Common name: Dippel’s oil.
Introduction
Oleum animale aethereum; Oleum animale, Dippelii; Oleum cornu cervi.
Preparation: Dilutions in alcohol.
Mind
Emotional. Very cheerful, with lightness of all movements; she had not felt so well in a long time, at 5 P.M. Nothing delights her; she is contented with noting (after three hours). She was absorbed in herself, sad, spoke little, and it seemed as though she were weighed down by a pain. Sad mood; nothing delights him (after two hours). Sad, ill-humored, she spoked very low after dinner. The first days cheerful, the last fretful. Sad thoughts force themselves upon him and make him very ill-humored. Morose, fretful (after three-quarters of an hour). Intellectual.
Distraction of mind (after a few hours). Distraction of mind and no desire for mental work, through with cheerful, good humor (first day). Loss of ideas; he knew nothing that was going on about him, through he continued his work. Thoughts vanished; she was morose, lost in herself. Lost in thought without knowing what she was thinking about; a kind of insensibility (after two hours and a half). She seems in a dream; thoughts vanish. Frequent sinking into a condition of loss of ideas, from which she woke as from sleep when spoken to. Sudden loss of consciousness that lasted only a moment, at 1 P.M. Hearing and sight vanish for a moment, so that she is entirely unconscious, a kind of insensibility.
Head
Vertigo and General Head. Vertigo and dizziness on stooping, in the open air (after three hours and a half). Very violent tearing, extending upward beneath the right ear, removed by rubbing (after three hours and a half). Tearing from the left side of the upper part of the head down to the forehead (third day). Headache like a dizziness. Dizzy headache, after waking in the morning (second day). Headache; violent sticking in the left side of the vertex, with weakness of the hands and feet; the headache began at 7 P.M. and lasted till 5 A.M., so that she did not sleep all night; during the day no headache, during menstruation. Sharp sticking between the left ear and temple, once while eating. Violent sticking in the upper part of the head, at 2 P.M. The head is heavy with painful pressure. Dulness in the head about noon. The whole head is dull, as after taking cold; the ears are stopped, and there is a drawing in both cheeks like rheumatism. Dulness in the head in the morning, stupefaction with tearing and drawing in the whole head; better in the afternoon. Forehead. Tearing in the left frontal region (after four hours and a half). Tearing pressure in the left side of the forehead, frequently intermitting, at 7 P.M. Pressure upon the whole forehead. Pressure in the right frontal region; on rubbing it extends into the left, where it also disappears on rubbing (after a quarter of an hour). Pressure in the left frontal region, disappearing after rubbing. Sudden pressure, as with a finger, on the right frontal region (after ten minutes). Violent pressing headache, especially in the forehead, with a reflective sad mood (fifth day). Pressing headache, especially on the forehead, on slight mental exertion (second day). Pressing in the forehead on waking, in the morning (second day). Painful pressing inward in the right frontal region (after an hour and three- quarters). Painful boring in the left frontal eminence, disappearing on rubbing (after four hours and a half). Violent sharp sticking in the forehead above the eye (after an hour).
Dull stitches twice in the left frontal region (after an hour and three-quarters). A fine stitch like an electric spark in the left frontal eminence, at 7 P.M. Temples. Transient tearing and sticking in the left temple. Tearing in both temples in the open air, disappearing in the house (after two hours and three- quarters). Violent drawing in the region of the mastoid process, in the evening (second day). Fine drawing with a cold sensation in the left temporal region (after two hours and a half). Tension and pressure in the temporal region, in the evening, in bed (eighth day). Pressing inward in the right temple. Pressure in the right temple that disappears on rubbing, with yawning, an hour after dinner. Slight transient pressure in the left temple, at 2 P.M. Vertex. Burrowing headache in the left side of the sinciput (after two hours). Acute drawing from the vertex deep into the head, in the evening (second day). Pressive tearing in the right portion of the sinciput, and in the orbital region, in the morning (third day). Pressure on the vertex, and drawing and tearing in the temples. Pressure extending from the vertex towards the occiput. Pain, as from dulness, in the right side of the sinciput, at 5.30 P.M. Parietals. Burning in small spots in the upper part of the right parietal bone, disappearing on rubbing (after half an hour). Burning tearing in the left side of the head and in the occipital protuberance, in the afternoon (second day). Tearing in the right parietal region, by the vertex (after two hours and three-quarters). Tearing and sticking in the upper part of the right side of the head; on leaving this spot it occurs in the right side of the occiput, half an hour after dinner. Tearing in the right side of the head, and immediately afterwards a stitch in the right ear, an hour after dinner.
