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Secale cornutum

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  1. Description
  2. Head, face, and ears
  3. Mouth and throat
  4. Gastrointestinal tract
  5. Urogenital system
  6. Chest organs
  7. Sleep
  8. Limbs and spine
  9. Skin
  10. Fever
  11. Modalities
  12. Dif. diagnostics
  13. Method of drug use and dosage
  14. Analogs by action
  15. Included in the composition
  16. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

claviceps purpurea homeopathy.

Description Source

Homeopathic Materia Medica – William Boericke

Description

 Ergot (CLAVICEPS PURPUREA).
 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 skin-thin, scrawny old women. 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. 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).

Head, face, and ears

 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. сramps commence in face and spread over whole body. Livid spots on face. Spasmodic distortion.

Mouth and throat

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

Gastrointestinal tract

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

Urogenital system

 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 haemorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. вurning pains in uterus. вrownish, offensive leucorrhoea. 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.

Chest organs

 Angina pectoris. Dyspnoea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. вoring 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.

Limbs and spine

 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.

Skin

 Shriveled, numb; mottled dusky-blue tinge. Scleraema and oedema neonatorum. Raynaud s disease. вlue color. Dry gangrene, developing slowly. Varicose ulcers. вurning sensation; better by cold; wants parts uncovered, though cold to touch. Formication; petechiae. Slight wounds continue to bleed. Livid spots. вoils, 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.

Modalities

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

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare: Ergotin (Beginning arteriosclerosis progressing rather rapidly. Increased blood pressure: 2x trit. Å’dema, gangrene and purpura haemorrhagia: when Secale, though indicated, fails); Pedicularis сanadensis (Symptoms of locomotor ataxia; spinal irritation); вrassica napus-Rape-seed--(dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite, tympanitis, dropping of nails, gangrene); сinnamon; сolch; 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 oesophagus, neck and breast; (vertigo, headache, difficult locomotion, burning sensation); Ustilago; сarbo; 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: сamph; Opium.

Method of drug use and dosage

 First to thirtieth potency. Non-homeopathic use. In haemorrhages of the puerperium, after the uterus in entirely emptied, when it fails to contract satisfactorily and in secondary puerperal haemorrhage 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 .

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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Фитасинтекс
ПиК-Крым
Вербена
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ФармаРус
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