Stavesacre (Ranunculaceae)
- For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses.
- Very sensitive to slight mental impressions; least action or harmless words offend (Ign.).
- Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves about consequences.
- Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses (Anac., Aur., Nat., Phos. ac.).
- Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin.
- Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly push or throw away (Kreos.) [Cina, Bry.].
- Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted (the rev. of Nux).
- Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when shaking the head.
- Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting, pains, like the cutting of a knife.
- For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids; chagrin, mortification, unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or reserved displeasure (Aur.).
- Nervous weakness; as if one up after much hard work.
- Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard nodosities in their wake (Con., Thuja).
- Toothache: during menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to touch of food or drink; but not from biting or chewing; < drawing cold air into mouth; < from cold drinks and after eating.
- Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean; crumble; decay on edges (at the roots, Mez., Thuja); scorbutic cachexia.
- Craving for tobacco.
- Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.
- Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed (Agar., Ipec., Tab.).
- Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section (Bis., Hep.).
- Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women; after coition; after difficult labor (Op.); burning in urethra when not urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old men; prolapse of bladder.
- Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely wear a napkin (Plat.).
- Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of sexual pleasures.
- Spermatorrhoea: with sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission followed by headache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual organs.
- Cough: only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth.
- Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke (Spong.).
- Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning before rising.
- Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers (Caul., Colch., Lyc.); inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.
- Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over.
- In fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack.
- Eczema: yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; now vesicles form from contact with exudation; by scratching one place itching ceases, but appears in another.
- Fig-warts: dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like; after abuse of mercury (Nit. ac., Sab., Thuja).
Relations
- Compare: Caust., Col., Ign., Lyc., Puls., Col. and Staph. act well after each other; Caust., Col., Staph., follow well in order named.
Aggravation
- Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco; onanism; sexual excesses; from the least touch on affected parts.
- Inimical: Ran. bulb., either before or after.
