Staphysagria staph.

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

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

Warmth. Rest. Break - fast.

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.

Complementary: Colo. Related: Cham. Merc.

For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses. Very sensitive to slight mental impressions; least action or harmless words offend (Ign.). Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences. Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses (Anac., Aur., Nat., Phos. ac.). Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin. Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away (Kreos.) [Cina, Bry.]. Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted (the rev. of Nux). Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when shaking the head. Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting, pains, like the cutting of a knife. For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure (Aur.). Nervous weakness; as if one up after much hard work. Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake (Con., Thuja). Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink; but not from biting or chewing; < drawing cold air into mouth; < from cold drinks and after eating. Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges (at the roots, Mez., Thuja); scorbutic cachexia. Craving for tobacco. Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed (Agar., Ipec., Tab.). Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section (Bis., Hep.). Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor (Op.); burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; prolapse of bladder. Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin (Plat.). Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures. Spermatorrhoea: with sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission followed by headache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs. Cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth. Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke (Spong.). Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning before rising. Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers (Caul., Colch., Lyc.); inflammation of phalages with sweating and suppuration. Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over. In fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack. Eczema: yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; now vesicles form from contact with exudation; by scratching one place itching ceases, but appears in another. Fig-warts: dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like; after abuse of mercury (Nit. ac., Sab., Thuja).

Compare: Caust., Col., Ign., Lyc., Puls., Col. and Staph. act well after each other; Caust., Col., Staph., follow well in order names.

Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco; onanism; sexual excesses; from the least touch on affected parts. Inimical: Ran. bulb., either before or after.

Patients are so sensitive that the least action or word troubles or annoys his feelings; anger and indignation. Amorous dreams.

Toothache so sensitive that one can't bear to move the tongue; black streaks running through the teeth. Affections of teeth on right side chiefly; decayed teeth very often are excessively tender on being filled--can't bear the operation.

Scald-head with yellow scab, smells badly, itches very much, etc. Exanthema on the cheeks, face, or head, particularly if it is yellow; with a creeping itching; ulcers, with gnawing pains. Incised wounds, with great pain.

Flatulent colic, where the flatus is incarcerated; gnawing pains; darting pains; sensation of trembling in the inner parts.

Pains in the zygoma; in the cheeks; in the under jaw. Affections of the angles of the eye, particularly the inner; glands about the neck and lower jaw; diseased ovaries, particularly the right one. Yellow scabs behind the ear. Flat taste; obstructed evacuation of the bowels. Micturition too frequent; too sparing. Polypus; arthritic nodes; restlessness of the body; scurvy.

From mental affections; from anger, with indignation; from grief; from mortification, especially if caused by offence; from loss of fluids; from tobacco; from mercury; sexual excesses; sleeping in the afternoon; touching the parts (as in toothache, can't bear to have the tongue, drink or anything touch the teeth); from the least touch on affected parts.

After breakfast; from breaking wind.

Calc. carb., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Nux vom., Sulphur.

Camphor.

Sensation of a round ball in forehead, sitting firmly even when shaking the head. Styes, constantly recurring, sometimes ulcerating. Hysteria or hypochondriasis from sexual or onanism.

Stavesacre

Nervous 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.

Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about her. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and refuses them when offered.

Stupefying headache; passes off with yawning. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and behind ears (Oleand).

Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles. Recurrent styes. Chalazæ (Platanus). Eyes sunken, with blue rings. Margin of lids itch. Affections of angles of eye, particularly the inner. Lacerated or incised wounds of cornea. Bursting pain in eyeballs of syphilitic iritis.

Stitches flying to the ear on swallowing, especially left.

Toothache during menses. Teeth black and crumbling. Salivation, spongy gums, bleed easily (Merc; Kreos). Submaxillary glands swollen. After eating feels sleepy pyorrhea (Plantago)

Flabby and weak. Desire for stimulants. Stomach feels relaxed. Craving for tobacco. Canine hunger, even when stomach is full. Nausea after abdominal operations.

Colic after anger. Hot flatus. Swollen abdomen in children, with much flatus. Colic, with pelvic tenesmus. Severe pain following an abdominal operation. Incarcerated flatus. Diarrhœa after drinking cold water, with tenesmus. Constipation (2 drops tincture night and morning), hæmorrhoids, with enlarged prostate.

Especially after self-abuse; persistent dwelling on sexual subjects. Spermatorrhœa, with sunken features; guilty look; emissions, with backache and weakness and sexual neurasthenia. Dyspnœa after coition.

Parts very sensitive, worse sitting down (Berb; Kreos). Irritable bladder in young married women. Leucorrhœa. Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen; aching around the hips.

Cystocele (locally and internally). Cystitis in lying-in patients. Ineffectual urging to urinate in newly married women. Pressure upon bladder; feels as if it did not empty. Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel. Burning in urethra during micturition. Prostatic troubles; frequent urination, burning in urethra when not urinating (Thuja; Sabal; Ferr pic). Urging and pain after urinating. Pain after lithotomy.

Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry, and itch violently; scratching changes location of itching. Fig-warts pedunculated (Thuja). Arthritic nodes. Inflammation of phalanges. Night-sweats.

Muscles, especially of calves, feel bruised. Backache; worse in morning before rising. Extremities feel beaten and painful. Joints stiff. Crural neuralgia. Dull aching of nates extending to hip-joint and small of back.

Worse, anger, indignation, grief, mortification, loss of fluids, onanism, sexual excesses, tobacco; least touch on affected parts. Better, after breakfast, warmth, rest at night.

Inimical: Ranunc bulb.

Complementary: Caust; Colocy.

Compare: Ferrum pyrophos (tarsal cysts); Colocy; Caust; Ign; Phos ac; Calad.

Antidote: Camph.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Cross, ugly, scrawny, pot-bellied children; subject to colic; < after food or drink. Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.

Styes, nodosities, chalazæ, on eyelids, one after another, sometimes ulcerating.

Burning in the urethra when not urinating; very sensitive to slightest mental impressions; least action or harmless word offends.

Bad effects from 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; craving for tobacco.

"Great indignation about things done by others or himself, grieving about the consequences, continual concern about the future."

"Throws things away indignantly, or pushes them away on the table."

"Children are ill humored and cry for things which after getting they petulantly throw away; worse in the morning."

"Very sensitive to the least impression, the least word that seems wrong hurts her very much."

"Hypochondriasis, apathy; weak memory; caused by unmerited insults, sexual excess, or by persistently dwelling on sexual subjects."

"Ailments from indignation and vexation or reserved displeasure; sleeplessness."

