Ustilago


Ustilago signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Ustilago is used…


      Ustilago maidis. Corn-smut. N.O. Fungi. Trituration.

Clinical

Agalactea. Alopecia. Climaxis. Dysmenorrhoea. Fibroma. Galactorrhoea. Headache, menstrual. Masturbation. Menorrhagia, at climaxis. Menstruation, excessive, vicarious. Nails, affections of. Orchitis. Ovary, left, affections of. Rhinitis. Scald-head. Tonsillitis.

Characteristics

Burt, who proved *Ustilago on himself and others, introduced the remedy to homoeopathy. It had been observed that pregnant animals feeding on maize affected with smut were very liable to abort. Roulin had noted that shedding of the hair, and sometimes of the teeth, occurred in animals and men, that mules fed on it cast their hoofs, and that fowls laid eggs without shells. The provings brought out a specific affinity for the generative sphere of both sexes, and especially for the left ovary and *uterus. *Ustilago congests the uterus and produces hemorrhages, generally passive or in clots. It is in uterine hemorrhages, menstrual, postpartum and climacteric that *Ustilago has been most successfully employed. It has also relieved vicarious menstruation, bleeding taking place from the lungs and bowels, and bleeding between the periods with left inframammary pain. Hurndall (*H. W., xxxvi. 27) relates the case of the small bitch which brings out many features of *Ustilago action. About a fortnight before he saw the patient she had aborted five foetuses, at about the fifth week of gestation. Since then there had been passive hemorrhage of dark clots. Moreover, she was a *perfect specimen of alopecia, not having a hair of any sort on her body and only a little about the head. Os uteri soft, spongy. Great tenderness about the posterior parts when manipulating the hind-quarters. *Ustilago 3x was prescribed, five drops three times a day. In two days the hemorrhage was completely arrested, tenderness reduced, spirits revived, and general health improved. At the end of three months there was a nice coat of hair growing, which in due course became perfectly normal. Loss of hair and nails is a keynote for *Ustilago, and combined with the other symptoms made the correspondence perfect. Among the *Peculiar Sensations are: As if head were being lifted off. As if forehead would burst open. As if something were under root of tongue pressing upward. As of a lump behind larynx. Excessively tired feeling. Bearing down, as if everything would come from her. Uterus as if drawn into a knot. As if intestines were being tied in knots. (This last symptom was produced in a patient of mine.) The symptoms are: worse by touch (abdomen, eyes). Pressure worse (ovaries). Riding in carriage worse backache. Worse rising and motion (menorrhagia). Walking worse frontal headache, pain in left groin, pain in loins. Warm room causes oppression and faintness. Open air causes lachrymation. Swelling worse pains in tonsils. Colicky pains better by constipated stool.

Relations

*Compare: Botan., uterine affections, nails, Secale Subinvolution, Nat-chl. Bearing down and prolapse of uterus, Sepia Left ovarian pain, Lil-t., Lachesis, Caulophyllum, Sul., Thuja, Vib-o. Vicarious menstruation, Bryonia, Hamamelis Millef. Intermittent flow, Hamamelis, Bovis., Elaps.Crusta lactea, Vinc-m., Melit., Medorrhinum, Mez. Pain in right shoulder, Urt-u., Sanguinaria Flying rheumatic pains, Pulsatilla Faint at 11 a.m., Sul. Frequent emissions and lumbar pains, Cob.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Depression of spirits in afternoon. Very sad, cries frequently, exceedingly prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen, sleep restless. Could not bear to see or talk with any one. Irritability, worse being asked a question or to repeat anything. The day seemed like a dream.

Head

Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision, sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of vertigo with internal heat. Vertigo at climaxis with profuse menstruation. Headache: all the morning, at 7 a.m., in evening, worse forehead, worse walking. Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in nervous women. Frontal pain: in morning, in forenoon, with smarting in eyes, all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fullness in head in morning, with distress in epigastrium. Scalp dry, head congested, with loss of hair. Scald- head, watery serum oozing from scalp. Prickling in left temple. Loss of hair.

