Secale Cornutum

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.

Sensorium

► Feeling of lightness of head, most in occiput. ► Giddiness ; unsteady gait. ► Heaviness of head and tingling in legs. ► Unconsciousness, with heavy sleep, preceded by tingling in head and limbs.

Inner Head

► Pulsations in head, with giddiness, so that she cannot walk. ► Pain and confusion, most in occiput. ► Congestion in the head and chest.

Outer Head

► Hair falls out. ► Twisting of head to and fro.

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.

Ears

► Undue sensitiveness of hearing, so that even the slightest sound re-echoed in her head and made her shudder. ► Confused hearing. ► Singing in ears and difficult hearing. ► Humming and roaring in ears, with occasional deafness. ► Hard hearing, after cholera.

Nose

► Sneezing. ► Nosebleed : blood dark, runs continuously, with great prostration, small, thread-like pulse, in old people, or drunkards ; of young women. ► Nose stopped up, yet watery discharge running from it.

Face

► Pale ; pinched, pale, earthy looking ; dark red and swollen ; contracted and discolored, with sunken eyes, blue rings around eyes. ► Wan, fearful countenance. ► Tingling in face. ► Muscular twitchings, usually commence in face and then spread all over body, sometimes increasing to dancing and jumping. ► Spasmodic distortion of the mouth and lips. ► Forehead hot.

Lower Face

► Lockjaw. ► Lips deathly pale.

Teeth

► Looseness of the teeth. ► Grinding of the teeth. ► Bleeding from the gums.

Tongue, Etc

► Tongue thickly coated with yellowish-white ; dry, tenacious substance ; discolored, brown or blackish, deathly pale. ► Slight, but unpleasant warmth on tongue, during day. ► Spasm of tongue, projecting it from mouth, forcing it between teeth and rendering speech indistinct. ► Feeble, stuttering, indistinct speech, as if the tongue was paralyzed.

Mouth

► Bloody or yellowish-green foam at the mouth. ► Increased secretion of saliva. ► Much acid fluid in mouth. ► Spitting of blood.

Throat

► Dryness of soft palate, throat, and oesophagus, with thirst. ► Burning in throat, with violent thirst. ► Painful tingling in throat and on tongue.

Desires And Aversions

► Hunger, as from long fasting. ► Disgust for food, especially for meat and fatty things. ► Thirst, during all stages of fever. ► Unquenchable thirst. ► Desire for : sour things ; lemonade.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : with disagreeable taste ; sour ; tasteless, but with subjective, disagreeable empyreumatic odor. ► Nausea ; inclination to vomit ; painful retchings. ► Vomiting of food ; of a yellowish-green, frothy mass ; first of contents of the stomach, then only mucus, of mucus mixed with lumbrici ; of decomposed matter. ► Vomiting of large quantities of dark brown slime, bile and shreds ; typhoid. ► Haematemesis, patient lies still ; great weakness ; but no pain ; abdomen soft.

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.

Hypochondria

► Enlargement of liver. ► Acute pain in hepatic region. ► Inflammation and gangrene of liver. ► Burning in the spleen.

Abdomen

► Distention of the belly. ► Flatulence, with rumbling. ► Painful sensitiveness and rumbling, with continued nausea and confusion of head. ► Inclination to colic, diarrhoea, and bloatedness of abdomen. ► Pain in lower belly, preventing an upright posture, even forcing him to lie doubled up in bed. ► Continual bearing down in lower abdomen. ► Burning in abdomen. ► Cold feeling in abdomen and back. ► Strong pulsation in umbilical region. ► Lumps and welts in abdomen ; in affections of the uterus.

Stool, Etc

► Stools : watery, slimy ; offensive, watery ; yellowish or greenish, discharged rapidly with great force, or even involuntary ; painless, without effort, with great weakness. ► Colliquative diarrhoea. ► Cholerine, with more retching than vomiting. ► Cholera Asiatica, with collapse, face sunken, distorted, particularly the mouth ; crawling sensation as from ants. ► Paralysis of the rectum. ► Bleeding from the bowels.

Urine

► Unsuccessful urging to urinate. ► Retention of urine. ► Ischuria paralytica. ► Urine : pale, watery ; bloody in old people. ► Enuresis in old age. ► Urinary deposit looking like white cheese. ► Discharge of thick, black blood from bladder. θ Kidney affections.

Male Sexual Organs

► After lightness in occiput, violent dragging in spermatic cord, causing sensation as if the testicle was being drawn up to the inguinal ring. ► After sexual excess, palpitation of the heart.

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.

