- Ichthyolum is an unproved remedy which has been used in old-school therapeutics as an external application and internally in skin affections, rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues., scrofula, nephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling. and gonorrhea🩺 GonorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Ichth is a powerful antiseptic.
- It has achieved marked results as an external ap plication to rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. joints.
- A solution of equal parts of Ichthyol and water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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 may be used instead with Lanoline making up 20 to 50 percent of the ointment.
- Externally, it is used as an ointment for chronic eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., acne rosacea🩺 RosaceaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., gouty joints, chilblains and scabies🩺 ScabiesClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Rectal suppositories for senile prostate.
- Its action on skin, mucus membranes and kidneys is prompt and useful.
- It is strongly anti-parasitic, redness, pain and inflammation, and dec reases tension.
- Polyarthritis.
- Chronic rheumatism.
- Uric acid diathesis.
- Gouty joints.
- Alcoholism, when nothing will stay on stomach.
- Hay fever.
- Chronic hives.
- Excellent in winter coughs of old people.
- Tuberculosis🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., helps nutrition.
- Scarpa claimed to have used it with excellent effect in a large number of cases of tuberculosis.
- COMMENTS-Anshutz wrote: ‘The principal action of Ichthyol in the following provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. seems to have been on the mucus membranes of the nose and throat, on muscle tissue, producing rheumatic pain, on the skin and on the urine.
- “The blood count was not conclusive, only two cases being tested🌿 TestedMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and in one a diminution of red blood corpuscles before after taking the drug) was noted.
- No marked change in the number or character of the leucocytes and lymphocytes was noted.
- “Most of the provers had increased ap petite and after taking the drug for some time a marked feeling of well-being.
- Stool became free in some cases diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. and offensive.
- “A languid, tired feeling with mental torpidity while actively taking the drug was usually followed by a feeling of improved, vigorous health when the drug was left off to be again repeated upon renewed administration of the remedy.
- “The skin showed many interesting changes worthy of further proving, pruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch., acne and urticaria🩺 UrticariaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. being produced.
- Rheumatic pains in different parts of the body were also noted.
- “The urine showed valuable changes: Increased urination was noted in all cases with a change in color from the usual straw to a dark straw or reddish tint.
- The solids were increased, as were the sulphates.
- “In many cases uric acid was deposited in the form of brick-dust or red sand, which microscopically proved to be the lozenge, plate and gravel🌿 GravelMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. form of uric acid crystals.
- “Calcium🌿 CalciumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. oxalate crystals were also found in a few cases and in several instances the passage of the crystals produced a mild inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney (mild catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. pyelitis) which in the writer's case disappeared after six months, when the urine had again become normal.
- ‘Therapeutically it would seem that in Ichthyol we have a potent remedy for the uric acid diathesis with its various manifestations and symptoms.
- Lithemia, as indicated by the urinary proving, should prove amenable to the drug if given in potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration..
- “Hay fever symptoms were also prominent in the proving of the drug and its applica tion in this intractable affection is awaited with interest, local applications of Ichthyol having been used by a number of physicians in cases of hay fever with quite satisfactory results for some time.
- “The lachrymation, coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. and the dry, teasing cough of measles seems also well pictured in some of the symptoms produced by this drug.
- Whooping cough tonsillitis🩺 TonsillitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and tiresome intractable cough of the aged suffering from bronchial disorders would also appear to offer a chance for trial with this remedy.
- “It was prescribed it in several cases o f gonorrhea with frequent urination and burning in the anterior urethra with some success.
- Some have seen the remedy act beneficially in dry, hacking coughs such as were developed by the provers.
- “The 3x, 6x and 8x potency, especially the latter, were employed.”
