Delphinium staphisagria, Linn.

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common names , Stavesacre; (G.), Läusesamen; (F.), Staphisaigre.

Preparation , Tincture of the seeds.

Authorities. (From Hahnemann, R. A. M. L.)

1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Cubitz; 3 , Franz; 4 , Gross; 5 , Gutmann; 6 , Hartmann; 7 , Haynel; 8 , Herrmann; 9 , Hornburg; 10 , Kummer; 11 , Langhammer; 12 , Stapf; 13 , Teuthorn.

MIND

Emotional.
He was joyous, enjoyed society, and was good-humored, 11 . [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), 11 . [Curative reaction of the organism in a man of the opposite disposition. -Hahnemann.]
Earnest mood, quiet, busy with himself, speaks very little, 1.
Very lachrymose, 1.
Sadness, without ability to assign any reason, 5.
Sad; he fears the worst results from slight causes, and cannot quiet himself, 13.
Mind phlegmatic, depressed, sad, apathetic, indifferent to everything, without peevishness or without being weak, 5.
Her mind seemed dead and sad, though not with weeping, 1.
Morose; she frequently cries at nothing, 1. [10.]
She was full of grief all day; she grieved over her condition and wept; nothing in the world pleased her (after fifty hours), 1.
She will hear or know nothing from any one; she wraps up her face and weeps aloud without cause, 1.
Anxious and fearful, 1.
Great anxiety; he dreads the future, 8.
Violent internal anxiety, so that he could not remain in any place, but without complaints, 1.
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, 1.
(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), 1.
*Very peevish (in the morning); he wishes to throw from him everything which he takes in his hand, 1.
Fretful and sad, 12.
Fretful and peevish all day; does not know himself on account of despondency, and is extremely depressed (after thirty-seven hours), 1. [20.]
Fretful and restless all day, found red nowhere, .

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head, as in coryza, 13.
The head is very confused, in the morning, with constrictive pressure in the vertex (after four days), 3.
Vertigo; he runs against a door in walking, 1. [40.]
Vertigo while lying in bed, in the evening, as if everything were turning around, 1.
Vertigo on stooping and suddenly turning the head; everything turned about in a half circle (only once), 1.
Vertigo, as if stupefied, in the house, not in the open air, 1.
Whirling vertigo, especially while sitting, relieved by walking about (after one hour), 2.
Whirling in the forehead and dulness in the head (after five hours), 12.
Dizziness (after eight hours and a half), 5.
General Head.
When bending the head forward, it falls forward almost involuntarily, while sitting (after ten hours), 3.
Dulness of the head, as if vertigo would occur, while standing and talking, lasting a long time, 7.
Dulness and heaviness of the head (after half an hour), 7.
The head is constantly dull and the spirits depressed, 10. [50.]
Dulness of the head only at intervals; at times the head was quite free and clear, 1.
Heaviness in the head (after seventy-two hours), 5.
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), 7.
Heaviness lying upon the ethmoid bone in the head, above the root of the nose, like a compression on both sides, 3.
Heaviness of the head, relieved by resting it upon the hand (after one hour), 5.
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), 7.
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, .

EYE

Objective.
The eyes lie excessively deep, with blue raised rings around them, as after great excesses, lasting four days, 12.
The right eye is much larger than usual (more widely opened), (after seventy-eight hours), 3.
Inflammation of the white of the eye, with pain, 1.
At night, dry matter collects upon the lashes and in the outer canthus; in the open air, the matter from the eyes also dries and causes tension, 1.
The eyes close at times, though he is not sleepy, 3.
Subjective.
Dryness of the eyes, lasting all day (after thirteen hours), 7.*
The eyes are dry, in the morning on waking , with pressure in them, so that she cannot open them without assistance, 1.*
The eyes are dry, in the evening, with pressure in them, 1.* [120.]
Burning pressive sensation about the left eye (after four hours), 6.
Pressure in the eye; she was frequently obliged to wink, 1.
When reading, the eyes soon begin to ache (especially in the afternoon); a biting and burning, and then they discharge some biting drops; he is obliged to avoid the light, because it makes them pain sooner, 1.
The eyes feel as if full of sleep, 1.
Coarse stitches in the eyes on exerting them, 3.
Orbit.
Pain in the upper wall of the right orbit, just behind the eye, pressing the eye downward, lasting a long time and frequently recurring (after ten days), 7.
Heavy pressure above the right orbit in the open air (after three hours and a half), 6.
Pressure above the right eye and a drawing upward, 3.
Lids.
The inner canthi are agglutinated, in the morning, 1.
Dry matter constantly collects in the inner canthus, which he is frequently obliged to remove, during the day, . [130.]

