STAPHISAGRIA

STAPHISAGRIA. [Staphis.] Stavisacre. Hahnemann. Ranunculaceae.

► Want of memory and heavy weight between eyes. ► Child throws or pushes things away indignantly. ► Indifference, low-spirited, dulness of mind ; after onanism. ► Hypochondriacal, apathetic, with weak memory ; caused by unmerited insults ; sexual excesses, or by persistently dwelling on sexual subjects. ► Very sensitive to least impression ; the least word that seems wrong, hurts her. ► Fretful peevishness, with excessive ill humor. ► Great indignation about things done by others or by himself ; grieves about the consequences. ► Ailments from indignation with vexation, or reserved displeasure.

► Dull feeling of head, with inability to perform any mental labor. ► Sensation of a round ball in forehead, sitting firmly there even when shaking the head. ► Pressive, stupefying headache, especially in forehead. ► Headache, as if brain was compressed, worse in forehead. ► Brain aches, as if torn to pieces, in morning on rising from bed, worse from motion ; bitter, from rest and warmth ; headache passes off with much yawning. ► Sharp, burning, needle-like stitches in left temple. ► Dull stitches in right temple, worse from touch. ► Feeling in occiput as if hollow, or as if the brain was not large enough for the space.

► Painful drawing at various spots, worse from touch. ► Humid, itching, fetid eruption on occiput, sides of head and behind ears, scratching changes place of itching, but increases the oozing. ► Painful sensitiveness of scalp, skin peels off, with itching and smarting, worse in evening, and from getting warm. ► Hair falls off, mostly from occiput and around the ears, with humid, fetid eruption, or dandruff on the scalp. ► Pressing, stinging and tearing pains in bones and in periosteum of cranium ; swelling and suppuration of bones (caries), with putrid-smelling sweat, day and night ; worse from motion and contact. ► Burning-stinging on head, mostly on left-temple ; worse from heat of bed, at 3 P.M., and when lying on it.

► On looking at sun, hot water runs out of left eye, scalding cheek and making eye smart. ► Syphilitic iritis, with burning pain in eyeball, temple and side of face. ► Arthritic ophthalmia, pains extending to teeth ; eyes burn on least exertion, as if very dry, yet lachrymation is constant. ► Blepharitis, margins of lids dry, with hardened styes, or tarsal tumors. ► Left upper tarsal edge itches, relieved by rubbing. ► Styes, nodosities, chalazae on eyelids, one after the other, sometimes ulcerating. ► Anchylops, leaving a small, hard tumor. ► Steatoma on conjunctiva palpebrarum. ► Polypi of conjunctiva.

► Hardness of hearing, with swelling of tonsils, especially after abuse of mercury. ► Stitches in the ears.

► Scratching in choanae. ► Ulceration of nostrils, with scabs deep in nose. ► Violent coryza, one nostril is stuffed up, with much sneezing and lachrymation ; with nasal voice.

► Countenance sunken, nose peaked, eyes sunken, with blue margins around them. ► Inflammation of bones of face ; boring pains. ► Brown and blue color of face when getting angry. ► Eruption dry, itching, painful, skin rough.

► Lips full of ulcers and scurfs, with burning pains. ► Easy dislocation of jaw. ► Painfulness of the submaxillary glands, with or without swelling.

► Black, crumbling, carious ; show dark streaks. ► Toothache during menses. ► Gnawing, tearing in decayed teeth ; shooting into ear, throbbing in temples ; worse from cold drinks and touch, but not from biting on them. ► Fistula dentals. ► Gums white, swollen, ulcerating, spongy, bleed when touched.

► Taste : flat ; of food, bitter.

► Painful excrescence on inside of cheek. ► Stomacace ; mouth and tongue full of blisters. ► Constant accumulation of water in mouth.

► Dry and rough, with soreness when talking and swallowing. ► While talking she swallows continually. ► Swelling of tonsils, also after abuse of mercury.

► Extreme hunger, even when stomach is full of food. ► Appetite for bread or milk. ► Longing only for thin, fluid food (soup). ► Great desire for wine, brandy or tobacco. ► Want of thirst.

► After eating : 14, 19, 20 ; meat : 27. After drinks : 19, 29. Cold drinks : 10.

► Belching makes a scratching in throat, irritable larynx, and then is followed by cough. ► Bitter eructations after sour food. ► Water brash.

► Sensation as if stomach were hanging down, relaxed.

► A feeling of weakness in abdomen, as if it would drop, wants to hold it up. ► Spasmodic cutting in abdomen after eating and drinking. ► Swollen abdomen (in children), with much colic. ► Colic : after lithotomy ; with urging to stool, or with urging to urinate and squeamishness, worse after food or drink. ► Painful swelling of inguinal glands.

► Flatus ; hot ; smells like rotten eggs. ► Stool : retarded, but soft, escapes with the flatus ; costive, with much urging. ► After the least food or drink, gripping and dysenteric stool. ► Hemorrhoids, with enlarged prostate ; intense pain in back and through the whole pelvis.

