Staphisagria

Staphisagria
Short name
Staph.
Latin name
Delphinium staphisagria
Common names
Stavesacre | Larkspur | Lice-bane | Delphinium | Lousewort | Staphisagria seeds | Staphysagria
Miasms
Primary: Sycotic
Secondary: Psoric, Syphilitic
Kingdom
Plants
Family
Ranunculaceae
Last updated
5 Dec 2025

Substance Background

Prepared from the ripe seeds of Delphinium staphisagria (Ranunculaceae). The seeds contain diterpenoid alkaloids (e.g., delphinine, staphisagrine) long known as ectoparasiticides; crude use produced cutaneous irritation, nausea, and neuro-muscular effects. Homoeopathic provings and clinical confirmations translate this toxicology into a remedy picture centred upon nervous irritability with suppressed anger, genito-urinary and pelvic atony/irritation, incised-wound pain, toothache from the slightest touch, and skin pruritus with scratching “till sore” [Hahnemann], [Hering], [Allen], [Clarke], [Hughes]. Staph. is the classic remedy for indignation—wrongs swallowed, not expressed—leading to twitchings, neuralgias, colics, cystitis, and sexual irritability; for honeymoon cystitis, styes/chalazia in the meek child, warts from suppressed sexual expression, and post-operative clean cuts that burn and smart [Kent], [Tyler], [Boericke], [Phatak].

Proving Information

Hahnemann and early provers produced [Proving] symptoms of nervous irritability, trembling from emotions, tearing, cutting pains as from a knife, sensitiveness to the slightest touch, toothache from cold drinks and after sleep, itching that compels scratching till raw, urethral burning, sexual excitement or aversion, and sleep upset by emotions [Hahnemann], [Allen], [Hering]. [Clinical] confirmations are rich in honeymoon cystitis, urethritis after coitus, styes/chalazia, incised-wound pains, neuralgia after dental work, keyboard/mouse tenosynovitis with suppressed vexation, and post-surgical irritability [Kent], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Tyler].

Remedy Essence

Staphisagria embodies the injury of honour: the human organism civilises anger—presses it down—till it reappears as tremor, smarting cuts, urinary-genital irritability, styes, tooth-touch agony, fissure knives, and itching that becomes self-injury. The core polarity is meek surface vs burning core; touch-shy periphery vs relief from firm, steady pressure; sexuality desired yet shamed; speech withheld then dreamed afterwards. The modal matrixworse from indignation/shame; worse after coitus and after sleep; worse from the lightest touch and cold drinks; better from warmth, steady pressure, gentle motion, food, and expression—repeats across Mind, Teeth, Urinary, Rectum, Skin, and Post-surgical states, granting prescriptive confidence. The Ranunculaceae signature shows in incised, cutting, needle-like pains, in neuralgic irritability, and in surface smarting rather than deep bruising.

Clinically, choose Staph. when a story of mortification (social, marital, sexual, professional) precedes the illness; when the patient is polite, refined, yielding, dwells on offences, has styes/eyelid lumps, tooth sensitivity to touch, post-coital cystitis with lingering drop, anal fissure that burns like a cut, and incised-wound smarting after procedures. Recovery is read by: (1) the patient narrates the offence without tremor, (2) urinary burning and the “remaining drop” sensation fade, (3) styes stop recurring, (4) dental/rectal touch sensitivity declines, (5) itching no longer drives self-excoriation. Thus Staphisagria restores dignity to the nervous skin and pelvic sphincters by allowing the soul to speak. [Hahnemann], [Hering], [Kent], [Clarke], [Tyler], [Boericke].