I quote all these symptoms in order to impress the reader with the value of Staphisagria as a mind remedy. Chamomilla is often used when Staphisagria would be better, especially for children, and Nux vomica is sometimes used for adults the same way.

Phosphoric acid is sometimes used for the results of onanism when Staphisagria would do better. You will also notice that this remedy may be indicated for the effects of anger instead of Chamomilla or Colocynth. Here are Chamomilla, Nux vomica Cina, Colocynth and Staphisagria standing very close to each other for cross, ugly, irritable subjects, and there are few cases that one or the other will not fit. Then we have Phosphoric acid, Natrum muriaticum, Anacardium, Aurum and Staphisagria for the apathetic or hypochondriacal.

Staphisagria has a sensation as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed. Ipecac and Tabacum, have the same sensation.

Sometimes it is described as a sinking sensation. It also has the same sensation in the abdomen; feels as though it would drop, wants to support it with the hands. Colic, which might be styled "habitual colic," in scrawny, ugly, pot-bellied children, and especially if they suffer much with their teeth, which turn black, with tender, spongy gums, which are sensitive and painful.

Now when we add dysentery to the foregoing, we see that Staphisagria acts along the whole intestinal tract. Staphisagria is one of the remedies which has a marked characteristic aggravation after the least food or drink. This remedy has a very peculiar symptom, which appeared in the provings, and which I have verified, viz., "burning in the 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 urinating. In addition to being one of the best remedies for onanism, it is one of the best for affections of the prostrate gland in old men, with frequent urination and dribbling of urine afterwards. A very common and troublesome symptom found in connection with troubles of the genital organs, both male and female, is backache, which is very peculiar, in that it is always worse at night in bed and in the morning before rising. It is a very efficacious remedy here. Staphisagria is a good skin remedy. It cures both dry and moist eruptions. The eczema of Staphisagria oozes an acrid moisture from under the scabs, and new vesicles form from the contact of the exudation. They generally itch very severely, and one peculiarity is, that when the itching is relieved by scratching in one place it immediately appears in another. The eczema is often on the head, on the sides around the ears, but the most marked action is in the eyelids. Herring's card expresses it thus: "Styes, nodosities, chalazæ on eyelids, one after another, sometimes ulcerating." There is only one remedy that can compare with this one in chronic blepharitis, and that is Graphites (see also Borax). It has some remarkable cures of cross, puny, sickly children, having the teeth and eyelid symptoms. Not only were the local troubles remedied, but the patient was cured every way.

I think of but two other uses of Staphisagria, which I wish to mention. First, its use in the cure of condylomata, figwarts, or cauliflower-like excrescences. In one case, with the 200th of this remedy, I removed an excrescence on the perinæum of a lady in which the growth was an inch long and the appearance was exactly in appearance like cauliflower. It rapidly disappeared under the action of this remedy and never returned. Second, its use for Incised wounds. It is the best remedy here, where there is a clean cut as after surgical operations. It is to such wounds what Calendula is to lacerations, Arnica, Hamamelis, Ledum and Sulph. acid for bruises, Rhus tox., Calcarea ostrearum and Nux vomica for strains; Calcarea phosphorica and Symphytum for fractures.

Anger and indignation, with pushing or throwing away of what one holds in his hand. Justifiable ill-humor over what has happened or has been done by oneself ; weeping and dejected over the supposed ill consequences of it. Continuous grief and anxiety about the future. Hypochondria and Hysteria after unmerited insults (or sexual excesses), with complaints of flatulence. Weakness of memory. Hypochondriacal indifference (after onanism).

Dull feeling of the head, with inability to perform any mental labor. Pressing in the forehead, as from a very heavy lump which will not be shaken off ; worse in the morning, from motion and from stooping ; better when at rest, and when leaning the head against something. Stupefying, pressing headache, as if the brain were compressed. Sensation as if the head would burst, especially in the forehead and when stooping. Humid, scalding-itching fetid eruption on the back part of the head, the sides of the head, and behind the ears ; when scratching, the itching changes the place, but makes it more humid. Painful sensitiveness of the scalp ; the skin peels off with itching and biting ; worse in the evening and from getting warm. The hair falls off, mostly on the back part of the head and around the ears, with humid, fetid eruption, or dandruff on the scalp. Pressing-stinging and tearing pains in the bones and in the periosteum on the cranium ; swelling up and suppuration of the bones (caries), with putrid smelling perspiration day and night ; worse from motion and contact. Burning-stinging on the external head, mostly on the left temple ; worse from the heat of the bed, when lying on it, and at 3 P.M.

Dryness of the eyeballs and lids. Inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, with agglutination at night. Styes. Nodosities in the eyelids. Inflammation of the eyes, with pimples around them.

Hardness of hearing with swelling of the tonsils, especially after the abuse of Mercury.

Ulceration of the nostrils with scabs deep in the nose. Violent coryza, one nostril is stuffed up, with much sneezing and lachrymation.

Countenance sunken, nose peaked, eyes sunken and blue margins around them. Inflammation of the bones of the face. Brown and blue color of face when getting angry. Scurfy lips with burning pains. Easy dislocation of the articulation of the jaw. Painfulness of the submaxillary glands, with (or without) swelling.

Teeth become black and exfoliate. The teeth are very sensitive to the touch and to cold drinks, but not when biting on them. White, painful swelling and ulceration of the gums. Excrescences and nodosities on the gums. Painful excrescence on the inside of the cheek. Stomacace : mouth and tongue full of blisters. Throat dry and rough, with soreness when talking and swallowing. Feeble voice from weakness of the vocal organs, after anger. Nasal voice from stoppage of the posterior nares. While talking she swallows continually. Swelling of the tonsils, also after the misuse of Mercury.

Ravenous hunger even when the stomach is full. Longing only for thin, fluid food (soup). Great desire for brandy and tobacco. All the food tastes bitter. Bitter eructations after sour food. Water-brash. Spasmodic cutting in the abdomen after eating and drinking. Sensation of weakness in the abdomen as if it should vanish. Swollen abdomen (in children). Colic with urging to urinate. Painful swelling of the inguinal glands. Flatulence smelling like rotten eggs.

Constipation with urging to go to stool. Retarded but soft feces. Evacuations with much flatulence. Dysenteric stools ; with pressing and cutting in the abdomen before, during, and after stool.

Frequent urging 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. During and after micturition burning in the urethra, after micturition urging, as if the bladder were not emptied.

Men. On and behind the corona glandis soft, humid excrescences. (Sycosis). Inflammation of the testicles (and ovaries) with burning, stinging, and pressing-drawing. Sexual instinct excited. Women. Painful sensitiveness of the sexual organs, especially when sitting.

