Secale cornutum

Name: Claviceps purpurea.
English: Ergot; Secale cornutum; spurred rye; St. Antony's fire.
Content: oxytocic alkaloids like ergotamine, ergotoxine, ergometrine; hallucinogenic compounds lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
Mind: hallucinogenic.
General: diabetes.
Action: peripheral vasoconstrictor.
Nervous: consciousness lost; Epilepsy; convulsive and gangrenous ergotism, St. Antony's fire - burning sensations in hands and feet and hallucinations.
Nervous: convulsions; autonomic nervous system imbalance.
Head: migraine, chronic cerebral congestion; cluster headaches; dizziness due to motion sickness.
Eyes: corneal affections.
Ears: ffections of inner auditory tubes.
Throat: hyperthyroidia.
Lungs: whooping cough;fatal respiratory collapse.
Heart failure; post-operative deep vein thrombosis.
Stomach: nausea, vomiting.
Rectum: diarrhoea.
Female: uterine contractions weak; abortion, miscarriage; post-partum uterine bleeding.timulating labor, difficult menstruation, internal haemorrhages.
Limbs: gangrene with agonizing pain.