STAPHYSAGRIA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses
- very sensitive to slight mental impressions; least action or harmless words offend
- great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences
- apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses
- ailments from pride, envy or chagrin
- ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away
- was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted
- sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when shaking the head
- mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting, pains, like the cutting of a knife
- bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure
- nervous weakness; as if one up after much hard work
- styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake
- toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink; but not from biting or chewing; drawing cold air into mouth; from cold drinks and after eating
- teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges; scorbutic cachexia
- craving for tobacco
- extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food
- sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed
- colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section
- urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor
- burning in urethra when not urinating
- urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men
- prolapse of bladder
- painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin
- onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures
- spermatorrhoea: with sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission followed by headache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs
- cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth
- croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke
- backache, at night in bed, and in the morning before rising
- arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers; inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration
- sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over
- in fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack
- eczema: yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; now vesicles form from contact with xudation; by scratching one place itching ceases, but appears in another
- fig-warts: dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like; after abuse of mercury