Staphysagria

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

ROeipoKoKkov, 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), dyspnSa occurring during or after the act; dyspnsa 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 (/nd.
• ▸H.
• ▸Rev.
• ▸, v.
• ▸134) gives two cases in which /oss of memory

following masturbation and seminal emissions was cured with Staph. 30: (/) 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.
• ▸R (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. < Affer urinating; when not urinating.

Anger. Anger suppressed or reserved. Injury; falls; clean-cut wounds; operations.

• ▸Coitus.
• ▸Masturbation.
• ▸Sexual abuse.
• ▸Sexual craving.
• ▸Emissions.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Tobacco.
• ▸Mercury.

• ▸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.

Hypochondriacal humour, with indifference to everything (after onanism).—Apathetic;

gloomy.—Sadness, with fear for the future—Weeping, and grief respecting the state of

Health.—Susceptibility—Patient is so sensitive that the least action or word troubles or annoys

his feelings—Amorous dreams.—Desire for death.—Anxiety and agitation, which allow no

rest.—Ill-humour, irascibility, spitefulness, inducing patient to fling violently whatever is at hand;

in the morning.—Justifiable ill-humour over what has happened or has been done by oneself;

weeping and dejected over the supposed ill consequences of it—Hypochondria and hysteria after

unmerited insults (or sexual excesses), with complaints of flatulence.—Dislike to conversation,

meditation, and all intellectual and serious labour.—Weakness of memory; a few minutes after

reading anything can recollect it only dimly, and whenever he thinks of anything the sense

escapes him; call scarcely recall it after long reflection.—Instability of ideas. Excessively dull

intellect, with inability to attend to any occupation.—Delusions with respect to past

events.—Illusion, as if all surrounding objects were lower, and the patient himself much taller

than in reality.

[Flatulent colic, where the flatus is incarcerated; gnawing pains; darting pains;

sensation of trembling in inner parts——Pains in zygoma; in cheeks; in under jaw.—Affections of

angles of eye, particularly the inner; glands about neck and lower jaw diseased ovaries,

• ▸particularly r.
• ▸one.
• ▸—Yellow scabs behind ear.
• ▸—Flat taste obstructed evacuation of

bowels.—Micturition too frequent; too sparing. —Polypus; arthritic nodes; restlessness of the

body; scurvy.—< From mental affections; anger; grief; mortification, esp. if caused by offence

from loss of fluids; tobacco; Mercury; sexual excesses; sleeping in 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.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Has been used as

an application for healing recent wounds.—Paralytic drawing in joints, esp. during movement, or

when the parts are in a false position.—Drawing tearing in muscles, esp. when seated —Twitches

at night.—Acute, penetrating, deep lancinations in different parts —Cramps in limbs.—Painful

inflammations of bones; suppuration of bones and periosteum.—Swelling of bones.—Semilateral

paralysis, after a fit of anger—Syncope.—Painful sensibility of all muscles, when touched, and of

joints, when using them.—Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments.—Painful

weariness and excessive lassitude, esp. during movement; > by sitting or lying down.—Continued

disposition to remain lying down.—Great fatigue, early in morning, with stiffness of all

• ▸joints.
• ▸—Sore and stiff all over, swollen fingers and sore tibi¢ (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—After a

• ▸siesta, cloudiness, with heaviness in limbs.
• ▸—Relieves pains of cancer (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

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

Head confused and embarrassed; dull feeling of head with inability to perform any

mental labour.—Whirling vertigo, sometimes in evening, in bed, or during day, when sitting or

lying; > by walking; or by turning rapidly round on the heel.—Fine, burning, needle-like stitches,

externally on vertex.—Hard, pressive pain in vertex.—Headache in the morning on waking, as if

brain were bruised.—Stupefying, pressing headache, as if brain were compressed.—(Stupefying

• ▸headache that she had had for three days goes away at once.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pain in 1.
• ▸side of head

• ▸with inability to keep eyelids open (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Stunning pain in the head, sometimes

alternately with boring.—Heaviness in head, esp. forehead, above root of nose (> by resting head

upon hand).—Pressing in forehead as from a very heavy lump (wedge of wood or plug) which

will not be shaken off; < in morning, from motion and from stooping; > when at rest, and when

leaning head against something.—Dulness in small spot in middle of forehead.—Violent pressing

boring stitches in |. half of forehead, from within outward, in morning.—Drawing, tearing, or

lancinating pressure in the head.—Headache, as if forehead were about to split, on moving it, or

on stooping.—Burning in |. temple; internally and externally, as if bones would be pressed out, <

from touch.—Compressive or expansive pains in head.—Semilateral headache, as if a nail were

