STAPHISAGRIA



He speaks quite faintly, on account of weakness of the vocal organs, though otherwise he is lively. [Fz.]

Dry sensation on the tongue, collection of sourish water in the mouth, and at the same time tenacious mucus stopping up the choanae. [Fz.]

Collection of saliva in the mouth.

Ptyalism.

245. Bloody saliva (immediately). [Gn.]

Rough throat, with sore pain, when talking and swallowing.

Dryness in the throat, especially in the evening, before going to sleep; stitches in the throat when swallowing.

Bread tastes sour to him.

Bread tastes sourish. [Fz.]

250. In the mouth a nasty bitter taste, per se. [Stf.]

A qualmish, flat taste in the mouth, and yet food tastes well.

Watery taste in the mouth, although food tastes all right.

Food has no taste and yet he has appetite.

Nasty bitterish taste of food (aft. 46 h.). [Stf.]

255. He has a constant accumulation of mucus in the mouth, without bad taste.

The mouth is constantly full of watery fluid, as during great hunger. [Stf.]

False sensation of hunger in the stomach, as if it hung down in a flaccid state, and yet no appetite.

Extreme ravenous hunger in the stomach, as if it hung down in a flaccid state, and yet no appetite.

Extreme ravenous hunger, even when the stomach was full of food, and when he again ate, he relished the food.

Great appetite for milk.

260. (From drinking beer there occurs a scrapy disagreeable taste in the throat.)

Tobacco-smoke has a pungent taste.

During (the accustomed) tobacco-smoking, heartburn.

Every morning, nausea even to vomiting.

Inclination to vomit.

265. In the morning inclination to vomit (aft. 1 h.). [Fz.]

When eating there occurs nausea in the mouth and gullet, as though he should vomit (aft. 9 h.). [Lr.]

Collection of water in the mouth, after eating – a kind of waterbrash. [Fz.]

Qualmish (immediately); water collects in his mouth with single short eructations, as when an emetic has been taken which will not act. [Stf.]

A kind of eructation; a quantity of mucus comes from the upper part of the throat into the mouth (aft. ½ h.). [Stf.]

270. Tasteless eructation; but neither air not anything else comes up. [Stf.]

Eructation of a tasteless fluid after eating. [Stf.]

Eructation with the taste of the ingesta. [Stf.]

Frequent empty eructation. [Stf.]

Repeated eructation (aft. ¼ h.). [Kr.]

275. Scrapy eructation, which effects the larynx and causes cough (scrapy heartburn).

When he wishes to eructate he has pressure and shooting up into the chest.

Hiccup every time after eating.

Much hiccup half an hour after supper.

Frequent hiccup during (the accustomed) tobacco-smoking. [Lr.]

280. Frequent hiccup, combined with nausea and stupefaction of the head (aft. ¾ h.). [Lr.]

Adipsia: he drinks less than usual. [Hrr.]

A few hours after a full nutritious meal he gets a feeling of violent hunger, with flow of water into the mouth. [Stf.]

For three days he is qualmish and squeamish.

Tensive pain in the region of the stomach (aft. 13 h.). [Stf.]

285. Digging pain in the stomach.

In the scrobiculus cordis a pinching oppressive pain, which only went off when he sat and bent the body forwards (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]

Fulness in the scorbiculus cordis and pressure and shooting in it.

In the morning after waking, in bed, a pressure in the stomach as from a weight, not relieved by any change of position (aft. 6 h.).

Squeezing pressure below the sternum on the left close to the ensiform cartilage. [Gss.]

290. Only on beginning to walk a persistent stitch-like pain in the abdomen under the right ribs.

Transient pressive pain as from displaced flatulence under the ribs. [Stf.]

A contraction on the hypochondria oppressing the chest and impeding respiration (aft. 2 d.), lasting three days. [Kr.]

In the morning fasting (in bed) a tension transversely through the upper part of the belly, causing anxiety and impeding respiration, in the hypochondria (a such as hypochondriacs are wont to complain of).

Squeezing pressure under the right short ribs (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Htn.]

295. A great rattling and rumbling in the abdomen, without pain or discharge of flatus (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Stf.]

Loud rumbling in the abdomen.

Rumbling and cutting in the belly, for many days.

Rumbling in the left side of the upper part of the belly (aft. 1 h.). [Hnl.]

Aching an at the same time heaviness and tension in the abdomen.

300. The abdomen is as if compressed, impeding respiration.

A tensive painful pressure in the abdomen, as though he had eaten too much and then pressed on his belly, with nausea and flow of saliva into the mouth.

