Remedy

Ustilago Maydis ust.

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Relationships

Knerr's Drug Relationships, from Hering's Guiding Symptoms

Similar

sabin. sec.

Named under 1 other remedy in this book

These rows are the other remedies’, naming Ustilago Maydis.

Similar

goss.

Polar generals

Motion

Position

Warmth

  • worse from warmth (room)Clarke

Pressure

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · 1915

Region

Epithelium: Skin. Hair. Nails. Female sexual organs.

Worse

Climacteric. Touch. Motion.

General

Tumid tissues, tending to bleed slowly. Dark hæmorrhage. As of a knot; in throat, bowels, uterus, etc.

Particulars

Depression. Loss of hair and nails. Sticky secretion matting the hair. Milk crust. Masturbation. Menses half liquid, half clots or stringy; vicarious. The uterus seeps dark, clotted blood. Spongy cervix. Metrorrhagia. Acute ovarian pain. Burning in r. ovary; soreness in l. and of uterus; pains shoot down thighs. Foul, yellow or brown leucorrhœa. Pain under l. breast. Dry, hot skin.

Related

Related: Asaf. Bov. Sec-c.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Corn-smut

General

Flabby condition of uterus. Hæmorrhage. Congestion to various parts, especially at climacteric. Crusta lactea (Vioia tric).

Head

Very depressed. Full feeling. Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities. Aching in eyeballs, with much lachrymation.

Male

Uncontrollable masturbation. Spermatorrhœa, with erotic fancies and amorous dreams. Emissions, with irresistible tendency to masturbation. Dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and mental irritability.

Female

Vicarious menstruation. Ovaries burn, pain, swell. Profuse menses after miscarriage; discharge of blood from slightest provocation; bright red; partly clotted. Menorrhagia at climaxis (Calc c; Lach). Oozing of dark blood, clotted, forming long black strings. Uterus hypertrophied. Cervix bleed easily. Postpartum hæmorrhage. Profuse lochia.

Fever

Abundant sweat. Pulse at first accelerated then enfeebled. Palpitations.

Extremities

Muscular debility, sensation of boiling water along the back. Clonic and tetanic movements. Muscular contractions, especially of lower limbs.

Skin

Alopecia. Tendency to small boils. Skin dry; eczema; copper-colored spots. Pruritus; sunburn. Psoriasis (Internally and externally).

Relationship

Compare: Secale; Sabin; Zea Italica (Possess curative properties in skin diseases, particularly in psoriasis and eczema rubrum. Mania for bathing. Impulse to suicide, particularly by drowning. Easily angered. Appetite increased, voracious, alternating with disgust for food. Pyrosis, nausea, vomiting, better drinking wine).

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

General

Ustilago maidis. Corn-smut. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.

Clinical

Agalactia. Alopecia. Climaxis. Dysmenorrhœa. Fibroma. Galactorrhœa. Headache, menstrual. Masturbation. Menorrhagia, at climaxis. Menstruation, excessive ; vicarious. Nails, affections of. Orchitis. Ovary, left, affections of. Rhinitis. Scald-head. Tonsillitis.

Characteristics

Burt, who proved Ust . on himself and others, introduced the remedy to homœopathy. It had been observed that pregnant animals feeding on maize affected with smut were very liable to abort. Roullin had noted that shedding of the hair, and sometimes of the teeth, occurred in animals and men; that mules fed on it cast their hoofs, and that fowls laid eggs without shells. The provings brought out a specific affinity for the generative sphere of both sexes, and especially for the left ovary and uterus. Ust . congests the uterus and produces hæmorrhages, generally passive or in clots. It is in uterine hæmorrhages, menstrual, post-partum and climacteric that Ust . has been most successfully employed. It has also relieved vicarious menstruation, bleeding taking place from the lungs and bowels; and bleeding between the periods with left inframammary pain. Hurndall ( H. W ., xxxvi. 27) relates the case of the small bitch which brings out many features of Ustilago action. About a fortnight before he saw the patient she had aborted five fœtuses, at about the fifth week of gestation. Since then there had been passive hæmorrhage of dark clots. Moreover, she was a perfect specimen of alopecia , not having a hair of any sort on her body and only a little about the head. Os uteri soft, spongy. Great tenderness about the posterior parts when manipulating the hind-quarters. Ust . 3x was prescribed, five drops three times a day. In two days the hæmorrhage was completely arrested, tenderness reduced, spirits revived, and general health improved. At the end of three months there was a nice coat of hair growing, which in due course became perfectly normal. Loss of hair and nails is a keynote for Ust ., and combined with the other symptoms made the correspondence perfect. Among the Peculiar Sensations are: As if head were being lifted off. As if forehead would burst open. As if something were under root of tongue pressing upward. As of a lump behind larynx. Excessively tired feeling. Bearing down, as if everything would come from her. Uterus as if drawn into a knot. As if intestines were being tied in knots. (This last symptom was produced in a patient of mine.) The symptoms are: < By touch (abdomen; eyes). Pressure < (ovaries). Riding in carriage < backache. < Rising and motion (menorrhagia). Walking < frontal headache; pain in left groin; pain in loins. Warm room = oppression and faintness. Open air = lachrymation. Swelling < pains in tonsils. Colicky pains > by constipated stool.

