Staphysagria

Where is the pathogenesis of this remedy found ?

In Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura .

What is the habitat and common name of Staphisagria ?

Southern Europe ; Larkspur .

What part is used in making the mother tincture and how is it prepared ?

The ripe seeds. These coarsely powdered are covered with five parts, by weight, of alcohol and allowed to remain eight days in a well-stoppered bottle in a dark, cool place, being shaken twice a day. Decant, strain and filter. Drug power, one-tenth.

What are its alkaloids ?

Delphinine and Staphisagrine .

Give in brief its general action.

It seems to act chiefly on the genito-urinary organs, prostate gland especially, and corresponds to many conditions proceeding from abnormal states in this region.

Give three characteristic applications of Staphisagria.

1. The results of suppressed anger, peevishness and hyper-sensitiveness.

2. Mind dwelling on sexual subjects and for sexual excesses and onanism.

3. Premature decay and discoloration of teeth.

Give the mental symptoms of the drug.

Sad and irritable, especially depressed after a fit of anger or after an insult ; a sort of mental colic ; very peevish and gloomy.

What are the nervous conditions ?

"So weak ! so weak !". Memory weak. The nervous system is worn out, exhausted ; the patients are pale, the nose is peaked, the eyes are sunken and surrounded by dark rings.

Give the sexual symptoms.

The patient is moody, depressed, prefers solitude, is shy of the opposite sex. Sexual excesses and especially self-abuse from allowing the mind to dwell too long on sexual subjects. The lunacy of the act is met by this remedy.

What symptom is sometimes found in the female organ ?

A crawling on the external genitals as from insects ; parts very sensitive.

What is peculiar and characteristic about the skin symptoms ?

An eruption with violent itching, which, when scratched, changes place and itches somewhere else.

What two other drugs have this last symptom, though less marked ?

Anacardium and Mezereum .

What are the symptoms of the teeth ?

The teeth turn black and crumble as soon as they appear, a condition found in sycotic children.

What other drug has a premature decay of the teeth ; they first become yellow then dark ?

Kreosote .

What are the chief eye symptoms which have been verified clinically ?

Itching of margin of lids, styes, nodosities resulting from styes, chalazae on lids, one after another, sometimes ulcerating.

What are the stomach symptoms of Staphisagria ?

A sensation as if the stomach were hanging down, relaxed ; it seems to be flabby and weak ; a great desire for wine, brandy or tobacco. Pain in abdomen after every morsel of food and drink.

What other drug has similar symptoms ?

Ipecac .

What is a grand characteristic which runs all through the drug, a keynote ?

Sensitiveness ; sensitiveness of the sexual organs, ovaries, teeth, abdomen, wounds, etc.