Secale cornutum
Guernsey, Key Notes to the Materia Medica, 1887, p. 161
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 for 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.
Skin
Blackness of outer parts; crawling on the skin as of insects; ulcers that turn black; skin withered and gangrenous. Heat, with thirst and want of perspiration. Affections in general of the right side; painless hæmorrhage; crooked limbs; paralysis; sensation of deadness in any part.
Worse p. 162
From drawing up the limbs; especially for troubles in childbed.
Better p. 162
From stretching out the limbs. After vomiting.
Remedies following p. 162
Acon., Arsen., Bellad., Mercur., Pulsat.
Antidotes p. 162
Camphor., Opium.