Relations

Compare: Botan., uterine affections, nails, Sec. Subinvolution, Na. hcl. Bearing down and prolapse of uterus, Sep. Left ovarian pain, Lil., Lach., Caul., Sul., Thuj., Vib. o. Vicarious menstruation, Bry., Ham. Millef. Intermittent flow, Ham., Bovis., Elaps. Crusta lactea, Vinc. m., Melit., Med., Mez. Pain in right shoulder, Urt. ur., Sang. Flying rheumatic pains, Puls. Faint at 11 a.m., Sul. Frequent emissions and lumbar pains, Cob.

Mind

Depression of spirits in afternoon. — Very sad, cries frequently; exceedingly prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen; sleep restless. — Could not bear to see or talk with any one. — Irritability, < being asked a question or to repeat anything. — The day seemed like a dream.

Head

Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision, sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of vertigo with internal heat. — Vertigo at climaxis with profuse menstruation. — Headache: all the morning; at 7 a.m.; in evening, < forehead; < walking. — Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in nervous women. — Frontal pain: in morning; in forenoon, with smarting in eyes; all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fulness in head in morning; with distress in epigastrium. — Scalp dry, cad congested, with loss of hair. — Scald-head, watery serum oozing from scalp. — Prickling in l. temple. — Loss of hair.

Eyes

Attacks of twitching in eyes, they appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another. — Continual watery flow from eyes and nose with occasional chills. — Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl. — Aching in eyes and lachrymation. — Hot feeling on closing lids. — Weakness of eyes. — Lachrymation in open air. — Lids agglutinated in morning. — Vision of spots dancing to and fro.

Nose

Boil in r. nostril. — Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin. — Bright epistaxis, > pressure. — Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odour noticeable to patient himself.

Face

Sudden pallor in face when sitting, and in evening. — Burning of face and scalp from congestion.

Teeth

Sometimes looseness of teeth. — Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars. — Shedding of teeth (in animals).

Mouth

Tongue coated in morning. — Prickling in tongue, with feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward, with dryness of nostrils. — Salivation: bitter; thin, bitter. — Taste: coppery; in morning; slimy coppery; slimy coppery in morning; slimy; slimy, with burning distress in stomach.

Throat

L. tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, r. painful on swallowing at 2 p.m.; l. painful at 9 p.m.; next morning congestion of l. extending along Eustachian tube and causing pain in ear. — Lancinations in r. tonsil (fauces were somewhat inflamed when the medicine was taken), next day fauces hotter and more sensitive to motion. — Roughness of fauces. — Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in stomach. — Dryness of fauces, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow, with feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, afterwards irritation of fauces, and on swallowing feeling of a lump in larynx. — Burning in œsophagus at cardiac orifice.

Appetite

Appetite: craving; poor. — Thirst at night.

Stomach

Eructations: of sour fluid; of sour food. — Cutting in stomach. — Pain in stomach: frequently in afternoon; on full inspiration. — Pain in epigastrium with drawing pain in joints of fingers. — Burning in sternum and cardia. — Distress in stomach in forenoon; in afternoon, > by supper. — Hæmatemesis, passive, venous, accompanied by nausea, which is > by vomiting.

