Materia Medica de A a Z

SECALE CORNUTUM (sec)

Region

Muscles (BLOOD-VESSELS. UTERUS). BLOOD. Nerves. Cord. Limbs.

Worse

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

Better

Cold; bathing. Uncovering. Rocking. Forcible extension.

General

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. Leucorrhoa; 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, agg. 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, agg. ABDOMEN. Heat, as of sparks on skin. Erysipelas. Cold or foul sweat; destroying shoes. Antidote: Solan-n (Sol-n). Related: Nux-m, Ust.