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 useGuernsey
For female complaints chiefly, and especially when occurring in thin, scrawny, wrinkled females; or children. Skin is cold, but the patient does not wish to be covered up. Copious vomiting of a mixture of thick, black, pitchy, bilious and slimy matter. Dry gangrene, particularly on the right side, beginning in the toes and running up the limb. Amaurosis occurring in patients characteristic of this drug; hard hearing; blue color around the eyes. Sexual.-- Female : Female genital organs in general; pains like labor pains, which are protracted from a long time, skin cold and no wish to be covered, etc.; labor pains ceasing; labor pains too weak; abortion in the characteristic patients. Menses last too long; too profuse.
By regionGuernsey
Skin Blackness of outer parts; crawling on the skin as of insects; ulcers that turn black; skin withered and gangrenous. …
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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