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Secale Cornutum
Secale cornutum · SEC
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Origin Plant · Gramineae (Poaceae) · Simple
Habitat Secale cereale, N. O. Gramineae
ClarkePreparation Tincture of The fresh spurs collected just before harvest.
Sources 20 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose Boericke
1X–30X
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,

Reason for useAllen

Adapted to women of thin^ scrawny^ feeble y cachectic appearance; irritable, nervous temperament; pale, sunken countenance. Very old, decrepit, feeble persons. Women of very lax muscular fibre; e,vtxYX}DL\n% seems loose and open; no action^ vessels flabby ; passive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed. Hemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks (Lach., Phos.); discharge of sanious liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids. Leucorrhea: green, brown, offensive. Boils: smally painful with green contents^ mature very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debilitating. Face: pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic; drawn, with sunken eyes; blue rings around eyes. Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diar- rhea; craves acids, lemonade. Diarrhea: profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force (Gamb., Crot.); very exhausting; painless, invol- untary; anus wide open (Apis, Phos.). Enuresis: of old people; urine pale, watery, or bloody; urine suppressed. 428 SECALE CORNUTUM. Burning, in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient (Ars.). Gangrene; dry, senile, < from external heat. Large ecchymoses; blood blisters; often commencement of gangrene. Collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered (Camph.). The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tol- erate covering; icy coldness of extremities. Menses: irregular; copious, dark fluid; with pressing, labor- like pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period. Threatened abortion especially at third month (Sab.); pro- longed, bearing down, forcing pains. During labor: pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything seems loose and open but no expulsive action; faint- ing. After pains: too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction. Suppression of milk: in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do not properly fill. Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent. PROVERB.


By regionAllen
Mind Stupid, half-sleepy state. Impaired power of thinking. Delirium: quiet; wandering. Mania: with inclination to bite; with inclination to drown. …
Sleep Frequent yawning. Inclination to sleep; drowsiness; deep, heavy sleep, stupor. Sleep at night disturbed by frightful dreams. Restless and sleepless. …
Fever Disagreeable sensation of coldness in back, abdo- men and limbs. Skin cold, with shivering. Coldness of surface of body, particularly extremities. …
Skin Skin dry and cool. Cold and dry; dingy, wrinkled, dry and insensible; desqua- mation. …

Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 3, Opium 3
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Arsenicum Album, Colchicum Autumnale, Ergotinum +37

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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