Secale Cornutum sec.

Muscles: BLOOD-VESSELS. UTERUS. BLOOD. Nerves. Cord. Limbs.

WARMTH. During menses. Pregnancy. Loss of fluids. COVERS.

Cold; bathing. Uncovering. Rocking. Forcible extension.

Dusky, scrawny and heamorrhagic. Numbness, insufferable tingling, crawling, twitching, gnawing or cramping; with stiffness; in single parts; starting in face or back; in limbs; in fingertips; after the pains, etc. Burnings; here and there, like fire. Dark, thin, foul or exhausting discharges. Decomposition. Petechiæ. Varicoses. Passive bleedings or discharges. Contracted arterioles. Tonic spasm.

Mental weakness after spasms. Fear, depressed by; maniacal. Sparks before eyes. Distorted or sunken countenance; blue rings under eyes. Wild look. Thirst; craves acids. Empty retching. Empty feeling in hypogastrium. Wants abdomen uncovered. Gushing, painless, watery, olive-green or bloody stools; with collapse. Bloody urine. Everything seems loose and open. Senile enuresis. Inert uterus, or bearing down with coldness. Contracted uterus; hour-glass contraction. Miscarriage. Green lochia. Septic placenta. Metritis. Gangrene of female organs. Leucorrhœa; brown, foul; continuous. Pains through chest on pressing spine. Cold limbs. Bluish fingers and toes. Cramps in hands, legs and feet. Fingers spread apart; bent backward or clenched; look water soaked. Boils with green pus. Blood blisters. Cold, dry, wrinkled or bluish skin, < over affected part. Raynaud's disease. Foul, indolent ulcers. Twitching tremor or quiver in skin. EXTERNALLY, ICY COLD, YET BURNING HOT INTERNALLY; OBJECTS TO BEING COVERED, < ABDOMEN. Heat, as of sparks on skin. Erysipelas. Cold or foul sweat; destroying shoes.

Antidote: Solan-n. Related: Nux-m. Ust.

Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachetic appearance; irritable, nervous temperament; pale, sunken countenance. Very old, decrepit, feeble persons. Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no action; vessels flabby; passive haemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed. Haemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks (Lach., Phos.); discharge of sanious liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids. Leucorrhoea; green, brown, offensive. Boils: small, painful with green contents, mature very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debilitating. Face: pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic; drawn, with sunken eyes; blue rings around eyes. Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhoea; craves acids, lemonade. Diarrhoea: profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force (Gamb., Crot.); very exhausting; painless, involuntary; anus wide open (Apis, Phos.). Enuresis: of old people; urine pale, watery, or bloody; urine suppressed. Burning; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient (Ars.). Gangrene; dry, senile, < from external heat. Large ecchymosis; blood blisters; often commencement of gangrene. Collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered (Camph.). The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate covering; icy coldness of extremeties. Menses: irregular; copious, dark, fluid; with pressing, labor-like pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period. Threatened abortion especially at third month (Sab.); prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains. During labor: pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything seems loose and open but no expulsive action; fainting. After pains: too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction. Suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do not properly fill. Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent.

Compare: Cinnmon in post-partum haemorrhage; it increases labor-pains, controls profuse or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Ergot is always dangerous. Similar: to, Arsenicum, but cold and heat are opposite. Resembles Colchicum in cholera morbus.

Heat; warmth from covering, of all affected parts; in all diseases worse from heat.

In the cold air; getting cold; uncovering affected parts; rubbing.

For female complaints chiefly, and especially when occurring in thin, scrawny, wrinkled females; or children. Skin is cold, but the patient does not wish to be covered up. Copious vomiting of a mixture of thick, black, pitchy, bilious and slimy matter. Dry gangrene, particularly on the right side, beginning in the toes and running up the limb. Amaurosis occurring in patients characteristic of this drug; hard hearing; blue color around the eyes.

Female: Female genital organs in general; pains like labor pains, which are protracted from a long time, skin cold and no wish to be covered, etc.; labor pains ceasing; labor pains too weak; abortion in the characteristic patients. Menses last too long; too profuse.

Blackness of outer parts; crawling on the skin as of insects; ulcers that turn black; skin withered and gangrenous. Heat, with thirst and want of perspiration. Affections in general of the right side; painless hæmorrhage; crooked limbs; paralysis; sensation of deadness in any part.

From drawing up the limbs; especially for troubles in childbed.

From stretching out the limbs. After vomiting.

Acon., Arsen., Bellad., Mercur., Pulsat.

Camphor., Opium.

Uterine hemorrhages from atony; especially after abortion or confinement; flow black and offensive; worse from slightest motion; threatening collapse.

Ergot (CLAVICEPS PURPUREA)

Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers; hence a constringent feeling throughout the whole body. This produces an anæmic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiæ, mortification, gangrene. A useful remedy for old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women. All the Secale conditions are better from cold; the whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat. Hæmorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood. 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).

Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Head drawn back. Falling of hair; dry and gray. Nosebleed, dark, oozing.

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

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

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

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

Cholera-like stools, with coldness and cramps. Olivegreen, thin, putrid, bloody, with icy coldness and intolerance of being covered, with great exhaustion. Involuntary stools; no sensation of passing feces, anus wide open.

Paralysis of bladder. Retention, with unsuccessful urging. Discharge of black blood from bladder. Enuresis in old people.

Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat. Passive hæmorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. Burning pains in uterus. Brownish, offensive leucorrhœa. Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing 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 fill properly. Dark, offensive lochia. Puerperal fever, putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine.

Angina pectoris. Dyspnœa and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Præcordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.

Profound and long. Insomnia with restlessness, fever, anxious dreams. Insomnia of drug and liquor habitudes.

Spinal irritation, tingling of lower extremities; can bear only slightest covering. Locomotor ataxia. Formication and numbness. Myelitis.

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 backwards, numb. Violent cramps. Icy coldness of extremities. Violent pain in finger-tips, tingling in toes.

Shriveled, numb; mottled dusky-blue tinge. Scleræma and œdema 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; petechiæ. 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 aversion to heat. Formication under skin.

Coldness; cold, dry skin; cold, clammy sweat; excessive thirst. Sense of internal heat.

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

Compare: Ergotin (Beginning arteriosclerosis progressing rather rapidly. Increased blood pressure: 2x trit. Œdema, gangrene and purpura hæmorrhagia: when Secale, though indicated, fails); Pedicularis Canadensis (Symptoms of locomotor ataxia; spinal irritation); Brassica napus-Rape-seed--(dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite, tympanitis, dropping of nails, gangrene); Cinnamon; Colch; Ars; Aurum mur. 2x (locomotor ataxia); Agrostema-Corn-cockle-active constituent is Saponin, which causes violent sneezing and sharp burning taste; burning in stomach, extends to œsophagus, neck and breast; (vertigo, headache, difficult locomotion, burning sensation); Ustilago; Carbo; Pituitrin (dilated os, little pain, no progress. Dose, 1/2 c, repeat in half hour, if necessary. Hypodermically contra-indicated in first stage of labor, valvular lesions or deformed pelvis).

Antidotes: Camph; Opium.

First to thirtieth potency. Non-homeopathic use. In hæmorrhages of the puerperium, after the uterus in entirely emptied, when it fails to contract satisfactorily and in secondary puerperal hæmorrhage the result of incomplete involution of the uterus, give one-half to one dram of the fluid extract. Remember Pagot's law. "As long as the uterus contains, anything, be it child, placenta, membranes, clots, never administer Ergot".

Passive hæmorrhage, everything open and loose, no action, in thin, scrawny, cachectic women.

Great coldness (objective) of the surface, yet the patient cannot bear to be covered.

Numbness, crawling and paralysis; formication as of mice creeping there, all parts of body.