EAR

External.
Pinching burning-pressive pain on the left concha posteriorly (after eight hours), 6.
Middle. [160.]
Sensation of coldness streaming into the right meatus auditorius like a cool breath, lasting several hours, 12.
(Drawing pain in the ear), 1.
A pinching and twinging in the left ear, 1.
Dull but deep stitches, within the ear, first the left then the right, 1.
A dull painful stitch, deep in the right ear, in the evening (after forty-eight hours), 10.
A stitch in the left ear (after thirty-one hours), 5.
A tensive stitch in the left ear (after eight hours and a half, and thirty-six hours), 5.
Hearing.
Ringing in the left ear (after four hours and a half), 10.
Ringing in one or the other ear, on moving the head, which disappears during rest (after two hours and three-quarters), 11.
At times slight reports in both ears, as if wind blew into them, without diminished hearing, 3.

NOSE. [170.]

Sneezing, with coryza, 1.
Frequent sneezing, without coryza (after two, and ten hours), 11.
Sudden violent coryza, with catarrhal voice, lasting a quarter of an hour, at 2 P.M., 1.
Violent coryza, without cough, 1.
Violent coryza; tickling in the nose and sneezing, with discharge at one time of profuse mild watery liquid, at another of thick mucus, afterwards of thick slimy substances, 12.
Violent fluent coryza; one nostril is stopped, the other is not, with frequent sneezing, lachrymation and cracked lips (after three, and four days), 10.
Coryza; at first discharge of only thick mucus, afterwards of thin water (after four days), 8.
(Stoppage of the nose, in the evening, so that she could get not air through it, made talking difficult), 1.
The nose is sore internally, with a scab deep internally, 1.
A sore pain on the cartilage in the septum of the left nostril, as if it would suppurate, when touched, 4. [180.]
Smarting pain in one nostril, as if it were very much ulcerated, 1.
Itching in the left nostril, which disappears on touch (after seventy-eight hours), 5.

FACE

He looks as hollow-eyed and haggard, and as sick and pinched in the face as after a night's watching, or as after a disagreeable mental shock, 12.
Face swollen, as from coryza, 12.
Throbbing and pressive pain in the whole of the face, extending from the teeth into the eye, lasting sixteen days, 1.
Very fine needlelike stitches in the face and other parts of the body, 3.
Cheek.
Swelling of the cheek over the lower jaw, 1.
Drawing in both malar bones, 8.
The left cheek is painful us if suppurating, while yawning, 3.
Pressive tearing in the left malar bone, affecting also the teeth (after one hour), 4. [190.]
Cutting drawing in the left malar bone (after twenty-two hours), 4.
Itching (biting) needlelike stitches, provoking scratching, in both cheeks, 4.
Sharp burning stitches in the left cheek, which provoke scratching, 4.
Dull stitch in the left malar bone (after twenty-two hours), 5.
A burning stitch in the right cheek-bone (after half an hour), 5.
Lip.
A sticking-burning vesicle on the margin of the red of the lower lip, on touch, 13.
Ulcer on the lip, with gnawing-drawing pains (after thirty-seven hours), 8.
An ulcer on the margin of the red of the lower lip, with a shiny look, with dull sticking-drawing pain, at times associated with a not disagreeable itching, which provokes scratching, and is followed by dull sticking (after six hours), 8.
Ulcer on the lip, discharge at first of pus, afterwards of only greenish water (after three days), 6.
A scurfy ulcer in the middle of the upper lip, 1. [200.]
A pimple covered with a scab, in the red of the upper lip, with a burning sensation, 1.
Burning for a minute, almost in the middle of the upper lip, on the outer margin, 12.
Sensation of fine cutting in the lip, as if it were cracked, 3.
Sharp pressive stitches, from within outward, in the upper lip, .

MOUTH

Teeth.
The teeth soon become black, she is obliged to clean them twice a day, and still black streaks remain across them, 1.*
A tooth that had for a long time been a little decayed rapidly became hollow, within eight days, 3.* [210.]
A piece scales off from the posterior surface of an incisor (after twenty-eight hours), 8.*
Toothache caused by drawing air into the mouth, 1.*
Toothache on eating, the teeth are not firm but wabble about when touched; he cannot chew his food properly, for when chewing or pressing the teeth together, it seems as though the teeth were pressed deeper into the gum; therewith the gum is white (after fifty-six hours), 8.
Pain in a hollow tooth, always after eating, a biting drawing (but in the incisors a pressure), which is excessively aggravated in the open air, even while the mouth is closed, which gradually ceased in the house, for several days (after five days), 3.*
The hollow teeth are sensitive to the slightest touch, and if after eating the slightest food remains in the cavities, there is a violent pain, extending into the roots of the teeth, and the gum about the teeth becomes painfully sore, 6.*
Any cold drink seems to penetrate the teeth as if they were hollow, 12.*
A painful draft in the teeth, from time to time, followed by throbbing in the gum, 1.
The teeth begin to grumble, while chewing, 3.
A piercing drawing in a tooth itself, that becomes hollow, and in the corresponding one on the other side, in the morning, 1.*
Pressive-drawing toothache in the anterior teeth, as after Mercury, worse at night towards morning, 1. [220.]
Violent drawing toothache, with swelling of the cheek, pressive headache in the same side, and heat in the face, 1.
Drawing pain, only in a hollow tooth, in the morning (after seventy-two hours), 3.
Pressive-drawing toothache on the right side, caused by cold water, 3.

