Secale cornutum

Characteristic symptoms

Spasms of the upper and lower limbs, with convulsions; convulsions and twitchings, painful contractions, tetanic symptoms; perfect paralysis with increased reflex-action ; excruciating spinal pains, especially in the small of the back; perfect anaesthesia; paralysis of the bladder and anus; peculiar tendency to gangrene; hysterical paroxysms during parturition and child-bed. Dry brittle skin ; dry heat with quick pulse and restlessness and loss of sleep ; pulse small and suppressed ; puerperal fever ; perspiration from the hand to the pit of the stomach, or cold, clammy sweat; dread of death; excessive sadness, melancholy; delirium ; vertigo with stupefaction ; the eyes are pressed back in their sockets; epistaxis; sunken, hippocratic, pale, discolored face ; yellow complexion ; ugly spots in the face ; yellowish-white, dry, thick, viscid coating of the tongue ; frothy or bloody saliva ; aversion to food ; great thirst ; nausea with vomiting of the ingesta and debility ; Asiatic and sporadic cholera ; cholerine ; painful colic with pain in the back and thighs, eructations ; vomiting and cutting and tearing in the abdomen ; seated burning in the region of the spleen and loins ; rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen ; extremely offensive colliquative diarrhœa; diarrhœa with great prostration or watery, mucous, brown or discolored stools ; diarrhœa after cholera ; suppression of urine ; bloody urine ; hot, burning urine, coming out in small quantities ; courses too long and too copious; congestion to the uterus; metrorrhagia ; moles and polypi in the uterus ; flooding after abortion, after parturition, with black, fluid blood, with aggravation by motion; swelling and warts on the os uteri; metritis during pregnancy or after confinement; chronic metritis from suppression of the lochia or menses ; ai1 merits during pregnancy; threatening abortus; irregular, labor pains, feeble, suppressed, or even spasmodic ; adhesion of the placenta ; lochia too long and bloody, or scanty and fetid; miliaria on neck and chest ; cramps in the calves and soles of the feet.