Ustilago Maydis Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica

Ustilago Maydis

Common name: Corn smut

Introduction:

• This remedy was proved by Dr Burt
• This is a fungus
• That grows on the Indian corn
• Proving this remedy brought out a specific affinity for a generative of both sexes

Condition:

• Agalactia
• Menorrhagia, at climaxes
• Menstruation, excessive, vicarious
• Affections of nail
• Orchitis   
• Rhinitis
• Scald-head
• Tonsillitis
• Alopecia
• Climaxes
• Dysmenorrhoea
• Fibroma
• Galactorrhoea
• Menstrual headache
• Masturbation
• Affections of left ovary

Mind:

• Very depressed
• Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities
• Full feeling
• Irritability aggravate being asked a question or to repeat anything
• The day passes like a dream
• Can't bear to see and talk with anyone
• Very sad
• Crying frequently

Head:

• Frontal pain in morning and forenoon
• Headache with smarting pain in eyes all-day
• Pain with aching distress in eyeballs
• Fullness in the head in the morning, with a bad feeling in epigastrium
• Scalp dry
• Head congested
• Loss of hair
• Scald-head
• Watery serum oozing from the scalp
• Prickling sensation in the left temple
• Vertigo, sometimes with double vision
• Vertigo, sometimes white specks blot out everything
• After attacks of vertigo with internal heat
• Vertigo during climaxes with profuse menstruation
• Headache in the morning, at seven AM and in the evening

Eye:

• Aching in eyeballs with marked lachrymation
• Attacks of twitching in the eye. Aching in eyes and lachrymation
• The hot sensation on closing lids
• Weakness in eyes
• Lachrymation in the eye in the open air
• Eyelids agglutinated in morning
• The vision of spots dancing
• They appear to look in circles and dart from one object to another
• Continous watery flow from eyes and nose with sometimes chills
• Eye spasms with the vanishing of vision and head seem to whirl

Nose:

• Bright red epistaxis, better pressure
• Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odour
• Boil in the right nostril
• Dryness of nostrils with a dry feeling in the skin in the forenoon

Face:

• Burning of face and scalp
• Congestion in scalp and face
• Sudden pallor in the face in the evening and when sitting
• Sometimes looseness of teeth
• Aching sensation  whole day in decayed upper first and second molars

Mouth:

• Coated tongue in the morning
• Bitter, thin, salivation
• Prickling pain in the tongue
• Feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward in tongue
• Coppery taste in mouth in the morning

Throat:

• Lancinations in right tonsil
• Fauces were somewhat swollen when the medicine is taken
• Hotter and more prone to movement fauces the next day
• Roughness of fauces
• Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in the stomach, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow
• Left tonsilitis
• Tonsil congested, dark reddish, right painful on swallowing at two PM
• Left tonsil painful at nine PM
• Next morning congestion of left tonsil extending to Eustachian tube and causing pain in the ear
• Burning pain in the oesophagus at cardiac orifice

Stomach:

• Thirst at night
• Pain in epigastrium associated with drawing pain in joints of fingers
• Burning pain in sternum and cardiac region
• Distress in the stomach in forenoon and afternoon
• Hematemesis, accompanied by nausea, better by vomiting
• Cutting pain in the stomach
• Eructations of sour fluid and food
• Pain in stomach mostly in the afternoon

Abdomen: 

• Pain in the right lobe of the liver, in the left groin when walking, in umbilicus before natural stool
• Distress in right hypochondrium and umbilicus
• Drawing pain in right hypochondrium whole day
• Periodical cutting pain in umbilical and hypogastric regions at six PM
• Pain worse at eight PM by a constipated stool, after that grumbling pains in the whole abdomen
• Pain like intestines were tied in knots

Stool:

• Natural stool at four AM
• Loose stool at four AM, with rumbling pain in the abdomen
• Soft stool at next day
• Stool dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy
• Constipated
• Light colour diarrhoea

Urinary Organs:

• Tenesmus of bladder
• Incontinence of urine
• Scanty, red, acid, high-coloured urine
• No desire for urine but uneasiness

Respiratory Organs:

• Feeling like a lump behind larynx, which produces constant inclination to swallow

Chest:

• Spasmodic tearing pain at top of the left side and passing to the sixth or seventh rib
• Pain at three PM when standing or reading
• Pain worse breathing
• Aching, burning Pain in the sternum and under it is stomach, with neuralgic pains.
• Oppression along the median line
• Left infraclavicular region painful in the morning
• Constriction sensation with pain
• Heat and pressure in the chest

Heart: 

• Burning pain in the cardiac region
• Sudden flying pain from the heart to the stomach, arresting breathing

Back: 

• Bearing down in sacral region as in dysmenorrhoea
• Changing to the left ovarian region and gradually extending through hip
• Pain in the lumbar region
• Pain in back extending to end of the spine

Limbs: 

• Frequent rheumatic pain in arms, fingers, and legs
• Cutting pain in bones of right hand and foot

Upper Limbs:

• Stitching pain in metacarpal bone of the right index
• Pain in the right elbow, worse by motion
• Hypertrophy of nails and loss of nails
• Pain in shoulder joints
• Rheumatic pain in muscles of the right shoulder
• Rheumatic drawing pain in finger-joints, the worse second joint of right index whole afternoon
• Intermittent, addictive, tingling feeling every day in the right arm and hand

Lower Limbs:

• Feet are swollen in the morning
• Cramp like stiffness in the left leg
• Cramp worse raising foot so as to press upon toes

Male:

• Uncontrollable masturbation
• Spermatorrhea with erotic fancies and amorous dreams
• Emission with an irresistible tendency to masturbation
• Dull pain in the lumbar region with great despondency mental irritability
• Spermatorrhoea after onanism
• Emission every night
• Talking about women causes an emission
• Seminal emission and irresistible desire to masturbation
• Constant aching distress in the testicles especially in the right
• Pain is  very severe
• Pain shift suddenly to the bowels
• The penis is associated with nausea
• Cold sweat on the scrotum
• Irritable weakness and male sexual organ relaxation with erotic fancies and seminal emission

Female: 

• Vicarious menstruation
• Ovaries burn, painful and swollen also called ovaritis
• Profuse menses after miscarriage
• Discharge of blood from the slightest provocation
• Bright red partly clotted blood
• Menorrhagia at climaxes.oozing of dark blood, clotted forming long black strings
• Uterus hypertrophied also called fibroids
• Cervix bleed easily
• Postpartum haemorrhage
• Profuse lochia
• Flabby condition of the uterus
• Haemorrhage
• Congestion of various parts especially at climacteric 
• Leucorrhoea is thin yellow, white, colourless except with stool when it is thick white, blood-streaked
• Excoriating discharge
• Menses onset to easily
• Menses too profuse or too scanty
• Pain from back to loins and womb during menses
• Crampy pain during menses
• Great nervous restlessness
• Flatulence and nausea which is relieved by eating
• Frequent profuse urination
• Useful in false pain preceding labour and after pain
• Frequent and very early miscarriage is causing sterility
• A reflex symptom from uterine affection

Extremities:

• Muscular debility
• Sensation as if boiling water is running along the back
• Clonic and Tetanic movements
• Muscular contraction especially of lower limbs
• Stiff, sore feeling in Nape of neck
• Feels as if back would break.sacral backache
• Lower extremities week and heavy

Fever: 

• Abundant sweat
• Pulse at first accelerated then enfeebled
• Palpitation

Skin:

• Alopecia
• The tendency to small boils 
• Eczema
• Copper coloured spots
• Pruritus
• Sunburn
• Psoriasis internally and externally

Sleep :

• Sexual dreams, without emission, and disgusting
• Waking him in sleep
• Urinated with difficulty and tenesmus
• Restless at night, with fever, with troubled dreams
• Difficulty in falling asleep and then unpleasant dreams

Modalities:

Aggravation

• From movement
• Before menses
• In warm room
• Lying on the affected side

Amelioration

• Lying down
• In open-air

Relationship: 

• Compare: Secale Cornutum, Sabina 

Dose: 

• Tincture to the third potency