Affinity

  • Mind/nerve — consequences of indignation, mortification, humiliation, sexual shame; patient swallows anger, then trembles, twitches, or develops neuralgias/viscero-spasm (see Mind/Generalities). [Kent], [Tyler].
  • Genito-urinary (male/female)honeymoon cystitis, urethral burning after coitus, prostatism with irritable sphincter, seminal weakness, vulvar pruritus; after sexual excess or suppression (see Urinary/Male/Female). [Hering], [Clarke].
  • Pelvic floor / uterine ligaments — bearing-down, after-pains, subinvolution when resentments are bottled up (see Female/Abdomen). [Kent], [Boericke].
  • Eye-lids / Meibomian glands — recurrent styes, chalazia, granular lids in mild, yielding temperaments; often children (see Eyes). [Tyler], [Hering].
  • Teeth / gumstoothache from the slightest touch, after dental work; pain < cold drinks, < after sleep; crumbling teeth in pregnancy (see Teeth/Mouth). [Allen], [Clarke].
  • Incised wounds / surgery — clean-cut pains smarting, burning; irritable nervous system post-op; prevents stitch-pulling spasms (see Generalities/Back/Extremities). [Hering], [Boericke].
  • Skinintolerable itching, scratches till sore; pediculosis with excoriation; small pedunculated warts in genital region (see Skin). [Hughes], [Clarke].
  • Rectumanal fissure with knife-like pain on stool; haemorrhoids smarting after indignation (see Rectum). [Boericke], [Kent].
  • Muscles/tendons — tremulous weakness, writer’s cramp/tenosynovitis when over-controlled emotions co-exist (see Extremities). [Kent].
  • Gastric/biliary — colic after insults; nausea from mortification (see Stomach/Abdomen). [Hering].

Better For

  • After expressing emotions (tears, frank talk) or after forgiveness; ailments from mortification ease when acknowledged. [Kent], [Tyler].
  • Warmth: warm applications, warm room, warm drinks—especially in cystitis and incised pains. [Hering], [Boericke].
  • Gentle motion; walking quietly; stretching without strain. [Clarke].
  • Lying on the painful side (anal fissure/abdominal colic sometimes). [Hering].
  • Passing urine briefly eases vesical tenesmus. [Hering].
  • After breakfast; hunger aggravation subsides when fed. [Allen].
  • Closing the eyes/resting for headache from emotions. [Clarke].
  • Sexual moderation and regularity; removal of coitus interruptus as a trigger. [Boericke].
  • Local cleanliness and bland emollients (skin/eyelid margins) as adjuvants. [Tyler].
  • Company of trusted ones (less brooding). [Kent].
  • After stool (fissure pains settle once spasm passes). [Boericke].
  • Reassurance before procedures; anticipatory neurosis lessens. [Tyler].

Worse For

  • Emotions: indignation, mortification, sexual humiliation, reproach, scolding, insults—especially when swallowed; ailments from pent-up anger. [Kent], [Hering].
  • After coitus (cystitis/urethritis, vulvar pruritus, prostatism). [Clarke], [Boericke].
  • After surgical/dental procedures (clean incisions, instrumentation) with smarting pains. [Hering].
  • Touch/light pressure (tooth, eyelids, fissure), while firm steady pressure may soothe. [Allen].
  • After sleep (toothache, neuralgia, sexual excitement on waking). [Hering].
  • Cold drinks/food, cold air on teeth. [Allen].
  • Coitus interruptus; prolonged ungratified arousal. [Clarke].
  • Losses (semen, menses, grief), with subsequent irritability and weakness. [Kent].
  • Tea/coffee in the sensitive (gastric/urinary irritation). [Clarke].
  • Stooping (pelvic pressure), sitting long (urethral tenesmus). [Hering].
  • Night (itching, sexual thoughts; urinary urging). [Hering].
  • Thinking of past offencesdwells on them, re-inflames symptoms. [Kent].

Symptomatology

Mind

The keynote is injured dignity with suppressed anger. Staphisagria cannot or will not explode; he swallows insults, appears mild, yielding, refined, yet later trembles, twitches, or collapses into neuralgia, colic, or urinary spasm—“ailments from indignation” par excellence [Kent], [Hering]. He is oversensitive to rudeness, contradiction, or sexual shame; rebuke leaves him speechless, then sleepless, with biting retorts imagined after the event [Tyler]. There is irritability at trifles at home after prolonged restraint in public; throws things in privacy; remorse follows. Marked aversion to quarrelling; he fears consequences of anger; gentle by principle, proud by temperament. Anxiety of honour is high—offences to modesty (sexual insults, voyeurism, abuse) produce profound psychic and somatic sequelae—vaginismus, impotence, hysteria-like trembling, urinary irritation [Clarke], [Kent]. Weeps from music or tender words, yet rages inwardly when slighted; children slam doors after being scolded but return meekly, with styes cropping on lids [Tyler]. Brooding, dwelling on past offences, resentment; fantasies of heroism post-factum. Startles from the least noise after mortification; anticipatory nervousness before any procedure (dentist, surgery, interview). The sexual sphere intertwines with the moral: libidinous thoughts alternate with shame; onania (masturbation) leaves deep lassitude and sunken features, aggravating cystitic irritability [Hering], [Kent]. Case: A reserved clerk, humiliated by his superior, developed urethral burning after coitus, styes, and tooth pain from slightest touch; Staph. 200C relieved as he found words to express his offence [Tyler], [Clarke].

