🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm
The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
▲GENERAL
Source: Derived from the seeds of Delphinium staphisagria , commonly known as larkspur or.
stavesacre, a plant in the Ranunculaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration.
and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance.
with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for psychological, genitourinary,.
dermatological, and neurological disorders, particularly those involving suppressed anger,.
urinary issues, skin eruptions, and neuralgic pains.
It is noted for symptoms such as irritability,.
urinary retention, eczematous lesions, and aggravation from emotional suppression, often worsened.
by anger, humiliation, or touch, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or emotional expression.
Modern Context: Indicated for psychological conditions (e.g., adjustment disorder, post-traumatic.
ICD-11 Codes: 6A80: Adjustment disorder or 6B43 (post-traumatic stress disorder) for suppressed.
anger and emotional sensitivity.
6B00: Generalized anxiety disorder for anxiety and mood swings.
GC40: Cystitis or GC00 (urethritis) for painful urination and urinary retention.
GC90: Vaginitis or GC70 (prostatitis) for genital irritation and sensitivity.
EA80: Eczema or EA90 (psoriasis) for eczematous or psoriatic lesions.
EA91: Alopecia areata for hair loss and scalp irritation.
Staphysagria (Delphinium Staphisagria) 1854.
8B20: Trigeminal neuralgia or 8B10 (tension-type headache) for neuralgic pains and.
tension headaches.
8B8Y: Benign fasciculation syndrome for muscle spasms and tremors
▲MIND
Great indignation about the things done by others or by himself, grieves about the consequences.
Humiliation, deep guilt and shame.
Believes he will lose his fortune, his wife will leave him.
Sadness without
any cause with irritability.
Want of self-control.
Hypochondriacal.
Poor memory.
Violent outbursts of passion.
Always angry.
Gloomy and petulant, throws things.
Peevish.
Child crie s for
many things and refuses them when offered.
Rape or sexual abuse.
Dwells on sexual matters, prefers
solitude.
Unsatisfied sexual urge in widows.
Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent.
Morbidly sensitive, the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much.
Very sensitive as to what others
say about her.
Imagines insults.
Special senses become irritable, cannot tolerate touch.
Sensitive to odor,
noise, taste.
Everything is painfully sensitive.
Fear of his shadow.
History of verbal, sexual or physical abuse, mortification, humiliation (Lyc., Anae., Nat-m.).
History of being put
down by someone, verbally or physically abusive (Lyc.).
Ailments from shame,punishment, vexation and
suppressed anger.
Effects of reserved or suppressed anger.
Ill effects after scolding or punishment in
children.
Fears of being punished, abandoned, hurt, failing, of not being good enough, of being unlovable.
Overly nice, timid.
Passive, pathological desire to please (Puls.), but anger underneath.
Fears the person, but
still loves them, turns them passive.
Difficulty resisting others, defenseless.
Feels guilty, reproach themselves.
Feels trapped.
Self-pity, resignation.
Hurt easily.
Very poor confidence, low self-esteem.
Deep feelings of worthlessness (Aur.), severe depression.
Manic depression.
Easily offended, take things to heart (Nat -m.).
Cries easily (Puls.), and worse consolation
(Ign.).
Acute anger.
Speechless when angry.
They act out their anger in a dream or fantasy.
Afraid of their anger.
Tendency to suppress anger, with periodic rages, tendency to throw or break things.
Grief with anger (Caust.),
sense of an injustice done to them.
Acute and chronic griefs, particularly over broken relationships.
Great indignation about the things done by others or by himself, grieves about the consequences.
Humiliation, deep guilt and shame.
Believes he will lose his fortune, his wife will leave him.
Sadness without
any cause with irritability.
Want of self-control.
Hypochondriacal.
Poor memory.
Violent outbursts of passion.
Always angry.
Gloomy and petulant, throws things.
Peevish.
Child crie s for
many things and refuses them when offered.
Rape or sexual abuse.
Dwells on sexual matters, prefers
solitude.
