Ustilago Maydis
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General EN
Ustilago.
Ustilago maidis. Corn-smut. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical EN
Agalactia. Alopecia. Climaxis. Dysmenorrhoea. Fibroma. Galactorrhoea. Headache, menstrual. Masturbation. Menorrhagia, at climaxis. Menstruation, excessive; vicarious. Nails, affections of. Orchitis. Ovary, left, affections of. Rhinitis. Scald-head. Tonsillitis.
Characteristics EN
Burt, who proved Ust. on himself and others, introduced the remedy to homoeopathy. 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 haemorrhages, generally passive or in clots. It is in uterine haemorrhages, 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 foetuses, at about the fifth week of gestation. Since then there had been passive haemorrhage 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 haemorrhage 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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
Sudden pallor in face when sitting, and in evening.—Burning of face and scalp from congestion.
Teeth EN
Sometimes looseness of teeth
Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars
Shedding of teeth (in animals).
Mouth EN
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 EN
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 oesophagus at cardiac orifice.
Appetite EN
Appetite: craving; poor.—Thirst at night.
Stomach EN
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
Haematemesis, passive, venous, accompanied by nausea, which is > by vomiting.
Abdomen EN
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 EN
Natural stool at 4 a.m
Loose stool at 4 a.m., with pain and rumbling in abdomen
Light-coloured diarrhoea
Soft stool, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy
Constipated.
Urinary Organs EN
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 EN
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 EN
Yellow and offensive leucorrhoea
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 leucorrhoea
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 EN
Feeling as if there were a lump behind larynx, which produces constant inclination, to swallow.
Chest EN
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 EN
Sudden flying pain from heart to stomach, arresting breathing.—Burning pain in cardiac region.
Back EN
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 dysmenorrhoea, changing to l. ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.
Limbs EN
Cutting in bones of r. hand and foot.—Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms, fingers, and legs.
Upper Limbs EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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 EN
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.