Stavesacre-Ranunculaceae
General
For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses. Very sensitive to slightest mental impressions; least action or harmless word offends [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 cry for things which, after receiving they petulantly push or throw away [Kreos.]. Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went home sick, trembling and exhausted [the rev, of Nux]. Sensation of 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 done 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 abdomen and stomach 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 backache, 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. Sleep 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; new vesicles from the contract of exudation: by scratching one place after 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.