Oleander

Ol/. an. is an empyreumatic oil obtained in the preparation of bone-black, and

further distilled and rectified for medicinal use. It was discovered in 1711 by Johann Conrad

Dippel, the alchemist, and discoverer of Prussian-blue. Dippel obtained it in the first instance by

distillation of stags' horns: hence the name Oleum cornu cervi, with which the Ol. an. as at

present prepared is considered identical; the deciduous horns of the stag partaking more of the

nature of bone than the permanent horns of cattle. As rectified it is "a colourless or slightly

yellow, thin, oily liquid, with a penetrating but not disagreeable odour and an acrid, burning

taste, which changes to a cool and bitter one. It darkens and thickens on exposure to air and light,

and is extremely volatile. A drop on paper evaporates without leaving a greasy stain." Its

composition is extremely complex, but it may be regarded as belonging to the group of volatile

• ▸carbons.
• ▸Sircar (Calc.
• ▸J.
• ▸of Med.
• ▸, xvi.
• ▸249) gives an interesting account of O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸, and quotes

• ▸from Hahn.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸of April, 1897, a valuable paper on the remedy by C.
• ▸L.
• ▸Olds with a discussion

thereon. Though it is not the panacea which Dippel imagined it to be when he discovered it, Ol.

an. is a very powerful medicinal substance, and since it has been well proved by Nenning,

Schreter, and Trinks, it has a definite place in the homeeopathic materia medica. As is usually the

case with combustive products, O/. an. has burning pains and burning sensations in almost all

parts, and like the carbons and K. carb. it has also stitches and sometimes combinations of the

two, "stitches as with red-hot needles." Stitches and pressure may be in all directions, but from

behind forward is particularly characteristic. "Stitches from behind forward in breasts; pressure

from both sides of the back extends forward." Guided by the former I gave great relief in a case

of scirrhus of right breast in which pains darting forward out of the nipple were complained of.

"Pulled upward" is another characteristic sensation. It occurs in the malar bones: "Sensation in

both malar bones as if pulled forcibly upward." And it also occurs in the testicles. "Both testicles

are drawn up and very painful." This led to the cure of a "long-standing neuralgia of spermatic

cord; excruciating attacks three or four times every year; pains as if testicles were seized by a

• ▸hand and pulled very severely.
• ▸" O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸18 gave almost instant and permanent relief (Blakely

• ▸Raue's Rec.
• ▸, 1870, p.
• ▸241).
• ▸The cure of a case of migraine is quoted in H.
• ▸M.
• ▸, July, 1895.

• ▸Zwingenberg, after failing with Sang.
• ▸, gave Ol.
• ▸an.
• ▸2x, five drops in warm water, morning and

evening, to a lady who always suffered from migraine the day after a fashionable party, at which

she usually wore a heavy diadem on her head. Polyuria of perfectly clear urine accompanied the

• ▸migraine and suggested the remedy.
• ▸This accompaniment may indicate O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸in any nervous

disorder. Zwingenberg also cured a case of nervous asthma following repelled foot-sweat. In the

discussion on Olds' paper some cures were mentioned. Dever cured toothache in an extremely

irritable patient, pain > by pressing the teeth together. The provings have "stitches in right upper

molar removed by pressure, after dinner." Dr. Leggett related one case: A very stout Dutch lady,

56 (who had been under constitutional treatment for uterine tumour, engorged liver and cerebral

congestion), presented the following symptoms: Sensation as if water rushing back and forth in

stomach; fancied the tumour had increased to size it was years ago. She had been walking,

standing, and shopping, and had eaten many sweets. Of the remedies having "stomach as if full

• ▸of water," O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸was chosen as more similar to the case than Mill.
• ▸or Phell.
• ▸, and was given in

1m attenuation, a single dose. A month later she was better in every way, and a second dose

brought still further improvement. This case in connection with my case of breast tumour still

• ▸further shows the relationship of O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸to new growths.
• ▸Olds in his paper brings out the striking

and peculiar symptoms of the remedy very clearly. Olds speaks of a proving by himself, but he

gives no details of it. Some symptoms mentioned by him I cannot find in Allen or Hering. These

• ▸I have entered in the Schema and give his authority for each.
• ▸The Conditions of O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸give the

most characteristic general features: > from rubbing; < from eating. < In warm room. > In open

air. These are general, but there are exceptions. Among the Peculiar Symptoms mentioned by

Olds are: Twitching of lips and swelling beneath right lower jaw. Malar bone feels as if pulled

forcibly upward. Greasy feeling in mouth and accumulation of quantities of saliva white as snow.

