STAPHISAGRIA


Staphisagria homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe…


      Common names: Stavesacre; (G.), Lausesamen; (F.), Staphisagre.

Introduction.

Delphinium Staphisagria, Linn.

Natural order: Ranunculaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the seeds.

Mind.-Emotional.

He was joyous, enjoyed society, and was good-humored. (* Curative reaction of the organism in a man of the opposite disposition.- HAHNEMANN. *) Good-humor; he was joyful and conversational, and was happy in his condition (after thirteen hours). Earnest mood, quiet, busy with himself, speaks very little. Very lachrymose.

Sadness without ability to assign any reason. Sad; he fears the worst results from slight causes, and cannot quiet himself. Mind phlegmatic, depressed, sad, apathetic, indifferent to everything, without peevishness or without being weak. Her mind seemed dead and sad, though not with weeping. Morose; she frequently cries at nothing. She was full of grief all day; she grieved over her condition and wept; nothing in the world pleased her (after fifty hours). She will hear or know nothing from anyone; she wraps up her face and weeps aloud without cause. Anxious and fearful.

Great anxiety; he dreads the future. Violent internal anxiety, so that he could not remain in any place, but without complaints.

Anxious thoughts and events in the past came to him as if the past were present before him, which caused anxiety and anxious perspiration, then it became black before his eyes; he did not know whether the images were real or illusory, then everything seemed different, and he lost all desire to live. (When walking rapidly, it seems as though some one were coming behind him, which causes anxiety and fear, and he is constantly obliged to look around). *Very peevish (in the morning); he wishes to throw from him everything which he takes in his hand. Fretful and sad.

Fretful and peevish all day; does not know himself on account of despondency, and is extremely depressed (after thirty-seven hours). Fretful and restless all day, found rest nowhere. Quiet fretfulness; he is vexed at everything which even does not concern him. Fretful and disinclined for mental work (after two hours). Fretful and lachrymose. Every word vexes her; she cries even if one only speaks to her. Quarrelsome mood and yet lively.

(Hypochondriac mood; everything seems indifferent to him; he would rather die). Alternations of mood, at first joyous, then anxious, at last quiet and contented. (* The first mood is a transient reaction of the organism from one of fear and depression; afterwards, the primary action of the drug is again noticed in the anxiety, after which the reaction of the organism is again seen, and the quiet contented mood remains.-HAHNEMANN.

*) Intellectual. Dulness of mind, that keeps him from every work.

Even attractive things made no impression upon him.

Disinclination for earnest work. He is mentally exhausted, has no desire to think, is not inclined to thought, and is indifferent to his surroundings. On attempting to grasp an idea, it vanishes.

He does not know whether the things which are presented to him are from out of his memory, are real, or whether he is only dreaming of them, from 5 to 7 P.M. Thoughts disappear whenever he attempts to think or speaks of any subject, and if any one interrupts him or changes to another subject, he, for the moment, forgets, or cannot at all collect his thoughts. The thoughts disappear (memory disturbed by fantasies); whenever he reflects upon anything, numerous and confused subjects crowd upon him, so that he cannot collect his thoughts, and forgets entirely of what he was thinking. Weakness of memory; a few minutes after reading anything, he can recollect it only dimly, and whenever he thinks of anything, the sense escapes him, and he is scarcely able to recall it after long reflection.

Head.-Confusion and Vertigo.