• ▸driven into brain.
• ▸—Lancinating headache.
• ▸—Sensation as if brain were loose.
• ▸—Feeling as if

occiput were hollow or empty, or as if brain were not large enough for the space.—Feeling as if

all back part of brain was wood and couldn't think.—Feeling as if the occiput were compressed,

• ▸internally and externally—Head becomes more pulled down (agg.
• ▸in an old rheumatic.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Neuralgia of scalp.
• ▸—Rheumatic and drawing pains in exterior of head —Tingling itching,

sometimes also gnawing, in scalp, with pain as of excoriation; the skin peels off, with itching and

biting; < in evening and from getting warm.—Much itching dandriff on scalp.—Moist, fetid scald-

head, with violent itching —Humid, scalding-itching, fetid eruption on back part of head, sides of

head, and behind ears; when scratching, the itching changes place, but makes it more

• ▸humid.
• ▸—(Eczema of scalp and other parts.
• ▸—Scald-head; hair matted together, very stinking.
• ▸—R.

• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Falling off of hair.

• ▸Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles.
• ▸Recurrent styes.
• ▸Chalazae (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.

Eyes sunken, with blue raised rings around them.—R. eye much larger than usual (lids

• ▸wider open).
• ▸—Pupils dilated——Eyes sleepy.
• ▸—Aching in the eyes, lids, and canthi.
• ▸—Itching in

margins of lids —Itching and biting smarting in internal canthi.—Smarting and burning sensation

in eyes when writing.—On looking at sun, hot water runs out of |. eye, scalding cheek and

making eye smart.—Violent lancinations in eyes on fatiguing them.—Inflammation of eyes,

• ▸which are surrounded by pimples.
• ▸—Inflammation in margins of the lids.
• ▸—Styes.
• ▸—Steatoma of

eyelids (Koch).—Nodosities in margins of lids.—Great dryness of the eyeballs and

lids.—Syphilitic iritis with bursting pain in eyeball, temple, and side of face, < from evening to

morning, and on using eyes by any light.—Laceration of cornea with prolapse of iris (after

• ▸Aco.
• ▸).
• ▸—(After operations for cataract.
• ▸).
• ▸—Much purulent dry mucus in canthi.
• ▸—Obstinate catarrh

with swollen eyelids (Bchr).—Nocturnal agglutination of eyes —Spasmodic closing of lids.—Pain

in upper lid, < on closing eye.—Pain as if a hard substance were beneath 1. upper

lid —Diminished power of sight—Confused sight, as if water were in the eyes.—Black flashes

and luminous sparks before eyes.—Sparkling before eyes in the dark.—Areola round candle in

evening.

Shootings in ears —Tensive stitches in |. ear—Eruption behind ears.—Hardness of

hearing, as from enlargement of tonsils, < after abuse of Mercury.—[ Perforated tympana with

deafness as in winter.—Deafness in children, < at meals, with stuffy cold, thick voice and

• ▸snuffles (adenoids).
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸].
• ▸—Tinkling in ears.
• ▸—Ringing in ears on moving head; reports in

ears; sensation as if wind blew into them.—Noises in ears like sawing of wood, with swollen

• ▸tonsils and vertigo; and shooting pains from temple to temple (much relieved.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Nose ulcerated, with scabs, deep in interior —Violent fluent coryza, with obstruction

on one side of nose, frequent sneezing, and lachrymation.—Sneezing without coryza.——Coryza,

with ulcerated nostrils.—Coryza; at first discharge of only thick mucus, after of thin

water.—Obstruction of nasal foss¢, with nasal voice.

