- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Stavesacre. (Ranunculaceae.) For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses. Very sensitive to slight mental impressions; least action or harmless words offend (Ign.). Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences. Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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.) Emotional. He was joyous, enjoyed society, and was good-humored, 11 . [Curative reaction of the organism in a man…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Stavesacre Nervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the genito-urinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms calling for this drug. Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum. Ill effects of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very sensitive . Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES. TEETH. Genito - urinary organs. Fibrous tissues: Eyelids. Tarsi. Skin. Glands. Right deltoid. Emotions:Chagrin. Vexation. Indignation. Quarrels. Sexual excesses. Onanism. Touch. Cold drinks. Lacerations. Stretching parts. Mercury. Night. Warmth. Rest. Break - fast. Nervous tembling. Squeezing or stinging…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Delphinium staphisagria. Stavesacre. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of the seeds. Adenoids / Anger, fits of / Anus, itching of / Backache / Bashfulness / Blepharitis / Bones, diseases of / Cauliflower excrescences / Chalazion / Condylomata / Cough / Cysts / Dentition / Dysentery / Dysparunia; in newly married women /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Staphisagria ↓ Colocynth; Causticum. Sphere: 1. Blood—Sycosis; Scurvy. 2. Loss of fluids. 3. Organs. Similar to Nux vom., Mercurius, Thuja, Cistus Can., Colocynth, Chamom. Staphisagria is indicated in the first place in patients who appear pale, and are worn out and exhausted, especially as regards their nervous…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“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…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Stavesacre) (A drachm of the seeds of Delphinium staphisagria is pulverised, along with an equal quantity of chalk (for the purpose of absorbing the oil), and macerated, without heat and with daily succussion, for a week in 600 drops of alcohol, in order to from the tincture.) From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826. The…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Stavesacre. Ranunculaceæ. A native of the south of Europe. The alcoholic solution is prepared from the ripe seed. Introduced by Hahnemann, and proved by himself, Cubitz, Franz, Gross, Gutmann, Hartmann, Hornburg, Haynel, Hermann, Kummer, Langhammer, Stapf, and Teuthorn, Arzneimittellehre, vol. 5, p. 291. CLINICAL…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“STAPHISAGRIA. Dtifkam SigfAijtigria, L. StavcRacre, palmated iarlcspur. Nat. Ord., RaHUHCulecia. I. Prmngs. — i. Hahnemann, Mat. Med. Pura^ vol. i of originil, vol. ii of translation. Contains 283 symptoms from self and 438 from 12 others. Oelphinilium, alkaloid obtained from Staphisagria, Cj^Hj^NOj. J, II. Pravingi…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The mental symptoms are very important, and the impressions made upon the mind and thence upon the body guide to Staphysagria as a remedy. Excitable, easily aroused to anger, but seldom irascible, that is, easily disturbed and excited, but seldom manifests it. Suitable in cases where complaints come from pent up…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Painfulness of the muscles to contact and of the joints when moving. One-sided paralysis from anger. In the morning great debility and stiffness of all the joints (mostly in the shoulder, small of back, hip). Nightly twitchings. Drawing and tearing in the muscles. Deep, penetrating sharp stitches. Gouty nodosities in…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anger and indignation, with pushing or throwing away of what one holds in his hand. Justifiable ill-humor over what has happened or has been done by oneself; weeping and dejected over the supposed ill consequences of it. Continuous grief and anxiety about the future. Hypochondria and Hysteria after unmerited insults…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: stavesacre. Drawing and tearing in the muscles (Carb-V., Nit-Ac., Valer.). Painfulness of the muscles to contact and of the joints when moving (Bry.). INJURIES FROM SHARP INSTRUMENTS (Hyper., Led.). Coxalgia with pulsating pain, as from suppuration. One-sided paralysis from anger. In the morning great…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Cross, ugly, scrawny, pot-bellied children; subject to colic; < after food or drink. Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. Styes, nodosities, chalazæ, on eyelids, one after another, sometimes ulcerating. Burning in the urethra when not urinating; very sensitive to slightest mental impressions; least action…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Staphisagria is one of the leading remedies in chronic gout where there are many nodes on the parts. ARTHRITIC OPHTHALMIA; PAINS EXTEND INTO TEETH, EYES BURN ON LEAST EXERTION AS IF VERY DRY YET LACHRYMATION IS CONSTANT. DRAWING, PRESSURE AND TENSION IN NECK WITH RHEUMATIC STIFFNESS. Pain as from a sprain in right…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“HAHNEMANN, Materia Medica Pura, in his introduction to the provings of Staphisagria, says: “It is just to the most powerful medicines in the smallest doses that we may look for the greatest curative virtue in the most serious diseases of peculiar character for which this and no other medicine is suitable. “For these…”
