Staphysagria
Remedy of suppressed anger and indignation. Ailments from wounded dignity, sexual abuse, surgical incisions. Sweet, yielding person who bottles up anger until it explodes. Styes, cysts, and surgical wounds.
Source
Prepared from the dried ripe seeds of Delphinium staphysagria (Ranunculaceae).
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Keynote Symptoms
Ailments from suppressed anger, indignation, wounded honour, sexual abuse, grief. Sweet and gentle exterior concealing deep resentment. Surgical remedy — promotes healing of clean-cut wounds and incisions. Styes, chalazion, cysts. Cystitis from sexual intercourse (honeymoon cystitis). Teeth crumble and decay early. Hypersensitivity — pain seems unbearable.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Suppressed anger is the hallmark. Sweet, mild, yielding, avoids confrontation — then suddenly explodes with rage, throws things. Ailments from indignation, insults, wounded honor, sexual abuse. Great indignation about things done by others or himself. Dwells on sexual matters. Sensitive, easily offended. Children who throw things when angry.
General Symptoms
Ailments from suppressed emotions, especially anger and indignation. Worse from anger, indignation, grief, tobacco, touch, sexual excess, afternoon nap. Better from warmth, rest, breakfast, after a night's sleep. Teeth turn black and crumble.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Sensation of a ball in forehead. Headache from suppressed anger. Brain feels squeezed.
Eyes
Recurrent styes, especially on upper lid. Chalazion. Nodosities on eyelids. Itching margins of lids.
Face
Sunken, pale with dark rings under eyes. Facial neuralgia from suppressed anger.
Mouth
Teeth black, crumbling; decay as soon as they appear (children). Toothache during menses, from cold drinks. Excessive salivation. Spongy, bleeding gums.
Stomach
Craving for tobacco, stimulants. Sensation of stomach hanging down, relaxed. Nausea after operations.
Abdomen
Colic after anger. Distension. Flatulence smelling of rotten eggs.
Urinary
Cystitis — burning in urethra between and during urination. Honeymoon cystitis — from sexual intercourse. Frequent desire. Ineffectual urging. Enlarged prostate.
Male Genitalia
Masturbation with guilt. Effects of sexual excess. Orchitis. Prostatitis. Burning in urethra when not urinating.
Female Genitalia
Vaginismus. Ailments from sexual abuse. Ovarian pain especially left. Hypersensitive genitalia. Cystitis after coition.
Skin
Fig-warts. Pedunculated warts. Eczema with thick crusts and intense itching. Psoriasis. Surgical wounds slow to heal. Incised wounds.
Extremities
Bones feel scraped. Joint stiffness. Pain worse from touch. Backache worse at night and in the morning.
Sleep & Dreams
Sleepy all day, awake at night. Cries out during sleep. Nightmares.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, rest, after breakfast, after a night's sleep
Worse From
Anger, indignation, grief, touch, tobacco, sexual excess, afternoon nap, mercury, masturbation
Constitutional Type
Sweet, gentle, yielding exterior with deep suppressed anger. Thin, with sunken features and dark circles. History of suppressed emotions or sexual abuse. Children who suppress anger then have violent outbursts.
Clinical Indications
Surgical wounds, styes, chalazion, cystitis (honeymoon), suppressed anger effects, dental decay in children, prostate enlargement, sexual abuse sequelae, warts
Comparative Materia Medica
Colocynthis also has ailments from anger but the anger is expressed more openly with violent colic. Ignatia has grief but more sighing and contradictory symptoms. Natrum muriaticum also suppresses grief but is more reserved, doesn't throw things, and is worse from consolation.
Safety Information
Ambra grisea, Camphora, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla.
Seeds contain delphinine and staphysagrine — alkaloids causing severe GI irritation, vomiting, and paralysis. Use only potentised forms.
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