Eyes

Attacks of twitching in eyes, they appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another. Continual watery flow from eyes and nose with occasional chills. Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl. Aching in eyes and lachrymation. Hot feeling on closing lids. Weakness of eyes. Lachrymation in open air. Lids agglutinated in morning. Vision of spots dancing to and fro.

Nose

Boil in right nostril. Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin. Bright epistaxis, better pressure. Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odor noticeable to patient himself.

Face

Sudden pallor in face when sitting, and in evening. Burning of face and scalp from congestion.

Teeth

Sometimes looseness of teeth. Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars. Shedding of teeth (in animals).

Mouth

Tongue coated in morning. Prickling in tongue, with feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward, with dryness of nostrils. Salivation: bitter, thin, bitter. Taste: coppery, in morning, slimy coppery, slimy coppery in morning, slimy,, with burning distress in stomach.

Throat

Left tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, right painful on swallowing at 2 p.m., left painful at 9 p.m., next morning congestion of left extending along Eustachian tube and causing pain in ear. Lancinations in right tonsil (fauces were somewhat inflamed when the medicine was taken), next day fauces hotter and more sensitive to motion. Roughness of fauces. Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in stomach. Dryness of fauces, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow, with feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, afterwards irritation of fauces, and on swallowing feeling of a lump in larynx. Burning in oesophagus at cardiac orifice.

Appetite

Appetite: craving, poor. Thirst at night.

Stomach

Eructations: of sour fluid, of sour food. Cutting in stomach. Pain in stomach: frequently in afternoon, on full inspiration. Pain in epigastrium with drawing pain in joints of fingers. Burning in sternum and cardia. Distress in stomach in forenoon, in afternoon, better by supper. Hematemesis, passive, venous, accompanied by nausea, which is better by vomiting.

Abdomen

Periodical cutting in umbilical and hypogastric regions at 6 p.m., worse at 8 p.m. by a constipated stool, afterwards grumbling pains in whole abdomen. (Pain as if intestines were tied in knots.) Pain: in right lobe of liver, in umbilicus, in umbilicus before natural stool, in left groin when walking. Drawing pain in right hypochondrium all day. Distress in umbilicus and right hypochondrium.

Stool

Natural stool at 4 a.m. Loose stool at 4 a.m., with pain and rumbling in abdomen. Light-colored diarrhoea. Soft stool, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy. Constipated.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus of bladder and incontinence of urine. Urging, urine light-colored. No desire, but uneasiness. Urine: increased, scanty, red, acid, high-colored.

Male Sexual Organs

Genitals relaxed. Erections: when reading at 4 o’clock, frequently during day and night. Scrotum relaxed and cold sweat on it. Pain in testes, worse r. Pain in testes, sometimes neuralgic, in paroxysms, sometimes causing faintish feeling. Desire depressed. Chronic orchitis, irritable testicle. Erotic fancies. Seminal emissions and irresistible tendency to masturbation.

Female Sexual Organs

Yellow and offensive leucorrhoea. Tenderness of left ovary, with pain and swelling. Burning distress in ovaries. Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary, enlarged, very tender. Uterus: hypertrophied, prolapsed, cervix sensitive, spongy. Menses: too scanty with ovarian irritation, too profuse and too early, blood clotted, as if everything would come through. Between periods constant suffering under left breast at margin of ribs. Oozing of dark blood, highly coagulated, forming occasionally long, black, stringy clots. Extreme pain during period. Suppression of menses. Vicarious menstruation from lungs and bowels. Constant aching distress at mouth of womb. Menses that had just ceased returned, bright-colored, soreness and bearing down in left side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it. Menses copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head. Menorrhagia at climaxis. Bland leucorrhoea. Abortion. Deficient labor pains. Constant flooding. Puerperal peritonitis. Lochia too profuse, partly fluid, partly clotted, prolonged bearing-down pains, uterus feels drawn into a knot. Hypertrophy and subinvolution.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica