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Secale Cornutum

30C / 200CSecale Cor
Ergot of Rye · "The Cold Skin Better Cold Remedy"
sec.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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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 arebetter 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
First to thirtieth
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝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 Napus →Aurum Metallicum →Ergotinum →Ustilago Maydis →Colchicum Autumnale →Cinnamomum Ceylanicum →
📚 Sources & References

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