Ustilago Maydis

Ustilago.

Corn-smut.

N. O. Fungi.

Trituration.

Ustilago maidis.

Clinical (Ustilago)

Agalactia.

Alopecia.

Climaxis.

Dysmenorrhoea.

Fibroma.

Galactorrhoea.

Headache, menstrual.

Masturbation.

Menorrhagia, at climaxis.

Menstruation, excessive ; vicarious.

Nails, affections of.

Orchitis.

Ovary, left, affections of.

Rhinitis.

Scald-head.

Tonsillitis.

Characteristics (Ustilago)

Burt, who proved Ust. on himself and others, introduced the remedy to homoeopathy. It had been observed that pregnant animals feeding on maize affected with smut were very liable to abort.

Roullin had noted that shedding of the hair, and sometimes of the teeth, occurred in animals and men ; that mules fed on it cast their hoofs, and that fowls laid eggs without shells. The provings brought out a specific affinity for the generative sphere of both sexes, and especially for the left ovary and uterus. Ust. congests the uterus and produces haemorrhages, generally passive or in clots. It is in uterine haemorrhages, menstrual, post-partum and climacteric that Ust. has been most successfully employed.

It has also relieved vicarious menstruation, bleeding taking place from the lungs and bowels ; and bleeding between the periods with left inframammary pain.

Hurndall (H. W. , XXXVI. 27) relates the case of the small bitch which brings out many features of Ustilago action.

About a fortnight before he saw the patient she had aborted five foetuses, at about the fifth week of gestation. Since then there had been passive haemorrhage of dark clots. Moreover, she was a perfect specimen of alopecia, not having a hair of any sort on her body and only a little about the head. Os uteri soft, spongy.

Great tenderness about the posterior parts when manipulating the hind-quarters. Ust. 3x was prescribed, five drops three times a day. In two days the haemorrhage was completely arrested, tenderness reduced, spirits revived, and general health improved. At the end of three months there was a nice coat of hair growing, which in due course became perfectly normal.

Loss of hair and nails is a keynote for Ust. , and combined with the other symptoms made the correspondence perfect.

Among the Peculiar Sensations are :

As if forehead would burst open.

As if head were being lifted off.

As if intestines were being tied in knots. (This last symptom was produced in a patient of mine. )

As if something were under root of tongue pressing upward.

As of a lump behind larynx.

Bearing down, as if everything would come from her.

Excessively tired feeling.

Uterus as if drawn into a knot.

The symptoms are :

< By touch (abdomen ; eyes).

< Rising and motion (menorrhagia).

Colicky pains > by constipated stool.

Open air = lachrymation.

Pressure < (ovaries).

Riding in carriage < backache.

Swelling < pains in tonsils.

Walking < frontal headache ; pain in left groin ; pain in loins.

Warm room = oppression and faintness.

Relations (Ustilago)

Bearing down and prolapse of uterus, Sep.

Botan. , uterine affections, nails, Sec.

Crusta lactea, Vinc. m. , Melit. , Med. , Mez.

Faint at 11 a. m. , Sul.

Flying rheumatic pains, Puls.

Frequent emissions and lumbar pains, Cob.

Intermittent flow, Ham. , Bovis. , Elaps.

Left ovarian pain, Lil. , Lach. , Caul. , Sul. , Thuj. , Vib. o.

Pain in right shoulder, Urt. ur. , Sang.

Subinvolution, Na. hcl.

Vicarious menstruation, Bry. , Ham. Millef.

Mind (Ustilago)

Could not bear to see or talk with any one.

Depression of spirits in afternoon.

Irritability, < being asked a question or to repeat anything.

The day seemed like a dream.

Very sad, cries frequently ; exceedingly prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen ; sleep restless.

Head (Ustilago)

Frontal pain : in morning ; in forenoon, with smarting in eyes ; all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fullness in head in morning ; with distress in epigastrium.

Headache : all the morning ; at 7 a. m. ; in evening, < forehead ; < walking.

Loss of hair.

Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in nervous women.

Prickling in left temple.

Scald-head, watery serum oozing from scalp.

Scalp dry, cad congested, with loss of hair.

Vertigo at climaxis with profuse menstruation.

Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision, sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of vertigo with internal heat.

Eyes (Ustilago)

Aching in eyes and lachrymation.

Attacks of twitching in eyes, they appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another.

Continual watery flow from eyes and nose with occasional chills.

Hot feeling on closing lids.

Lachrymation in open air.

Lids agglutinated in morning.

Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl.

Vision of spots dancing to and fro.

Weakness of eyes.

Nose (Ustilago)

Boil in right nostril.

Bright epistaxis, > pressure.

Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin.

Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odour noticeable to patient himself.

Face (Ustilago)

Burning of face and scalp from congestion.

Sudden pallor in face when sitting, and in evening.

Teeth (Ustilago)

Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars.

Shedding of teeth (in animals).

Sometimes looseness of teeth.

Mouth (Ustilago)

Prickling in tongue, with feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward, with dryness of nostrils.

Salivation : bitter ; thin, bitter.

Taste : coppery ; in morning ; slimy coppery ; slimy coppery in morning ; slimy ; slimy, with burning distress in stomach.

Tongue coated in morning.

Throat (Ustilago)

Burning in oesophagus at cardiac orifice.

Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in stomach.

Dryness of fauces, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow, with feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, afterwards irritation of fauces, and on swallowing feeling of a lump in larynx.

Lancinations in right tonsil (fauces were somewhat inflamed when the medicine was taken), next day fauces hotter and more sensitive to motion.

Left tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, right painful on swallowing at 2 p. m. ; left painful at 9 p. m. ; next morning congestion of left extending along Eustachian tube and causing pain in ear.

Roughness of fauces.

Appetite (Ustilago)

Appetite : craving ; poor.

Thirst at night.

Stomach (Ustilago)

Burning in sternum and cardia.

Cutting in stomach.

Distress in stomach in forenoon ; in afternoon, > by supper.

Eructations : of sour fluid ; of sour food.

Haematemesis, passive, venous, accompanied by nausea, which is > by vomiting.

Pain in epigastrium with drawing pain in joints of fingers.

Pain in stomach : frequently in afternoon ; on full inspiration.

Abdomen (Ustilago)

(Pain as if intestines were tied in knots. ).

Distress in umbilicus and right hypochondrium.

Drawing pain in right hypochondrium all day.

Pain : in right lobe of liver ; in umbilicus ; in umbilicus before natural stool ; in left groin when walking.

Periodical cutting in umbilical and hypogastric regions at 6 p. m. , < at 8 p. m. by a constipated stool, afterwards grumbling pains in whole abdomen.

Stool (Ustilago)

Constipated.

Light-coloured diarrhoea.

Loose stool at 4 a. m. , with pain and rumbling in abdomen.

Natural stool at 4 a. m.

Soft stool, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy.

Urinary Organs (Ustilago)

No desire, but uneasiness.

Tenesmus of bladder and incontinence of urine.

Urging, urine light-coloured.

Urine : increased ; scanty, red ; acid, high-coloured.

Male Sexual Organs (Ustilago)

Chronic orchitis, irritable testicle.

Desire depressed.

Erections : when reading at 4 o'clock ; frequently during day and night.

Erotic fancies.

Genitals relaxed.

Pain in testes, < right.

Pain in testes, sometimes neuralgic ; in paroxysms, sometimes causing faintish feeling.

Scrotum relaxed and cold sweat on it.

Seminal emissions and irresistible tendency to masturbation.

Female Sexual Organs (Ustilago)

Abortion.

Between periods constant suffering under left breast at margin of ribs.

Bland leucorrhoea.

Burning distress in ovaries.

Constant aching distress at mouth of womb.

Constant flooding.

Deficient labour pains.

Extreme pain during period.

Hypertrophy and subinvolution.

Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary ; enlarged, very tender.

Lochia too profuse, partly fluid, partly clotted ; prolonged bearing-down pains ; uterus feels drawn into a knot.

Menorrhagia at climaxis.

Menses : too scanty with ovarian irritation ; too profuse and too early ; blood clotted ; as if everything would come through.

Menses copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head.

Menses that had just ceased returned, bright-coloured, soreness and bearing down in left side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it.

Oozing of dark blood, highly coagulated, forming occasionally long, black, stringy clots.