Sensation of constriction and pressure in the throat-pit after anger, aggravated when swallowing. Rawness in the larynx from talking. Soreness and rawness in the chest, especially when coughing. Dyspnœa with constriction and restlessness in the chest. Hoarseness with much tenacious mucus in the larynx and chest. Violent spasmodic cough with expectoration of yellow, tough, purulent mucus at night. Palpitation of the heart from the least exertion, from mental exertion, from hearing music, and after the siesta.

Pain in the small of the back as after overlifting, worse at rest at night and in the morning, and when rising from a seat. Violent stitches upwards in the back. Suppurating swelling in the psoas muscle. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck and under the aims.

Upper. Herpes with scabs on the elbows. Herpes on the hands. Numbness in the tips of the fingers. Arthritic nodosities on the fingers. Lower. Pulsating pain in the hip-joint as from beginning suppuration. Painful weakness of the legs, especially the knees. Stitches in the knees and knee-joints.

Paralysis on one side from anger. Twitches at night. Stiffness and sensation of fatigue in all the joints in the morning. The muscles are painful to the touch, and the joints on motion. Bad effects from the abuse of Mercury.

Violent yawning and stretching, bringing the tears to the eyes. Goes to sleep late, from crowding of ideas or because the herpes and ulcers burn and itch, or the calves pain violently.

Pulse very fast but small and trembling. Chilliness and coldness predominate. Violent chill in the evening with heat in the face. Chilliness 8 P.M. ; better when exercising in the open air. Chill ascending from the back over the head. Chill running down the back. External heat with thirst after midnight, followed by chill towards morning. Burning heat at night, especially on the hands and feet, with desire to uncover oneself. Profuse perspiration and disposed to perspire. Night-sweats smelling like rotten eggs. Cold perspiration on the forehead and on the feet. Tertian fever with symptoms of scurvy, such as putrid taste in the mouth, bleeding gums, want of appetite, constipation. The intermittent fever consists almost solely of a chilliness. Before and after the paroxysms of intermittent fever, ravenous hunger.

Painful swelling of the glands. Swelling and suppuration of the bones and of the periosteum. Itching herpes, burning after scratching. Dry herpes with scabs on the joints. Chronic herpes with nightly twitching. The skin is hard to heal. Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments. Arthritic nodosities on the joints.

Aggravation from anger, grief, sorrow, mortification caused by offences ; from loss of fluids ; from masturbation ; from sexual excesses ; from touching the affected parts ; from tobacco ; from the abuse of Mercury. Amelioration after breakfast.

Delphinium staphisagria. Stavesacre. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of the seeds.

Adenoids. Anger, fits of . Anus, itching of. Backache. Bashfulness. Blepharitis. Bones, diseases of. Cauliflower excrescences. Chalazion. Condylomata. Cough. Cysts. Dentition. Dysentery. Dysparunia; in newly married women. Eczema. Eyes, tumours on . Fistula dentalis. Gastralgia. Glands, affections of. Hip-joint disease. Hypochondriasis. Impotency. Iritis; syphilitic. Jaw-joint, easy dislocation of. Lumbar abscess. Mania. Masturbation, effects of. Neuralgia . Night-sweats. Nymphomania. Ovaries, affections of. Pediculosis. Perspiration, offensive . Pregnancy, nausea of. Prostate, affections of . Psoas abscess. Ranula. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Scurvy. Sea-sickness. Seborrhœa. Self-abuse . Spermatic cords, affections of. Spermatorrhœa . Steatoma. Stiff-neck. Styes . Swallowing, constant while talking. Teeth, caries of . Testicles, affections of. Tibiæ, pains in. Tobacco, effect of. Toenail, ingrowing. Tonsillitis. Toothache . Tumours; tarsal. Voice, nasal; hoarse. Warts.

