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.)
HEAD
Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Head drawn back. Falling of hair; dry and gray. NOSEBLEED, dark, oozing.
EYES
Pupils dilated. Incipient cataract, senile especially in women. EYESSUNKEN AND SURROUNDED BY A BLUE MARGIN.
FACE
PALE, PINCHED, SUNKEN. Cramps commence in face and spread over whole body. Livid spots on face. SPASMODIC DISTORTION.
MOUTH
Tongue dry, CRACKED; BLOOD LIKE INK EXUDES, coated thick; viscid, yellowish, cold livid. TINGLING OF TIP OF TONGUE, WHICH IS STIFF. Tongue swollen, paralyzed.
STOMACH
UNNATURAL RAVENOUS APPETITE; CRAVES acids. THIRST unquenchable. Singultus, nausea; vomiting of blood and coffee-grounds fluid. Burning in stomach and abdomen; tympanites. Eructations of bad odor.
STOOL
Cholera-like stools, with coldness and cramps. OLIVE-GREEN, THIN, PUTRID, BLOODY, WITH ICY COLDNESS AND INTOLERANCE OF BEING COVERED, WITH GREAT EXHAUSTION. INVOLUNTARY STOOLS; no sensation of passing faeces, anus wide open.
Urine.
Paralysis of bladder. Retention, with unsuccessful urging. Discharge of black blood from bladder. Enuresis in old people.
FEMALE
Menstrual colic, with coldness and intolerance of heat. Passive haemorrhages in feeble, cachectic women. Burning pains in uterus. BROWNISH, OFFENSIVE LEUCORRHOEA. Menses irregular, copious, dark; CONTINUOUS OOZING OF WATERY BLOOD until next period. Threatened abortion about the THIRD month. (SAB.) During labor no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. After-pains. Suppression of milk; breasts do not fill properly. Dark, offensive lochia. Puerperal fever, putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, suppressed urine.
CHEST
Angina pectoris. Dyspnoea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Praecordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.
SLEEP
Profound and long. Insomnia with restlessness, lever, anxious dreams. INSOMNIA OF DRUG AND LIQUOR HABITUES.
BACK
Spinal irritation, tingling of lower extremities; can bear only slightest covering. LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. Formication and numbness. Myelitis.