- 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 triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy. and serial dilutionPotentized liquid homeopathic medicineA solution prepared by repeatedly diluting and shaking (succussing) a substance to enhance healing power while removing toxicity. 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 neuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pains.
- It is noted for symptoms such as irritability,.
- Urinary retention, eczematous lesions, and aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. 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🩺 Adjustment DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., post-traumatic stress disorder🩺 Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), genitourinary conditions (e.g., cystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination., urethritis🩺 UrethritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), dermatological conditions.
- (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), and neurological conditions (e.g., neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., tension headache🩺 Tension HeadacheClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.).
- It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by suppressed anger, urinary irritation,.
- Skin eruptions, neuralgic pains, or emotional sensitivity, typically exacerbated by anger,.
- Humiliation, touch, or stress, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, introspective constitutions.
- The remedy is particularly relevant for those with psychological or genitourinary conditions, often presenting with symptoms like irritability or painful urination, commonly observed in patients with adjustment disorder, cystitis, or eczema triggered by emotional suppression, stress, or physical trauma.
- 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 vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., 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🌿 CrabMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. lice.
- An application of one part a dilution of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. to four parts water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets..
- Shortness of breath.
- Effects of “wounds made by clean-cutting instruments.” Ailments from surgery and scars (Calen.).
- Stab wounds.
- “Teeth turn black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and have dar k streaks through them, cannot be kept clean, crum ble: decay on edges, scorbutic cachexiaWasting of body tissues due to chronic illnessWeakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness, such as tuberculosis or cancer..” 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🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. or be aggravated by milk.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. 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.” ColitisInflammation of the colon (large intestine)Inflammation of the inner lining of the colon, causing abdominal pain, cramping, or bloody diarrhea. cases, Crohn’s disease, inflammations of the colon from anger.
- Colic, vomiting, or dysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces., 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🩺 VaginitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Fibroids, ovarian cysts🩺 Ovarian CystsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. 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.
- DyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. occurring dur ing or after sex, dyspnea and prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. 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 constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
- 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🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- 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🩺 TuberculosisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Temperature-Predominating chilliness and coldness, without thirst.
- Exercising in open air improves 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 tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain..
- 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🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- 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