► Frequent urge to urinate, with scanty discharge in a thin stream, or discharge of dark urine by drops. ► Profuse discharge of watery, pale urine, with much urging. ► Urine involuntary, acrid, with burning ; neither straining nor external pressure causes a discharge, especially after difficult confinement. ► During and after micturition, burning in urethra ; after micturition, urging as if the bladder was not emptied.

► Sexual desire excited. ► Effects of onanism ; face sunken ; abashed look ; nocturnal emissions ; backache ; weak legs ; organs relaxed. ► Seminal emissions followed by great prostration ; dyspnoea. ► A trophy of the testicles. ► Testicles inflamed, with burning-stinging, and pressing-drawing. ► Shooting-drawing in the cord. ► Right testicle feels as if compressed. ► Aching in outer side of left testicle when walking, worse from touch. ► Voluptuous itching of scrotum. ► Soft, humid excrescences on and behind corona glandis.

► Very sharp, shooting pains in ovary, which is exquisitely sensitive to pressure. ► Menses : irregular, late and profuse ; sometimes wanting ; first of pale blood, then dark and clotted ; occasionally spasmodic uterine contractions. ► Granular vegetations of vagina. ► Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, especially when sitting. ► Spasmodic pains in the vulva and vagina. ► Stinging-itching of vulva.

► Sensation of constriction and pressure in throat pit after anger, aggravated when swallowing. ► Rawness in larynx from talking. ► Feeble voice from weakness of vocal organs, after anger. ► Hoarseness, with much tenacious mucus in larynx and chest.

► Dyspnoea, with constriction ; also, after seminal emissions.

► Spasmodic, hollow, with expectoration of yellow, tough, purulent mucus at night ; only during the day ; after vexation or indignation ; worse after eating meat. ► Sputa loosened at night and generally swallowed.

► Soreness and rawness in chest, especially when coughing.

► Palpitation : from the least motion ; from mental exertion ; from music ; after siesta. ► Trembling beating of the heart. ► Pulse frequent and small ; often trembling.

► Painful swelling of the glands of the throat, neck and axillae. ► Pain in small of back, as after overlifting ; worse at rest, at night and in morning, and when rising from a seat. ► Violent stitches upward in the back. ► Suppurating swelling in psoas muscles. ► Rheumatic drawing, pressure and tension in neck, with stiffness.

► Herpes : with scabs on elbows ; on hands. ► Osteitis of the phalanges of fingers. ► Numbness in tips of fingers. ► Arthritic nodosities on the fingers.

► Nates ache while sitting ; pain extends to small of back, sacrum and hip-joint. ► Pulsating in hip-joint, as from beginning suppuration. ► Legs painfully weak, especially the knees. ► Stitches in knee and knee-joint. ► Crural neuralgia, stinging, stitching pains during movement. ► On putting foot to the ground, pricking in balls of feet, as if toes will be drawn down.

► Motion : 3, 4, 23, 29, 33, 44. Exertion : 5, 40. Walking : 22. Stepping : 33. Stretching : 37. Rising from a seat : 31. Rest : 3, 23, 31. Sitting : 23, 33. Lying on affected part : 4. Leaning against something : 3.

► Nervous weakness. ► Paralysis on one side, from anger. ► Twitches at night. ► Convulsions, with loss of consciousness, retraction of the thumbs and foaming at mouth.

► Violent yawning and stretching, bringing tears to eyes. ► Sleepy all day, awake all night, body aches all over. ► Goes to sleep late : from crowding of ideas ; because the herpes or ulcers burn and itch.

► Morning : 3, 31. 3 P.M. : 4, 40.Evening : 40. Night : 5, 27, 31, 36, 37, 40, 46. After midnight : 40. Toward morning : 40. Day : 27, 37.

► Weather room : 40. Heat of bed : 4. Sun : 5. Wants to uncover : 40. Open air : 40.

► Chill and coldness predominate. ► Chill : 3 P.M., better exercising in open air ; in evening, with heat in face ; ascending from neck over head, or running down back ; more in a warm room. ► Heat : wants to uncover ; thirst, external after 12 P.M., followed by chill toward morning ; burning at night, mostly on hands and feet. ► Sweat : profuse ; cold on forehead and feet ; at night smelling like rotten eggs ; with desire to uncover. ► Tertian fever, with symptoms of scurvy ; constipation. ► Before and after ague, ravenous hunger.

► Right : 22, 23. Left : 4, 5, 22. Above downward : 23, 40. Below upward : 31, 40.

► Stiffness and sensation of fatigue in all the joints, on motion. ► Painful swelling of glands. ► Bones, especially those of the fingers, imperfectly developed. ► Swelling and suppuration of bones and of periosteum ; shooting, tearing, or boring pains. ► Arthritic nodosities on joints.

► Mechanical injuries from sharp, cutting instruments. ► Touch : 10, 22, 23. Contact : 4. Pressure : 23. Rubbing : 5. Scratching : 4, 46. Combing : 4.

► Herpes : dry, with scabs on joints ; chronic, with nightly twitching ; burn after scratching. ► Ulcers, in scurvy. ► Fig-warts : dry, pediculated ; after abuse of mercury.

► Abuse of mercury or Thuja. ► Coloc. and Staphis. act well after each other. ► Antidote to Staphis. : Camphor. ► Incompatible : Ran. bulb.