The seed of Stavesacre was known to Dioscorides as an agent for producing vomiting and salivation, and for the cure of toothache; "the origin of which application," says Hahnemann ( M. M. P .), "was evidently domestic practice. J. H. Schultze, when suffering from toothache, took some of the seed in his mouth, but it gave him such a violent exacerbation that he thought he should go mad. . . . As an, exterminator of vermin this seed was called by the Greeks Øθ ειρσκσκκον, and as such it still enters into the composition of an officinal ointment ( unguentum pediculosum )." This last is the only use of Staph . now known to orthodox medicine (Brunton). Teste (who groups Staph . with Caust .) remarks that Staph ., which shares this property with Coccul ., is, like Coccul ., used in some countries for the purpose of stupefying fish. Again, Teste found Staph . (he gave it in 6th dil.), like Coccul ., a remedy for seasickness. To be successful, Staph . had to be taken at the moment when dizziness and nausea commenced, before vomiting set in; and it always helped "nervous persons, not over fat, and disposed to sadness." Staph . produced in Teste himself these symptoms: "Long-lasting vertigo, accompanied by continued nausea as in sea-sickness," and this: "Vertigo, which ceases on rapidly turning round on one's heel." This corresponds with one of Hahnemann's symptoms: "Wheeling vertigo, especially while sitting, > by walking about (in a circle)." It is noteworthy that Staph . and Coccul . are both head-remedies and both effective against head lice. Both also affect the genitals, Staph . more especially, and both are remedies for crab lice. An application of a dilution of the tincture of the strength of one part to four of water will destroy the parasites, though the state which favours their presence needs internal treatment (probably with a dilution of the same remedy) at the same time. In Teste's experience, Staph . was no less effective in the nausea of pregnancy than in the nausea of sea-sickness. Tabac . is another remedy for sickness, and Teste cured with Staph . effects of tobacco smoking (excoriated tongue; gastralgia); and he also cured with it the habit of "swallowing the tobacco smoke." The use of Staph . in the sickness of pregnancy arises out of its power over the genital functions. It produces both physical and moral sexual disturbances, provokes excesses and irregular sexual appetites, a tendency to masturbation, and a physical state corresponding to the effects of that habit. It is one, of Gallavardin's chief remedies ( Passion Génitale ) for removing the habit of masturbation in children, and for removing improper appetites in adults. Staph . is one of the remedies which has " < from coition" (in men), dyspnœa occurring during or after the act; dyspnœa and prostration also follow an emission. In women coition is painful because the external parts are excessively sensitive. This property (which is also allied to the vulnerary power of Staph .) makes Staph . a remedy of extreme value to women in the early days of married life. Some women suffer very acutely (in mind as well as body) during and for some time after the first coitus. I have seen Staph . 30 give unspeakable relief in such cases. "Constant urging to urinate in young married women" is the characteristic. — Another urinary peculiarity is burning in the urethra when not urinating. Urinary difficulties after severe labours. Prolapse of bladder. I have seen cystocele relieved by Staph . Sensitiveness; stinging, stitching, shooting pains < by touch; itching — are the chief notes of Staph , in affections of the genital organs of both sexes. It has cured prostatitis in the man, with pain running from anus along urethra; inflamed testicles with shooting and drawing in the cords; stitching towards groin and testicles. In one female prover Staph . brought on the menses a year after they had ceased, at the new moon. The symptom did not recur the following month, which led Hahnemann to conclude that this "was only the primary action of the drug." Staph . is not only a remedy for ovarian and other affections, it also meets the conditions following operations on ovaries. Effects of "wounds made by clean-cutting instruments" is the keynote. P. C. Majumdar ( Ind. H. Rev ., v. 134) gives two cases in which loss of memory following masturbation and seminal emissions was cured with Staph . 30: ( 1 ) A student, naturally robust and intelligent, lost his memory when he contracted the habit of masturbation. His symptoms were: Vacant countenance; no aptitude or inclination for mental work; despair of the future; great languor and weakness; occasional nocturnal emission; constipation. When he read anything he forgot it the next moment. Heaviness, headache, and vertigo after the least mental exertion. Staph . 30 was given morning and evening. Improvement began at once and the cure was complete in a month. ( 2 ) Another student had constant involuntary emissions, weak memory, languor; headache every morning on rising; no appetite; constipation. Staph . 30, once a day, cured. "Hypochondriasis, apathy; weak memory; caused by sexual excesses or constantly dwelling on sexual subjects," is how the symptom is given. But the mental state of Staph . need not necessarily have a sexual origin. Staph . is a remedy for anger and for the effects of anger, especially if the indignation cannot have its natural expression . "Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, swallowed his wrath, and went home sick, trembling and exhausted." The mental state of Staph ., like its physical, shows great sensitiveness to the least impression, "the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much." The touchiness may take the form of sudden, violent outbreaks provoked by mere trivial causes. I have known Staph , 30 remedy this state when the impulse to throw things at persons who had caused a trifling or imaginary irritation, had almost passed into a mania. This irritability may be manifested in sensitiveness to criticism. Irritated by trifles. Want of self-control. Fear: afraid of his shadow. Among the consequences of anger which are met by Staph . is colic: "Colic of screaming, ugly, pot-bellied children, especially if they suffer much from their teeth, which turn black, with tender, spongy gums, sensitive and painful." The irritability of Staph . is shown in the intestinal tract in " < from least food or drink." This applies to vomiting, colic, or dysentery. When colic follows operations on the ovaries or intestines, Staph . is as useful as in colic from anger. The action of Staph . on the teeth is only one of many points in which it touches Merc ., and which makes it one of the best antidotes to Merc . The characteristic of Staph . is: "Teeth turn black, and have dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges ; scorbutic cachexia." The toothache of Staph . occurs during the menses; affects sound as well as decayed teeth; < from touch of food or drink; but not from biting or chewing; is < drawing cold air into mouth; < from cold drinks and after eating. Staph . has the "sinking" sensation to an extreme degree. The stomach and abdomen feel as if hanging down relaxed. There is extreme hunger even when the stomach is full. There is ravenous hunger for days before an attack of fever; craving for tobacco; and a cough excited by tobacco smoke is an indication for it. "Inability to perspire" is one of the notes of Staph .; as also is sweat smelling of rotten eggs. Bibby (quoted A. H ., xxiii. 405) has used with much success Staph. Ø (three drops in two ounces of water; a teaspoonful every two hours) in cases of night-sweat "in patients bordering on consumption." Eruptions, like the sweat, when moist are foul-smelling. There are dry, scaly eruptions over the ends of bones. Pressing, stinging, tearing pains in periosteum. Exostoses and gouty nodes on fingers and toes. Sycotic and syphilitic condylomata. Seed warts. The ulcers of Staph . are generally very painful and sensitive. Peculiar Sensations are: As if legs would go under him. As if stupefied. As of a round ball in forehead. As if head would burst. As if brain were compressed. As if bones would be pressed out. Brain, as if torn to pieces. As if occiput hollow. As if back of brain were made of wood and couldn't think. As if occiput compressed externally and internally. As if hard substance were pressing on skull. As if eyes were very dry. As if a hard substance were lying beneath left upper lid. As if wind blew into ears. As if cheek swollen. As if glands beneath chin were swollen. As if teeth were hollow. As if stomach were hanging down. As of a heavy weight lying on stomach. As if abdomen would drop. As if bladder were not yet empty. Testicle feels as if compressed. As if something were loose in pit of stomach. As if chest were bruised. As if small of back were broken to pieces. As if a hard skin were drawn over tips of fingers of left hand. As if toes would be drawn down. Whole body as if bruised. As if done up after much hard work. Compressive pains are marked with Staph . Sensation of squeezing between stones or in a vice, in intestines, testes, head. The symptoms are: < By touch. < By pressure (as of hat). But pressure > toothache. Motion < . Rest > ; (but < pain in back). Sitting < . Swallowing < pressure in throat-pit. Eating and drinking < . < From drinking cold water. < Anger; emotions; excitement. Heat; cold; washing; open air; change of air; winter < (but warmth > pain in kidney and neuralgia of scalp; and cold water > pain in stye). < Evening to morning; night; early morning. Periodicity is marked. Croupy cough alternates with sciatica. Nightly twitching. < New moon; every month before full moon. More symptoms appear on left side than on right. < By coitus. < After urinating; when not urinating.