Relaxation of buccal mucous membrane, patient cannot avoid biting cheek when he eats.

Soreness of tongue as if scalded. Sensation as of white of egg dried on lips. Sensation as if cold

air penetrated throat although the air is warm; > eating and drinking, < empty swallowing. Desire

for soft-boiled eggs or for bread only with aversion to meat. Sensation as if water were in

stomach; as if a lump of ice there. Eructations taste like urine, and burn. Sensation as if testicles

were seized and pulled forcibly upward. Menses too early and too scanty. Cracking in vertebree

of neck on raising head. Sensation in scalp as if skin had been cut and reunited. Other sensations

are: As if blood were rushing to head; to occiput on entering a warm room. As if red-hot needles

• ▸in chest.
• ▸As if thumb (and toe) would ulcerate.
• ▸Cramp-like pains in different parts.
• ▸Indolence and

• ▸inclined to sit; taciturn; ill-tempered.
• ▸Winans (Med.
• ▸Adv.
• ▸, xix.
• ▸503) gave Ol.
• ▸an.
• ▸with success in a

case of bilious fever, the patient being a rather fleshy old lady. The indicating symptoms were:

• ▸Slow pulse (55).
• ▸Desire for soft-boiled eggs.
• ▸Itching of left lower eyelid.
• ▸Sad mood; morose;

nothing delights her. Absorbed in self, sad, speaks little. Sepia was required to complete the case,

one of the new symptoms being yellowness of palms of hands. The left side is predominantly

affected; when direction is noted it is from before backward and from behind upward. > By

• ▸rubbing is very characteristic.
• ▸> By stretching.
• ▸> By pressure.
• ▸O/.
• ▸an.
• ▸is a chilly medicine, but the

chilliness (and also coryza) are < in a warm room and > in open air. Tearing in all fingers is > by

• ▸washing in cold water.
• ▸Drinking cold water = pressure in stomach.
• ▸< From hot drinks.
• ▸Motion >

some rheumatic pains. Raising head = cracking of vertebra. < Eating (sweat; lachrymation;

headache). Especially < after dinner. > Swallowing food or drink, < empty swallowing (throat).

• ▸< By motion; by mental exertion.
• ▸> Changing position.
• ▸Sneezing = bursting pain in chest.
• ▸The

majority of symptoms are < in afternoon; also 2 p.m. < Before, during and commencement of

menses. < By noise (noises in the head).

Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.

Sadness, concentration in self.—Taciturn and thoughtful.—Distraction, and frequent

absence of mind.—Loss of ideas (frequent vanishing of thought).

Cramp-like tension, as if the bones were broken, in limbs and other parts of

• ▸the body.
• ▸—Cramping of entire body gradually creeping on (cured.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Convulsive

spasms with clammy and cold skin; pulse scarcely perceptible-—Great weakness, which scarcely

permits walking.—Sensation as if inner parts were distended; pulsations in outer parts —Fainting

as from weakness, > by perspiration —Buzzing or humming in body.—Sensation of vibration and

resonance in whole body.—Tension in whole body.—Paralytic rigidity of limbs and painless

• ▸paralysis.
• ▸—(One of the best remedies for paralysis—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸).
• ▸—Want of animal heat in

limbs.—Syncope, as from weakness, sometimes with loss of consciousness, which disappears

after perspiring —Weakness and general lassitude, with trembling of knees when lying down, and

of hands when writing. —Languor, as if life were about to terminate.—Inclination to stretch the

• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Torpor and insensibility of whole body.
• ▸—Symptoms generally on 1.
• ▸side; 1.
• ▸ear; affections

of scalp.

