Staphysagria

Staphy (full) 

• Source : vegetable kingdom 
• Common name : stavesacre
• Family : ranunculaceae 
• Prover : Dr. Hahnemann 
• Miasm : psora and sycosis 
• Temperament : Nervous and melancholic
• Thermal : chilly 

Sphere of action

• genito-urinary organs, mind, GIT, Respi, skin. 

Guiding symptoms + keynotes

1. A/F : Suppression of anger, unmerited insult, vexation, reserved displeasure, mechanical injury.
2. Craving for tobacco. 
3. For mental effects of onanism, sexual excess. 
4. Sleepy all the day, awakes all the night.
5. Coughing only in daytime(euph) , backache at night.
6. Stye and chalazion on eyelids leaving nodosities in their place.
7. Constant thinking of sexual pleasure.

Constitution 

• Usually young man with weaknesses and debility, guilty, with craving of tobacco.

Mind

• A/F : Suppression of anger, reserved displeasure, sexual excess. 
• Pt is very sensitive, slightest mental impression, even harmless word offends (ign). 
• Pt is very apathetic and indifferent, low spirited and has weak memory from sexual abuse.
• Sensation of round wooden ball in the forehead.
• Constant thinking of sexual pleasure.

Eye

• Stye, chalazion on eyelids or upper lids. 
• Appears one after another (arn). 
• Leaves hard nodosities in their place (thuja).

Tooth

• During menses. 
• Pain in sound as well as decayed teeth. 
• Painful to touch of food or drink, but not from biting or chewing. 
• < drawing cold air in mouth. 
• < cold drinks, after eating. 
• Teeth turn black show dark streaks. 
• Decay on edges. 

Stomach

• Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed (ipec). 
• Canine hunger (cina, lyc). 
• Colic after abdominal section. 

Urinary 

• Cystocele (prolapse of urinary bladder). 
• Pt has Ineffectual urging to urinate (nux.v.), still has to wait for a long time to urinate, seen mostly in newly married women, after first coition. 
• Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel. 
• Burning in urethra all the time. 

Male

• A/F : sexual abuse. 
• Spermatorrhoea. 
• Guilty look, nocturnal emission with backache and weakness and sexual neurasthenia. 

Female

• Parts are very sensitive that the pt can hardly wear a napkin (plat). 
• Cystocele. 

Skin

• Complaints start with severe itching. 
• Itching changes its position by scratching without amelioration, < night sweat. 
• Inflammation of phalanges with watery vesicles.
• Fluid is watery and acrid, which causes another eruption of vesicle when it comes in contact with the skin. 
• Arthritic nodosities. 
• Fig-warts pedunculated. 

Injury

• Mechanical injury, caused by sharp instrument (calen). 
• Post surgical operation (calen).
• Character of pain : stinging smarting pain like the cutting of a knife. 

Modalities 

• Aggravation : mental affection, anger, grief, tobacco, onanism, sexual excess. 

Relations 

• Antidote : camph
• Inimical : ranun. Bulb. 
• Chain of : causti, colo, staphy. 

Extras

• 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 nose to odors; so sensitive that everything is painfully sensated.

• 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.