Unsatisfied sexual urge in widows.
Irritable, nervous, excitable and violent.
Morbidly sensitive, the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much.
Very sensitive as to what others
say about her.
Imagines insults.
Special senses become irritable, cannot tolerate touch.
Sensitive to odor,
noise, taste.
Everything is painfully sensitive.
Fear of his shadow.
History of verbal, sexual or physical abuse, mortification, humiliation (Lyc., Anae., Nat-m.).
History of being put
down by someone, verbally or physically abusive (Lyc.).
Ailments from shame,punishment, vexation and
suppressed anger.
Effects of reserved or suppressed anger.
Ill effects after scolding or punishment in
children.
Fears of being punished, abandoned, hurt, failing, of not being good enough, of being unlovable.
Overly nice, timid.
Passive, pathological desire to please (Puls.), but anger underneath.
Fears the person, but
still loves them, turns them passive.
Difficulty resisting others, defenseless.
Feels guilty, reproach themselves.
Feels trapped.
Self-pity, resignation.
Hurt easily.
Very poor confidence, low self-esteem.
Deep feelings of worthlessness (Aur.), severe depression.
Manic depression.
Easily offended, take things to heart (Nat -m.).
Cries easily (Puls.), and worse consolation
(Ign.).
Acute anger.
Speechless when angry.
They act out their anger in a dream or fantasy.
Afraid of their anger.
Tendency to suppress anger, with periodic rages, tendency to throw or break things.
Grief with anger (Caust.),
sense of an injustice done to them.
Acute and chronic griefs, particularly over broken relationships
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Vertigo when sitting, better by walking about in a circle.
Vertigo turning rapidly on heels.
Vertigo on
stooping and turning head rapidly.
COMMENTS - J.
H.
Schultze, when suf fering from toothache, took some of the Staphysagria seed in his
mouth, but it gave him such a violent exacerbation that he thought he should go mad.
Brunton noted that the seed was called “an exterminator of vermin” by the Greeks and as such it enters into
the composition of an ointment (unguentum pediculosum).
This last is the only use of Staph, known to orthodox
medicine.
Teste remarked that Staph., like Cocc., is used in some countries for the purpose of stupefying fish.
Teste
found Staph.
6c, like Cocc., useful as a remedy for seasickness.
To be successful, Staph, had to be taken at
the moment when dizziness and nausea commenced, before vomiting set in and it always helped “nervous
persons, not over fat and disposed to sadness.”
Staph, produced in Teste a “long lasting vertigo, accompanied by continued nausea as in sea -sickness” and
“vertigo, which ceases on rapidly turning round on one’s heel.”
This corresponds with one of Hahne mann’s symptoms, “wheeling vertigo, especially while sitting, better by
walking about in a circle.”
It is noteworthy that Staph, and Cocc.
are both head remedies and both effec tive against head lice.
Both also
affect the genitals, Staph, more so, and are remedies for crab lice.
An application of one part a dilution of the tincture to four parts water will destroy the parasites, although
concurrent internal treatment (probably with a dilution of the same rem edy) increases success.
In Teste’s experience, Staph, was no less effective in nausea during pregnancy than nausea caused by
seasickness.
Tab.
is an other remedy for sickness and Teste cured with Staph, effects of tobacco smoking
(excoriated tongue, stomach pain) and the habit of “swallowing the tobacco smoke.”
For anger and for the effects of anger, especially if the indignation cannot have its natural expression.
“Was
insulted, being too dignified to fight, swallowed his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted.”
Great sensitiveness to the least impression, “the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much.” Sensitive
to criticism.
Irritated by trifles.
Sudden, violent outbreaks provoked by mere trivial causes.
Want of self-control
and self-confidence.
Fears, afraid of his shadow.
“Apathy, weak memory, caused by sexual excesses or constantly dwelling on sexual subjects.” Weak memory
after multiple abortions.
Inability to make decisions, spaciness.
Sycotic and syphilitic condylomata.
