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Staphysagria

30C / 200CStaphysagria
Stavesacre · Delphinium Staphysagria · "The Suppressed Anger Remedy"
staph.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system, genito-urinary tract, and skin, particularly following emotional trauma or physical injury to sensitive tissues.
📖 Boericke writes:
Nervous with marked irritability, diseases of the genito-urinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms calling for this drug. Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum. Ill effects of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very sensitive. Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after extraction of teeth. Sphincters lacerated or stretched.
👤 Constitution
•Typically sensitive individuals who are prone to outbursts of passion followed by sadness or hypochondria, often dwelling on sexual matters and preferring solitude.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sexual sins and excesses.
introduction
Very sensitive.
introduction
Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad.
mind
Recurrent styes.
eyes
Stitches flying to the ear on swallowing, especially left.
throat
Teeth black and crumbling.
mouth
Craving for tobacco.
stomach
Severe pain following an abdominal operation.
abdomen
Parts very sensitive, worse sitting down (Berb; Kreos).
female
Irritable bladder in young married women.
female
Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel.
urinary
Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry, and itch violently; scratching changes location of itching.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for emotional distress, suppressed anger, and extreme sensitivity to criticism.
Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, 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.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to thirtieth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
2 drops tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒night and morning
📝For constipation
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Causticum →Colocynthis →
🚫 Antidotes
Camphora →
🔄 Compare With
Phosphoricum Acidum →Ferrum Pyrophosphoricum →Ignatia Amara →Caladium Seguinum →Phosphorus →Colocynthis →Causticum →
⚠️ Inimical
Ranunculus Bulbosus →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Staphysagria is listed in 309 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 89 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System37Urinary System33Mind33Skin24Locomotor System21Teeth21Nervous System19Modalities17Generalities16Female Sexual System14Abdomen13Eyes12Stomach11Head9Respiratory System7Face6Fever4Circulatory System4Gums4Ears2Throat1Nose1

See all 309 rubrics for Staphysagria →