Staphisagria
Henry N. Guernsey द्वारा — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Mental.--Patients are so sensitive that the least action or word troubles or annoys his feelings; anger and indignation. Amorous dreams.
Teeth.--Toothache so sensitive that one can't bear to move the tongue; black streaks running through the teeth. Affections of teeth on right side chiefly; decayed teeth very often are excessively tender on being filled--can't bear the operation.
Skin.--Scald-head with yellow scab, smells badly, itches very much, etc. Exanthema on the cheeks, face, or head, particularly if it is yellow; with a creeping itching; ulcers, with gnawing pains. Incised wounds, with great pain.
Sensations.--Flatulent colic, where the flatus is incarcerated; gnawing pains; darting pains; sensation of trembling in the inner parts.
Generalities.--Pains in the zygoma; in the cheeks; in the under jaw. Affections of the angles of the eye, particularly the inner; glands about the neck and lower jaw; diseased ovaries, particularly the right one. Yellow scabs behind the ear. Flat taste; obstructed evacuation of the bowels. Micturition too frequent; too sparing. Polypus; arthritic nodes; restlessness of the body; scurvy.
Worse.--From mental affections; from anger, with indignation; from grief; from mortification, especially if caused by offence; from loss of fluids; from tobacco; from mercury; sexual excesses; sleeping in the afternoon; touching the parts (as in toothache, can't bear to have the tongue, drink or anything touch the teeth); from the least touch on affected parts.
Better.--After breakfast; from breaking wind.
Remedies following:--Calc. carb., Ignat., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Nux vom., Sulphur.
Antidote:--Camphor.