Secale cornutum
Ergot
Main symptoms
- 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.
- All the Secale conditions are better from cold; the whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat.
- Haemorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black 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).
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Symptoms by body part
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. 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 exudes, 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; vomiting of blood and coffee-grounds fluid. Burning in stomach and abdomen; tympanites. Belching of bad odor.
Stool
Olive green, thin, putrid, bloody, with icy coldness and intolerance of being covered, with great exhaustion. Involuntary stools; no sensation of passing faeces, anus wide open.
Urine
Retention, with unsuccessful urging. Discharge of black blood from bladder. Bed-wetting in old people.
Female
Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat. Passive haemorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. Burning pains in uterus. Brownish, offensive white vaginal discharge. Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next period. Threatened abortion about the third month. During labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. After-pains. Suppression of milk; breasts do not fill properly. Dark, offensive discharge after childbirth. Puerperal fever, putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine.
Chest
Angina pectoris. Dyspnoea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Praecordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.
Sleep
Profound and long. Insomnia with restlessness, fever, anxious dreams. Insomnia of drug and liquor habitudes.
Back
Spinal irritation, tingling of lower extremities; can bear only slightest covering. Formication and numbness. Myelitis.
Extremities
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.
Skin
Shriveled, numb; mottled dusky-blue tinge. Scleraema and swelling 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 aversion to heat. Formication under skin.
Fever
Coldness; cold, dry skin; cold, clammy sweat; excessive thirst. Sense of internal heat.
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