Secale cornutum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Ergot
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Keynotes
Dusky, scrawny and heamorrhagic. Numbness, insufferable tingling, crawling, twitching, gnawing or cramping; with stiffness; in single parts; starting in face or back; in limbs; in fingertips; after the pains, etc. Burnings; here and there, like fire. Dark, thin, foul or exhausting discharges. Decomposition. Petechiæ. Varicoses. Passive bleedings or discharges. Contracted arterioles. Tonic spasm. .................... Mental weakness after spasms. Fear, depressed by; maniacal. Sparks before eyes. Distorted or sunken countenance; blue rings under eyes. Wild look. Thirst; craves acids. Empty retching. Empty feeling in hypogastrium. Wants abdomen uncovered. Gushing, painless, watery, olive-green or bloody stools; with collapse. Bloody urine. Everything seems loose and open. Senile enuresis. Inert uterus, or bearing down with coldness. Contracted uterus; hour-glass contraction. Miscarriage. Green lochia. Septic placenta. Metritis. Gangrene of female organs. Leucorrhœa; brown, foul; continuous. Pains through chest on pressing spine. Cold limbs. Bluish fingers and toes. Cramps in hands, legs and feet. Fingers spread apart; bent backward or clenched; look water soaked. Boils with green pus. Blood blisters. Cold, dry, wrinkled or bluish skin, < over affected part. Raynaud's disease. Foul, indolent ulcers. Twitching tremor or quiver in skin. EXTERNALLY, ICY COLD, YET BURNING HOT INTERNALLY; OBJECTS TO BEING COVERED, < ABDOMEN. Heat, as of sparks on skin. Erysipelas. Cold or foul sweat; destroying shoes. Antidote: Solan-n.
Worse
WARMTH. During menses. Pregnancy. Loss of fluids. COVERS.
Better
Cold; bathing. Uncovering. Rocking. Forcible extension.
Region
Muscles: BLOOD-VESSELS. UTERUS. BLOOD. Nerves. Cord. Limbs.
Relationships
Related: Nux-m. Ust.
What the other books say about Secale cornutum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Secale cornutum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Secale cornutum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Secale cornutum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Secale cornutum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Secale cornutum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/secale-cornutum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.