Here is a list of additions for Secale cornutum. This information was presented by Dr. Alfons Geukens at the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH) conference in Chicago, IL, June 28-July 1. In the interest of quickly distributing this information to as many practitioners as possible WholeHealthNow is creating this access.

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Secale cornutum
CHARACTERISTICS

  • Produces tonic contractions of the involuntary muscle fibers
    arterioles are violently and persistently contracted causing dry coldness of the surface
    going to gangrene.
    peristaltic muscles of the bowels
    Uterus
     

  • Formications, numbness, tingling, twitching, spasms, trembling, paralyses.

Externally, icy cold, yet burning hot internally.
Objects to being covered

IMPORTANT rubrics. additions and keynotes
(additions from H.C. Allen’s The Materia Medica of Some Important Nosodes unless, gk (Alfons Geukens), br (Boericke), hr (Hering)

RUBRIC:
 
HEAD
  • Pain
  • warm room
 - agg. (Add Secale)
- going to a warm room, from cold air (Add Secale)
   
  • occiput, extending to, eyes (Add Secale)
  • forehead, eye, above (Add Secale)
  • Hair
  • painful, touched; when (Add Secale)
     
VISION
  • Triplopia!!
     
EYE
  • Pain
  • NEW RUBRIC: rotated; as if (Secale)
     
HEARING
  • Impaired
  • accomp. by, noise (Add Secale)
     
NOSE
  • Epistaxis
  • old people!! KEYNOTE
  • NEW RUBRIC: drunkards; in (Secale)
  • profuse (Add Secale)
  • NEW RUBRIC: wiping nose (Secale)
  • Pain
  • sore, touch (Add Secale)
     
FACE
  • Hippocratic+++
  • Risus sardonicus+++ spasm facial muscles
  • Twitching NEW RUBRIC: spreading all over body (Add Secale)
  • Discoloration, pale lips!
     
MOUTH
  • Spasms, tongue (Add Secale)
  • Discoloration
  • brown-yellowish NEW RUBRIC: middle through, sides clean (Add Secale)
     
THROAT
  • Dryness, Esophagus (Add Secale
  • Pain, sore, left, ext. to ear KEYNOTE
  • Inflammation, follicular
  • Paralysis, post diphtheric
     
STOMACH
  • Appetite, ravenous; diarrhea; with (Add Secale)
  • Vomiting, type of
  • coffee grounds; like (Add Secale)
  • worms
  • Pain
  • touch (Add Secale)
  • burning, ext. to, esophagus (Add Secale)
  • Constriction, ext. to, spine (Add Secale)
  • Eructation, burnt NEW RUBRIC: horn (Secale)
  • Coldness NEW RUBRIC: warm drinks agg. (Add Secale)
     
ABDOMEN
  • Gangrene, liver!
  • Covering, agg. KEYNOTE!!
  • NEW RUBRIC: thrombosis, abdominal vessels (Secale)
  • Pain
  • bending double, must (Add Secale)
  • ext. to sides (Add Secale)
  • NEW RUBRIC: sacral region (Secale)
  • Pulsation
  • umbilicus (umbilical region) (Add Secale)
  • Aneurysm
     
GENERALS
  • Food
  • fat, aversion
  • sour, desire
  • lemonade, desire
  • fright, from
  • Convulsions
  • colic; during (Add Secale)
  • from fright
  • delivery - after (Add Secale)
  • Weakness
  • diarrhea, from
  • stool, after
  • Anemia, menorrhagia; from (Add Secale)
     
  • Development, arrested NEW RUBRIC: foetus
  • Heat, sens. of
  • Chorea, menses NEW RUBRIC: irregular; with (Secale)
  • Paralysis
  • one side - apoplexy; after
  • convulsions; after
  • Emaciation
  • affected parts; of
  • single parts
  • Fanned
  • desire to be
  • being fanned amel.
  • Covers agg.
  • Uncovering
  • Arteriosclerosis+++
     
STOOL
  • Forcible
     
RECTUM
  • Flatus, stool, during
  • Paralysis
  • Urging, colic, during (Add Secale)
  • Urging
  • constant (Add Secale)
  • Diarrhea
  • weather, warm
  • Cholera
  • infantum
  • morbus cholera
  • Open anus
  • Fullness (Add Secale)
     
