STAPHISAGRIA



Itching sharp pricks on various parts of the body [Gss.]

600. Pricks like flea-bites, on the lower extremities, hand, nape, head, &c. (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Kr.]

Pricking burning here and there on the skin. [Hnl.]

Eruption of lumps as large as a pea on the whole body and thighs, which itch and when scratched become excoriated, exude moisture, and then occasion burning pain.

In the evening and morning tearing and twitching about the ulcer, when at rest; it ceases when walking.

Tearing shooting in the ulcer.

605. Smarting in the ulcer as from salt.

A smarting itching as from salt in the ulcer.

The skin on the ulcerated leg becomes covered with a thin scab, with twitching and pecking pains, yellowish water exudes from it.

Violent burning pains in the ulcer, in the evening aftlying down, lasting hours, so that he cannot go to sleep.

The tetters itch only at night.

610. Burning sensation, sometimes in one place sometimes in another, but always only in the limbs, never on other parts of the body. [Htn.]

Deeply penetrating sharp stitches on various parts of the limbs, recurring after long pauses (aft. ¼ h.). [Gss.]

The limbs below the shoulder and below the hip-joint are as if bruised and painful as if after a long walk. [Fz.]

General bruised feeling, worse when walking, better when sitting and lying; especially in the calves, an extreme pain of exhaustion as if severely beaten – she could hardly drag her legs along. [Stf.]

Painfulness of the whole body as if bruised, with feeling of uncommon exhaustion, worse when moving – when she walked a little after sitting, this painful feeling was renewed and aggravated (aft. 40 h.). [Stf.]

615. Fatigue in all the limbs and pain everything – in the muscles when touched, in the joints when moved – more in the forenoon than the afternoon.

Pain in all the bones.

In the morning on rising from bed all the joints are stiff, especially the shoulders, sacrum, and hip-joint.

In the morning in bed she is very tired, without drowsiness, all the limbs are painful as if bruised and as if there were no strength in them, for an hour.

In the morning on awaking great weariness, which, however, soon goes off.

620. In the morning immediately after rising, great weakness in the knee-joints, which compels him to sit down; walking and standing are a great trouble to him (aft. 24 h.). [Hrr.]

Weak in the body, especially in the knees, when walking. [Gn.]

Weariness and exhaustion in the body, in the morning (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Hnl.]

Great weariness and inclination to sleep, in the afternoon when sitting (aft. 3 d.). [Hnl.]

In the forenoon, after rising from a seat, he becomes pale, giddy and whirling, falls on the side as if in a faint; the following day about the same time a similar attack.

625. Violent yawning so that tears come into his eyes (aft. ¼, ½ h.). [Kr.]

Frequent yawning as though he had not slept enough (aft. 2 h.). [Lr.]

Great inclination to yawn and stretch; she cannot stretch herself enough.

Great weariness and sleepiness after eating; he feels a need to lie down, falls asleep quickly, but awakes dull and heavy in the limbs, and dreads walking; but when he did walk it was very disagreeable to him, especially going up hill – but on walking farther he felt very fresh and cheerful, indeed strong after a long walk. [Stf.]

In the morning wakefulness, then sleepiness with rigor in the back. [Fz.]

630. He wakes up towards morning as if he had already slept enough, but falls asleep again immediately (aft. 46 h.). [Lr.]

In the evening he cannot reach his bed without falling asleep, and yet as soon as he gets into bed he instantly falls asleep.

Drowsiness in the afternoon; his eyes close. [Hrr.]

Drowsiness in daytime; he falls asleep on his seat.

In the afternoon, from 2 to 4 o’clock, great drowsiness.

635. First she cannot go to sleep before 11 o’clock, and she wakes up at 4 a.m., for several nights.

Several nights he often starts in the whole body, in the arms and leg, as if he were suddenly tickled – a kind of spasmodic but painless twitching; at the same time, though he is but lightly covered, he feels very hot, but without thirst or sweat.

On account of wakefulness he could not get to sleep before midnight, but he had hardly gone to sleep when he had vivid dreams of strife and quarrelling. [Lr.]

At night the child is very restlessness and calls to its mother every instant.

He wakes up from 2 a.m., and so from hour to hour, without cause.

640. Restless night; every hour waking half up, and again falling into slumber; he did not go quite asleep nor wake up completely.

