head.─
Fulness and pain in head.
11. Stomach.─
Pain in stomach.─Vomiting:
constant; of blackish fluid (from application to skin).
12. Abdomen.─
Excessive pain in bowels and loins.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Dark-coloured stools (from
application).
14. Urinary Organs.─
Ardor urinć.─Dark-coloured
urine (from application).
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Expectoration of purulent
matter, offensive in odour and taste, and accompanied by pain referred to third l. costal
cartilage (really in l. bronchus); pain may or may not go through to back.─(Third
stage of phthisis.).─Pain at third l. costal cartilage where it joins
the rib; râles; muco-purulent expectoration.─Suppuration of l. lung
with pain at third rib.─Cough chronic, <
night; expectoration purulent; fever at night.
24. Generalities.─
Great exhaustion.
25. Skin.─
Acute eczema.─Acne.─Eruptions,
esp. on backs of hands, itching intolerably at night and bleeding when scratched.─Skin
cracked, bleeding when scratched, with sleeplessness.─Violent itching.─Desquamation.
27. Fever.─
Occasionally high fever (from
application).® 2000
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