Secale cornutum is a remedy capable of great good, but is perhaps, as much misused as Quinine. Its power to contract the uterus is undoubted, and for this reason it is often given when other remedies would do better. It has power to control hæmorrhages, that few other remedies, if any, can surpass. It is said to do this by contracting the capillaries. But we must remember that other remedies control hæmorrhages, and whether they do it by contracting the capillaries, by their action upon the blood itself or other specific action, makes no difference, so long as they control it. Some physicians are always giving Ergot in post partum hæmorrhages on this contracted theory, without ever thinking of anything else.

They always give it in material doses to get, as they term it, the physiological effect. I have never, in a practice of thirty-five years, used it in this way, but have always been able to control such hæmorrhages. Secale is not often indicated in active post-partum hæmorrhages. If there is a tendency to passive hæmorrhage, everything open and loose, no action, in thin, scrawny, cachectic women (muscles flabby), there is no remedy like it, and the potencies are much better than the tincture or wine of Ergot in massive doses. This is also true in menorrhagias and metrorrhagias unconnected with pregnancy. The blood is dark, liquid and flowing worse on the slightest motion.

The constitution, temperament and age of the patient are of great importance, for it is particularly adapted to feeble, thin, scrawny, cachectic women of lax muscular fibre, subject to passive hæmorrhages from all outlets of the body; also old, decrepit persons.

This remedy (Secale) is often abused on account of its power to produce muscular contractions of the womb. Now in regard to this as with hæmorrhages, it is capable of doing all that it ought to be called upon to do, in the potencies.

I fully agree with Cowperthwaite, who says: "To give it in parturition to hasten delivery, as is the practice of the old school, is simply inexcusable." on the other hand, I agree with Dr. H. N. Guernsey, "that it is useful when labor pains are weak, suppressed or distressing, in weak, cachectic women; in the 200th dilution," and have verified it beyond question.

The practice of giving the fluid extract in such cases, as is done by some physicians calling themselves homœopathic, ought to be sufficient cause for expelling them from a homœopathic society. It seems to me to be confession of either inexcusable laziness or ignorance.

We have a long list of remedies of undoubted value for weak labor pains with specific indications for their use, and when so indicated they are more efficacious and less dangerous than Secale in massive doses of fluid extract with no other indications than uncontracted uterus or weak pains. The men who prate learnedly of getting the physiological effects of Secale in massive doses had better ask themselves if the same result gotten with the potentized remedy homœopathically applied, is not just as much in accordance with the physiological law, and much more scientific from a homœopathic standpoint. Weak pains remedied by the indicated homœopathic drug bring on natural labor, while large doses for the same purpose of an unindicated one do not and never can produce natural labor. It is nothing more or less than drug poisoning.

Here is one symptom of Secale that is of inestimable value: "Great coldness (objective) of the surface yet the patient cannot bear to be covered." This is oftenest found in cholera and cholera infantum; but it is also found in senile gangrene.

The feet and toes may be objectively as cold as an iron wedge, but the patient is distressed beyond endurance by having them covered. I saw one marked case of this kind. All the toes were attacked with dry gangrene. A few doses of Secale (high) afforded great relief, and checked the progress of the disease for a long time.

Camphora has the same symptom in a marked degree in choleraic disease. Camphora seems to be most efficacious for the first stage or early collapse in the course of the disease, before the discharges have become offensive, putrid or dark colored. Secale has burning in the feet (Sulphur) and cramps in the calves (Sulphur).

If, however, we should prescribe on this alone it would make no difference which we prescribed, but they are very unlike in their entirety. Sulphur does not have the degree of collapse of Secale, nor the icy coldness of surface with subjective burning. So we see the folly of one symptom prescribing after all.

We must have the keynote symptom, of course, but it must harmonize with the rest of the case. Secale has "burning of all parts of the body, as if sparks were falling on them." It also has numbness, crawling and paralysis of the extremities. This is due to its action on the spinal chord. In addition to the coldness of the skin already noticed, we must state that the skin looks dry, wrinkled and is insensible often, or there may be much formication under, as if mice were creeping there.

Great anxiety. Madness, with inclination to drawn oneself. Mania, with inclination to bite. Fear of death.

Stupefaction and unconsciousness. Giddiness, as from intoxication. Stupefaction, with tingling in the head and pain in the limbs, which are worse from motion. Unconsciousness with heavy sleep, preceded by tingling in the head and limbs (in hæmorrhages from the uterus). Dull pain in the back part of the head. Falling off of the hair.

Wild, staring look. Distortion of the eyes. The eyes are pushed back far into the sockets. Double vision. Obscuration of sight.

Humming and roaring in the ears, with occasional deafness.

Bleeding of the nose.

Pale, yellowish, sunken countenance, with deep-sunken eyes, surrounded by a blue circle. Dark redness of the face. Spasmodic distortion of the mouth and lips. Formication in the face. Locked jaw.

The teeth become loose and fall out. Grinding of the teeth. Bloody or discolored foam before the mouth. Spitting, of blood. Painful tingling in the throat and on the tongue. Swelling of the tongue. Discolored, brown or blackish tongue. Tongue coated with mucus. Feeble, stuttering, indistinct speech, as if the tongue were paralyzed.

Violent, unquenchable thirst. Insatiable hunger, especially for acids. Continuous nausea ; worse after eating. Vomiting of bile, of mucus, of black bile, of lumbrici or of the food, with great weakness, or painless, without any effort. Violent pressure in the stomach, as from a heavy weight. Great anxiety and pressure in the pit of the stomach, with great sensitiveness to the touch. Inflammation and gangrene of the stomach. Inflammation and gangrene of the liver. Burning (or coldness) in the abdomen. Burning in the spleen. Colic, with convulsions. Pain in the loins, as from false-labor pains. Rumbling in the abdomen.

Frequent diarrhœa ; discharges watery and of mucus. Very debilitating diarrhœa, with sudden sinking of strength. Involuntary, very watery stools. Offensive watery diarrhœa (in child-bed). Cholera ; diarrhœa after the Cholera.

Urinary secretions suppressed. Pale, watery urine. Hæmorrhage from the urethra.

Women. Menstruation too profuse and of too long duration. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Hæmorrhage from the uterus of black, liquid blood ; the discharge is increased by motion. Labor ceases, and instead twitchings and convulsions. Abortion, especially in the third month (after abortion the os uteri does not contract). Lochia of too long duration. Too long and too painful after-pains. Swelling of and warts on the half-open uterus. Inflammation of the uterus from suppressed lochia or menstruation. Cancer and gangrene of the uterus.

Heavy, anxious breathing, with moaning. Spitting of blood, with or without cough. Hollow, hoarse voice. Violent palpitation of the heart, with contracted and frequently intermittent pulse.

Tingling in the back, which is numb (void of feeling), extending to the tips of the fingers.

Numbness and insensibility of the hands. The fingers are bent backward, or spasmodically contracted. Burning in the hands. Gangrenous deadness of the fingers. Swelling of the hands, with black pustules. Lower. Violent cramps in the calves. Burning in the swollen feet. Tingling in the toes. Gangrenous deadness of the toes. Gangrena senilis.

Convulsive twitching in the limbs. Spasmodic distortion of the limbs, relieved by stretching them out. Tetanic spasms. Drawing and tearing in the limbs, with tingling. Numbness of all the limbs. Burning in any parts of the body, as if sparks were falling on them.

Great sleepiness ; deep, heavy sleep ; stupor.

Pulse unchanged, even with the most violent attacks. Pulse generally slow and contracted, sometimes intermittent or suppressed ; only slightly accelerated during the heat. Violent chill of short duration, soon followed by violent internal burning beak with violent thirst. Disagreeable sensation of coldness in the back, in the abdomen and in the limbs. Violent and long-continued dry heat, with great restless and violent thirst. Perspiration, especially on the upper part of the body. Cold, clammy perspiration over the whole body.

Discolored, dry, shrivelled skin. Numbness and sensation of deadness of the skin. Formication under the skin. Desquamation of the whole skin. Gangrenous blood-vesicles. Petechiæ.

Aggravation from motion ; from touching the affected parts ; during walking ; from warmth ; from getting warm in bed ; from being covered ; from warm applications to all the variously affected parts ; during pregnancy, parturition and confinement. Amelioration in the cold air, from getting cold ; from rubbing ; from stretching out the limbs ; while standing.