Seed warts.
Keynote styes (Puls., Thuj.), tendency to get styes.
Ulcers are
generally very pain ful and sensitive.
Pressing, stinging, tearing pains in periosteum.
Exostoses and gouty
nodes on fingers and toes.
Dry, scaly erup tions over the ends of bones.
Eruptio ns are foul smelling when
moist.
“Inability to perspire.” Sweat smells of rotten eggs.
Chilly.
Shortness of breath.
Effects of “wounds made by clean -cutting instruments.” Ailments from surgery and scars (Calen.).
Stab
wounds.
“Teeth turn black and have dar k streaks through them, cannot be kept clean, crum ble: decay on edges,
scorbutic cachexia.” Toothache during menses, affects sound as well as decayed teeth, worse from touch of
food or drink, but not from biting or chewing.
Toothache worse drawing cold air into mouth, worse from cold
drinks and after eating.
Extreme “sinking” sensation.
The stom ach and abdomen feel as if hanging down relaxed.
There is extreme
hunger even when the stomach is full.
Ravenous hunger for days before an attack of fever.
Feels guilty and depressed, turns to food, then feels guilty about food (Puls., Ign.).
Bulimia.
Tendency to binge
on sweets, custards, creamy things.
Thirstless, worse warm stuffy rooms.
Craving for tobacco, cough excited
by tobacco smoke.
They may like milk or be aggravated by milk.
Colic from anger.
“Colic of screaming, ugly, pot-bellied children, especially if they suffer much from their teeth,
which turn black with tender, spongy gums, sensitive and painful.” Colitis cases, Crohn’s disease,
inflammations of the colon from anger.
Colic, vomiting, or dysentery, all worse from least food or drink.
Colic
after an operation on the ovaries or intestines.
Cystitis from anger.
Burning in the urethra when not urinating.
Urinary difficulties after severe labors.
Prolapse
of bladder.
Prosta titis with pain running from the anus along urethra, inflamed testicles with shooting and
drawing in the cords, stitching towards groin and testicles.
Vaginismus.
Vaginitis.
Fibroids, ovarian cysts or tumors.
In one female prover, Stap h, brought on the menses
a year after they had ceased, at the new moon.
The symptom did not recur the following month, which led
Hahnemann to conclude that this “was only the primary action of the drug.”
A tendency to masturbation, ailments from masturbati on.
Staph, is one of Gallavardin’s chief remedies for
removing the habit of masturbation in children and for removing improper appetites in adults.
Worse from sex.
Dyspnea occurring dur ing or after sex, dyspnea and prostration after an emission.
Genitals
are sensitive, itching, stinging, stitching, shooting pain,
worse by touch.
In women, sex is painful because the external parts are excessively sensitive.
Impotence.
Acute for rape.
Ailments after rape, anger after rape.
Fear from sexual abuse or rape, images may come back
during sex (Op.).
Clarke had known Staph, to have an impulse to throw things at persons who had caused a trifling or imaginary
irritation.
P.
C.
Majumdar gives two cases in which loss of memory following masturbation and seminal emissio ns was
cured with Staph.
30c.
The first case was a student, naturally robust and intelligent, who lost his memory when
he contracted the habit of masturba tion.
His symptoms included a vacant countenance, with no aptitude or
inclination for mental work.
De spair of the future, great languor and weakness.
Occasional nocturnal
emissions, or constipation.
When he read anything he forgot it the next moment.
Heaviness, headache and vertigo after the least mental
exertion.
Staph.
30c was given morning and evening.
Improvement began at once and the cure was complete
in a month.
The second case involved another student who had constant involuntary emissions, weak memory, languor,
headache every morning on rising, no appetite, constipation.
Staph.
30c, once a day, cur ed.
Clarke saw Staph.
30c give relief to complaints in newly married women.
“Constant urging to urinate in young
married women.” Honeymoon cystitis.
Clarke saw cystocele relieved by Staph.
