Secale cornutum
By Adolph von Lippe โ Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: ergot.
Particularly useful in tall, scrawny women of lax muscular fibre, feeble, cachectic, or very old decrepit persons (N.).
Varicose ulcers wonderfully cured by the action of this medicine.
Spasmodic tension in the limbs, relieved by violent stretching of them.
Burning in all parts as from sparks falling on them (Ars.).
Convulsive twitching of the limbs mostly at night (Ars., Calc., Phos.).
Limbs feel as if beaten (Arn, Bapt.).
Drawing and tearing in the limbs with tingling (Acon., Bell., Carb-V., Cupr., Graph., Lyc., Rhus-T.).
Numbness of the limbs (Agar., Arg-M., Arg-N., Carb-S., Carb-V., Cocc., Gels., Graph., Guai., Lyc., Nux-M., Op., Ox-Ac., Rhus-T.).
Great debility (Ars., Chin., Kali-P.).
Spasms after fright (Acon., Arg-N., Bufo, Calc., Cupr., Hyos., Ign., Indg., Kali-Br., Lyss., Op., Plat., Stram., Sulph., Verat., Zinc.).
Senile, dry gangrene aggravated by external heat (A.).
Anรฆmic conditions (Chin., Ferr., Graph., Nat-M., Phos., Puls.) (D.).
GANGRENE (Ars., Carb-V., Kali-P., Lach.).
Petechiรฆ (Arn., Bapt., Ham.) (D.).
Skin shrivelled, dry and brittle. Formication, black suppurating blisters, petechiรฆ; feels better from cold applications (D.).
Sensation of something creeping under skin (Acon., Phos.) (N.).
Heat applied to any part of the body aggravates his pains; extreme aversion to being covered (N.).
GREAT OBJECTIVE COLDNESS, BUT GREATLY AGGRAVATED BY COVERING (Carb-V.) (N.).
Passive hรฆmorrhage; everything open and loose; no action, in thin, scrawny, cachectic, women (N.).
Complains of an empty feeling in the abdomen (Phos., Sep., Sulph.) (D.).
Cold, dry and livid tongue (Carb-V.) (Ra.).
HICCOUGH (Cic., Cycl., Hyos., Ign., Iod.) (K.).
Disgust for food, meat and fats (A.).
Craves lemonade (Bell., Calc., Cycl., Eup-Pur., Jatr., Nit-Ac., Puls., Sab., Sulph-I.) and acids (Ant-T., Ars., Bry., Calc., Ferr-P., Hep.) (A.).
UNNATURAL, RAVENOUS APPETITE; EVEN WITH EXHAUSTING DIARRHOEA HE IS HUNGRY (Aloe, Iod., Petr., Sulph., Verat.) (A.).
Anus wide open with diarrhลa (Apis, Phos.)
Profuse, watery, putrid, brown stools, discharged with great force (Gamb., Grat.) (A.).
Putrid, fลtid, and colliquative diarrhลa (Ars., Bapt., Carb-V., Kali-P., Lach.) (G.).
Involuntary diarrhลa (Aloe, Kali-P., Nat-S., Podo., Sulph.) (Bt.).
Asiatic cholera (Acon., Ars., Bism., Camph., Canth., Carb-V., Cic., Cupr., Ipec., Kali-P., Lach., Phos., Podo., Sulph., Tereb., Verat.).
Retching and vomiting of undigested food, body wasted and cold, cramps, tingling in the limbs, face sunken, mouth distorted; profuse painless discharge from the bowels, ejected with violence; cold clammy sweat (D.).
Cholera infantum; great debility; vomiting and diarrhลa; much thirst; pale face; sunken eyes; dry heat; quick pulse; restless and sleepless, don't want to be covered. (N.).
Suppression of urine (Apis, Bell., Canth., Merc-C., Stram., Tereb.) (Ra.).
Enuresis of old people (Lyc., Op., Sep.) (A.).
Quiet delirium, or grows wild with great anxiety, and a constant desire to get out of bed (Hyos., Stram.) (G.).
Laboured and anxious respiration (Ant-T., Ars., Kali-P., Lach., Naja) (G.).
Paralysis of the limbs, with convulsive jerks and shocks in the paralyzed limbs (Hm.).
Moles, polypi, and morbid growths in the uterus, with prolonged forcing pains (Bt.).
Prolapsus uteri (Nat-M., Nux-V., Puls., Sep.) (Bt.).
