Secale Cornutum
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 140
Questions
What is Secale cornutum ?
Spurred rye, a fungus growing on the rye; the tincture is from the fresh fungus and the alkaloid is called Ergotin; the common name of Secale is Ergot.
What is the general action of Secale ?
Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibre, and hence a constringent feeling throughout the whole body. Anaemic conditions, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification and gangrene is a series in the action of this powerful drug.
When is Secale indicated Homceopathically in labor ?
When the pains are prolonged, continued and ineffectual or entirely wanting, and patient complains of an empty feeling in the abdomen.
When is Secale useful in uterine hemorrhage ?
Passive, painless flow of dark liquid blood, the patient is wrinkled and scrawny, is often unconscious and cold, hemorrhages preceded by formication and tingling.
Slightest motion aggravates flow. What are the symptoms of Secale in Cholera ?
Retching and vomiting of undigested food, body wasted and cold, cramps, tingling in limbs, face sunken, mouth distorted, profuse, painless discharge from the bowels, ejected with violence; cold, clammy sweat.
What are its indications in Gangrene ?
Skin shriveled, dry and brittle. Formication, black suppurating blisters, petechiae. Patient feels better from cold applications.