Secale cornutum – Medicine



Excessive sadness, gradually changes to cheerfulness, talks and acts foolishly, rage, followed by continuously deep sleep.

Paralytic mental diseases; treats his relations contemptuously and sarcastically; wandering talk and hallucinations; apathy and complete disappearance of the senses.

Laughs, claps her hands over her head, seems beside herself.

After miscarriage.

Memory failed. Forgot names of friends whom I met daily.

Confusion of mind. Unpleasant forebodings.

Anticipated misfortunes, as though about to lose something of great value.

Sensation of intoxication while undressing, to retire (third day and for several successive evenings).

During the entire proving I experienced an elevation of spirits, felt buoyant and exhilarated.

Sensorium

      Unconsciousness, with heavy sleep, preceded by tingling in head and limbs.

Diminution and loss of senses, sight, hearing etc., All the senses benumbed.

Consciousness seems to continue until the last breath, and just before death it seems as if patient would improve.

Stupefaction; stupor.

Vertigo: constantly increasing; with stupefaction and heaviness of head, reeling, inability to stand erect, peculiar feeling of lightness of head, particularly in occiput, as from intoxication, unsteady gait.

Heaviness of head and tingling in legs.

Sensation of intoxication while undressing.

Inner Head

      Pulsations in head with giddiness, she cannot walk.

Pain and confusion most in occiput.

Congestion to head and chest.

Headache; hemicrania on left side.

Vertigo during entire last menstrual period, inclination to fall forwards.

Head heavy. Sharp stinging pain running upwards through the left eye into forehead and left side of head; coming in paroxysms.

A dull heavy, at times pressing headache, most severe on right side, aggravated in warm room, but not ameliorated in open air.

Dull pain on each side of the head, above and before the ears, worse in warm room. At times it was throbbing, and continued with more or less severity for three weeks after leaving off the drug.

It was semi-lateral at times, and seemed to prefer the right side and forehead.

Feels oppressed; stupid, heavy, aches every night, would waken me at night, ameliorated by eating breakfast and exercise.

Could not sleep on account of the fearful oppressive headache, extending from occiput up over head to the eyes.

Severe pain in occiput, forehead, temples, back of eyes aggravated by pressure on nape of neck.

Headache aggravated in open air, and first entering warm room, as after riding in cold north wind in winter, when entering warm room the head aches so fearfully.

More or less, a dull headache during the entire proving, especially in the forehead and eyes.

Head full, throbbing, bursting, like a Glonoine headache, though not so sore on shaking the head.

Continuous, supra-orbital headache (developed after proving the remedy a week.) Pain from forehead to the eyes; burning sensation in the eyes, no inflammation; pain shoots through the eyeball backward.

Outer Head

      Hair falls out.

Twisting of head to and fro.

Scalp sore.

Scalp sore; so painful, cannot bear to move the hair.

Felt as though the hair had been parted in a new place, or pressed by hair pin.

Hair looked at roots as though bulbs were enlarged.

Scalp slightly pink in irregular spots; pimples appeared over scalp; small, very sore to touch, with slight burning sensation.

Eyes

      Photophobia.

Dimness of vision; mistiness before eyes. Cataract.

Double or triple vision.

Blue and fiery dots flying before eyes.

Pain in eyes with feeling as if they were spasmodically rotated.

Stitching pain in eyes; pressure on balls.

After an epidemic of the rye disease an unusually large number of cataracts occurred in young people, twenty-three of whom gradually became blind (fifteen men and eight women), associated with headache, vertigo and roaring in ears; of the cataracts two were hard, twelve soft, and nine mixed.

Cataracta senilis.

Suppuration of cornea; agg. from warm application.

Retinitis diabetica.

Dilation of pupils.

Suppressed secretion of tears.

Injection of conjunctiva.

Eyes sunken, surrounded by a blue margin.

Paralysis of the upper lids, from coal gas.

Immovable state of eyelids after facial erysipelas.

Eyes look fixed, wild, glazed; staring look.

Pustulous conjunctivitis and blepharitis.

Exophthalmos with struma.

Exophthalmic goitre.

Ears

      Undue sensitiveness of hearing, even slightest sound re-echoed in her head and made her shudder.

Confused hearing; deafness. After chorea.

Singing in ears and difficult hearing.

Humming and roaring in ears, with occasional deafness.

