OLEUM MORRHUAELiquid

Oleum morrhuae is a deeply nourishing, constitutional homoeopathic medicine prepared from pure cod liver oil of Gadus morhua and related fishes, primarily indicated in chronic wasting diseases, scrofulous conditions, and degenerative bone and glandular disorders. It is highly beneficial for emaciated, anaemic, and debilitated patients, especially children and the elderly, and plays a restorative role in phthisis, Addison’s disease, chronic rheumatism, and spinal irritation. It helps support growth, glandular regulation, skin repair, and overall resistance to infections and cold.

Common Name

English: Cod Liver Oil

SBL’s Oleum morrhuae can be helpful in the following conditions:

Nervous Irritability and General Vitality

• Aids in recovery from Addison’s disease, spinal irritation, and nervous debility with fluttering from sacrum to occiput.
• Helps manage irritability, mental exhaustion, and sensation of going insane in weak constitutions.
• Useful for headaches with giddiness, especially bursting pain after coughing, and pain from occiput to forehead with nausea.
• Supports children with dwarfish growth, mental dullness, or developmental delay due to malnutrition or glandular insufficiency.

Dysmenorrhoea & Sore Ovaries

• Acts as an emmenagogue, helping restore delayed or suppressed menses, especially with anaemia or glandular dysfunction.
• Assists in dysmenorrhoea, soreness in ovaries, and leucorrhoea, especially yellow and associated with back weakness.
• Useful for women with menstrual irregularities and facial hair growth (hirsutism), particularly on chin and upper lip.

Respiratory Discomfort

• Helps in Burning pains in spots of chest, phthisis, and pneumonia, especially with yellow-green or bloody expectoration, weakness, and night cough.
• Aids in asthma, short breath with palpitation, and cough aggravated at night or from drafts, requiring patient to sit up and hold head.
• Useful in humid, hacking coughs, tickling in the chest, and cold-induced respiratory weakness. Violent cough with retching.
• Assists in slow resolution of pneumonia, especially in upper lobes.

Indigestion & Soreness

• Manages chronic indigestion, loss of appetite, and burning in stomach with acid vomiting, especially in rickety children.
• Helps in liver soreness, heaviness, especially on exercise or pressure, often with right-sided numbness and beating of spleen.
• Supports in spleen pain, gas, and mesenteric atrophy, especially in emaciated individuals.
• Useful in bilious vomiting, diarrhoea during chill, and constipation linked with poor nutrition or malabsorption.

Musculoskeletal System and Joints Pain

• Supports in rheumatism, lumbago, and musculo-fibrous pain, particularly in elbows, knees, and spine.
• Helps manage stiff joints, spinal soreness, hip-joint disease, and sciatica with muscle wasting.
• Assists in abscesses, fistulae, and white swelling around joints especially knees, especially in scrofulous constitutions.
• Useful in contraction of muscles, pain in sacroiliac region, and difficulty walking due to spinal or pelvic weakness.

Skin Irritation

• Useful in cold abscesses, scrofulous ulcers, and eruptions with thick discharge, including psora, herpes, and ichthyosis.
• Aids in irritating skin eruptions, night-time itching, and skin redness with irritability with morning relief.
• Supports conditions like lupus and glandular swellings including thyroid enlargement.

Urinary Incontinence and Renal Soreness

• Helps in kidney soreness, urine with bricky sediment, and mucous urethral discharge, especially in the morning during stool.
• Assists in incontinence and increased urination, especially with liver involvement.

Heart and Circulation Issues

• Aids in palpitations with cough or breathlessness, and sudden rush of blood to heart with creeping over body.
• Helps manage weak pulse, heat flushes, and cold extremities in anaemic or emaciated patients.
• Useful in sudden stitchy heart pain during febrile or respiratory complaints.

Sleeplessness and Fever

• Manages sleeplessness, especially after 3 a.m., and disturbed sleep with vivid dreams.
• Useful in tertiary intermittent fever, especially with chill, vomiting, or spasmodic abdominal pain.
• Aids in night sweats, especially of head, neck, and arms, with chilliness and alternating heat.
• Helps those with persistent chill, burning face, or cold sweats during the day.

Catarrhal Inflammation

• Assists in scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen eyelids, and blurred vision during chills.
• Helps in deafness, fetid ear discharges, and nasal catarrh with fluent coryza, hoarseness and rawness of chest.
• Useful in epistaxis during amenorrhea or with nasal dryness and sneezing.