• ▸Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down.
• ▸Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed.
• ▸Pain in brain, as if head would burst.
• ▸Numb feeling.
• ▸Dull, unable to think.
• ▸Indolence.
• ▸Eruption on scalp.
• ▸Humid, fetid spots behind ears (Graph; Petrol) and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front.
• ▸Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat.

Head confused, with cloudiness, as if stunned.—Pressure on vertex, shifting to

occiput.—Dizziness and vertigo, when stooping.—Painful dizziness, early in morning in

bed.—Painful sensation of reeling and giddiness, in open air, when stooping.—Numb and

paralytic sensation in (1.) side of head.—Aching in head, principally in forehead, sometimes from

least intellectual exertion —Drawing and tearing in head, as after a chill—Violent boring, and

• ▸shootings in head, esp.
• ▸just above eyes (in 1.
• ▸frontal protuberance).
• ▸—Congestion, with heat and

beating in head.—Pressure extending from occiput forward, an hour after dinner.—Semilateral

headache, and beating at base of brain and extending to eye on corresponding side; < by motion;

by exertion; after eating; > by rubbing (Olds).—Pain in |. occiput, obliging him to hold his head

• ▸forward.
• ▸—Dull pressure in small spot on occiput (1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Gnawing pain in occipital region (less on 1.

• ▸side).
• ▸—Boring in small spot 1.
• ▸occiput.
• ▸—Stitching in occiput—Tension on scalp with soreness as

if skin had been cut and reunited.—Sensation as if blood were rushing to occiput, on entering a

room.—Tearing in outside of head, with tension and sensation of excoriation.—Itching, and

burning shooting pain in scalp.

• ▸Can see objects only when looking at them sideways.
• ▸Eyes water on reading.
• ▸Double vision.
• ▸Sensation as if eyes were drawn back into the head.

Pain in eyes as if a grain of sand had been introduced into them.—Pressure and drawing

in balls of eyes —Itching, smarting and shooting in eyes, which disappear on rubbing

them.—Burning pain in eyes, esp. (in the open air or on waking or) by candlelight in

evening.—Lachrymation, and nocturnal agglutination —Lachrymation when she eats

• ▸(Olds).
• ▸—Quivering and starting in eyelids, and eyebrows.
• ▸—Frequent twitching in |.
• ▸upper

• ▸lid —Confused sight (esp.
• ▸in the afternoon when writing).
• ▸—M yopia.
• ▸—Dark clouds before

eyes.—Sensation as if a skin were hanging down over eyes (Olds).—Sight and hearing vanish for

a moment.

Shooting in ears.—Sticking in ears.—Boring and tearing in ears (with dryness of

throat).—Singing, tinkling, and buzzing in ears, < by noise.

Itching burning at tip of nose.—Tickling and tingling itching in nose.—Excoriation of

interior of nose—Burning and running pimples on septum of nose.—Drawing pressing pain at

root of nose when in house, nose and head feel stopped; out of doors constant dripping with > to

head (Olds).—Sneezing, with painful sensation of bursting, and of excoriation in chest.—Dryness

of nose.—Coryza, with thick mucus in nose, which occasions painful tension.—Violent dry

coryza.—It seemed as though he had an offensive breath.

Pale, sunken, with blue rings around eyes (Phos ac).

Pale, earthy complexion.—Tingling in face.—Burning pains in cheeks, and zygomatic

process.—Redness of the cheeks, even when the skin is cold.—Itching pimples and vesicles on the

cheeks.—Tension, and cramp-like, and paralytic drawing in face, sometimes semi-lateral

• ▸(1.
• ▸).
• ▸—Paralysed sensation in r.
• ▸half of face—The malar bones feel as if pulled forcibly

• ▸upward.
• ▸—Itching of the lips.
• ▸—Sensation as of dried white of egg on lips (Olds).
• ▸—Lips

cracked.—Jerking of lips, in morning, when sleeping.—Cramp in jaw, which scarcely permits

mouth to be opened.—Violent cracking in 1. articulation of jaw always on opening

mouth.—Swelling beneath lower jaw.