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Want of memory : with heavy weight between eyes ; a few minutes after reading anything, the sense escapes him, and he is scarcely able to recall it after long reflection.
Indifference, low-spirited, dulness of mind ; after onanism.
Listless, sad, dreaming of the future.
Sad distressing thoughts about one's illness.
Aversion to mental or physical labor ; inability to think.
Hypochondriasis ; apathy ; weak memory ; caused by unmerited insults, sexual excesses, or by persistently dwelling on sexual subjects.
Suffering from pride, envy or chagrin.
Fretful peevishness, with excessive ill-humor.
Very sensitive to least impression ; least word that seems wrong hurts her very much.
Children are ill-humored, and cry for things, which, after getting, they petulantly push or throw away ; < early in morning.
Great indignation about things done by others or by himself ; grieves about consequences.
Ailments from indignation and vexation, or reserved displeasure ; sleeplessness.
Continual concern about the future.
Brain-tire, with great genital weakness ; irritability, inability to sustain a mental effort ; was insulted, being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted.
For sixteen years attacks of mental disturbance, every four years, beginning on the 4th of January, always lasting two months ; great restlessness, would go about house in search of something, not knowing what, but if attracted by any object, would put it in his pocket if possible,
and, if not, would hide it in his coat ; excessive loquaciousness ; inability to read, on account of letters running together ; firmly believed he would lose his fortune, constantly told his wife to be careful that they did not starve ; thinks his wife will run away from
him ; sleep greatly disturbed, lies down a few moments, and suddenly jumps from bed to middle of room, stands there about a minute, scratches his head, and looks about as if a new idea had struck him ; constant chilliness, sits by fire for hours without getting warm, amuses himself
by throwing into the fire any article near at hand, regardless of value ; at times more violent, strikes at any one coming near him, although he is conscious something is the matter with him, and tells his wife he will try not to kill any one ; great thirst ; canine hunger,
eats anything set before him, complete loss of taste ; general appearance is marked by extreme nervous excitement ; face wears an anxious expression ; shuffling gait ; hands tremble, cannot retain anything in their grasp, not even long enough to drink water without
spilling it ; all symptoms < about midnight ; in intervals between attacks, feeling of pressure over nape of neck ; at times this disappears, and is followed by a throbbing sensation, and a rush of blood to crown of head ; vertigo, especially when walking in open
air ; from slightest gust of wind legs feel as if they were going out from under him, and that he will fall backward.

Dull feeling of head, with inability to perform any mental labor.
Heaviness of head, > by resting it upon hand.
Vertigo : only in room, as if stupefied, particularly when sitting, diminished by walking about ; on stooping and turning head rapidly.

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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. cures these conditions when they are the result of sexual excitement, masturbation, excesses in venery, allowing the mind to dwell too much on venereal subjects. Thinking on sexual relations. These patients are irritable, easily fatigued, most excitable, and when they have to control their emotions they suffer intensely.

One who is in health can easily put aside a controversy, knowing that he has done what is right, but a Staph. patient when he has to control himself goes all to pieces trembles from head to foot, loses his voice, his ability to work, cannot sleep and a headache follows.

Many a time a man has come into my office with blue lips, trembling hands, pains about the heart and all over, and he thinks he is going to die. He tells a story of an altercation and pent up wrath, and Staph. stops his trembling and quiets him. Without it he would have sleepless nights, brain-fag, prostration and headache. This state belongs especially to those who have indulged in sexual excesses.

Now, the next step. The senses are in this same irritable state, so that the tips of the fingers are sensitive, the ears are sensitive to noise, the tongue is sensitive to tastes and the nun to odors; so sensitive that everything is painfully sensated.

Every little inflamed spot will have in its center sensitive points, little nerve spots; ulcers when touched cause the patient to go all to pieces and a convulsion threatens.

Hoemorrhoidal tumors are so sensitive that they cannot be touched. Little nerve tumors form in the skin, little polypoid growths the size of a wheat grain and denuded of epithelium, covered with moisture, red, inflamed, blue, and a mere touch will throw the patient into convulsions and suffering for days and nights. A hypersensitive nerve growth will come out on the hand or on the back. Sometimes it turns back.

Again, a little wart will come out, especially about the genitals and anus, little caruncular growths about the urethra and vagina, so sensitive that if nipped between the fingers the patient will go into spasms, especially if a woman.

Staph. suits all three of the miasms.

These nervous states run all through the complaints. Look for a case of Staph. where the whole mind and nervous system are in a fret.

The Staph. headache is a numb, dull pain in the occiput and forehead, especially in these nervous constitutions.

"Sensation as of a round ball in the forehead, sitting firmly there even when shaking the, head."

Headaches from vexation and indignation.

Crusty, squamous eruptions on the scalp.

"Painful sensitiveness of the scalp, skin peels off, with itching and smarting, worse in the evening and from getting warm."

The scales are lifted up by a watery exudate and the denuded surface is extremely sensitive to touch.

New growths about the lids and balls of the eyes, extremely painful to the touch. Meibomian tumors (Con., Thuja ), in irritable children ( Kreos).

Another feature in Staph, is its action on the glands; scrofulous glands; glands of the neck enlarge; enlarged and indurated ovaries and testes; stitching, tearing pains in the glands everywhere. Hardness and chronic induration.

Stitching, tearing pains along the course of the nerves; in the heart, and as in such a nervous patient the mind is likely to be on the heart, the stitching pains in the intercostals are supposed to be in the heart. Stitching pains directly through the chest to the back.

Swelling of the tonsils after the abuse of Mercury. Chronic tonsilitis, tonsils are not large but hard from previous attacks of acute tonsilitis; strumous diathesis; cross and irritable.

"Pains come on after eating."

The Staph. patient has much difficulty in the bowels. Subject to chronic diarrhoea and to constipation. Colic, twitching, tearing pains in the abdomen. Diarrhoea from cold water, from eating, from indignation, anger, with flatulence of a terribly offensive odor like spoiled eggs.

"Chronic diarrhoea or dysentery of weakly, sickly children after anger; after being punished, after emotions." (Coloc. and Cham.)

Staph. and Coloc. resemble each other. In both, eating and drinking cause griping and stool, both have colic as if stones were squeezing; Staph. in the intestines, head and testes; Coloc. in the intestines and ovaries; both are worse from anger. Caust., CoIoc. and Staph. follow each other like Sulph., Calc. and Lyc.

It often happens that nervous women soon after marriage are attacked with frequent and painful urging to urinate which becomes extremely troublesome and may last many days. Staph, is very comforting to the young wife.

Urinary and Genitals: Great teasing and tearing all night long bloody urine; involuntary discharge of urine, acrid and corroding, with burning, worse from motion.

Profuse discharge of pale urine with burning and urging. Burning during and after urination.

Staph. has cured enlarged prostate with frequent urging to urinate, especially in old men; continued teasing with dribbling.

''Frequent urging to urinate, with a scanty discharge in thin stream or discharge of urine in drops; may be followed by a sensation as if the bladder were not fully emptied."

The most distressing symptom of the male genitals is excitability, but there is also impotence, great weakness of the sexual organs; the sexual desire is greatly increased but there is impotence.

Useful in the results of secret vice, long practiced.

"Seminal emissions followed by great chagrin and mortification, prostration, dyspnoea.

Effects of onanism or sexual excesses; loss of memory, hypochondriasis, taciturnity, face sunken, abashed look, nocturnal emissions, backache, weak legs, relaxed organs, deficiency of vital heat and tendency to take cold, deep sunken, red, and lusterless eyes, hair falls out; loss of prostatic fluid and impairment of sexual desire; dull and contusive pains in the testicles, voluptuous itching of the scrotum, atrophy of the testicles."

