SECALE CORNUTUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- contraction of unstriped muscular fibers
- constringent feeling throughout the whole body
- anemic condition
- coldness
- numbness
- petechiae
- mortification
- gangrene
- shriveled skin
- thin, scrawny
- sense of great heat
- hemorrhages
- continued oozing
- thin, fetid, watery black blood
- debility
- anxiety
- emaciation
- excessive appetite
- excessive thirst
- facial muscle twitch
- abdominal muscle twitch
- passive, congestive headache
- pale face
- head drawn back
- falling hair
- dry hair
- gray hair
- nosebleed
- dark, oozing nosebleed
- pupils dilated
- incipient cataract
- senile cataract
- eyes sunken
- blue margin around eyes
- face pinched
- face sunken
- cramps commence in face and spread over whole body
- livid spots on face
- spasmodic distortion of face
- tongue dry
- tongue cracked
- blood like ink exudes from tongue
- tongue coated thick
- tongue viscid
- tongue yellowish
- tongue cold
- tongue livid
- tingling of tip of tongue
- stiff tongue
- tongue swollen
- tongue paralyzed
- ravenous appetite
- craves acids
- unquenchable thirst
- singultus
- nausea
- vomiting of blood
- coffee-grounds fluid
- burning in stomach
- burning in abdomen
- tympanites
- eructations of bad odor
- cholera-like stools
- coldness with stools
- cramps with stools
- olive-green stool
- thin stool
- putrid stool
- bloody stool
- icy coldness with stool
- intolerance of being covered with stool
- great exhaustion with stool
- involuntary stools
- no sensation of passing feces
- anus wide open
- paralysis of bladder
- retention of urine
- unsuccessful urging to urinate
- discharge of black blood from bladder
- enuresis in old people
- menstrual colic
- intolerance of heat with menstrual colic
- passive hemorrhages in feeble women
- passive hemorrhages in cachectic women
- burning pains in uterus
- brownish leucorrhea
- offensive leucorrhea
- menses irregular
- menses copious
- menses dark
- continuous oozing of watery blood until next period
- threatened abortion about the third month
- no expulsive action during labor
- everything is relaxed during labor
- after-pains
- suppression of milk
- breasts do not fill properly
- dark lochia
- offensive lochia
- puerperal fever
- putrid discharges
- tympanitis with puerperal fever
- coldness with puerperal fever
- suppressed urine with puerperal fever
- angina pectoris
- dyspnea
- oppression
- cramp in diaphragm
- boring pain in chest
- precordial tenderness
- palpitation
- contracted pulse
- intermittent pulse
- profound sleep
- long sleep
- insomnia
- restlessness
- fever
- anxious dreams
- insomnia of drug habitudes
- insomnia of liquor habitudes
- spinal irritation
- tingling of lower extremities
- cannot bear slightest covering on back
- locomotor ataxia
- formication
- numbness
- myelitis
- cold hands
- dry hands
- cold feet
- dry feet
- feeling of fuzziness in fingers
- trembling
- staggering gait
- pain and spasmodic movements of extremities
- numbness of extremities
- fingers bluish
- feet bluish
- fingers shriveled
- feet shriveled
- fingers spread apart
- feet spread apart
- fingers bent backwards
- feet bent backwards
- fingers numb
- feet numb
- violent cramps of extremities
- icy coldness of extremities
- violent pain in finger-tips
- tingling in toes
- skin shriveled
- skin numb
- skin mottled
- skin dusky-blue tinge
- sclerema neonatorum
- edema neonatorum
- raynaud's disease
- blue color of skin
- dry gangrene
- slowly developing gangrene
- varicose ulcers
- burning sensation of skin
- wants parts uncovered
- skin cold to touch
- great aversion to heat of skin
- formication under skin
- slight wounds continue to bleed
- livid spots on skin
- boils, small
- painful boils
- boils with green contents
- boils mature slowly
- coldness with fever
- cold, dry skin
- cold, clammy sweat
- excessive thirst with fever
- sense of internal heat