# Secale Cornutum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Hot
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Source: Derived from the sclerotium of Claviceps purpurea, a fungus that grows on rye and other. grains, commonly known as ergot, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and serial. dilution  to  enhance  therapeutic  action  while  eliminating  material  toxicity,  in  accordance  with. homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional  Context:  Historically  employed  in  homeopathy  for  gynecological,  vascular,. neurological,  and  psychological  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  uterine  hemorrhage,. circulatory issues, and burning pains. It is noted for symptoms such as profuse bleeding, coldness,. and aggravation from heat, often worsened by warmth, motion, or touch, and ameliorated by cold,. rest, or uncovering. Modern  Context:  Indicated  for  gynecological  conditions (e.g.,  postpartum  hemorrhage,. menorrhagia),  vascular  conditions (e.g.,  peripheral  artery  disease,  Raynaud’s  phenomenon),. neurological conditions (e.g., neuralgia, paresthesia), and psychological conditions (e.g., anxiety,. delirium).  It  suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  profuse  uterine. bleeding, cold extremities, burning pains, restlessness, or heat sensitivity, typically exacerbated. by  warmth,  motion,  touch,  or  stress,  and  often  seen  in  individuals  with  debilitated,  sensitive. constitutions.  The  remedy  is  particularly  relevant  for  those  with  gynecological  or  vascular. conditions, often presenting with symptoms like heavy menstrual flow or gangrenous tendencies,. commonly observed in patients with postpartum hemorrhage, peripheral artery disease, or neuralgia. triggered by warmth, exertion, or emotional stress.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Warmth (weather, rooms, coverings), motion, touch, pressure, night, lying. down, stress, exhaustion, confinement, rich foods, emotional stress.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Mania fear or depressed by fear.
- Anxiety with fear of death, restlessness and difficult breathing.
- Fear 
of death before men ses.
- Suspicious.
- Unconsciousness during pregnancy or childbirth.
- Unconsciousness, 
with heavy sleep.
- Excessive sadness, gradually changes to cheerfulness.
- Seems besides herself after miscarriage.
- Forgetful 
after sex.
- Weakness of mind after spasms or exhausting sex.
- Indiffer ence to exposure of person.
- Impotence.
- Nymphomania during menses.
- Grasping at genitals during spasms.
- Puerperal mania, exposes the body, tears at the genitals, inserts her finger into the vagina and scratches until 
it bleeds, all ideas of modesty lost.
- Sar donic laughing.
- Madness, inclination to bite or drown himself.
- Laughs, 
claps her hand over head, seems besides herself.
- Delirium, abandons her relatives.
- Mock ing at his relatives.
- Treats his relations contemptuously and 
sarcastically.
- Wants to fight.
- Rage, followed by continuous deep sleep.
- Wandering talk and hallucinations.
- Raving delirium.
- Delusion that two sick people were in bed, one of whom 
got well and the other did not.
- Foolish behavior during spasms.
- Impulse to jump into river.
- Mania fear or depressed by fear.
- Anxiety with fear of death, restlessness and difficult breathing.
- Fear 
of death before men ses.
- Suspicious.
- Unconsciousness during pregnancy or childbirth.
- Unconsciousness, 
with heavy sleep.
- Excessive sadness, gradually changes to cheerfulness.
- Seems besides herself after miscarriage.
- Forgetful 
after sex.
- Weakness of mind after spasms or exhausting sex.
- Indiffer ence to exposure of person.
- Impotence.
- Nymphomania during menses.
- Grasping at genitals during spasms.
- Puerperal mania, exposes the body, tears at the genitals, inserts her finger into the vagina and scratches until 
it bleeds, all ideas of modesty lost.
- Sar donic laughing.
- Madness, inclination to bite or drown himself.
- Laughs, 
claps her hand over head, seems besides herself.
- Delirium, abandons her relatives.
- Mock ing at his relatives.
- Treats his relations contemptuously and 
sarcastically.
- Wants to fight.
- Rage, followed by continuous deep sleep.
- Wandering talk and hallucinations.
- Raving delirium.
- Delusion that two sick people were in bed, one of whom 
got well and the other did not.
- Foolish behavior during spasms.
- Impulse to jump into river.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with stupefaction and heaviness of head.
- Reeling, inability to stand erect.
- Vertigo as from 
intoxication.
- Vertigo on slightest motion.
- Vertigo while sitting.
- COMMENTS - Convulsive nervous symptoms.
- The body is at times rigid, at times alternating  with relaxation.
- This is especially seen in the hands, which are either clenched or have the fingers spread widely apart (a 
keynote symptom).
- The muscles of the face and abdomen twitch.
- Spasmodic twitchings of muscles in various parts (especially 
spreading of fingers), eyes sunk, features pinched, shriveled, dry, as though no moisture were left in the body.
- Anesthesia.
- Cold to the touch, but cannot bear to be covered.
- Characteristic burning sensations, burning in all parts of the 
body as if sparks were falling on the patient.
- Worse from warmth and external heat.
- Characteristic numbness, 
tingling as if ants were crawling all over, better from rubbing.
- Contraction and then dilatation of blood vessels.
- Vascular headaches, constriction.
- Migraines.
- The fingers turn 
bluish black.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis, persistent offensive bleeding.
- Hemorrhages with tingling.
- Small wounds bleed persistently.
- Purpura.
- Hollow viscera and violent palpitations.
- Dry gangrene.
- Threatened 
amputation.
- Gangrene aggravated by heat, affecte d part feels cold.
- Shriveled, dry skin.
- Harsh and sallow 
complexion.
- Small and painful boils with green contents, mature very slowly, heal slowly and are very 
weakening.
- Exophthalmic goiter.
- Spasmodic retching, the stomach is violently contracted.
- Inconti nence or re tention of urine.
- Involuntary 
diarrhea with wide-open anus.
- In cholera where the patient is cold, almost pulseless.
- Exhausting and offensive 
discharges.
- Loss of fluids, debility.
- Threatened miscarriage, especially at the third month.
- Tendency to miscarriage.
- Prolonged, forcing pains, 
bearing-down, bearing down forwards (Sep.
- is bearing down downward).
- Irregular, too weak, feeble  
or ceasing labor pains (Puls., Caul.).
- Everything seems loose and open, but no expulsive action.
- Used to hasten and promote delivery.
- Fainting.
- Hourglass contraction of the uterus.
- Too long, excessive after -pains.
- Postpartum hemorrhage of dark, oozing 
blood.
- Retained placenta.
- Suppression or non-appearance of the milk.
- Menses are irregular, copious, dark, fluid, accompa nied by labor -like pains in abdo men.
- There may be a 
continuous watery discharge of blood during the whole time between the periods.
- Teste recorded the case of a woman, 50, fat, very soft flesh, who had flooding which nothing could stop.
- After 
several usel ess attempts, Teste gave large doses of Sec.
- with scarcely any effect.
- The patient asked for 
infinitesimal doses.
- At that time.
- Teste had no faith at all in infintesimals, but he yielded to the patient ’ s request 
and gave one drop of the 6c.
- Then the bleeding ceased immediately and permanently.

