Homeopathy LibraryUstilago Maydis
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General
(Maize-Smut.) Debcbiptiob,— The smut of Maize (Zea Maize), or Indian corn, is a fungus produced on the stems, germena, etc. It often attains a large size, larger tian an orange. It is covered with a dark gray or brown epidermis, wliich bursts wlien ripe. The spores are spherical, minute, their surface covered with eehinulate warts, like prickles; they are deep-seated, nearly- black and pulverulent, having the appearance of soot, under the naked eye.
This species must not he confounded with the "Corn-Smut" of English botanists (U. segetum), found on wheat, rye, oats and barley.
It is interesting !o know that an analysis of this fnngus shows it to con- tain Ergotin, the supposed active principle of Secale.
Officinai. PRBrARATiOMS. — Triturations of the fungus, gathered when it baa tuined black, but before the frosts have affected it. Tincture made from the fresh, just ripe fungus.
AvAiaavEa.— Secale, Sepia, Sabina, Tanaeetiim, Gosaipium, Borax, Pla- tina-, etc.
Moral Symptoms. Great depression of spirits during the whole proving. (See sexual group.)
Head, Peeling of fullness of head, dull, pressive, frontal headache. Violent frontal headache, as if the forehead would burst open. Sharp flying pains in the forehead. ° Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities. (Surt.')
Eyes, Aching of the eyeballs, with profuse secretion of tears. Smarting of the eyes, with profuse secretion of tears in the open air.
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Ears
Constant dull pain in the left ear, caused by extension of in-
fianiniation of the tonsil along the enstachian tube.
Iffoae.
Dryness of the nostrils, as if I had taken cold.
Pace, Burning sensation of the face and scalp.
Mouth
Slimy, coppery taste is a prominent symptom. Constant dull, aching pain in the first and second upper
molars; they are decayed, and have ached before.
Shedding of the teeth in animah. {lioulm.) Pricking sensation in the tongue, with a feeling as if some- thing was under the roots of the tongue pressing it upwards.
Dryness of the fauces, with difficult deglutition.
Congestion and inflammation of the tonsils, left one greatly enlarged, of a dark color, accompanied with dull pain, much aggravated by swallowing.
Throat
Dryness of the fauces, with a burning distress in the stomach.
Dryness and roughness of the fauces, with difSeult deglutition.
Feeling as if there was a himp behind the larynx, which pro-, duces constant inclination to swaDow.
Appetite and Thirst- Lose of appetite, followed by canine hunger.
Gastric Symptoms.
Eructations of the ingesta, with strongly acid taste.
Very faint feeling a number of times in the epigastrium, with pain in the region of the liver and bowels.
Constant distress in the region of etomach.
Burning distress in the sternum and stomach, accompanied
with fine neuralgic pains in the same region. Fine, sharp, catting pains in the epigaatrinm, lasting about
three minutes at a time, came on every ten or fifteen,
minutes for a number of hoars.
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Abdomen
Grumbling pains in the abdomen all the afternoon, followed
by dry, hard stool. Fine, entting, colicky pains every few minutes all day, relieved by a hard, constipated stool, followed by dull pains in the bowels.
Ijiver. Good deal of pain for two days in the region of the right lobe
of the liver, Dnll pains in the right hypochondrium, with distress in the small intestines.
Stool
Constipation, (where the Ustilago is indicated the stools are
generally paposcent or constipated.) Black, lumpy stool.
Urinary Organs
Urine diminished one-half, and very red and scanty, {p.) Great increase of colorless urine, (s.)
Genital Organs of Man.
Sexual dreams every night, with no emissions.
Great depression of the sexual system for weeks, with great
relaxation of the scrotum.
Constant aching pains in the testicles for a number of days.
Sharp, neuralgic pains in the testicles, more in the right.
Constant aching distress in the right testicle for days.
Spells of violent pains in tlie testicles, more in the right.
Every five minntes, sharp pains in testicles, causing faintness.
Two niglits had a profuse cold sweat upon the scrotum, which
was greatly relaxed. * Sperm atorrhtea, with erotic ideas and amorous dreams. ° Seminal emissions, and irresistible tendency to masturbation,
erotic fancies, melancholy, etc. {Hurt.) " One to four emissions, with sexual dreams, every week, fol- lowed tlie next day with gi'eat prostration of strength, dull pain in the lumbar region, with great despondency and irritability of mind. (lb.)
Organs of Generation of Women. Constant aching distress in the uterus, referred by the patient to the mouth of the womb.
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TDK. 639
in a cow lionse, wliere cows were fed on Indian corn infested with this parasite (Ustilago), eleven of their number aborted in eight days; after their food was changed none of tlie animals aborted. {Anl.
Med.
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Beige, and Rep. de Ph.)