Secale cornutum. Spurred Rye. Ergot of Rye. [The black, horn-like spur into which the grains of Rye (Secale cereale, N. O. Gramineæ) are changed by the fungus Claviceps purpurea.] N. O. Fungi. Tincture of The fresh spurs collected just before harvest.

Abortion, threatened. After-pains. Albuminuria. Anus, incontinence of; open. Asthenopia. Bladder, paralysis of . Boils. Carbuncles. Cataract. Chilblains. Cholera; infantum. Chorea. Convulsions. Cramps. Diabetes. Diaphragm, cramp in. Diarrhœa. Distortions. Dysphagia. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Feet, cramps in; burning of; coldness of. Fibroma. Gangrene . Gastritis. Glands, swelling of; suppuration of. Goître. Hæmaturia. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhagic diathesis. Heart, palpitation of. Hiccough. Hysteria. Impotence. Liver, enlargement of. Lochia, fetid. Lumbago. Menstruation, excessive . Metrorrhagia. Milk, suppressed. Miscarriage . Morvan's disease. Myelitis; diffusa. Nails, degeneration of . Neuralgia. Night-sweats. Numbness . Œsophagitis. Ovaries, tumours of. Paralysis ; post-diphtheritic; spastic. Placenta, retained. Post-partum hæmorrhage. Pregnancy, false pains of . Purpura, Raynaud's disease. Small-pox, hæmorrhagic. Spinal irritation . Stammering. Stomach, cancer of. Strabismus. Stricture, spasmodic. Thrombosis. Tongue, biting of. Typhoid. Ulcers. Uterus, inertia of; neuralgia of; prolapse.

Rye and grasses are apt to be affected with the Ergot disease in damp seasons, and when grown on damp, ill-drained lands. If breeding cows are turned on pastures where infected grasses grow they are very liable to drop their calves. Ergot has been known as a hastener of parturition from remote times. Its other actions have been for the most part learned from the terrible epidemics of "Ergotism" which have occasionally devastated districts in which Rye infected with Ergot has been ground into flour and eaten by the population. Death takes place in convulsions; or else from gangrene and consequent exhaustion; or from exhausting hæmorrhages or discharges, as diarrhœa. Many who escape immediate death are reduced to a cachectic state, from which they never recover; are paralysed, have limbs distorted and senses impaired. In general the sufferer retains a clear intellect and a good, even abnormally good, appetite to the last. The nervous symptoms of Sec . are convulsive. The body is at times rigid; at times rigidity alternates with relaxation. This is especially seen in the hands, which are either clenched or have the fingers spread widely apart (a keynote symptom). The muscles of the face and abdomen twitch. There is incontinence or retention of urine. Spasmodic retching, the stomach is violently contracted. Through the like action on the vaso-motor nerves there is first contraction and then dilatation of blood-vessels; the fingers turn bluish black. This stagnation leads to dry gangrene of the parts. Sec . shrivels up the skin, makes it dry and harsh; sallow complexion. It is therefore suited to — thin, scrawny women, feeble and of cachectic appearance; women of irritable, nervous temperament; of pale, sunken countenance. To very old, decrepit persons. On the other hand, it is also suited to: Irritable, plethoric subjects. Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no action, vessels flabby: passive hæmorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood. For Sec . lessens the coagulating power of the blood. and produces a hæmorrhagic diathesis; persistent, offensive bleeding. Small wounds bleed persistently. Purpura comes within this category. One grand characteristic of Sec ., which will determine its selection in many cases, is: " < By external heat." This applies to cholera, purpura, gangrene, and any condition which may present symptoms of Sec . In cholera cases calling for Sec . the patient is cold, almost pulseless; there are spasmodic twitchings of muscles in various parts (especially spreading of fingers), eyes sunk, features pinched; surface harsh, shrivelled, dry, as though no moisture were left in the body. Though cold to the touch, cannot bear to be covered . In spite of this coldness, Sec . has burning among its characteristic sensations: burning in all parts of the body as if sparks were falling on the patient. Another characteristic sensation is numbness; tingling as if ants crawling all over, > from rubbing. This may accompany hæmorrhages, loss of other fluids, debility, or skin affections. In the later stages of ergotism there is anæsthesia. The discharges are exhausting and offensive. Diarrhœa is peculiar, involuntary; with wide-open anus. The boils in which Sec . is indicated are small and painful, with green contents, mature very slowly, heal slowly, and are very weakening. The eyes are affected in various ways: Pustulous conjunctivitis; suppuration of cornea; dilated pupils, distortion, and strabismus; ptosis; suppressed tears. Catarrh has been caused in many instances. " < From warmth" will be the leading indication in many eye cases requiring Sec . Exophthalmic goître has been cured with it; the heart being acted on by Sec . as other hollow viscera, and violent palpitation induced. Sec . has a great affinity for the uterus, whether gravid or not. Though its use in ordinary doses in obstetric practice is attended with danger, it may be used on its homœopathic indications with perfect safety. It is indicated: ( 1 ) In threatened abortion, especially at the third month; prolonged, bearing-down, forcing pains. ( 2 ) During labour when the pains are irregular, too weak, feeble, or ceasing; everything seems loose and open, but there is no expulsive action; fainting. ( 3 ) For after-pains when too long, too excessive; or when there is hour-glass contraction of the uterus. ( 4 ) For suppression or non-appearance of the milk. The menses of Sec . are irregular; copious, dark, fluid; accompanied by labour-like pains in abdomen; there maybe a continuous watery discharge of blood during the whole time between the periods. Teste records this case: A lady, 50, fat, very soft flesh, had flooding which nothing could stop. After several useless attempts, Teste gave large doses of Sec . with scarcely any effect. The patient asked for infinitesimal doses. At that time Teste had no faith at all in infinitesimals, but he yielded to the patient's request, and gave one drop of the 6th. The flooding ceased immediately and permanently. Peculiar Sensations of Sec . are: As if intoxicated while undressing. As if eyes were spasmodically rotated. As of a solid plug in nose. As if tongue paralysed. As if there were some resistance to be overcome in speech. As of a heavy weight in stomach. Region of stomach as if contracted. Anus as if locked up. As if testes being drawn up to inguinal ring. Uterus as if burnt. As if contents of uterus would fall forward. As if soft air were creeping through back. As if sacrum would be forced out. As if something alive creeping under skin. As if fingers asleep. As if limbs had been a long time in hot water. As if sparks of fire falling on different parts. As if mice creeping under skin. Fuzzy feeling in limbs. Sec . is indicated in Suppressions : tears; lochia; milk; sweat. Thirst with dry mouth or burning. Desires lemonade and sour things. Averse to fat and meat. The symptoms are: < By touch. > Lying doubled up in bed. Motion and any exertion < . Walking = giddiness. Many symptoms (cramps, twitchings) < night. Sinking spells 3 a.m. Open air > . Wants to be fanned. Warm applications < . Warm drink < . Wet bandages > labour pains. Cold applications > . < After eating. All symptoms < just before menses. The right side is predominantly affected.

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Stupid, half-sleepy state.
Impaired power of thinking.
Delirium : quiet ; wandering.
Mania : with inclination to bite ; with inclination to drown.
Uncomfortableness and depression.
Fear of death.
Anxiety, sadness, melancholy.
Great anguish ; wild with anxiety.
Apathy, indifference.
Constant moaning and fear of death.
Great anxiety and difficult respiration.
Excessive sadness, gradually changes to cheerfulness ; talks and acts foolishly ; rage, followed by continuous deep sleep.
Paralytic mental diseases ; treats his relations contemptuously and sarcastically ; wandering talk and hallucinations ; apathy and complete disappearance of the senses.
Laughs, claps her hands over her head, seems beside herself. θ After miscarriage.

