SECALE CORNUTUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachectic appearance; irritable, nervous temperament; pale, sunken countenance
- very old, decrepit, feeble persons
- women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no action; vessels flabby; passive haemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed
- haemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks; discharge of sanious liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids
- leucorrhoea; green, brown, offensive
- boils: small, painful with green contents, mature very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debilitating
- face: pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic; drawn, with sunken eyes; blue rings around eyes
- unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhoea; craves acids, lemonade
- diarrhoea: profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force; very exhausting; painless, involuntary; anus wide open
- enuresis: of old people; urine pale, watery, or bloody; urine suppressed
- burning; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the patient
- gangrene; dry, senile, worse from external heat
- large ecchymosis; blood blisters; often commencement of gangrene
- collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered
- the skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate covering; icy coldness of extremities
- menses: irregular; copious, dark, fluid; with pressing, labor-like pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period
- threatened abortion especially at third month; prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains
- during labor: pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything seems loose and open but no expulsive action; fainting
- after pains: too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction
- suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do not properly fill
- pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent
- worse heat; warmth from covering, of all affected parts; in all diseases worse from heat
- better in the cold air; getting cold; uncovering affected parts; rubbing