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Secale Cornutum

30C / 200CSecale Cor

Ergot of Rye · "The Cold Skin Better Cold Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the unstriped muscular fibers, causing constriction, leading to coldness, numbness, and gangrenous conditions.

📖 Boericke writes:

(CLAVICEPS PURPUREA)

Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers; hence a constringent feeling throughout the whole body. This produces an anaemic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification, gangrene. A useful remedy for old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women. All the Secale conditions are better from cold; the whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat. Haemorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood. Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and abdominal muscles twitch. Secale decreases the flow of pancreatic juice by raising the blood pressure (Hinsdale).

👤 Constitution

•Thin, scrawny, elderly women or frail, cachectic individuals with shriveled skin.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive.

introduction

Eyes sunken and surrounded by a blue margin.

eyes

Pale, pinched, sunken.

face

Spasmodic distortion.

face

Tongue dry, cracked; blood like ink exudes, coated thick; viscid, yellowish, cold livid.

mouth

Tingling of tip of tongue, which is stiff.

mouth

Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids.

stomach

Olivegreen, thin, putrid, bloody, with icy coldness and intolerance of being covered, with great exhaustion.

stool

Brownish, offensive leucorrhoea.

female

Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next period.

female

Insomnia of drug and liquor habitudes.

sleep

Locomotor ataxia.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for congestive headaches and nosebleeds characterized by dark, oozing blood.

Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face.

Head drawn back.

Falling of hair; dry and gray.

Nosebleed, dark, oozing.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First to thirtieth

Decimal

📝Non-homeopathic use: In puerperal hemorrhages, one-half to one dram of fluid extract.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Opium →Camphora →

🔄 Compare With

Arsenicum Album →Brassica NapusAurum Metallicum →Ustilago Maydis →Colchicum Autumnale →Cinnamomum Ceylanicum →Ergotinum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Secale Cornutum is listed in 323 rubrics across 20 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 116 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System71 Locomotor System34 Nervous System32 Abdomen31 Skin28 Generalities19 Urinary System15 Mind12 Modalities11 Face10 Fever9 Tongue8 Stomach8 Circulatory System8 Respiratory System7 Head6 Eyes5 Nose3 Throat3 Mouth3

See all 323 rubrics for Secale Cornutum →