STAPHYSAGRIA

WILLIAM BOERICKE

Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriac, sad. Very

sensitive as to what others say about her. Dwells on sexual
matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and
refuses them when offered.

J.H.CLARKE

Hypochondriac humor, with indifference to everything (after

onanism). Apathetic; gloomy. Sadness, with fear for the future.
Weeping, and grief respecting the state of Health. Susceptibility.
Patient is so sensitive that the least action or word troubles or
annoys his feelings. Amorous dreams. Desire for death. Anxiety
and agitation, which allow no rest. Ill-humor, irascibility,
spitefulness, inducing patient to fling violently whatever is at hand;
in the morning. Justifiable ill-humor over what has happened or
has been done by oneself; weeping and dejected over the
supposed ill consequences of it. Hypochondria and hysteria after
unmerited insults (or sexual excesses), with complaints of
flatulence. Dislike to conversation, meditation, and all intellectual
and serious labor. Weakness of memory; a few minutes after
reading anything can recollect it only dimly, and whenever he
thinks of anything the sense escapes him; call scarcely recall it
after long reflection. Instability of ideas. Excessively dull intellect,
with inability to attend to any occupation. Delusions with respect to
past events. Illusion, as if all surrounding objects were lower, and
the patient himself much taller
S.R.PHATAK

Violent outbursts of passion. Always angry. Gloomy and petulant;

throws things. Child cries for many things and refuses them when
offered. Poor memory. Dwells on sexual matters. Unsatisfied
sexual urge; in widows. Snappish; sensitive mentally and
physically. Hypochondriasis. Imagines insults. Irritable, nervous,
excitable and violent. Great indignation about the things done by
others or by himself; grieves about the consequences. Believes he
will lose his fortune, his wife will leave him. Ailments from reserved
displeasure. Very sensitive to what others say about her. Sadness
without any cause; with irritability. Ill effects after scolding or
punishment in children. Want of self control. Fear; afraid of his
shadow

E.B.NASH

When the mind has been dwelling too much on sexual subjects.
Very sensitive to the least impression, the least word seems
wrong, hurts her very much. Throws things away indignantly, or
pushes them away on the table. Great imagination about things
done by others, or himself; grieving about the consequence;
continually concerned about the future.

J.T.KENT

The mental symptoms are very important, and the impressions

made upon the mind and thence upon the body guide to
Staphysagria as a remedy. Excitable, easily aroused to anger, but
seldom irascible, that is, easily disturbed and excited, but seldom
manifests it. Suitable in cases where complaints come from pent
up wrath, suppressed anger, suppressed feelings. The person
becomes speechless from suppressed indignation, anger with
indignation. Complaints brought on by these causes; irritable
bladder with frequent urging to urinate, lasting many days after
suppressed wrath, after insults. "Great indignation about things
done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences." A
gentleman comes in contact with one beneath his station and an
altercation takes place, an argument which ends in insult, and the
gentleman turns his back on the other. He goes home and suffers;
he does not speak it out, but controls it and then suffers from it.
He has sleepless nights and many days of fatigue, brain-fag; for
days and weeks he cannot add nor subtract, makes mistakes in
writing and speaking, has irritability of the bladder, colic, etc. Loss
of memory with a sense of weight between the eyes; it is difficult
to say whether this is a feeling in the head or an effort to describe
a dullness of mind. Feels as if a ball of wood were in the forehead,
or as if the whole cerebrum were made of wood; it feels numb. It
is difficult to state whether it is a condition of the mind or head.
Accompanying this sensation of a lump in the forehead is a feeling
as if the whole back of the head were hollow; the patient may
describe it as a feeling of numbness or a lack of sensation.
"Indifferent, low-spirited, dullness of mind after onanism." Staph.
cures these conditions when they are the result of sexual
excitement, masturbation, excesses in venery, allowing the mind
to dwell too much on venereal subjects. Thinking on sexual
relations. These patients are irritable, easily fatigued, most
excitable, and when they have to control their emotions they suffer
intensely. One who is in health can easily put aside a controversy,
knowing that he has done what is right, but a Staph. patient when
he has to control himself goes all to pieces trembles from head to
foot, loses his voice, his ability to work, cannot sleep and a
headache follows. Many a time a man has come into my office with
blue lips, trembling hands, pains about the heart and all over, and
he thinks he is going to die. He tells a story of an altercation and
pent up wrath, and Staph. stops his trembling and quiets him.
Without it he would have sleepless nights, brain-fag, prostration
and headache. This state belongs especially to those who have
indulged in sexual excesses. Now, the next step. The senses are in
this same irritable state, so that the tips of the fingers are
sensitive, the ears are sensitive to noise, the tongue is sensitive to
tastes and the nun to odors; so sensitive that everything is
painfully sen-sated. Every little inflamed spot will have in its center
sensitive points, little nerve spots; ulcers when touched cause the
patient to go all to pieces and a convulsion threatens.
Hoemorrhoidal tumors are so sensitive that they cannot be
touched. Little nerve tumors form in the skin, little polypoid
growths the size of a wheat grain and denuded of epithelium,
covered with moisture, red, inflamed, blue, and a mere touch will
throw the patient into convulsions and suffering for days and
nights. A hypersensitive nerve growth will come out on the hand or
on the back. Sometimes it turns back.