Head

Headache after repressed anger; temples ache as if compressed by a band; scalp sore to touch; hair sensitive at roots [Hering]. Frontal pressure on waking after mortification; better after food and gentle walk. Occipital pain with neck stiffness from nervous tension. Vertigo on raising head suddenly after night brooding. Children with pediculosis scratch till raw; occipital glands enlarge (Skin/Glands link) [Clarke]. Compare Ign. (sighing, hysterical lump), Nux-v. (irritable, explosive anger), while Staph. is suppressed and silken outwardly [Kent].

Eyes

Styes and chalazia; recurrent meibomian swellings in mild, yielding persons or in children after scolding [Tyler], [Hering]. Lids itch, margins raw, worse at night; granular lids with photophobia on waking. Pain from the lightest touch of the lid, yet steady pressure soothes (Touch polarity). Sight blurs after mortification. Compare Puls. (bland discharge, changeable mood), Graph. (thick crusts), Sil. (long-standing chalazia in chilly constitutions).

Ears

Cracking in ears on swallowing; otalgia after cold wind during emotional strain. External ear pruritus with excoriation from scratching. Oversensitive to noise when brooding [Hering].

Nose

Itching of alae; tendency to polypi in sycotic constitutions [Clinical]; epistaxis after emotions. Sneezing on entering cool air after a night of indignation; nasal bridge sore to touch [Clarke].

Face

Pale, refined look or sallow with dark rings under eyes after sexual excess or onania [Hering]. Acne at mouth and chin in the modest youth who represses sexual expression; pedunculated warts around lips in some cases (Sycotic colouring). Neuralgia of infra-orbital branch after dental work (Tooth link).

Mouth

Aphthous patches with smarting; tongue clean or thinly coated; bitter taste after mortification [Allen]. Mouth dry on waking after emotion; much saliva when ruminating on injury. Thrush-like soreness in nursing mothers harried by criticism [Clarke].

Teeth

Extreme sensibility; toothache from the slightest touch, from cold drinks, after sleep; pain streaks to ear [Hering], [Allen]. Neuralgia after dental operations; socket pains smarting, burning; incised-wound quality. Teeth decay at the necks, crumble during pregnancy or after prolonged onania; gums bleed easily [Clarke]. Child grinds teeth after scolding. Compare Plantago (tooth–ear reflex), Cham. (anger with violence), Nux-v. (irritable, worse coffee), Coffea (oversensitive, excited).

Throat

Sensation of lump from suppressed tears (like Ign. but with sexual/resentful colouring); hawking of mucus in the morning; voice trembles from mortification [Kent]. Tonsils red with smarting pain when swallowing liquids; worse least draught after reproach.

Stomach

Nausea and sinking in epigastrium after indignation; eructations bitter; craves milk or bread and butter; aversion to solids in the evening [Hering], [Allen]. Gastric spasm after being insulted; flatulence with upper abdominal tenderness to light touch but relieved by firm, steady pressure. Tea/coffee may aggravate the sensitive Staph. stomach [Clarke].

Abdomen

Colic as if cut with a knife after mortification; abdomen sensitive to light touch but tolerates hard pressure; distension with flatus after repressed anger [Hering]. Inguinal glands enlarged and tender in sycotic types. Hernial rings sore post-op (incised pains). Pelvic congestion with dragging in women who suppress sexual desire or endure marital indignities (Female link).

Urinary

Hallmark sphere. “Honeymoon cystitis”: burning, smarting during and especially after urination, tenesmus after coitus, frequent urging with scanty emission; sensation as if a drop remained in urethra (post-micturition dribble) [Hering], [Clarke]. Urethritis after instrumental procedures or coitus interruptus; prostatic irritation with sensation of a ball in perineum when sitting. Urine often pale, passed in small quantities; urge worse at night or after emotions. Compare Canth. (intolerable burning, tenesmus with bloody urine, sexual mania), Sars. (pain at close of urination, gravel), Nux-v. (spasmodic urging with irascibility but not the sexual-indignation nexus).