Dryness with sour taste in mouth—Dryness of mouth (and throat) on waking in

morning.—Greasy feeling in mouth and on palate-—Abundant accumulation of snow-white saliva

in mouth.—Relaxation of buccal mucous membrane; almost impossible for patient to prevent

biting cheeks when eating (Olds).—Tongue sore as if scalded.—Burning on tongue posteriorly as

from tobacco.—Smarting, and burning sensation in tongue.

Odontalgia, with drawing and tearing pain, often commencing from ear.—Jerking

tearing, and pulsation, in root of a carious tooth, with sensation of coldness coming out of tips of

teeth.—Stitches in r. upper molar, removed by pressure, after dinner.

Pain in throat, as if a hard body were introduced into it, esp. during

deglutition.—Choking and constriction of throat, particularly in morning and evening.—Dryness

of throat, esp. perceptible during empty deglutition.—Retching, constriction, dryness and

scraping in throat.—Throat dry with sour taste in mouth.—Throat very dry in morning with

sensation as if cold air penetrated, which she was constantly obliged to swallow; swallowing

difficult, though food and drink passed easily through pharynx and cesophagus.—Burning pain in

throat—Accumulation of viscid mucus in throat——Hawking of tenacious mucus after a meal.

• ▸Canine hunger, with hurried eating, without appetite.
• ▸Thirst.
• ▸Empty belching.
• ▸Vomiting of food; greenish water.
• ▸Throbbing in pit.

• ▸Fat and clammy taste.
• ▸—Sourmess in mouth.
• ▸—Want of appetite.
• ▸—Aversion to meat,

and to all food, except bread.—Desire for soft-boiled eggs.

Risings, with taste of the food, or of urine-—Empty and burning

risings.—Frequent empty eructations, > the nausea and the urging to vomit.—Disgust and nausea,

with inclination to vomit, esp. during and after a meal, or with pressure on chest—Sudden

inclination to vomit; stomach seems to turn over; after eructating twice, it disappears.—Stomach

very sensitive to external pressure.—Sensation as if stomach were fun of water.—Aching in

stomach and precordial region, sometimes after drinking cold water.—Stinging in the

stomach.—Constriction of the stomach.—Sensation, as if something were turning in stomach; as if

stomach turned quite over ——Contusive pain in region of stomach.—Sensation of icy coldness, or

of burning heat, in stomach.—Burning and heat from stomach to chest.

• ▸Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus.
• ▸Gnawing around navel.
• ▸Ineffectual urging.
• ▸Undigested feces. Stool passes when emitting flatus.
• ▸Burning pain in anus.

Dull shootings, and pressure in hepatic region, and spleen (with every

breath).—Fulness and distension of abdomen, with painful sensitiveness to least movement of

body.—Cramp-like pain in abdomen, in circumscribed places.—Pinchings in abdomen, and esp.

after eating or drinking anything hot.—Incisive pains in abdomen, esp. in umbilical region,

sometimes With diarrhcea—Contractive pains in abdomen, extending as far as stomach, with

nausea.—Digging and cuttings throughout abdomen.—Drawing in region of the groins, extending

into testes.—Accumulation of flatus, with gurgling and movement in abdomen.—Shifting of

flatulence in abdomen with rumbling. —Frequent expulsion of fetid flatus.

Constipation.—Hard, scanty, difficult stools, which are not passed without

• ▸straining.
• ▸—Difficult stool even when natural.
• ▸—Soft, frequent evacuations.
• ▸—Diarrhcea, with

cuttings, before, during, and after an evacuation Burning and stinging in anus and

rectum.—After a stool, pain, as from a bruise in abdomen, or burning pain and aching in anus.

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, with tenesmus and scanty

• ▸emission.
• ▸—Pressure on bladder.
• ▸—Small stream of urine.
• ▸—Pale, and more abundant, urine, which

speedily deposits a cloudy sediment.—Greenish urine.—Turbid urine, with clay-like

sediment.—Burning pain when making water.—Itching in urethra.

Catamenia premature, with scanty discharge of black blood,

(preceded and) accompanied by incisive pains in abdomen and loins, lancinating pains in head,

and lassitude in hands and feet.—Leucorrhcea, with serous and clear mucus.