Think of the extremely nervous patient.

Dry, sensitive warts about the genitals, from sycosis or from the abuse of Mercury, which cause a tendency to warty growths. Moist red, offensive warts belong to Thuja.

The testes dwindle as well as become inflamed and swollen; genitals waste away.

Sensation as if there were worms crawling over him. Crawling, etc., in the female external genitals, Coff., Plat., Petrol., Apis, Tarent. hisp, the latter has. While outer parts feel as if insects were biting. and crawling, better from heat or cold.

In the female there is violent sexual excitement, nymphomania with extreme mental and physical impressions; mind has been dwelling too much on sexual subjects.

"Very sharp, shooting pains in the ovary, which is exquisitely sore to touch; pains extend along crural regions and thighs.

Menses irregular, late and profuse, sometimes wanting; first of pale blood, then dark and clotted.

Scorbutic diathesis, vegetations of the vagina; stinging, itching of the vulva."

Stitching in the region of the heart; trembling of the body with nervous excitement is an excellent indication for Staph.

Effects from loss of blood, shock, from surgical operations, injuries from sharp instruments, incised wounds. Stinging, etc., in surgical wounds, cuts; colic after lithotomy, urging to stool, qualmishness, worse from drinking.

Tetter on the hands, itches and burns in the evening after scratching; numbness in the tips of the fingers; arthritic nodosities on the fingers.

I remember a patient suffering from gouty nodosities; he had lived a life of peculiar continence, dwelling on his vices, broken down in body. Staph. brought out an eruption on his legs as high up as the knees that looked like a pair of trousers.

One continuous coat of crusts which lasted a year before it dwindled, but he was greatly improved in his body and his enlarged joints gradually improved. The eruption was yellow, crusty, tough, leathery, and, when lifted up by the moisture beneath, it had to be cut off like a bandage; he was practically crippled; new crops came out on the parts clipped off. It was with difficulty that be walked, for the crusts cut him.

Bone troubles, exostoses, inflammation of the periosteum.

Acute articular rheumatism of fast or debilitated men, with shifting pains. Mercurial bone diseases. ulcers, caries, injuries caused by sharp, cutting instruments. Nightly bone pains. (Asa f., Merc., Sil.)

For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses.

Very sensitive to slightest mental impressions; least action or harmless word offends.

Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences.

Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses (Anac., Aur., Nat., Phos. ac.).

Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.

Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away (Kreos.).

Was insulted; being too dignified to fight subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted (the rev. of, Nux).

Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife.

For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure (Aur.).

Styes, chalazæ on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake (Con., Thuja).

Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink, but not from biting or chewing; < drawing cold air into mouth (Ant. c., Mer.); < from cold drinks and after eating.

Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.

Teeth are black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges (at the roots, Mez., Thuja); scorbutic cachexia.

Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down, relaxed (Agar., Ipec., Tab.). Craving for tobacco.

Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section (Bis., Hep.).

Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor (Op.); burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; prolapse of bladder.

Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin (Plat.).

Onanism: persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures.

Spermatorrhœa: with sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emissions followed by backache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs.

Cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth.

Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke (Spong.).

Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning before rising.

Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers (Caul., Colch., Lyc.); inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.

Sleepy all day, awake all night ; body aches all over.

Fig-warts ; dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like ; after abuse of mercury (Nit. ac., Sab., Thuja).

Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco; onanism; sexual excesses; from the least touch on the affected parts.

Intermittent, quotidian, tertian ; typhoid, typhus, zymotic, yellow.

9 A. M.; daily, same time; 3 P. M.

Ravenous hunger for days (see Cina, Sil.).

Without thirst. Chill predominates. Shaking chill of whole body, with hot cheeks, cold hands, warm forehead, without subsequent heat or thirst (Sep., Sul.). Shivering over whole body, without thirst or subsequent heat. Chill with goose-flesh about 3 P. M., which was relieved by exercise in open air. Chill ascends from the neck over the head and face, or transient shivering running down the back (transient chills run up the back, Sul.). Chill worse in a warm room (Apis).

With thirst; at night; could not sleep after 3 A. M., with shaking chill at 9 A. M. Great heat at night, especially of the hands and feet, must be uncovered (Sul.—external heat is unbearable, Puls.). Heat without subsequent sweat. Burning heat at night (Ars., Sep.).

Profuse in afternoon, without thirst, but with heat over the whole body (Nux). Warm night-sweat on abdomen, feet, genitals. Night-sweat of bad odor, like rotten eggs; with desire to uncover. Sweats when sitting quiet (Psor.). Cold sweat on forehead and feet.

Very fast, but small and trembling.

White coating; food tastes bitter. Gums white, spongy, ulcerated, bleed when touched.

Extreme hunger, even when stomach is filled with food ; putrid taste in mouth, gums bleed easily; constipation. Longing for fluid food, soup, bread and milk (longing for eggs, Cal.).

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, chalazæ 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 choanæ.
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; dyspnœa.
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.

Dyspnœa, 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 axillæ.
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.

A tincture is made of the seeds of Delphinium Staphisagria, L. (A European Lark-spur).

Its closest allies are the Ranunculacæ, Puls. , Clem., Cimicif., Acon.; also Lyc., Sulph.

Sticking in face and other parts of body; itching, in various parts. ▶ Drawing tearing here and there in all muscles when sitting (Puls.). ▶ Bruised sensation when walking, agg. calves. ▶ Pain in all bones; drawing (?), in joints of shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, back, knees, on moving them, amel. rest, especially in evening. ▶ Paralytic drawing in various parts, agg. joints, if limbs are kept long in an unusual or uncomfortable position.

▶ Weakness in morning; in morning in bed, limbs pain as if bruised and as if there were no strength in them; in morning on waking; in afternoon when sitting, with sleepiness; after eating, with sleepiness and need to lie down, wakes confused and heavy in limbs and dreads to walk, on continuing to walk, which is irksome, agg. ascending a hill, he feels more active and lively; when walking, agg. knees; agg. motion, with bruised pain.

Chronic gout, with nodosities. ▶ Neuralgia after operations. ▶ Frequently an antidote to the chronic effect of Mercury.

Violent temper, throws things into the fire, ravenous hunger, very irritable mood, these attacks may alternates with rush of blood to the head. ▶ Has been found useful for bad effects of anger. ▶ Patients generally are extremely sensitive and feel acutely the slightest wrong. ▶ Sickness from wounded pride or chagrin.

