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PHALLUS IMPUDICUS
Stink horn
Tinctureor infusion of whole fungus
Characteristics
There is a general resemblance to the effect of the Agarici- Vertigo, disordered vision, gastro -enteric disturbances & viscid sweat. Associated with great feebleness of whole body.

POLYPORUS PINICOLA
Pine agaric , Tinctureof Fresh plant
Characteristics
- Despondency
- Aching distress in many parts
- Stiffness of muscles
- dysphagia
- Diarrhoea or constipation & piles
- Useful in Malarial fevers
- The symptom < Motion,> rest

RUSSULA
Tinctureof the fresh mushrooms
Some species of Russula are edible others causes severe poisoning
Characteristics
- Hallucinations
- Muscular tremors & clonic spasms
- Eye symptoms are pronounced; complete blindness lasting many days, with this peculiarity of pupil that it was sometimes normal, sometimes dilated sometimes contracted.

SECALE COR
Common Name - Ergot
A fungus growing on the seed bud of rye & several other cereals.
Ergot Alkaloids are highly variable mixtures of toxins the most important being ergotamine. When ingested, the toxin produces either Cardiovascular or neurological manifestations.

Cardiovascular Manifestations - Vasoconstriction and Peripheral gangrene.
Neurological - Mental Confusion & convulsions.
One of the alkaloid - lysergic acid lathylamide is a hallucinogen
It acts upon the Parturient uterus as a stimulant to its contractions & increases their & force & frequency till there is tetanic Contractions of the organs.

Characteristics
1) This drug is especially adapted to thin scrawny women with sunken features.
2) Women of very lax muscular fibre, where everything seems loose and open.
3) Haemorrhagic diathesis - The slightest wound causes bleeding  for weeks. Discharge of liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence.
4) Debility & emaciation, though there is unnatural ravenous appetite.
    Craving for acids, lemonade
5) Burning in all parts of the body as if sparks of fire were falling on the part.
6) Skin feels cold to touch; yet the patient cannot tolerate covering, there is burning hot internally, < external heat: > Cold applications
7) The nervous symptoms are convulsive- the body is rigid, at times alternating with relaxation. This is especially seen in hands-, which is either clenched, or have the fingers spread widely apart.

Therapeutics
1) Great Haemorrhagic remedy - from any out let, but generally from Uterus - It takes place from atony of uterus, especially after abortion or protracted labour.The flow is black, fluid, non-coagulable & offensive.
2) Secale is one of the few remedies for patients suffering from habitual abortions.
Miscarriage taking place about 3 rd month with copious flow of black, bad smelling, liquid blood. She gets cramps in her fingers- fingers are spread widely apart.
3) During labour
Irregular pain, too weak with no expulsive action, though everything is relaxed. Everything seems loose & open, but no expulsive action.
It is of use for after pains- too long & painful with hour- glass contraction of the Uterus.
4) Suppression of milk in thin exhausted woman.
5) Puerperal fever with putrid discharge, coldness of skin etc.
6) Cholera - Profuse, watery, offensive diarrhoea
- Cramps
- Empty feeling in Abdomen wants abdomen uncovered.
- In the stage of collapse
7) Raynaud’s disease
8) Ecchymosis, blood blisters etc.
9) Boils - Mature slowly & heal in the same manner with green pus.

USTILAGO
Corn smut - A parasitic fungus developed on the fruit of Zeamays
Dr. But who proved ustilago on himself & others introduced this remedy into homeopathy.

Characteristics
1) It has a special affinity for the generative organs of both sexes . In it produces an atonic conditions
- Special affinity on left ovary & Uterus
- Ustilago congests the uterus & produce haemorrhages passive or in clots
- It is in Uterine haemorrhages menstrual, post-partum and climacteric that Ustilago has been powerfully employed
- There can be Vicarious menstruation, from lungs and bowels & bleeding between the periods with left infra mammary pain.
- Menorrhagia , attended with Ovarian irritation
- Hypertrophy of Uterus, Uterus feels drawn in to a knot.
- Fibroid Uterus.

