Staphisagria

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

Staphisagria

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Keynotes

Nervous tembling. Squeezing or stinging smarting, as if cut. Pains that move into teeth. .................... Morbidly sensitive; easily offended. Always angry. Gloomy and petulant; throws things. Poor memory. Hypochondriasis. Sexually minded; unsatisfied urge; widows. Sheepish; sensitive mentally and physically. Imagines insults. Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent. Brain feels torn. Compressive, stupefying headache. As of a heavy load in forehead. Moist, foul, eroding milk-crust; < occiput. Dryness in eyes. Nodes in lids. Styes. Blepharitis. Sickly, peaked and hollow-eyed. Neuralgia, from caries; pains go to eyes. Coryza, now thick, now thin; ulcerating. Swelled sub-mental gland; abscess. Pale, bleeding gums. Loose, aching, black, crumbling teeth; < eating and during menses; > hard pressure and heat. Pyorrhœa. Musty taste. Hungry; craves milk. Colic; flatulent; ovarian; < coition. Dysentery. Irritable bladder. Urinates a slender stream. Trickling or burning along posterior urethra; < after walking or riding, > urinating. Priapism. Prostatitis. Dysuria; of brides; in pregnancy (Pop-t.). Itching or sensitive vulva. Pains from ovaries into thighs. Salpingitis. Crural neuralgia. Tight chest, at close of coition. Cough, < cleaning teeth or alternating with sciatica. Violent yawning; brings tears; after headache. Pains that precede shingles. Backache; in bed in A.M. Fine tearing in or numb fingertips. Nodes on finger joints. Skin symptoms, alternate with joints pains. Weak knees. Biting itching; as of vermin; changing place on scratching. LACERATED WOUNDS; < sphincters; perineum, etc.; stitch pains. Amorous dreams, with pollutions. Sweat and flatus smell like bad eggs.

Worse

Emotions: Chagrin. Vexation. Indignation. Quarrels. Sexual excesses. Onanism. Touch. Cold drinks. Lacerations. Stretching parts. Mercury. Night.

Better

Warmth. Rest. Break-fast.

Region

NERVES. TEETH. Genito-urinary organs. Fibrous tissues: Eyelids. Tarsi. Skin. Glands. Right deltoid.

Relationships

Complementary: Colo. Related: Cham. Merc.

What the other books say about Staphisagria

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Staphisagria in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Staphisagria in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Staphisagria in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Staphisagria in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Staphisagria — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/staphisagria. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.