STAPHISAGRIA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Staphisagria from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


For the bad effects of onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids, chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults.

Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures.

Spermatorrhoea: features sunken; guilty, abashed look; emissions followed by headache, weak legs, prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs.

Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses.

Mechanical injuries from sharp cutting instruments, post-surgical operations; colic from lithotomy or ovariotomy.

Styes, chalazae, on eyelids, on upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake.

Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink, but not from biting.

Teeth are black, or show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges.

Scorbutic cachexia.

Ostitis of phalanges, with sweating and suppuration.

Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially the fingers.

Pain in the teeth during menses.

Great desire to weep.

Eyes sunken, with blue margins around them.

Ravenous hunger for days.

Chill predominates.

Chill, without subsequent heat or thirst. Stools: hot; smelling like rotten eggs; after drinking cold water.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.