All night he did not sleep, and yet his eyes closed.

He falls asleep, but is immediately woke up by a dream, in which he fights with a beast, which frightens him and makes him start (aft. 30 h.). [Hrr.]

Restless dreams of an anxious description. [Gn.]

Restless sleep and tossing about. [Gn.]

645. Several nights restless; he could not lie on either side; before midnight he was much occupied by many thoughts. [Trn.]

At the very commencement of his sleep he dreams about his daily occupations.

Very vivid dreams with rational connexion.

Vivid, but disagreeable dreams, towards morning. [Kr.]

At night vivid, but unremembered dreams. [Lr.]

650. Dreams full of exasperation. [Lr.]

Restless dreams; he is occupied first with one, then with another subject; sometimes he starts and wakes up, but cannot rightly collect himself. [Hrr.]

Amorous dreams and seminal emission. [Gn.]

Voluptuous dreams, without pollution. [Fz.]

In the evening in bed on account of pain in the calves she could not go to sleep; she knew not where to put her legs, she must always change their position in order to get relief; though she once got out of bed and then lay down again she had the same sensation in the calves (aft. 37 h.). [Stf.]

655. As soon as he goes to sleep he dreams; sometimes he is fighting with someone, sometimes he has anxious visions which wake him up, and then he dreams again. [Gss.]

Dream of murder.

Dreams of murder, the second night. [Hnl.]

For several days, in the afternoon about 3 o’clock, shivering with goose skin, which ceased in the open air and was unattended by thirst.

660. In the morning in bed chill, not followed by heat.

In the morning in bed first chill, then heat; she was unwilling to get up in the morning.

Cold feet, only in bed in the evening. [Trn.]

Evening fever consisting of coldness.

In the evening before going to sleep such violent rigor that he shook through and through in bed, and he could not get warm again (aft. 20 h.). [Lr.]

665. All night shivering without thirst or subsequent heat.

In the night he often wakes up with a chilly feeling, but cannot properly collect himself. [Hrr.]

Shuddering together with drowsiness and dryness if the mouth (aft. 3 h.). [Fz.]

Shivering and chilly feeling when eating, without thirst, two hours before the heat. [Hrr.]

Chilliness in the back even beside the hot stove (aft. ¼ h.). [Hnl.]

670. Although he stood beside the stove he could not get warm in the back and arms; at the same time frequent shivering over the back and arms up to the nape, over the head and face, in the morning after rising. [Stf.]

Rigor shaking through the whole body, with warm forehead and hot cheeks, but cold hands, not followed by heat or thirst (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Lr.]

Shivering all over the body, without thirst and not immediately followed by heat (aft. 30 h.). [Hrr.]

After eating a transient rigor down the back. [Stf.]

After the shivering a slight heat.

675. Hot feeling and heat in the face, without thirst, an hour after the chill. [Hrr.]

In the morning in bed a heat about the head, with sweat on the forehead.

In the open air she had some heat and some headache (towards evening).

Great feeling of heat, as though she were burning hot externally, with thirst; the blood was in a state of great commotion – no chill previously.

Great feeling of heat, at night, in the hands and feet; he must keep them uncovered.

680. Three hours after a meal, a not disagreeable feeling of warmth over the back. [Stf.]

Flushes of heat spread over the lower part of the back, the rest of the body being merely warm, not followed by sweat. [Stf.]

Heat in the night, especially about the forehead, so that she cannot sleep after 3 a.m., then about the forehead, so that she cannot sleep after 3 a.m., then about 9 a.m. rigor.

A warm feeling on the forehead, as if a constant warm air blew on it – sometimes also a cold air – with red cheeks and also external corporal warmth (aft. 4 d.). [Stf.]

When wakes up at night he is covered by warm sweat on the abdomen, feet, and genitals, though they are only moderately covered, without thirst; when he uncovers himself it feels cold to him the perspiration disappears, and he thinks he has caught cold (aft. 72 h.). [Gss.]

685. In the afternoon extraordinary perspiration with heat all over the body, without thirst, though he is quiseated. [Fz.]

Tendency to perspire.

Several nights much perspiration after midnight.

Night-sweat of putrid odour (aft. 8 d.).

Towards midnight, sweat of the odour of rotten eggs (aft. 4, 6 d.).

690. Profuse night-sweats (aft. 10 d.).

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.