Abdomen

Periodical cutting in umbilical and hypogastric regions at 6 p.m., < at 8 p.m. by a constipated stool, afterwards grumbling pains in whole abdomen. — (Pain as if intestines were tied in knots.). — Pain: in r. lobe of liver; in umbilicus; in umbilicus before natural stool; in l. groin when walking. — Drawing pain in r. hypochondrium all day. — Distress in umbilicus and r. hypochondrium.

Stool

Natural stool at 4 a.m. — Loose stool at 4 a.m., with pain and rumbling in abdomen. — Light-coloured diarrhœa. — Soft stool, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy. — Constipated.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus of bladder and incontinence of urine. — Urging, urine light-coloured. — No desire, but uneasiness. — Urine: increased; scanty, red; acid, high-coloured.

Male Sexual Organs

Genitals relaxed. — Erections: when reading at 4 o'clock; frequently during day and night. — Scrotum relaxed and cold sweat on it. — Pain in testes, < r. — Pain in testes, sometimes neuralgic; in paroxysms, sometimes causing faintish feeling. — Desire depressed. — Chronic orchitis, irritable testicle. — Erotic fancies. — Seminal emissions and irresistible tendency to masturbation.

Female Sexual Organs

Yellow and offensive leucorrhœa. — Tenderness of l. ovary, with pain and swelling. — Burning distress in ovaries. — Intermittent neuralgia of l. ovary; enlarged, very tender. — Uterus: hypertrophied; prolapsed; cervix sensitive, spongy. — Menses: too scanty with ovarian irritation; too profuse and too early; blood clotted; as if everything would come through. — Between periods constant suffering under l. breast at margin of ribs. — Oozing of dark blood, highly coagulated, forming occasionally long, black, stringy clots. — Extreme pain during period. — Suppression of menses. — Vicarious menstruation from lungs and bowels. — Constant aching distress at mouth of womb. — Menses that had just ceased returned, bright-coloured, soreness and bearing down in l. side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it. — Menses copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head. — Menorrhagia at climaxis. — Bland leucorrhœa. — Abortion. — Deficient labour pains. — Constant flooding. — Puerperal peritonitis. — Lochia too profuse, partly fluid, partly clotted; prolonged bearing-down pains; uterus feels drawn into a knot. — Hypertrophy and subinvolution.

Respiratory Organs

Feeling as if there were a lump behind larynx, which produces constant inclination, to swallow.

Chest

Spasmodic tearing at top of l. side and passing to sixth or seventh rib, at 3 p.m. when standing or reading, < breathing. — Pain in l. infraclavicular region in morning. — Drawing pain in l. inframammary region, waking me at 3 a.m., > turning on back from r. side. — Aching, burning distress in sternum and under it in stomach, with neuralgic pains. — Oppression along median line. — Constriction, with pain. — Heat and pressure.

Heart

Sudden flying pain from heart to stomach, arresting breathing. — Burning pain in cardiac region.

Back

Pain in back extending to extreme end of spine. — Pain in lumbar region. — Pain in region of r. kidney, < sitting still; next day in region of l. kidney, > moving about, with heat, fulness, soreness on deep pressure (but it relieved the pain), with uneasiness in l. thigh, frequent desire to urinate, stream very small, the following day it requires considerable effort of will to empty the bladder, which is done slowly, pain and soreness in l. loin continue; heavy in lumbar region, in bed with uneasiness about bladder (had had no desire to urinate on going to bed), woke early in morning with distended feeling in bladder, micturition slow and difficult, urine scarcely coloured, pain in back < next night, < lying on face, > lying on r. side. — Bearing down in sacral region as in dysmenorrhœa, changing to l. ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.

Limbs

Cutting in bones of r. hand and foot. — Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms, fingers, and legs.

Upper Limbs

Pain in shoulder-joints; rheumatic, in muscles of r. shoulder. — Intermittent, numb tingling sensation in r. arm and hand every day. — Pain in r, elbow, < motion. — Stitching along metacarpal bone of r. index. — Rheumatic drawing pain in finger-joints, < second joint of r. index, all afternoon. — Hypertrophy or loss of nails.

Lower Limbs

Pain in l. knee when walking, increasing to cramp, obliging me to lean upon the arm of a friend, the pain, with occasional cramps, lasted all the evening, < raising foot so as to press upon toes. — Cramp-like stiffness in l. leg, < raising foot so as to press upon toes. — Feet swollen; in morning.