Drawing pain transversely through the abdomen.

A drawing downwards in the sides of the abdomen as if the menses were about to come on (aft. 4 d.).

Drawing pain in the abdomen as from flatulence.

305. After dinner a rattling in the abdomen, which sounded like the formation and bursting of bubbles. [Kr.]

Rumbling in the hypogastrium andrawing in the intestinal canal. [Hrr.]

Flatulence becomes displaced in the hypogastrium (the first 8 h.).

Hard painful pressure in the right side below the navel. [Gss.]

On the left above the navel, squeezing stitches, which are sharp and occur in rhytm. [Gss.]

310. Cutting in the umbilical region, as if externally, in the evening in bed, in three paroxysms.

In the bowels cutting, especially after each time she eats and drinks, and at the same time such nausea that the water runs into her mouth, and like wise great exhaustion; after the cutting she has great heat in the face and the blood rushes to her head, the veins of the hands also are distented.

Spasmodic cutting in the abdomen with trembling of the knees; by day, on the slightest movement, particularly severe after urinating; in the evening, cutting even without moving, which became better on crouching together.

Pinching stitch in the abdominal viscera, on the left side (aft. 38 h.). [Gn.]

Long-continued blunt stitch in the region around the navel, worse during expiration and when pressed on (aft. 8 h.). [Gn.]

315. Tensive stitch in the left abdominal muscles (aft. 32 h.). [Gn.]

Bruised pain above the hips in the loins, which spreads to below the navel, most perceptible when bending forwards, but also painful when touched (aft. 18 h.). [Kr.]

Bruised pain in the abdomen (aft. 48 h.). [Stf.]

Itching needle-pricks in the renal region. [Gss.]

Painless swelling of the inguinal glands, which is most visible when walking and standing and lasts many days (aft. 36 h.).

320. Blunt stitch in the left groin, worse when pressed on, going off during inspiration and expiration (aft. 84 h.). [Gn.]

Great discharge of flatus. [Gn.]

Hot flatus (aft. 36 h.). [Gss.]

A large quantity of flatus is developed and is freely discharged, of very bad smell, for thirty-six hours.

Discharge of indescribably foetid flatus. [Stf.]

325. Excessively foetid flatus in great quantity for many days. [Kr.]

Pinching in the bowels with discharge of flatus (aft. 13 h.). [Gn.]

Violent twisting about pinching pain in the whole abdomen, sometimes in one part, sometimes in another (aft. 2.1/2 h.). [Htn.]

Pinching transversely across the abdomen, and drawing in the muscles on the sides of the hypogastrium, as if diarrhoea would come on. [Fz.]

In the morning pinching in the upper part of the belly, as if diarrhoea would come on, and yet he cannot go to stool. [Fz.]

330. In the abdomen a shaking feeling and diarrhoeic movements. [Fz.]

In the morning the stool is long delayed, on account of want of peristaltic movement of the colon. [Fz.]

Stool twelve hours later than usual and coming away in hard little pieces (aft. 14, 15 h.). [Hnl.]

The first day hard stool, the second none, the third again a hard stool, the fourth day an ordinary stool. [Kr.]

Cutting and digging about in the upper and lower part of the abdomen, with call to stool, followed by a thin but scanty evacuation; when it is passed there ensues a fresh call to stool with increased cutting in the abdomen, but in spite of all efforts no evacuation – a kind of tenesmus, which, as well as the abdominal pains, only goes off after rising up from the night stool. [Gss.]

335. Cutting in the belly, with violent call to stool, whereupon perfectly fluid but scanty faeces are evacuated, with inward chilliness in the head; immediately after the evacuation there ensues a kind of tenesmus. [Gss.]

After a hard stool a kind of contused pain deep in the rectum, for three quarters of an hour.

Hard scanty stool, with burning cutting pain in the anus (aft. 10 h.). [Hnl.]

Costiveness for several days (the first days).

The normal firm stool passes with discharge of flatus between times.

340. Small, hard, thin-shaped stool, which is evacuated with pressive pains in the anus (aft. 26 h.). [Hnl.]

Persistent aching pain in the rectum, when sitting. [Gn.]

Difficult stool; at first hard faeces are evacuated; this is followed by soft faeces which teased and urged him just as if the rectum were constricted; it wanted to come away but could not; thereafter tenesmus continued. [Trn.]

In the morning cutting in the belly before the stool.

In the morning, immediately after a hard stool, a very thin, yellowish, copious evacuation. [Stf.]

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.