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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | Stavesacre
Lark-spur. |
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| FAMILY |
: | Ranunculaceae.
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| PREPARATION |
: | Stavesacre
is a plant growing about a foot high,
the flowers are spur shaped and the seeds have a bitter, burning taste.
Ripe seeds are used for preparation. It has marked action over the nervous system. Generally regarded as a great germicide and used to destroy lice and itch-mites. |
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| A/F |
: | -Onanism
-Sexual excesses or sexual abuse -Loss of vital fluids -Indignation -Mortification -Reserved displeasure -Mechanical injuries from sharp cutting instruments; post-surgical. |
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| MODALITIES |
: | <
EMOTIONS (chagrin, vexation,
mortification, indignation) < Sexual excesses, onanism < Touch < Cold drinks < Mercury, tobacco < Lacerations < Night < Stretching parts < After surgery < AFTERNOON NAP < Sleep > Breakfast > Warmth > Rest |
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| MIND |
: | -LOW
SELF-ESTEEM, depression, weeping during the
interview. -Ailments from INDIGNATION, MORTIFICATION, ROMANTIC DISAPPOINTMENTS, SUPPRESSED GRIEF, anger, insults, humiliation. -Suppression of emotions. History of abuse, incest. -Was insulted, being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home; sick, trembling and exhausted. -Heightened sensitivity, both mental and physical. Extremely sensitive to least mental impression, to rudeness, to what people say about her. Often the insults are perceptions due to such sensitivity. -Anger violent, with tendency to THROW things, usually not at persons. Rage. In later stages, snappish, irritable and destructive. Angry over his mistakes. Very excitable. -Suppressed anger can give outbursts of temper. Trembling from anger. -Depressed after a fit of anger or after an insult; prefers solitude. -Fear of heights, anger, doctors. Fear of opposite sex. -Delusion that he was going to lose his fortune. -Delusion of someone pursuing him. -Sweet reservedness, does not wish to burden another with her problems, but opens up easily to one who shows interest. -Cannot fight for her rights, no bitterness even if treated unjustly- Morrison. -Very excitable, timid internally though may be hard externally. -Artistically inclined. Sentimental and romantic, writes poetry. -Indurations mental and physical. -GENTLE, SWEET and MILD persons, who draw our sympathy. Sensitive to rudeness. -Very considerate of others. Not demanding. -SELFLESS. Never egotistical, harsh or proud. -No bitterness. Blames herself instead of others. -ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL FANCIES before falling asleep. Masturbation. -Can go to lasciviousness. -Timid when they feel attracted to someone. Romantic vulnerability. -Talk to themselves loudly. -Vanishing of thoughts on mental exertion with sensation of wood or ball in head. -Difficult concentration. Forgetfulness. -Amorous dreams with seminal emissions. -Child is quiet, serious and composed (Nat-m). Sensitivity, inhibition and vulnerability. Infrequent outbursts of emotion or anger. History of an abusive parent or elder sibling who suppresses or humiliates the child. -Tics. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Suited
to persons who are pale and sunken, worn
out and exhausted as a result of sexual excesses and self abuse with
sunken eyes and a guilty abashed look, refuse to look up during an
interview. Sexual fantasies. -Induration on the physical plane are manifested in recurrent hard styes on upper lid and in glands and glandular affections -Scrofulous painful swelling of glands of nape, neck, axillae. Ovaries and testes enlarged and indurated. Atrophy of testicles causing impotency with increased sexual desire. -Bad effects of masturbation < coition - causing dyspnoea and prostration after an emission. Coition painful in women because of extreme sensitivity of the genitalia. -Complaints after surgery, cuts. Stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife in post surgical cases. Mechanical injuries from sharp instruments. -Head-Sensation of a ball or wooden block in forehead or occiput (Irid, Kali-n). -Numb or hollow sensations. -Headache from suppressed emotions; < coition, masturbation. -Eruptions. Loss of hair, < about ears and occiput. -Alopecia areata after grief or suppression. -Eyes-STYES which leave small hardened spots. -Photophobia. Iritis. -Lacerations or incisions to the eyes. -Strabismus. -Face-Neuralgia. Pain from lips over face. -Twitchings. -Mouth-Toothache with tearing and tugging pain from head down into cheeks and teeth. -Premature decay of teeth in children. -Teeth turn black or show dark streaks and crumble. -Gums bleed when pressed, tearing in gums when eating. -Decay of teeth. -Toothache < touch < eating or drinking < cold air or drinks < menses. No pain while biting or chewing. -Gums white. -Cleaning the teeth brings on cough. -Throat-Swallows or scrapes constantly while talking. -G.I.T.