Bibby used Staph, tincture with much success, three drops in two o unces of water, a teaspoonful every two
hours in cases of night sweat in patients bordering on tuberculosis
▲HEAD
Compressive, stupefying headache, better much yawning or leaning head against something.
Burning
in left temple.
Pressing, stinging and tearing pains.
Brain feels squeezed or torn.
Dullness in middle of
forehead.
As of a heavy load or of a round ball in forehead.
Brain feels numb and occipu t feels hollow.
As if
back of brain were made of wood and couldn’t think.
Dandruff.
Head lice.
Hair falls off from occiput and around
ears.
Moist, foul, eroding milk crusts, worse occiput.
Itching eruption above and behind ears (Olean.).
Neuralgia
of scalp.
Compressive, stupefying headache, better much yawning or leaning head against something.
Burning
in left temple.
Pressing, stinging and tearing pains.
Brain feels squeezed or torn.
Dullness in middle of
forehead.
As of a heavy load or of a round ball in forehead.
Brain feels numb and occipu t feels hollow.
As if
back of brain were made of wood and couldn’t think.
Dandruff.
Head lice.
Hair falls off from occiput and around
ears.
Moist, foul, eroding milk crusts, worse occiput.
Itching eruption above and behind ears (Olean.).
Neuralgia
of scalp
▲EYES
Eyes su nken with blue rings.
Dry ness and pressure in eyeballs and eyelids.
Lacerated or incised
wounds of cornea.
Bursting, burning pain in eyeballs of syphilitic iritis.
Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles.
Pupils
dilated.
Dry eyes with lachrymation.
Hot tears run from eyes on looking at sun.
Margin of eyelids itch.
Affections
of angles of eye.
particularly the inner.
Blepharitis.
Steatoma of upper lid.
Chalazion (Platan.).
Nodes on
eyelids.
Recurrent styes.
Stye doesn’t suppurate and break, but remains a hard nodule
▲EARS
Shootings in ears.
Tensive stitches in left ear.
Eruption behind ears.
Tinkling in ears.
Sensations as if
wind blew into ears.
Roaring in ears during headache.
Ringing in ears on moving head.
Impaired hearing in
children from enlarged tonsils or from adenoids
▲FACE
Brown and blue color of face when getting angry.
Sickly, peaked, nose.
Easy dislocation of jaw.
Neuralgia from tooth decay, pains go into the eyes.
Painful sub maxillary glands, with or without swelling,
abscess.
Prosopalgia, pain starts from lips over face, worse mastication.
Sharp, burning stitches in left cheek,
which provoke scratching.
Submaxillary glands painful with or without swelling
▲MOUTH
Salivation with pale, spongy, bleeding gums (Merc., Kreos.).
Pyorrhea (Plant.).
Musty taste.
Thrush.
Swollen submaxillary glands.
Stomatitis.
Canker sores with a bluish-red or yellowish bottom.
Nose - Coryza now thick, now thin, with ulcerations.
Violent coryza, one nostril is stuffed up.
Coryza with much
sneezing and lachrymation.
Coryza with nasal voice.
Nasal voice from stoppage of posterior nares.
Frequent
sneezing without coryza.
Scratching in choanae.
Nose ulcerated with scabs, deep in interior.
Perspiration - Profuse, cold sweats.
Per spiration smelling like rotten eggs.
Per spiration with a desire to
uncover.
Sweats easily during day, even when sitting.
Cold sweat on forehead and f eet.
Fetid sweat at night.
Inability to sweat
▲THROAT
Swallows continuously while talk ing.
Constriction and pressure in throat -pit after anger, worse
swallowing.
Sharp pains flying to the ear on swallowing, especially left.
Roughness and painful soreness
on talking and on swallowing.
Induration and hypertrophy of tonsils, with nasal voice.
Chronic tonsillitis.
Scratching in throat from belching, followed by cough
▲CHEST
Soreness and rawness in chest on coughing.
Muscles of chest as if bruised.
Sticking pain in lower
part of chest and diaphragm.