Generalities

Neuralgic pains in forehead, hands and feet. — Rheumatic pains all up and down l. side, with cutting in l. knee and calf if I pressed any weight upon toes or flexed knee with any weight upon it. — Rheumatic pains in muscles of arms, hands, fingers, and small of back, those in back < walking. — Symptoms of a cold. — Malaise as if I had taken cold; felt sick with a cold, continual watery flow from nose and eyes, with occasional chills. — Languor: during the day, with headache, < noon, and with burning frontal headache at 9 p.m.; in morning on rising; at 2 p.m. — Faint feeling at 11 a.m. in a warm lecture-room. — Faint spells beginning in epigastrium, with small pains in hypochondrium and bowels.

Skin

The scalp became one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair came out, the rest matted together, with oozing of watery serum from scalp, eruption like rubeola on neck and chest, gradually extending to feet, thickest on chest and joints, itching < night, rubbing any part brought out the eruption, on face and neck it was in patches like ringworm, but not vesicular. — Boils on nape. — Congested feeling in skin. — Skin dry and hot. — Painful, destructive disease of nails.

Sleep

Difficult falling asleep and then unpleasant dreams. — Restless night; with fever; with troubled dreams. — Sexual dreams; without emission; and disgusting, waking him, arose and urinated with difficulty and tenesmus.

Fever

Chills running up and down back. — Heat at night. — Internal heat; with vertigo; < eyes, which are inflamed and sensitive to light, eyeball sore to touch; intermittent, < eyes. — Burning in face and scalp. — Skin dry; at night; and hot.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Great depression of spirits ; irritable.
Very sad, cries frequently ; excessively prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen ; sleep restless.

Sensorium

Frequent attacks of vertigo.
Vertigo during climaxis, with too frequent and profuse menstruation.

Inner head

Feeling of fulness in head, with dull, pressive frontal headache.
Frontal headache, < by walking.
Violent frontal headache as if forehead would burst open.
Sharp flying pains in forehead, congestion of brain.
Pain on top and side of head ; climaxis.
Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in atonic women.

Outer head

Scalp dry, hot and congested, with loss of hair.
Scald-head ; two-thirds of scalp one filthy mass of inflammation, with loss of most of hair ; a watery serum constantly oozing from scalp.

Sight and eyes

Things whirl before eyes, appear double ; white specks come into view and blot all else.
Twitching of eyes, they seem to revolve in circles and dart from object to object.
Eyes feel hot on closing lids.
Aching and smarting in eyeballs, with profuse secretion of tears ; in open air.
Dull aching pain in right eyeball.

Hearing and ears

Constant dull pain in left ear, caused by extension from inflamed tonsil.

Smell and nose

Dryness of nostrils as if he had taken cold.
Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odor noticeable to patient himself.

Upper face

Sudden pallor ; evening while sitting.
Burning of face and scalp from congestion.

Teeth and gums

Constant dull aching pain in first and second upper molars, which are decayed and have ached before.
Shedding of teeth (in animals).

Taste, speech, tongue

Slimy, coppery taste.
Pricking sensation in tongue, with a feeling as if something were under its root pressing it upward.

Inner mouth

Saliva profuse ; bitter.

Palate and throat

Dryness of fauces, with difficult deglutition ; with burning distress in stomach.
Tonsils congested, inflamed, left very large dark-colored, with dull pain, < from swallowing.
Feeling as of a lump behind larynx ; producing constant desire to swallow.
Sharp lancinating pain in right tonsil.
Burning in œsophagus at cardiac orifice.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite followed by canine hunger.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations of food, strongly acid.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Goneness in epigastrium. θ Climaxis.
Faint feeling in epigastrium, with pain in region of liver and bowels.
Repeated fine sharp cutting pains in epigastrium.
Constant distress in region of stomach.
Burning distress in sternum and stomach, accompanied by fine neuralgic pains in same region, lasting about three minutes at a time ; come on every ten or fifteen minutes for several hours ; sharp cutting pain in stomach.
Hematemesis of a passive nature, profuse, blood venous, accompanied by nausea, which improves after hemorrhage.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of right lobe of liver.
Dull pains in right hypochondrium, with distress in small intestines.

