SECALE CORNUTUM



Desire to drink undiluted wine at dinner, an unusual circumstance. They constantly long for drink, and desire to have the limbs stretched; with incessant pain and oppression, and pressure in the pit of the stomach, and constant ineffectual efforts to vomit. Thirst and dryness in the throat. Eructations and Hiccough. Eructations having the odor of ergot. Frequent eructations of offensive flatus (fourth day). Frequent eructations (after one hour). Sour eructation; (fifth and sixth days). Eructations; (after one hour); (after two hours).

Singultus (fifth, seventh, and following days). Heartburn. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea. Excessive nausea and debility, with very little vomiting of a dark-brown coffee grounds fluid (first day); incessant vomiting of a brownish water, with occasional streaks of blood (second and third days). Nausea, after the chill, relieved by the diarrhoea. Constant nausea, all day. Nausea, caused by the odor of the plant. Nausea, after eating. Either nausea, and consequently sedation, or diminished frequency of the pulse, without nauseating, in twenty-five or thirty minutes.

Slight nausea (after thirty minutes); nausea increased (after forty minutes); vomiting (after forty-five minutes); slight nausea (after one hour); no nausea (after two hours). In three cases it produced slight nausea but no vomiting. Transient slight nausea (after each dose). A sensation resembling nausea alternated with the heavy confused feeling in the head (after half an hour). Nausea for twenty-four hours. Nausea and vomiting; (after three-quarters of an hour). Nausea, with occasional vomiting. Constant retching and vomiting of raw very offensive bilious substances. Incessant retching, with pressure in the pit of the stomach. Constantly retching, and could not retain a particle of either food, drink, or medicine on her stomach.

Inclination to vomit. Sinking and sickness at the stomach (sixth day). Sometimes sickness of the stomach. Sensations similar to those attending sea-sickness (after half an hour). Fruitless efforts to vomit. Violent vomiting, followed by death. Violent vomitings. Sudden attacks of incessant vomiting, at night, with most violent headache and pain over the whole body. Vomiting, followed by relief. In two, violent emesis (in one hour). Easy vomiting. Vomiting, etc. Vomiting of dark-brown slimy mucus, and also of everything taken into the stomach (first day); great irritability of the stomach, and more difficulty of retaining food and medicine is observed at 8 P.M., than in morning (second day); vomited twice (second night); some nausea and vomiting, at 8 P.M. (fourth day); nausea and vomiting of sour dark-green matter (fifth day); vomited a pint of matter, in the morning, very sour and of a dark-green color (sixth day); vomited sour dark-green mucus, containing shreds of disorganized membrane (seventh day); matter vomited contained shreds of mucous membrane (eighth day); vomiting of dark bilious matter, at intervals of a few minutes; constant nausea and vomiting; matter vomited is of a dark-green color, containing mucus, bile, and shreds of membrane, in the evening (ninth day); stomach can not retain even medicine or water (tenth day); vomiting of blood, bile, membrane, and coffee-grounds matter; inability to retain everything on the stomach; vomiting ceased eight hours before death (eleventh day).

Vomiting of mucus or of worms, giving relief. Hemorrhage from the stomach (tenth day). Frequent vomiting of food. Mucous and biliary vomiting. Occasional vomiting of coffee or chocolate- colored matter, for two days. Vomiting of chocolate-colored substances. Vomitings of bilious matters; intermixed with blood.

Violent vomiting of tenacious bilious mucus, at times affording relief. Vomiting of tenacious mucus, in the morning fasting.

Vomiting of sour matters or of tenacious mucus. Vomiting of hardened black bile. Vomiting without great effort, soon after eating the bread, especially after a hearty meal, without diminished appetite. Vomiting of a slimy substance and frequently of round or thread worms. Stomach. Tenderness of the epigastrium (second and third days). Great weight and oppression at the pit of the stomach, as if a stone were in the stomach, an hour before death (eleventh day). Weight and oppression on the stomach (tenth day). Great distress and oppression of the stomach (tenth day).

Oppression and heaviness at the stomach (sixth day). Epigastric oppression. Oppression at the stomach. Feeling of weight at the epigastrium. A sensation of weight in the epigastrium, which, slight at first, became in a short time very painful. Unpleasant pressure at the stomach, which increased to such an extent as to obstruct his breathing; along with this there was a strong desire to eat (after three-quarters of an hour); the pain in the stomach was very tormenting, and attended with pyrosis (next morning).

