STAPHYSAGRIA
Delphinium staphysagria Linn, botanical name
FAMILY: Ranunculaceae
COMMON NAMES: Palmated larkspur, English-Louse seeds.
An ornamental annual herb with a broad, palmately 5- to 9-cleft, petioled leaf, hairy on the veins beneath, light blue flowers in lax racemes, and seeds in three straight, oblong, downy capsules with about 12 seeds arranged in two rows in each.
DISTRIBUTION: Originating in Italy, Asia Minor, and the Greek islands.
PART USED: Seed
HOMOEOPATHIC USES
Pressive stupefying headache, especially in the forehead. Sharp burning, needle-like stitches in the left temple. Dull stitches in the right temple, worse from touch. The brain feels compressed, with paroxysmal roaring in the ear. The sensation of a round ball in the forehead, sitting firm there, even when shaking the head. The headache subsides with much yawning.
STYES: Nodosities and chalazae on the eyelids, along with styes, particularly on the upper eyelid, that are recurrent, one after the other, and occasionally ulcerating.
FACIAL NEURALGIA: This type of neuralgia manifests as pressing and pounding pains that radiate from a decayed tooth to the eyes and are made worse by light pressure, contact with a metallic object like a knife or a spoon, or both. Form pressure is preferable.
TOOTHACHE: Teeth turn black or develop dark streaks; drawing, tearing, and gnawning pains affect healthy teeth as well; worse at night, in the open air, from cold drinks, and during meals when he feels tearing in the gums; painful submaxillary glands; and pale, white, ulcerated, and swollen gums. Frequently, the pains travel up into the ears.
CYSTITIS: Cystitis in lying patients, ineffective urging to urinate in newlywed women, pressure that feels like it didn’t empty, a sensation that a drop of urine is continuously rolling down the channel, and burning in the urethra while urinating are all symptoms of cystitis.
Onanism is a remedy for the negative effects of long-term masturbation. It causes hypochondria, a great deal of taciturnity, constant worry about one’s health, a restless imagination that dwells on sexual matters, a preference for solitude, a severe lack of animal heat, an easiness to catch colds, memory loss, sleepiness, deep sunken, red, and lusterless eyes, and hair that falls out.
EPIDIDYMITIS: Aching pains in the outside of the left testicle when walking, made worse by touching the part. Violent drawing, burning stitches from the right abdominal ring, apparently in the spermatic cord as far as the right testicle.
UTERINE PROLAPSE: There is disappointed love or allowing the mind to wander to sexual topics has favored this relaxation, and leucorrhea that is yellow and excoriating is present along with the prolapse. The entire abdomen feels as if it would drop.
10 drops of mother tincture are added to a cup each morning and evening.
SEVERE PAIN FOLLOWING AN ABDOMINAL OPERATION. COLIC: Colic brought on by anger.
ECZEMA: Eczema on the head, face, ears, and body; yellow, moist, offensive scales; intense itching that goes away with scratching but returns quickly elsewhere, oozing after scratching; better outside.
Dry, pedunculated warts developed after misuse of mercury.
POTENCY: 3rd to 30 potency
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