THROAT

Dryness of the throat, especially in the evening before falling asleep; sticking in the throat, on swallowing, 1.
Throat rough, as if painfully sore, when talking and swallowing, 1.*
(Drinking beer causes a scraping, disagreeable taste in the throat), 1. [270.]
Painful drawing, extending from the hyoid bone deep into the neck beneath the lower jaw, aggravated by touching the side of the neck (after forty-eight hours), 8.
Scraping sensation in the fauces behind the nares, as if one had drawn snuff through, 5.
Swelling of the tonsils and submaxillary glands, 1.
Swelling of the submaxillary gland, which prevents swallowing, for four hours (after three hours), 13.
The submaxillary glands are painful as if swollen and bruised, 1.
The submaxillary glands are painful to touch, and also pain by themselves, 1.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Excessively ravenous hunger, even when the stomach was full of food, and when he ate again the food was relished, 1.
He is attacked with a violent sensation of hunger, with accumulation of water, a few hours after a large nourishing meal, 10.
An apparent sensation of hunger in the stomach, as if it were hanging relaxed, yet without appetite, 1.
Great desire for milk, 1. [280.]
Thirstlessness; he drinks less than usual, 8.
Eructations.
Eructation several times (after a quarter of an hour), 10.
Eructations tasting of the food, 12.
Eructations of tasteless liquid, after eating, 12.
Tasteless eructations; but neither air nor anything else comes up, 12.
A kind of eructation; a large amount of mucus comes into the mouth from the upper part of the throat (after half an hour), 1.
Scraping eructations that affect the larynx and cause cough (scraping heartburn), 1.
Frequent empty eructations, 12.
Hiccough.
Frequent hiccough, associated with nausea and stupefaction of the head (after three-quarters of an hour), 11.
Frequent hiccough , while smoking tobacco, as usual, 11. [290.]
Much hiccough, half an hour after supper, 1.
Hiccough, always after eating, 1.
Heartburn.
Heartburn, during his usual smoke, 1.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, in the mouth and pharynx, caused by eating, as if he would vomit (after nine hours), 11.
Nausea, even to vomiting, every morning, 1.
Qualmishness, 1.
He is qualmishness and unsettled in his stomach, for three days, 1.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
A constriction in the hypochondriac region, oppressing the chest and impeding respiration, lasting three days (after two days), 10.
A tension transversely through the upper abdomen, in the hypochondria (such as hypochondriac complain of), causing anxiety and dyspnœa, in the morning in bed while fasting, 1.
Umbilicus and Sides.
Cutting in the umbilical region seeming to be external, in three paroxysms, in the evening in bed, 1.
A long-continued dull stitch in the region of the navel, aggravated by expiration and by pressure (after eight hours), 8.
Pinching stitches, sharp and rhythmical, to the left above the navel, 4. [310.]
Rumbling in the left side of the abdomen (after one hour), 7.
Drawing in the sides of the abdomen, extending downward, as if the menses would appear (after four days), 1.
Hard painful pressure in the right side beneath the umbilicus, 4.
Pinching stitch in the left side, in the abdominal viscera (after thirty-eight hours), 5.
General Abdomen.
Loud rumbling in the abdomen, 1.
Rumbling and colic, for many days, 1.
Rumbling in the abdomen after dinner, sounding like forming and bursting bubbles, 10.
Violent rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, without pain and without emission of flatus (after one hour and a half), 12.
Great emission of flatus, 5.
Hot flatus (after thirty-six hours), 4. [320.]
Emission of indescribably offensive flatus, 12.
Incarceration of flatus in the abdomen , the first eight hours, 1.
An excessive amount of offensive flatus, for many days, 10.
Much flatulence is caused , and much flatus of a bad odor is passed, for thirty-six hours, 1.
The abdomen feels compressed, causing tightness of breath, .