EXCESSIVE MENSTRUATION (Calc., Chin., Ferr., Lach., Phos., Sab., Sep.) (Bt.).
Green, brown and offensive leucorrhลa (Nit-Ac.) (A.).
Leucorrhลa, jelly-like, alternating with metrorrhagia (Bt.).
After-pains too long and too painful, with hour-glass contraction (A.).
Threatened abortion, especially at the third month (Apis, Cimic., Croc., Eup-Pur., Merc., Sabin., Thuj., Ust.) (A.).
Continuous discharge of watery blood until the next menstrual period (A.).
IS INDICATED IN LABOUR WHEN THE PAINS ARE PROLONGED, CONTINUED AND INEFFECTUAL, OR ENTIRELY WANTING (D.).
LABOUR-PAINS ARE WEAK, SUPPRESSED, OR DISTRESSING IN WEAK, CACHECTIC WOMEN (N.).
Uterine hรฆmorrhage; passive painless flow of dark liquid blood; the patient is wrinkled and scrawny, is often unconscious and cold; hรฆmorrhages preceded by formication and tingling (D.).
Copious flow of black liquid blood, worse from the slightest movement, with convulsive motions (abortion) (N.).
Hรฆmorrhage, with spasmodic contractions; every discharge of blood is preceded by a violent, painful contraction of the uterus, or by distressing bearing down pains (G.).
METRORRHAGIA (Bell., Calc., Chin., Croc., Crot-H., Ferr., Ham., Ipec., Kali-Fer., Lach., Mill., Murx., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Phos., Plat., Psor., Puls., Rat., Sab., Tril., Ust.).
Metritis; great prostration, extremities cold; frequent vomiting; the blood discharged from the uterus is fluid, mingled with dark, badly-smelling coagula (Bt.).
Lochia very offensive and thin; discharge scanty or profuse; may be painless, or accompanied by prolonged bearing down pains (G.).
Failure of lactation (Agn., Calc., Caust., Dulc., Ign., Lac-C., Lac-D., Puls., Urt-U.) (G.).
Puerperal convulsions in scrawny, ill-nourished women, with too feeble labour-pains (Bt.).
INSUFFICIENT LABOUR-PAINS (Caul., Puls.).
Risus sardonicus (Phyt.) (C.).
Boils small, painful, with green contents; mature very slowly and heal in the same manner (Merc.) (A.).
HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS; THE SLIGHTEST WOUND CAUSES BLEEDING FOR WEEKS (Lach., Phos.) (A.).
Discharge of sanious, liquid blood, with a strong tendency to putrescence (A.).
WANTS ABDOMEN TO BE UNCOVERED (Tab.) (B.).
Burning in the stomach and abdomen (Ars., Carb-V., Lach., Lyc., Phos., Sulph.) (Br.).
Locomotor ataxia; trembling staggering gait (Alum., Nux-V., Zinc.) (Br.).
Roaring in the ears, with great difficulty in hearing (Calc., Merc., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (C.).
Violent, shaking chill followed by violent heat with anxiety, delirium and almost unquenchable thirst. Intense icy coldness of the skin, particularly of the face and extremities. Cold limbs, cold skin, with shivering (A.).
Severe, long-lasting dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst (Ars., Nat-M., Rhus-T.) (A.).
Cold, clammy sweat over the whole body (A.).
Pulse small, rapid, contracted, and often intermittent (A.).
Congestive headache, the pain extending from the back of the neck and occiput all over the head (Sil.) (Bl.).
CRAMPS IN HANDS, LEGS AND FEET (Cupr., Verat.) (B.).
FINGERS SPREAD APART (reverse of Cupr.) (B.).
AGGRAVATION: From warm covering; from hot application; from drawing up the limbs; during pregnancy; during menses; and from loss of fluids.
AMELIORATION: From uncovering; from rubbing; in the cold air; from stretching out the limbs; after vomiting; from cold; and from bathing.
RELATIONSHIP: Resembles Ars., Carb-V., Colch., Kali-P., Phos., Sulph. and Verat. in cholera morbus, and Cholera Asiatica.
Similar to: Ars., but cold and heat are opposite.
Compare: Cinnamon. in post-partum hรฆmorrhage; it increases labour-pains, controls profuse or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Ergot is not infrequently dangerous.
Antidotes: Camph., Op. and Sol-N.