Homeopathy LibraryOrigin 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 useHering
SECALE CORNUTUM. [Sec. corn.] Ergot. A nosode from the rye, called a parasite. No Proving.* * A collection of the monographs of epidemics, supposed to have been caused in Germany and France, principally by the ergot and other mixtures which spoil the bread, was made in 1825, by C. Hering, and left the next year, on his departure for Surinam, with Trinks, who had it completed by some of his assistants, and published. Later addition are mostly cases of poisoning.
By regionHering
Mind ► Stupid, half sleep state. ► Impaired power of thinking. ► Delirium : quiet ; wandering. ► Mania ; with inclination to bite ; with inclination to drown oneself ; room is a troubled sea into which she desires to plunge. ► She think two are sick, one recovers, the other dies. ► Uncomfortableness and depression. ► Fear of death. ► Anxiety, sadness, melancholy. ► Great anguish ; wild with anxiety. ► Apathy, indifference.
Inner Head ► Pulsations in head, with giddiness, so that she cannot walk. ► Pain and confusion, most in occiput. ► Congestion in the head and chest.
Eyes ► Photophobia. ► Obscuration of sight. ► Double or triple vision. ► Blue and fiery dots flying before the eyes. ► Pain in eyes, with feeling as if they were spasmodically rotated. ► Stitching pain in eyes. ► Cataracta senilis. ► Pupils generally dilated. ► Suppressed secretion of tears. ► Injection of the conjunctiva. ► Eye sunken, surrounded by a blue margin. ► Paralysis of upper eyelids, from coal gas. ► Immovable state of eyelids after facial erysipelas. ► Eyes looked fixed, wild, glazed.
Stomach ► Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach, with great sensitiveness to touch. ► Severe anxiety and burning at pit of stomach. ► Pain in pit of stomach. ► Violent pressure in stomach, as from a heavy weight. ► Warmth and feeling of repletion. ► Burning in stomach. ► Painful constriction of epigastrium.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses : too profuse, and lasting too long ; with tearing and cutting colic, cold extremities, cold sweat, great weakness small pulse ; or with violent spasm. ► Menstrual blood : thin and black ; black, lumpy, or brown fluid, and of disgusting smell. ► Uterine hemorrhage, worse from the slightest motion. ► Passive hemorrhage, of very fetid, or dark blood. ► Atonic hemorrhage, burning the critical age. ► Uterine ulcer, feels as if burnt, discharge putrid, bloody fluid. ► Burning pains in greatly distended uterus, which felt hard and was painful to touch. ► Leucorrhoea brownish and offensive ; like cream ; from weakness and venous congestion. ► Ulcers on outer genitals discolored and rapidly spreading.
Lungs ► Cramp in the chest. ► Spasmodic shocks, from right half of chest into right arm and right leg. ► Pains over nearly all the front of chest, worse from coughing and motion.
Neck And Back ► Tenderness of lower cervical and upper dorsal spinous processes, with stiffness of the neck. ► Gentle creeping sensation in back, as if a soft air was blowing through it. ► Tingling in back, extending to fingers and toes. ► Pains at sacrum, with bearing down, as if parts would be forced out, worse when moving. ► "Kink" in the back. ► Spine disease, with gressus vaccinus. ► Pressure upon affected portion, causes pain there as well as through chest ; exciting an irritation to cough ; aggravation from every exertion, or strain upon the spine.
Limbs In General ► Lassitude, heaviness, trembling of limbs. ► Limbs cold, covered with cold sweat. ► Formication ; prickling ; tingling ; numbness in limbs. ► Cramps in hands and toes. ► Painful jerkings in limbs at night. ► Paraplegia.
Sleep ► Frequent yawning. ► Inclination to sleep ; drowsiness. ► Sleep at night disturbed by frightful dreams. ► Great sleepiness ; deep, heavy sleep, stupor. ► Restless and sleepless ; from formication which worries.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Disagreeable sensation in back, abdomen and limbs. ► Skin cold, with shivering. ► Violent chill but of short duration ; followed soon after by internal burning heat, with great thirst. ► Burning fever, interrupted by shaking chills. ► Cold limbs, cold sweat, great weakness. ► Cold stage preceded by vomiting, succeeded by moderate sweating. ► Severe and long-lasting dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst. ► Sweat, especially on upper body. ► Cold, clammy sweat over the whole body. ► Profuse sweats. ► Colliquative sweats.
Skin ► Cold and dry ; dingy, wrinkled, dry and insensible ; desquamation. ► Petechia and miliary eruptions. ► Variola, pustules of abnormal appearance, either fill with a bloody serum, or dry up too soon. ► Varicose ulcers and enlarged veins in old people.
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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