RECTUM AND ANUS

Constant pressive pain in the rectum, while sitting, 5.
A pressing pain deep in the rectum, for three-quarters of an hour after a hard stool, 1. [350.]
A smarting sore pain in the rectum, for a long time after a stool, 1.*
Violent itching in the anus, with pimples, 1.
Itching in the anus while sitting, when not at stool (after seven hours), 5.*
After an evacuation of stool, another ineffectual urging follows without any stool, in the rectum, 1.
He was frequently obliged to go to stool, without colic; always very scanty and very hard fæces were passed, with pain in the anus as if it would split, 1.

STOOL

Diarrhœa, in the morning, preceded by cutting pain and nausea; the last stool consisted only of mucus, 1 . [The following four symptoms seem to have been caused by too large a dose, which makes almost every drug act as a purge; for the primary action of this drug seems to be a pressive colic at stool, constipation, and either a very scanty, hard, or more seldom, a thin evacuation, which has also been noticed by other provers. Compare ss. 326, 327, 332, 368, 369, 370.]
Diarrhœa, with colic, the last part slimy (after forty-two and eighty-four hours), 1.
A thin stool passes unconsciously, with a sensation as if flatus would pass (after two hours), 1.
Diarrhœa-like stool mixed with flatus (after three hours), 1.
Several usual thin stools, several days in succession, 1. [360.]
In the morning, immediately after a hard stool, a very thin, copious, yellow one, 12.
Stool soft (after forty-nine hours), 5.
Stool soft, but difficult to evacuate, on account of constriction in the anus, as from hæmorrhoids, 3.
Difficult stool; first the evacuation of hard fæces followed by softer, with great distress and straining, as if the rectum were constricted, with continued but ineffectual effort, followed by tenesmus, 13.
A natural hard stool passed with flatus intermixed, 1.
Hard scanty stool, with burning-cutting pain in the abdomen (after ten hours), 7.
Hard, scanty, thin stool passed, with pressive pain in the anus (after twenty-six hours), 7.
Stool hard (first day); none (second day); hard again (third day); natural (fourth day), 10.
Constipation, for several days (first days), 1.
Stools twelve hours later than usual, and passed in small pieces (after fourteen, and fifteen hours), 7. [370.]
The stool was delayed a long time, on account of lack of peristaltic action of the large intestine, 3.

URINARY ORGANS

Kidneys and Bladder.
Itching needlelike stitches in the region of the kidneys, 4.
Pressure upon the bladder , on waking from sleep; she was obliged to urinate much, and still after an hour there was a renewed desire to urinate, with pressure, 1.
Urethra.
Discharge of prostatic fluid during the evacuation of a hard stool, 1.
Pain, as from a sprain, in the upper part of the urethra behind the pubis, immediately after micturition, 11.
A biting-burning crawling in the orifice of the urethra, when not urinating, 1.
A burning in the whole of the urethra for several days, with every micturition, 1.*
A burning far back in the urethra, while sitting, only when not urinating, 1.
A kind of burning in the middle of the urethra, when not urinating (after six hours), 10.
Cutting pain during micturition, still worse afterwards, 1.
Micturition and Urine. [380.]
Frequent urging to urinate, with much discharge (after six hours), 11.
Urging to urinate; scarcely a spoonful was passed, mostly of a dark-yellow red color, in a thin stream; at times dribbling of urine, always followed by a sensation as if the bladder were not yet empty, for some dribbling continued, 4.*
On coughing, the urine involuntarily spurted from her, 1.
The first four days the urine was passed every quarter of an hour in a small quantity; on the following days the usual amount was passed, was of a dark color, and always every hour, 4.
He was obliged to urinate frequently, but little was passed; on the second day an increased quantity, but less frequently, 8.
Micturition more frequent and scantier than in health (after seven days), 8.
More frequent micturition of very scanty, dark-colored urine for three days, 4.*
Frequent evacuation of watery urine at first, after a few days dark-yellow urine, .

