Pix Liquida

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. Homeeopaths (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. II] 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.
• ▸).

Pain in stomach—Vomiting: constant; of blackish fluid (from application to

skin).

Expectoration of purulent matter, offensive in odour and taste, and

accompanied by pain referred to third |. costal cartilage (really in 1. bronchus); pain may or may

• ▸not go through to back.
• ▸—(Third stage of phthisis.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pain at third 1.
• ▸costal cartilage where it joins

the rib; rales; muco-purulent expectoration—Suppuration of |. lung with pain at third rib—Cough

chronic, < night; expectoration purulent; fever at night.

Pain at a spot about the third left costal cartilage where it joins the rib. Rales through the lungs, and muco-purulent sputum; offensive odor and taste. Chronic bronchitis.

Cracked; itches intolerably; bleeds on scratching. Eruptions on back of hands.

• ▸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.

• ▸Acne.
• ▸Ardor urine.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Desquamation.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Enuresis.

• ▸Eruptions.
• ▸Hands, eruptions on.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Psoriasis.
• ▸Vomiting, black.

• ▸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.

Compare its constituents: Kreosol; Petrol; Pinus; Eupion; Terebinth; Carbolic acid.

First to sixth potency.