Ustilago Maidis

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Epithelium: Skin. Hair. Nails.
Female sexual organs.

WORSE

Climacteric.
Touch.
Motion.

Tumid tissues, tending to bleed slowly. Dark hæmorrhage. As of a knot; in throat, bowels, uterus, etc. .................... Depression. Loss of hair and nails. Sticky secretion matting the hair. Milk crust. Masturbation. Menses half liquid, half clots or stringy; vicarious. The uterus seeps dark, clotted blood. Spongy cervix. Metrorrhagia. Acute ovarian pain. Burning in r. ovary; soreness in l. and of uterus; pains shoot down thighs. Foul, yellow or brown leucorrhœa. Pain under l. breast. Dry, hot skin.

Related: Asaf. Bov. Sec-c.

Ustilago Maidis across the other classic books

Ustilago Maidis appears in 6 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Ustilago maidis, Corda. Natural order , Fungi. Common name , Corn smut. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Corn-smut Flabby condition of uterus. Hæmorrhage. Congestion to various parts, especially at climacteric. Crusta lactea ( Vioia tric ). Very depressed. Full feeling. Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities. Aching in eyeballs, with much lachrymation. Uncontrollable masturbation. Spermatorrhœa, with erotic…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DISCHARGES, vicarious”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“maidis. Corn-smut. N. O. Fungi. Trituration. 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…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Corn-smut. Fungi. A fungus found growing on Indian corn. The tincture is prepared from the fresh ripe fungus. Introduced and proved by Burt, see Monograph ; proved by Hoyne, Trans. Am. I. Hom., 1872, p. 493. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Spermatorrhœa , Burt, Monog. ; Ovarian irritation , Burt, Monog. ; Ovaritis , Burt…”

Ustilago Maidis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Ustilago Maidis in 366 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (118), EXTREMITIES (26), BACK (24), MALE GENITALIA (24), HEAD (22).

FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - stringy blood
FEMALE GENITALIA - IRRITATION - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - passive
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Ovaries - left
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - cramping - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - dark
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA
ABDOMEN - PAIN - menses, - flow becomes free,amel.when - hard,steady
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - coagulated - expelled in paroxysms
FEMALE GENITALIA - HARDNESS - Ovaries - left
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - bright red - clots,with
FEMALE GENITALIA - INDURATION - Uterus - os
FEMALE GENITALIA - ABORTION - month, - third
EXTREMITIES - THICK nails
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - copious - menopause,during
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - gushing
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - pressing - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA - ATONY of uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA - ENLARGED - ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - labor pains - ineffectual

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