Author: Urenus

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from the sterilized mixed cultures of equal parts (10⁷ CFU/g) of Staphylococcus epidermis, Staphylococcus haemolyti- cus, and Staphylococcus simulans.

Also known as Staphylococcinum. The main indications are:

Is not only required in chronic illnesses in which staphylococci are present, e.g. in boils, impetigo, blepharitis, styes, Meibomian cysts, osteomyelitis, whitlow, but pos- sibly also in perinephritic abscess, malignant staphylococcal infections of the face, acne vulgaris, cystic acne, thrombophlebitis, and possibly also in anthrax (Julian). It may be of value in retoxic phases which are founded on damage from staphylococ- cal toxins, e.g. auto-immune diseases of all kinds, in which staphylococci were in- volved, or where such conditions are found in the medical history. Thus the Nosode of Staphylococci can be used to good effect in myocardial lesions, nephritis, hepatic lesions, connective-tissue lesions (possibly also in obesity), and in thyroid illnesses. It is especially effective in combination with Streptococcus Haemolyticus.

The drug picture of Staphylococcus was composed in December 1995 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

Rash-like eruptions on the eyelids, chest, and abdomen. Soreness and stiffness in the eyelids, tongue, throat, chest, and coccyx and SI joint.

Improvement of normal nasal allergy symptoms and coccyx and SI pain.

Many dreams. Nasal discharges. Cramping abdominal pain. Aching extremities.

Mind

Weeping from hopelessness or about the future. Loss of sense of direction or for- getful of where she is going. DREAMS of: insects, bizarre dream that she was a man, of dying. Amorous thoughts. Laughing much. Disoriented and forgetful of thoughts while writing or misplacing things. Active concentration. Irritability or cheerfulness. Bitterness.

Generalities

Food desires for peanut butter and sweets or spicy food. Hyper like a caffeine buzz.

Head

Dull pain in occiput. Pain behind the left eye. Constricting pain at the temples es- pecially the left. Pain at 4 p.m. Sharp head pain on the sides.

Eye

Itching. Right eye lid twitching. Eruptions on eyelids.

Ear

Ringing noises in the ear.

Nose

DISCHARGES that are clear or from the posterior nares. Sneezing that is dry, or im- proves on waking in the morning. Improvement of numerous allergy complaints: coryza on waking in the morning, obstruction during sleep, and sneezing in the morning.

Face

Prickly sensation on left side of face accompanied by a warm sensation. Lips chapped. Fever blister on upper lip.

Mouth

Very dry even with increased water intake. Tongue feels sore.

Throat

Thick yellowish-green mucus in morning. Sore pain on right side worse swallow- ing.

Muscles stiff and tender. Glands on side of throat swollen.

Stomach

Extreme thirst even with increased water intake. Hungry sensation not relieved by eating. Nervous stomach that is queasy after eating..

Abdomen

CRAMPING PAIN before or with diarrhea. Sharp cramping pain from flatus on the right side. Eruptions of red, itching rash, or eruptions in the umbilical region.

Rectum

DIARRHEA in the morning or after eating. Flatulence before and during stool. Strong urging with the diarrhea.

Stool

Long and dark stool difficult to pass. Loose diarrhea that is watery. Frequent stool.

Bladder

Urgent desire to urinate that is ineffectual.

Genitalia, Female

Menses is protracted and too long.

Respiration

Difficult from the sensation of contraction and tightness of chest.

Chest

Stiff and tight feeling in the chest making breathing difficult. Tingling in lungs. Red rash eruption above the clavicle and on neck.

Extremities

Tightness in left bicep. Trembling in hand. Aching pain. Dull ache in right wrist on extension of arm. Aching and soreness in thigh muscles worse on motion. Swelling of the hands and feet.

Sleep

Improvement of difficulty in falling asleep until late in the evening.

The mother tincture is prepared from the carefully dried ripe seeds of the plant Del- phinium staphisagria L., a native of Southern Europe. N.O. Ranunculaceae.

The main indications are:

Irritability, sensitivity. Teeth turn black and crumble away. Hunger with a full stomach. Craving for alcoholic drinks. Neuralgia of the testes and ovaries. Pains in

the hips, driving the patient out of bed in the morning. Gums spongy and bleeding. Irritable, naughty children, throw everything away, want to have everything, strike their parents. Scurvy. Eczema of the scalp. Falling out of the hair. Vaginismus. Styes, Meibomian cysts.

Consequences of cutting injuries, thus also to be tried in post-operative intestinal paralysis and abdominal distension with wind, and also in keloids.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Delphinium staphisagria, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for staphisagria: rashes; eye inflammations; dental diseases; digestive in- sufficiency; conditions of irritation of the urinary tract collection system and of the reproductive organs; neuralgia; colic; pain and sequelae following traumata and sur- gery; behavioural disorders; emotional discord or upset.

The attenuations are prepared from metallic tin, Sn, AW: 118.7.

The main indications are:

Sweetish taste. Neuralgia, pains intensifying and subsiding slowly. Large quanti- ties of sputum are discharged. Bronchiectasis. Stabbing pains in the left side of the chest. Prolapse of the uterus.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Stannum metallicum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for stannum: chronic bronchitis; neuralgia; colic pain, conditions of ex- haustion, emotional discord or upset.