Unconsciousness, with heavy sleep, preceded by tingling in head and limbs.
Diminution and loss of senses, sight, hearing, etc.
All the senses benumbed.
Consciousness seems to continue until the last breath, and just before death it seems as if patient would improve.
Stupefaction ; stupor.
Vertigo : constantly increasing ; with stupefaction and heaviness of head ; reeling, inability to stand erect ; peculiar feeling of lightness of head, particularly in occiput ; as from intoxication ; unsteady gait.
Heaviness of head and tingling in legs.
Sensation of intoxication while undressing.

Pulsations in head with giddiness, she cannot walk.
Pain and confusion most in occiput.
Congestion to head and chest.
Headache ; hemicrania on left side.

Hair falls out.
Twisting of head to and fro.
Scalp sore.

Photophobia.
Dimness of vision ; mistiness before eyes. θ Cataract.
Double or triple vision.
Blue and fiery dots flying before eyes.
Pain in eyes with feeling as if they were spasmodically rotated.
Stitching pain in eyes ; pressure on balls.
After an epidemic of the rye disease an unusually large number of cataracts occurred in young people, twentythree of whom gradually became blind (fifteen men and eight women), associated with headache, vertigo and roaring in ears ; of the cataracts two were hard, twelve soft, and
nine mixed.
Cataracta senilis.
Suppuration of cornea ; < from warm applications.
Retinitis diabetica.
Dilatation of pupils.
Suppressed secretion of tears.
Injection of conjunctiva.
Eyes sunken, surrounded by a blue margin.
Paralysis of upper lids, from coal gas.
Immovable state of eyelids after facial erysipelas.
Eyes look fixed, wild, glazed ; staring look.
Pustulous conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
Exophthalmos with struma.
(OBS :) Exophthalmic goitre.

Undue sensitiveness of hearing, even slightest sound re-echoed in her head and made her shudder.
Confused hearing ; deafness. θ After chorea.
Singing in ears and difficult hearing.
Humming and roaring in ears, with occasional deafness.

Sneezing.
Nose feels stopped up, yet watery discharge runs from it.
Nose stopped up on left side as with a solid plug.
Nosebleed : blood dark, runs continuously, with great prostration, small, threadlike pulse ; in old people or drunkards ; of young women ; from debility.

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The best provers of Secale, those who are most susceptible to its action, are scrawny people, and they are the ones who will most likely need it as their curative remedy.

Of course, it is not necessarily contra-indicated in fat people. Certain constitutions are mentioned in connection with a remedy as being suited to it, but it must not be inferred that no action will result in others when the symptoms agree. Scrawny people are especially related to Secale.

Emaciated, withered, wrinkled, unhealthy appearance of the skin; purplish, bluish skin, general or in spots; purplish I spots on withered skin, especially where the circulation is feeble as on the back of the hands and feet and on the tibia.

These parts become numb, tingle and wither. The extremities prickle, burn, and tingle; creeping and crawling, as of insects under the skin, as if between the skin and the flesh; numb, dead, wooden sensation in the fingers and especially in the toes.

The toes become black, gangrenous. A senile withering, such as is found in feeble old people; the blood-vessels close up; no blood goes to the toes and they become numb and black, devoid of sensation. Hence, Secale improves the circulation of the aged and postpones senile gangrene.

is a feature of this remedy; the skin burns; the extremities burn, sensation of burning when the parts feel cold to the touch and really are cold, a sensation of heat with coldness.

Burning, especially of internal parts. Dryness with burning; burning in the stomach and bowels; dryness and burning in the mouth and throat, the nose and air passages; burning in the lungs.

This remedy produces ulceration even to sloughing. Old ulcers take on a strange, withered appearance; dryness with no, granulations; a shiny, blackish aspect and all at once blackish granulations shoot out, indolent, and finally forming a black sphacelus which slowly separates; the part is dry; there is no discharge except now and then a little bleeding of black blood.

Oozing of black, liquid blood, oozing when there is no inflammation; nose-bleed of dark, venous, offensive, fluid blood, bleeding from the throat, lungs, bladder, and rectum, of dark blood; urine like ink.

Prolonged uterine haemorrhage so that one menstrual nisus runs into another; withered subjects; considerable flow on the first day, fluid, and blackish; this goes on for a couple of weeks and then a dark watery flow comes on which lasts until the next period.

Then comes the thick, black, fluid, horribly offensive flow again. Such a state is found in the woman who has taken ergot to produce abortion, or in sensitive women who have been dosed with it to facilitate delivery. Of course, if the woman is not sensitive you will not get the lingering provings,

Some women are so insane that though they die they will get rid of their offspring. On all hands women say,

"I have had no health since I aborted."

The worst state of health is produced by ergot; it establishes a miasm as deep as psora itself. The duke to destroy the offspring is an engraftment on psora and by ergot she takes on a miasm as dangerous as sycosis or syphilis.

I have patients who took ergot to cause abortion, and I can do nothing more than palliate them. They have Secale symptoms, sequelae, and their psoric symptoms are suppressed, held down, just as syphilis holds down psoric manifestations; only by covering the Secale miasm and getting at the psora can we help the patient.

They have placed themselves beyond the help of the physician and the ergot will shorten their lives many years unless they are fortunate enough to have careful prescribing continuously while they live.

The general constitutional state is aggravated from heat; there are only a few exceptions to this.

Wants cold though the limbs are cold as ice, wants to be uncovered, wants the windows open; a patient with hemorrhages wants the covers off though the room is cold. A patient with ulcers wants to be uncovered; in inflammatory condition of the stomach and bowels, wants the abdomen uncovered.

At times there is a lingering state of heat of the skin and the patient wants to be covered up; there are also sharp, stinging neuralgic pains, which burn like fire and cut like a knife and are relieved by the application of beat; headache worse in cold air.

But the general state is ameliorated from uncovering, in a cold room, and from cold air blowing on the patient.

Violent inflammation of any part of the body; gangrenous pneumonia; gastritis; peritonitis; inflammation of the uterus and ovaries. In inflammatory conditions it competes with Ars.

The symptoms are so nearly alike in both that it is difficult to differentiate; both have violently distended abdomen; tympanites; burning like coals of fire; violent thirst; extreme sensitiveness and tenderness to touch, so that motion or jar is unbearable; vomiting of blood; expulsion of blood-clots; horrible, offensive, bloody discharge from the bowels; but they are different in the generals. Ars. wants to be covered up, to be kept warm, to have hot applications, either wet or dry, while Secale wants to be uncovered, wants the cold air.

of single parts or of the whole muscular system; opisthotonos; cramps in the calves, thighs, soles of the feet, and hands, hysterical contractures, a hysterical diathesis.

Convulsions begin in the face. Active manias with great excitement; exposes her body and tears at the genitals; puts her finger in the vagina and scratches until the lips bleed; all idea of modesty lost.

The spasms, nervous, and mental symptoms are worse while she is flowing, so that a puerperal convulsion comes on in the midst of a hemorrhage.

From the hemorrhagic tendency and the ability to destroy the red blood corpuscle, there is anemia. The face looks like dried beef, wrinkled, shrivelled, scrawny, as if it had not been washed; as if grey dirt had dried on the skin, and this especially on the extremities a dirty, grey appearance.

Catarrhal affections of all mucus membranes; they are dry and bleed; blood oozes from the catarrhal surfaces, liquid, black, and offensive, coagulating slowly or not at all.

"Nosebleed, blood dark, runs continually, with great prostration, small thread-like pulse; in old people or drunkards; of young women; from debility."

Those poisoned by ergot become victims of opacity of the lens as in senile debility; cataract of old persons.

The withered scrawny person with tendency to ulcerations, unhealthy skin and aggravation from heat, is striking in both acute and chronic states.

Chronic diarrhoea exhaustive, watery discharges, cholera. It is related to Camphor, Scrawny people take cholera, skin cold and blue; better from cold. Violent and continued thirst.

Diarrhoea and hemorrhages are likely to come together; diarrhoea of bloody water or dark liquid blood.