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
A soft moist growth in the fossa, behind the corona glandis, and a similar one on the glans itself, in both of which itching is caused by the rubbing of the shirt, 1.
Moisture on the corona glandis, beneath the prepuce, 1.
Erections, without lascivious thoughts and without emission, the whole night, 11.
Excessive erections all night, without emission (after sixteen hours), 11.
Sticking pain in the right side of the glans penis, while standing and walking, 11.
Painless bubbling in the scrotum, 1. [400.]
Itching within the scrotum, which is only somewhat relieved by pressure and rubbing between the fingers, 1.
Pressive drawing (tearing) in the right testicle, as if forcibly compressed, 4.
Pressive pain in the left testicle while walking, as also after rubbing; still more violent when touched (after eight hours), 8.*
The primary action causes great sexual desire; in the secondary effect or reaction of the organism (after five or six days) there follows indifference and total lack of sexual desire, both in the sexual organs and in the emotions, 1.
An emission, at night, without dreams, 3.
An emission during the afternoon sleep, the like of which had not happened for thirty years, in an old man (after twelve hours), 1.
Emission three nights in succession, 1.
Emission five nights in succession, always with lascivious dreams, 1.
Female.
Painful sensitiveness of the female sexual organs; on sitting down it hurts, 1.*
A vesicle posteriorly within the right labia majora, with biting by itself, and a sore pain when touched (after nine days), 1. [410.]
A biting in the pudenda, even when not urinating, 1.
Spasmodic pain in the pudenda and vagina, 1.
Fine sticking itching in the vagina, 1.
The menses, that had ceased for a year, reappeared, with cutting colic and violent rumbling, at the time of the new moon, . [Since this was only the primary action of the drug, the menses did not return on the following months. -Hahnemann.]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Sharp irritation to cough, in the larynx, but slight cough, immediately after eating (after four days), 3.
Constant inclination to hack on account of tenacious mucus in the larynx, which he cannot loosen by coughing, 4.
Voice.
Voice very weak on account of weakness in the vocal organs, though in other respects he is active, 3.
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough and coryza, for several weeks, 1.
Cough, caused by tickling irritation, only during the day, 1.
Violent cough after lying down, in the evening, and at noon, with tenacious expectoration, 1. [420.]
Cough, with yellow expectoration like husks, worse in the forenoon from 9 to 12, less early in the morning (after five days), 1.
Cough, with expectoration, always of 5 to 8 drops of blood, and always preceded by a scraping sensation in the chest, 1.
Cough, with expectoration of mucus, 1.
Sharp cough and accumulation of water in the mouth always soon after eating; it seems as though this water would violently force through the pharynx and causes a cutting in it (after twenty-six hours), 3.
Sharp cough, which threatens to tear open the larynx, as if caused by costal constriction of the trachea without special previous irritation (after four hours), 3.
Easy expectoration of much mucus by hacking, 10.
Respiration.
Dyspnœa towards the end of coition, 1.

CHEST

Tightly adherent mucus lies in the chest for the first six or eight hours and several mornings; afterwards, and during the day, easy expectoration of mucus from the chest, 1.
The chest feels weak; something lies firmly adherent in the trachea, that compels hawking, 1.
Oppression, like a constriction, in the chest, causing slow and very difficult inspiration; expiration relieves, together with anxiety and uneasiness, worse while sitting, better while walking, lasting five hours (after six hours), 2. [430.]
An oppression upon the chest, an uneasy sensation in the afternoon that drives him from place to place, and does not permit him to remain in any place, 1.
Uneasiness in the chest, 1.
A pressure in the chest, and a heaviness in it, while sitting, relieved while walking, 1.
Attempts to eructate cause a pressure and sticking, extending into the chest, 1.
The chest was painful externally, on touch, 1.
Pain in the pectoral muscles, as if beaten, in the morning on moving in bed, and during the day on crossing the arms; she felt nothing on touching the parts, or on breathing, 1.
A dull sticking-pressive pain in the cartilages of the last ribs on stooping, they are also painfully sore on touch, 1.
Painful stitches in the chest, making expiration difficult, 11.
Sticking cutting in the costal cartilages of the left side; it seems as though one had been cut, associated with stitches, 8.
Dull stitches in both sides of the costal muscles, while sitting, worse on leaning backward, and persistent during inspiration and expiration (after half an hour), 5. [440.]
Sticking itching between the costal cartilages, 8.
Front and Sides.
Constant pain in the middle of the sternum, as from a sore, worse on rising up and stretching out the body; also pain on touch, like a tension and pressure, so that at times it took away the breath, 1.
Pain behind the sternum, as if suppurating, when coughing, 1.
Pinching pressure below the sternum, just to the left of the ensiform cartilage, 4.
Sensation of soreness behind the sternum, .

