Staphysagria

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 sexual abuses ( Anac. , Aur. , Nat. , Phos. ac. ).

Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.

Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away ( Kreos. ) [ Cina , Bry. ].

Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted (the rev. of Nux ).

Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when shaking the head.

Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting, pains, like the cutting of a knife.

For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure ( Aur. ).

Nervous weakness; as if one up after much hard work.

Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake ( Con. , Thuja ).

Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink; but not from biting or chewing; < drawing cold air into mouth; < from cold drinks and after eating.

Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges (at the roots, Mez. , Thuja ); scorbutic cachexia.

Craving for tobacco.

Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.

Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed ( Agar. , Ipec. , Tab. ).

Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section ( Bis. , Hep. ).

Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor ( Op. ); burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; prolapse of bladder.

Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin ( Plat. ).

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

Spermatorrhoea: with sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission followed by headache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs.

Cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth.

Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke ( Spong. ).

Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning before rising.

Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers ( Caul. , Colch. , Lyc. ); inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.

Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over.

In fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack.

Eczema: yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; now vesicles form from contact with exudation; by scratching one place itching ceases, but appears in another.

Fig-warts: dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like; after abuse of mercury ( Nit. ac. , Sab. , Thuja ).

Relations. – Compare: Caust. , Col. , Ign. , Lyc. , Puls. , Col. and Staph. act well after each other; Caust. , Col. , Staph. , follow well in order names.

Aggravation. – Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco; onanism; sexual excesses; from the least touch on affected parts.

Inimical: Ran. bulb. , either before or after.

Amelioration.