Sticking pain, itching between costal cartilages.
Tightly adherent mucus in chest.
Itching, sharp pain in axilla.
Heart feels weak.
Stitching pains in heart.
Trembling beating of heart.
Vis ible palpitation, shaking the
whole body.
Palpitations from emotional excitement.
Palpitations when listening to music.
Kidneys - Itching, needle-like stitches in region of kidneys.
Constant darting pains in region of left kidney,
worse cold, lying in cold bed, better heat, becoming warm in bed.
Weak kidneys from sexual excesses.
Nephritis.
Urging and pain after urinating.
Pain after lithotomy.
Dyspnea with constriction.
Dyspnea at close of sex or after seminal emission.
Dyspnea, with
oppression of chest and fear of suffocation, after becoming angry.
Cough, worse cleaning teeth, eat ing meat
or alternating with sciatica.
Cough worse tobacco smoking
▲ABDOMEN
Canine hunger, even when stomach is full.
Stomach pains after be coming angry.
Sensation as if
stomach were hanging down relaxed.
Flabby and weak.
Hea rtburn after indignation.
Heartburn after eating,
with frequent nausea and constipation.
Bread causes heartburn.
Bitter eructations after sour food.
Bitter or
salty eructations after eat ing meat.
Frequent hiccoughs.
Hiccough while smoking.
Nausea and salt y-bitter
eructations after becoming angry.
Nausea, especially after operations.
Nausea from vertigo, as in seasickness.
Teeth - Teeth loose, show black streaks, better hard pressure and heat.
Teeth black and crumbling.
Decayed
teeth exceedingly tender.
Fistula dentalis.
Teeth decay as soon as they erupt.
Tearing pain in gums of lower
incisors, and their roots when eating.
Toothache if slightest food remains in cavities of hollow teeth.
Violent
pain goes into roots.
Toothache during menses.
Decay of teeth d uring pregnancy.
Cold drinks seem to
penetrate teeth, as if they were hollow.
Gum painfully sore.
Pyorrhea [Plan.].
Gums white, swollen, ulcerating.
Gums receding.
Gums bleed when pressed upon and on cleaning teeth.
Caries of lower jaw, following osteitis,
latter being brought about after extraction of decayed tooth.
Dentition, child very sensitive to mental or physical
impressions.
Temperature - Predominating chilliness and coldness, without thirst.
Exercising in open air improves chills.
Chills in evening , with heat in face.
Ascending chills from neck over head.
Chills running down back.
More
chills in a warm room.
Intermittent fever paroxysm, consisting mostly of coldness, preceded by unnatural
hunger.
Tertian fever with symptoms of scurvy, constipation Severe pain following abdominal operations (Calen.).
Feeling of weakness in abdomen, as if
it would drop, wants to hold it up.
Spasmodic cutting in abdomen after eating and drinking.
Swollen abdomen
in children with much flatus.
Incarcerated flatus, hot, smells like rotten eggs.
Colic with pelvic tenesmus.
Colic,
pain after anger.
Colic of pot-bellied children.
Colic with urging to stool or urging to urinate.
Dysentery in weak,
ailing, pot-bellied children.
Canine hunger, even when stomach is full.
Hunger before and after chill.
Sleepy after eating.
Thirstlessness.
Food tastes bitter.
Desire for bread and milk.
Craving for tobacco, stimulants, wine, brandy.
Desire for soup, sweets, meat.
Aversion to milk, cheese, solid food.
Worse meat, bread, smoking.
Worse from
drinking cold water.
Cold drinks aggravates pain in roots and in hollow teeth
▲GENITALS ETC
Persistent dwelling on sexual sub jects, especially after self -abuse.
Masturbation.
Priapism.
Seminal emissions followed by great prostration.
Impotence with irritability of bladde r and urethra, brought on
by sexual excess.
Sexual neurasthenia.
Spermatorrhea with sunken features, guilty look, emissions with
backache and weakness.
Dyspnea, worse during or after sex.