HEART

He woke from the afternoon nap with most violent palpitation, 1.
A beating palpitation on slight motion, 1.
Palpitation while walking, and when listening to music, 1.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Stiffness of the nape of the neck, 1.
A pressure and tension in the muscles of the nape of the neck and left shoulder (after half an hour), 1.
A tense pain in the left side of the neck and occiput, only at night, which frequently wakes from sleep, and on account of which he can lie upon neither the right nor left side, 11. [460.]
Tensive pressure in the side of the neck, 3.
Rheumatic pain, like a drawing, in the nape of the neck and between the scapulæ, in the morning; she was unable to move the arms on rising from bed on account of pain, and could not turn the neck the whole forenoon, several mornings in succession, with weakness of the whole body, lasting till noon, 1.
Rheumatic painfulness, like a drawing pressure and stiffness, in the neck, at its union with the shoulder, on bending the neck forward, 3.
Pressive drawing on the right side of the neck, not affected by motion or touch (after thirty-two hours), 8.
A drawing pressive (rheumatic) pain in the side of the neck, on bending it forward, 3.
A pressing-down sensation in the nape of the neck, 3.
Paralytic drawing in the cervical joints, posteriorly in the spinous process of the first dorsal vertebra, 4.
Fine tearing in the muscles of the neck (after five minutes), 8.
Pain, as from a sticking with a knife, between the last cervical and first dorsal vertebræ, 3.
Jerklike stitches in the side of the neck, almost behind the ear, in the evening, 12. [470.]
A tensive stitch in the left cervical muscles, 5.
Itching in the nape of the neck, 1.
Back.
(Pain, like a beating and jerking, in the back at night, lasting from evening till 5 A.M., so that it took away his breath, with slumbering), 1.
Violent stitches, extending up the back (after seven days), 1.
Dorsal.
Burning pressive pain beneath the right scapula, close to the spine, with an acute sensation of heaviness in the right side of the chest (after two hours), 6.

EXTREMITIES

*All the joints are stiff, in the morning on rising from bed, especially the shoulders, and lumbar and hip joints, 1.
All the limbs are affected and everything is sore , the muscles on touch, the joints on motion, more in the forenoon than in the afternoon, 1.*
*The limbs, with the shoulder and , feel beaten and painful, as after a long walk, 3.
An internal trembling of the limbs if held long in one position, in the morning (after twenty-four hours), 3.
A drawing (?) pain in the joints of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers, back, knees, on moving them, less during rest, especially in the evening, 12. [490.]
Cramp in the fingers, and in various parts of the limbs, 4.
Sharp, deeply-piercing stitches at long intervals, in various parts of the limbs (after a quarter of an hour), 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Weakness and heaviness in both arms, as if lead were in them, after a nocturnal emission, 1.
Pressive drawing, here and there, in the upper limbs, aggravated by touch (after seven hours), 8.
A pressive drawing in the right arm, in the evening in bed, 1.
Pain in the bones of the arm, neither during rest nor when touched, but only during motion, 1.
Shoulder.
Pressive drawing in the shoulder-joints, in the morning in bed, and immediately after rising; worse on motion (after five days), 8.
Paralytic drawing in the shoulder-joint, at times also in the whole arm, when lying under the head in bed (after ninety hours), 4.
Pain as from a sprain, in the right shoulder, only on motion, 8.
Violent pressive pain in the left shoulder-joint, not relieved by any motion (after thirty-six hours), 6. [500.]
A pressing downward of the shoulder, as if a weight were lying upon it, while sitting, 3.
A dull pressive pain in the right axilla, 12.
A loose pressure upon the shoulder, which is painful to touch, as though the flesh were loose, while walking, 3.
A drawing sticking in the left shoulder-joint, especially on moving the arm toward the chest, 7.
A pressive stitch, from below upward, in the right shoulder (after four hours and a half), 5.
Dull sticking pains in the shoulder-joint, worse on touch and motion, 8.
Itching stitches in both axillæ (after five minutes), 4.
Itching needlelike stitches in the right axilla (after three minutes), 8.
Stitches in the left axilla, 5.
Arm.
Paralytic pressure in both upper and forearms, aggravated by motion and touch (after five days), 8. [510.]
Pressive drawing in the deltoid muscle, 3.
Hard pressure on the right upper arm, extending inward, aggravated by touch (after two hours), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Hip.
A pressive pain about the hip-joint, while walking and sitting, 1.
After sitting awhile the nates hurt, 1.* [550.]
Boring pain in the left gluteal muscles, while sitting (after twelve hours), 5.
A numb sensation in the left hip, extending to the abdomen, while standing, 1.
Sticking itching in the gluteal muscles, and in several places of the body, 8.
Weakness of the thighs and legs, for several days, especially in the knee-joints, was obliged to drag his feet; with sticking tearing in the calves and pains in the small of the back (after ten hours), 10.
Aching in the thighs, when walking (worse in the left thigh), which he was almost obliged to drag along (after fifty-one hours), 12.
A weary pain transversely across the thigh, and a feeling as if bruised, while lying; together with a sensation of a great tightness in the joints, with a trembling and uneasiness in them, so that he could not hold them still, 3.
Pain as from a sprain, in the middle of the left thigh, especially when walking (after eight hours), 8.
Tension in the large outer muscles of the thigh, while walking, 8.
Paralytic pain like a drawing, in the middle of the thigh anteriorly, during rest and motion, 4.
Bruised pain in all the muscles of the thigh, for two days, while walking rapidly, 1. [560.]
A sore pain on the upper and inner portion of the thigh, 1.
A coarse sticking, almost scraping sensation in the right thigh, internally above the knee-joint (after eight hours), 3.
Fine extremely painful piercing stitches on the inner portion of the left thigh just above the knee (after thirty-eight hours), 7.
Dull deeply-piercing stitches in the middle of the left thigh, towards the outer portion, 4.
Sharp burning sticking in the posterior surface of the left thigh, 4.
Fine itching stitches on the inner side of the thigh, which provoke scratching (after three hours), 4.