Face wan and sharp (countenance sunken, nose peaked), with eyes hollow, and

surrounded by a blue circle.—Bashful look.—Bluish and brownish colour of face, when excited

by passion.—Distressing pressive and throbbing pain in face, from teeth into eye.—Sharp, burning

stitches in 1. cheek, which provoke scratching.—Prosopalgia in an old lady; on touching lips with

spoon or fork inexpressible pains shot from lips over face; fluid food had to be eaten with

fingers, could take no solid food: mastication impossible.—Inflammation of bones of face, with

burning shootings, or incisive drawings and pressive tearings.—Facial eruption, with itchings and

shootings.—Lips scurfy, covered with ulcers and scabs, with burning pain.—(Neuralgia that

• ▸affects 1.
• ▸upper lip, with shootings up side of face.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Neuralgia of Staph.
• ▸is < by

• ▸holding cold water in mouth (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Swelling of lips.
• ▸—Easy dislocation of maxillary

joint.—Painful swelling and induration of submaxillary glands.—Painfulness of submaxillary

glands, with (or without) swelling.—Sensitive induration, like a cartilage, beneath chin, pain on

swallowing and on touch.—Caries of lower jaw, following osteitis after tooth extraction.

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

Mouth and tongue covered with vesicles; stomacace.—Conditions of mouth and

throat like scurvy and mercurial poisoning.—Painful excrescences on interior of cheek.—Ulcers in

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Salivation.
• ▸—Sanguineous saliva.
• ▸—Constant accumulation of mucus in mouth.
• ▸—Swelling

• ▸of glands under tongue.
• ▸—(Cysts in connection with salivary ducts.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Ranula.
• ▸—Tongue:

white-coated; dry, with tough mucus stopping posterior nares; stitches in tip; sore pain in anterior

part; sticking in margins.—Shootings in tongue, as from splinters.—Low voice, from weakness of

the organs of speech (after anger).—Nasal voice from stoppage of posterior nares.—While talking

• ▸she swallows continually —(Chronic winter throats with enlarged tonsils.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Toothache, with swelling of cheeks and submaxillary glands.—Toothache,

immediately after a meal, and after mastication, and also after cold drinks, and the introduction

of cold air into mouth (but not when biting on them), < at night or in morning.—Tearings and

pressive drawings in carious teeth, or in the roots of those which are sound (in open air), and also

• ▸in gums.
• ▸—Teeth sensitive to touch, esp.
• ▸at night and in the morning.
• ▸—(Front teeth get loose from

• ▸alveolar periostitis going on to caries of jaw.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Gnawing pain in carious

teeth.—Blackness, brittleness, and caries of teeth (which exfoliate).—Dentition: child very

sensitive; teeth decay as soon as they are cut——Toothache so sensitive that one can't bear to move

the tongue (hard pressure frequently > the toothache); black streaks running through

teeth.—Affections of teeth on r. side chiefly; decayed teeth very often excessively tender on

being filled; can't bear the operation. —Painful sensitiveness, swelling, and easy bleeding of

gums.—Painful nodosities and excrescences on the gums.—Tearing in gums of lower incisors,

and their roots while eating.—Gums pale, white, ulcerated (spongy).

Roughness (dryness) and scraping in throat, with feeling of excoriation, when

swallowing and speaking.—Constant deglutition when speaking.—Dryness and shootings in

palate and throat.—Sticking in throat on swallowing.—Tonsillitis, on swallowing a stitch runs up

from throat into ear.—Swelling of tonsils (also after the misuse of Mercury).—Painful drawing

from hyoidal arch into throat, < touching side of neck.—Tonsillitis: both tonsils inflamed and

swollen; 1. sends stitches into ear on swallowing.

10. Appetite-—Mawkish and watery taste, with normal taste of food.—Bitter taste of all

food.—Sour taste of bread —Appetite, with want of taste-—Voracity—Bulimy, even after a meal,

sometimes with waterbrash.—Child cries as soon as it eats —After eating: cutting in abdomen;

dysenteric stool; after meat, cough <. After drinking: cutting in abdomen; dysenteric

• ▸stool.
• ▸—Great desire for milk.
• ▸—Tobacco has an acrid taste, and produces pyrosis.
• ▸—Appetite for

liquid food only (soup).—Craving for wine, brandy, and tobacco.—Thirstlessness.

Stitches flying to the ear on swallowing, especially left.

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

Eructations, generally empty or scraping.—Bitter risings after acid food.—Salt and

• ▸bitter risings after eating meat.
• ▸—Frequent hiccough.
• ▸—Sobbing risings —Waterbrash.
• ▸—Nausea,

with inclination to vomit every morning.—Frequent nausea.—Pressure at the stomach, as from a

weight, in morning in bed.—Sensation as if stomach were hanging down relaxed.—Tension and

pressure in stomach, < or > by eating, esp. bread.—Fulness, pressure, and shootings in

scrobiculus.—Digging pain in stomach.—Anxious tension across hypochondria, in morning, with

obstructed respiration.