Nose

      Sneezing.

Nose feels stopped up, yet watery discharge runs from it.

Nose stopped up on left side as with a solid plug.

Nosebleed: blood dark, runs continuously, with great prostration, small, threadlike pulse, in old people or drunkards; of young women; from debility.

Passive morning epistaxis from left side, bright red.

Morning nose-bleed, something very unusual; left side only, passive, but bright red.

Nose stopped up on left side as with a solid plug, but not much discharge.

Nose sore to touch externally and internally.

Nose-bleed not very profuse, recurring for several successive days.

Bleeding at the nose on every attempt to wipe it.

Face

      Face: pinched, pale, earthy-looking; sunken, hippocratic, ashy; swollen; contracted, discolored, with sunken eyes blue rings around eyes; risus sardonicus; distorted; wan, anxious.

Tingling in face.

Muscular twitchings usually commence in face and then spread all over body, sometimes increasing to dancing and jumping.

Spasmodic distortion of mouth and lips.

Forehead hot.

Lockjaw.

Lips deathly pale or bluish.

Oppressed, full of blood during fever.

Face and neck feel hot, as if full of blood and ready to burst.

Mouth

      Bloody or yellowish green foam at mouth.

Increased secretion of saliva; ptyalism.

Much acid fluid in mouth.

Spitting of blood.

Fetid breath.

Speech difficult, slow and weak with a feeling at every motion as if there was some resistance to be overcome.

Dryness of mouth.

Dry, but seldom thirsty. Burning dry sensation, not relieved by drinking. Brackish taste.

Stammers unintelligible words between teeth; speech difficult and stammering; speech slow and weak, with a feeling on every motion as if there were always some resistance to be overcome.

Throat

      Dryness of soft palate, throat an esophagus, with thirst.

Burning in throat with violent thirst.

Painful tingling in throat and on tongue.

Throat sore on left side running up into ear.

Follicular pharyngitis; hawking up of little follicular exudates.

Diphtheria: loss of strength; rapid loss of sensibility; numbness of extremities; painful tingling and crawling on tongue; dry gangrene; apathy; dilated pupils; burning pains of affected parts; stammering speech; absence of all reaction.

Severely paralyzed both in swallowing and in speaking; could scarcely take food without great danger of choking; speech reduced to a whisper; could not bear heat or covering and would throw all covering off. Post-diphtheritic paralysis.

Soreness with dryness and sensation of constriction, better by swallowing; symptoms worse mornings.

Rawness, dryness and constriction of throat, without any pain.

Throat sore on left side running up into ear.

Throat on right side red, sore, with a feeling as if it were constructed of tense and hard fibres, very slightly hoarse.

Later throat felt constricted, chiefly on right side; right side and back of throat inflamed, red and “stiff” some pain on swallowing. (I am not inclined to right sided sore throat, almost all my attacks of the kind being confined to the left side.).

Stomach

      Tenderness of epigastrium.

Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach, with great sensitiveness to touch.

Severe anxiety and burning at pit of stomach.

Pain in pit of stomach.

Violent pressure in stomach, as from a heavy weight.

Warmth and feeling or repletion.

Burning in stomach.

Painful constriction of epigastrium.

Great distress and oppression of stomach.

Bilious vomiting, with cramping pains in stomach, burning in stomach extending up esophagus; head sunk upon breast, face pale, yellowish, voice weak, pulse small. Cardialgia.

Attacks of severe pressure and constriction in region of stomach extending through to spine, extremely painful and followed in half an hour by vomiting of tasteless fluid or of contents of stomach, thereupon an intermission of several hours occurred; during attack region of stomach felt as if contracted, and on percussion gave a tympanitic note, has three to four attacks daily.

Hemorrhage from stomach; lies still with great weakness but no pain; face, lips, tongue and hands deadly pale, skin covered with cold sweat, pulse frequent, threadlike; oppression; abdomen soft, without pain. Hematemesis.

Hematemesis; attacks preceded by pains in epigastrium and nausea, pain going to left side when pressure is made in epigastrium, marked protrusion in left hypochondrium, with pain, blood red, never containing particles of food, and when collected in basin appears more like bloody serum than pure blood and is of offensive odor, quantity vomited not very large; frequent chilliness at night, followed by profuse sweat; strength not much impaired; appetite and sleep good.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.