GENERALITIES

He becomes pale, dizzy, and falls to the side as in a faint, in the forenoon, after rising from a seat; a similar attack occurs about the same time the following day, 1.
The whole body starts up, frequently for several nights, both the arms and legs, as if some one suddenly tickled them, a kind of spasmodic jerking, though painless; he was very hot though lightly covered, but without thirst and without sweat, 1.
Weakness of the whole body, especially of the knees, when walking, 5.*
Weariness and weakness of the body, in the morning (after four hours and a half), 7.*
In the morning in bed she is very weary without sleepiness, all the limbs are sore as if bruised, and as if there were no strength in them, for an hour, 1.*
Great weariness and inclination to sleep, in the afternoon while sitting (after three days), 7.
Great weariness, in the morning on waking, which, however, soon disappears, 1.
Great weariness and sleepiness, after eating, feels the need of lying down , soon falls asleep, wakes confused and heavy in the limbs, and dreads to walk; on continuing to walk, which is very irksome, especially on ascending a hill, he feels more active and lively, indeed is more vigorous after a long ramble, 12.*
Painfulness of the whole body as if bruised, with an excessively weak sensation , worse on motion, renewed and aggravated by walking after sitting (after forty hours), 12.* [610.]
Pain in all the bones, 1.*
General bruised sensation when walking , better when sitting and lying down; especially in the calves; an excessively weary pain as if beaten; she could scarcely drag along the feet, 12.*
Paralytic drawing in various parts of the body, especially in the joints, if the limbs are kept long in an unusual or uncomfortable position, 4.
Drawing-tearing pain, here and there, in the muscles of the whole body, while sitting (after eight and a half, and thirty-four hours), 7.*

SKIN

Objective.
Papular eruption on the face, forehead, cheeks, and about the mouth and wrist, which caused a drawing itching, ceasing only for a short time on scratching and then returning as a sticking, 3.
Fine papular eruption on the face, forehead, cheeks, and near the corners of the mouth, which caused a sticking itching, and when touched a pain as if suppurating (after nine hours), 3.
Eruption of small (itching?) isolated pimples on the face, 1.
Pimples about the inflamed eye, 1.
A large but painless pimple surrounded by a white tip in the fossa behind the lobule of the ear, 1. [620.]
Itching pimples on the nape of the neck, 1.*
Some pimples on the neck, 1.
Rash on the chest; on becoming warm it was red and itching, 1.
A tetterlike eruption on the lower ribs consisting of small, thick, red pimples, with burning-itching fine sticking, as from nettles; after rubbing the spot was painful; together with creeping chill over the part and over the upper abdomen, 1.
Eruption of pimples as large as peas over the whole abdomen and thighs, which itch, and when scratched off are moist, but then have a burning pain, 1.*
Papular eruption on the elbow and towards the hand, 1.
On the forearm a red elevation, in the middle of which is a pustule, with burning pain during rest, still more painful, like a boil, when touched, 1.
On the hands a tetter, which itches, in the evening, and burns after scratching, 1.*
Tetter on the thighs and legs, 1.
A kind of gooseflesh, without chilliness, in both thighs and legs, especially numerous red and white pimples on them, with whitish pus at the tips, without the slightest sensation (after ten days), 7. [630.]
Pimples with burning-itching pain on the leg, 1.
The skin of an ulcerated leg becomes covered with a thin crust, from which yellow water exudes, with jerking and pricking pains, 1.
Itching on the leg, in the evening in bed; after rubbing flat ulcers appear with violent pain, .