▶ Peevish in morning, he wishes to throw away everything which he takes in his hands; P. and disinclined to mental work; and restless; and quiet, vexed at things which do not concern him; at every word, she cries if any one only speaks to her. ▶ Quarrelsome and yet lively. ▶ Lachrymose; and she wraps up her face and will not hear about anybody or anything. ▶ Sad; and fears the worst results from slight causes and cannot quiet himself; and her mind seems dead; and cannot quiet himself; and her mind seems dead; and apathetic; everything seems indifferent to him, he would rather die. ▶ The most attractive things make no impression upon him. ▶ Indifference to his surroundings, with mental exhausting. ▶ Earnest, quiet, busy with himself, speaks but little.

Anxiety; and fear; so that he cannot remain in any place, but without complaints; and past events came before him, causing anxious sweat, then blackness before eyes, he did not know whether the images were real or illusory, then everything seemed in different and he lost all desire to live; (when walking rapidly, as if some one were coming behind him, and he is constantly obliged to look behind him).

Alternations of mood, at first joyous, then anxious, at last quiet and contented (the first is a transient reaction from one of fear and depression, them the primary action is noticed in anxiety, then the reaction is seen again.).

▶ Memory weak; disturbed by fantasies. ▶ Ideas vanish on attempting to grasp them; if any one interrupts him or suggests a different subject from the one of which he is thinking. ▶ He does not know whether the things presented to him are from out his memory, are real or whether he is dreaming of them, from 5 till 7 P.M. ▶ Dullness keeping him from work. ▶ Disinclination for earnest work.

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All the muscles seem bruised and painful, especially of the calves, on touch and on motion.
Weariness and stiffness in all the limbs and joints, particularly shoulders, back and hips.
Constantly inclined to lie down, but sleep in the middle of the day is followed by heaviness of the limbs and general weakness.

General peevishness, particularly in the morning.
Disinclined to mental work.
An irritable mood, with violent temper; tries to destroy things.

Stupefying headache as if the brain were squeezed.
Pain on stooping as if the head would burst, in the forehead.
Itching eruptions on the back of the head and behind the ears.
Itching and biting, with scruffiness; < scratching.
Moist, fetid eruptions on the occiput and behind the ears, with painful sensitiveness.

Dryness of the eyes and lids.
Itching of the margins of the lids, especially in the open air.

Clinical:
Little tumors form in the margins of the lids.

Lips become scabby and burn.
The teeth turn black and crumble; are very sensitive to touch and to cold drink.
Tearing pains in the roots and in hollow teeth; < cold air or cold drink.
The gums become very sore and bleed; swellings form.

Roughness and painful soreness on talking and swallowing.

Unnatural appetite.
Desire for stimulants and tobacco.
Bitter or salty eructations after eating meat.
Uprisings of bitter water.
Stomach seems to hang down relaxed.

Cutting colic after eating and drinking, (or after being angry).

Soft stool, difficult.
Diarrhœa after eating or after drinking cold water.

Urging to urinate, with evacuation of scanty, dark urine, which does not seem to relieve the bladder.
Involuntary and copious micturition, especially on coughing.

Drawing or tearing pains in the testicles, with inflammation.
Seminal emissions and effects of sexual excesses, even with impotency.
Great sensitiveness of the female genitals.
Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen, aching around the hips and weakness of the legs.

Cough at night, with yellow, purulent expectoration.
Cough dry and hollow, caused by crawling in the larynx.
Sense of adherent mucus in the larynx and trachea.
Pressure and constriction in the pit of the throat after vexation, < swallowing.
Rawness in the trachea, caused by much talking.
Soreness and rawness in the chest on coughing.
Palpitation on motion, from music or emotional excitement.

Sprained pain in the back, especially on rising from a seat or turning in bed; it feels broken.
Paralytic tearing pains in the arms, < motion and touch.
Tearing pains in the muscles of the legs.

Eruption, with itching, which burns after scratching.
Dry, scurvy eruption on the joints.
Skin becomes unhealthy, does not heal.
Gout-like nodes form on the joints.

Predominating coldness and chilliness, without thirst; heat with great thirst, followed by profuse sweat.
Heat at night in the hands and feet; uncovers them.
Sweats easily during the day, even when sitting.
Intermittent paroxysm, consisting mostly of coldness, preceded by unnatural hunger.

Stap. / (Staff.) / Stephen.

Staphisagria,-We see
Thou art much like Mercury-
In thy nightly aggravation,
In destructive inflammation
Of the bone, and of its sheath,
Of the gum, and of the teeth,
Of the glands, of the skin,
Showing syphilitic sin.
Quick thy temper-vengeful-pitching-
Damp thy scurffy scalp, and itching
In thy forehead, sense of sitting
Pressure, like a ball tight fitting.
Gummy eyelids thine, and sore,
And beset with styes galore.
Heart disturbed by slightest motion,
Cough denoting lung corrosion.
Abdomen so weak it drops
Downward, needing bracing props.
Nodes that show rheumatic dregs,
Sweat with smell of rotten eggs.
Blotches from herpetic hatching,
Always burning after scratching.
Drowsiness the whole long day
Whilst at night sleep flees away.
For the body aches all over,
Worse by night and weight of cover,
And to aggravate conditions,
Thou hath seminal emissions.

Stephen,-Has nocturnal pollutions.

Stephen N. Pho-bar, the Spanish Knight, is wading in the mole of Diopetra, for his maid, Agnus Kip.

This Stephen,- Who is subject to styes,-Is at Lady Gray's, with the "Thug smasher," Uranium.

Nocturnal Pollutions: Stap., Nux. v., Pho., Bar. c., Canth., Arg. n., Alu., Dul., Mer., Thuj., Dio., Pet., Ustil., Agnus, Kal. p. (Bloody, Canth., Mer., Pet.)

Styes: Stap., Pul., Graph., Thuj., Sul., Mer., Sil., Hep., Uran. n. (Ailments from suppressed styes, Uran. n.)

Chaotic, incapable of any mental exertion. Weak memory. Bad effects of righteous anger and indignation of quarrels (he flings away what he has in his hand). Great angriness. fixed dissatisfaction over his own as well as the deeds of others. Ill humor over events. Tearful mourning, with grief and fear for the future. Hypochondriacal indifference (of onanists). Detachedness. Thoughts full of solicitude. Morbidity.

Stupefying pressive ache, as though brain were pressed together. Pressure as of a heavy lump or ball fixed within forehead. Feeling: As though' brain were rent asunder, as if head would burst, especially in forehead. Worse: Early, on awaking, motion, stooping. Better: Reclining head, rest, warmth, after much yawning, after breakfast.

