Sweet and gentle. Suppression of emotions and anger,
suppressed sexuality leading to masturbation and a romantic, erotic inner
life.
Styes or tumours on eyelids. Honeymoon cystitis.
Trembling from anger or emotions.
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COMMON NAME
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FAMILY
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Ranunculaceae
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PREPARATION
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Stavestacre is a plant growing about a foot high,
the flowers are spur shaped and the seeds have a bitter, burning taste.
Ripe seeds are used for preparation. It has marked action over the nervous
system. Generally regarded as a great germicide and used to destroy lice and
itch-mites.
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A/F
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- | Sexual excesses or sexual abuse |
- | Mechanical injuries from sharp cutting instruments; post-surgical |
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MODALITIES
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< | EMOTIONS (chagrin, vexation, mortification,
indignation)
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< | Sexual excesses, onanism
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MIND
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- | LOW SELF-ESTEEM, depression, weeping during the
interview.
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- | Ailments from INDIGNATION, MORTIFICATION, ROMANTIC DIS-APPOINTMENTS, SUPPRESSED GRIEF, anger, insults, humiliation.
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- | Suppression of emotions. History of abuse, incest.
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- | Was insulted, being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home;
sick, trembling and exhausted.
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- | Heightened sensitivity, both mental and physical. Extremely sensitive to
least mental impression, to rudeness, to what people say about her. Often the
insults are perceptions due to such sensitivity.
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- | Anger violent, with tendency to THROW things, usually not at persons. Rage.
In later stages, snappish, irritable and destructive. Angry over his
mistakes. Very excitable.
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- | Suppressed anger can give outbursts of temper. Trembling from anger.
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- | Depressed after a fit of anger or after an insult; prefers solitude.
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- | Fear of heights, anger, doctors. Fear of opposite sex.
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- | Delusion that he was going to lose his fortune.
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- | Delusion of someone pursuing him.
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- | Sweet reservedness, does not wish to burden another with her problems, but
opens up easily to one who shows interest.
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- | Cannot fight for her rights, no bitterness even if treated unjustly -
Morrison.
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- | Very excitable, timid internally though may be hard externally.
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- | Artistically inclined. Sentimental and romantic, writes poetry.
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- | Indurations mental and physical.
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- | GENTLE, SWEET and MILD persons, who draw our sympathy. Sensitive to
rudeness.
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- | Very considerate of others. Not demanding.
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- | SELFLESS. Never egotistical, harsh or proud.
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- | No bitterness. Blames herself instead of others.
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- | ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL FANCIES before falling asleep. Masturbation.
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- | Can go to lasciviousness.
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- | Timid when they feel attracted to someone. Romantic vulnerability.
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- | Talk to themselves loudly.
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- | Vanishing of thoughts on mental exertion with sensation of wood or ball in
head.
Difficult concentration. Forgetfulness.
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- | Amorous dreams with seminal emissions.
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- | Child is quiet, serious and composed (Nat-m). Sensitivity, inhibition and
vulnerability. Infrequent outbursts of emotion or anger. History of an
abusive parent or elder sibling who suppresses or humiliates the child.
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | Suited to persons who are pale and
sunken, worn out and exhausted as a result of sexual excesses and self abuse
with sunken eyes and a guilty abashed look, refuse to look up during an
interview. Sexual fantasies.
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- | Induration on the physical plane are manifested in recurrent hard styes on
upper lid and in glands and glandular affections.
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- | Scrofulous painful swelling of glands of nape, neck, axillae. Ovaries and
testes enlarged and indurated. Atrophy of testicles causing impotency with
increased sexual desire.
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- | Bad effects of masturbation. < coition - causing dyspnoea and prostration
after an emission. Coition painful in women because of extreme sensitivity of
the genitalia.
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- | Complaints after surgery, cuts. Stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting
of a knife in post surgical cases. Mechanical injuries from sharp
instruments.
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Sensation of a ball or wooden block in forehead or
occiput (Irid, Kali-n)
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Numb or hollow sensations
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Head pain from suppressed emotions; < coition,
masturbation
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- | Eruptions. Loss of hair, < about ears and
occiput.
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- | Alopecia areata after grief or suppression.
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- | Eyes - STYES which leave small hardened spots.
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- | Lacerations or incisions to the eyes.
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- | Face - Neuralgia. Pain from lips over face.
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- | Mouth - Toothache with tearing and tugging pain from head down into cheeks
and teeth.
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- | Premature decay of teeth in children.
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- | Teeth turn black or show dark streaks and crumble.
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- | Gums bleed when pressed, tearing in gums when eating.
