COMMON NAME:
ERGOT.
Symptoms
Particularly useful in tall, scrawny women of lax muscular fibre, feeble, cachectic, or very old decrepit persons (N.).
Varicose ulcers wonderfully cured by the action of the medicine.
Spasmodic tension in the limbs, relieved by violent stretching of them.
Burning in all parts as from sparks falling on them (Arsenicum).
Convulsive twitching of the limbs mostly at night (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Phosphorus).
Limbs feel as if beaten (Arnica, Baptisia).
Drawing and tearing in the limbs with tingling (Aconite, Belladonna, Carbo vegetabilis, Cuprum, Graphites, Lycopodium, Rhus toxicodendron).
Numbness of the limbs (Agaricus, Arg-M., Argentum nitricum, Carbon sulph., Carbo vegetabilis, Cocc., Gelsemium, Graphites, Guai., Lycopodium, Nux-M., Opium, Ox-Ac., Rhus toxicodendron).
Great debility (Arsenicum, China, Kali-P.).
Spasms after fright (Aconite, Argentum nitricum, Bufo., Calcarea, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Indg., Kali-Br., Lyss., Opium, Platina, Stramonium, Sulphur, Veratrum, Zincum met.).
Senile, dry gangrene, aggravated by external heat (A.).
Anaemic conditions (China, Ferrum, Graphites, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla) (D.).
GANGRENE (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Kali-P., Lachesis).
Petechiae (Arnica, Baptisia, Hamamelis) (D.).
Skin shrivelled, dry and brittle. Formication, black suppurating blisters, petechiae; feels better from cold applications (D.).
Sensation of something creeping under skin (Aconite, Phosphorus) (N.).
Heat applied to any part of the body aggravates his pains; extreme aversion to being covered (N.).
GREAT OBJECTIVE COLDNESS, BUT GREATLY AGGRAVATED BY COVERING (Carbo vegetabilis) (N.).
Passive haemorrhage; everything open and loose; no action; in thin, scrawny, cachectic, women (N.).
Complaints of an empty feeling in the abdomen (Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur) (D.).
Cold, dry and livid tongue (Carbo vegetabilis) (Ra.).
HICCOUGH (Cicuta, Cyclamen, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Iodium) (K.).
Disgust for food, meat and fats (A.).
Craves lemonade (Bell, Calcarea, Cyclamen, Eup-Pur., Jatropa, Acid nitricum, Pulsatilla, Sabina, Sulph-I) and acids (Ant-T., Arsenicum, Bryonia, Calcarea, Ferr- P., Hepar) (A.).
UNNATURAL RAVENOUS APPETITE; EVEN WITH EXHAUSTING DIARRHOEA HE IS HUNGRY (Aloe, Iodium, Petroleum, Sulphur, Veratrum) (A.).
Anus wide open with diarrhoea (Apis, Phosphorus)
Profuse watery, putrid, brown stools, discharged with great force (Gambogia, Gratiola) (A.).
Putrid, foetid, and colliquative diarrhoea (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Carbo vegetabilis, Kali-P., Lachesis) (G.).
Involuntary diarrhoea (Aloe, Kali-P., Nat-S., Podophyllum, Sulphur) (Bt.).
Asiatic cholera (Aconite, Arsenicum, Bism., Camph., Cantharis, Carbo vegetabilis, Cicuta, Cuprum, Ipecac., Kali-P., Lachesis, Phosphorus, Podophyllum, Sulphur, Terebintha, Veratrum).
Retching and vomiting of undigested food, body wasted and cold, cramps, tingling in the limbs, face sunken, mouth distorted; profuse painless discharge from the bowels, ejected with violence; cold clammy sweat (D.).
Cholera infantum; great debility; vomiting and diarrhoea; must thirst; ale face;l sunken eyes; dry heat; quick pulse; restless and sleepless, don’t want to be covered (N.).
Suppression of urine (Apis., Belladonna, Cantharis, Merc-C., Stramonium Terebintha) (Ra.).
Enuresis of old people (Lycopodium, Opium, Sepia) (A.).
Quiet delirium, or grows wild with great anxiety, and a constant desire to get out of bed (Hyoscyamus, Stramonium) (G.).
Laboured and anxious respiration (Ant-T., Arsenicum, Kali-P., Lachesis, Naja) (G.).
Paralysis of the limbs, with convulsive jerks and shocks in the paralyzed limbs (Hm.).
Moles, polypi, and morbid growths in the uterus, with prolonged forcing pains (Bt.).
