Staphisagria

Characteristic symptoms

Scorbutic affections ; ailments from chagrin, with indignation, also from care and grief ; hysteric and hypochondriac ailments ; inflammatory bonepains ; drawing, lacerating pain here and there in the muscles of the whole body, when sitting ; stiffness in the joints when rising in the morning ; bruised feeling of the body, with feeling of lassitude, worse during motion ; debilitated all over, especially in the joints, when walking ; rash, with nightly convulsions ; itch-like and herpetic eruptions ; unhealthy skin ; frequent boils ; indurated glandular swellings ; swelling of bones ; great drowsiness ; wakefulness before midnight ; evening fever, consisting of the cold stage merely ; inability to sweat, even when taking the most violent exercise, with pale face and headache ; profuse night-sweat ; putrid smelling night-sweats ; cold sweat on forehead, hands and feet ; sadness, with ill-humor ; great desire to weep ; indifference, with phlegmatic mood ; children are ill-humored and cry for things which, after getting, they petulantly throw away; stupefaction of the head, hindering him from all labor; a number of itching scabs on the hairy scalp ; humid scabs, with bad smell ; falling off of the hair ; pimples around the inflamed eye ; tubercles in the margins of the eyelids ; hardness of hearing from enlargement of the tonsils ; coryza, with ulcerated nostrils ; worn-out, pointed countenance, with hollow eyes, as after a night's revel, or in consequence of some violent emotion ; blue margins around the deeply sunken eyes, as after excesses ; pressure and beating, extending from the teeth to the eyes; the face becomes brown and blue from chagrin and indignation ; pimples on the cheeks, forehead and in the corners of the mouth ; inflammatory pains of the facial bones ; ulcer of the lip, with gnawing, drawing pains ; swelling and tubercles of the gums ; bitter taste of the food ; canine hunger, even with full stomach, with waterbrash ; appetite only for fluid food ; feeling of weakness in the abdomen, as if it would fall off; pot-belliedness of children ; swelling of the inguinal glands ; constipation and delaying stool, owing to a deficiency of peristaltic motion; dysenteric stools ; frequent desire to urinate, passing a small quantity of dark-colored urine ; painful micturition ; excessive sexual desire, with nocturnal emissions and dreams; cough, with yellow purulent mucus ; spasms in the diaphragm aftei chagrin.