Secale Cornutum

Ergot · Abbrev.: Ergot

Abdomen

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tympanites. Eructations of bad odor. Stool. — Cholera-like stools, with coldness and cramps. Olive-green, thin, putrid, bloody, loith icy coldness and intolerance of being covered, unth great exhaustion. Involuntary stools; no sensation of passing ficces, anus wide open, \/4pis; Phos.] Urine. — Paralysis of bladder. Retention, with unsuccessful urging. Discharge of black blood from bladder. Enuresis in old people.

Back

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Spinal irritation, tingling of lower

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Falling of hair ; dry and gray. Nosebleed, dark, oozing.

Blood

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Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and abdominal muscles twitch. Secale decreases the flow of pancreatic juice by raising the blood pressure. (Hinsdale.)

Chest

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D> spnoea and oppres^^ion. with cramp in diaphragm. Praecordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent

Compare

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lirgotin. Beginning arteriosclerosis progressing rather rapidly. Increased blood pres.sure: 2x trit. (when Secale, though indicated, fails) ; Pedicularis Canadensis (symptoms of locomotor ataxia; spinal irritation); Brassica na/^ — Rape-seed — (dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite, typmpanites, dropping of nails, gangrene) ; Cinnamon,; Colch,; Ars.: Aurum mur. 2x (locomotor ataxia): Agrostema (vertigo, headache, difficult loco- 670 SECALE CORNUTUM — SEDUM ACRE — SELENIUM motion, burning sensation) ; Ustilago; Carbo; Pituitrin (dilated os, little pain, no progress. Dose, 54 c.c., repeat in half hour, if necessary. Hypodermically contraindicated in first stage of labor, valvular lesions or deformed pelvis). Antidotes: Camph.; Opium.

Dose

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Tincture, to thirtieth potency.

Extremities

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Cold, dry hands and feet of excessive smokers with feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Trembling, staggering gait. Formication, pain and spasmodic movements Numbness. Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent backivards, numb. Vio~ lint cramps. Icy coldness of exircpiities. Violent pain in tinger-tips, tingling in toes.

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can bear only slightest covering. Locomotor ataxia. Formication and numbness.

Eyes

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Pupils dilated. Incipient cataract, senile, especially in women. Eyes sunken and surrounded by a blue margin. 668 SLCALE tORNUTl M

Face

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Spasmodic distortion.

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Head drawn

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Pale, pinched, sunken. Cramps commence in face and spread over whole body. Livid spots on

Female

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Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat. Passive haemorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. Burning pains in uterus. Brownish, offensive leucorrheea. Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oo::ing of watery blood until next period. Threatened abortion about the third month. [5*0^.] During labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. After-pains. Suppression of milk; breasts do not fill properly. Dark, offensive lochia. Puerperal fever, putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine.

Fever

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Coldness; cold, dry

Guiding symptoms

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Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers ; hence a constringent feeling throughout the whole body. This produces an anaemic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification, gangrene. A useful remedy for old people with shriveled

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ness, fever, anxious dreams. Ittsontnia of drug and liquor habitues.

Head

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Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale

Modalities

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Worse, heat, warm covering. Better, cold, uncovering, rubbing, stretching out

Mouth

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Tongue dry, cracked; blood like ink exudes, coated thick; viscid, yellowish, cold livid. Tingling of tip of tongue, which is stiff. Tongue swollen, paralyzed.

Skin

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cold, clammy

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Shriveled, numb ; mottled dusky-blue tinge. Scleraema and cedema neonatorum. Raynaud’s disease. Blue color. Dry gangrene, developing slowly. Varicose ulcers. Burning sensation: better by cold; wants parts uncovered, though cold to touch. Formication; petechiae. Slight wounds continue to bleed. Livid spots. Boils, small, painful, with green contents; mature slowly. Skin feels cold to touch, yet covering is not tolerated. Great avcr.uon to heat. Formication under .skin.

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thin, scrawny old women. All the Secale conditions are better from cold. Haemorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black

Sleep

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Profound and long. Insomnia with restless-

Stomach

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Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids. Thirst unquenchable. Singultus, nausea ; vomiting of blood and coffee-grounds fluid. Burning in stomach and

Sweat

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excessive thirst. Sense of internal heat.

References

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