Painfully sensitive, with desquamation of epidermis. Moist, (seldom dry) foul, erosive, creeping, itching eruption on occiput and behind ears, scratching causes the itching to change place, increases the moisture and makes it burn. Itching dandruff. Pressive, sticking and tearing in bones and periosteum of skull, especially in occiput and behind ears ending in swelling and suppuration, with foul day and night sweats. Hair falls out most on nape and behind ears. With a foul, moist eruption or scales on, (also after illness induced by vexation). Worse: Becoming warm in bed, warm wraps, touch, motion, evening, at night, after rising, sometimes after the siesta. Better: After breakfast, reclining it upon something, after lying down

Biting and burning in inner canthi. Dryness of balls and lids. Inflammation of edges of lids, with nightly agglutination. Nodes in edges of lids. Dim vision. Lachrymation. Halo about candlelight at night.

Nasal and aural polypi. Ulcerated nostrils. Coryza with ulcerated nostrils. Stoppage of upper nares. Acrid coryza, with obstruction of choanae. Sneezing.

Sickly, sunken or debauched countenance, with hollow eyes encircled by blue rings. When getting angry it turns brown and blue. Inflammation of bones of. Scurfy, burning, painful lips. Easy dislocation of maxillary joint. Painful submaxillary glands with or without swelling.

Exfoliate and turn black. Very sensitive to touch and cold drinks, not felt when biting them together violently. Painful, whitish swelling and ulceration of gums. Nodosities and excrescences on gums. Bleeding gums.

Stomatitis. Dryness and scraping in throat and fauces, with painful soreness when talking and swallowing. Painful drawing extending from hyoid bone downward into throat. Salivation. Feeble voice on account of weakness of vocal organs and after anger. Nasal speech from obstruction of choanae. Continued swallowing while talking. Offensive breath.

Appetite: Excessive, Ravenous hunger with waterbrash, when stomach in full. Desire for thin, liquid food only, for brandy and tobacco.

Taste: Flat, in mouth. Bitter, of all food.

Eructations: Bitter, salty after eating meat. Bitter, after sour food. Hoggishly, during which bitter water comes up into mouth. Waterbrash Retching.

Hypochondria: Anxious, suffocative pressure and tension transversely across head, early in morning while fasting.

Spasmodic cutting in every time he eats or drinks. Weak feeling in as though' it would fall away. Contraction of. Pot belly, especially in children. Colic, with urging to urinate. Painfully swollen inguinal glands. Inguinal hernia descends when coughing. Flatulent symptoms.

Flatulence: With odor of rotten eggs.

Constipation, with urging to s. Slow although soft. Dysenteric. Urging sometimes with hard, sometimes with soft stool. Evacuations with much flatus.

Urging to urinate, with painful discharge of scanty, dark red urine, passed drop by drop. Urging to urinate, with discharge of much clear, watery urine. Involuntary urination when coughing.

Sexual organs, especially when sitting. Excited sexual desire. Frequent pollutions, Bad effects of onanism.

Nightly, with expectoration of yellow, pus - like, flat - tasting mucus. Dry, hollow, spasmodic c., from tickling crawling in larynx and trachea. Dry by day.

Adherent mucus in, and in trachea. Rawness in, from much talking. Sensation of pressure and constriction in throat - pit after anger, worse swallowing. Tearing pain in, and in trachea. Soreness in trachea. Weak voice.

Constricting dyspnoea. Scratching, soreness or ulcerative pain, worse coughing. Great restlessness in. Spasms of diaphragm after anger. Tremulous palpitation from least motion or music.

Pain in small of, as though' broken, during rest and when rising from sitting.

Neck: Stiff nape. Painfully swollen glands of throat and neck.

Painfully swollen axillary glands. Paralytic, pressive drawing in arms. Scabby herpes on elbows. Insensible finger - tips.

Painfulness of muscles to touch, and of joints to motion. Unilateral paralysis from anger. Early in morning, great weariness and stiffness of all joints, mostly in shoulder, lumbar region and hips. Continual inclination to lie down. Heaviness of limbs and dullness after the noon - day nap. Nightly twitchings. Faintness. Effects of onanism or the abuse of Mercury.

Glands painfully (or painlessly) swollen.

Swelling and suppuration of, and of periosteum.

Itching herpes which burns, after scratching, in evening. Dry, crusty herpes upon joints. Chronic miliary eruptions, with nightly twitchings. Unhealthy, diseased s. Incised wounds Gouty nodes on joints, on finger.

Violent yawning and stretching, with tears in eyes. Extraordinary day sleepiness. Sleepless before midnight. Anxious drams full of peril, after midnight.

Pulse: Very quick but small and often tremulous. Chill: And coldness predominate. And coldness in evening, often without subsequent heat. Violent, in evening, with shuddering and shaking and heat of face. Shuddering in afternoon (3 o'clock), better motion in open air. From back up over head, even when near a warm stove. Running down back. Constant chilliness or (in alternate action) sweat, day and night.

Heat: External, with thirst after midnight, then chill toward morning. Nightly, burning heat, especially on hand and feet, with inclination to uncover. With violent thirst and profuse sweat.

Sweat: Profuse, also great inclination thereto. Inability to s., with headache and a pale face Night sweat smelling like rotten eggs. Cold, on forehead and feet. Great inclination to s., during day, even when sitting. Intermittent fever consisting almost solely of coldness. Violent hunger before and after paroxysm.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Bis., COLOC., Kre., Merc., Merc-c., Phos-ac., Ran-b., Sil., sul., Thuj.,

Complementary: COLOC., Caust.

Painfulness of the muscles to contact and of the joints when moving.

One-sided paralysis from anger.

In the morning great debility and stiffness of all the joints (mostly in the shoulder, small of back, hip).

Nightly twitchings.

Drawing and tearing in the muscles.

Deep, penetrating sharp stitches.

Gouty nodosities in the joints and swelling of the bones or periosteum with suppuration.

Bad effects from the abuse of mercury.

Injuries form sharp instruments.

Itching and burning tettery eruptions quickly helped.

Tinea capitis.

Excrescences on the gums and sycosis excrescences behind the glans penis.

Coxalgia with pulsating pain, as from suppuration.

Great inclination to perspire, even whilst sitting.

Intermittent fever consisting only of chilliness (before and after it hunger).

Great desire for tobacco and brandy.

Bad effects from thinking and brooding on sexual subjects, from anger, from anxiety.

Constipation.

Dysentery, with pains worse after drinking water.