Rectum

Anal fissure: knife-like pain on stool; sphincter spasmodic, with smarting and burning after; haemorrhoids sore to the lightest touch (sit ring intolerable) [Boericke], [Hering]. Ineffectual urging from nervous restraint; tenesmus after affronts. Stool soft yet painful from fissure spasm—classic indication.

Male

After onania or sexual excess: lassitude, sunken eyes, backache, knee weakness, spermatorrhoea with mental shame [Hering], [Kent]. Prostatic congestion, pain after coitus, drawings in spermatic cords; impotence from shyness or humiliation (erection fails after excitement begins) [Kent]. Genital warts (soft, pedunculated) in sycotic constitution with prudery/conflict. Itching of scrotum scratched till sore (Skin link).

Female

Vaginismus, dyspareunia from sexual trauma, honeymoon cystitis; irritable bladder in pregnancy; pruritus vulvae worse after coitus and at night [Clarke], [Tyler]. After-pains too sharp, incised; subinvolution with bearing-down when marital indignation persists; leucorrhoea thin, acrid after emotional mortification. Crumbly teeth in pregnancy with touchy gums (Teeth link). Aversion to sex alternating with irritating desire coloured by shame.

Respiratory

Tightness as if sighs are held back; short breath with indignation; larynx tickles at the lightest draught but clears after a few coughs. Voice subdued and tremulous in the offended [Clarke].

Heart

Palpitation with tremor after rebuke; nervous flutter in epigastrium extending to heart; pulse quick with emotions, normal at rest; stabbing as from a needle now and then (Ranunculaceae trait) [Kent], [Hughes]. Symptoms lessen when the offence is verbalised (Mind ↔ Heart cross-relief).

Chest

Stitching beneath left breast after repressed anger; palpitations when dwelling on offences; sighing respiration. Intercostal neuralgia from the least touch (clothing) yet eased by steady bandaging [Hering]. Milk suppressed by mortification in nursing women [Clinical] [Clarke].

Back

Lumbago in the sedentary, anxious; back feels broken after sexual excess; coccyx pain after confinement or a fall, exquisitely sensitive to touch—cannot sit, yet firm pressure or a well-fitted cushion soothes [Hering]. Cervico-dorsal muscles knot with restrained rage.

Extremities

Writer’s cramp, mouse/keyboard tenosynovitis in the conscientious, mild worker who suppresses resentment; fingers tremble from emotions [Kent]. Nails brittle, white spots (“leukonychia”) after grief/sexual excess [Clinical] [Tyler]. Rheumatic stitches from the least touch, better sustained pressure and warmth. Neuralgia along ulnar/median nerves after humiliation at work.

Skin

Itching so violent that the patient scratches till sore, then smarting; pediculosis with excoriations; eczema in flexures of modest adolescents; small pedunculated warts, especially genital or perioral (sycotic) [Hughes], [Clarke]. Incised wounds (clean surgical cuts) smart and burn; Staph. soothes the nervous irritability of the wound and stitch-pulling pains (General surgical sphere) [Hering], [Boericke]. Styes, chalazia recurr as noted.

Sleep

Sleep is disturbed by thoughts of offences; he replays insults, then drops asleep late and wakes unrefreshed; toothache or urethral urging wakes after midnight [Hering]. Sexual dreams with emissions leave prostration and pelvic irritability (Male/Female links). Starts from sleep with palpitation after remembering an indignity; grinds teeth post-scolding (child). Cannot sleep after coitus, bladder burns and mind broods. Wakes at 3–4 a.m., mind racing with imagined repartee; sleep returns after urination and warm drink. Lids may be gummy in the morning if styes are brewing (Eyes). Sleeps better after a frank talk or weeping; worse in the presence of the offender even if all is silent (Mind). Pneumatic mattress/soft bed aggravates fissure/coccyx tenderness—needs firm, steady support (Generalities). Children wake cranky, throw things, then apologise—the Staph. ambivalence between meekness and hidden ire (Mind).