### Head
- Passive, congestive headache, rises from back of head.
- Twisting of head to and fro.
- Head drawn back.
- Feels light or heavy, with tingling in legs.
- Falling of hair.
- Hair is dry and gray.
- Passive, congestive headache, rises from back of head.
- Twisting of head to and fro.
- Head drawn back.
- Feels light or heavy, with tingling in legs.
- Falling of hair.
- Hair is dry and gray.

### Eyes
- Dilated pupils, distortion and strabis mus.
- Incipient cataract, senile, especially in women.
- Pustulous 
conjunctivitis.
- Suppuration of cornea.
- Diabetic retinitis.
- Ptosis.
- Catarrh.
- Suppressed tears.
- Sparks before the 
eyes.
- Double or triple vision.
- Blindness.
- Eyes sunken and surrounded by blue rings.
- Paralysis of upper lid 
from coal gas.

### Ears
- Great difficulty in hearing, with roar ing, humming in ears.
- Confused hearing or lost, after chorea.
- Sensitiveness of hearing, so that even the slightest sound re-echoed in her head.

### Face
- Spasmodic distortion, or sunken.
- Pale, pinched.
- Wild look.
- Livid spots on face.
- Tingling, twitching, 
or cramps in face, which spread over the body.
- Lockjaw.

### Mouth
- Salivation, with fetid breath.
- Much acid fluid in mouth.
- Spitting of blood.
- Bloody or yellowish green 
foam at mouth.
- Dryness of mouth.
- Stuttering, indistinct speech.
- Speech difficult, slow and we ak.
- Nose - Nosebleed, oozing, dark blood, with great prostration in old people, alcoholics or young women.

### Throat
- Painful tingling, burning.
- Post diphtheria paralysis.
- Feeble voice inaudible, stammering.
- Voice hoarse 
and hollow.
- Painless aphonia in morning, as the day goes on he gets hoarse.
- Tongue - Tongue dry, cracked, blood like ink exudes.
- Tongue coated thick, viscid, yellowish.
- Cold, livid.
- Tingling of tip of tongue, which is stiff.
- Tongue swollen, feels paralyzed.
- Stuttering as if tongue were 
paralyzed.
- Tongue clean, with dry, red tip.