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

Biliary colic, after domestic disturbance —Tensive pressure in abdomen.—Hard

• ▸pressure in r.
• ▸side beneath umbilicus.
• ▸—Pinching stitch in 1.
• ▸viscera—Enlargement of the abdomen

in children.—Drawing pains across abdomen.—Sensation of weakness and bearing down in

abdomen, as if it would drop; wants to hold it up.—Gripings after all kinds of food and

drink.—Colic with urging to urinate——Spasmodic cuttings, with want to evacuate.—Frequent

production and incarceration of flatus (smelling like rotten eggs).—Eruption of pimples as large

as peas on whole abdomen and thighs, itch; when scratched off are moist and then

• ▸burn.
• ▸—Frequent discharge of hot or fetid flatus.
• ▸—Painful swelling of inguinal glands.
• ▸—Inguinal

hernia.

Constipation.—Hard evacuations.—Frequent want to evacuate, with scanty

evacuations, hard or soft.—Evacuation tardy, without being hard. —Difficult

• ▸evacuation.
• ▸—Obstinate constipation sets in two weeks after a single dose of R (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Loose

evacuations, preceded, accompanied, and followed by tenesmus and gripings.—Diarrh$a: < after

drinking cold water; < after eating; in children.—Loose evacuations, with frequent expulsion of

fetid wind—Involuntary evacuation of liquid stools.—A thin stool passes unconsciously, as if

flatus would pass.—Dysenteric stools; with pressing and cutting in abdomen before, during, and

after-stool—Smarting, sore pain in rectum for long after stool.—Itching in anus, while

sitting.—Burning cuttings, pressure, and constriction in anus, during evacuations.—Hémorrhoids,

with enlarged prostate; intense pain in back and through whole pelvis.—Flatus: hot, smells like

rotten eggs.

Itching, needle-like stitches in region of kidneys.—Pressure on bladder on

waking from sleep.—Very frequent want to urinate, with emission drop by drop, or else of a

slender stream of deep-coloured urine.—Excessively painful emission of urine.—Frequent

(profuse) emission of clear watery urine (with much urging).—Frequent emission of red

• ▸urine.
• ▸—Constant micturition at night (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C).
• ▸—Bloody urine (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Involuntary emission of urine when coughing.
• ▸—After having urinated, a fresh want is felt,

as if bladder were again full—Burning sensation in urethra, esp. (after and) when urinating (with

urging, as if the bladder were not emptied).—Constant urging in young married women.

• ▸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.

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

Nymphomania, with extreme sensitiveness to mental and physical

impressions; mind dwells too much on sexual subjects.—Painful sensitiveness of genital organs

(esp. when sitting).—Prurigo senilis; or from pediculi—Smarting and lancinating itching in

vulva.—Sufferings after coitus in newly married women.—Inflammation of the ovaries with

burning, stinging, and pressing-drawing.—Very sharp shooting pains in ovary, which is

exceedingly sensitive to pressure; pains extending into crural region and thighs.—Flow of blood

from genitals a long time after critical age.—Menses which had ceased for a year, reappeared

with cutting colic and violent rumbling, at the new moon.—Spasmodic pains in vulva and

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

and clotted; occasionally spasmodic uterine contractions.—Amenorrhsa from chagrin with

indignation. —Granular vegetations of vagina.

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

Soft, moist excrescences, upon and behind the glans

(sycosis).—Inflammation of testes, with burning shootings, or pressive drawing and

• ▸tearings.
• ▸—Pressing pain in I.
• ▸testicle when walking; and after rubbing; < from touch.
• ▸—Drawing,

• ▸tearing, in r.
• ▸testicle, as if compressed.
• ▸—Drawing, burning, extending from r.
• ▸inguinal ring, as if

in spermatic cord, into r. testicle —Chronic prostatitis in old men; pain extending from anus

along urethra——Sensation of worms crawling in back of scrotum.—A very marked increase of

sexual desire, with frequent erections, esp. at night.—Voluptuous itching in the scrotum, which

provokes emission.—Frequent pollutions, even during a siesta.—Effects of onanism; face sunken,

abashed look; melancholy; nocturnal emissions; backache, legs weak; organs relaxed.—Seminal

emissions followed by great chagrin and mortification; great prostration; dyspnsa.—Dyspnsa

(towards the end of, and) after coition.—Discharge of prostatic fluid, during a hard evacuation.