Abdomen and loins

Grumbling pains in abdomen all afternoon, followed by dry, hard stool, fine, cutting colicky pains every few minutes all day, > by hard constipated stool, followed by dull distress in bowels.
Pain in left inguinal region, while walking.

Stools and rectum

Black, dry, lumpy stools, costive.

Urinary organs

Urine first increased and light, with great desire ; later scanty and dark.

Male sexual organs

Erotic fancies ; emissions.
Seminal emissions and irresistible tendency to masturbation.
Great depression of sexual system, with relaxed scrotum.
One to four emissions with sexual dreams every week, followed next day by great prostration, dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and irritability.
Spermatorrhœa after onanism ; emissions every night, talking about women causes an emission ; very sad ; cries frequently ; says he cannot break off habit, has no control of himself when passion is aroused ; knows it is fast killing him, cannot work, is so
prostrated.
Chronic orchitis ; neuralgia and irritable testicle ; indurated testicle.

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Condensed Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · Condensed Materia Medica · 1877

Mind

Great depression of spirits; irritable.

Sensorium

Frequent attacks of vertigo; things whirl before the eyes, are double; or, white speck come into view and blot all else.

Inner Head

Feeling of fulness of head, with dull, pressive frontal headache.
Pain on top and side of head; climaxis.

Eyes

Twitching of eyes, they seem to revolve in circles and dart from object to object.

Ears

Constant dull pain in left ear, caused by extension from inflamed tonsil.
Eyes feel hot on closing lids.
Eyes smart, balls ache; profuse lachrymation.

Face

Sudden pallor; coppery taste.

Tongue, etc

Slimy, coppery taste.
Pricking sensation in tongue with a feeling as if something was under its root pressing it upward.

Mouth

Saliva profuse; bitter.

Throat

Dryness of fauces, with difficult deglutition; with burning distress in stomach.
Tonsils congested, inflamed; left one very large, dark-colored, with dull pain, worse from swallowing.
Feeling as of a lump behind larynx, producing constant desire to swallow.
Sharp, lancinating pain in right tonsil.
Burning in œsophagus at cardiac orifice.

Desires and Aversions

Loss of appetite, followed by canine hunger.

Nausea and Vomiting

Eructations of food, strongly acid.

Stomach

Goneness in epigastrium; climaxis.
Faint feeling a number of times in epigastrium, with pain in region of liver and bowels.
Burning distress in sternum and stomach, with fine neuralgic pains.
Repeated fine, sharp cutting pains in epigastrium.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of right lobe of liver.

Abdomen

Fine cutting, colicky pains every few minutes; relieved by hard stool, followed by dull pains in bowels.
Pain in left inguinal region while walking.

Stool, etc

Black, dry, lumpy stools; costive.

Urine

First increase and light, with great desire; later, scanty and dark; hæmatemesis.

Male Sexual Organs

Erotic fancies; emissions; prostrated, dull, lumbar pains, despondent, irritable.
Seminal emissions, irresistible tendency to masturbation.

Female Sexual Organs

Constant aching, referred to the mouth of the womb.
Displaced uterus, with menorrhagia; cervix tumefied (swelled); bleeds when touched.
For days oozing of dark blood with small coagula; uterus enlarged, cervix tumefied or dilated.
Menses scanty, with ovarian irritation.
Bearing down as if everything would come through.
Burning distress in ovaries.
Acute pain worse in left ovary, with swelling; pains intermittent; shoot rapidly down legs.
Menses profuse, frequent coagula.
Between menses constant suffering under left breast, at margin of ribs.
Climaxis: vertigo, metrorrhagia.

Pregnancy

Produces abortion.
Labor-pains deficient; os soft, pliable, dilatable.

Lungs

Sharp tearing in left side from top of chest down to sixth or seventh rib, aggravated by breathing.

Heart and Pulse

Burning pain in cardiac region.

Position, etc

Sitting: 18. Walking: 19.

Sleep

Troubled, tosses about, dreams are troublesome; heat over body.

Time

Evening: 8. Night: 40.

Temperature and Weather

In a warm room felt oppressed, faint.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Internal heat through body, but worse in eyes, which are sensitive to light and sore to touch; pulse normal.
General heat during night after sleep.

Attacks

Every few minutes: 19.

Sides

Right: 13, 17, 18. Left: 6, 13, 19, 23, 28, 29. Above downward: 28.

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 23, 40.

Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Timothy Field Allen · Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics · 1889

General

A tincture is made of the fresh ripe fungus, "cornsmut," Ustilago maidis.

Allies

Secale corn. , Sabina.

Generalities

Neuralgic pains in forehead, hands and feet. ▶ Rheumatic pains all up and sown left side, with cutting in left knee and calf if I pressed any weight upon toes or flexed knee with any weight upon it; R. pains in muscles of arms, hands, fingers and small of back, those in back agg. walking. ▶ Symptoms of a cold. ▶ Malaise as if I had taken cold; felt sick with a cold, continual watery flow from nose and eyes, with occasional chills. ▶ Sick all over, could scarcely tell where. ▶ Languor; during the day, with headache, agg. noon, and with burning frontal headache at 9 P.M.; in morning on rising; on waking early, yet could not rest; in morning on rising; at 2 P.M. ▶ Faint feeling at 11 A.M. in a warm lecture-room; F. spells beginning in epigastrium, with small pains in hypochondrium and bowels.

Mind

Depression of spirits in afternoon. ▶ Could not bear to see or talk with any one. ▶ Irritability, agg. being asked a question or to repeat anything. ▶ The day seemed like a dream.

Head

Aching; all the morning; at 7 A.M.; in evening, agg. forehead; agg. walking. ▶ Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision, sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of V. with internal heat. ▶ Frontal pain in morning; in forenoon, with smarting in eyes; all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fulness in head in morning; with distress in epigastrium; sharp. ▶ Prickling in left temple. ▶ Loss of hair.

Eyes

Attacks of twitching, and eyes appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another. ▶ Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl. ▶ Aching and lachrymation. ▶ Hot feeling on closing lids. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Lachrymation in open air. ▶ Lids agglutinated in morning. ▶ Vision of spots dancing to and fro.

Nose and Face

Boil in right nostril. ▶ Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin. ▶ Bright epistaxis, amel. pressure. ▶ Sudden pallor when sitting and in evening.

Mouth

Sometimes looseness of teeth. ▶ Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars. ▶ Tongue coated in morning. ▶ Prickling in tongue, with feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward, with dryness of nostrils. ▶ Salivation; bitter; thin, bitter. ▶ Taste coppery; in morning; slimy coppery; slimy coppery in morning; slimy; slimy, with burning distress in stomach.

Throat

Left tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, right painful on swallowing at 2 P.M., left painful at 9 P.M., next morning congestion of left extending long Eustachian tube and causing pain in ear. ▶ Lancinations in right tonsil (fauces were somewhat inflamed when the medicine was taken), next day fauces hotter and more sensitive to motion. ▶ Roughness of fauces. ▶ Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in stomach; D. of fauces, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow, with feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, afterwards irritation of fauces, and on swallowing feeling of a lump in larynx. ▶ Burning in œsophagus.

Stomach

Appetite craving; poor. ▶ Thirst; at night. ▶ Eructations of sour fluid; of sour food. ▶ Cutting. ▶ Pain; frequently in afternoon; on full inspiration; in epigastrium, with drawing pain in joints of fingers; in spells, and in small intestines, with distress in right hypochondrium; burning, in cardiac region. ▶ Distress; in forenoon; in afternoon, amel. supper.

Abdomen

Periodical cutting in umbilical and hypogastric regions, at 6 P.M., amel. 8 P.M. by a constipated stool, afterwards grumbling pains in whole abdomen. ▶ Pain occasionally; P. in right lobe of liver; in umbilicus; umbilicus before natural stool; left groin when walking; drawing, in right hypochondrium all day. ▶ Distress in umbilicus and right hypochondrium.

Stool

Natural at 4 A.M. ▶ Loose at 4 A.M., with pain and rumbling in abdomen. ▶ Light-colored diarrhœa. ▶ Soft, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry lumpy. ▶ Constipated.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus of bladder and incontinence of urine. ▶ Urging, urine light-colored. ▶ No desire, but uneasiness. ▶ Urine increased; scanty, red; acid, high-colored.

Sexual Organs

Relaxed. ▶ Erections when reading at 4 o'clock; frequently during the day and night. ▶ Scrotum relaxed and cold sweat on it. ▶ Pain in testicles, agg. right; P. in testicles, sometimes neuralgic; in paroxysms, sometimes causing faintish feeling. ▶ Desire depressed. ▶ Yellow and offensive leucorrhœa. ▶ Tenderness of left ovary, with pain and swelling. ▶ (Aching distress at mouth of womb.). ▶ Menses that had just ceased returned, bright-colored, soreness and bearing down in left side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it; M. copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head.