Concomitant Symptoms
Vertigo, hot flushes of heat, gone feeling epigastrium, Bearing down Sensation,
  Backache -(from hip to leg)
  Ovarian dysmenorrhoea, tending to abortion etc.
General < during climacteric
2) In male generative organs
  Irresistible desire to masturbate
  Emissions, even when talking to a woman
  Neuralgia of testicles with constant aching
3) Acts on skin, hair & nails- loss of hair & nails
4) Back - Sensation of boiling water flowing along the back

Common Characteristics

1. Tendency to involuntary movements like twitching and jerking.
Agaricus
Irregular, uncertain and exaggerated motions. Patient reaches too far, staggers or steps too high, drop things etc.
Trembling, twitching, jeking and fibrillar spasms. Twitching ceases during sleep.
Bovista
Awkward motion, drop things
Twitching of facial muscles before asthma.
Secale Cor
Twiching, spasms with fingers apart.
Tetanic spasms with full consciousness.
Twitching in back extending to fingers and toes.
Staggering gait as if feet were dragged along.
Ustilago
Clonic and tetanic movements

2. Tendency to develop paraesthesias.
Agaricus
Sensation as if pierced by cold or hot needles.
Painful twitching followed by coldness and stiffness of parts.
Neuralgia as if cold needles run through the nerves.
Shooting and burning along the spine.
Burning, itching, redness and swelling as if frozen.
Bovista
Multiple neuritis with tingling and numbness.
Secale Cor
Numbness, insufferable tingling, crawling, starting in the face, in the limbs, in the finger tips. > rubbing.
Sensation of burning as if sparks in the whole body.
Formication of skin.
Ustilago
Sensation of boiling water flowing along the back.

3. Tendency to haemorrhages.
Bovista
Nose bleed, persistent epistaxis in drunkards.
Bleeding dark, offensive and stringy
Metorrhagia
Espicially during climaxis.
Secale Cor
Bleeding – thin foetid, watery oozing contiuously.
Haemorrhage after extraction of teeth.
Haematemesis
Ustilago
Congestive, passive or slow bleeding; Dark, Watery or in clods forming large black strings.
Vicarious menstruation.

4. Tendency to Increased Sexual Desire with Masturbation.
Agaricus
Increased Sexual Desire in males.
Sexual exitement in females.
Bovista
Increased sexual desire in males.
Coition aggravates.
Dreams amorous.
Ustilago
Irresistible desire to masturbate.
Erotic fancies
Emissions every night.
Emission even when talking to women.

5. Easy Prostration Especially after Coitus or Sexual Abuse.
Agaricus
Male
Great debility after coition.
Complaints after sexual debauches.
Female
Complains following coitus.
Young hysterical married women, who faint after coition.
Bovista
Reeling and confusion in head after coition.
Ustilago
Prostration after sexual abuse.

6. Tendency to Catch Cold, Feels Very Chilly Yet Aversion to
Covering.
Agaricus
Frequent sneezing with flow of clear water on getting cold.
Bovista
Chilly patient sensitive to cold.

7. Especially suitable for female during Climaxis
Agaricus
Bearing down pains especially after menopause.
Ustilago
Menorrhagia at climaxis
Congestion of various parts especially during climaxis
Irritability during climaxis

8. Tendency to form new growths
Bovista
Para ovarian cyst.
Boil in the right ear with pain and discharge of foetid pus.
Secale Cor
Lymphoid Tumours
Boils which matures slowly with green pus.
Bloody blisters
Ustilago
Fibroid Tumours

Reference:
1. Allen, T.F, Encyclopedia of Homoeopathic Materia Medica.
2. Clark, J.H, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.
3. Frederic Schroyens, Synthesis.
4. William Boeriche, Pocket Manual Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory.

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