In women it is very useful to allay the mental distress, the local hyperaesthesia and the constant desire to pass water that sometimes occur in the newly married. it is a remedy for pruritus of the female genitals and for nymphomania. It is also useful for urinary difficulties following labour and for various pelvic pains after operations on the generative organs. Indeed, staphisagria is, on account of the hypersensitiveness to pain it produces, a good remedy for pain after all wounds, especially if they are clean cut.
Digestion.- It is the remedy for colic and diarrhoea brought on by anger (coloc.) and for stomach disorders arising from the same cause. it is useful in the vomiting of pregnancy.
Toothache, when the teeth are decaying and have black streaks in them and the gums bleed and are tender, is cured by staphisagria, as also toothache occurring in pregnancy, when the teeth, without being decayed, are more painful from the touch of food or drink, from cold drink and from drawing cold air into the mouth, but biting and chewing do not increase the pain.
It is a valuable remedy for tic douloureux when the lips and mouth are extremely extremely sensitive, especially to the contact of a metallic fork or spoon, so that the patient has to put into his mouth with his fingers and proper mastication is impossible.
It is a remedy for sea-sickness when associated with vertigo and should be taken immediately nausea and vertigo commence; it is also useful for the ill-effects of tobacco smoking, such as sore tongue and gastralgia.
Eyes.- It is a valuable remedy for affections of the eyelids, especially the upper lids, it cures the styes and meibomian cysts that appear in that region.
Skin.-Staphisagria is useful for porrigo of the scalp and perhaps owes its virtue here partly to its power as an insecticide; for this purpose it has gained the only recommendation it has received from the orthodox school, viz., as an external application for phthiriasis. It is used in the form of an oil made from the seeds or of a lotion consisting of one part of the tincture to four of water. In these forms it destroys both Pediculus capitis and Phthirius pubis.
It has proved useful for dry, seedy warts, mainly when they occur on the genitals.
Bones.- It has been used successfully for gouty nodosities of the fingers and other parts, for exostoses, periostitis and mercurial bone diseases.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Extreme hypersensitiveness of mind and body.
(2) Ailments from suppressed emotions, especially from indignation and anger.
(3) Ailments from sexual excesses and perversions; from letting the mind dwell unduly on sexual subjects.
(4) Aggravation of pains from touch and pressure.
(5) Peevishness, apathy, brooding over insults and annoyances.
(6) Weakness of the whole body, especially of the knees while walking.
(7) Tired aching in the bones, felt most at night.
(8) Sweat smells like rotten eggs (sulph.).
(9) Pains following injuries by sharp cutting instruments, from stretching of sphincters.
(10) Fig warts, pediculated; after abuse of mercury.
AGGRAVATION :
From anger and indignation, coitus, touch, pressure, motion, food and drink (intestinal tract), cold drinks, drawing cold air into the mouth (toothache), evening till morning, after urinating (urethral pain).
AMELIORATION :
From rest (but rest aggravates pain in the back).
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,