Plant
Secale Cornutum
Ergot
Repertory abbreviation: Sec.
Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers ; This produces an anemic condition, coldness, numbness, petechix, mortification, gangrene. A useful remedy for old people with shriveled skin —thin, scraway old women. All the Secale conditions are better from cold. Hemorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood. Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though ap- petite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and ab- dominal muscles twitch. Secale decreases the flow of pancreatic juice by raising the blood pressure. (Hims- dale.)
Head
Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Head drawn back. Falling of hair; dry and gray. Nosebleed, dark, oozing.
Eyes
Pupils dilated. Incipient cataract, senile, es- pecially in women. Eyes sunken and surrounded by a blue margin.
Face
Pale, pinched, sunken. ( Cramps commence in face and spread over whole body. Livid spots on face. Spasmodic distortion.
Mouth
Tongue dry, cracked ; blood like ink cxudes, coated thick; viscid, yellowish, cold livid. Tingling of tip of tongue, which is stiff. Tongue swollen, paralyzed.
Stomach
Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids. Thirst unquenchable. Singultus, nausea; vomit- ing of blood and coffee-grounds fluid. Burning in stomach and abdomen; tympanites. Eructations of had odor.
Stool
Cholera-like stools, with coldness and craimps. Olive-green, thin, putrid, bloody, ith icy coldne'ss and intolerance of being coz'ered, urith great exhaustion. Inzoluntary stools; no sensation of passing facees, dinus wide open. [Apis: Phos.] Urine.— P'ralysis of bladder. Retention, with un- successful urging. Discharge of black blood from blad- der. Enuresis in old people.
Female
Menstrual colic, with coldness and inl- tolerance of heat. Passive hamorrhages in feeble. cachectic women. Burning pains in uterus. Browisl, ofcnsir'e Ieucorrhaa. Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oosing of watery blood until next period. Threatened abortion about the third month. [Sab.] During labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. After-pains. Suppression of milk; breasts do not ill properly. Dark, offensive lochia. Puerperal
Chest
Dy spncea and oppression. with cramp in dia- phragm. Pr2cordial tenderness. Palpitation, with con- tracted and intermittent pulse.
Back
Spinal irritation, tingling of lower extremi- ties: can bear only slightest covering. Locomotor ataria. Formication and numbness.
Extremities
Cold, dry hands and feet of excessive smokers with feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Trem- bling, staggering gait. Formication, pain and spasmodic movements Numbness. Fingers s and feet bluish. shriveled, spread apart or bent backrwards, numb. Vio- l nt cramps. Icy coldness of exircmuties. Violent pain in finger-tips, tingling in toes.
Skin
Shriveled, numb; mottled dusky-blue ting. Sclerema and edema neonatorum. Raynaud's disease. Blue color. Dry gangrene, developing slowly. Vari- cose ulcers. Burning sensation: better by cold; wants parts uncoz'ered, though cold to touch. Formication; petechixe. Slight wounds continue to bleed. Livid spots. Boils, small, painful, with green contents; mature slowly. Skin feels cold to touch, yet covering is not tulerated. Great az'rrsion to heat. Formication under
Sleep
Profound and long. Insomnia with restless- 669 ness, fever, anxious dreams. Insomnia of drug and liguor habitues.
Fever
putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine. Coldness; cold, dry skin; cold, clammy sweat; excessive thirst. Sense of internal heat.
Modalities
Worse, heat. zvarm covering. Better, cold, uncovering, rubbing, stretching out limbs.
Relationships
Compare: Ergotin. Beginning ar- teriosclerosis progressing rather rapidly. Increased blood pressure: 2x trit. (when Secale, though indicated, fails) ; Pcdicularis Canadensis (symptoms of locomotor ataxia; spinal irritation) ; Brassica napus -- Rape-seed -- (dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious ap- petite, typmpanites. dropping of nails, gangrene) ; Cinna- Colch.; Ars.: Aurum mur. 2x (locomotor noy.: ataxia): Agrostema (vertigo, headache. difficult loco- motion, burning sensation) ; Ustilago; Carbo; Pituitrin (dilated os, little pain, no progress. I Dose, I c.c., re- eat in half hour, if necessary. Hypodermically contra- indicated in first stage of labor, valvular lesions or de- formed pelvis). Antidotes: Camph.; Opium.
Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth potency.