Drawing shootings and incisive pains in penis.—Burning stinging

about root of penis (afternoon).—Drawing pains in testes.—Swelling and retraction of testes, with

painful sensitiveness to the touch.—Pressing in prostate gland.—Nocturnal erections and

pollutions.

Hoarseness and roughness in throat.—Hoarseness with inability to

talk loud—Roughness in throat, inducing dry, hacking cough.—Cramp-like contraction in

trachea, esp. at night.—Small dry cough, generally in single shocks, with tickling in throat.

• ▸Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic when lying down.
• ▸Palpitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest.
• ▸Dyspnoea.
• ▸Obtuse stitches in chest.

Obstructed respiration, when lying on back, as if pharynx were compressed;

disappearing on a change of position.—Oppression of the chest, when going up stairs, or a hill,

from distension of the abdomen.—Contusive pain in the chest.—Aching and shootings in the

• ▸chest.
• ▸—Incisive pains in chest.
• ▸—Rushes of blood to chest with dry heat of face.
• ▸—Anxious

ebullition with sensation of heat, and burning in chest, accompanied by a sensation of heat which

seems to rise from abdomen.—Violent stitch in upper part of chest, near sternum, as with a red-

hot needle; the breast continued to burn for a long time; at 2 p.m.—Violent, sharp stitch in chest

• ▸by r.
• ▸axilla—Stitches in clavicles.
• ▸—A very long stitch beneath 1.
• ▸mamma.
• ▸—A sharp stitch in

mamma, extending forward, while standing.—Some dull stitches beneath 1. mamma, that

disappear on rubbing, but return; stitches on r. ring and middle finger at same time.—A pain

almost like a shaking beneath and behind |. mamma, disappearing, after rubbing, followed by

warmth over whole body.—Tearing in r. mamma.

Aching, and pain as of a bruise in heart.—Pressure and crushing sensation about

heart.

Drawings about heart, < by stooping, and lasting during

expiration.—Violent and sometimes anxious palpitation of heart, with a sensation as if chest were

dilating.—Pulse very changeable and irregular; weak and slow in morning, full and rapid in

• ▸evening.
• ▸—_(A principal heart remedy.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Painful sensitiveness, rigidity and tension in the nape of the neck and

• ▸back.
• ▸—Cracking in joints of nape on raising head.
• ▸—Tearing in muscles of r.
• ▸side of neck whence

• ▸it extends into r.
• ▸malar bone, together with tearing in two r.
• ▸upper molars.
• ▸—Sensation as if a

warm breath extended up the nape with an agreeable feeling.—Drawing and stiffness in r.

cervical muscles, not < by motion but < by touch.—Pressure extending forward from both sides

• ▸of the back.
• ▸—Fine sticking in back behind 1.
• ▸mamma.
• ▸—Sudden sticking in region of r.
• ▸false ribs

• ▸near spine; spot sensitive to touch.
• ▸—Burning tearing and stitches above |.
• ▸scapula.
• ▸—Throbbing

and pressure at times very violent in sacrum.—Wrenching pain in loins, esp. when stooping and

when seated.

Drawing and tearing in the arms, hands, and fingers.—Drawing and digging

in r. thumb as if it would ulcerate Shootings in arms and hands.—Tingling in

fingers.—Numbness of fingers.

Cramp-like drawing and tension in thighs and hams, as if the tendons were

too short—Drawing and tearing in thighs, legs, feet and toes.—Shootings in the knees and

• ▸feet.
• ▸—Tingling in the limbs.
• ▸—Great weakness of the legs.
• ▸—Stiffness of the legs when

walking.—Sticking in the sole-—Tingling at one spot in middle of sole, in evening.—Cramp in

toes. —Tearing in big toe, which is painful as if ulcerated, particularly near nail.

24. Generalities—Cramp-like drawings in different parts—Drawing and tearing in

limbs.—Tingling in different parts —Tension in some of the limbs, as if tendons too

short.—Rigidity, and paralytic weakness in limbs, with dejection and trembling. —Languor with

indolence; inclination to sit.—Fainting.—Unsteady gait.

