STAPHISAGRIA


STAPHISAGRIA homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine STAPHISAGRIA …


Symptoms

      1. Scrofulous or syphilitic subjects; elderly persons.

2. Mental Hypersensitiveness; offended at trifles; continual concern about the future; peevishness, sometimes violent temper; children petulantly push or throw away things for which they cried; apathy, depression.

3. Ailments from mental emotions, esp. pride. envy, charging. indignation, unmerited insults, etc.

4. Caries of the teeth; at edges; in scrofulous or syphilitic children; in women during pregnancy; toothache during M.P. (<) touch of food or drink, not on biting or chewing.

5. Sexual disorders with hypersensitiveness of generative organs; mental and physical effects of onanism and excesses; guilty, abashed look; mind persistently dwells on sexual subjects.

6. Prostatic troubles in old men; burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after. in women, prolapse of uterus with relaxed, hanging-down feeling in abdomen, wants to support which hands; backache always (<) night in bed and in morning before rising.

7. Injuries from sharp cutting instruments, glass, etc.; neuralgias after surgical operations.

8. Moist itching eruptions; after scratching, burning and itching appear elsewhere; figwarts, condylomata, etc.

9. Affections of the eyelids; styes, tumours, nodosities, chalazae, etc.

10. Modalities; (<) cold; least touch affected parts; mental emotions; (<) tobacco esp. the cough.

Note. Inimical to Ranunculus Bulb.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.