Ustilago maydis
Ustilago zeae · Corn smut,Ustilago zeae · Fungus · Ustilaginaceae
This remedy is best suited to people who tend to be irritable and sad. It is used for women’s problems such as uterine fibroids, or hemorrhaging that develops following miscarriage or labor. The characteristic symptom picture is of slow, congestive bleeding, with clots that sometimes form long strings. Ovarian and pelvic pain is often on the left side.
Key symptoms
- Uterine hemorrhage; profuse bright-red blood partly clotted
- Oozing of dark blood forming long black strings
- Menorrhagia at climaxis; cervix bleeds easily
- Ovaries burn, pain, and swell
- Uncontrollable masturbation with erotic fancies; spermatorrhea
- Sensation of boiling water along the back
- Alopecia; skin dry with eczema and copper-colored spots
- Congestion to various parts especially at climacteric
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Corn-smut
Flabby condition of uterus. Hæmorrhage. Congestion to various parts, especially at climacteric. Crusta lactea (Vioia tric).
Head
Very depressed. Full feeling. Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities. Aching in eyeballs, with much lachrymation.
Male
Uncontrollable masturbation. Spermatorrhœa, with erotic fancies and amorous dreams. Emissions, with irresistible tendency to masturbation. Dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and mental irritability.
Female
Vicarious menstruation. Ovaries burn, pain, swell. Profuse menses after miscarriage; discharge of blood from slightest provocation; bright red; partly clotted. Menorrhagia at climaxis (Calc c; Lach). Oozing of dark blood, clotted, forming long black strings. Uterus hypertrophied. Cervix bleed easily. Postpartum hæmorrhage. Profuse lochia.
Fever
Abundant sweat. Pulse at first accelerated then enfeebled. Palpitations.
Extremities
Muscular debility, sensation of boiling water along the back. Clonic and tetanic movements. Muscular contractions, especially of lower limbs.
Skin
Alopecia. Tendency to small boils. Skin dry; eczema; copper-colored spots. Pruritus; sunburn. Psoriasis (Internally and externally).
Relationship
Compare: Secale; Sabin; Zea Italica (Possess curative properties in skin diseases, particularly in psoriasis and eczema rubrum. Mania for bathing. Impulse to suicide, particularly by drowning. Easily angered. Appetite increased, voracious, alternating with disgust for food. Pyrosis, nausea, vomiting, better drinking wine).
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.
Ustilago maidis. Corn-smut. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.
Clinical
Agalactia. Alopecia. Climaxis. Dysmenorrhœa. Fibroma. Galactorrhœa. Headache, menstrual. Masturbation. Menorrhagia, at climaxis. Menstruation, excessive; vicarious. Nails, affections of. Orchitis. Ovary, left, affections of. Rhinitis. Scald-head. Tonsillitis.
Characteristics
Burt, who proved Ust. on himself and others, introduced the remedy to homœopathy. 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 hæmorrhages, generally passive or in clots. It is in uterine hæmorrhages, menstrual, post-partum and climacteric that Ust. has been most …
Female Sexual Organs
Passive metrorrhagia of bright or dark blood, with many clots and pains in the ovaries.
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