PIX LIQUIDA
Tar and its constituents act on various mucous membranes.
Its skin symptoms most important. A great cough medicine. Bronchial irritation after influenza (Kreosot; Kali bich). Scaly eruptions. Much itching. Constant vomiting of blackish fluid, with pain in stomach. Alopecia (Fluor ac).
Chest.--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.
Skin.--Cracked; itches intolerably; bleeds on scratching. Eruptions on back of hands.
Relationship.--Compare its constituents: Kreosol; Petrol; Pinus; Eupion; Terebinth; CARBOLIC ACID.
Dose.--First to sixth potency.