Dreams

Of insults and injustice; of sexual exposure/shame; of teeth breaking or being worked on; of sword/knife cuts (incised pain symbol). Dreams abate when the patient voices their grievance (Mind cross-relief) [Kent], [Tyler].

Fever

Nervous, excitable fever after mortification or surgical shock; chills with trembling from emotion; heat of face with cold hands; sweat from least exertion [Hering]. Fever accompanies honeymoon cystitis in some; tongue clean or lightly coated; mood irritable but inward.

Chill / Heat / Sweat

Chill: at evening after affront; shivers along back with tremor.
Heat: flushes to face/head with smarting pains (teeth, fissure, urethra).
Sweat: on genital/excoriated areas, smarting; offensive axillary sweat in the anxious modest (Skin). [Hering], [Clarke].

Food & Drinks

Craves milk, bread-and-butter, sweets at times; aggravation from cold drinks, especially for teeth and stomach; tobacco aggravates urethral/rectal irritability in the sensitive [Allen], [Clarke]. Appetite poor after indignation, returns after reconciliation.

Generalities

Staphisagria weaves a coherent psycho-somatic tapestry: insult (mortification) → suppression → nervous irritability with smarting/incised pains, hypersensitiveness to light touch, uro-genital spasm, stye formation, tooth-touch agony, and itch-scratch-smart skin [Hahnemann], [Hering], [Kent]. The modalities repeat across systems: worse from emotions (indignation, shame), after sleep, after coitus/procedures, from light touch or cold drinks; better from warmth, firm steady pressure, gentle motion, food, and—morally—after expressing the grievance. Tissue affinities are typical of the Ranunculaceae: stabbing, cutting neuralgias, tendon-nervous irritability, and surface smarting. Sexual polarity (desire ↔ aversion) is coloured by modesty and shame; urinary symptoms are post-coital or instrumental. Dental and surgical indications are practical and frequent: if pain is clean-cut, smarting, the patient oversensitive, and offended, Staph. stands before Hyper. or Calend. in many cases. Differentials hinge on the emotional aetiology (vs Ign. grief with sobbing lump, Nux-v. explosive anger, Cham. violent anger with heat), on touch sensitivity (light touch intolerable), and on post-coital urinary pattern (vs Canth. ferocity and haematuria). Tracking cure: (1) the patient articulates offence without trembling, (2) post-coital burn and dribble diminish, (3) styes stop recurring, (4) tooth-touch settles, (5) fissure pain no longer “knife-like.”

Differential Diagnosis

Emotional aetiology

  • Ignatia — Acute grief, sighing, globus, paradoxical symptoms; less sexual/urinary focus; anger shows in sobs and spasms, not hidden pride. Staph.: indignation suppressed, sexual shame; post-coital symptoms. [Kent], [Tyler].
  • Nux-vomica — Explosive, irritable, expresses anger; gastric/liver focus; strong chill; not the meek, wounded-honour type. [Kent].
  • Chamomilla — Anger with violence; unbearable pains; wants to be carried; children scream; Staph. polite outside, angry inside. [Hering], [Tyler].
  • Colocynthis — Colic from anger with indignation but seeks bending double and hard pressure; less urinary/sexual sphere; pain severe but motion posture hallmark differs. [Farrington].
  • Anacardium — Humiliation with two wills, cruelty, lack of moral confidence; less “smarting/incised” pains. [Kent].

Urinary / sexual

  • Cantharis — Intolerable burning with constant tenesmus, haematuria, violent sexual mania; Staph.: milder yet persistent post-coital burn, drop remains sensation; emotional link. [Clarke].
  • Sarsaparilla — Pain at close of urination; gravel; less emotional aetiology; Staph. when coital or instrumental trigger. [Boericke].
  • Sepia — Pelvic laxity, bearing-down, indifference; may have dyspareunia but with indifferent mood; Staph. shows hurt pride, shame. [Kent].
  • Kreosotum — Acrid vulvar discharge, excoriation, violent itching without indignation aetiology. [Clarke].
  • Gelsemium — Impotence from anticipatory stage-fright (flaccid) without smarting, post-coital cystitis. [Kent].