Clinical

Uterine hæmorrhage, bright red, partly thin, partly clotted; the uterus in soft and spongy, and suffers from passive congestion. ▶ Uterine hæmorrhage, with pain extending down to the knees. ▶ In the uterine region soreness, especially on left side, with ovarian irritability, bearing-down pain, the pains often shoot down the legs. ▶ It has proved curative in amenorrhœa. ▶ At the period sharp pains from hip to hip, followed by expulsive pains. ▶ Numerous cases of menorrhagia. ▶ Left ovarian neuralgia, with habitual profuse menstruation, which is followed by brownish and yellowish leucorrhœa. ▶ Membranous dysmenorrhœa, lancinating pains shooting down the leg. ▶ Chronic uterine hæmorrhage, with persistent oozing of dark blood, with black clots. ▶ It is especially suited to the climacteric period and to tall, slim women, with clear white skin. ▶ Pain in left mammary region in intermenstrual period; ovarian congestion, with burning pains.

Chest

Spasmodic tearing at top of left side and passing to sixth or seventh rib, at 3 P.M. when standing and reading, agg. breathing. ▶ Pain in left infraclavicular region in morning; drawing, in left inframammary region, waking me at 3 A.M., amel. turning on back from right side. ▶ Aching, burning distress in sternum and under it in stomach, with neuralgic pains. ▶ Oppression along median line. ▶ Constriction, with pain. ▶ Heat and pressure.

Heart

Sudden flying pain from it to stomach, arresting breathing.

Back

Pain; extending to extreme end of spine; in lumbar region; in region of right kidney, agg. sitting still, next day in region of left kidney, amel. moving about, with heat, fulness, soreness on deep pressure (but is relieved the pain), with uneasiness in left thigh, frequent desire to urinate, stream very small, the following day it requires considerable effort of will to empty the bladder, which is done slowly, pain and soreness in left loin continue; heavy; in lumbar region, in bed with uneasiness about bladder (had had no desire to urinate on going to bed), woke early in morning with distended feeling in bladder, micturition slow and difficult, urine scarcely colored, pain in B. agg. next night, agg. lying on face, amel. lying on right side; bearing down, in sacral region as in dysmenorrhœa, changing to left ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.

Extremities

Cutting in bones in right hand and foot. ▶ Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms, fingers and legs. ▶ Pain in shoulder-joints; rheumatic, in muscles of right shoulder. ▶ Intermittent numb tingling sensation in right arm and hand every day. ▶ Pain in right elbow, agg. motion. ▶ Stitching along metacarpal bone of right index. ▶ Rheumatic drawing pain in finger-joints, agg. second joint of right index, all the afternoon. ▶ Pain in left knee when walking, increasing to cramp, obliging me to lean upon the arm of a friend, the pain, with occasional cramps, lasted all the evening, agg. raising foot so as to press upon toes. ▶ Cramplike stiffness in left leg, agg. raising foot so as to press upon toes. ▶ Feet swollen; in morning.

Skin

The scalp one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair come out, the rest matted together, with oozing of watery serum from scalp, eruption like rubeola on neck and chest, gradually extending to feet, thickest on chest and joints, itching agg. night, rubbing any part brought out the eruption, on face and neck it was in patches like ringworm, but not vesicular. ▶ Boils on nape. ▶ Congested feeling.

Sleep

Difficult falling asleep and then unpleasant dreams. ▶ Restless night; with fever; with troubled dreams. ▶ Gloomy and disappointing dreams. ▶ Sexual dreams; without emission; and disgusting, in which I was a principal actor, waking me, arose and urinated with difficulty and tenesmus.

Fever

Chills running up and down back. ▶ Heat at night. ▶ Internal heat; with vertigo; agg. eyes, which are inflamed and sensitive to light, eyeball sore to touch; intermittent, agg. eyes. ▶ Burning in face and scalp. ▶ Skin dry; at night; and hot.