Large doses produce such contractures of the uterus that its contents are expelled and an exhausting hemorrhage follows; expulsion of large clots and in the early stages mixed with some red blood, but the most striking feature is liquid, black discharge.

"Asiatic cholera with collapse, sunken, distorted face, particularly the mouth, crawling sensation as of ants."

Paretic condition; paralysis of lower extremities; of one side; of one arm or one leg; paralysis of the upper extremities with tingling, numbness, and prickling. Numbness and burning down the whole length of the spine; general emaciation or only of diseased part.

Eruptions, abscesses, boils carbuncles; green pus discharged; a green, purplish appearance; boils small with green contents, mature and heal slowly.

Establishes sterility; so weak is the uterus that it can never hold the foetus, hence the value in sterility and repeated abortions.

Dwindling of the mammae. Absence of milk after confinement.

"Thin, scrawny children with shrivelled skin, spasmodic twitchings, sudden cries, feverishness."

Purpura hoemorrhagica. Paralysis of the extremities. Spinal irritation. Cachectic females with rough skin, pustules tending to gangrene.

Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachectic appearance; irritable, nervous temperament; face ashy, pale, sunken.

Very old, decrepit, feeble persons.

Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no action, vessels flabby; passive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed.

Hemorrhagic diathesis: the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks (Lach., Phos.); discharge of sanious liquid blood, with a strong tendency to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, particularly when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of vital fluids.

Leucorrhœa; green, brown, offensive.

Boils: small, painful, with green contents; mature very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debilitating (Tub).

Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhœa he is hungry; craves lemonade, acids.

Diarrhœa: involuntary, profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force (Gamb., Crot. t.); very exhausting; urine suppressed; anus wide open (Apis, Phos.).

Enuresis; of old people, pale, watery, bloody urine.

Burning; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient (Ars.).

Cholera collapse: face pale, sunken, distorted, particularly around the mouth; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered.

Senile, dry gangrene; < by external heat.

The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate covering; icy coldness of extremities.

Menses: irregular; copious, dark, fluid; with pressing, labor-like pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period.

Threatened abortion, especially at third month (Sab.); prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains.

During labor: pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything seems loose and open, but no expulsive action; fainting.

After-pains: too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction.

Suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do not properly fill.

Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent.

Similar: to Arsenicum, but cold and heat are opposite.

Resembles Colchicum in cholera morbus.

Heat: warmth from covering; of all affected parts; in all diseases worse from heat.

In cold air; getting cold; uncovering affected parts; rubbing.

No periodicity. All types of fever; tendency to typhoid, and typhus, yellow fever, hemorrhagic stage.

At all periods.

Vomiting.

With thirst. Violent, shaking, followed by violent heat, with anxiety, delirium and almost unquenchable thirst. Shaking chill, with creeping coldness in different parts of body, as from snow (Petr.). Intense icy coldness of the skin, particularly of face and extremities (Camph., Meny., Nux, Ver.). Cold limbs, cold skin, with shivering; pale, sunken face, with coldness of the back and abdomen. Temperature of body diminished (Camph., Ver.). Lips bluish (Nux).

With thirst and hot skin. Burning heat, interrupted by shaking chills, then internal burning heat with great thirst. During heat great pain in stomach, abdomen, limbs (cramps and pain in stomach and abdomen, with vomiting and purging, Elat., Ver.). Severe, long-lasting, dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst (Ars., Nat., Rhus).

All over the body, except the face (Rhus—reverse of, Sil.). General sweat, relieving all the symptoms (Nat., Samb.). Profuse cold sweat on limbs. Cold, clammy sweat over whole body. Sweat from head to pit of stomach.

Accelerated during heat; generally slow, contracted, at times intermittent; often unchanged even with the most violent attacks.

Sticky, yellow coating; tongue deathly pale (mucous membrane of mouth and tongue pale, Fer.); or clean, with dry, red tip; or red tip and edges, centre coated. Desire for sour things; lemonade (Eup. purp.). Disgust for food, meat and fats.

Aversion to heat or to being covered. May feel cold, but does not wish to be covered (Camph.). Face pale, drawn, collapsed, hippocratic. Great tendency to typhoid.

Chill; intense icy coldness; lips and fingers blue; face and extremities cold; great thirst.

Heat; severe, long, great thirst and very restless.

Sweat; profuse, cold, clammy; all over body, except the face (Rhus).

Aversion to heat and cannot be covered; pernicious and sinking fevers.

Stupid, half sleep state.
Impaired power of thinking.
Delirium: quiet; wandering.
Mania; with inclination to bite; with inclination to drown oneself; room is a troubled sea into which she desires to plunge.
She think two are sick, one recovers, the other dies.
Uncomfortableness and depression.
Fear of death.
Anxiety, sadness, melancholy.
Great anguish; wild with anxiety.
Apathy, indifference.

Feeling of lightness of head, most in occiput.
Giddiness; unsteady gait.
Heaviness of head and tingling in legs.
Unconsciousness, with heavy sleep, preceded by tingling in head and limbs.

Pulsations in head, with giddiness, so that she cannot walk.
Pain and confusion, most in occiput.
Congestion in the head and chest.

Hair falls out.
Twisting of head to and fro.

Photophobia.
Obscuration of sight.
Double or triple vision.
Blue and fiery dots flying before the eyes.
Pain in eyes, with feeling as if they were spasmodically rotated.
Stitching pain in eyes.
Cataracta senilis.
Pupils generally dilated.
Suppressed secretion of tears.
Injection of the conjunctiva.
Eye sunken, surrounded by a blue margin.
Paralysis of upper eyelids, from coal gas.
Immovable state of eyelids after facial erysipelas.
Eyes looked fixed, wild, glazed.

Undue sensitiveness of hearing, so that even the slightest sound re-echoed in her head and made her shudder.
Confused hearing.
Singing in ears and difficult hearing.
Humming and roaring in ears, with occasional deafness.
Hard hearing, after cholera.

Sneezing.
Nosebleed: blood dark, runs continuously, with great prostration, small, thread-like pulse, in old people, or drunkards; of young women.
Nose stopped up, yet watery discharge running from it.

Pale; pinched, pale, earthy looking; dark red and swollen; contracted and discolored, with sunken eyes, blue rings around eyes.
Wan, fearful countenance.
Tingling in face.
Muscular twitchings, usually commence in face and then spread all over body, sometimes increasing to dancing and jumping.
Spasmodic distortion of the mouth and lips.
Forehead hot.

Lockjaw.
Lips deathly pale.

Looseness of the teeth.
Grinding of the teeth.
Bleeding from the gums.

Tongue thickly coated with yellowish-white; dry, tenacious substance; discolored, brown or blackish, deathly pale.
Slight, but unpleasant warmth on tongue, during day.
Spasm of tongue, projecting it from mouth, forcing it between teeth and rendering speech indistinct.
Feeble, stuttering, indistinct speech, as if the tongue was paralyzed.

Bloody or yellowish-green foam at the mouth.
Increased secretion of saliva.
Much acid fluid in mouth.
Spitting of blood.

Dryness of soft palate, throat, and œsophagus, with thirst.
Burning in throat, with violent thirst.
Painful tingling in throat and on tongue.

Hunger, as from long fasting.
Disgust for food, especially for meat and fatty things.
Thirst, during all stages of fever.
Unquenchable thirst.
Desire for: sour things; lemonade.

Eructations: with disagreeable taste; sour; tasteless, but with subjective, disagreeable empyreumatic odor.
Nausea; inclination to vomit; painful retchings.
Vomiting of food; of a yellowish-green, frothy mass; first of contents of the stomach, then only mucus, of mucus mixed with lumbrici; of decomposed matter.
Vomiting of large quantities of dark brown slime, bile and shreds; typhoid.
Hæmatemesis, patient lies still; great weakness; but no pain; abdomen soft.

Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach, with great sensitiveness to touch.
Severe anxiety and burning at pit of stomach.
Pain in pit of stomach.
Violent pressure in stomach, as from a heavy weight.
Warmth and feeling of repletion.
Burning in stomach.
Painful constriction of epigastrium.