Hoarseness, with accumulation of mucus, which adheres to larynx

and chest.—Sensation of pressure and contraction in pit of throat, after a fit of passion, < by

deglutition.—Roughness, rawness, in larynx, after much speaking. —Dry, hollow cough, excited

by a tickling in the larynx.—Violent cough, with expectoration of viscid mucus, in evening, after

lying down.—Violent spasmodic cough, with (tough) purulent, yellow expectoration, esp. at

night—Croupy cough in winter, alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco

smoke.—Expectoration of blood, when coughing.—Dyspné$a: with constriction; after seminal

emissions; towards end of coition.—Pain (soreness and rawness) as from ulceration in the chest,

during cough.—Dyspn§a with constriction and restlessness in chest.

Aching in chest, with heaviness in that part when sitting, mitigated by

walking.—Contractive oppression, and great agitation in chest.—Itching stitches in costal

• ▸cartilages.
• ▸—Itching in sternum beneath pit of throat.
• ▸—Lancinations in chest.
• ▸—Pain in chest, as

from excoriation and ulceration Cramp in diaphragm, after a fit of passion.—Miliary eruption

on the chest, with redness and itching when heated.—Herpetic eruption on lower ribs, with

burning itching.

Tremulous palpitation of heart; on least movement; after least intellectual fatigue;

when listening to music; after a siesta—Stitching pains in heart, or region of heart; stopping

• ▸breathing.
• ▸—Heart feels weak (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Drawing, rheumatic pressure, and tension in nape, with rigidity.—Stiff-

• ▸neck, shoulders sore to lie on (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Weakness of muscles in nape and

neck.—Eruption of itching pimples on nape.—Painful swelling of glands of neck, of nape, and

under axillé.—Lancinations under axill¢.—Pain, as if broken in loins, or sensation as from

overlifting, or straining the back, esp. during repose, and principally night and morning.—Pain in

loins on rising from a seat, or on turning in bed.—Itching stitches in region of kidneys.—Violent

(stitches) lancinations, which pass up back.—_(Suppurating swelling in the psoas

muscle.).—Lumbar abscess.

Aching of shoulders.—Stitches in shoulder-joints, < on touch and

• ▸motion.
• ▸—Dislocation pains in r.
• ▸shoulder-joint, only on moving.
• ▸—Stiffness of shoulder-joint in

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Shoulders sore to lie on, and stiff-neck (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Pains in bones of arms,

during movement.—Pressive, paralytic, drawing, and lancinating tearings, in arms (< on motion

and touch), and forearms, shoulders, hands, and fingers.—Painful pressure in bone of

arm.—Paralytic drawing in metacarpal joints, < from motion.—Hands become anémic from

cardiac inertia; gouty pains in little finger, index and thumb of |. hand at night, and loss of power,

• ▸in |.
• ▸thumb with pain in r.
• ▸shoulder (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Herpes on hands.
• ▸—Herpes with scabs

• ▸on elbows.
• ▸—Numbness in ends of fingers Jerking tearing in fingers, esp.
• ▸in the tips.
• ▸—Burning

• ▸itching in |.
• ▸thumb.
• ▸—Arthritic nodosities in joints of the fingers.
• ▸—Osteitis of phalanges of

fingers.—Cramps in fingers—Convulsive movements of fingers.

Pulsating pain in hip-joint as from beginning suppuration.—Stiffness of

coxo-femoral joint in morning.—Nates ache while sitting; pain extends to small of back, sacrum,

and hip-joint.—Daily pains beginning at crest of ilium, r. side, extending backward and

downward to thigh, < early morning, on rising or on sitting down, > standing and from

• ▸warmth.
• ▸—Exceedingly severe pain in r.
• ▸leg, extending into genitals, esp.
• ▸testes; attacks followed

• ▸by great prostration.
• ▸—Painful weakness of thighs and legs, esp.
• ▸of knee-joint.
• ▸—Pain as of a

fracture in thighs when walking.—Itching tetters on thighs and legs.—Itching on inner side of

thighs.—Drawing shootings in the knees and knee-joints (< on motion).—Drawings, and pressive

tearings in tibia, and bones of feet—Boring stitches in r. tibia during rest Nocturnal cramps in

calves and soles.—Tearing in muscles of legs when sitting and standing.—Stitches in r.