The tincture is prepared from the roasted and pulverised marine sponge, Euspongia officinalis L., which occurs in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. N.O. Spongiidae.

The main indications are:

Orchitis. Epididymitis. Glandular swellings generally. Goitre. Croup, with barking, hollow, hard, metallic cough. Cardiac defects with murmurs. Dyspnoea, cannot lie with the head low. Scurfy eruptions on the head. Asthma with expectoration like sago. The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Euspongia officinalis, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for spongia: inflammations and spasmodic conditions of the respiratory organs; enlargement and hardening of glandular organs such as the lymph glands, thyroid, testicles, and epididymis; cardiac inflammation and cardiac insufficiency;

diseases of the coronary vessels and of the aorta.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh spleen from healthy pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

Leukaemia. Anaemia. Agranulocytosis. Should be used in carcinoma for general revitalisation, and also in weakness of old age in order to enhance the resistance to infection.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh underground parts of the plant Fili- pendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim., a native of Europe and North America. N.O. Rosaceae.

The main indications are:

Rheumatism which moves about. Epicondylitis (local infiltration). Profuse sweat- ing.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Filipendula ulmaria, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for spiraea ulmaria: rheumatism; mucosal inflammations.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried aerial parts of Spigelia anthelmia L., which occurs in Brazil, Java and the West Indies. N.O. Loganiaceae.

The tincture of Pink-root, Spigelia anthelmia, contains the alkaloid Spigelein and tannins.

Spigelia is a valuable remedy, effective not only in violent palpitations and turbu- lent cardiac activity, i.e. in violent episodes of palpitation, but also in valvular le- sions with murmur.

In such states the patient can often lie only on the right side, and desires to lie with the head very high. In addition to its action in cramping heart-complaints (similar to Cactus), Spigelia also acts well in stabbing pains of the heart, which one finds main- ly in acute endocarditis. At the same time there may be headaches, which begin on one side, usually the left, in the occiput, extend forwards and settle above the left eye. Like a migraine, these are aggravated by the least noise and by slight jarring, intensifying as the day goes on and decreasing again when the sun sets, the eye on the affected side frequently watering.

There is also aggravation from cold, damp, rainy weather, and from movement, noise and also especially light touch.

The pains need not be limited to the left eye and the heart, but may also extend to the limbs, especially the left arm, so that Spigelia also works beneficially in attacks of angina pectoris.

Eye problems of a rheumatic kind, particularly conjunctivitis with photophobia and possibly also ciliary neuralgia, are indications for Spigelia.

Nerve pains in various parts, rheumatic and gouty complaints, stopped coryza with an accumulation of mucus and swelling of the tonsils, and also worm com- plaints with frequent urging for urination can all respond well to Spigelia.

A prominent feature in the picture of Spigelia is particularly the vulnerability of the left side of the head, of the heart and of the left arm, including the shoulder-joint, from which rheumatic pains extend into the upper and lower arm, and fine pricking pains within various nerve pathways, e.g. in the brachial plexus. There may also be a clamping pain in the ball of the thumb and loss of sensation in the finger-tips, as well as a swelling of the hands and individual finger-joints.

A summing-up of Spigelia’s symptoms results in the following characteristic pic- ture of the remedy’s action:

1. Heart symptoms in the forefront. Visible and palpable pulsations of the heart with constriction of the chest and sensation of an oppressive load in the praecordium. Stabbing pains in the heart. Pains extending into the left arm. Acute endocarditis.
2. Violent headache in the temples and above the left eye, extending over from the occiput, increasing from morning to noon and then decreasing again towards the evening.
3. Tensive and stabbing pains in the eyeball. Conjunctivitis. Spasm of the eyelid.
4. Rheumatic pains in muscles and joints, especially in the left shoulder and left arm.

The therapeutic range of Spigelia is not particularly wide, but when properly indi- cated it seldom lets one down.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Spigelia anthelmia, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for spigelia: acute cardiac inflammation; angina pectoris; neuralgia; headaches; worm complaints.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh stripped-off flowers and leaves that get included in the process as well as young tips of shoots of the plant Cytisus sco- parius (L.) Link. N.O. Leguminosae.

The main indications are:

Heart-disturbance and fear, stabbing pains in the heart and palpitations at night, must get up and walk about. Aggravated by lying on the left side (cf. Phosphorus). Hypotension.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Cytisus scoparius, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for spartium scoparium: arrhythmia; cardiac insufficiency; inflammatory, eczematous skin diseases.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh inflorescenses of the plant Solidago virgaurea L., a native of Europe and Asia. N.O. Compositae.

The main indications are:

Dysuria. Albuminuria with dark-coloured, salty, mucous, bloody urine, smelling offensively. Hypertrophy of the prostate. Nephroses. Nephrolithiasis. Oedema.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Solidago virgaurea, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for solidago virgaurea: renal insufficiency; hepatic disorders.

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant of Solanum nigrum L., gathered while in flower. N.O. Solanaceae.

The main indications are:

Cerebral irritation. Encephalomalacia. Epileptiform spasms. Disorientation.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Solanum nigrum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for solanum nigrum: conditions of cerebral and meningeal irritation.