STAPHYSAGRIA
Stavesacre
Nervous affections with marked irritability, ailments of the genito-urinary tract and skin, most often provide signs and symptoms calling for this drug. Acts on tooth and alveolar periosteum. Ill results of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very sensitive. Lacerated tissues. Pain and anxiousness after extraction of teeth. Sphincters lacerated or stretched.
Mind.–Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very touchy as to what others say about her. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and refuses them when offered.
Head.–Stupefying headache; passes off with yawning. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and at the back of ears (Oleand).
Eyes.–Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles. Recurrent styes. Chalazae (Platanus). Eyes sunken, with blue rings. Margin of lids itch. Affections of angles of eye, mainly the inner. Lacerated or incised wounds of cornea. Bursting ache in eyeballs of syphilitic iritis.
Throat.–Stitches flying to the ear on swallowing, mainly left.
Mouth.–Toothache at some stage in menses. Teeth black and crumbling. Salivation, spongy gums, bleed without problems (Merc; Kreos). Submaxillary glands swollen. After ingesting feels sleepy pyorrhea (Plantago)
Stomach.–Flabby and weak. Desire for stimulants. Stomach feels relaxed. Craving for tobacco. Canine hunger, even when belly is full. Nausea after stomach operations.
Abdomen.–Colic after anger. Hot flatus. Swollen stomach in children, with a great deal flatus. Colic, with pelvic tenesmus. Severe ache following an belly operation. Incarcerated flatus. Diarrhoea after consuming bloodless water, with tenesmus. Constipation (2 drops tincture night time and morning), haemorrhoids, with enlarged prostate.
Male.–Especially after self-abuse; continual residing on sexual subjects. Spermatorrhoea, with sunken features; responsible look; emissions, with backache and weak point and sexual neurasthenia. Dyspnoea after coition.
Female.–Parts very sensitive, worse sitting down (Berb; Kreos). Irritable bladder in younger married women. Leucorrhoea. Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen; aching round the hips.
Urinary.–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 now not empty. Sensation as if a drop of urine have been rolling continually alongside the channel. Burning in urethra in the course of micturition. Prostatic troubles; time-honored urination, burning in urethra when no longer urinating (Thuja; Sabal; Ferr pic). Urging and ache after urinating. Pain after lithotomy.
Skin.–Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry, and itch violently; scratching modifications area of itching. Fig-warts pedunculated (Thuja). Arthritic nodes. Inflammation of phalanges. Night-sweats.
Extremities.–Muscles, mainly of calves, experience bruised. Backache; worse in morning earlier than rising. Extremities sense crushed and painful. Joints stiff. Crural neuralgia. Dull aching of nates extending to hip-joint and small of back.
Modalities.–Worse, anger, indignation, grief, mortification, loss of fluids, onanism, sexual excesses, tobacco; least contact on affected parts. Better, after breakfast, warmth, relaxation at night.
Relationship.–Inimical: Ranunc bulb.
Complementary: Caust; Colocy.
Compare: Ferrum pyrophos (tarsal cysts); Colocy; Caust; Ign; Phos ac; Calad.
Antidote: Camph.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