Enlargement of liver.
Acute pain in hepatic region.
Inflammation and gangrene of liver.
Burning in the spleen.

Distention of the belly.
Flatulence, with rumbling.
Painful sensitiveness and rumbling, with continued nausea and confusion of head.
Inclination to colic, diarrhœa, and bloatedness of abdomen.
Pain in lower belly, preventing an upright posture, even forcing him to lie doubled up in bed.
Continual bearing down in lower abdomen.
Burning in abdomen.
Cold feeling in abdomen and back.
Strong pulsation in umbilical region.
Lumps and welts in abdomen; in affections of the uterus.

Stools: watery, slimy; offensive, watery; yellowish or greenish, discharged rapidly with great force, or even involuntary; painless, without effort, with great weakness.
Colliquative diarrhœa.
Cholerine, with more retching than vomiting.
Cholera Asiatica, with collapse, face sunken, distorted, particularly the mouth; crawling sensation as from ants.
Paralysis of the rectum.
Bleeding from the bowels.

Unsuccessful urging to urinate.
Retention of urine.
Ischuria paralytica.
Urine: pale, watery; bloody in old people.
Enuresis in old age.
Urinary deposit looking like white cheese.
Discharge of thick, black blood from bladder. θ Kidney affections.

After lightness in occiput, violent dragging in spermatic cord, causing sensation as if the testicle was being drawn up to the inguinal ring.
After sexual excess, palpitation of the heart.

Menses: too profuse, and lasting too long; with tearing and cutting colic, cold extremities, cold sweat, great weakness small pulse; or with violent spasm.
Menstrual blood: thin and black; black, lumpy, or brown fluid, and of disgusting smell.
Uterine hemorrhage, worse from the slightest motion.
Passive hemorrhage, of very fetid, or dark blood.
Atonic hemorrhage, burning the critical age.
Uterine ulcer, feels as if burnt, discharge putrid, bloody fluid.
Burning pains in greatly distended uterus, which felt hard and was painful to touch.
Leucorrhœa brownish and offensive; like cream; from weakness and venous congestion.
Ulcers on outer genitals discolored and rapidly spreading.

Arrested development of the fœtus.
Threatened abortus: more especially at the third month; with copious flow of black, liquid blood; false labor-pains, with bloody discharge.
After abortus: difficult contraction of uterus; thin black, foul-smelling discharge.
During pregnancy; frequent and prolonged forcing pain, particularly in thin, ill-conditioned women; cramps in calves.
During labor: prolonged bearing down and forcing pains in the uterus; pains irregular; pains too weak; pains feeble, distant or ceasing; everything seems loose and open, no action; fainting fits; after labor retained urine.
Strength of uterus weakened by too early or perverted efforts.
Labor ceases, and twitchings or convulsions begin.
Puerperal convulsions, with opisthotonos.
Retained placenta, with constant strong bearing down in abdomen; or with relaxed feeling of parts.
After-pains: too long and too painful.
Lochia: dark, very offensive; scanty or profuse; painless or accompanied by prolonged bearing down pain.
Suppression of lochia followed by uterine inflammation.
Lack of milk, with much stinging in mammæ.

Voice: hollow, with difficult breathing; feeble and inaudible.
Thickening of the mucous membrane of the air passages.

Respiration: slow; labored and anxious: oppressed.

Hard, hoarse cough, with little expectoration.
Concussive cough.
Spitting of blood, with without cough.

Cramp in the chest.
Spasmodic shocks, from right half of chest into right arm and right leg.
Pains over nearly all the front of chest, worse from coughing and motion.

Palpitation, oftener at night, with congestion and frequently intermitting pulse.
Pulse: often unchanged even during violent attacks; generally slow and contracted, at times intermittent or suppressed; somewhat accelerated during the heat; small; empty, weak; thread-like in hemorrhages.

Tenderness of lower cervical and upper dorsal spinous processes, with stiffness of the neck.
Gentle creeping sensation in back, as if a soft air was blowing through it.
Tingling in back, extending to fingers and toes.
Pains at sacrum, with bearing down, as if parts would be forced out, worse when moving.
"Kink" in the back.
Spine disease, with gressus vaccinus.
Pressure upon affected portion, causes pain there as well as through chest; exciting an irritation to cough; aggravation from every exertion, or strain upon the spine.

Spasmodic jerks of the hand, with flexion of hand at wrist, or of forearm.
Numbness and insensibility of hands.
Burning in hands.
Hands deathly pale.
Coldness and numbness of right hand, with tingling of the ring and the ring and little fingers.
Loss of feeling in back of fingers.
Loss of muscular power and of feeling in hand.
Fingers convulsively drawn in toward palm, clasping thumb.
Rough rash all over the arm.
Fingers bent backward, or spasmodically abducted.
Painful swelling of fingers.
Violent pains in finger-tips.
Gangrene of fingers.

Hammering, tearing pain in both thighs, increased by motion.
Legs heavy and tired.
Tingling in legs.
Creeping feeling in anterior femoral and posterior tibia regions.
Shuffling gait, as if the feet were dragged along.
Rheumatic pains of joints.
Cramp in calves.
Burning in feet.
Swelling of feet, with black spots.
Toes drawn up toward dorsum of foot.
Tingling in toes.
Gangrene of toes.

Lassitude, heaviness, trembling of limbs.
Limbs cold, covered with cold sweat.
Formication; prickling; tingling; numbness in limbs.
Cramps in hands and toes.
Painful jerkings in limbs at night.
Paraplegia.

Motion: 28, 31, 33. Walking: 3. Exertion: 31. Stretching the limb out: 34. Lies still: 16. Lies doubled up: 19.

Spasmodic twitchings.
Irregular movements of whole body.
Spasms, with the fingers spread out.
Convulsive jerks and starts in the paralyzed limbs.
Painful contractions in the flexor muscles.
Tetanic spasms, with full consciousness, followed by great exhaustion.
Sudden and great exhaustion.
Loss of power of voluntary motion.
Feels as if walking upon velvet; paralysis from disease or lower part of spine, sensory, then motor.
Sinking spells at 3 A.M.

Frequent yawning.
Inclination to sleep; drowsiness.
Sleep at night disturbed by frightful dreams.
Great sleepiness; deep, heavy sleep, stupor.
Restless and sleepless; from formication which worries.

During the day: 11. Night: 29, 34, 37. 3 A.M.: 36.

Aversion to heat or to being covered.
May feel cold, but does not wish to be covered.
Desire for fresh air.
Cold better: 44. Heat worse: 44.

Disagreeable sensation in back, abdomen and limbs.
Skin cold, with shivering.
Violent chill but of short duration; followed soon after by internal burning heat, with great thirst.
Burning fever, interrupted by shaking chills.
Cold limbs, cold sweat, great weakness.
Cold stage preceded by vomiting, succeeded by moderate sweating.
Severe and long-lasting dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst.
Sweat, especially on upper body.
Cold, clammy sweat over the whole body.
Profuse sweats.
Colliquative sweats.

Right: 28, 32, 33.

Formication under the skin.
Burning in all parts of body, as if sparks were falling on them.

Dissolution of blood corpuscles, blood thin; passive hemorrhages.
Neuralgia caused by pressure on branch of a nerve by a distended vein.
Thrombosis of abdominal vessels.
Tumefaction of glands.
Lymphatic tumors.
Collapse from choleroid diseases.
Rapid emaciation of paralyzed parts.
Ulcers, worse from external warmth.
Gangrene: from anæmia; external injuries, application of leeches or mustard; better from cold, worse from heat; dry, of old people.

Touch: 17, 23. Pressure: 31, 44.
The slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks.

Cold and dry; dingy, wrinkled, dry and insensible; desquamation.
Petechia and miliary eruptions.
Variola, pustules of abnormal appearance, either fill with a bloody serum, or dry up too soon.
Varicose ulcers and enlarged veins in old people.