Tearing and sticking in the right side of the head (after two hours). Tearing in the whole left side of the head (after two hours). A blow followed by tearing in a small spot in the left side of the head (after an hour). Painful boring stitches in both sides of the head, occurring at intervals, afterwards extending farther forward, to the forehead (after four hours and a half).
Beating like a slow pulse on the right side of the head (after four hours). Hammering or beating, four times in succession, in the left side of the head on entering the house, disappearing on sitting down; after dinner. Hammering in the left side of the head, with itching externally, while sitting after dinner.
Painful compression of both sides of the head posteriorly, with dulness, on motion (after four hours). The left side of the head seems numb and paralyzed. Occiput and External Head. Tension of the occipital muscles (immediately). On going into the house it seemed as if the blood suddenly rushed into the occiput (after an hour and three-quarters). Pressure extending from the occiput forward, an hour after dinner. Pressive pain in the left side of the occiput. Pressure in the left side of the occiput, that continues even on moving the head, and always obliges him to hold the head forward, lasting from an hour after dinner till 6 P.M.
Dull pressure in a small spot on the occiput (after an hour).
Gnawing pain in the occipital region, less on the left side, in the evening (second day). Boring pain in a small spot on the left side of the occiput. Sharp stitches in the occiput (after four hours and a half). Tearing in three different places on the scalp at the same time, afterwards a tension with a feeling of soreness, as if the skin had been cut and reunited (after an hour and a half). Itching, here and there, in the scalp, relieved by scratching. Itching on the scalp, especially in the morning.
Eye
Twitching in the left eyebrow, lasting half an hour, followed by a sensation as if the skin were hanging down and preventing vision, at 6 P.M. Burning in the eyes, in the morning, on waking, but they are better after rising and walking about (second day).
Burning in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light.
Burning in the eyes, in the open air. Pressure and cutting in the eyes, with pressing out of tears. Tearing sticking through the left eye, after dinner (third day). Sticking in the left eye, relieved by rubbing, at 2.30 P.M. Fine biting, with stitches like electric sparks, in both eyes. Fine biting, as from salt, in the left eye, at 4 P.M. (third day). Burning itching in the right eye, removed by rubbing, at 2 P.M. Violent itching in the left eye, disappearing only after rubbing a long time, at 9 P.M.
(third day). Biting itching in the right eye, removed by rubbing.
Biting itching in the left eye, removed by rubbing, but frequently returning, an hour after dinner (third day). (The sensation as of sand in the right eye, that he had previously felt for four days, especially in the wind; the pressure and photophobia disappeared entirely), (third day). Orbit and Lids.
Boring and sticking above the margin of the right orbit, so violent that she thought it would pierce the skull, on motion; on rubbing it disappeared, but the spot remained sensitive for a long time (after three-quarters of an hour). A sharp sticking above the margin of the left orbit (after an hour and a half).
Slight agglutination of the lids, at night (first days).
Increased secretion from the meibomian glands, so that the lids easily became agglutinated day and night. Frequent twitching in the left upper lid (after half an hour). Jerking in the lids (first day). Cramp like jerking in the left upper lid. Burning in the right external canthus, always removed by rubbing, but frequently returning, at 5 P.M. Slight inflammation of the inner surface of the lid (first days). Itching of the left lower lid, removed by rubbing, at 7.30 P.M. Itching in the right inner canthus, removed by rubbing, 1.30 P.M. (third day). Sticking in the left external canthus (after an hour and a half). Corrosive biting in the left inner canthus, at 4 P.M. (third day).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.