Confusion of the head, as in coryza. The head is confused, in the morning, with constrictive pressure in the vertex (after four days). Vertigo; he runs against a door in walking. Vertigo while lying in bed, in the evening, as if everything were turning around. Vertigo on stooping and suddenly turning the head; everything turned about in a half circle (only once). Vertigo, as if stupefied, in the house, not in the open air. Whirling vertigo, especially while sitting, relieved by walking about (after one hour). Whirling in the forehead and dulness in the head (after five hours). Dizziness (after eight hours and a half). General Head. When bending forward, it falls forward almost involuntarily, while sitting (after ten hours). Dulness of the head, as if vertigo would occur, while standing and talking, lasting a long time. Dulness and heaviness of the head (after half an hour). The head is constantly dull and the spirits depressed. Dulness of the head only at intervals; at times the head was quiet free and clear. Heaviness in the head (after seventy-two hours). Heaviness of the head and weakness of the cervical muscles; he is obliged to lean the head backward, or to one or the other side (after twelve hours). Heaviness lying upon the ethmoid bone in the head, above the root of the nose, like a compression on both sides. Heaviness of the head relieved by resting it upon the hand (after one hour). Pressure in the brain, especially in the occiput, towards the bones of the skull, and a pressure as from too great accumulation of blood, in the evening, before going to bed, continuing after lying down (after thirty- nine hours). On motion, headache, as if the whole brain would fall out; even during rest, sensation as if the brain were pressed together, separated from the skull and lying loose therein. Headache alternately stupefying and boring. Aching, like a tingling, in the whole of the head (after five hours). Violent headache, as if the brain were torn to pieces, in the morning, immediately after washing, but it afterwards disappeared, with violent spasmodic yawning. Headache, as if the brain were compressed (mostly in the forehead), with paroxysms of roaring in the ears, which ceases much sooner than the headache. Sticking headache all day (after seventeen day). Pain in the head, as if everything would come out at the forehead, on stooping (after five hours). Tearing and pulling from the head down through the cheeks into the teeth (after thirty-six hours). Tingling and sticking in the whole of the head, worse on stooping and when walking, in the evening, for several hours (after thirty-six hours). Forehead. Dulness of the head, anteriorly in the middle of the forehead, in a small spot as large as the tip of the finger, like a stupefaction; on the street he does not know whether is going to the right or left; he is obliged to be very careful. Headache pressing outward and pressing asunder in the left half of the forehead (after half an hour). On shaking the head, there is a sensation in a small spot in the middle of the forehead as if there were something heavy like a ball of lead in the brain which would not loosen. Dull pinching headache in the forehead, with stitches in the temples, relieved by walking about, but returning on sitting and standing (after four hours).

Drawing pressure in the forehead from time to time. Pressure above the right eye, behind the brow, as from something hard.

Pressive stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, worse on moving the head and on standing up. Violent tearing pressure through the left half of the brain, especially violent in the forehead, gradually increasing and gradually diminishing (after fifty-four hours). Hard pressure in the right side of the forehead. Dull, painful, at times sticking, pressure from within outward, at first in the whole of the forehead, afterwards only in the left frontal eminence, while disappears during rest, but returns more violent on motion (after four hours). Drawing, cutting tearing in the side of the forehead. Tearing in the forehead, in the evening, while sitting; on stooping, a sticking in it, relieved by walking. Pressive sticking and drawing pain in the left side of the forehead (after two hours).

A pressing-boring stitch, lasting for a minute, in the morning, from within outward, in the left half of the forehead, so violent that it awoke him twice (after twenty-two hours and a half).

Burning stitches on the frontal bone externally. Sudden stitches in the upper part of the forehead, so that he started up Temples. Hard pressure in the head, in the region of the right temporal bone and on the vertex. Pressive pain in the left temple internally and externally, as from pressing hard with the finger (after one hour and a half). Burning-pressive tearing in the right temple, close to the eye (after seven hours). Drawing- tearing sticking in the left temple, as if in the bone, pulsative and persistent (after forty hours); on the next day it returned at the same time, now in the left, now in the right temple, then in the left frontal eminence, less violent, continuing for several days. Stitches in the left temple. Sharp, burning, needlelike stitches in the left temple. Dull stitches in the right temple, internally and externally, as if the bones would be pressed out, aggravated by touch. Vertex and Parietals. Headache in the vertex like a constriction from all sides and pressure.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.