Martha is a radiant 64-year-old former flight attendant that reached the pinnacle of her career as a Cabin Chief. She keeps pristine tanned skin, makes up artfully, impeccably dressed, even for grocery shopping, and speaks flawlessly 3 languages. Well-traveled, well educated, her standards are high, including from herself. Now, retired for 2 years after flying with different airlines since her early 20s, she started experiencing excessive weight gain, and recent painful and copious bleeding caused by metrorrhagia. Married in her early 30s, she finally got pregnant but had a miscarriage while flying—a distress she managed professionally. Several years later after several unsuccessful invitro fertilizations (IVFs), she got pregnant in her late 30s and had a boy, the joy of the couple. Five years before her visit, the boy had died in a motorcycle crash at age 20. Martha did not cry, tears were not coming. She remained composed during the funerals and thereafter. The pain was deep, silent, dignified. Secale cornutum presented matching symptoms.
Secale cornutum is prepared from ergot, a toxic rye fungus that may cause bleeding and convulsions. In a small quiet town in France in the summer of 1951 several hundred people suddenly experienced vomiting, cold chills, heat waves, and intense hallucinations. Ergot causes death when people hallucinate and jump from the window—a few cases in 1951. The collective outburst was later tracked back to a mill using fungus-contaminated rye. As a homeopathic remedy, Secale cornutum is also a grief remedy. Homeopaths use it when the patient reports a history of shocks to internal organs. For women Secale serves after womb injuries, including miscarriages and intense bleeding after delivery.
What else than Secale cornutum can we use? Let’s look at another difficult case, in Part 4
