Staphysagria 200 Uses, Benefits – Staphysagria Homeopathy Materia Medica

• Sensation of a round ball in the forehead, sitting firmly there, even when shaking the head
• Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food
• Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down, relaxed

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Stavesacre. Larkspur, Delphinium staphysagria
Family: Ranunculaceae
Prover: Dr Hahnemann
Duration of Action: 20 to 30 days
Miasmatic Background: Psora and sycosis
Temperament: Nervous and melancholic
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: 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, in Materia Medica Pura, ‘was evidently domestic practice.’

Preparation and Parts Used: Tincture of the seeds. Mother tincture is prepared from tincture of seeds.

Constitution and Physiognomy

1. It suits those who are affected by suppressed anger, reserved displeasure; after being insulted, they become speechless, nervous, suffer from brain fag, colic, irritability of bladder, etc.
2. Also suited to young married women who suffer from a constant urging to urinate after coition, or after difficult labour.

Ailments From: Anger, suppressed anger or reserved, injury, falls, clean cut wounds, operations, coitus, masturbation, sexual abuse, sexual craving, emissions, dentition, tobacco, mercury.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It mainly acts upon cerebrospinal nervous system, gastrointestinal system, sexual organs and skin.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology): Through the cerebrospinal system, it especially acts upon the gastrointestinal canal; genitourinary organs, and skin.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. AILMENTS FROM reserved displeasure, ill-effects after scolding or punishment in children.
2. PASSION; violent outbursts of passion.
3. Patient is always angry. Gloomy and petulant; throws things.
4. Child cries for many things but refuses them when offered.
5. Poor memory.
6. Patient dwells on sexual matters. Has unsatisfied sexual urge; especially in widows.
7. Patient is snappish; sensitive mentally and physically.
8. Hypochondriasis. Patient imagines insults.
9. Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent.
10. Great indignation about the things done by others or by himself, grieves about the consequences.
11. Believes he will lose his fortune, his wife will leave him.
12. Want of self-control. Afraid of his shadow.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Sensation: Sensation of a round ball in the forehead, sitting firmly there, even when shaking the head. It is useful for mechanical injuries from sharp cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife.

Nervous weakness: Nervous weakness as after much hard work.

Styes, chalazae: Present on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake.

Toothache: Occurs during menses; in sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to the touch of food or drink, but not from eating or chewing; worse drawing cold air into the mouth; from cold drinks and after eating.

Decayed teeth: Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble, decay on edges; scorbutic cachexia.

Cravings: For tobacco.

Hunger: Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.

Hanging down sensation: Sensation as if abdomen and stomach were hanging down relaxed.

Colic: Occurs after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section.

Urging: Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labour.

Burning: Burning in urethra when not urinating.

Bladder: Urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; It is a very useful medicine for prolapse of bladder.

Sensitiveness: Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva is so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin.

Spermatorrhoea: With sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission followed by backache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of
sexual organs.

Cough

1. Only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth.
2. Croupy cough worse in winters, alternating with sciatica in summers.
3. Cough is excited by tobacco smoke.

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

Arthritis: Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers; inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.

Drowsy: Patient is sleepy all day, awake all night, body aches all over.

Fever: In fever, ravenous hunger for days before attack.

Eczema: Yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under the crusts. New vesicles form after contact with exudation; worse by scratching one place; later that itching ceases, but it appears at another part.

Fig warts: Dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like warts after abuse of mercury.

Important Characteristic Features

Urinary symptoms: A most valuable medicine for affections of urinary organs. There is frequent urging to urinate; with scanty or profuse discharge of watery urine. Patient urinates in a thin stream, or drop by drop. Sensation as if a drop of urine is rolling continuously along the urethra; worse after walking or riding; better urinating. Burning in urethra when not urinating. Ineffectual urging to urinate in newly married women; during pregnancy. After urination, there is urging as if the bladder was not empty. Cystocele. Worse after walking or riding. Better urinating.

Male sexual organs: A very useful medicine for affections of sexual subjects. Persistently dwells on sexual subjects. Excessive sexual desire. It is useful for sexual neurasthenia and priapism. Seminal emissions followed by great prostration. There are dyspnoeic attacks, worse during or after coition. Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Inflammation of prostate gland in which pain extends from anus to urethra. Soft, humid excrescences behind corona glandis. Useful for enlarged prostate with piles. There occurs inflammation and atrophy of testes from mumps. Worse during and after coition.

Skin affections: A very useful medicine for alteration of complaints in skin affections. Skin symptoms alternating with joint pains. There is biting, itching as of vermin; changing place on scratching. Eczema with thick scabs, itching violently. Dry, pedunculated fig warts on upper eyelids. Ulcers and new growths are extremely sensitive; touch may bring on convulsions.

General Modalities

Aggravation: Emotions – chagrin, vexation, indignation, quarrels, sexual excesses, onanism, touch, cold drinks, lacerations, stretching parts, coition, after urinating, when not urinating, at night, new moon, before full moon.

Amelioration: Warmth, rest, breakfast; coition.

Remedy Relationships

Complementary: Coloc.

Compatible: Caust.

Antidoted by: Camph.

Antidote to: Merc, Thuj.

Inimical: Ran-b.

Comparison

Vomiting with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain after laparotomy: Bism, Nux-v, Staph.

Ailments from grief or misdeeds of others: Colch, Staph.

Mortification caused by offense: Coloc, Lyc, Staph.

Vivid dreams of women all night, emissions during sleep: Dios, Staph, Orig.

Genitals cold, knees weak with great despondency: Dios, Staph.

Sensitive teeth: Coff, Fl-ac, Staph.

Warts, condylomata; sycotic or syphilitic with sticking pain: Nit-ac, Staph, Thuj.

Masturbation – when patient is greatly distressed by the culpability of the act: Dios, Ph-ac, Staph.

Constipation – faeces slender, long, dry, tough and hard: Phos, Staph.

Trifling things produce profound vexation: Ign, Plat, Staph.

Styes: Puls, Lyc, Staph.

Child dislikes even favourite play things: Cina, Rheum, Staph.

Teeth decay at edge of gun and break off are cupped, edges serrated, dwarfed in size, converge at their tips: Staph, Syph.

Dosage

1. Dr Boericke recommends mother tincture in 10-30 drop doses in delirium tremens.
2. Third to thirtieth potency generally.
3. In case of chronic sciatica, apply tincture to heel of affected leg as per M. Jousset.

Repetition: Bears repetition well.

Therapeutic Value: Arthritis, Bone diseases like ulcers, Caries, Chalazea, Diarrhoea, Fig warts, Gout, Rheumatism, Scrofulous ophthalmia, Sleeplessness, Styes, Sycosis, Syphilis, Toothache, etc.