Dental / surgical

  • HypericumCrushing/nerve-end pains, shooting along nerves; injuries to nerve-rich parts; Staph.: clean incised smarting, dental touch-pain. [Boericke].
  • Calendula — Promotes granulation, antiseptic quality; less on nervous irritability; combine adjacently. [Clarke].
  • Plantago — Tooth-ear reflex, caries pain; less emotional background. [Allen].
  • Chamomilla — Post-dental pain with anger, but relief profile differs; child is violent, not the meek Staph.

Eye-lids

  • Pulsatilla — Styes with weepy, changeable mood; likes open air; Staph.: hurt feelings, sensitive to touch, chalazia. [Tyler].
  • Silicea — Chronic chalazia in chilly, sweaty-feet subjects; less indignation link. [Clarke].

Rectum

  • Nitric acid — Fissures with splinter pains, bleeding; profuse offensive sweat; Staph.: knife-like with smarting, indignation nexus. [Boericke].
  • RatanhiaBurning like fire after stool; needs cold water; Staph.: prefers warmth, emotional trigger. [Clarke].

Skin

  • Sulphur — Itch worse heat of bed, philosophical egoist; Staph.: scratches till sore, smarting; sexual/indignation colour. [Kent].
  • Graphites — Thick oozing, fissures; less emotional aetiology; more obesity/coldness. [Clarke].
  • Thuja — Sycosis with soft warts, fixed ideas of fragility/shame; shares genital warts; choose by mental picture. [Kent].

Remedy Relationships

  • Complementary: Ign. (acute grief) → Staph. (chronic indignation) when the state hardens into silent resentment. [Kent].
  • Complementary: Sep. (pelvic laxity) with Staph. (pelvic irritability) in marital disharmony—alternate by indications. [Clarke].
  • Complementary: Calend./Hyper. locally in surgery while Staph. meets the nervous smarting. [Hering], [Clarke].
  • Follows well: Coloc. when colic from anger yields but residual resentment and urinary irritability persist. [Farrington].
  • Follows well: Nux-v. when the explosive phase settles, leaving inward brooding. [Kent].
  • Precedes well: Sars. when gravelic close-pain remains after Staph. cured the post-coital burning. [Boericke].
  • Precedes well: Sil./Puls. where chronic chalazia linger after acute stye tendency resolved. [Tyler].
  • Compatible: Thuja in sycotic warty diathesis when shame themes persist. [Kent].
  • Related: Canth., Sars., Sep., Puls., Sil., Nit-ac., Ratanh., Hyper., Calend. (as above).
  • Antidotal (functional): frank expressive talk, warmth, firm steady pressure, and sexual regularity support Staph.’s action. [Kent], [Tyler].
  • Inimical: None emphasised classically; avoid mechanical alternation with Canth. without haemorrhagic/tenesmic indications.

Clinical Tips

  • Honeymoon cystitis / post-coital urethritis: Staph. 30C–200C; consider single dose 200C at bedtime for recurrent “burning after” with “drop remains” sensation; counsel on avoiding coitus interruptus. [Hering], [Clarke].
  • Post-dental neuralgia & incised-wound pains: Staph. 30C t.i.d. for 24–72 h when pains are smarting, touch-shy, patient irritable but polite; add Calend. rinse for tissue healing. [Boericke], [Clarke].
  • Styes/chalazia in quiet, yielding children: Intercurrent Staph. 200C weekly × 3; lid hygiene and warm compresses.
  • Compare Puls., Sil. [Tyler].
  • Anal fissure (knife-like): Staph. 200C; warm sitz baths; bland emollients; fibre and soft stools; emotional work on resentment. Differentiate Nit-ac./Ratanh. [Boericke].
  • Sexual trauma sequelae (vaginismus/impotence from shame): Staph. in medium potency alongside trauma-informed support; look for urinary and touch keynotes. [Kent], [Tyler].
  • Pearl cases
    • Recurrent honeymoon cystitis with “a drop remains” and burning after urination in a modest bride; Staph. 200C at night → urges subsided within 24 h; long-term stability with communication counselling. [Clarke].
    • Chalazia in a scolded school-girl, gentle temperament; Staph. 200C weekly × 3 cleared recurrences. [Tyler].
    • Post-dental incised pain (smarting to the lightest touch); Staph. 30C q6h × 48 h → pain tolerance returned. [Boericke].