Irritable, plethoric subjects.
Nervous temperament.
Women of very lax muscular fibre.
Feeble, cachectic women; thin scrawny.
Very old, decrepit persons.

Resembles in cholera morbus, Colchic.
Cinchon. follows well after Secale.
Similar to Arsen., but cold and heat acts opposite.
Cinnam. increases labor-pains, checks profuse hemorrhage, and is used instead of Ergot.

A tincture is made of the fresh fungus, ergot of rye.

The chief interest in the action of ergot centres about its power to produce tonic contractions of involuntary muscle fibre; the arterioles are violently and persistently contracted, causing dry coldness of the surface and even gangrene of the lower extremities; the peristaltic muscles of the bowels are affected and the gravid uterus contracts violently. ▶ Convulsions are liable to occur. ▶ Anæsthesia and paralysis result, particularly tremblings and paraplegia.

Tabac., Ars., Phos., Ustil. , Carbo v., Sabin., Verat. a., Plumb.

Emaciation. ▶ Consumption. ▶ Secretions diminished. ▶ Gangrene of stomach, lungs and liver, preceded by inflammation. ▶ Unsteadiness of whole body. ▶ Trembling; from every effort, even stretching out of tongue. ▶ Painful stretching. ▶ Irregular movements, agg. limbs. ▶ Voluntary muscles responded irregularly, with occasional spasms of limbs and back. ▶ Cramps in legs, arms and chest. ▶ Tetanic cramps; with stiffness of limbs, so that she often fell when walking. ▶ Tetanic contractions of face and limbs, amel. hot baths. ▶ Twitchings; of limbs and face; under skin; here and there, similar to epileptic ones, then contractions of flexors, fingers strongly bent into palms, pulse small, not frequent, irregular. ▶ Twitching tremulous sensation in single muscular fibres and in whole muscles, in face and hands.

▶ Convulsions; from excitement, then weakness and sopor; at every excitement, agg. forenoon, then weakness, sometimes stiffness of joints, the patient amel. rubbing and stretching limbs; agg. night, gradually amel. towards noon, with sweat from anxiety; of all extensors, and puerperal convulsions; with cold sweat; without previous unpleasant symptoms; sudden vertigo and blindness, entire or partial unconsciousness, falling to the ground, contractions of joints, twitching of limbs, trembling, ineffectual retching, elbows pressed against chest, wrists flexed, fingers doubled into hands, heels drawn upward, toes bent under soles; ending in sweat; then tetanus; then distortion of limbs, dilated pupils, unconsciousness, delirium, weakness of mind or insensibility, in which they kept to themselves, stared at any one who spoke to them, answered nothing, others felt paralyzed, were unable to stand or walk; then insensibility and paralysis of parts affected; then insensibility, fingers and hands numb and lips pale; then anæsthesia, loss of sight and hearing and coma; periodic; tonic; clonic, with pain, preceded by crawling, becoming tonic, then tetanic; often changed from clonic to tonic, even to tetanus and trismus; clonic, that in some parts changed to tonic or alternated with them. ▶ Epileptiform spasms; in children; with unconsciousness; at intervals of about a month, during which she lost her memory, became foolish and spoke with difficulty. ▶ Epilepsy; especially in children; then gradual idiocy. ▶ Opisthotonos; with tonic contractions of muscles, anxiety and loud cries. ▶ Emprosthotonos.

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Tonic contractions of involuntary muscle, particularly of arterioles, with dry coldness of the body and even gangrene of the lower extremities.
Contractions of muscles of bowels and of the gravid uterus.
Convulsions of voluntary muscles.
Anæsthesia and paralysis, especially tremblings and paraplegia.
Contraction of arterial system predisposes to venous hæmorrhages.

Tremblings, with unsteadiness of the whole body, cramps, convulsions; epileptiform spasms.
Wandering pains.
Coldness, < heat.
Restlessness, great debility.
All the symptoms < heat.

Clinical:
Collapse, with coldness and intolerance of heat; soreness of the body, dry flesh, tending to putrify.
Universal aversion to external heat, with a sense of internal burning, often with unnatural appetite and thirst, but with perfectly clear mind.
Aggravation from all preparations of Cinchona.

Raving delirium (rare).
Anxiety, with fear of death, restlessness and difficult breath.
In general, complete consciousness to the last breath.

Sunken, with pale rings, often staring or distorted (dim vision results from the formation of soft cataract, with vertigo, and roaring in the ears, in cases of poisoning.)

Bleeding.

Pale, sunken, collapsed face, with anxious look.
Dark redness, with blue rings around the eyes.
Formication of the face and whole body.

Formication of mouth and tongue.
Tongue swollen, paralyzed, speech difficult, imperfect.
Salivation, with fetid breath.

Unnatural appetite and thirst.
Hiccough, persistent nausea and vomiting.
Painless vomiting, without effort, of food, of blood, or chocolate-colored matter.
Anxiety and burning in the pit of the stomach, which may be sensitive to touch.

Tympanitic, burning or sometimes unnatural coldness.
Colic, with convulsions.

Sphincter ani paralyzed.
Hæmorrhage from the bowels.
Diarrhœa, exhausting, offensive, burning or dark olive green, involuntary.
Stools like cholera, with coldness, cramps, intolerance of heat.

Bladder paralyzed.
Micturition involuntary.
Urine may be suppressed or bloody.

Gangrene of pudenda, with fetid, black discharges.
Uterine hæmorrhage.
Violent contractions of the gravid uterus, followed by hæmorrhage and miscarriage.
Lochial discharge of puerperal women ceases, with fever.
Metritis.
Peritonitis.

Clinical:
Uterine inflammation.
Putrescent lochia.
Puerperal fever.
Though producing violent contractions of the gravid uterus, it predisposes to general convulsions when there is albuminuria and, in general, precipitates puerperal inflammation.
It should be used during labor in physiological doses only when absolutely required by a great emergency.

Hæmoptysis, usually of venous blood, with difficult respiration, heaviness of the chest, anxious sighing, respiration.

Pulse rapid, small, contracted, intermittent or fluttering.

Pain in the lumbar region, > stooping.
Formication and numbness of the extremities.
Violent cramps.
Tearing, drawing pains.
Insensibility of the fingers and toes, with coldness and formication; they look wrinkled and pale, as if they had been soaked in water.

Ecchymoses.
Swelling and pain, blue color, gangrene, especially of the lower extremities, with dryness.
Formication under the skin.

Predominating coldness, cold dry skin, rarely alternating with burning heat, excessive thirst and cold clammy sweat.

Sec. / (Seek-Sea.) / Secelia.

Secale bleeds;
The blood proceeds,
Especially from the sexual parts.
Her body cold
Yet bears no fold
Of clothing that reaction starts.
Her thirst intense,
Hunger immense,
With vomiting like coffee grounds.
And creeping in
Beneath the skin,
Whilst numbness of the flesh abounds.
Has sighing breath,
And stare of death,
Whilst hiccough adds to her distress.
Pulse rapid, small,
Near none at all,
Lips blue, with weary restlessness
To all this sad
Condition add
A constant purging from the bowel.
Death fearing gloom,
A falling womb
And menses flowing black and foul.

Secelia,-Has continued passive bleeding.

Secelia Cro, the creole, is eloping with Ham.

This Secelia,- Who is subject to flow of black menses,-Is with St. Cro-cham, the Nun, at Maggie Cook's for a platina spoon.

Bleeding, Continuous-Passive: Sec., Cro., Kre., Lach., Pho., Ham.

Black Menses: Sec., Ig., Cro., Cham., Nux m., Mag. c., Coc., Plat., Sul., Pul., Nux v.

Indicated in septic conditions, as puerperal mania; in diarrhoea of a grave character, dysentery, Asiatic cholera; in passive haemorrhages; in gangrene (senile). In all these the serious nature of the affection is shown by evidence of collapse, foulness of discharges, suppression of urine, unquenchable thirst, coldness of the body to touch, haemorrhagic tendency. Also of value in spinal disease with cramping, formication and numbness, and loss of motor power.