Prostate troubles.
Prostatitis, pain extends
from anus to urethra.
Chronic prostatitis in old men.
Enlarged prostate and hemorrhoids.
Soft humid
excrescences behind corona glandis.
Orchitis from mumps.
Atrophy of testicles.
Voluptuous itching of scrotum.
Menses irregular, late and profuse.
Menses first of pale blood, then dark and clotted.
Menses, regular
with loss of power in limbs.
Amenorrhea from indigna tion.
Leucorrhea.
Painful sensitiveness of genital
organs, worse sitting down (Berb., Kreos.).
Itching or sensitive vulva.
Granular growths of vagina.
Salpingitis.
Prolapse with sinking in the abdomen, ach ing around the hips.
Ovarian pains, going into thighs, worse
pressure, sex.
First sex is very painful, causing acute mental and bodily suffering.
Nymphomania.
Sexual
desire increased, mind dwells too much on sexual subjects.
Unsatisfied sexual urge in widows.
History of
rape, sexual abuse victims
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Limbs feel beaten an d pain ful.
Muscles, especially of calves, feel bruised.
Joints stiff.
Crural
neuralgia.
Fine tearing or numb fingertips.
Bones of fingers imperfectly developed, osteitis of fingers.
Arthritic
nodes on finger joints.
Buttocks ache while sitting.
Knees weak .
Shuffling gait.
Suppurating swelling in psoas
muscles
▲BACK AND NECK
Backache, worse in morning, before rising.
Pain in small of the back, as after over lifting.
Backache
worse sex
Staphysagria and rising from a seat.
Back feels broken.
Rheumatic drawing pains.
Violent stitches move
upward in back.
Stiffness.
Itching pimples on nape.
Bladder - Honeymoon cystitis, worse after sex.
Irritable bladder in young married women.
Cystitis after too
much sex.
Cystitis in lying-in patients.
Cystocele.
Pain after use of catheter.
Frequent urging to urinate with
scanty or profuse discharge of watery urine.
Urinates in thin stream or drop by drop.
Sensation as if a drop
of urine were rolling continuously along the channel.
Burning in urethra during urination.
Burningpain
when not urinating (Thuj., Sabal, Ferr-pic.).
Pain after urinating.
Pressure upon bladder, feels as if it did not
empty.
Causations - Ailments from shame, punishment, vexation and suppressed anger.
Effects of suppressed
or reserved anger.
Humiliation.
Rape, sexual abuse.
Ailments after sex, sex excesses, mastur bation.
Surgery, cutting wounds, injury, falls.
Tobacco, mercury, dentition
▲SKIN
Skin unhealthy, doesn’t heal.
Biting pain and itching.
Dry herpes, with scabs on joints.
Dry, scurfy
eruption in joints.
Frequent boils.
Ulcers, new growths extremely sensitive to touch, may bring on convulsions.
Eczema of head, ears, face and body.
Eczema with yellow, acrid moisture oozing from under the crusts.
Itching eruptions, burning after scratch ing.
Scratching changes location of itching.
Dry, thick scabs, itch
violently.
Fig-warts pedunculated (Thuj.).
Arthritic nodes.
Inflammation of phalanges.
Night sweats.
Pain that
precedes shingles.
Skin symptoms alternating with joint pains
▲SLEEP
Violent yawning and stretching bring tears to the eyes.
Yawning, as if he had not slept enough.
Body
aches all over.
Sleepy all day, awake all night.
Goes to sleep late from activity of mind.
Amo rous dreams with
emissions.
Unpleasant dreams.
Child wakes as from frightful dre ams.
Child wakes, pushes everything away
and wants everybody to go out, calls for mother often
▲GENERALITIES
As if stupefied.
As of a round ball in forehead.
As if head would burst.
As if brain were
compressed.
As if something were loose in pit of stomach.
As if chest were bruised.
As if smal l of back were
broken to pieces.
As if bones would be pressed out.
As if legs would go under him.
As if done up after much
hard work
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