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- | Toothache < touch < eating or drinking < cold air or drinks <
menses. No pain while biting or chewing.
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- | Cleaning the teeth brings on cough.
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- | Throat - Swallows or scrapes constantly while talking.
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- | G.I.T. - Nausea of pregnancy, nausea of sea-sickness. Nausea after
operations.
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- | Intense craving for tobacco.
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- | Intense hunger even when the stomach is full.
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- | Relaxation of abdominal muscles, sensation as if hanging down.
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- | Abdominal colic after indignation, after lithotomy; with urging to stools
and urine.
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- | Frequent hiccoughs, much flatulence, with violent twisting pain, pinching.
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- | Itching in anus, needle-like pricking in renal region.
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- | Ailments from abdominal operations.
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- | Respiratory system - Cough with maddening frequency, but soft.
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- | Cough only in the daytime, with roughness of throat.
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- | Cough alternating with sciatica, cough brought on by tobacco smoke.
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- | Nervous or emotional cough.
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- | Loss of voice after anger.
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- | Urinary system - HONEYMOON CYSTITIS. CYSTITIS AFTER EVERY INTERCOURSE.
Useful in young women who develop a constant urging to urinate or dysuria
after coition.
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- | Ailments after catheter, lithotomy.
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- | Urinary troubles in old men with prostatitis.
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- | Burning in urethra when not urinating.
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- | Urinary difficulties after severe labour.
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- | Male genitalia - Enlarged prostate.
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- | Prostatitis, pain from anus to urethra. Cancer.
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- | MASTURBATION. Masturbate till falls asleep at night.
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- | Impotency when confronted or after excess.
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- | Condylomata painful on touch.
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- | Induration, tumours, atrophy of testes.
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- | Atrophy of testes < sexual excess.
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- | Nocturnal seminal emissions.
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- | Female genitalia - Amenorrhoea from indignation.
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- | Menses regular, with aching around hips and loss of power in limbs.
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- | Toothache during menses.
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- | MASTRUBATION. Frigid when confronted.
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- | Cysts and tumours. Cancer.
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- | Painful sensitiveness of organs < sitting.
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- | Ailments after FIRST INTERCOURSE which is very painful causing suffering.
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- | Extremities - Sharp needle pricks on thumb scratching, prickling and itching
in muscles of the buttocks.
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- | Obtuse shooting pains in shoulder joint < motion or touch.
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- | Paralytic aching in left upper arm.
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- | Fine twitching and jerking of muscles especially thumb tips, pain in knee
joints, tearing pains in calf muscles.
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- | Weakness in body especially when walking.
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- | Paresis after cerebral accidents.
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- | Sleep - Sleepy all day, sleepless at night, body aches all over.
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- | Sleeplessness from romantic or sexual fancies. Masturbates to fall asleep.
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- | Skin - Eczema and discharge of yellow, acrid moisture from under the crusts.
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- | Itching shifting, changing place on scratching.
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- | Wounds do not heal easily.
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- | Damaged tissues become hard and indurated.
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- | Figwarts, dry, pedunculated, cauliflower like, after abuse of mercury.
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- | PSORIASIS AFTER GRIEF, SUPPRESSED EMOTIONS, especially in children.
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- | Oversensitive spots. Ulcers, scars, warts extremely sensitive. Touch may
give convulsions. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Sensation of round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when shaking
his head.
- Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.
- Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed.
- Sleepy all day, sleepless al night, body aches all over.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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- | Bad effects of sexual abuse, sexual excesses,
onanism, complaints with increased desire, causing both physical and mental
symptoms.
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- | Bad effects of suppressed emotions especially suppressed anger, indignation,
chronic suppressions. Staphysagria absorbs griefs.
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- | Low spirited, depressed individuals with a guilty, abashed feeling.
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- | No anger - feel guilty where they might have been angry.
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- | Very sensitive, with nervous affection and trembling. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- | A/F sexual abuse, onanism, suppressed emotions,
anger, indignation, etc. |
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CLINICAL
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- | Cerebral accidents, Chorea, Condylomata, Cystitis,
Depression, Enuresis, Insomnia, Orchitis, Peptic ulcer, Post-surgical pain,
Prostatitis, Psoriasis, Strabismus, Styes, Tics.
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- | Weeping without tears in children - Staphysagria 30 or 200 - Dr. Foubister. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Coloc
Follows Well: Caust, Coloc
Inimical: Ran-b
Compare: Calad, Fl-ac, Ph-ac, Plat
Antidoted By: Camph
It Antidotes: Merc, Thuj
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