A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Timothy Field Allen · A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy · 1892

Sexual organs

Tenderness of the left ovary, with pain and swelling.
A distress referred to the mouth of the uterus.
Yellow, offensive leucorrhœa.
Menstruation free, bright, not coagulated.

Clinical:
Uterine hæmorrhage, bright, thin, with soft, spongy uterus, pain extending to the knees; with tenderness of left ovary.
Ovarian neuralgia, left.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.
Pain shooting down the legs.
Persistent uterine hæmorrhage, with oozing of dark blood in clots.
Pain in the left mammary region between periods, with ovarian congestion and burning pains.

The Mnemonic Similiad

Stacy Jones · The Mnemonic Similiad · 1904

Mnemonic names

Ustil. / The Maid.

Verse

Ustilago,-given low-
Reinstates the menstrual flow.
Higher-puts vicarious drain,
Or a surplus, right again.
Also rights spasmodic ails,
And o'er barrenness prevails.

Mnemonic sentences

The Maid,-Has suppressed menses.

The Maid, Helen Po-con, the cyclist, is good for one sample kiss, from Cim Xantho.

This Maid,-Who is subject to vicarious menstruation,-Is at Pompii, as aid to Ham Crotal, the booby.

Indications

Suppressed Menses: Ustil., Helen., Pod., Con., Cyc., Graph., Dul., Nat. m., Sul., Mer., Pul., Kal. c., Sep., Cimi., Xanthox. (From sudden chill or fright, Aco. Damp feet, Dul., Pod., Pul.)

Vicarious Menstruation: Ustil., Pul., Mer., Pho., Dig., Ham., Crotal., Bell., Bry. (Bleeding from the nose, Bry., Bell., Pul., Ustil. From the lungs, Pho., Ustil.)

The Materia Medica of the Nosodes

Henry Clay Allen · The Materia Medica of the Nosodes · 1910

Mind

Depression of spirits in afternoon.
Very sad, cries frequently; exceedingly prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen; sleep restless.
Could not bear to see or talk to any one.
Irritability, being asked a question or to repeat anything.
The day seemed like a dream.
Melancholia; depression of spirits; oppression and faintness in a warm room.
An aversion to or < from warmth in general.
Partial or complete loss of control over the function of vision and deglutition.
Great irritability, mental weakness and depression.

Head

Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision, sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of vertigo with internal heat.
Vertigo at climaxis with too frequent and profuse menstruation.
Headache: all the morning; at 7 A. M.; in evening <, forehead; < walking.
Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in nervous women.
Frontal pain; in morning, in forenoon, with smarting in eyes; all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fullness of head in morning; with distress in epigastrium.
Scalp dry, head congested, with loss of hair.
Scale-head, watery serum, oozing from scalp.
Prickling in left temple.
Loss of hair.
Bursting congestive sensation to the head; and various parts of the body.
Upward surging of blood with bursting in the head.
Vertigo from such causes, especially at climacteric.
Feeling of fullness with dull pressive headache < by walking.
The headache and vertigo appear to be reflex from ovarian or uterine condition.
Frontal headache, < by walking.
Violent frontal headache as if forehead would burst open.
Sharp flying pains in forehead, congestion of the brain.
Pain on top and side of head; climaxis.
Falling of the hair and nails; complete alopecia, not a hair on the head.
Headache in temples.

Eyes

Attacks of twitching in eyes, they appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another.
Continual watery flow from eyes and nose with occasional chills.
Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl.
Aching in eyes and lachrymation.
Aching and smarting in eyeballs, with profuse secretion of tears.
Hot feeling on closing lids.
Weakness of eyes.
Lachrymation in open air.
Lids agglutinated in morning.
Vision of spots dancing to and fro.
Things whirl before the eyes, appear double; white specks come into view and blot all else.
Dull aching pain in right eyeball.

Ears and Hearing

Constant dull pain in left ear, caused by extension from inflamed tonsil.

Nose

Boil in right nostril.
Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin.
Bright epistaxis, > pressure.
Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odor noticeable to patient himself.
Dryness of nostrils as if he had taken cold.
Pains at root of nose, extending in toward canthi, and up and out at each eyebrow.

Face

Sudden pallor in face when sitting, and in evening.
Burning of face and scalp from congestion.
Flushes of heat; the face becomes red and hot.

Teeth

Sometimes looseness of teeth.
Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars, which have ached before.
Shedding of teeth (in animals).

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