Pressure in the epigastric region (after three-quarters of an hour). Pressure in the stomach. Pressure and disagreeable sensation in the pit of the stomach, a kind of cardialgia, without loss of appetite. Frightful pressure in the stomach for four days after a dose. Pressure in the pit of the stomach.

Violent pressure in the stomach. Great irritability of stomach, toast-water, lemonade, and ice-water being ejected almost as soon as swallowed (second day). Very irritable stomach. Gangrene of the stomach, lungs, and liver, preceded by inflammation.

Cardialgia. Spasm of the diaphragm (pleurospasmus), associated with suffocative loss of speech and twitching of the muscles.

Painful sensation in the epigastric region. Violent pain in the epigastric and hypogastric region (first day). Pain and soreness in the stomach (seventh day). Pain in the stomach and bowels (sixth day). Pain in the pit of the stomach. Little pain or soreness in any part of the body except the stomach (eleventh day). Pain in the stomach. The pain in the stomach and water brash were most distressing (fourth day). Pains in the stomach and abdomen. Pain and cramp of the stomach. Attacks of violent cramps in the stomach. Cramp in the stomach. Gastric disturbance.

Spasmodic constriction of the stomach, with nausea and vomiting.

Painful constriction at the epigastrium (after one hour).

Uneasiness at stomach (after one hour). Warmth in the epigastric region (after one hour). Sensation of warmth and excitement in the epigastric region. Prickling in the stomach almost agreeable, relieved in the open air, recurring in a warm room. Sensation of burning in the internal organs.

Abdomen

Hypochondria. Tenderness in the right hypochondriac region (ninth day). Pain in liver, stomach, and bowels (tenth day). Torpidity of the liver (tenth day). General Abdomen. Abdomen tympanitic (first and fifth days). Meteorismus. Abdomen tense. Abdomen distended. Abdomen very soft. Abdomen hard, tense, painful to touch. Soreness, bloating, and rumbling of wind in the bowels (seventh day). Rumbling of wind in the bowels (fifth day).

Borborygmi (after two hours). Convulsive colic. Violent colic.

Colic; (after two hours). Griping pains accompanied stools.

Complained urgently of abdominal and epigastric pain. Severe paroxysms of abdominal pains, recurring every fifteen minutes, and lasting hardly sixty seconds (after one hour). Abdominal pain. Pain and soreness in the bowels (seventh day). Patient describes the pains in the bowels as if a hundred knives were drawn through the parts down to the womb, ovaries, urethra, and vulva (eighth day). Severe pain in abdomen, which was swollen, tense, and exquisitely tender. Pain in the abdomen and burning in the stomach. Painful contractions in the upper abdomen (after one hour). Spasmodic tension of the abdomen. Pressure as from much flatus in the abdomen. Pressure and drawing into the abdomen, relieved by slight stroking with the hand. A coarse stitch suddenly extending from the abdomen into the right testicle, while coughing. Paralysis of the intestines towards the last.

Sensation of remarkable coldness in the abdomen and back.

Sensation of coldness in the abdomen and back. Sensation of disagreeable coldness, horripilation of the abdomen, back, and limbs. Increased warmth in the abdomen, especially in the epigastric region. Hypogastrium. Pressure and dragging in the hypogastrium, as from flatus, extending into the scrotum, in the evening, two days in succession. Sudden circumscribed pain in the lower abdomen (after delivery). Pains in hypogastric region.

Occasional pain in hypogastric region. Burning pain in the lower abdomen.

Rectum

Paralysis of rectum (tenth day). Anus stood wide open. Stinging- cutting pains in the rectum; great irritability of the sphincter ani, with spasms (ninth day). Severe cutting pain in the rectum (tenth day). Pain and spasm in rectum (tenth day). Excruciating pain in hemorrhoidal veins (tenth day) Distressing itching in the anus. Frequent ineffectual efforts for stool. Urging to stool, with pressive pain in the abdomen, relieved after a normal evacuation, in the morning (second day). Ineffectual desire for stool.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.