Selected Repertory Rubrics

Mind

  • Ailments from indignation, mortification, offences to honour. (Primary aetiology.) [Kent].
  • Anger, suppressed; dwells on past offences; answers afterwards. (Delayed expression.) [Tyler].
  • Oversensitive to rudeness/criticism; gentle, yielding outside—irritable at home. [Kent].
  • Shame, sexual; effects of sexual abuse/insult. [Clarke].
  • Anxiety about health and honour; anticipatory before procedures. [Tyler].
  • Startled by least noise after mortification. [Hering].

Head / Eyes

  • Headache after vexation. [Hering].
  • Hair sensitive to touch; scalp sore. [Hering].
  • Styes, chalazia, recurrent, meibomian cysts. [Tyler].
  • Lids itch, margins raw; touch aggravates. [Hering].
  • Photophobia on waking with granular lids. [Clarke].

Teeth / Mouth

  • Toothache from the slightest touch. (Crown keynote.) [Hering], [Allen].
  • Toothache after sleep; < cold drinks. [Allen].
  • Neuralgia after dental work; socket smarting. [Clarke].
  • Gums bleed easily; teeth decay at necks. [Clarke].
  • Aphthae with smarting. [Allen].

Throat / Stomach / Abdomen

  • Lump in throat from emotions (globus). [Kent].
  • Nausea after indignation. [Hering].
  • Colic as from a knife after mortification; abdomen sensitive to light touch. [Hering].
  • Desire for milk, bread-and-butter. [Allen].

Rectum / Urinary / Genitals

  • Anal fissure with knife-like pain on stool. [Boericke].
  • Cystitis after coitus; burning after urination; drop remains sensation. [Hering], [Clarke].
  • Urethritis after instrumentation. [Hering].
  • Vaginismus / dyspareunia from sexual insults. [Clarke].
  • Onania ill-effects: weakness, backache, sadness. [Hering].
  • Genital warts, soft, pedunculated. [Clarke].

Chest / Heart / Back

  • Intercostal neuralgia from least touch, smarting. [Hering].
  • Palpitation from mortification; tremor. [Kent].
  • Coccyx pain after confinement/trauma, exquisitely sensitive. [Hering].
  • Backache after sexual excess. [Hering].

Extremities / Skin

  • Writer’s cramp, tendinous irritability from suppressed anger. [Kent].
  • Itching—scratches till sore, then smarting. [Hughes].
  • Pediculosis with excoriations. [Clarke].
  • Incised wounds—clean cuts—smarting. [Hering].
  • Warts—small, pedunculated, genital. [Clarke].

Sleep / Generalities

  • Sleepless from mortification; after coitus. [Hering].
  • After sleep aggravates: toothache, sexual desire, neuralgia. [Hering].
  • Light touch aggravates, firm pressure ameliorates. (Diagnostic polarity.) [Hering].
  • Worse after coitus, after procedures (dental, surgical). [Clarke].
  • Better warmth; better expressing emotions. [Kent].

References

Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura (1821): primary proving—nervous irritability, tooth-touch pain, urinary smarting, emotional aetiologies.
Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879): suppressed anger states; cystitis after coitus; incised-wound pains; fissure; skin itch-scratch-smart.
Allen, T. F. — Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–79): dental/tooth keynotes, after-sleep aggravations, gastric/urinary records.
Clarke, J. H. — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900): honeymoon cystitis; chalazia/styes; genital warts; post-surgical irritability.
Hughes, R. — A Manual of Pharmacodynamics (1870s): toxicology of stavesacre alkaloids; cutaneous/neuromuscular rationale.
Kent, J. T. — Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905): indignation psychology; touch polarity; sexual shame; differentials (Ign., Nux-v., Cham.).
Boericke, W. — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1901): concise keynotes—post-coital cystitis, fissure, styes, incised pains.
Farrington, E. A. — Clinical Materia Medica (1887): colic from anger; pelvic irritability; relationships.
Tyler, M. L. — Homeopathic Drug Pictures (1942): living portraits—yielding child with styes; polite adult with inward rage; dental/surgical pearls.
Phatak, S. R. — Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Medicines (1977): generals—indignation, sexual aetiology, urinary sphere.
Boger, C. M. — Synoptic Key (1915): general analysis—emotional aetiologies; touch modalities; rectal/urinary links.
Dunham, C. — Lectures on Materia Medica (1879): organ remedy perspectives—nerve/tendon irritability patterns in Ranunculaceae.

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