Pregnancy

► Arrested development of the foetus. ► Threatened abortus : more especially at the third month ; with copious flow of black, liquid blood ; false labor-pains, with bloody discharge. ► After abortus : difficult contraction of uterus ; thin black, foul-smelling discharge. ► During pregnancy ; frequent and prolonged forcing pain, particularly in thin, ill-conditioned women ; cramps in calves. ► During labor : prolonged bearing down and forcing pains in the uterus ; pains irregular ; pains too weak ; pains feeble, distant or ceasing ; everything seems loose and open, no action ; fainting fits ; after labor retained urine. ► Strength of uterus weakened by too early or perverted efforts. ► Labor ceases, and twitchings or convulsions begin. ► Puerperal convulsions, with opisthotonos. ► Retained placenta, with constant strong bearing down in abdomen ; or with relaxed feeling of parts. ► After-pains : too long and too painful. ► Lochia : dark, very offensive ; scanty or profuse ; painless or accompanied by prolonged bearing down pain. ► Suppression of lochia followed by uterine inflammation. ► Lack of milk, with much stinging in mammae.

Larynx

► Voice : hollow, with difficult breathing ; feeble and inaudible. ► Thickening of the mucous membrane of the air passages.

Breathing

► Respiration : slow ; labored and anxious : oppressed.

Cough

► Hard, hoarse cough, with little expectoration. ► Concussive cough. ► Spitting of blood, with without cough.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation, oftener at night, with congestion and frequently intermitting pulse. ► Pulse : often unchanged even during violent attacks ; generally slow and contracted, at times intermittent or suppressed ; somewhat accelerated during the heat ; small ; empty, weak ; thread-like in hemorrhages.

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.

Upper Limbs

► Spasmodic jerks of the hand, with flexion of hand at wrist, or of forearm. ► Numbness and insensibility of hands. ► Burning in hands. ► Hands deathly pale. ► Coldness and numbness of right hand, with tingling of the ring and the ring and little fingers. ► Loss of feeling in back of fingers. ► Loss of muscular power and of feeling in hand. ► Fingers convulsively drawn in toward palm, clasping thumb. ► Rough rash all over the arm. ► Fingers bent backward, or spasmodically abducted. ► Painful swelling of fingers. ► Violent pains in finger-tips. ► Gangrene of fingers.

Lower Limbs

► Hammering, tearing pain in both thighs, increased by motion. ► Legs heavy and tired. ► Tingling in legs. ► Creeping feeling in anterior femoral and posterior tibia regions. ► Shuffling gait, as if the feet were dragged along. ► Rheumatic pains of joints. ► Cramp in calves. ► Burning in feet. ► Swelling of feet, with black spots. ► Toes drawn up toward dorsum of foot. ► Tingling in toes. ► Gangrene of toes.

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.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 28, 31, 33. Walking : 3. Exertion : 31. Stretching the limb out : 34. Lies still : 16. Lies doubled up : 19.

Nerves

► Spasmodic twitchings. ► Irregular movements of whole body. ► Spasms, with the fingers spread out. ► Convulsive jerks and starts in the paralyzed limbs. ► Painful contractions in the flexor muscles. ► Tetanic spasms, with full consciousness, followed by great exhaustion. ► Sudden and great exhaustion. ► Loss of power of voluntary motion. ► Feels as if walking upon velvet ; paralysis from disease or lower part of spine, sensory, then motor. ► Sinking spells at 3 A.M.

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.

Time

► During the day : 11. Night : 29, 34, 37. 3 A.M. : 36.

Temperature And Weather

► Aversion to heat or to being covered. ► May feel cold, but does not wish to be covered. ► Desire for fresh air. ► Cold better : 44. Heat worse : 44.

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.

Sides

► Right : 28, 32, 33.

Sensations

► Formication under the skin. ► Burning in all parts of body, as if sparks were falling on them.

Tissues

► Dissolution of blood corpuscles, blood thin ; passive hemorrhages. ► Neuralgia caused by pressure on branch of a nerve by a distended vein. ► Thrombosis of abdominal vessels. ► Tumefaction of glands. ► Lymphatic tumors. ► Collapse from choleroid diseases. ► Rapid emaciation of paralyzed parts. ► Ulcers, worse from external warmth. ► Gangrene : from anaemia ; external injuries, application of leeches or mustard ; better from cold, worse from heat ; dry, of old people.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 17, 23. Pressure : 31, 44. ► The slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks.

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.

Stages And States

► Irritable, plethoric subjects. ► Nervous temperament. ► Women of very lax muscular fibre. ► Feeble, cachectic women ; thin scrawny. ► Very old, decrepit persons.

Relationship

► Resembles in cholera morbus, Colchic. ► Cinchon. follows well after Secale. ► Similar to Arsen., but cold and heat acts opposite. ► Cinnam. increases labor-pains, checks profuse hemorrhage, and is used instead of Ergot.