### Chest
- Dyspnea and oppression with cramp in diaphragm.
- Boring pain in chest.
- Angina pecto ris.
- Pains 
through chest, on pressing spine.
- Burning in lungs.
- Constitutions - Hemorrhagic diathesis.
- Suited to irritable, plethoric subjects or to thin, scrawny, feeble 
emaciated women.
- To very old, decrepit persons.
- Women of very lax muscular tissue, everything seems loose 
and open, no action, flabby vessels.
- Precordial tenderness.
- Palpita tions with contracted and intermittent pulse.
- Palpitations after sexual 
excess in males.
- Kidneys - Paralysis of bladder.
- Retention with unsucc essful urging.
- Suppressed urine, pale, watery.
- Bloody 
urine, white, cheesy deposit.
- Discharge of black blood from bladder.
- Bedwetting in the elderly.
- Heavy, anxious, obstructed breath ing with moaning, sighs, sobs.
- Spitting of blood, with or without 
cough.
- Expectoration of blood during violent efforts to breathe.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Burning in stomach and abdomen.
- Tympanites.
- Hiccough.
- Belchingsof bad odor.
- Empty retchings.
- Nausea, easy vomiting of blood and coffee-grounds fluid.
- Hematemesis.
- Temperature - Coldness.
- Cold, dry skin, clammy sweat, excessive thirst.
- Internal burning with icy coldness 
externally, yet averse to being covered,  worse abdomen.
- Heat as of sparks.
- Puerpera l fever.
- Erysip elas.
- Cold or foul sweat destroys shoes.
- Excessively inflated and tight, wants uncovered.
- Empty feeling in hy- pogastrium or bearing down, 
must lie doubled up in bed.
- Twitching of abdominal muscles.
- Formation of large lumps and swelling in 
abdomen.
- Unquenchable thirst.
- Thirst with dry mouth or burning.
- Unnatural, ravenous appetite.
- Craves acids 
and sour things.
- Averse to fat and meat.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menstrual colic with coldness and intolerance of heat.
- Menses irregular, copious, dark, continuous 
 
 
oozing of watery blood  until next period.
- Passive hemorrhages  in feeble, cachetic women.
- Brownish 
offensive leucorrhea.
- Burning pains in uterus.
- Threatened miscarriage about the third month (Sabin.).
- Never well since miscarriage or abortion.
- Dur ing labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed.
- Bearing down pain with coldness.
- Puerperal fever and putrid discharges.
- Contracted uterus, hourglass labo r 
contractions.
- Septic placenta.
- Severe after-pains.
- Dark offensive, green lochia.
- Prolapsed uterus after forceps 
delivery.
- Tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine.
- Vagina hot or cool.
- Weak uterus.
- Metritis.
- Gangrene of 
female organs.

### Extremities
- Paralysis with distorted limbs, of lower limbs, of one side of one arm or one leg, with tingling, numbness 
and prick ling.
- Paralysis after spasms.
- Paraplegia.
- Locomotor ataxia.
- Formication, pain and spasmodic 
movements.
- Violent cramps, in hands, legs, feet and cramps.
- Icy coldness of limbs.
- Numbness.
- Fingers 
and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent backwards.
- Cold, dry hands and feet in heavy smokers, with 
feeling of fuzziness in the fingers.
- Varicose ulcers, foul indolent.
- Trembling, staggering or shuffling gait, as if 
feet were dragged along.
- Violent pain in fingertips, tingling in toes.
- Toes drawn up.

### Neck & Back
- Spinal irritation, tingling of lower limbs, can be ar only slightest covering.
- Tingling in back, extending to 
fingers and toes.
- Formication and numbness.
- Locomotor ataxia.
- Myelitis.
- Pressure on affected portion causes 
pain there as well as through the chest.
- Breasts - Suppression of milk with stinging in breasts.
- Breasts do not fill with milk properly.
- Causations - Abortion, miscarriage, childbirth.
- Hemorrhages, wounds.
- Suppressions of tears, lochia, milk, or 
sweat.

### Skin
- Shriveledskin, numb, mottled, dusky- blue tinge.
- Skin cold,dry, wrinkled or blu ish, worse over affected 
part.
- Raynaud’s disease.
- Edema neonatorum.
- Twitchings or quivering in the skin.
- Formication under skin.
- Burning sensation,  better by cold, wants parts uncovered,  though cold to touch.
- Aversion to heat.
- Petechiae.
- Dry gangrene, developing slowly.
- Slight wounds continue to bleed.
- Bloody blis ters.
- Livid spots.
- Boils with green pus, matures slowly.

### Sleep
- Deep, lethargic, profound and long sleep.
- Insomnia with restlessness, fever, anxious dreams.
- Insomnia of drug and liquor habits.

### Generalities
- As if intoxicated while undressing.
- As of a solid plug in nose.
- Uterus as if burnt.
- As if contents of 
uterus would fall forward.
- As if soft air were creeping through back.
- As if sacrum would be forced out.
- As if 
something alive creeping under skin.
- As if limbs had been a long time in hot water.
- As if sparks of fire falling 
on different parts.
- As if mice creeping under skin.
- Fuzzy feeling in limbs.