Six drachms given to two pregnant bitch dogs, soon caused them to abort. (Burt.)
Fowls fed on this fungus lay eggs without shells. (BouUn.)
* Menorrhagia, with menses too frequent. {Hale.)
* Metrorrhagia, after confinement and after miscarriage.
* Tendency to miscarriage, witli or without hemorrhage,
* Menstruation too frequent, too profuse and too long. {Burt.) ° Suppressio-mensium, from ovarian irritation, with much pain
in the ovarian region, and flatulence and soreness of the bowels.
° Vicarious menstruation from the lungs or faowela.
" Scanty menstruations from ovarian irritation.
" Menorrhagia at the climacteric period, with much pain on the top and side of the head; with burning distress in right ovary; goneness in the epigastrium; the flooding lasts for weeks; blood dark colored, with many clots, and vertigo.
"Active and constant flooding, with frequent clots of bright red blood, with hearing-down pains. (Burt.)
" Passive hemorrhage; blood dark coloi-ed, lasting many days, with anfemia. and dull, heavy headache. (/5.)
° Abortion, with bearing-down pains, as if everything would come from her. (/5.)
"Deficient labor-pains, when the os is soft, pliable, .and dila- table. (Hale.)
" Dysmenorrhcea of a congestive cbai-acter, with much ovarian irritation; severe pain in the ovaries, nterns, and back, every few minutes.
Spasmodic pains in the left ovary, which is very sore and tender,
" Ovaritis; constant pain in the ovary, with sharp pains pass- ing down the legs with great rapidity; ovary ranch swollen and very tender. (Burt.)
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'Intermittent neuralgia of the left ovary, which ia large as a hen's egg, and very tender to the touch.
" Between the menses, constant misery under left breast at the margin of the ribs.
" Hypertrophy of the uterus. {Burt.)
° Vertigo at the climacteric period, with too frequent and too profuse menstruation.
"Slow, persistent oozing of dark blood, with small blacfe coagnliB, lasting many days. ( Woorlbury.)
"Passive congestion of the uterus, which is enlarged, the cervix tumefied, and somewhat dilated.
" Menorrhagia after abortion. {Bermett.)
" Profnse menatrnation, the flow lasting ten days or two weeks, at first very abundant, gradualiy wearing off; always worse from motion; discharge dark, and quite painless.
"Menorrhagia; the flow usually lasted three weeks; very pro- fuse, dark, painless; given from the commencement Ustilago 1 X ; shortened it to five days. (Hale.)
VIBTJEHUM OPDLUS.
(Eigh GTaiiberry.)
BoTAKiCAl:, Description
This is a ahrnb, growing from three to ten Feet high, with smooth, gray, spreading branches.
Leavea three to five inches in diameter, the lobe often somewhat falcate, nearly smooth above, sparsely hairy underneath; jwtMe about an inch long, with fonr to sis glands on the upper part; stipular appendages, one or t^?f> pairs at or near the base of the petiole, subul t ft n t pp d, with a gland ; cgme, three to four inches in diameter; th t 1 fl w rs few or numerous, nearly an inch in diameter; caiyx,t6 th n ly b 1 te;
(inipes, nearly half an inch long, juicy, intensely aci 1 nd 1 1 tly bitter — translucent when dry.
The common snow-ball bu h f u g 1 is a cultivated varietj o^ this species.
Thetwo plants d tdiff fB iently to be consideied separate species; cultivation incre h mb of sterile flowers.
The bark
contains 'naierianio acid, the odor of which is yery distinct in the tincture.
Opficibai.
PRKPAJtATiOMB
Tincture of the baik.
AnALOOCES
Oav,loph^llam(?), Vibvnmm pranifolium (t).
Qmsiptwn.
(No proving.) ° Hysterical convulsions, from uterine irritation.
" General irritation of Ihe nervous system.
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VIBDKNTIM PEUNIFOLirM. 641
"Cramps and eontraetioiia of the extremities — especially during pregnancy.
° Paralytic conditions, coming onafter cramps and convulsions.
"Amaurosis. (?)
" Dyspepsia, with constipation and incontinence of urine
" Cramp-like (?) difficulty of breathing.
° Cramps in the feet after long walking.
'die dysuria in hysterical subjects. ( Woodhv/ry!) idle dysmenorrhcea. {Ih.)
" Dysmenorrhfea of a spasmodic and neuralgic character, with intense cramp-like pains in the uterus. {Male.)
" Psevdo-memhranous dysmenorrhcea.
'' Very painful, scanty, hut regular, menses. {Dr. Mvddock.)
"Cramp-like pains and spasms of the stomach, bowels, blad- der, or other organs, when reflex from uterine irritation. Irritable ovaries with dysmenorrhcea. {Ih.) (See Tfieraprntici.)