• ▸calf.
• ▸—Swelling of instep.
• ▸—Swelling of metatarsal bones.
• ▸—Burning itching in toes, as if they had

• ▸been frostbitten.
• ▸—R.
• ▸toe inflames round nail and forms an abscess (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

• ▸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.

• ▸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.

Tingling, as from insects, over whole body, esp. in morning.—Chronic miliary

eruptions, sometimes with convulsive jerks at night—Eruption of itching, oozing nodosities, with

burning pain.—Scald-head with yellow scab, smells badly, itches very much, &c.—Exanthema on

cheeks, face, or particularly if it is yellow; with a creeping itching.—Incised wounds, with great

pain.—Herpetic eruptions, with itching in evening; and burning sensation after scratching

• ▸them.
• ▸—Arthritic nodosities on the joints.
• ▸—Dry, crusty tetters on the joints.
• ▸—Painful engorgement

• ▸and induration of the glands.
• ▸—Unhealthy skin, easily suppurating.
• ▸—Frequent furunculi.
• ▸—Ulcers,

with tearing shootings (gnawing pains), or itching smarting.—Jerking and tearing round ulcers,

• ▸esp.
• ▸morning and evening.
• ▸—Wens and encysted tumours burst after Staph.
• ▸200 (R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Strong tendency to sleep all day.—Violent yawnings and stretchings, which cause

tears to come into the eyes.—Sleep retarded by mental activity (crowding of ideas); or in

consequence of an itching and burning sensation in the tetters and ulcers, or of violent pains in

calves.—Sleepy all day; awake all night; body aches all over.—Jerking of limbs, when

sleeping.—Disturbed sleep, with unquiet dreams, and frequent waking with a start—Child wakes,

pushes everything away and wants everybody to go away; restless at night as from frightful

dreams; calls for mother often.—Lascivious dreams, with emissions.

Pulse very fast but small and trembling.—Frequent shivering and shuddering, also at

night.—Fever in evening, manifesting itself only by chilliness——Chilliness and coldness

• ▸predominate.
• ▸—Violent chill in evening with heat in face —Chilliness 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸; > when exercising in

• ▸open air.
• ▸—Chill ascending from back over head.
• ▸—Chill running down back.
• ▸—Before and after the

paroxysms of intermittent fever, ravenous hunger.—Tertian fever (with symptoms of scurvy, such

as putrid taste), bitter taste, bleeding gums, anorexia, and constipation.—External burning heat,

with ebullition of blood, and thirst (after midnight, followed by chill towards morning).—Burning

heat in hands and feet, at night, which renders it needful to uncover them.—Great tendency to

perspire by day, even when seated quietly; or else inability to perspire, with paleness of face and

headache.—Profuse perspiration at night, sometimes with putrid smell (like rotten eggs).—Cold

sweat on forehead and feet.

• ▸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.
• ▸Seborrhsa.
• ▸Self-abuse.
• ▸Spermatic cords, affections of.

• ▸Spermatorrhsa.
• ▸Steatoma.
• ▸Stiff-neck.
• ▸Styes.
• ▸Swallowing, constant while talking.
• ▸Teeth, caries of.

• ▸Testicles, affections of.
• ▸Tibi¢c, pains in.
• ▸Tobacco, effect of.
• ▸Toenail, ingrowing.
• ▸Tonsillitis.

• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Tumours; tarsal.
• ▸Voice, nasal; hoarse.
• ▸Warts.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸Antidote to: Merc.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸, Complementary: Coloc.

• ▸Compatible: Caust.
• ▸(Caust.
• ▸, Coloc.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, follow well in this order).
• ▸Jnimical: Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸, before

• ▸and after.
• ▸Compare: Effects of sexual abuse, Plat.
• ▸(spasms, emaciation), Calad.
• ▸(glans flabby), K.

• ▸bro.
• ▸(depression; weakness of legs), Gels.
• ▸, Dros.
• ▸, Nux, Sul.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Colic from

• ▸mental causes, Cham.
• ▸(hot face, red cheeks, hot sweat), Coloc.
• ▸(bends double).
• ▸Teeth, Kre.