SLEEP

Sleepiness.
Violent yawning that forces tears from the eyes (after a quarter, and half an hour), 10.*
Frequent yawning as though he had not slept enough (after two hours), 11.
Great inclination to yawn and stretch ; she cannot stretch enough, 1.
Sleepiness in the afternoon, the eyes close, 8.
Great sleepiness in the afternoon, from 2 to 4, 1.
Sleepiness during the day; wherever he sat down he fell asleep, 1. [660.]
In the evening he cannot reach the bed before he falls asleep, and he also falls asleep as soon as he gets into bed, 1.
Sleeplessness.
He did not sleep the whole night, yet the eyes closed, 1.
He cannot fall asleep before midnight, on account of wakefulness; scarcely had he fallen asleep when he had vivid dreams of strife and quarrels, 11.
She was unable to fall asleep before 11 P.M., and then woke about 4 A.M., several nights, 1.
Night restless; every hour he was half awake, and if he got into a slumber did not sleep soundly nor really awaken, 1.
At night the child is very restless and calls its mother every moment, 1.
Restlessness, for several nights, he could lie on neither side; before midnight he was full of various thoughts, 13.
Uneasy sleep and tossing about, 5.
He fell asleep, but was awakened immediately by a dream, in which he struggled with an animal so that he started up greatly frightened (after thirty hours), 8.
He wakes towards morning as though he had slept enough, but falls asleep again immediately (after forty-six hours), 11. [670.]
He wakes at 2 A.M., and so from hour to hour, without cause, 1.
In the morning wide awake, afterwards sleepy, with chilly shivering in the back, 3.
Dreams.
Vivid disagreeable dreams, towards morning, .

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilliness, without subsequent heat, in the morning in bed, 1.
Chilliness, followed by heat, in the morning in bed; she did not wish to rise, in the morning, 1.
He woke frequently at night with chilliness, could not fully collect his senses, 3.
The whole body is shaken by a chill, with warm forehead, hot cheeks, cold hands, without subsequent heat and without thirst (after one hour and a half), 11.
Shaking chill, in the evening before falling asleep, so violent that it shook him in the bed and he was unable to get warm (after twenty hours), 11.
Crouching up with shivering, with sleepiness and dryness of the mouth (after three hours), 3. [690.]
Shivering over the whole body, without thirst, and without immediate subsequent heat (after thirty hours), 8.
Shivering and sensation of chilliness while eating, without thirst, two hours before the heat, 8.
Internal shivering, with great thirst, without subsequent heat, about 3 P.M., for several days, 1.
Shivering the whole night, without thirst and without subsequent heat, 1.
Shivering, with gooseflesh, about 3 P.M., for several days, which ceased in the open air, and was without thirst, 1.
Evening fever, consisting of coldness, 1.
Chilliness in the back, even by a hot stove (after a quarter of an hour), 7.
Transient shivering chill running down the back, after eating, 12.
He could not get warm in the back and arms, though they were close to the stove; with frequent shivering over the back and arms, towards the nape of the neck over the head and face, in the morning after rising, 12.
Cold feet, only in the evening in bed, 13.
Heat. [700.]
Sensation of great heat, as if externally she were burning hot, with thirst (great orgasm of blood), without previous chill, 1.
Slight heat after the shivering, 1.
Some heat and some headache, in the open air towards evening, 1.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Peevish; confusion of head; on waking, headache; dryness of eyes; canthi agglutinated; nausea; in bed, tension through upper abdomen; mucus in chest; in bed, pain in pectoral muscles; pain in nape of neck; pain in small of back; stiffness of joints; weakness of knee-joints; on waking, weariness; tearing and jerking about ulcers; chilliness.
( Forenoon ), 9 to 12, cough and expectoration.
( Afternoon ), Sleepiness; 3 P.M., internal shivering.
( Evening ), In bed, vertigo; pressure in brain; dryness of eyes; on falling asleep, sticking in throat; in bed, cutting in umbilical region; stitch on side of neck; drawing in joints of extremities; tearing and jerking about ulcers; cod feet.
( Night ), Towards morning, toothache in anterior teeth; pain in four lower front teeth; emission; 4 A.M., pressure in small of back; itching of tetter; sweat.
( Open air ), Pressure above right orbit; itching in canthus; pain in hollow tooth; tearing in roots of hollow teeth.
( Bending forward ), Pain in neck.
( Chewing ), Toothache.
( Closing eyes ), Pressure in upper lid.
( Coughing ), Pain behind sternum.
( Eating ), Tearing in gum and lower back teeth.
( After eating ), Eructations of tasteless liquid; hiccough; cough and accumulation of water in mouth.
( After eating and drinking ), Cutting in intestines.
( Expiration ), Stitch in region of navel stitch in left side of chest.
( In the house ), Vertigo.
( Leaning backward ), Pain in costal cartilages.
( Lying down ), Pain across thigh; drawings in hollows of knees.
( After micturition ), Cutting pain.
( Motion ), Headache; pressure in forehead; cutting in abdomen; palpitation; tearing in head of left scapula; pain in bones of arms; drawing in shoulder-joints; pain in right shoulder; pressure in upper and forearm; pressure across wrist; pain through back of hand; pain in fingers; pressure on metacarpal bone of left index finger; stitch in knee-joint; pressure across ankle.

Staphisagria