Prolapsus uteri (Natrum muriaticum, Nux-v., Pulsatilla, Sepia) (Bt.).
EXCESSIVE MENSTRUATION (Calcarea, China, Ferrum, Lachesis, Phosphorus, Sabina, Sepia) (Bt.).
Green, brown and offensive leucorrhoea (Acid nitricum) (A.).
Leucorrhoea jelly-like, alternating with metrorrhagia (Bt.).
After-pains too long and too painful, with hour-glass contraction (A.).
Threatened abortion, especially at the third month (Apis., Cimic., Croc., Eup-Pur, Mercurius, Sabin., Thuja, Ustilago) (A.).
Continuous discharge of watery blood until the next menstrual period (A.).
IS INDICATED IN LABOUR WHEN THE PAINS ARE PROLONGED, CONTINUED AND INEFFECTUAL, OR ENTIRELY WANTING (D.).
LABOUR-PAINS ARE WEAK, SUPPRESSED, OR DISTRESSING IN WEAK, CACHECTIC WOMEN (N.).
Uterine haemorrhage; passive painless flow of dark liquid blood; the patient is wrinkled and scrawny, is often unconscious and cold; haemorrhages preceded by formication and tingling (D.).
Copious flow of black liquid blood worse, m from the slightest movement, with convulsive motions (abortion) (N.).
Haemorrhage, with spasmodic contractions; every discharge of blood is preceded by a violent, painful contraction of the ulcers, or by distressing bearing down pains (G.).
METRORRHAGIA (Belladonna, Calcarea, China, Croc., Crotalus horridus, Ferrum, Hamamelis, Ipecac., Kali-Ferrum, Lachesis, Millefolium, Murx., Acid nitricum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Platina, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Rat., Sabina, Tril., Ustilago).
Metritis; great prostration, extremities cold; frequent vomiting; the blood discharged from the uterus is fluid, mingled with dark, badly-smelling coagula (Bt.).
Lochia very offensive and thin; discharge scanty or profuse; may be painless, or accompanied by prolonged bearing down pains (G.).
Failure of lactation (Agn., Calcarea, Causticum, Dulcamara, Ignatia, Lac-C., Lac-D., Pulsatilla, Urt-U.) (G.).
Puerperal convulsions in scrawny, ill-nourished women, with too feeble labour-pains (Bt.).
INSUFFICIENT LABOUR-PAINS (Caulophyllum, Pulsatilla).
Risus sardonicus (Phytolacca) (C.).
Boils small, painful, with green contents; mature very slowly and heal in the same manner (Mercurius) (A.).
HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS; THE SLIGHTEST WOUND CAUSES BLEEDING FOR WEEKS (Lachesis, Phosphorus) (A.).
Discharge of sanious, liquid blood, with a strong tendency to putrescence (A.).
WANTS ABDOMEN TO BE UNCOVERED (Tabacum) (B.).
Burning in the stomach and abdomen (Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Br.).
Locomotor ataxia; trembling staggering gait (Alumina, Nux vomica, Zincum met.) (Br.).
Roaring in the ears, with great difficulty in hearing (Calcarea, Mercurius, Acid phosphoricum., Sulphur) (C.).
Violent, shaking chill followed by violent heat with anxiety, delirium and almost unquenchable thirst. Intense icy coldness of the skin, particularly of the face and extremities. Cold limbs cold skin, with shivering (A.).
Severe, long-lasting dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst (Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum, Rhus toxicodendron) (A.).
Cold, clammy sweat over the whole body (A.).
Pulse small, rapid, contracted, and often intermittent (A.).
Congestive headache, the pain extending from the back of the neck and occiput all over the head (Silicea) (Bl.).
CRAMPS IN HANDS, LEGS AND FEET (Cuprum, Veratrum) (B.).
FINGERS SPREAD APART (reverse of Cuprum) (B.).
AGGRAVATION :
From warm covering; from hot application; from drawing up the limbs; during pregnancy; during menses; and from loss of fluids.
AMELIORATION:
From uncovering; from rubbing; in the old air; from stretching out the limbs; after vomiting; from cold; and from bathing.
RELATIONSHIP:
Remedies Arsenicum, Carbo vegetabilis, Colchicum, Kali-P., Phosphorus, Sulphur, and Veratrum in cholera morbus, and Cholera Asiatica.
Similar to: Arsenicum, but cold and heat are opposite.
Compare : Cinnamon. in post-partum haemorrhage; it increase labour-pains, controls profuse or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Ergot is not infrequently dangerous.
ANTIDOTES: Camph. Opium and Sol-N.
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)