SECALE CORNUTUM

Action of Medicine:

This remedy is indicated in thin, scrawny, cachectic women, who are melancholic and have a constant sensation of bearing down in the uterus, and who suffer from passive haemorhages. They are always cold, and desire to uncover even during cholera, and they complain of a cold perspiration. They are worse from warmth. Their diseases have a tendency to putrescence and gangrene.
It is of service in congestive headache, the pain extending from the back of the neck and occiput all over the head. There is agonizing distress, the face is pale and the extremities are cold and livid. These headaches usually occur at the climacteric period in women, and in drunkards of both sexes; at times the head is drawn back.
It is useful in putrid, fetid diarrhoea. There are cramps, the skin is shriveled and covered with a cold, clammy perspiration. In spite of the icy coldness the patient dislikes to be covered. The stools are involuntary. The urine is suppressed and there is great tympanitis and at times paralysis of the sphincter ani.
It is of service in labor when the pains are ineffectual and prolonged, also in passive uterine hemorrhage, when the flow is dark and the patient is wrinkled, scrawny, cold and often unconscious.
It is beneficial in gangrene, when the skin is shriveled dry, and brittle, there are black suppurating petechia, and there is relief from cold applications. It is also useful in locomotor ataxia.

References:A Manual Of Materia Medica, Therapeutics And Pharmacology By Blackwood, Alexander Leslie