Face pale, sunken, hippocratic; anxious; eyes fixed, starring, with dark blue circles around them.

Great anxiety; fear of death.

Pulse small, rapid, contracted, intermitting.

Extremities, especially tips of fingers and toes cold and numb.

Passive haemorrhages of dark, thin blood; haemorrhagic diathesis.

Great debility, without previous loss of fluids.

The flesh feels cold to the touch, but the patient refuses to be covered.

Urine suppressed.

Trembling and unsteadiness of the whole body, paralytic weakness; paralysis.

Sighing, anxious respiration, with almost inaudible voice.

Cramps in the arms and legs; of extensor muscles.

Burning pain in the flesh, as though caused by sparks of fire.

Ravenous hunger (diarrhoea); unquenchable thirst (diarrhoea).

Vomiting of coffee-ground fluid, with hiccoughing.

Intense burning pain in the stomach and abdomen, with vomiting.

Diarrhoea profuse, watery, dark, putrid; painless, but very exhausting; comes with a gush; anus wide open. Involuntary stools.

Skin dark, shriveled, mottled, cold to touch; burning in the skin, relieved by leaving the part uncovered; petechiae; small boils which mature and head slowly and are very painful.

Dark, offensive leucorrhoea.

Worse from heat, from warm covering.

Better from being uncovered, from cold.

Weakened power of thinking. Illusion of fancy, of the senses. Unconscious or anxious, often passing into raving delirium. Melancholic sadness. Extraordinary anxiety. Madness with inclination to drown himself. Furious madness. Insanity with rage and mania to bite. Dejection with fear of death.

Reeling vertigo, as from intoxication. Unconsciousness and stupefaction.

Crawling feeling in. Dull pain in occiput. Profuse falling of hair.

Wild, staring look. Distorted. They are forced deep within their orbits. Darkened vision.

Transitory deafness.

Nosebleed.

Discolored. Pale, yellowish color. Dark red. Blue rings about the deeply sunken eyes. Sunken, distorted. Spasmodic distortion of mouth. Formication on. Trismus.

Loosen and fall out. Gnashing.

Bloody or discolored foam before Insufferable crawling in throat and on tongue. Swelling of tongue, discolored, (brown or blackish) tongue. Mucus coat on tongue. Feeble, stammering speech as from paralysis of tongue.

Appetite: Great desire for acids. Violent thirst.

Taste: Pappy, in mouth.

Nausea, etc. - Constant qualmishness and inclination to vomit after every meal vomiting, Of bile, of mucus, painless, without any exertion.

Extraordinary pressure, as from a load, in. Great anxiety and burning in pit, but still greater sensitiveness thereof to touch. Gangrene of.

Hypochondria: Inflammation and gangrene of liver.

Burning or cold sensation in. Colic with convulsions. Pain in region of loins, as from false labor pains.

Flatulence: Grumbling and rumbling in abdomen.

Watery diarrhoea, involuntary liquid stools. Debilitating diarrhoea.

Diminished or completely suppressed. Watery.

Labor pains are replaced by twitchings and spasms. Labor pains too violent and painful. Congestion to uterus. Inflammation of uterus after suppression of lochia or menses.

Menses: Too profuse and too long continued, with bright or black, thin, fluid blood. Discharge of blood during pregnancy. Uterine hemorrhage. Lochia remain bloody too long. Miscarriage, especially at third month.

Difficult, anxious r., with sighing and hiccough. Oppression of chest, as in suffocative catarrh.

Expectoration of blood, with or without cough.

Hollow, hoarse voice.

Spasmodic palpitation.

Coldness in (and in limbs.). Insensibility and crawling extending from back to finger - tips.

Numbness and deadness of hands. Burning in hands.

Violent cramps in calves. Burning in swollen feet. Crawling in toes. Gangrenous deadness of fingers and toes.

Bruised feeling in limbs. Drawing and tearing, with crawling in limbs. Numbness of limbs. Burning in all parts of body, as if sparks were falling thereon. Indolence and great weariness. Convulsive twitching of limbs. Spasmodic distortion of limbs, only ameliorated by forcibly extending them. Tonic cramps and spasms. Pains in limbs motion. Aversion to cover and to heat, yet is objectively cold.

Wrinkled, discolored, dry, Numb and insensible. Desquamation of entire cuticle. Gangrenous blisters.

Somnolency. - Deep, stupefying.

Pulse: Often quite unchanged, even with the most violent attacks. Mostly slow and contracted, sometimes intermittent or suppressed, somewhat accelerated during the heat, Only. Chill: violent, but short, soon followed by internal burning heat, with great thirst. Disagreeable cold feeling in back, abdomen and limbs. Heat: violent long continued, dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst. Sweat: Principally on upper part of body. General cold, clammy sweat.

Allied Remedies: Am - c., Ars., Bell., Coloc., Phos., Verat - a.

Complementary: Ars. Thuj.

Ergota (Ergot or Argot, Fr., a cock's spur); Ergot of rye; Spurred rye; Secale clavatum; Mater secalis; Seigle ergot, (Fr.); Mutterkorn; Kornmutter (G).

Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachectic appearance; irritable, nervous temperament; pale, sunken countenance.
Very old, decrepit, feeble persons.
Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no action, vessels flabby; passive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, back, watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed.
Hemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks (Lach., Phos.); discharge of sanious liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids.
Leucorrhea; green, brown, offensive.
Boils: small, painful with green contents, mature very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debilitating.
Face: pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic; drawn, with sunken eyes; blue rings around eyes.
Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhea; craves acids, lemonade.
Diarrhea: profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force (Gamb., Crot.); very exhausting; painless, involuntary; anus wide open (Apis, Phos.).
Enuresis: of old people; urine pale, watery, or bloody; urine suppressed.
Burning, in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient (Ars.).
Gangrene; dry, senile, < from external heat.
Large ecchymoses; blood blisters; often commencement of gangrene.
Collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered (Camph.).
The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate covering; icy coldness of extremities.
Menses: irregular; copious, dark fluid; with pressing, laborlike pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period.
Threatened abortion especially at third month (Sab.); prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains.
During labor: pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything seems loose and open but no expulsive action; fainting.
After pains: too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction.
Suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do not properly fill.
Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent.

1. Mrs. L. M. Hayes, with the 200th. This prover knew the potency but not the drug. She was perfectly convinced that in the 200th potency no drug was capable of producing medicinal symptoms on the healthy, and persisted in repeating her experiments to verify or disprove former results. Took November 4th, six drops every other day for a week. November 17th, took six drops twice a day for a week. January 5th, took fifteen drops every day for a week. March, 1st, took fifteen drops every morning for three days.
2. Miss R. C. Wilder, took six drops, 30th potency, in morning of November 5th, 8th, 12th, 15th.
3. H. B. Reynolds, took one drachm of 2d potency, in repeated doses.
4. J. S. Campbell, took several doses of 2d potency.
5. F. W. Rogers, took one drachm of 200th potency, a dose twice a day for two weeks. 6. Mrs. M. T. Hathaway, repeated doses of 200th potency.
7. D. M. Finley, 100th potency; repeated the proving four times with results each time.
8. Miss H. M. Swathel, took 200th potency, from March 1st to April 23rd, two or three times a day. Took 100th potency from May 2nd to May 15th, once or twice daily.
9. G. D. Green, took 2d potency for two weeks.
10. C. S. Erswell, took 100th potency, one drachm, in daily doses for two weeks.
11. E. H. Pond, took 30th Potency.
12. E. C. Watts, took 30th potency daily for a week.

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Limbs feel as if beaten.

Spasms after fright.

Drawing and tearing in the limbs with tingling.

Burning in all the parts as from sparks falling on them.

Numbness of the limbs.

Great debility.

Convulsive twitching of the limbs mostly at night.

Spasmodic tension in the limbs relieved by violent stretching of them.

Asiatic cholera.

Gangrene.

Varicose ulcers wonderfully cured by the action of this medicine.

Insufficient labor pains.

Metrorrhagia.