Staphisagria
staphNervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the genito-urinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms calling for this drug. Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum. Ill effects of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very sensitive. Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after extraction of teeth. Sphincters lacerated or stretched.
Staphisagria — Materia Medica
Staphisagria — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Staphisagria — mind · James Tyler Kent
The mental symptoms are very important, and the impressions made upon the mind and thence upon the body guide to Staphysagria as a remedy. Excitable, easily aroused to anger, but seldom irascible, that is, easily disturbed and excited, but seldom manifests it. Suitable in cases where complaints come from pent up wrath, suppressed anger, suppressed feelings. The person becomes speechless from suppressed indignation, anger with indignation. Complaints brought on by these causes; irritable bladder with frequent urging to urinate, lasting many days after suppressed wrath, after insults. "Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences." A gentleman comes in contact with one beneath his station and an altercation takes place, an argument which ends in insult, and the gentleman turns his back on the other. He goes home and suffers; he does not speak it out, but controls it and then suffers from it. He has sleepless nights and many days of fatigue, brain-fag; for days and weeks he cannot add nor subtract, makes mistakes in writing and speaking, has irritability of the bladder, colic, etc. Loss of memory with a sense of weight between the eyes; it is difficult to say whether this is a feeling in the head or an effort to describe a dullness of mind. Feels as if a ball of wood were in the forehead, or as if the whole cerebrum were made of wood; it feels numb. It is difficult to state whether it is a condition of the mind or head. Accompanying this sensation of a lump in the forehead is a feeling as if the whole back of the head were hollow; the patient may describe it as a feeling of numbness or a lack of sensation. "Indifferent, low-spirited, dullness of mind after onanism." Staph.
Staphisagria — general · H.C. Allen
Nervous weakness; as if done up after much hard work. Craving for tobacco. Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over.
Staphisagria — peculiar · Margaret Lucy Tyler
if someone were following him ; this caused anxiety and fear ; and he must always look about him.” Loch., Med. and a few other drugs have this Ancient Mariner sensation :— '* Like one who in a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on And turns no more his head, Because he knows a fearful fiend Doth close behind him tread.” Another characteristic symptom is, ” Inclined to throw away everything he took in his hand.” This is part of the ” Wants a thing, and when he gets it, throws it away.” (Comp. Cham., Cina.) As Nash says, ” Staphisagria, Chamomilla, Xux vomica, Cina, Colocynth stand very close to each other for cross, ugly, irritable subjects, and there are few cases that one or the other will not fit.” And Nash draws attention to another characteristic,—he says, unique : ” This remedy has a very peculiar symptom, which appeared in the provings, and which I have verified, viz. ‘ burning in urethra when not urinating ’. While urinating the burning ceased. We have plenty of remedies for burning before, during and after urination, but Staphisagria is the only one having this burning all the time between the acts of urination.” Nash’s résumé:— Cross, ugly, scrawny, pot-bellied children ; subject to colic ; worse after food and drink. Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. Styes, nodosities, chalazæ on eyelids, one after another, some times ulcerating. Burning in urethra when not urinating. Very sensitive to slightest mental impressions ; least action or harmless word offends. Bad effects of sexual abuse ; mind dwelling continually on sexual subjects. Teeth decay early in children ; cannot be kept clean. Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down, relaxed.
Staphisagria — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
7 6 3 Toothache when eating: teeth are not firm, hut when touched waggle ; when eating, feels as if teeth were pressed deeper into gums, and the same when the two rows of tedh only touch one another ; but the gums are white .* Tickling pricking in right lower molars. Rough throat. Constant accumulation of mucus in mouth., without had taste. Frequent hiccough. Adipsia : drinks less than usual. After indignation, cardialgia.\ Colic, after indignation : after lithotomy ; with urging to stool : or urging to urinate and squeamishness. < food and drink. Flatulence becomes displaced in hypogastrium. Hard painful pressure in right abdomen below navel. Pinching stitch in abdominal viscera. Violent, twisting about, pinching pain in whole abdomen, now in one part, now in another. Hot flatus ; much flatus is developed. Itching needle-pricks in renal region. Costiveness. With the feeling as if flatus would be discharged, a thin, unnoticed stool occurs. Itching in anus while sitting, independent of stool. Frequent call to u rina te, when very little dark urine is discharged. Call to.urinate; scarcely a spoonful passes, mostly reddish or dark-yellow in a thin stream, or by drops, and after he has passed it always feels as if the bladder were not empty, for some urine continues to dribble away. On awaking from sleep, pressure on the bladder. Every time water is passed, burning in the whole urethra. Violent drawing burning stitches out of right inguinal ring, as if in the spermatic cord as far as right testicle. Aching pain in left testicle, when walking, and whenever rubbed ; the pain is more violent on touching it. Effects of onanism or sexual excesses. Seminal emissions fol lowed by great chagrin and mortification : prostration : dyspnoea. • Hering gives a cured case.
Staphisagria — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco, onanism; sexual excesses; from the touch on affected parts.
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