-Nausea of pregnancy, nausea of sea-sickness. Nausea after operations. -Desire- Sweets, milk. -Aversion- Fat, milk. -Intense craving for tobacco. -Intense hunger even when the stomach is full. -Relaxation of abdominal muscles, sensation as if hanging down. -Abdominal colic after indignation, after lithotomy; with urging to stools and urine. -Frequent hiccoughs, much flatulence, with violent twisting pain, pinching. -Itching in anus, needle-like pricking in renal region. -Ailments from abdominal operations. -Respiratory system-Cough with maddening frequency, but soft. - Cough only in the daytime, with roughness of throat. -Cough alternating with sciatica, cough brought on by tobacco smoke. -Chronic hacking cough. -Nervous or emotional cough. -Loss of voice after anger. -Urinary system-HONEYMOON CYSTITIS. CYSTITIS AFTER EVERY INTER-COURSE. Useful in young women who develop a constant urging to urinate or dysuria after coition. -Ailments after catheter, lithotomy. -Urinary troubles in old men with prostatitis. -Burning in urethra when not urinating. -Urinary difficulties after severe labour. -Male genitalia-Enlarged prostate. -Prostatitis, pain from anus to urethra. Cancer. -MASTURBATION. Masturbates till falling asleep at night. -Impotency when confronted or after excess. -Condylomata painful on touch. -Orchitis < left. -Induration, tumors, atrophy of testes. -Atrophy of testes < sexual excess. -Impotence. -Nocturnal seminal emissions. -Female genitalia-Amenorrhoea from indignation. -Menses regular, with aching around hips and loss of power in limbs. -Toothache during menses. -MASTURBATION. Frigid when confronted. -Cysts and tumors. Cancer. -Painful sensitiveness of organs < sitting. -Ailments after FIRST INTERCOURSE which is very painful causing suffering. -Extremities-Sharp needle pricks on thumb scratching, prickling and itching in muscles of the buttocks. -Obtuse shooting pains in shoulder joint -Paralytic aching in left upper arm. -Fine twitching and jerking of muscles especially thumb tips, pain in knee joints, tearing pains in calf muscles. -Weakness in body especially when walking. -TREMBLING FROM ANGER. -CHOREA. -Paresis after cerebral accidents. -Sleep-Sleepy all day, sleepless at night, body aches all over. -Sleeplessness from romantic or sexual fancies. Masturbates to fall asleep. -Skin-Eczema and discharge of yellow, acrid moisture from under the crusts. -Thick scabs. -Itching shifting, changing place on scratching. -Wounds do not heal easily. -Damaged tissues become hard and indurated. -Figwarts, dry, pedunculated, cauliflower like, after abuse of mercury. -PSORIASIS AFTER GRIEF, SUPPRESSED EMOTIONS, especially in children. -Unhealthy skin. -Oversensitive spots. Ulcers, scars, warts extremely sensitive. Touch may give convulsions. |
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| KEYNOTES. |
: | - Sensation of round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when
shaking his head. - Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. - Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed. - Sleepy all day, sleepless al night, body aches all over. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Bad
effects of sexual abuse, sexual excesses,
onanism, complaints with increased desire, causing both physical and
mental symptoms. -Bad effects of suppressed emotions especially suppressed anger, indignation, chronic suppressions. Staphysagria absorbs griefs. -Low spirited, depressed individuals with a guilty, abashed feeling. -No anger - feel guilty where they might have been angry. -Very sensitive, with nervous affection and trembling. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -A/F
sexual abuse, onanism, suppressed emotions,
anger, indignation etc. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Cerebral
accidents, Chorea, Condylomata, Cystitis,
Depression, Enuresis, Insomnia, Orchitis, Peptic ulcer, Post-surgical
pain, Prostatitis, Psoriasis, Strabismus, Styes, Tics. -Weeping without tears in children-Staphysagria 30 or 200-Dr. Foubister. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Anac,
Caust, Cham, Colo, Merc, Nat-c,
Nat-m, Nux-v, Puls, Sil. -Complementary- Caust, Coloc, Thuj. |
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