• ▸Weakness of lower limbs.
• ▸Paralysis of legs and feet.
• ▸Want of animal heat in limbs.
• ▸Cold feet.
• ▸Painless paralysis.
• ▸Constant cold feet.
• ▸Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers.
• ▸Veins and hands swollen.
• ▸OEdema.
• ▸Stiffness of joints.

• ▸Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; sensitive and numb.
• ▸Nocturnal burning.
• ▸Very sensitive skin; slightest friction causes soreness and chapping.
• ▸Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing; want of perspiration.
• ▸Pruritus, especially of scalp, which is sensitive.

Violent general itching, and sometimes smarting or burning in different parts of

skin.—Vesicles, resembling scabious pimples.—Excoriation in bends of joints.

Urgent inclination to sleep during day, with yawning and frequent stretching, esp.

• ▸after dinner.
• ▸—Prolonged sleep in morning.
• ▸—Retarded sleep in evening.
• ▸—Frequent or premature

waking in morning, without power to go to sleep again.—Very light sleep, disturbed by least

noise.

Shivering, shuddering, and coldness, frequently accompanied by heat in other parts,

or alternating with heat—Coldness after a walk in open air.—Coldness of whole 1. lower

limb.—Shuddering from vertex to chest.—Shuddering: in the house; after entering the house; by a

stove; entering a warm room from the open air.—Icy coldness creeps up back.—Increase of

• ▸natural heat, esp.
• ▸after walking in open air.
• ▸—Dry heat, in evening.
• ▸—Dry, pricking heat,

particularly in face.—Transient heat, often with sweat in head, chest, and hands.—Transient fits of

sweating, esp. during repose.—Perspiration during a meal.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Breasts, affections of.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Coryza.
• ▸Facial paralysis.

• ▸Gonorrheea.
• ▸Migraine.
• ▸Polyuria.
• ▸Prostate, affections of.
• ▸Spermatic cord, neuralgia of.
• ▸Testes,

neuralgia in; retraction of.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Nux, Op.
• ▸Follows well: Bry.
• ▸Is followed well by: Sep.

• ▸Compare: In headache with concomitant polyuria, Ign.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸Twitching eyelids, Agar.
• ▸Gastric

• ▸symptoms after drinking cold water, Ars.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸Pains in testicles, Puls.
• ▸< By noise

• ▸(Graph.
• ▸> by noise).
• ▸> By rubbing, Pho.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Canth.
• ▸Coryza < in open air, Cepa.

Numb head, Graph. Cracking in nape on moving head, Nicc. Dried white of egg sensation,

• ▸Alum.
• ▸, Bar.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Mg.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Ph.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸> Eating and drinking, < empty swallowing, Lach.

• ▸Eructations taste like urine (Ag.
• ▸cast.
• ▸, smell like old urine).
• ▸Sad, despondent, Puls.
• ▸(unlike Puls.
• ▸,

bad tempered). Slow pulse, Apocy. Headache from behind forward; scalding sensation on

• ▸tongue, Sang.
• ▸Chilly, Nux, Cyc.
• ▸, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸(but these are < in open air).
• ▸Burning during micturition,

• ▸Caust.
• ▸, Naph.
• ▸Coryza, Naph.
• ▸Stitches, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸Gnawing in occiput, Glo.
• ▸, Na.
• ▸sul.

• ▸Desires bread (Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, aversion to bread).
• ▸Movements in abdomen, Crocus.
• ▸Suppressed foot-

• ▸sweat, Sil.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸< From hot drinks (Lyc.
• ▸>).
• ▸Cracking in joints, Benz.
• ▸ac.

• ▸Compare: Con; Nat m; Rhus; Caust; Lathyr.
• ▸Oleander contains Oleandrin and also Nerein which latter is said to be closely related if not identical with Digitalin.
• ▸The pulse becomes slower, more regular, more powerful.
• ▸Diuresis; palpitation, oedema and dyspnoea of valvular disease disappear.

Antidotes: Camph; Sulph.

Third to thirtieth potency.