(premature decay of milk teeth; first become yellow, then dark, then decay; Stp., turn black and

• ▸decay), Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸Styes and tarsal tumours, Graph.
• ▸(cystic tumours midway between

• ▸inner and outer surface), Calc.
• ▸Figwarts and condylomata, Thu.
• ▸(Thu.
• ▸sessile; Stp.
• ▸, on pedicles).

• ▸Bone affections, Stillin.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Ka.
• ▸iod.
• ▸, Stront.
• ▸, Aur.
• ▸mur.
• ▸, Plat.
• ▸mur.
• ▸, Gettys.
• ▸Arthritic

• ▸ophthalmias, Coloc.
• ▸(gout of eyes).
• ▸Stomach hanging down, Ipec.
• ▸, Tab.
• ▸Diarrhsa, with flatus

• ▸smelling like rotten eggs, Cham.
• ▸(Stp.
• ▸is < on any attempt to take food or drink).
• ▸Clean-cut

• ▸wounds and operations, Arn.
• ▸Crusta lactea, Vinc.
• ▸m.
• ▸Lumbar pains compel early rising, Rhe.

• ▸Paralysis with tingling in affected parts, Aco.
• ▸Paralysed by emotions, Stan.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸Throwing

• ▸things from him, Kre.
• ▸Irritated by trifles, Sul.
• ▸, Ig.
• ▸Cauliflower excrescences, Pho.
• ▸, Thu.
• ▸Stitches

from throat into left car on swallowing, Lach. Perspiration impossible, Lach. Diarrhsa

• ▸immediately after eating, Alo.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Pod.
• ▸, Tbd.
• ▸(Fer.
• ▸, whi/e eating).
• ▸Ravenous hunger,

• ▸Ars.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸Sinking immediately after meals, Ars.
• ▸, Cin.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Sil.
• ▸, Ur.
• ▸n.
• ▸Dyspnsa

• ▸towards end of coitus, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸< After coitus, K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸Relaxed Stomach, insufficient gastric juice,

• ▸Selen.
• ▸Cross, puny, sickly children, Syph.
• ▸Nodosities on eyelids after styes, Con.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Mag.

• ▸Teeth decay on edges (Mez.
• ▸, Thu, at roots).
• ▸Urging to urinate after difficult labour, Op.
• ▸Painful

sensitiveness of sexual organs, can hardly wear a napkin, Plat. Cough excited by tobacco smoke,

• ▸Spo.
• ▸Nodosities on fingers, Caul.
• ▸, Colch.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸Pain in small spot, K.
• ▸bi.
• ▸Wind blowing into ears;

• ▸eruptions; Mercury antidote, Mez.
• ▸Urinating with cough, Caust.
• ▸< After stool, Nit.
• ▸ac.

Involuntary stool when passing flatus, Alo. Black marks on teeth, Scill.

Inimical: Ranunc bulb.

Complementary: Caust; Colocy.

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

Antidote: Camph.

Third to thirtieth potency.

The mental symptoms are very important, and the impressions made

upon the mind and thence upon the body guide to Staphisagria 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

indignition, 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

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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 fcannot 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, dulness 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 irriable, 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 hk Jiroice, his ability to work, cannot

sleep and a headache follows. i

Many a time a man has come im:d 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 nose 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.

Haemorrhoidal 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 hyper-sensitive nerve

growth will come out on the hand or on the back. Sometimes it turns

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black. 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

t<» the touch. Meibomian tumors (Cow., Thuja), in irritable children

^Kreos.y

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 arc 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 W

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., Cole, and Staph,

follow each other like Sulph., Calc, and Lyc.

It often happens that nervous women soon after marriage arc attacked with frequent and painful urging to urinate which becomes

extremely troublesome and may last many days. Staph, is very com-

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forting to the young wife. 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 dischargo

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 liecotne inflamed and swollen ; genitals

waste away. :

Sensation as if there were worija^ crawling over him. Crawling,

etc., in the female external genitals^ Coff,, Plat,, Petrol, Apis, Tarant.

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 bums in the evening after scratch-

Drawing, tearing, stitching pains in extremities——Limbs feel beaten and painful, as

after a long walk, below shoulders and below hip-joint.