Ustilago Maydis

A few experiments have been made with Uva, and these have seemed to

accentuate its traditional reputation as an "astringent used to check excessive secretion of mucus,

as in urinary and bronchial affections, and even in calculus." The keynote indications are: Painful

micturition with burning sensation. Burning after the discharge of slimy urine. Slime passes with

blood. In one cured case there were pains shooting through from hip to hip. The bladder

symptoms are > lying on the back.

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.

Neuralgic pains in forehead, hands and feet—Rheumatic pains all up and

down I. side, with cutting in |. 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.

• ▸Very depressed.
• ▸Full feeling.
• ▸Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities.
• ▸Aching in eyeballs, with much lachrymation.

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.

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.

Sometimes looseness of teeth—Aching all day in decayed upper first and second

molars.—Shedding of teeth (in animals).

• ▸L.
• ▸tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, r.
• ▸painful on swallowing at 2 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; |.

• ▸painful at 9 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; next morning congestion of |.
• ▸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 cesophagus at cardiac orifice.

• ▸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 I.

• ▸groin when walking.
• ▸—Drawing pain in r.
• ▸hypochondrium all day.
• ▸—Distress in umbilicus and r.

hypochondrium.

• ▸Natural stool at 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸—Loose stool at 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with pain and rumbling in

abdomen.—Light-coloured diarrhcea.—Soft stool, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry,

lumpy.—Constipated.

Slimy urine; slime passes with blood.—Painful micturition; burning after

the slime passes—Hématuria; slimy, purulent urine.—Green urine.—Constant urging and

straining.—Shooting pain from hip to hip, bladder and urethra sensitive.

• ▸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 haemorrhage.
• ▸Profuse lochia.

Yellow and offensive leucorrhcea.—Tenderness of 1. ovary, with

• ▸pain and swelling.
• ▸—Burning distress in ovaries.
• ▸—Intermittent neuralgia of 1.
• ▸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 |.
• ▸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 I. 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

• ▸leucorrhcea.
• ▸—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.

• ▸Uncontrollable masturbation.
• ▸Spermatorrhoea, with erotic fancies and amorous dreams.
• ▸Emissions, with irresistible tendency to masturbation.
• ▸Dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and mental irritability.

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.

Hoarseness with pain in bowels; stopped up in throat; no

appetite —Throat tickles, feels like coughing all the time; sore and bruised all over; cough; nose

raw and burning; cutting and burning on urinating.

• ▸Spasmodic tearing at top of 1.
• ▸side and passing to sixth or seventh rib, at 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸when

standing or reading, < breathing —Pain in |. infraclavicular region in morning.—Drawing pain in

• ▸1.
• ▸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.

Sudden flying pain from heart to stomach, arresting breathing.—Burning pain in

cardiac region.

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 |. kidney, > moving about, with heat,

fulness, soreness on deep pressure (but it relieved the pain), with uneasiness in 1. 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 |. 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 dysmenorrhea, changing to |. ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.

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.

Pain in |. 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 1.
• ▸leg, < raising foot so as to press upon toes.
• ▸—Feet

swollen; in morning.

Muscular debility, sensation of boiling water along the back. Clonic and tetanic movements. Muscular contractions, especially of lower limbs.

• ▸Alopecia.
• ▸Tendency to small boils.
• ▸Skin dry; eczema; copper-colored spots.
• ▸Pruritus; sunburn.
• ▸Psoriasis (Internally and externally).

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.

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.

Abundant sweat. Pulse at first accelerated then enfeebled. Palpitations.

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.

Uva-Ursi.

• ▸Arctostaphylos uva-ursi.
• ▸Bearberry.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Ericaceé¢.
• ▸Tincture or trituration of dried leaves

and fruit. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered in autumn.

• ▸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).

Tincture, to third potency.

Cutting in bones of r. hand and foot.—Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms,

fingers, and legs.