EXTREMITIES
  • Cramps
  • leg calfs+++
  • cholera; in (Add Secale)
  • colic; with (Add Secale)
  • diarrhea; with (Add Secale)
  • night (Add Secale (gk))
  • bed; in (Add Secale (gk))
  • foot, cholera; in
  • Coldness
  • diarrhea; with
  • warm bed, unendurable; yet KEYNOTE
  • hands
  • smokers; in !!!
  • night (Add Secale)
  • Heat
  • foot
  • burning+++
    * uncovers; them (Add Secale (gk))
  • cold, touch, but cold to (Add Secale (br))
  • hands (Add Secale)
  • NEW RUBRIC: burning (Secale)
  • Gangrene+±+
  • diabetic (Add Secale)
  • foot
 - burning; tearing, pain; with
- cold
  • toes, senile
  • Tingling
  • fingers
 - third (Add Secale)
- fourth (Add Secale)
  • Jerking
  • paralyzed parts
  • Paralysis
  • lower limbs - painless
  • Walking
  • gressus vaccinus
  • Numbness
  • warmth agg. ++
  • Contraction
  • fingers, spasmodic
  • hysterical
  • periodic
  • joints
  • Abducted, fingers; spasmodically KEYNOTE
  • Sensitive
  • cold to
 - fingers+++
  • fingers
  • Pain
  • burning -foot, sole, cold to touch (Add Secale (gk))
  • cold applications amel. KEYNOTE
  • Formication+++
  • hands+++
  • fingers (Add Secale (gk))
  • lower limbs+++
  • Wooden sensation
  • lower limbs (Add Sec (hr))
  • Emaciation, paralyzed limb
  • Perspiration
  • foot
 - excoriating
- destroys shoes! (Add Sec (hr))
 
FEMALE
  • Cancer
  • Prolapsus
  • uterus
  • Metorrhagia
  • active
  • black
  • continuous
  • dark blood
  • delivery
  
- liquid
-slow; but
- clots; with
- during
- after
  • fibroids; from
  • fluid
  • gushing
  • injuries; from
  • menopause; during
  • offensive
  • painless
  • perspiration; with cold
  • nursing the child; when (Add Secale)
  • Abortion+++
  • month
     
  • tendency to
 - second
- third
- flabby women
  • Weakness; from
  • Placenta
  • retained
 - abortion; after
  • Pain
  • labor pains
 - ceasing  *convulsions come on; and
- weak
  • Contractions
  • uterus, hourglass
     
EXPECTORATION
  • Bloody+++
  • uncoagulated
  • viscid
     
  • bright-red
CHEST
  • Emphysema (Add Secale)
  • Inflammation, bronchial tube (Add Secale)
     
EXTERNAL
THROAT
 
  • Pulsation, carotids (Add Secale
BACK
  • Formication, ext. to fingers and toes
  • Pain Stitching, dorsal region, scapulae, between, ext. to NEW RUBRIC: hands (Add Secale)
  • Inflammation, spinal cord (Myelitis)
  • Coldness, spine
     
VERTIGO
  • Accompanied by, staggering
     
SLEEP
  • Disturbed
  • dreams by - frightful (Add Secale)
  • nightmare; by (Add Secale)
     
SKIN
  • Ulcers, cold air, amel. (Add Secale)
  • Coldness
  • icy+++
  • uncover, must
  • NEW RUBRIC: shivering, with
  • Eruptions
  • Purpura
  • petechiae
  • hemorrhagica
  • senilis+++!
     
CHILL
  • Icy coldness of the body
  • covered with clammy sweat and blueness; cannot bear to be+++
  • uncover; with desire to KEYNOTE
  • Bed, turning over; in (Add Secale)
     
FEVER
  • Internal heat
  • burning+++
  • cold to the touch; while body feels (Add Secale)
  • Insidious
     
MIND
  • NEW RUBRIC: Gestures swaying arm to and from head (Add Secale)
  • Loathing, life; at
  • Despair
  • Disturbed; averse to being (Add Secale)
  • Answering, aversion to
  • Dullness
  • Consciousness NEW RUBRIC: death; until (Add Secale)
  • Memory, weakness, names, members of family (Add Secale)
  • Forebodings (Add Secale)
  • Fear
  • misfortune (Add Secale)
  • mania; in KEYNOTE!!
  • Mocking, relatives; at his KEYNOTE!
  • Fight; wants to!!!
  • Indifference, exposure of her person; to+++
  • Suspicious+++
  • Contemptuous, relations; for+++
  • Rage, kill people; tries to
  • Forsaken feeling
 
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