Puerperal peritonitis.

Suppression of menses.

Tenderness of left ovary, with pain and swelling.

Uterus : hypertrophied ; prolapsed ; cervix sensitive, spongy.

Vicarious menstruation from lungs and bowels.

Yellow and offensive leucorrhoea.

Respiratory Organs (Ustilago)

Feeling as if there were a lump behind larynx, which produces constant inclination, to swallow.

Chest (Ustilago)

Aching, burning distress in sternum and under it in stomach, with neuralgic pains.

Constriction, with pain.

Drawing pain in left infra mammary region, waking me at 3 a. m. , > turning on back from right side.

Heat and pressure.

Oppression along median line.

Pain in left infra clavicular region in morning.

Spasmodic tearing at top of left side and passing to sixth or seventh rib, at 3 p. m. when standing or reading, < breathing.

Heart (Ustilago)

Burning pain in cardiac region.

Sudden flying pain from heart to stomach, arresting breathing.

Back (Ustilago)

Bearing down in sacral region as in dysmenorrhoea, changing to left ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.

Pain in back extending to extreme end of spine.

Pain in lumbar region.

Pain in region of right kidney, < sitting still ; next day in region of left kidney, > moving about, with heat, fullness, soreness on deep pressure (but it relieved the pain), with uneasiness in left thigh, frequent desire to urinate, stream very small, the following day it requires considerable effort of will to empty the bladder, which is done slowly, pain and soreness in left loin continue ; heavy in lumbar region, in bed with uneasiness about bladder (had had no desire to urinate on going to bed), woke early in morning with distended feeling in bladder, micturition slow and difficult, urine scarcely coloured, pain in back < next night, < lying on face, > lying on right side.

Limbs (Ustilago)

Cutting in bones of right hand and foot.

Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms, fingers, and legs.

Upper Limbs (Ustilago)

Hypertrophy or loss of nails.

Intermittent, numb tingling sensation in right arm and hand every day.

Pain in right elbow, < motion.

Pain in shoulder-joints ; rheumatic, in muscles of right shoulder.

Rheumatic drawing pain in finger-joints, < second joint of right index, all afternoon.

Stitching along metacarpal bone of right index.

Lower Limbs (Ustilago)

Cramp-like stiffness in left leg, < raising foot so as to press upon toes.

Feet swollen ; in morning.

Pain in left knee when walking, increasing to cramp, obliging me to lean upon the arm of a friend, the pain, with occasional cramps, lasted all the evening, < raising foot so as to press upon toes.

Generalities (Ustilago)

Faint feeling at 11 a. m. in a warm lecture-room.

Faint spells beginning in epigastrium, with small pains in hypochondrium and bowels.

Languor : during the day, with headache, < noon, and with burning frontal headache at 9 p. m. ; in morning on rising ; at 2 p. m.

Malaise as if I had taken cold ; felt sick with a cold, continual watery flow from nose and eyes, with occasional chills.

Neuralgic pains in forehead, hands and feet.

Rheumatic pains all up and down left side, with cutting in left knee and calf if I pressed any weight upon toes or flexed knee with any weight upon it.

Rheumatic pains in muscles of arms, hands, fingers, and small of back, those in back < walking.

Symptoms of a cold.

Skin (Ustilago)

Boils on nape.

Congested feeling in skin.

Painful, destructive disease of nails.

Skin dry and hot.

The scalp became one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair came out, the rest matted together, with oozing of watery serum from scalp, eruption like rubeola on neck and chest, gradually extending to feet, thickest on chest and joints, itching < night, rubbing any part brought out the eruption, on face and neck it was in patches like ringworm, but not vesicular.

Sleep (Ustilago)

Difficult falling asleep and then unpleasant dreams.

Restless night ; with fever ; with troubled dreams.

Sexual dreams ; without emission ; and disgusting, waking him, arose and urinated with difficulty and tenesmus.

Fever (Ustilago)

Burning in face and scalp.

Chills running up and down back.

Heat at night.

Internal heat ; with vertigo ; < eyes, which are inflamed and sensitive to light, eyeball sore to touch ; intermittent, < eyes.

Skin dry ; at night ; and hot.