Materia Medica
Staphisagria
Stavesacre
Nervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the genito-urinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms calling for this drug. Ill effects of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very sensitive. Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after extraction of teeth.
Mind
Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about her. Wells on sexual matters; prefers soli- tude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and re- fuses them when offered.
Head
Stupefying headache; passes off with yawn- ing. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and behind cars. [Oleand.]
Eyes
Recurrent styes. Chalaza. [Platanus.] Eyes sunken, with blue rings. Margin of lids itch. Affec- tions of angles of eye, particularly the inner. Lacer- ated or incised wounds of cornea.
Mouth
Toothache during menses. T'eth black and crumblinu. Salivation, spongy gums, bleed easily. [Merc.: Kreos.] Submaxillary glands swollen. After eating feels sleepy. Pyorrhcea. [Plantago.]
Throat
Stitches flying to the car on swallowing, especially left.
Stomach
Flabby and weak. Desire for stimu- ants. Stomach feels relaxed. Craving for tobacco. Canine hunger, even when stomach is full. Nausea after abdominal operations.
Abdomen
Colic after anger. Hot flatus. Swollen abdomen in children, with much flatus. Colic, with pelvic tenesmus. Severe pain following an abdominal operation. Incarcerated flatus. Diarrhcea after drink- ing cold water, with tenesmus. Constipation (2 drops tincture night and morning), haemorrhoids, with en- larged prostate.
Urinary
Cystocele (locally and internally). Cys- itis in lying-in patients. Ineffectual urging to urinate in newiy married women. Pressure upon bladder; feels as if it did not empty. Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously Gion the channel. Burning in urethra during micturition. Prostatic troubles; frequent urination, burning in urethra when not urinating. [Thuja: Sabal; Fcrr. pic.] Urging and pain after urinating. Pain after lithotomy.
Male
Especialiy after self-abuse; persistent well- ing on sexual subjects. Spermatorrhoea, with sunken features; guilty look; emissions, with backache and 102 weakness and sexual eurasthenia. Dyspncea after coition.
Female
Parts very sensitive. worse sitting down. [Berb.; Kreos.] Irritable bladder in young married zeomen. Leucorrhcea. Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen; aching around the hips.
Extremities
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.
Skin
Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry, and itch violently; scratching changes location of itthing. Fig-warts pedunculated. [Thuja.] Arthritic nodes. Inflammation of phalanges. Night- sweats.
Modalities
Worse, anger, indignation, grief, morti- fication, loss of fluids, onanism, sexual excesses, to- bacco; least touch on affected parts. Better, after breakfast, warmth, rest at night.
Relationships
Inimical: Ranunc. bulb. Complementary: Caust.; Colocy. Compare: Ferrum pyrophos. (tarsal cysts) ; Colocy.; Ccust.: Ign.: Phos. ac.: Calad. Antidote: Camph.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.